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rHE PERSONAL EQUATION.

The Inter Ocean is rejoiced by the belief
built upon everyday evidences that the
doctrine of personal responsibility has re-
appeared on the politico-social horizon.
In fact, it has never disappeared. The
conviction that men are the architects Of
their own fortunes and responsible for the
conditions they are 10, has only been
befogged by the claRsor of the modern
reformers, who propose many methods for
making man better, whether they will or
no.n Our contemporary in that respect is
therefore in error, for it is not 9 reappear-
ance, but revival of the doctrine. The
Eater-Ocsdn well says that the personal
equation in the teachings and ministry of
Christ was what gave them strength, and
has made thera vital to this day. He said
not one word against the slavery of his
day, nor did he exclaim against any of the
vicious laws of the time, though they all
ran counter to his teaching; but he taught
personal purity and conduct that arrayed
the individual who oeeyed the precepts
against every vice and i'll of the times.
All the loud-mouthe2 reformers of this
l'day viii accomplish nothing except as
they work change insthe individual. Be
hind every progressive movement, every
improvement in public morals, every adj
vance step in civil government, there must
be the personal momentum of convinced
linen, the dominating moral sense of the
individual, reformation of the ideas o.
the citizen. Where men have not a
ldue conviction of the personal
responsibility inseparable from their rela.
tion to society, there can be and is no re-
form, progress or augmentation of real
strength in society. Making laws will
not make men better, though they will tc
some extent check the excuses of the
vicious, and thus aid personal effort to re-
form. The law does not create, as our con
temporary well says. it is executive only
and hence laws made in advance of the
peoples sense of personal responsibility
always fail. The rebellious or yiciou:
minority need the restraint of law, but q
majority will not progress under the law
or otherwise without that motive power
which is furnished by conviction alone, and
|, which is followed by open assumption O
personal responsibility on the part of the
citizen. Every political i'll of which We
have reason to complain to-day is trace
, able directly to the fact that men have
permitted them, by refusing to comics;
their responsibility for them. Professor
Salter was right when at the Economic
Conference he said "The conditions o.
society to-day depend upon mems thoughts
and if there is to be reform it must come
by a change of thoughts
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DIXON DOINGs.
A New Hotel Needed-The New Postmas-
ter-Cellars Flooded.
Dixon Tribune, March 1st.l

Dixon Tribune, March 1st.]
After several days of Intellectual pump
ing, during which two pumps were worked
day and night, M. Bradshaw has abandoned
the idea of clearing the basement of water.
He has moved his bar into the building
just east of the hotel. The water now
stands about sixteen inches on the floor of
the basement.
The nomination of E. J. Mcbride to be
Postmaster of Dixon was confirmed in the
United States Senate last Friday. AS some
days will necessarily elapse before his
official bond can be made out and approved,
it is very likely that A. R. Story, the pres
ent incumbent, will hold over until the LIST
day of April, or the beginning of new
quarter The blank bonds will no doubt
reach Mr.. Mcbride this week.
Joe Ethel narrowly escaped the loss of a
horse and a cow last Monday. He was
driving cow to Dixon. The bridge in the
county road Just west of Mrs. Snead's
land is in such condition that it cannot
be crossed. He attempted to pass around
1t and the COW mired down. He rode in to
her rescue and the horse mired also. Both
animals came near being drowned-in fact.
the combined efforts of both Mr.. Ethel and
his hired man were required to prevent the
poor beasts from drowning.
OF the success of the project TO establish
an electric hight plant and construct water
works, there no lenger seems to be reason
able doubt. The probability of the sue
cess of these enterprises constantly reminds
US of the necessity of other Improvements
of equal and possibly more importance in
insuring the future growth and prosperity
of the town. The hotel accommodations
of Dixon have long been inadequate to
meet the demands of town of such i'm
portance
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After a Big Thing.

About SIX weeks ago man who claimed
to be in hard luck entered Detroit stove
store and asked for money. The propri-
etor gave him dime and a blowing up
at the same time, and asked him why he
did not brace up and try to do something,
''Say I'll do itp' was the reply. 'Tm
already working at big thing. 1t is a
coal stove and refrigerator combined
one side to cool your provisions in summer
and the other to heat your bodies in
winter"
He was encouraged to go on, and in
about two weeks he returned to inquire:
"Do you think it will make any differ.
ence which side is the stove and which
the refrigerator ?"
He was told that it would not, and he
went away to be gone another fortnight
and then to return and ask:
Wouldn't it be good thing to arrange
to save the hsat of the stove to run a
washing machine?"
He was warmly complimented on the
idea, and was not seen again until yester-
day, when he returned with enthusiastic
step to ask for private interview and to
say:
SCOT another ideal Fm going to
make the cold air which passes off the
ice and escapes by the ventilator run
at least six fy-fans in the dining. room.
What | want just now is capital OF
81 100000 to enable me to experiment,
and | shall write to parties in New York
to-day. Meanwhile, could you advance
me u cents and take a first mortgage
bearing II per cent. interest in gold?'-
Detroit Free Press.
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her father than 1 am this minute. His
wife ,sas a wilder woman, and Frank
father IS the other father; understand,
sorr p,
"Oh, l see,n said George, much re-
beved to understand Mary AIMS rather
mixed statement.
''Yis, sorr, Miss Frank knows no better
She was jist two years ould at the time
The poor Captain trated her like his OWL
always"
81 asked her to marry me-" said
George, "and she refused on that ac-
COUNT
"Well, Captain, it's the first fnutiny yel
have had with this crew." said Mary Ann
"Fll GO below and tell her that her father
amt her father, and sure she will obey yel
orders whin she knows"
George heard them talking and the
sound of Franks sobbing. He could moi
stand that. He went down, and taking hel
in his arms he said softly:
as it all right, dearg'
"Say, Aye, aye, sorr,' and don't mutiny
against it. Captain, jist kiss the crew. Pm
the cook, now, and don't count,
said Mary Ann, as she disap
.lpeared, smiling and muttering: "Surt
the Captain is worthy of Miss Frank, fol
he is as foine gintleman as liver | knew
or liver pillowed his head on the buzzun
of the dape say, or liver put his foot OF
wather dry-shod widout victim of it, ant
the whole crew of the Soikee is in bi!
loon to have him for captain for life"
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load of coal on him. he gets six months in
jail-is put sin the mine hole,'" as itwere,
as many of his brother Americans have
been before him. When his term expires
he goes back home, only to find that his
wife has eloped. Wretched and broken in
in spirit he leaps into the sea, where
They haven't found him yet,
For the water it was wet,
But his ghost comes nobly to the front at
break of day, dressed in his best Sunday
clothes"
Flynn has an option on niche in the
modern Pantheon. McGinty's sorrowful
sobs, as his gorgeous attire frazzles into
innocuous desuetude, are too much for the
American heart. Great sobs of anguish
rack US, and we ask Flynn to come to the
front and receive the crown of laurel
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WAITING.
"only a little longer

"Only little longer
To wait, and hope, and fear;
Only o little longer
And the darkness will be clear.
Only little longer
To suffer hunger and cold,
Hard words and blows from friends and foes
For I'm blind, and helpless and old
"But night will be day some morning,
And darkness be light for me;
/ have heard whispered warning
That soon shall be free!
Only little longer
And hardness, hunger and cold
Will all be past and I'll rest at last
In the gentle Shepherds fold.
"Only little more patience,
Only q little more prayer
That may endure my hard, hard lot
Till death ends my life of care,
And gives me for sin and sorrow,
Glory. and joy, and peace
In His kingdom bright. and for blindness light
And trouble and sorrow shall ceaser'
The QltiUer.
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The Leading Interior Daily.

rIOlu the Tdlt 0d1ettt, 1dlCu 1sL
The Sacramento RECORD UNION has COM
pleted its seventy. ninth volume. There is
no paper more widely known or more in
fiuential in the State than the RECORD
UNION. 1t is now, and has been since the
early SOS, recognized as the leading IN
terror daily of California. 1t is a truly
moral and digui6ed journal, always replete
with the latest telegraph news, and its
editorial columns. in point of worth, good
Judgment and timely comment are not ex-
celled in journalism in this State. The
paper in our judgment is better now than
it has ever before been, and this fact is
pretty well known to the readers of this
section of the State from the fact that more
RECORD. UNIONS are taken in Gait than any
other CITY publication.
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Early Rising Birds.

The thrush is audible about 400 in the
morning.
The quaips whistling is heard in the
woods at about o'clock.
The blackcap turns up at $50 on sum-
mer morning.
By 4 the blackbird makes the woods
resound with his melody.
The house sparrow and tomtit come last
in the list of early rising birds.
At short intervals after $50 the voices
of the robin and wren are heard in the
land.
The greenfnch is the first to rise, and
sings as early as I:30 on asummer morning.
The lark does not rise until after the
chaffinch, linnet, and number of other
hedgerow folk have been merrily piping
for a good while.-Aontredl Star.
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THE M'GINTIAD.
The Epic which Grasps the Great Amer
can Heart.

The Epic which GraspS the Great Amert'
can Heart.
Virgil sung of arms and of the man who
first from the shores of Troy, by fate an
exile, came to Italy and the country
roundabout. But Flynn-plain, unvar-
nished Flynn-has furnished the modern
epic, says the New Orleans Times Democrat
1t is not an Iliad, nor yet an Odyssey, nor
does it rise to the hight of an Eneid. II
is simply and only McGintiad.
McGinty is the hero of whom this lat.
ter-day epic sings. No valorous feat Of
arms consigns our Irish friend to fame
Daniel McGinty wooed not Dido, nor is he
racked by tortures of kingdom that must
perforce spring from his loins, but may not
He will go down into history rather as one
who was dressed in his best Sunday
clothes" when the occasion arose and when
it didn't, and whose adventures are en-
wrapped in the minds of nation-a ten
days fad, here to-day, to be gone to-mor.
row.
Sixty millions of people are now singing
sDown went McGinty," and adding with a
natural sequence that as he went down he
was dressed in mis- best Sunday clothes.
Few of these millions can repeat dozen
lines of the armo vifumque cano, but rare
is the man who cannot tell in glib rhyth-
mical cadence of the Irish gentleman who
was out on the street at o'clock on Sum-
day morning dressed SO fine" that the ca.
pacity of modern verse has been stretched
to the utmost to tell of his greatness and
glory and of the magni6cence of his Sab
bath attire.
The McGintiad gets near the great COM
mon heart of the masses. 1t does not APP
peal to the stomach, as does one or more
Of the Horatian odes; nor is it an intel
lectual feast, such as Hamlet would pro-
vide. 1t does not minister to the liver and
spleen, as that great prose poem, the Jere-
miad nor does it weary the mind with
didactic truths. 1t strikes for the great
pulsating, rotating American heart-and
arrives, Elias
McGinty meets with adventures in
Vulnerable. He tumbles into coal hole,
and for assaulting the driver, who dumps a
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THE Montreal Witness, which is a thor
oughly well-informed journal and seldom
speaks without careful thought, does not
find in the law to abolish the use in official
matters of two languages in Canada, and
to foster the use of English only, any such
huge cause of trouble and discomfort as
the dispatches from the Northwest have
led American readers to suppose existed
1t appears that the law is sort of local
option affair, and provides that the dual
language used in official documents in any
municipality shall cease whenever proc
lamation is issued by the Lieutenant
Governor-in- Council" but he is not to
issue such an order unless there has been
presented to him petition requesting it,
and the petition must be signed and certi-
fed by the Municipal Council of the mu-
nicipality to be affected. And this is all
that there is in the sensational story tele-
graphed recently that the abandonment of
the French dialects had been ordered by
the Government. 1t appears that this
abolition of the dual language is not a
new thing, and, as the Witness says:
This power has certainly in the past been
used with great moderation, as the public has
not heard OF any cases of hardship from its ap-
plication, and we presume in most cases the
minority would entirely concur in the abolition
OF one language with q view to escaping the
inconvenience and expense of two.
For many years in California the laws
were printed in the Spanish and English
languages, and for awhile it was political
suicide to propose Che abolition of the law
authorizing it. But in time we came to
understand that it was foolish to continue
the custom that the Mexican and Span
ish jewellers in California had nearly all
become acquainted with the English
tongue, and that convenience and economy
advised the abolition. Precisely the same
change is taking place in the Canadas at
this time, and the idea that its promotion
by the law is likely to bring on revolu-
ton, is absurd.
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DR.. TALMAGE threatens to leave Brock
lyn if the people do not build him a new
tabernacle. 1t is just possible that the
people may conclude that a new taber-
nacle is too high price for the privilege
of retaining the doctor. Not that we
would disparage the ability and the
brilliancy of the sensational preacher, but
the instances are few, very few indeed, in
which clergyman has successfully CO.
creed congregation.
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A FACErIoUs Western journal says the
new Governor of Iowa said to the old
Governor of Iowa, at has been such long
time between inaugurals that l am dry
Which interpreted means the new Gov
-ernor is Democrat, and that in Iowa the
Democracy has been kept from the crib so
long that it resembles one of the lean
kline.
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TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.

r HAVE PLACED ON SALE FOR THE
y week beginning MONDAY, February Path;
wool, so cents per suit also, White Merino,
same ages, at 81 cents per suit or 20 cents per
garment. We have in stock suits at IS, So, 81, IS
and SO, equally as good as some sold at much
higher figures in other places AS for Overcoats,
you can save at the very least S. on frst-elass
garment. Goats heretofore sold for S25 now so,
those $40 now SIS, those SIS now SO: we also
have few left which we are selling at 81 so, SO,
81, IS, &c and S7-al less than cost Call and get
our prices. No trouble 10 show goods and we
have but ONE PRICE. CHARLES ROBIN, Pho
neer Clothier, 6l2 and CID K street. fe23-Su
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THE story telegraphed that Prince Bis
marck recently resigned his trusts, and that
he reassumed them at the urgent request
of the Emperor, is probably untrue. Bis
marck must some early day retire to the
rest old age demands and deserves; but he
is not the man to resign in the face of an
enemy. When he lays down the keys OF
Office it will be at a time when the Ger
man Empire is comparatively calm and no
great political agitation is going on.
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The Alarm Clock.

Yellowly-AHow is it that you always
get to the counting-house on time in the
morning, Brownly? Pm late three times
a week."
Brownly-"That's because you're mar
ried man. Your wife trusts you to wake
and call the servant girl and you trust her
to do the same"
Y.-"Thats about so. But you have not
answered my question yet why you are
never late"
B.-@Ohl / live in clearinghouse,
and the noise of the pounding of the steak
awakens me every morning. It is as good
as an alarm clock Boston Courier.
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SALE OF BONDS.
Central Irrigation District, Co.
IuSa County, California.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
IN Board of Directors of CENTRAL IRRIGA-
TON DISTRICT, that said Board will, at its
office in the town Of MAXWELL in the county of
Colusa, State of California on the
Fourth Day of March, in the year 1890,
at O'Clock P. N; of said day, sell to the highest
responsible bidder for cash in gold coin of the
United States, four hundred and fifty bonds of
the said District, 10 the amount of two hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars being part
of an issue OF bonds aggregating the sum Of
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars that
sealed proposals for the purchase of said bonds
will be received by said Board till the day and
hour aforesaid, at which time said Board will
open the proposals and award the purchase of
said bonds to the highest responsible bidder but
said Board reserves the right to reject all bids,
and will in no event sell any of said Onds for
less than ninety per cent. Of The face value
thereof; said bonds are dated the hrst day Of
July, IN the year 1883 end bear interest at tho
rate OF sis ~ cent. per anutlEi, Dayaola s1t2s
annually any interest accTuing between said
date and = date OF the sale and delivery OF
said bonds, sh. I be credited before delivery on
the first maturing coupons attached, -. said
bonds. Said bonds will be de-, ei<VJ712 F0Nc-
cessful bidder and the money received Inerefor
at the District Treasurers Office in the town OF
Maxwell. or at the Colusa County Bank in the
town of Colusa, in the county and State afore-
said, and each proposal must be accompanied
by certified check in favor of R. De Lappe
Secretary of the Board of Directors of CENTRAL.
IRRIGATION DISTRICT, for an amount at least
as great as five per cent. of the amount total to
be paid for the bonds bid for.
Above Bonds Approved by Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has decided that GEN.
TRIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT was validly
organized, ana that its bonds were properly
issued, and are in the form required by law See
Central Irrigation District VS.. 4. De Lappe, 70
Cal, 351. R. De LAPPE,
Secretary OF said Board.
Maxwell, Cal, January %, 1890 Jag tmr3SSu
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The REcolD- UNION, SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION are The only paper; on the
ObGst outside Of San francisco, that receive
tie full Associoted Press dispatches from ali
.psrts Of the World. Outside of San francisco,
sAey hapsfao competitors either in influence 0
home and general circulation throughout The
&tnte.
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TEsTIMoNIAL.

TIME FOLLOWING is LETTER FROM
| Mrs. George Stoneman, wife of Hon. George
Stoneman, Ex-Governor of the State OF Cali
iornia;
GRAND AVE, Los ANGELES, CAL,
August 10, 1889.
Nh. COOPER: Your letter received this morn
ing, and am happy to oblige you by testifying
TO the excellence of the Mathushek Grand sold
me some four years ago. II has been in constant
use, and, think, instead OF deteriorating and
becoming thin, it has softened and deepened in
tone. It required a little tuning through the
first year. have frequently recommended the
piano, and consider that its merits are equal to
those of the best in the United States. The
singing quality of this piano is particularly
suited for vocalists, and, while agreeable in q
small room, it can, by its brilliancy and power,
fill large auditorium effectively. Yours etc..
mr2-1mSu MRS. GEORGE STONEMAN.
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sraday-scbool teacher Ito new pupil)

Sunday-school teacher Ito new pupil)
ave are taught by the Bible that when
one smises us on one cheek we should turn
the other TO him. Isn't that a beautiful
sentiment 9v sizes ma'am.n snow if an
enemy were to smite you on one cheek
what would you do 2" "Pd pound the
top of his head off.ii-Ne5raskd State Jour
nal
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Weather Forecasts for To-day.
Caliiornia-Fair weather; variable winds;
nearly stationary temperature.
Oregon and Washington-Rain; southerly
winds; warmer.
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SUNDAY excepted sunday only. monday
excepted. A.-For morning P.-For after.
A. N. TOwNE. General Manager.
7. 81. GOODMAN, General Passenger and Ticket
Agent. f6Su
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ing there that certain scheming parties
have endeagored to make the public be,
lieye
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And every wave with dimpled crest
That leaped upon the air,
Had caught star in its embrace
And hold IL trembling theraD

Inc air was cool, salty anu uellClOuS
George provided himself with torch, for
the shoal water was in the shade, and two
poles, with two springy wooden barbs
turned inward-for spearing.
He went in the small boat, and as he
was preparing to push off Mary Ann said
"Do you want me, sorr, to hold the torch
I'll hould it stiddy as ould Liberty her
self, on Bedloes Island"
"Will your mistress like to be left
alone" said George.
"Oh, don't mind me.D said Frank from
her position near the gunwhale. This is
a safe anchorage. The light is lit, SO ]
won't run any risk of being run down by
passing steamers"
So they started. Mary Ann, with a
CLOTH cap pulled well down over her mas
sive brows, her arms stripped to the bare
red elbows, pulled with will at both oars,
while George held the torch so he could
see bottom as soon as they struck the shoal
water. IL often wondered" said she at
last, show the lobster liver gifts TO where
he is going by moving bacards insteads of
forards. Beats me; sure wan would think
they was in the presence of rielty."
George laughed, as he said, ave will
stop. Here is good spearing ground" He
handed her the torch, dropped the kedge
quickly, and in moment he had run his
spear behind the head of as fine lobster
as ever clawed his way, Mary Ann re-
marking, "Sure, sorr, you hit him that
tonne so quick he niver knew he was
caught till it happened. Ny, but he
waves his claws like the fagman at Sleeps
head Bay race track
George made no reply, but worked
away till two dozen were captured, when
they returned TO the yacht. Then he
smoked his cigar before retiring, aud his
thoughts wandered often to the exceed
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NATIONAL BANK
D. 0. MILLS & CO.,
SACRAMENTO. CaI.-Founded. 1850.

Capital and Surplus, 860o,o00
~ Chrome Steel Safe Deposit Vault
and Time Look. d6Su
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Entered as tie Postofice at Sacramento as
Seconi-ciass matter.