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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-12-24
8 QUAINT INDIAN 81 CUSTOMS.
The Kemarlxahle Devotion of the, squn WA

The Remarkable Devotion Of the squnws
to Z heir Fapnooaes.
Tho Indian women OF the Dacofahs
have q greater and more lasting lovefor
their children than those Of any race Of
people / have ever soon or road OF
; When a baby is born In any OF the viii
lagos it is dashed to perfectly straight
board by bandages, which are passed
entirely around both child and board,
and, at tho back, arc frightened or.loos-
enod by fine raw-hide lacinga The
child's feet rest on a broad hoopot wood,
while a similar hoop passes around in
front of its faco, which affords ample
protection to it should the baby
by any means fall. In front OF
tho child's face. suspended from the
| hoop, is Il small article. a toy, IL you
pleuae> wblch plays IN important port
in the economy Of raising children
among the tribe. Together with this
special trinket are many other bright
pieces of ribbon, tinsel and shining
things to attract and amuse the little
one as it rests in it's quaint cradle. The
child never leaves the wooden board
until it arrives ut the age of six or seven
months. II it should die during that
period, it is placed ON scaffold, as in
the case Of adults, but the disconsolate
mother does not abandon the cradle;
she fills it with black quilts and
feathers, and continues to carry it
around on her back where er sh" goes
for moro than year. She regards
it with more affection and care
even than if II still contai ned her child
She frequently stands 1t against the
side OF her lodge, where she&is engaged
n! day long with her domestic duties,
talking to it nearly all the time in IA
miiar and afTnctonate manner, just AZ
If the child were present in tho flesh
SO perfect and lasting is the affection of
! these squaws for their offspring, no
matter how cruel and hard their work
or how weary the Journey they have to
make in obedience to the commands of
heir hard hearted husbands, they cling
! faithfully to the empty cradle with a
tenaciousness that is a surprise to the
| VIII tes. They seem to be even more
punctilious in their duty in this rela-
! ii on than ii the child were alive
The curious toy or trinket which is
ever seen dangling in front OF the ba-
by's face is believed to be potent
charm in the superstition of the tribe.
In its beautifully b:oidered envelope
| is arefully preserved tho umbilical cord
cut of the in FAINT. You might perhaps
he able to purchase the cradle and the
little embroidered bag containing the
charm, but The bag would invariably h,
cut open first and its sacred interior
the |medicine," which is the child's
protector and its security for long life.
extracted. To part with it under any
circumstances would be fatal to the life
Of tho child according to the Indian
superstition. Kansas City Star.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-12-24

ALL disorders caused by bilious state Of
the system can be cured by using Carter's
Little Liver Pills. No pain, gripping or dis
comfort attending their use. Try them
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-12-24
Hoods SarsaparilIa
100 Doses One Dollar

Sold by sll druggists. 81 SIX for IS Prepa7ed only
BY c. |. HOOD CO. AposhecaEtes, lowell. Mas
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-12-24

A NAN hired room under doctors ONCE
so tina. the doctors might work over him In
case OF an emergency.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-12-24

''BE fiirtuous and you will be happy" as
the young lady remarked TO her friend
Lawrence American.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
A LINGERING SUPERSTITION

If ever there was stupid Coroner's jury
impaneled, the Coroner of Chicago conjured
one from out of the population of the Gar
den City last week. A child was found dead
in its cradle, and a pet cat was discovered
in such relation to the body as led to the
belief, taken with the evidences of suffoca-
ton. that the cat was the cause of the in
fant's death Thereupon this learned and
wondrously wise jury returned sworn
verdict that the babe met its death by
reason of "the cat having sucked away its
breath"
Was there ever more stupid and sense
less verdict rendered by any jury? The
superstition that cats kill infants by suck.
ing their breath is an exploded supersti.
ton that we had thought buried beyond
the possibility of resurrection. Until the
cat is built upon new model, is so con-
structed that it can cover the infants
mouth and nose at the same time with it:
own mouth, and has lung capacity sufii
.cieut to draw the air from the Infants
lungs and hold its own breath at the same
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11

done in France, discrepancy of million
dollars year in 1888 SO would have been
discovered, which it now turns out royal
list Duchess of great fortune furnished, in
perfect good faith that the money would
be used to aid the work of overthrowing
the Republic and of seating King in
France once more.
One of the most amusing phases of the
Boulangist fasco is the exposure that NJ.
Mermeix makes of the secret workings of
the Boulangist machine. For this man
Mermeix, while proving his chief to have
been traitor to his own cause, and a
mountebank posing for effect only, actually
insists that he is still Boulangist, and
that the cause of the General-whatever
that is-will be assisted by the astounding
revelations made of his insincerity and
duplicity. In France this is taken in all
seriousness, and Mermeix has had to fight,
to date, half dozen duels on account of
his expose. But in America such an ex-
cuse as the revelator makes would set the
whole country into roar of laughter; and
as for duels with political opponents, the
man who in our midst at this day would
propose such means of settling political
disputes of a personal character, would
simply project himself before the country
as butt for unlimited ridicule.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
TIE FRENCH FARCE.

Where, but in France, could the Bou-
LANCER drama have been seriously enacted?
Anywhere else the whole thing would
have been farce, and all the actors in it
would have been laughed at heartily for
their absurd positions and activities. But
though the French are light-hearted, and
love the sunshine and the bright skies of
life, when it comes to politics and political
intrigue they are the most serious and in
tensely dramatic people on the globe. Had
Boulanger posed in the United States as
he did in France little over year ago
he would have been hooted and jeered at,
and laughed out of the country. But in
his native country he was looked upon in
his absurd performance by one class as a
savior, and by another as terror. He
was forever on the eve of upturning the
whole fabric of the Government and cast
ing down President Carnot and his Cabi-
net. But now that we look back over
his career and his pronunciamentos, we
fail to find line or word that definitely
indicated what he really intended to do.
1t all reads sounding and loud, but with
out directness or any indication of what
methods he proposed to adopt, or what re-
forms he would have introduced had he
been placed at the head of the Govern
ment.
This vagueness is perhapsnow accounted
for by the Mermeix revelations. They dis
close the fact that Boulanger was in the
councils of the Royalists and the Bona
partists; that he was taking the money OF
each and giving each to understand that
his schemes should profit the cause Of a
monarchy in France of some sort. But in
America such an agitator would have
been early pinned down to some definite
expression. He could not here, as he did
there, have so covered his tracks that 70
one would suspect him of insencerity
in his loud-mouthed shouting that he loved
the republic, and was the only friend Of
free government that was fast In color and
true to the core. The newspaper press Of
the country could be trusted to make such
an adventurer in politics uncover.
So, too, it is altogether likely that any
where else than in France it could have
been nosed out where the mans income
came from. A politician in the United
States posing as national regenerator ant
a savior could not roll in gold and silver
maintain vast corps of servants and al
expensive establishment, with an exactins
and extravagant mistress, without som'
one finding out from what source he drew
the revenue necessary to support sucl
state and to fight hot political battles
But in France, when the inquiry was pu
on foot, it was dropped the moment Bou
LANCER replied that his committee fur
nished the means Here, the common
est newspaper manager would have ascer
tanned precisely what the committee o
his party did furnish him, and exactl.
what the outlay was that the state Of hi
establishment required. Had that beel
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
THE TOBACCO TAX.

The opposition press is loud in its Sym
pathy" with smokers of cigars, and con-
dones with them because under the new
tariff law there is present rise in the
price of imported cigars. They are, how
ever silent regarding the fact that by the
same law all special internal revenue taxes
upon manufacturers of cigars, dealers in
leaf tobacco, retail dealers in tobacco and
peddlers of cigars and tobacco arerepealed.
The repeating clause goes into effect on
the first day of May next. But there is
also clause that on and after the first day
of January next the internal taxes on
smoking and manufactured tobacco shall
be six cents. 1t is now eight cents, so
that here is direct reduction of 25 per
cent. Now let us see what the reduction
is that is provided by the first clause
quoted, repeating all special taxes of in
ternal revenue upon manufacturers OF and
dealers in tobacco. Under the old law
dealers in leaf tobacco paid S12; dealers
in leaf tobacco received from producers in
"the hand" less than $4,000 pounds per
annum, S.; retail dealers in leaf tobacco,
$3.50, and on monthly sales over rate OF
$500 per annum, 80 cents for every dollar
in excess of such rate; dealers in manu-
featured tobacco, 81 40. All these taxes
are to cease under the new law. 1t will be
noted the rate on monthly sales over $500
per annum was very heavy, but after the first
of next May this entire tax will be abol-
ished. The effect of these equalizing sec
tions must be to give US domestic tobaccos
cheaper than ever before since tariff
rate was adopted. That dealers just now
have attempted to, and in some instances
have, advanced prices, means only spec
ulative turn that cannot last, and is not
justified by the conditions of the time.
He who would indulge in the luxury of
imported cigars may have to pay small
advance, but the reduction. on the other
hand, upon domestic tobaccos more than
equalizes this, and works large saving to
the tobacco consumers generally, the great
mass of whom use the domestic product
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
SUPERIOR COURT.
Department One-Armstrong, Judge.

FRIDAY, October 10th.
Melissa ]. Smith VS.. Edward S. Smith-Mo-
ton of Leonard & Hinkson to be discharged as
attorneys for defendant granted. and demurrer
Germania Building and Loan Association vs.
Curtiss II. Todd-Demurrer overruled.
10 eph Froi VS.. Frank Perry-Continued for
one week.
R.. NJ. Miller VS.. Odd Fellows Hall Associa-
tion-Demurrer overruled.
]. B. White VS. His Creditors-Receiver al
lowed SIS, and 500 to attorney.
w. c. Honehin VS.. His Creditors-Philip S.
Driver appointed assignee
r. L. Hays VS.. His Creditors-Petition to set
aside homestead and personal property exempt
from execution granted.
In re Fred Mason, an insolvent debtor-Con-
tinued one week.
Farrell vs. Board of Trustees of the City of
Observation-Disclosures filed, and Judgment en-
tered in accordance with the directions of the
Supreme Court.
Department Two-van Fleet. Judge.
FRIDAY, october 10th.
Guardianship of Oughton minors-Ordered
that an allowance of $50 per month be paid to
Mrs Cooksley Tor the support of minor chill
dren.
Estate of C. B. Hooper, deceased-Order made
settling final account and distribution; attorney
fees of $3.50 allowed.
Estate of Jim Horn, deceased-Order made
settling final account and distribution.
Estate of J. NJ. Dufour, dsceased-Continued
one week
Estate OF James narrower, QeceaSeQ-OrQer
appointing Commissioners to take testimony.
Order also made for the expense of 500 for the
erection of a monument
Estate of Washington Fern. deceased-Letters
to Fl. L. sloper; bond, $4,000; appraisers-J. L.
Dennison, D. J Simmons and G. p Register.
Estate of Edward Kraus, decessed-Order
made confirming sale of real estate.
Estate of P. Erauw, deceased-Order confirm
ing sale of real estate refused.
Estate of R. oppenheim, deceased-Contin-
ned one week.
Estate of A B. Nixon, deceased-Order allow
ing l.. Bell $40 for sale of real estate.
Estate of Thomas Armstrong, deceased-Or-
der allowing 1913 to undertaken.
Estate of l.. Washburn, deceased-Order re-
taxing cost bill.
In the following estates orders were made OF
due notice to creditors: J. NJ. Dutour, L. Tom
lin, NJ. Valles Z. Kofie J. Potter, E. Meister, D.
D. Washburn, w. H. Slawson.
schaw, Ingram, hatcher & Co. VS.. Eclipse
Gold Mining Company-Demurrer overruled;
ten days to answer.
Charles A. jenkins vs.. Wilson d Kinney
Demurrer overruled; ten days to answer.
Louisa Rutherford VS.. James Rutherford-Or-
der allowing plaintiffs attorney a fee of $40 to
be paid within thirty days
Henry Collins ct al. VS.. A. S. Tryon-Demurrer
overruled; ten days to answer.
Everett Pierce VS.. City of Sacramento-M0tion
to strike out portions of complaint denied.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11

Mr. E. l.. GoDKIN, the accomplished
New York journalist, writes in the North
american Reriew on the subject of NUM-
cipal reform. Taking it as admitted that
municipal government that is divorced
from politics, and conducted on the bust
ness plane is the most economic and alto
gether most desirable, he asks Is it rea-
sonable to expect it to be attained in this
country by political revolutions? He an
swers that his study of the subject con-
vinces him that such result need not
be expected. When the desired end is
reached, it will be through system OF
education of the people outside of politi-
cal struggles. That is to say, the result
desired will be reached in time through
the same slow processes that were charac-
teristic of such reforms in Europe. He
holds that we lack just now municipal
conscience, and that is not to be had by
any legislative enactments, nor by any
change in the machinery of government.
We must educate the people first to a
radically different method Of viewing
municipal government. When they have
arrived at true understanding of its pur-
poses, there will be no difficulty encoun-
tered in running cities upon business as
opposed to political basis.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
time until the babe is dead, the breath
sucking theory will be impossible of re-

time until the babe is dead, the breath
sucking" theory will be impossible of re-
alization.
Yet we are told by physicians of this
city that they occasionally meet apparently
intelligent people who firmly believe that
cats can not only suck the breath out of In
fants, but even extract it from adults.
They say that they have tired of the at
tempt to convince such foolish people of
the error of their belief What does hap
pen, however, is this. The household cat
springs into the cradle attracted by the
smell of milk upon the infants lips. 1t
may lick the face of the child, and then,
finding its body warm and the bedcloth-
ing soft and inviting, the purring animal
curls itself upon the breast of the child, or
perhaps across its face, and in the latter
case suffocates it. Indeed, even the weight
of the cat upon the breast of the child may
prevent respiration and cause death to en-
sue. 1t is, therefore, unwise and danger
Gus to leave babe in its cradle alone with
the cat of the household in the room. 1t
is amazing, however, to learn with what
tenacity a great many people cling 10 the
belief in the physical impossibility that a
cat can suck the breath" of life out of
the human body. That jury of Chicago
citizens deemed fit to serve should give the
superstition the support of solemn YER
dict, converts amazement into disgust, and
suggests that after all the fool-killer's occu-
patton is not gone, despite the enlighten-
ment of the age.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11

THE most recent statistics show that
under the administration of Mr.. Cleveland
it cost, on the average, 1886 per cent. to
collect the internal revenue Of the United
States. But on the incoming of General
Harrison long needed economies were en-
forced, and now it is disclosed that the
cost of collecting the internal revenue
under Republican administration is but
90. So, too, the average increase of the
internal revenue under Mr.. Cleveland was
81, SIS, 1913 %; uuder the Republican adj
ministration for the firrt year alone the in
crease was Sll, zoe, 262 81. So that the Re.
publican method of doing business is the
cheaper, and the saving is great in dollars
and cents 1t might be a very proper subject
of inquiry for Congress to ascertain why
there was such discrepancy as the figures
we have quoted show.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
THE NEGRO AT THE NORTH

The Atlanta Constitution asks why it is
that the negroes in the Northern States
have no opportunity to earn their living,
while all avenues to a livelihood are open
to the negroes of the South. Well, in the
first place, the statement of the ConstitI-
ton is not true; and in the second and last
place, it is untrue.
There is no avenue to livelihood closed
to the negro in the North. He has the
right and privilege to engage in any in
dustry he may choose That he has not
to great extent entered into merchan-
dizing, the professions and the trades, is
due to a simple and well-known fact
that his natural tendency never was and
probably will not be towards commerce or
mechanics; that the negro in the North
has not yet escaped wholly from the in
fuences of the enslavement of his kind in
one section of the nation less than thirty
years ago; that in consequence he has not
advanced upon educational lines so rap
idly as under other conditions he would
have done. Finally he has proved in the
North that he can become skilled me-
chanic, practical and successful farmer,
and the evidences are that he will turn to
these industries from natural love for
them rather than to trade or other voca-
tions, except unskilled labor and domestic
service.
A great mistake is INDUCED in by many
when it is assumed that because SO many
negroes are BARRIERS, walters and cooks,
therefore they are driven to those voca-
tions. The truth is, as all reasoning per-
sons know, that the good cook and the
efficient waiter, the skilled barber and the
successful steward, are all trades of a
good order. They are occupations that
are also filled by thousands of white men
and women, who maintain their social and
political dignity, and the respect and con-
fdence of their fellow-citizens, precisely as
do workers in other industries. The only
confusion in the matter is in the assump-
ton that the vocation of the domestic and
the barber are mental. So far as that is
concerned we infinitely prefer and COM
mend the serving girl, black or white, who
in family learns and practices economic
housewifery, to the position of the young
woman who serves all manner of people
behind the counter, and who in the bust
ne,s world displaces man and is thrown
constantly into contacts that do not con-
duce to the development of womanly char
acter or virtues.
But to come back to the question Of the
Atlanta paper. We repeat that there is
no restriction placed upon the negro at the
North, and that he can take any place for
which he proves himself worthy, and bet
ter than or as good as his competitor. He
can occupy himself in any industry that
his taste and his capacity indicate, and
there is nothing to impede him in invad-
ing any vocation he may choose to enter
upon.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11

IT turns out that the people up in the
mountains have at last discovered that
Colonel Markham has been lied about to
them, by Democratic scandal mongers,
and now the miner communities are
searching for the fellows who told them
that their worst enemy is the nominee OF
the Republican party for Governor.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11

THE Democrats are making great mis-
take in still assailing the tariff bill. 1t is
now the law and the people want it fairly
tried. As the New York Sun well puts it,
the natural love of repose and certainty
by the business world is thing that no
party can afford to DEFY.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11

tariff schedule in his tehalf, and hence
the imposition of fifty cents gallon to
equalize the conditions of the competition.
For this the wine-growers of California
have to thank the Republican party. Yet
the Democratic orators are running about
the country trying to convince vineyardists
that the stariff tinkering," as they term
it, by the Republican party has been in
imical to the material interests of the
people.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
Receivers Sale Under Foreclosure.


TN PURSUANCE OF A DECREE OF FORE
| closure and order of sale issued out of the
Superior Court, County of Sacramento State of
California, in an action wherein RUDOLPH
WITrENBROCK is plaintiff and CALVIN l..
BATES, LOUISA ]. BATES and DANIEL STEW
ART are defendants, attested on the 18th day of
September, 1880, l have levied upon the follow
ing real estate, to wit :: The southwest quarter
OF the northeast quarter, the southeast quarter
of the northwest quarter, the northwest quarter
of the southeast quarter, and the northeast
quarter of the southwest quarter of Section No.
81, in Township No. north Range No. east.
Mount Diablo base and meridian, containing
one hundred and sixty acres
Notice is hereby given that / will sell said
premises on FRIDAY, the 18th day of NOvem-
Der, 1890, in front of the Courthouse door. in
the city of Sacramento. at 1880 o'clock of said
day. Terms of sale, in United States gold coin.
GEORGE F. BRONNER,
Receiver OF the Superior Court of Sacramento,
State aforesaid.
HoLL & TAYLOR, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
O11-22t
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The RECORD UNION, SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION are the only papers on the
Coast, outside Of San Francisco, that receive
she full associated Press dispatches from all
parts Of the ,Oorld. Outside Of San Francisco,
they hare no competitors either in influence or
home and general circulation throughout the
STATE
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11

So LONG as it cost only about seven
cents gallon to ship wine from France to
America the California wine-grower could
not hope to compete with the French
grower, save by the interference of the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11

Election.-Tbe annual meeting of the
members of the Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton for the election of eleven Trustees, will
occur on TUESDAY EVENING, october 81,
1850, at 7:4S O'Clock, in their rooms. This will
be an important meeting, and every active
member especially should be present
CHAUNCEY II. DUNN, President.
A. w. WADswoRTH, Secretary. oS Wv
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
San Francisco Agencies.

This paper Is for sale at the following places:
L. P. Fishers, room d, Merchants Exchange
California street; the principal News Stands
and Hotels, and at the Market-street Ferry.
60 Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento