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THE DOG AND THE SAGE,
BOOT BLAcKING TRUST.
How the Italians Have Run the New
York Boys Out.

How the Italians Have Run the New
York Boys Out.
One of the features OF life in New York
city that is rapidly disappearing, if not
already practically extinct, is the grimy
little bootblack of former times, says the
New York Tribune This ragged waif, who
has furnished the theme for SO many songs
ard stories, comic and pathetic, is rare
figure on the streets of New York nova
days. Like so many other picturesque
things of the past he has been swept away
by the on-rolling wave of civilization. He
is one of the innumerable victims of the
prevailing tendency to trusts and "com-
bines" His little nail-studded box, slung
over the shoulder by strap, with its con-
tents of backing box, two or three we'll
worn brushes, and the bit of carpet to kneel
on, is fast becoming a memory only. 1t
has been succeeded by the chair perched
on high goods box, with the soft cushion
for the customer. and the iron foot-rests.
that occupy nearly every corner down
town. A lusty Italian, who looks as if he
might have been run out of Sicily for too
pernicious activity" as bandit, presides
over the chair and is the commonplace and
SNl1-iOOn4H5 suSCCSSOI vi l4t UOUlDldCk OF
old times. The latter was accustomed to
wander over the city, free as the air, catch
ing 'shlne" wherever he found one. The
Sicilian ex-bandit pays from So to S25 a
month for the privilege of keeping his
chair in a good place to catch custom
pays it to the man before whose door he
establishes himself. Little by little these
bootblacking chairs are falling into the
hands of Italian spectators, who bring old
men and lads from Italy to do the work,
paying them IS, 81, s., never over Sc, a
week. These people earn for their en-
ployers 81 and S. day on an average.
Not only have these spectators taken
possession of this profitable of industry in
the streets of New York, but they have
leased the privilege of backing boots on
ferryboats that ply the waters about the
city. The Pennsylvania Railroad leases
the monopoly of blacking boots on its fer
ryboats for $4,000 a year 1t is said that
the Italian who has the privilege clears
$4,000 year on the labor of the boys on
the boats.
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MORE THAN He WANTED.
Lying" Bob Has Terrible Experience
But Does Not Quit LYING.

eve had case of smallpox in our lower
camp once" said the Colonel to a New
York Tribune reporter, switch gave us a
good deal of trouble. You see, there were
only six of US and we did not want to lose
any more men than possible. We deter
mined to send the case to the upper camp,
five miles away, but the problem which
worried us most was who should go along
as nurse.
"Bob, the cook, was a hard drinker, and
as soon as he heard of the case he pro-
ceeded to drown his cares in whisky. He
was terribly frightened at first, but the
more he drank the more resigned he be-
came to circumstances.
when Bob was drinking he could beat
any man in Colorado at Boosting, and be-
fore long he began to declare that small
pox had no terrors for him. In feet, he
had nursed nineteen persons at one time,
when everyone else had deserted them.
He had brought them safely through, too.
In the end he gravely asserted that he
couldn't catch the smallpox, anyway, for
he had already had it.
Give of the boys looked at me signif-
cantly, and l nodded my head. We
bundled the sick man up carefully and
put him in wagon. Two hours later we
had established a hospital at the upper
camp, with the cook as chief surgeon, ply
stefan and nurse. The cook, by the way,
was sleeping as peacefully as child when
We left the hospital.
THE next morning we heard wild
shouts and saw Bob tearing for the
lower camp, half dressed. We immedi-
ately established shotgun quarantine.
Hold up, Bob,' one OF the boys shout
ed, this camp is quarantined. You can't
come past the whistling post
"'But, say pleaded the frightened
cook, that man has the smallpox
"'Wel, you volunteered to nurse HIM
az? he screamed, incredulously.
"'Remember those nineteen patients
you nursed.'
"'What nineteen patients%
"'And then, you know, you had it your
SELF
"'I never saw case before he howled.
g. Cant help it. You've started on it
now and must keep it up
ave chased him back from the post and
left some whisky and provisions for him
on the ground. We told him to come
down every evening shutdown for new
supply, and we never let him come near
the camp.
"He used regularly to come down every
evening and beg to be allowed to come
into camp, but the shotgun policy was
strictly maintained Then he would take
up his whisky and provisions and shout
out to US that he would have every one of
US hanged for deliberate murder
"Did he catch the smallpox? No, nor
did that experience cure him of lying and
Dragging. He afterward boosted to people
that he had nursed US all, only he swelled
our number to nine, for five weeks without
closing his eyes; that he rode thirty miles
twice week for medicine, and looked after
all the cattle besides.n
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they could lay hands on, and went to Packs
room in the hotel. certain that his servants
woald be away. Pack was a cheap soul.
He had not purchased decent cash-box to
keep his papers in, but one of those native
limitations that you buy for ten rupees. 1t
opened to any sort of key, and there at the
bottom, under Packs insurance policy, lay
the Bisaree of Pooree.
Churton called Pack names, put the
Bisara of Pooree in his pocket and went to
the dance with The Man. At least he
came in time for supper and saw the be-
ginning of the end in Miss Hollis eyes.
She was hysterical after supper and was
taken away by her mamma.
, At the dance with the abominable Bisara
| in his pocket Churton twisted his foot on
one of the steps leading to the old Rink
and had TO be sent home in rickshaw,
grumbling. He did not believe in the
Bisara of Pooree any the more for this
manifestation, but he sought out Pack and
called him some ugly names; and ''thief"
was the mildest of them. Pack took the
names with the nervous smile Of a little
man who wants both soul and body to re-
sent an insult, and went his way. There
was no public scandal.
A week later Pack got his definite dis
missal from Miss Hollis. There had been
a mistake in the placing of her affections,
she said. So he went away to Madras,
where he can do no great harm even if he
live to be colonel.
Churton insisted upon The Man Who
KNEW taking the Bisara of Pooree as a
| gift. The man took it, went down to the
cart-road at once, found an ekka-pony with
a blue-bead necklace, fastened the Bisara
of Pooree inside the necklace with piece
of shoe-string and thanked heaven that he
was rid Of danger. Remember, in case
you ever find it, that you must not destroy
the Bisara of Pooree. / have not time t
explain why just now, but the power lie:
in the little wooden fish. Mr.. Gubernatil
or Max Muller could tell you more about
it than |.
You viii say that all this story is made
| up. Very well. If ever you come across
little silver, ruby-studded box, seven
eighths of an inch long by three-quarter
wide, with dark-brown wooden fish
wrapped in gold cloth inside it, keep it
Keep it for three years and then you vii
discover for yourself whether my story il
true or false.
| Better still, steal it as Pack did, and yor
will be sorry that you had not killeC
yourself in the beginning.
RUDYARD KIPLING.
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WHERE Styles oRIeIyArE
The Real Dress Designers are Often
Obscure Artists.

OooSSiC tENiStSs
DO you know how the great modistes
get their new ideas ~ said prominent
buyer recently in talk about gowns. "No9
Well, let me tell you that not one-half of
the charming creations attributed to
Worth, Redeem and all the rest of them
have ever been designed by those famous
fashion leaders. What they do is to buy
the ideas of obscure women who have no
chance to introduce them as their own.
This is how it is done: Some small dress
maker or milliner who has no money or
fashionable trade tries to exc out living
in an out-of the-way locality in Paris, per-
haps. She has artistic ideas.
I'm fancy she sees some exquisite crea-
tion of silk and lace that would grace the
beauty of a Cleopatra, bat the queen of
hearts does not come her way, and
how from her humble store shall she bring
into being that vision of her mind? 1t
may be new design for hat that comes
to her, but how shall she offer it 10 the
world? What grand dame will give an
order to the poor little worker in a back
street? Without money, without great
name among fashionable folk, without Gus
toners for such fine things, what can she
do? This she can do-she can sell her
artistic dreams to some one who is able to
introduce them as styles.
Forthwith she sets out to call upon
Nine. -, we will say, whose reputation
is, as you know, wonderful. The unknown
artist explains her ideas to the famous
modiste; perhaps she shows some little
model of her design, contrived with the
poor bits she could muster. a good idea
muses. madame. How beautiful that would
look on the Princess, and in golden crepe
how like dream would any lovely blonde
appear. Oh, yes; that is a good idea
Madame accepts the design, chooses the
material of which it shall be made, the
color, etc, and gives her order for the cos
tune, or whatever it may be. When it is
made it is brought TO Nine. IS estab-
lishment, where it is displayed as one of
her new Creations The real artist is paid
perhaps three times the value ofthe making,
and must be content with that. The house
that brings it out will probably send a
copy of the design to every other store of
consequence in the world, and may make
fortune out of this one style.
"Women rave over Worth's dresses as if
| all that comes from his place was better
than anything else. They pay extrava-
CANT prices for his ideas, but what they
often get is the creation of some unknown
artist whom they would never condescend
to notice. As for Worth himself, he has
hardly been inside his establishment for
fifteen years. This l know to be a fact, for
l am well acquainted with all of those
artists and know just how they manage
these things. Pingat, l may say. is an
exception to the rule. He works hard,
and is himself practical designer" CHI
cdgo Tribune.
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DEFYING THE LAW.

The anti-lottery bill was approved by
the President on the 10Th instant. The
law went into effect at once. There was
not newspaper in the United States
whose proprietors did not then know, as
they do now, what the law requires and
forbids. In Alabama, on Wednesday, a
newspaper proprietor defed the law, pub
lished lottery advertisements, and was at
once arrested and jailed, and is now held
for trial In Cincinnati, on Saturday,
another newspaper publisher ignored the
law and sent his papers for mailing with
lottery advertisement in the columns.
The authorities refused to mail the sheet
and seized the edition.
So, then, it appears that at the East the
law is to be enforced, as it should be. But,
though the bill became the law on the
18th, ON the 23d inst ant M ost of the news
papers in San Francisco published the adj
vertisement of Mexican lottery, and the
postal authorities paid no attention to the
defiance of the law.
The press is supposed to be the cham
pion of orderly government, the defender
Of the law, the conservator of morals, and
the exemplar of law-abiding. Yet here
we have several of the leading news
papers OF the metropolis of California con
temptuously disregarding a Federal law
aud openly defying solemnly enacted
statute of the Republic. 1t would seem
that journals prating of their loyal
ty, preaching order, constantly scourg-
ing the lawless element and forever de-
handing that the law-breakers shall be
punished, ought to make their examples of
law-abiding beacon lights for all others.
1t viii not do for our contemporaries to
say that no official PRONUNCIATION of the
law has been made-that is not required,
they are presumed to know the law. 1t
will not do for them to say that it IS a bad
law, is unconstitutional and cannot stand
the test the Courts will apply. For it is
the law, and good or bad it ought to be
obeyed by all citizens vino have any re-
gard for the stability of free institutions.
If the law is obnoxious and bad, the surest
way to work its repeal is to conserve its
rigid enforcement. 1t is humiliating and
shameful that leading newspapers, claim
ing to be opponents of public opinion and
the bulwarks of liberty, should set the
pernicious example of defiance of law APP
proved by Observation-Disclosures of the peo-
pie of the Union, and against which the
same papers have not had one word to
say
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A French railroad has hit upon a new
source of revenue. In future people who
accompany their friends to any of the sta
tions on that line to see them off will only
be admitted on the platform on payment
of fee of one penny, in return for which
they will receive special ticket of author
ization. For those who are apt to tarry a
long while over their leave-taking there is
further tax, as the ticket is only avail
able for one hour, at the end Of which
time another must, if necessary, be OBJ
tanned,
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DOUBLE.CYLIEDER HOE PRESS

Which we are now using. We have al
ready sold It's mate to the Fresno Repub-
lican. THIS HOE PRESS Is IN
PERFECT ORDER, and will be guar
anteed to do FIRST-CLASS WORK. We
viii sell it AT A SACRIFICE, as
we will have no further use for it
when our NEW PRESS IS IN OPER-
ALTON. The size of bed-plate is 40x6O.
This is an opportunity to secure bargain
that is rarely presented to the newspapers
of this coast. Terms of payments can be
made easy for the purchasers if desired.
The press can be seen in operation at this
Office at any time. tf&Su
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Now, sir" asked the Prosecuting At
torney, looking at him sternly, "were you
ever in prison p
/" Yes, sir, l have been," answered the
witness in a low tone.
"Ab, l thought 50, sir. You are a
pretty fellow. Jail bird How long ago
has it been ~
1T was during the war. / served six
months in Andersonville and Libby while
you we're up North here writing magazine
articles on how to end the conflict" an
swered the witness in the same low, meek
tone
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The REcozD UEIoN, SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION are the only papers on the
Coast, outside Of San Francisco, that rscsire
tie faIl Associated Press dispatches from all
paris of the seor!d. Outside Of San Francisco,
they haze no competitors either IN influence or
hone and general circulation throughout tie
State
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Printing and BiniiHS Precinct Registers.

DURsUANT TO RESOLUTION. OF BOARD
L Of Supervisors of Sacramento County.
adopted September %. 1870, bids viii be re-
ceiyed ny the said Beard for printing aud bind
ing the Precinct Registers for the year 1890.
BIDS must state the price per name and number
of copies: the work TO he done ia accordance
with speciica ions on file in the office of the
County Clerk. A certiied check of ten per cent.
of the amount Of The bid mus accompany each
bid. Bids 10 De opened by said Board os super
yis3rs on MONDAY, October 6, 1890, at 10
o'clock A. II.
The Board reserves the right 70 reject any or
all bids II. G.. ROSS. Chairman
SEAL Attest: WV. B HAMILTON,
s96l0{Su) County Clerk.
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A New York sporting man who has al
ways stood ready to bet on anything, has
just discovered that there is difference
between 60 First street and 61st street.
Anybody can see it on paper, but when
you come to say it, that's where the catch is,
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heir by the collar. and marched him up
stairs, mutteriDg something about causing
enough trouble-losing ten dollars and
licking the wrong man.
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FAST pERFEETING PRESSES.

Which viii print, paste and fold Four.
Six, Eight or Twelve-page Paper at the rate
of TWENTY THOUSAND PER HOUR
for the four and six-pages. This press will
be set up in our Office and in running
order IN A FEW WEEKS, and we car
then dispose of the remaining
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Here is another relic of the fair heard on

Here is another relic of the fair heard on
the cars the other day:
Attorney Charles I. Jones was in the
grand stand with his family and party of
friends, and. with bland smile, watched
the horse he had bought pool on win the
race.
"Humph! That ten dollars was won
easily" he said. II guess pll go down
stairs and cash my ticket"
Hold on, papa" piped Mr.. Jones little
son. let me go down and cash it for you
Mr.. Jones gave him the ticket and the
little fellow dsrted off. He was gone quite
while, but finally returned with a sad
countenance, and told his father how a
stranger had stepped up to him, and kind
~ offered to get the money for him; that
he gave him the ticket, and had not seen
the man since.
Mr.. Jones was mad then.
Come down stairs with me and show
that man to me- he said.
They were in the vicinity of the pool
box when Mr.. Jones thought the boy
pointed to young fellow with a straw hat.
Promptly did Mr.. Jones step up to HIM and
give him resounding punch on the nose.
The recipient of the blow began to below
like a calf, and the irate attorney was about
to give him another cutting when his little
son seized him by the arm. That's not
the man, papaw he exclaimed.
Then Mr.. Jones was madden still.
After apologizing to the young fellow
with the straw hat, he grabbed his son and
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NOTICE TO VOTERS.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL
IN parties interested that at a regular meet
ing OF the Board of Supervisors OF sacramento
county, California, held on the 10th day oil sunes
ceiling the Great Register of said county, and
ordering q rc-registraiion of the voters thereon:
Said order was made pursuant TO Section ,os4
of the Political Code, and all persons desiring
10 vote at the next ensuing general election are
notified that they will have to be re-registersd,
as provided in said section and il conformity
with this order.
Attest:
lsEALl W. B. HAMILTON,
Clerk of Board OF Supervisors Sacramento
county, California jySl.tino22(Su)
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BIDS FOR PLANKIEG
The rrestle- Work North OF the American
River Bridge, on Twelfth Street.

DURSUANT TO A RESOLUTION OF THE
| Board of Supervisors of Sacramento county,
adopted September IS 1890 bids will be received
By the said Board for replsnking the trestle-
work north of the American River Bridge on
Twelfth street. certified check OF 10 per cent.
of the amount Of the bid must accompany each
bid Bids o be opened by said Board OF SUPER
yisors on MONDAY. October G. 1890 at o'clock
?. n. The Board reserves the right to reject any
or all bids. nc ROSS. Chairman.
LsEAL.l Attest WIN. B. HAMILTON,
s26.!0t(Su) Clerk of the Board.
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AMERICAN FABLES.
From the Detroit Free Press.

One cold day in the fall peasant who
was laboring in his field discovered crow
who was almost dead with hunger and who
piteously asked for corn.
"Ah! but | have nothing to give" re-
piled the peasant, " and the crows are to
blame for it. Last spring, when planted
my corn you persisted in digging up the
seed. Each kernel you then ate would
have given you hundred this fall, but
you refused to wait. You not only robbed
me of my crop, but cut off your own food
supply as well.'
Neutrality-suspicious. have to borrow now
and then, but don't borrow the crow bar,
piano. hired girl, horse and buggy, fiat
irons, front door bell, sugar box, tea canis-
lister and sideboard all at once.
THE CHAP WHO MISSED IT.
A beggar who was making his way along
lonely highway in the evening, was
stopped by footpad who demanded his
wealth. The beggar soon gave him a true
understanding Of how matters stood, and
the footpad cried out in his sorrow:
Alas but l have been defrauded of
my rights p
Chow so?"
Why, the traveller with fat purse
whom l expected to pass this way must
have taken another route and will now be
robbed by some one else 7"
Moral-There's something funny in hear
Jog the coal man call the ice man an ex-
tortioner.
THE TRAMP AND THEsLADY.
A tramp having called at house and
stated the fact of his hunger and distress,
the good lady prepared him a noble feast,
and when he had finished he stole the ak
and bucksaw and was making of, when
she cried out at his ingratitude.
"Ah madam, you do not know what
you say" he replied. 81 did intend to
steal the piano, but overcome with your
kindness l have contented myself with
these poor TOOLS"
Moral-She apologized of course.
THE DOG AND THE SAGE.
A dog was barking at the moon when a
sage inquired why he did so, adding that
he could not possibly affect the great lu-
minary one way or another, and that it
seemed a useless waste of energy.
ooh, it isn't that it makes any differ
ence with the moon," replied the canine,
I" but | want the other dogs in this neigh
borhood to know that Pm not dead"
Moral-We never know that some men
have been buried until after we miss their
buster
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Notice of Sale of Real Estate.

DY ORDER OF THE SUPERIOR COURT WE
d viii sell AT Public Auction, on the premises,
Lot No. One ~. E and F, Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets, with all the Improvements
thereon. said sale to take place en-
Tuesday, Sept 3oth, at 1890 O'Clock A. NJ.
And subject to confirmation of said Court
D. J. SIMMONS & Co, Auciioneers,
Office, 1l05 Fourth street.
w GERBER.
Administrator for Estate.
TAYLOR & HoLI, Attorneys for Administrator.
so tdfSul
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BARON NoRDENsKJoLD is right in hi
assertion that it is worth while to seek for
the discovery of that point we know of as
the north pole. The Norwegian expedi-
ton about TO start on such voyage of
discovery may meet the fate of all its
predecessors, but that it should not be
made because it is a dangerous venture is
not reasonable. 1t is very true that we do
not know precisely what the benefcent re-
suit Of reaching the pole may be, but that
it will add greatly to the sum Of human
knowledge cannot be denied, and any such
result must inure to the good of the race.
THERE is hope for the Democracy yet.
In Kansas the Convention of the party
has just put into its platform plank de-
claring in favor of local option and high
license. What is the Democratic party
coming to when it expresses willingness
10 forego its whisky?
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AUCTION SALE
Valuable City Property.
D. j. SIMMONS & CO., Auctioneers,
MONDAY. Sentemhar oatb

A T 1880 O'CLOCK, ON THE PREMISES,
N the East so feet of Lot g, and L. Eighth
and Ninth streets. This is very valuable prop
erty, situated as il is in the very center of the
business portion of Sacramento. There are
three t3l houses on this property all OF which
are rented. Sale positive.
s26-4t(Su) D. J. SIMMONS K co AuctiOneers