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A SMOKING TREE.
Strange Phenomenon That Causes Dis
may Among the Negroes.

may Among the Negroes.
From the Richmond Timesl
Newton, a vigorous mountain town west
of Charlotte, y. c., has curiosity that
beats by large majority the rain tree
which gained such notoriety in Charlotte
in 1886. 1t is a smoking tree and battles
all efforts at explanation. 1t is a white
mulberry tree and stands on the sidewalk
in front Of the residence of !. Levi Ycder.
1t was brought from Illinois year or
two ago, and is now about twelve feet high,
with bushy top and many lateral branches.
Last Sunday one of the family noticed a
puff of smoke proceed from one of the
limbs, and by watching it closely puffs
identical in appearance to cigarette smoke
were seen starting every now and then
from all over the tree, sometimes from the
leaves, sometimes from the bloom, some
times from the bark of the limb or trunk
of the tree. The puffs are at irregular in
tervals; sometimes two or three at once
from various parts of the tree, and some
times they are several seconds or half
minute apart. They just seem to come at
haphazard from any part Of the tree, and
as they ascend in the air look exactly like
the smoke from a cigarette.
Since Tuesday, when the curiosity first
became generally known, large crowds,
both of town and country people, can be
seen there at any time in the day. All
doubling Thomases are soon convinced on
the first visit that the tree "do smoke"
Among the white people it is only looked
upon as a curiosity, and many, of course,
make explanations of the phenomenon,
which, perhaps, are plausible enough to
their authors, but which carry very little
in conviction to the minds OF others.
But the negroes don't like the thing at
ALL One negro woman, after intentiy
watching the puffs few minutes, starting
off on run, saying az wouldn't lib dar
fur nothin'; people better go to doin'
better bout dis town." \ negro man said:
:" I'm gwine stay from dat thing. / can
smell de birthstone clear down to the lib
cry stable.n
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Inspiration.

He was peasant toiling N id the sheaves
From dew till dew among the waving grain.
What time he went afeld in early morn,
The stars still shone above the morning mists;
And when at eve he reached his cottage door,
He heard the plovers calling to the night.
One day, while meath his measured rhythmic
stroke
Eel swath on swath of precious golden grain,
She came across the felds-a vision rare
The Princess, good and pure and beautiful
Who smiling on him as she passed him by,
Knew not that she mad filed his heart with
love
And soul with music. Yet from that day forth
His fellow workers heard his sweet. sad songs
And wondered at their comrade as he sang.
Soon far beyond the humble, rustic town
His master music touched the hearts of men,
Until the world had claimed MIN as her own,
And wreathed him poet with the laurel crown.
One day he found his wandering steps astray
Where ne had Seen the vision of his soul.
IF she,' he thought, had been peasan:
maid,
And Prince had seen her toiliDg there,
How happy now would be those weary days.
At this he threw himself upon the sheaves
Until the length ming shadows, eastward
thrown,
Had blended with the gently deep ming gloom
Until across the misty, starlit meads
He heard the plovers calling to the night.
-Sanb0ra Gore Ienney in Harpers Magazine.
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DISHONESTY PANIED HIM.
His Confidence in Human Nature Shaken
by an Immigrant.

ny al
"Everything's dead wrong in this world, y
said shabby man who was sitting on a
park bench the other day to his compan-
ion, "and amt got no confidence human
| nature left. Everybody is skinnin' every
body else, it seems to me, and genovine
old-fashioned honesty's all gone to the
dogs. This country is SO wicked that even
the ignorant immigrant sucks in dishon-
esty with his first Whit of Battery air.
81 was a-walking down there only this
morning, when an innocent-looking Pole
comes up to me and begins to jabber at me
in the worst attempt at English you ever
heard.
What do you want p says /, taking
pity on him, for he looked SO confused and
lost-like.
"'Wanta linda Inspector man. says he.
"'What for p says I.
"'Give heem thisa,' says he pulling a
fat envelope halfway out of the inside
pocket of his waistcoat and ramming it
back again in jiffy.
"'What's his name p says |.
Forgetta,' says the poor devil with a
most perplexed look. DE boss will sack
me- and he began to cry.
swell, l learned from his actions and
his horrible words, after a good deal of
trouble, that he had only been in this
country month end had got his first Job
that week. That the boss sweater for
whom he worked had sent him down to
the Battery to deliver letter to Gus
toms inspector, whose name he, the poor
Pole, had forgotten.
Let me see the package" says cant
you read the address,
"'No reada, he says, dolefully, as he
pulled open his waistcoat just far enough
for me to see the top of the letter.
"'Well, l can't help you,' says /, unless
you let me see the address,
"He was afraid to let it out of his hands
for minute, but finally got hold of it,
and could tell at touch that it had roll
of bills in it. Besides that it was marked
In small characters up in one corner, 1913;
pay messenger so cents
Why, it's addressed to me- says l sur
prised like. pve been looking for this all
the morning. It's mighty lucky you found
me. You must be more careful to remem-
Der names that are told you, after this, till
yon have learned to read the English.
I've good mind to tell your boss of your
carelessness.'
The poor creature fairly squirmed with
fear when said that, and begged me not
to report him.
Well, I'll not do it this time says /,
savagely, but don't do it again. Here's
your fifty cents. Now get back as quick
as you can and say to your boss that said
it would be all right
"As soon as he was gone / opened the
envelope, and, would you believe it, there
was nothin' inside but paper.
Elbow kin man retain any confidence
in human natur' under such discourage
ment? Me.-Bunco Pete skinned by a
greasy emigrant just landed The per-
flesh wants protection just as bad as any
other trade from European pauper COM
petition.v
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AGENCY UNION INSURANCE COMPANY.
dSSiltf
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

NNHE CAPAY VALLEY LAND COMPANY Is
i offering the most fertile lands to be found
III California, under the most favoring climatic
condition for the prosecution oil profitable fruit
growing, in of the earliest localities of Cali
fornia, upon terms which enable the purchaser
of the land to pay for it cut of its own product.
THE CAPAY VALLEY LAND COMPANY will
sell first class fruit land without the payment
of any part of the principal, but by payment of
interest only for five years, the principal pay
able at the end of five years, or sooner, at the
option of the purchaser. sales upon these
terms are conditioned strictly and exclusively
upon the improvement of the land purchased.
In this way, the most desirable fruit land in
California is offered to the capitalist classes,
ana in any quantity from one acre up to 260
acres. Apply to or address
WIN. H. MILLS,
Agent o., the Capay Valley Land Company,
Fourth and Townsend streets, San Francisco.
my2l-tf&Su
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Juniter Exiled.

He sits amid the dreamland of the snow,
In lonely desolation far and near
Lie barren bluff of moreland, white as fear
And cherries as despair. No breezes blow
With song of birds or gentle river flow,
But the old deity responding ear
Hears only murmurs of the norand drear,
And means from that far land of long ago
o God, unsphered, forsaken-as thou erst
Hadst hurled old Saturn from his throne su
preme,
So now new light O. er the world has burst,
And neither force nor beauty do we deem
Divine, but parts of that which is the first
Eternal love, a God and not dream.
Arthur l.. Salmon
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A Fable.

A captive bird the whole day long
Filled the glad air with merry song,
And guessed not he had suffered wrong.
A little cherub, flown astray
From heaven, roaming earth one day
Found cage and birding on his way,
And paused in Innocent amaze
To watch the birds strange, pulling ways
Deeper and sadder grew his gaze
"That pretty bird most sweetly sings,
Eats gayly what his mistress brings,
But oh he does not use his wings.
Oh, bird poor bird did you but see
What glorious gifts your wings might be,
To heavens blue you soar with me-"
Bright tears skone in his angel eyes
What sadder sight beneath the skies?
strong winged bird that never flies
Frances Rel C1Nrse1,
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SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

The result of recent experiments by
Russian scientist is that 633 per cent. of
the solar heat is absorbed by the atmos-
phere, and only 36l per cent. reaches the
soil.
The adoption of steel ties in place of
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Faith and DUTY.

God made me- will not apologize
The workmanship is His if firm and fair.
The credit of its strength do not share
If it be rudely reared, and men despise
Its quaint design, and deign to criticise,
make no murmur, for have no care
question not the Builder, here nor there,
Believing still that ali His ways are wise.
This is the one sweet duty that claim
To keep the palace chambers cool and pure
And lily chaste within, while they endure,
And all the many turret lights attame;
To pour loves wine, aud bid the world taxi
part,
Around the purple affairs of my heart.
james Nelgton Matthews, in Chicago Tribune
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A new smokeless gunpowder has just
been produced at the royal gunpowder
factory at Waltham Abbey, in England.
1t is called Walthamite, and is said to
have given startling results on the Gov
eminent ranges at Enfield Lock when
fired in the new magazine rife, the ac-
curacy in shooting at distances up to 1000
yards having been something marvellous.
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The Bibliophile to His Baby.

A bibliophile you'll be,
Your fathers heart it grieves
To note the ghoulish glee
With which you chew the leaves;
To note the happy look
That lights your visage !air
When you take up book
And kiss its binding rare.
There was a time when
Thought love for books the best
A time not long gone by,
Nor is that love at rest;
When treatment such as this
You grant my treasured tones
Would drive the name of bliss
From happieAt Of homes.
Yet l can't bat confess
Your re welcome to my lore
Not that love books less,
But that love you more.
-H0YDer's Bd.dl
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A CONTINUATION OF a cough for any
length of time causes irritation of the
lungs or some chronic throat disease.
Browns Bronchial Troches are an effective
cough remedy. Price, 25 cents. Sold only
in boxes.
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On the Fly Leaf of Manon Lescaur.

To you whose temperate pulses flow
With measured beat, serene and slow,
The even tenor OF whose way
Is undis.urbed by passions sway,
This tale OF Maynard love may seem
The record of e fevered dream.
And yet, we, too, have that within
To make Us what our kind have been.
A lure more strong, wish more faint,
Makes one monster, one saint;
And even love, by difference nice,
Becomes virtue or a vice.
The brier, that o er the garden wall
Trails its sweet blossoms till they fall
Across the dusty road, and then
Are trodden under foot of men,
Is sister TO the decorous rose
Within the gardens well-kept close,
Whose pinioned branches may not roam
Out and beyond their latticed home.
There's many a life of sweet content
Whose virtue is environment.
They erred, they fell; and yet, it's true,
They hold the mirror up to you.
Waller Learned, in Book Mart.
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The bald mans motto There is room
at the top This top may be supplied
with good crop of fine hair by using
Halls Hair Remover. Try it.
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Tuesday, the 1.t Day of July, a. D. 1ss,


office, 226l K street Cup stairs) in the city OF
Sacramento and State OF California, on
Tuesday, the LIST Day of July, A. d. 1890,
At 10 o'clock A. NJ. of said day, selsto the high
est responsible bidder, for cash. in gold coin of
the United States, from one to one hundred and
fifty bonds of said Capital Gas Company of one
thousand dollars each, and aggregating the sum
of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The
bonds are secured by first mortgage, and will
constitute the only Indebtedness even after the
completion of extensive additions now being
made to the plant and realty. They will run
for twenty years, but at the end of ten years the
company shall have the right to redeem fifteen
thousand dollars annually by allotment.
Sealed proposals for the purchase of said bonds
will be received by said Board of Directors until
the day and hour aforesaid, at which time said
Board of Directors Will open the proposals and
award the purchase of said bonds to the highest
responsible bidder but the said Board of Direct
ors reserves the right to reject any and all bids
and will in no event sell any OF said bonds for
less than par.
Said bonds are dated May LIST, A. D. 1899, and
bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per an
mum, psyably semi-annually.
The purchaser of any of said bonds will be re-
quired to psy back the interest hat may have
accrued between the date OF said bonds and the
sale and delivery thereof. The said bonds will
be delivered to the successful bidder, and the
money received therefor, at the National Bank
of ID. o. MILLS * CO., in the city of Sacra-
mento. and at the banking house of TALLANT
& CO., San Francisco, California.
All bids for the purchase of bonds should be
addressed to c. II. CUMMINGS, Secretary of the
Capital Gas Co., Sacramento, California, marked
on the outside Bids for Bonds"
B. L. STEINNAN, President
Attest: c. q. CUMMINGS, Secretary. my30td
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VAGABOSD VERSES.
CAPTURED HERE AND THERE AND
BROUGHT TOGETHER.
Justin McCarthy's Amatory Muse Aroused
The strong Winged Bird that
Never Flies.

love you dearly, o my sweet
Although you pass me lightly by.
Attic ugh you weave my life awry,
And tread my heart benesth your feet.
tremble at your touch sigh
To see you passing down the street;
love you dearly, o my sweet
Although you pass me lightly by.
You say in scorn that loves cheat,
Passion blunder, youth lie
know not; only, when we meet,
/ long to kiss your hand, and cry,
81 love you dearly, o my sweet
Although you pass me lightly by
-TusfiD H HcCGTfjIf
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HARRY BERNARD,

HAS ON HAND THE FINEST LADIES
Ii PHAETONS in the city; light open and top
BuGGIES, light two seat canopy-top CAR
R1AGES, for family use light for one horse to
pull; also the finest family carriages in this
city. light grocer and butcher wagons, finest
road carts; some light breaking carts price
S22 90. Carriage painting and repairing at the
get prices and examine the work 1t is ali NV
own make. Will sell low down for cash Every
Job warranted. Also, best Eastern lesther.top
Bnggies and Surveys in the market at LOWEST
rhlVEs' api-2ptf
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GUTHRIE BROS.

DRACTICAL PLUMBERS, STEAM AND GAS
/ Filters Roofing and Jobbing. Sipage water
removed from easements at very low prices
Telephone. les. 12s j Street. 'a26t
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MILLS & HAWK,

No. 3O1 j Street, Cor. Third, Sacramento,
CHOICE COUNTRY PROPERTY.
S4,oOO-EIGHTY ACRES IN PLACER
county; nice dwelling of six rooms; large
barn and good wells; near Auburn.
$1,6OO-FFTEEN ACRES IN TOWN OF
Placerville, FL Dorado county: mostly in
orchard and vineyard: spendldly located;
fifteen minutes from railroad depot.
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HORSES FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.

A PPLY TO c .NTRAL STREET RAILWAY
n STABLES, Twenty. eighth and streets
Sacramento, Cal. myl6-tf
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NOTICE---SAL OF BONDS.
Capital Gas Company, Sacra-
mento City, California.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
IN Board of Directors of the Capital Gas Com
pany that said Board of Directors will, at its
office, 226h street (up stairs), in the city of
Sacramento and State of California, on
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POULTRY NOTES.

Feed with chopped hard-boiled eggs and
bread crumbs. Dust the hen again with
insect powder, when she comes off the nest
after sitting. Never give soft, washy food
to chickens. Three days of egg and bread
then bread crumbs for two days, then
broken grain for a day or two, and then
refuse, wheat, ETC.
Don't mate pullets to males that are
older than themselves. A eockerel with a
two-year-old hen adds vigor to the pro-
geny. Reverse the relations and weakness
marks the next generation.
Eggs that are dirty outside will spoil
much sooner than those that are clean.
Do not mix fowls with other species.
Guinea fowls and turkeys are pugnacious,
and worry, injure or kill many chickens
and hens during year when mixed with
the common fowls in yard
Poultry TO be sent away dead should moi
be packed until cold.
Three geese TO one gander is the proper
proportion. Geese lay about thirty eggs.
-Four eggs generally go to pound weight.
Two ducks to one drake; ducks Law
about thirty eggs and six go to a pound
Ducks eggs under hens should be wetted
with warm water blood heat. every day
after the fifteenth day, because hens do
not battle as the ducks do. Young ducks
may be fed on boiled oatmeal and chopped
lettuce or cabbage.
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By Rail, 6iS Market Street,
By Steamer, 2i4 Montgomery

d EPLETE WITH ALL THE ACCESSORIES
LIZ for the comfort and pleasure of guests. Its
surroundings are beautiful, with all kinds of
outdoor and indoor enjoyments and sports,
making the hotel the most attractive in the
world. THE CORONADO NATURAL WATER
is freely used by the guests, and some wonder.
full cures of kidney and bladder ailments have
been made. 1t is perfect tonic.
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opinion of leading agriculturists that the
burning of mari will render it more avail.
able to plants, and that burnt clay will be
fertilizer of the future.
Mr.. Golf, of the Wisconsin Station, pre-
sents the most important results OF potato
experiments. OF lis kinds the following
gave the best yields: Rose Beauty, Mon.
arch, Duplex, Late Beauty of Hebron.
Mullaly, Alexander's Prolific, Seneca Red
jacket, White Bea uty of Hebron, Wiscon-
sin Beauty, Canada Blue, Arthur's No. 2.
Perfect Gem and Ben Harrison.
When moisture is plentiful and the
rains come at the proper time it must not
be overlooked that the weeds are benefited
by the favorable conditions as well as the
crops. The rains increase the work of des-
troying weeds, but much of the labor may
be saved by using the cultivator after each
rain so as to destroy the weeds as soon as
they appear above ground.
II the ground is cold nothing will be
gained by putting seeds OF tender plants,
such as beans and melons, In too early.
The plant that starts little later in the
season, and which is unchecked, will over
take in growth the earlier plant that has
been subjected TO cool nights and lack of
warmth in the soil.
Grain may be fed literally to COWS
when they are in fall flow of milk, but if
the cows are drying of previous to calving
it is better to withhold all grain if the
animals are in good condition, in order to
avoid milk fever at calving time. Plenty
of grass is sufficient for dry cows, grain be-
ing unnecessary.
By planting small trees they can be bet
ter started and will be less liable to the
effects of drought, compared with older
trees. Too much top on young trees is a
frequent cause of loss, they not possessing
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-05
AT THE COURTS.
Gossip Picked Up Here and There In
the Court Rooms.

the court ROOMS
The United States circuit court took a
recess last night. which operates as an
adjournment for the term, except in so far
as II leaves the docket open for orders be.
tween now and the beginning Of the April
term
A verdict by default was given yesterday
in the CITY court in favor of P. B. Springer
for S2SS so as against Clarke & Harris for
produce furnished them while they were
running the Marshall house.
Judge Harden, of the city court, left last
night for Suwannee Springs, where his
father is in ill-health. The criminal cases
assigned for the rest Of this week went over
for further assignment, as court took a
recess until next Monday morning
In the case of S. Guckenheimer & Son
against c. A. Sagurs and w. W. Fenner, in
the city court yesterday, a continuance was
asked for by counsel for Fenner, who ex-
pected to prove by an absent witness that
he was not partner of Sagurs, and while
q continuance was denied a postponement
was granted until next Monday. Quicken
heimer & Son sue to recover $243 IS for
champagne and other liquors sold to Sagurs,
who leased the Screven house bar, and
thereafter failed, and Fenner, who was
Jointly sued as Sagurs' partner, denies the
partnership or any interest In the lease or
the business of the bar.
In the case of the United States against
James Booth, charged with passing counter
felt money, the trial, which was broken off
by the Monday night adjournment, was re-
sumed yesterday morning in the United
States court, and the jury, after the case
was submitted, brought in verdict of
acquittal. The jury was not out of the box
fifteen minutes. This was the last of the
IN ID
acquitted, Moran found guilty and Schottky
plead guilty. The term of the latter was
shortened one year by the plea and in view
of the evidence which fastened the crime
upon Moran.
Justice Patterson had an interesting court
Yesterday Annie Blake (colored) prose
cuted Harrison Blake, her husband, and
Linda and Thomas Blake, her brother-in,
law and sister-in-law, for assault and bat
terry. The prosecutor was represented by
Otto Seller, ESQ.,. and the prisoners were
defended by Walter z. LaRoche, ESQ
Thomas Blake swore out warrant day
or two ago, in Magistrate Davidson'S court
against Annie Blake, and her counsel de-
manded the warrant from the justice and
tried the case in Justice Pattersons court at
the same time. Seven witnesses were put
up by Annie Blake and three were in
troduced by the other side. After
hearing all the testimony and argu
ment, Justice Patterson dismissed the case
against the women, and bound the men
over to answer the charge in the city court
The trouble between the families grew out
Of a quarrel and separation of Annie Blake
aud her husband, Harrison Blake. The
woman said that Harrison Blake tried to
prohibit her from using some wood on the
place, and when she refused to be com
manded by him, he beat her This involved
the others, and general row ensued. The
parties live in Ruckettsville, in the eastern
part of the city.