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The record-union., 1891-12-11
The Grand Jury.

The Grand Jury was in session yester-
day morning looking into the charge of
forgery preferred against ex-Justice
James Kelley of Folsom. An adjourn
ment was taken then until next Tuesday.
The record-union., 1891-12-11
Beef Cattle From Nevada.

Twenty-Five cars of stock from the
ranges of Nevada passed through
this city yesterday for Los Banos, in the
San JOAQUIN Valley
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Saws He Is ..Busted. },

+. II. Johnson has filed petition in
the Superior Court, asking to be declared
lnsolvent. He says his debts amount to
1884 80, and that he has no assets.
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VIM. B. MILLER,
ORDINANCE No. 2S9.
An Ordinance amending Section 10 of ordi
No. eas ] ST.. Sacramento. Cal.

An Ordinance amending Section 10 of 0rdi-
nance No. 276, of the City of Sacramento
i City of Sacramento do ordain as follows:
SECTIoN !. Section 10, of Ordinance No
276, of the City of Sacramento, is amended
to read as follows:
SECTION TO- 1t shall not be lawful for any
person TO keep open bstween the hours of / 2
O'Clock midnight, and O'Clock in the morn
ing, any harroom, saloon or place in the City
OF sacramento where wines or spirituous or
malt liquors are sold, unless ssuch person shall
obtain in advance special city license there
Tor, IN addition TO any other State county or
city license required, and pay for such special
license the sum of $40 III advance for each
and every quarter.
SEC. 3 This ordinance shall take effect i'm
mediately.
Passed November SO, 1891.
W. d. COMSTOCK
President Board Trustees
D. ID. YOUNG, Clerk. d2-1Ct
The record-union., 1891-12-11

WE have just received for our holiday trade
a fine line of music rolls, folios, music boxes
guitars, mandolins, drums, etc. See them be-
tore buying. Hammers Music Store, $50
street.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
People Who Have No Washing.

A practical but untraveled woman driv-
ing along Viewpoints famous Ocean avenue
one Monday in summer wondered aloud
to her companion if there were no "wash-
Ing day among the Four Hundred" as she
saw no clothes "a-drying." She could
have repeated her drive every day the week
through and still beheld no signs of laun-
dry work. And not only at Newport. but
IN all suburban homes of any pretension.
Like the queen of Spain, whose pompous
major domo was met, on the occasion of
her passing through Lisle, by a deputation
OF the citizens with an Offering of beauti-
tul hosiery, The product of the place, and
who declined the gift with the stern re-
Duke, know that the queen of Spain has
no legsH' SO fashionable summer house
holds presumably have no soiled linen.
In point of fact, the, washing is seldom
done on the premises at all. In large estates.
where the extensive grounds afford some
sheltered spot to be surrounded by a hedge
or fence, the clothes are dried in such spot:
in as many more the gardeners wife is the
laundress of the family, and her detached
premises offer suitable drying ground.
An exception to all these modes is found
in Saratoga's beautiful residence avenue,
North Broadway Here the passerby will
see in some of the most costly and beauti-
fully kept places an oblong Enclosure on
the back or side back lawn, through whose
high, close lattice work palings he may
catch the futter of drying clothes. And
when he does so he wonders, particularly
if she" is a woman, why that family does
not increase its expenses by few dollars
a month and send it's washing out to be rid
of the unsightly though neat and well
built structure.-Her Point of View in
New York Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
The Abuse of "Baby,"

New born babes in particular are the
helpless victims of an ignorance which
has crystallized into divers 'old wives
notions" The little ones skin is noticed
to be of a yellowish color; he has the
jaundice, and must be dosed Immediately
and literally with saffron tea. The gra-
tuitous assumption is made that he has
come into the world hungry, and his deli
cate little stomach is filled up with mo-
lasses and water, sweetened milk, etc,
while tie food that was naturally intended
for him is perhaps drawn off with a breast
pump and thrown away.
Now it should always be rememb ered
that new born babe is in strict physio-
logical condition. He needs no food other
than that which nature has provided. His
skin is always of different color from
that which it will assume later on. Dos
ing new born infant is inexcusable. 1t
has killed thousands. The little bag which
some oldtime nurses used to carry about
with them, full of all kinds of herbs, oils
and other notions, is an abomination. Un-
happily, it is not yet wholly obsolete 1t
will be we'll for humanity when we learn
that the less nature is interfered with the
better.
A good principle in dealing with all
classes of patients until the doctor comes
is embodied in the old saying, when in
doubt what to do, don't go and do it,
Babyhood
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
Treatment of Slight Wounds.

In the treatment of wounds we must at
tend to these rules: First, stanch the bleed
ing; secondly, put the injured part under
the most favorable conditions for healing
to occur; and, lastly, we must try to pre-
vent excessive infammatory action from
setting in, and avoid blood poisoning
If the cut is a small one very little pres
sure will stop the bleeding, such as that Of
q piece of rag tied moderately tight round
the part. If larger piece of soft rag or
lint must be folded up, made into pad,
pressed on the bleeding part and tied there.
In large wounds, and where blood is
coming out in small Jets with every beat
of the heart, the fingers must be firmly
pressed on the part for some time, until a
clot forms in the vessel ana blocks it up.
II very large blood vessel has been cut
and there is danger of the person bleeding
to death, the usual flow of blood to the
part must be nearly stopped This is read
lily done by firmly tying g. handkerchief or
scarf round the limb between the wound
and the heart.
If this does not arrest the bleeding, a
piece of stick must be put under the tight
bandage, and turned round aud round
until the handkerchief or scarf is made so
tight as to stop the loss of blood. The pa
tient must then be quietly conveyed to the
nearest surgeon or hospital with this tight
appliance on the limb
After stanching the bleeding, the next
condition is to secure the most favorable
state for healing. This is done by bring
ing the cut tissues together and keeping
them at rest.-Hall's Journal of Health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
One Merry Little Woman.

There is in this city merry little woman
who never is obliged to ask twice when she
wants anything. She isn't one of the meek
women who never dare to have an original
opinion, or to indorse one unless husband
has first Endorsed it, She says what she
thinks, but even if it is criticism it is
given with such good nature that no one
can take offense Very often things do net
go to suit her, but she has the good sense
to realize that scolding or complaining or
whining will not help matters.
If she is too angry to laugh she keeps
still until she can control herself. Ii very
angry she shuts herself up in her room
alone for a few moments. She lays that
an angry woman seems to her to be so re-
pulsive an object that she cannot bear to
have those whom she loves best see her in
any such character. She never seems to
command, and her husband imagines tLat
he always has his own way. She never
disputes the point, yet they who know her
best know that there are few questions that
are not settled to her entire satisfaction.
She will appear young when the scolding
women of her age are considered old, and
she will always have an influence for good
where they have no influence at all
Housekeepers' Weekly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
An Experiment,

A little story is afiOat about what some
call the freak of a wealthy New York wom-
an, and some dignity it by a more respect
full name. 1t appears that, either through
liking for a time honored German custom,
or of her own Wit and invention, it has &C.
CURED to this society leader to put her
daughter, who has just left a fashionable
boarding school, in a position to learn GER
tain domestic accomplishments respected
in tradition, such as cooking and mending
For this purpose she has installed her in
the house of an old friend, dear to her since
her own school days. but whose husband is
the counterpart in real life of the country
clergyman in fiction, possessed of a few
dollars and many children.
No servant is kept in this establishment,
and the wish of the society woman is that
for the space of year her daughter shall
be her old friends help, using the word
with the honorable Specification it former
ly had in New England. What will be the
issue of this experiment is question a
number of other girls are asking 1t is
not in any way likely to set a fashion, and
yet it might, for the story as told includes
several sentences about the jewelry and
travel brides offered to sugar coat the
pill of twelve months of busting, market
ing and bread making to the taste of the
young woman.-New York Recorder
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
A Model Housewife.

In the first place she is the most thor
oughly cheerful and happy looking woman
you will meet in days travel; and al
though she is thirty-fve years old, she
doesn't look thirty. This is because she
never allows tie pstty cares of housekeep-
ing to worry her and pillow lines across
her face. She does one thing at time,
never making the error of undertaking a
dozen duties at once.
This model housewife keeps scrupu-
lousy neat home, but in no room is COM
fort sacrificed for the sake Of appearance
She has neither too much furniture nor
too much bric-a-brac. She dresses her
children neatly but plainly.
This very sensible woman is loving
wife and agreeable companion to her hus-
band. She knows how to save time, and
thus finds opportunity to read, and is able
to discuss topics of interest with her hus-
band in the evening by the f-aside. She
Is gentle mother to ksr little ones. but
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
Being a Sister to Him.

A brother, who is taught by his sister to
be gentle and considerable of her feelings, is
not apt to forget his duty toward some one
else's sister when he shall take such to his
heart and home. This influence every sis
ter has in her power. She should have the
same regard for the neatness of her dress
at the breakfast table before her brother as
she has at dinner before the brother of
some other girl She should be as kind
and careful in her conversation to him as
she is to the friend which he may bring
home with him. Young men very often
judge girl by her sisterly qualities.
II knew she would make loving wife
from the way she treated her brother when,
to all appearances, l was apparently unob-
servant" said friend of mine recently,
when | asked what guided him in his
choice of wife. "Tell me what kind of a
sister she is, and will tell you what kind
of wife she will be- is common saying
among men. Many a man has measured a
girls character by that standard, and many
a man is doing it today.-Edward W. Box
in Ladies' Home Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
The Came of Chess.

The game Of chess differs in the various
countries Of the world. Thus, in the Hindoo
game, four distinct armies are employed,
each with their king, each corps counting
among its fighters an elephant and a knight
which Stay but cannot be slain. The Chi
nese game Of chess, which boasts of the title
of choke-choc- kong-ki (the play of the
science of war;, has river running through
the center of the board, which their ele-
plants, equivalent TO our bishops, cannot
cross, and there is fort which their kings
cannot pass.
Under the Sanskrit name of chaturanga
a game, essentially the same as mod, n
chess, was played in Hindostan nearly5,l 90
years ago. From Hindostan the game is
said to have been carried to Persia and
thence to Arabia. The Arabs introduced
it into Spain and the rest of western Eu-
rope during the Eighth century, where it
becamethe principal pastime about the year
1000. There is a record of Pope Alexander
III reproving bishop for playing the game,
and compelling him to wash the feet of
twelve beggars as punishment for his sin.
st. Louis Republic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23

which her imagination wildly pictured.
Great was her indignation to be brought
back ANONYMOUSLY by q kind farmer who
found them footSore, but persevering, two
miles from home. She was the delight of
her girlish friends by her ability to write
dramas or school exhibitions, many of
them resting on historical basis These
dramas have survived their generation,
and also served the purpose of the schools
of today.
Her first literary success was winning
the prize for an essay on Hamlet" Of
fered to the pupils of the Newburyport
free school This attracted the attention
of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, whose
keen insight discerned her ability and en-
couraged and developed her genius.
A childish friendship between Harriet
Prescott and Hon. Richard s. Spofford rip
ened into be1rothal, and after many years
eliminated in marriage. Their only child
dying in infancy, lefta grief in the mothers
heart that time has not effaced. Until Mr..
Spottord's death they spent a part of every
winter at the Parker House, and were be-
loved by circle of Boston friends. Mrs.
Spotford still occupies their UNIQUE and ex-
qulslteIy beautiful home at Deer Island.
plcturesquely situated between Newbury-
port and Amesbury. Great pine trees on
one side and the river rushing past on the
other make the seclusion complete, and vet
few steps bring them to the bridge.
whence the street cars lead to the two
towns Her sister, Mary N. Prescott who
also has the gift of story telling, shares her
home. Mrs. Spofford's short stories are
frequently seen in various periodicals, and
her last book was Juvenile story, '"The
Lost Jewel" which little friend pro-
nounces perfectly lovely"
Names often have a peculiar fitness to
the persons bearing them, as if the good
fairy at the cradle foresaw the future per
sonality. Again, a name is strangely i'll
adapted to its recipient. Did you ever
know gawky woman named Grace, and
dark muscular one whom fate had I'M
kindly christened Lily? Mrs. Spofford
tells personal incident in this same line.
One of her colored servants in Washing
ton asked permission to name her baby
after her mistress, but when the little
darby was brought for inspection its name
proved to be Genevieve. "Oh," said Mrs.
Spotford, II thought she was to be called
Harriet after me-" sob course, Mis- Pof-
fit" said the mother, "but you see Gene
We've 'spresses you a sight better'n Harriet
does. boston Cor. Worcester Spy
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23

when she says No" she keeps her word
She is never impatient with the baby when
he is sleepy and clings to her skirts. In
stead of spanking him she takes the tired
little form in her arms and rocks it to
sleep.
Her husband is not wealthy and she does
not strain the last nerve to dress as well as
her more wealthy neighbors, but her taste
is so correct that these same neighbors
envy her stylish appearance. She is also a
good neighbor and she does not gossip If
there is sickness she is willing to aid the
suffering, and she does not forget the old
and poor in the neighborhood.
Smith in Housewife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
Mrs. RusseIl's Bonnets,

Mrs. Edwin Russell, the woman who
teaches people how to sit down and get up
correctly and is an expert as a judge of
female beauty, wears the most marvellous
and delightful little bonnets ever seen.
They are usually of steel, copper, gold or
pearl passementerie; have no strings or
trimming, but fit the mead just as did
those beautiful little caps worn by the
Florentine ladies. 1t has been Jest among
Mrs. Russells friends that very lately her
husband sent her a new bonnet in a letter!
A marvellous necklace in Mrs. RusseIrs
possession came from the land of the
Sphinx, and is a thin chain of gold, pen
dent from which are square turquoises,
etched with gold. The turquoises are
quiet rather than glazing blue, and for
thai reason are extremely becoming New
York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
A Product of Civilization.

Hysteria is clearly product of civiliza-
ton. Nothing that in the least resembles
it has ever been discovered among heather
peoples
1t is disease of the imagination and is
developed with it.
The worst cases are those persons who
have highly strung nervous organizations,
who are emotional and impulsive without
being we'll balanced.
A we'll balanced mind is high sounding
phrase and seems to mean great deal, but
In reality it means only self control. To
be the ruler of ones self is the key to the
situation, and the one and only cure for
Acknowledgements Manton in New York
Herald
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
The Age of Dressing.

"There is" said a dude, "a great deal of
pleasure to be got out of clothes. if you
only knew it."
PROFESSIONALLY there is, if you can bring
yourself down to it, but most of US have
other things that are uppermost in our
minds We pass through what may be
termed the clothes age, which runs from
about seventeen to twenty-three, and then
we cease to think of them. But how many
are there that didn't pass through that
stage, when clothes were the chief subject
of thought, when money was looked upon
merely as something convertible into trou-
sers and coats and hats and shoes, when
dressing was a real pleasure and not
bother, when mankind were looked upon
merely as lay figures upon which the arts
of the tailor might be displayed.
Let the clothes age stop at twenty-five at
the utmost. When you see man who
makes his apparel the chief object of his
existence after that, depend upon it that
he will never be anything all his life but
dude.-Washington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
A Busy Woman.

The other day the wife of a we'll known
New York author was found in her kitchen
with her arms barred and her pretty hands
engaged in washing dishes.
"Doing ones own work or hiring it
DONE" said this energetic little lady, sis
no longer six of one and half dozen of
the other; the balance is in favor of doing
it yourself. Without exception l have
worked harder when l have had servant
than have when alone.'
She attends to her own marketing and
carries home the smaller articles because
trades people are late in delivering orders.
She copies all of her authors manuscript
in her segible nand, and that this task is
no sinecure callous spot on her middle
finger attests. Society makes many de-
mands on her because of her own and her
husbands position, and she was due at 4
o'clock reception, dinner at and a thea
ter party at S. Her evening dress of pink
crepe was the product of her own hands,
New York Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
SHADOWS.

Barbara Hawthorne stands by the gate,
Song on her lips and light in her eyes,
Never a shadow of coming fate
Has darkened her life in anywise.
Song on her lips, and the shy love light
That deepenS the hue of her radiant bluEh4
Tender her face is and rosy and bright,
AS touched with dying twilight's flush.
This is the hour of tie tryst she had,
The tryst with her lover, made under the rose.
Singing she waits, for her heart is glad,
No shadow can come on her life, she knows-
Rustic of breezes, and fall of leaves,
Twitter of birds in a downy nest,
Murmur of brook, are the sounds she weaves
Into the song of love confessed.
Slowly the moon comes up through the trees,
The hope in her heart is clear as its beam
Footsteps are coming. She almost sees
Her lover come over the woodland stream
She almost sees him, SO sure Is she,
But the moments speed, and the moon sails
by.
The shadows are higher and seem to be
Seeking to dim the sweet light of her eyes.
Barbara Hawthorne faltering goes
Slowly away from the trysting place.
Sorrow has come to her, now she knows;
Shadows are yelling her fair young face.
Sorrow that never car pass away;
For the tender lover, whose love is DER,
Has played with a heart for month and day,
And left it in shadow forevermore.
David A. Curtis In Once Week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
HARRIET PRESCOTT sPoFFoRD.
A Flaming Fire Lily Among the Pale
Blossoms of New England.

The coming to the front of new writer's
of short stories, like Mary E. wilkins and
Octave Thanet," has somewhat over
Swallowed the fame of the older writer's
But Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Harriet
Prescott Spofford have borne a goodly
share in the evolution of the short story
and its establishment as a literary fact.
Surely the new aspirants will do well if
they equal the pathos and power of "Jack"
and 1.-The Madonna of the Tubs" or the
fascination of ''The Amber Gods" My
youth found great delight in Harriet Pres
colts stories | reveled in her sonorous,
burning diction, whose lavish color and
life somebody has described as 1.-The stiff
mother tongue molten and fused in
magic crucible, and turned to liquid gold
and gems" One cannot help wondering
whence came this tropical luxuriance of
imagination in child born among the
lumber forests of Maine nurtured amid
the prim provincialism of old Newburyport
and educated within the austere limita-
tions of Pinkerton academy, in New Hanp-
shire. But one sometimes finds flaming
fire lily of scarlet among the pale blossoms
of New England's hillsides.
Her mother is said to have been intel
lectual and high bred, but rather proud
and reserved; her father brilliant, tender,
and prodigally hospitable, and, withal de-
scended from what DR.. Holmes calls "the
Brahmin race of New England" Mr.. Whit
tier, many years ago, described Harriet
Prescott to me as delicate and shy as a
wildwood anemone." This was great
shock to preconceived notions of the bril-
liant writer.
Like ''H. H.' in her childhood, she in
nj "a fa CT yfr lo,, 80
find the jumping off place. Of the world.