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); Q. Funston was chosen Chairman

J. o. Funston was chosen Chairman
and Martin Devine, Secretary.
The following committee was ap-
pointed to select delegates to the conven-
ton: w. w. Connor, NJ. Howard, }. J.
McKinnon, Z. III. Wallis and Lincoln
White. The committee then retired and
agreed upon the following delegates:
Lincoln White, G. I. Jones, NJ. J. Dill
man, John Shelton, A. L. Hart, G. E.
Glow, w. II. FL. Ennis, George Neal,
William Tebbetts, ]. B. Fountain, j. o.
Funston, J. f. Slater, Albert Elkus, FL
wood Bruner, B. c.. Brier, John Ryan.
10. B. Adams O.W. Erleyine, John Blair,
William Dwinell. j. j. Wingard, Warren
Cole, I. j. Pennish, Robert Heliman,
John Kerwin, Jr., r. w. Parker, Charles
F. Gardner, e. Levine, Jr., L. b. Church
i'll, w. w. Connor.
FIRST WARD.
The First Ward Republicans, second
precinct, met in Judge Henry's court
room, ana elected the following delegates
William Petrie, +. +. Tebbets, W. +.
Peterson, S. S. Bedee, +. C. Kripp, r.
Meiler, j. Broscius, Theodore Labhardt,
G. n. Nelson, L. Van Gelder, J. L..
Sheehan, J. L. Cavanaugh. C. c. Brown.
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sUNDAY-soHooL INSTITUTE.
Proceedings of the Second Day of the
Convention.


Convention.
The Sunday-School Institute resumed
its session at the First Baptist Church
yesterday morning.
After devotional service a very able
paper on 1.-THE Model Teacher'' was read
by Rev. II. B. Hutchins. An animated
discussion followed.
A paper on the 'Model Glass; was read
by Mrs. DR.. Abbott of Oakland, which
was listened TO with great interest.
h. Bassett, Superintendent of the Santa
Rosa Sunday School, read q very thought
ful and suggestive paper on "HOw to Use
the Bible in the Sunday-School." The
discussion on the above topic was of a
very spirited description.
At the afternoon session Professor Tyn-
dale was introduced and spoke few
words of brotherly greeting.
DR.. Abbott then delivered an inclsive
address on the ''Value of Baptist History
to Our Young People,"
In the discussion which followed, many
interesting "reminiscences were given,
and the following facts were brought out:
In the whole United States the propor-
ton of Baptists to population was one to
every twenty-one; in California it was
one in every one hundred and twenty
seven.
Rev. j. Downie, of Petaluma, read a
paper on 'The Bible and Sunday Schools
in Scotland" which was followed by an
address on 'sChurch Support of Sunday
Schools" by DR.. Goode, Of Woodland.
In the evening DR.. Thomson, agent of
the Sunday Union, spoke for some time
in favor of a Sunday law in California.
DR.. Abbott followed, thanking the
pastors and members of the Baptist
Churches in Sacramento for their kind
hospitality.
The Rev. J. @. A. Henry, of San Fran
cisco, formerly of Sacramento, preached
a most heart-searching sermon, after
which service of conservation was held.
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To be Robbed of Health

By a pestilential climate, by vocation
entailing constant exposure, physical
overwork or sedentary drudgery at the
desk, is hard lot. Yet many persons
originally possessed of fair constitution
suffer this deprivation before the merid-
ian of life IS passed. To any and all sub
ject to conditions inimical to health, no
purer or more agreeable preservative of
the greatest of earthly blessings can be
recommended than Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, which inures the system to cli-
matte change, physical fatigue and men,
tai exhaustion. It eradicates dyspepsia.
the bane of sedentary brain workers, pre-
serves and restores regularity of the
bowels and liver, when disordered from
any cause, annihilates fever and ague and
prevents it, checks the growth of ten
dency to rheumatism and gout, and neu-
tralizes the danger to be apprehended
from causes productive of kidney, blad-
der and uterine ailments. To be con-
WINGED of the truth Of these statements. it
is only necessary to give this sterling
preparation an impartial trial.
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The Heaviest Fnr

The skunk has the heaviest fur of any
animal in the country, and is conseauent-
ly valuable and salable, although when
dressed it is very small. About 50 per
cent. of all the skins taken in the United
States go to Europe. c. NJ. Lampson has
a great sale in London three times year,
one of which recently closed. At this sale
there were disposed of, among other
skins, 175, 600 coon, 700, 900 muskrat, 105. .OOO
skunk, $1,000 opossum, 55,0 900 mink and
1000 gray fox, all of which were shipped
from the United States.
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DIED.

IJt.LIg.
DUGGAN--In this city, February 13, Mrs
Johanna Duggan, mother OF Mrs. Thomas p
Ryan, a native of County Cork, Ireland
aged "A years.
M Friends and acquaintances are respect
fully invited TO attend the funeral from the
residence of her son-in-law, 7. z. Ryan, 1915
Ienth street. Sunday afternoon, February
10, ut o'clock; thence 10 the Cathedral
where funeral services viii be held.
HOWE-In this city, February I3. Blanch
May, daughter OF the late Robert B. and May
Howe and granddaughter OF John and
Mary j. Greenlaw, aged years, months
and rs days.
S0-Friends and acquaintances are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral from
11o5 j street, Sunday afternoon at l
o'clock.
BROWNIE Roseville. February IL. Emma
NJ. WIG OF Charles Brown of Vernon Sutter
county, aged 81 yeass ana Q months.
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Popular PREACHER.

Rev. II. NJ. Du Bose of San Francisco,
late of Trinity Church, Los Angeles, re-
ported to be one OF the most fluent and
eloquent preachers on the Pacific Coast, is
announced to fill the pulpit in Rev. Mr..
Bane's church, Seventh street, next Sun
day at IL a. NJ. and 7:30 P. NJ, Mr.. Bane
preaching at the Bay.
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Cosumnes oranges.

There was received at this Office yester-
day a box of Washington navel oranges,
grown on the farm of Messrs.- Flint tS
Raymond near Costumes. The trees on
which the fruit was grown were set out
in the spring of 1856, and they produced
some fruit last year. This year, however.
they were loaded with oranges, and the
samples sent to this Office were OF deli
ciouS flavor.
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Washont and Landslide.

A dispatch from Sissons last night says
that the south-bound Oregon express is
many hours late, owing to a big washout
in Cow Creek Canyon, Oregon. There is
also heavy landslide on the railroad be-
tween Sissons and Dunsmuir, and it will
require many hours to remove it.
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'How are the crops doing" said the
Gar to a favorite at court. pretty fair
ly, your Highness,' was the reply. sal
though in some quarters the people are
complaining OF too much reign" .1Iet
them take twenty years in Siberia to dry
up" answered his Majesty, who is quick
at repartee.
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Death of a well-Known Lady.

Mrs. Johanna Duggan died at the resi-
dence of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas P.
Ryan, yesterday, after prolonged illness.
Mrs. Duggan has resided in Sacramento
since 1852, and was very well known.
She was a native of Ireland and "A years
of ocra
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BRIEF NOTES.

Arrangements have been completed for
glove contest TO take place in this city
on the 25th inst, between Charles Turner,
the Stockton pugilist, and Hank Engle-
hart. OF Modesto.
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The Brighton Row.

The Kirn-Stopper squabbie viii be
ventilated in the Justices Court at Brigh-
ton. to-day. Martin Devine, OF the Dis
trict Attorneys Office in this city, will
prosecute the case.
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1South Sacramento.
Remember the auction sale OF lots this even
ing at 5l9 j street. See al.
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MARRIED,

TERNEY-BARNES - In San Francisco
February s, by Rev. ]. S. Reed n. C. Meier,
ney OF Eureka, New, to Jennie f. BARNES
formerly OF Sacramento
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South Sacramento.

Remember the auction sale of lots this even
ing at 519uJ street. See ad.
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Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly ON the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ae-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA Flc syrup co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
n
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The attraction at the skating rink to-
night will be a mile race between Arthur
Crozier, the local champion skater and
William Knapp, who has the reputation
of being the fastest short-distance bicycle
rider in America. The race promises to
be exciting and very fast, and
both men are confident that 8 minutes
and ~ seconds the fastest time made at
the local rink this season. will be beaten.
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South Sacramento.

Bargains will be secured this evening at thu
auction sale.
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A Labor1Union Sees the Light.


The Central labor union, of Evans
vile, Ind, has sent petition to the
common cot neil of that city, in which
they ask that ''all taxes on improve
ments be removed, in order that the
building industry may be stimulated
and employment given to those who
are now idle The Evansville Courier
heartily indcrses the petition in an edi-
torial article It says itcan see no good
reason for fning men who are willing
to beautify our city by erecting hand
some buildings and more wholesome
cottages for the working people, partic-
ularly when by SO doing employment is
given to more carpenters, painters,
bricklayers, plasterers, plumbers, and,
in fact, the workmen of every trade and
industry. Under the present policy OF
our city, the Courier continues, every
man who erects a building or even
builds a fence around his building is
fined SO on every 500 of capital he en-
ploys, which is absurd, of course; but
the problem is to make the very work
ing men who would be benefited the
most see it's absurdity. Thousands Of
them know how to do carpenter work
paint, lay bricks, plaster and do plumb
ing, but they don't seem to know how
to advance their own interests. The
Evansville Central labor union is on thu
right road, however, and its example
might be followed with advantage b.
larger central unions
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How Land Speculation Pays.

On Friday of last week there was
transfer of plot of land on the upper
part of Manhattan Island known Is
Washington Heights The land lies
between Tenth avenue, which runs
along the edge of the bluff on the east,
and Kingsbridge road on the west, and
One hundred and Eighty-second street
and One Hundred and Seventy-seventh
street on the north and south. 1t COM
prises about IS full blocks or 400 city
lots. The price paid for this plot was
81, 600, 900. The purchasers are a syn.
dictate Of New Workers who propose to
place the property on the market IN
small plots. The sellers were Vice.
President Levi P. Morton and his part.
ner, George Bliss.
This property was known as the Cen
eral Butterfield farm and was purchased
by Morton and Bliss in the latter part
of 1885, Just Ave and one-half years ago
for S45O,OOO Since that time the inn
prcvement of the cable road on Tenth
avenue, the building of the Washington
bricge across the Harlem and the lay
ing cut of One Hundred and Eighty-sec-
ond street has brought the land into
the market And the result has been
an accret.on in value in the five and
one-half y ears of jus $3.50, 900, or $780,
900 per year. This Increase on an in
vestment of S450.0ce represents profit
of over 2s per cent per annum. Ii we
estimate the average rate of profit, in
business investmeLtsovera and above all
expenses, insurance and wages of SUI
pcrintendence as high as per cent, we
see that it has paid Messrs. Morton and
Bliss just three times as well to specu-
late ON the prime necessity OF life and
withhold from use the source OF all pro-
duction-land, as to invest their money
in productive enterprise, employ labor
and build up the community.
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Learning to Walk.

People sometimes ask at what age
can we seat child in a. chair, when put
him on his legs, how old must he be be-
fore we teach him to walk? The an
swers are easy. He must not be made
to sit till he has spontaneously sat up
in his bed and has been able to hold his
seat. This sometimes happens in the
sixth or seventh month"; sometimes
later The sitting posture is not with
out danger, even when he takes it him
self. Imposed prematurely upon him
it tires the backbone and may interfere
with the growth, SO the child should
never be taught to stand or to walk.
That is his affair, not ours Place him
on carpet in healthy room or in the
open air and let him play in freedom,
roll, try to go ahead on his hands or
feet, or go backward, which he will do
more successfully at first. 1t all grad
ually strengthens and hardens him.
Some day he will manage to get upon
his knees, another day to go forward
upon them and then to raise himself up
against the chairs. He thus learns to
do all he can as fast as he can and nc
more.-Popular Science Monthly.
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ulere they We're now. And every day
Mhsn John Waddleman arose from his
eu 10 go out to the barnyard and at
.euu 10 his chores his sight was offended
AZ Pereeiving, just beyond his fence,
sue mousse and other buildings of Farm
=. orawley, where he knew his daugh-
VI 70 be- His wife had forgiven the
laughter at once and was on good terms
With her and the new relatives. but
.nS was on the sly, for John did not
approve.
hese events, however, were not the
Immediate cause of his present anger,
y ne ran across the sand lot toward
sne river, mad, bare-headed and with
doubled fists.
al ne mad planted sweet potato vines on
@,s sand lot, and his sweet potato pstch
,;s as 'ohn Waddleman's pride and de-
ns n@ but there came like a blight
s spon the vines large flock of heavy,
s aaawking geese, property of his
Tsa Thy who lived just across the fence.
..s se Voraeious eaters had pulled up
~ swallowed more than half of the
~. es IN the lot. John was frantic
.aa n rage. He had gone to his enemy's
eou ase' and loudly called upon Jim to
m Sue forth and settle. either with
nv sAey or with fist, and because he had
.s az come, he had vowed to kill the first
ha hast andall of the geese which should
8 '9und trespassjng on his ground or
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The Landowner is the Manowner.

Land being Indispensable to labor.
those who monopolize land are able to
make their own terms with labor; or
rather, the competition with which
each other of those who can not en-
ploy themselves, yet must find employ
ment or starve, will force wages down
to the lowest point at which the habits
Of the laboring class permit them to
live and reproduce. At this point, in
all countries where land is fully monop-
olized, the wages of common labor
must rest, and toward it all other
wages tend, being only kept up above
it by the special conditions, artificial
or otherwise, which give labor in some
occupations higher wages than in 9TH
ers. And SO no improvement even in
the power of labor itself-whether it
come from education, from the actual
increase of muscular force, or from the
ability to do with less sleep and work
longer hours-could raise the reward OF
labor above this point. This we see In
countries and in occupations where the
labor of women and children is called
in to aid the natural bread-winner in
the aid of the support OF the family.
While as for any increase in economy
and thrift, as soon as it became general
it could only lessen, not increase, the
reward of labor.
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THE REED CONGRESS.
What It's Extravaganza Means in Familiar
Terms.

What Its Extravaganza Means in Familiar
Terms.
The United States is the greatest
wheat-producing country in the world;
it is the greatest oats-producing coun-
try in the world. The value of last
years wheat crop was 1884, 600, 900; the
oat crop, 1920, 100000.
1t will take nearly the entire. crop of
wheat and oats in this country to pay
next years expenses of the govern
ment
There is in this country an annual
product of gold of s3s, 100000; of silver,
$61, 100000 of copper, $4,000, 900; OF
iron, $lo7, Ooo,oOO; of coal, s191, 900, 900;
of petroleum, s24, OOO, 900; of lead, $751;
600, 900.
All the gold, silver, copper, iron,
coal, petroleum and lead produced in
this country last year could not pay the
expenses of the government for the
came length of time.
| All the cotton, all the wool, or all
the rye, barley, wine, potatoes and
tobacco produced in this country in a
| wear could not do it.
The national banks of this country
have combined capitalization Of $780,
100000. One years expenses of the
government would all but swallow up
this sum-.
These are figures on government
tax alton alone. Add to this city, coun-
ty and state taxation and something of
the enormity of the burden may be
comprehended.
The United States has no great
standing army, no government rail
roads, no immense navy. no profligate
court of kings and princes. Yet its
annual expenditures are greater than
those of Austria or the German empire,
greater than Great Britain and Ireland,
greater than British India and China, as
great as those of the Russian empire.
The revenue for this enormous ex-
penditure is acquired in but one way
by taxation, by levy in one form Of
another, mainly in an indirect form,
on the substances of the people,
Washington Cd. c. Post Qnd.).
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of money, has more than once
defeated the comparatively unor-
ganized democratic party in national
contests, and more than once seized the
offices, after the republican candidates
hal been fairly defeated. In 1876 they
took the government by simple force
and fraud. In 1880 they bought the
election with ''soap," adroitly applied
through their minute party organiza-
ton. In 1888 they did the same, and
the fat-fryers' candidate sits in the
white house notwithstanding an enor-
nous popular majority on the whole
vote of the country for his opponent.
Democratic campaigns are necessari-
ly, for the most part, mere appeals to
the conscience and intelligence of the
people. There is for them no outpour-
ing of money from monopolies protect
ed by the policy of the party, because
there are no monopolies under demo-
cratic protection. But it does not fol-
low that the democrats necessarily
start out at a disadvantage. The con-
trary is true. There has not been an
instance since 1874 in which they en-
tered Il national campaign without q
clear majority in the beginning. That
majority is greater to-day than ever
before. It needs only to be organized
and enlightened, so that it may stand
in it's own defense against tile assaults
of monopoly power and political cor:
ruption. What is wanted is discussion
RELENTLESS and continuous discussion
of the fundamental principles of re-
publican institutions, of the monopoly
tax system, of the threatened invasion
of the freedom of elections, of the
prcdigious extravagances Of the billion
dollar congress, of the schemes of sub
sidy and bounty, and of the thousand
and one assaults upon the pockets OF
the people by the party in power. Sec
ond only to the press for this work OF
incessant discussion is the democratic
society, with it's regular meetings in
every political subdivision of the coun'
try. One dollar spent now in stimulat'
ing such an organization, and in the
dissemination of political truths, will
accomplish more than one hundred dol
lars spent in the heat and fever of {
presidential campaign.-N. Y. World
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DEMOCRATIC CLUBS.
The Necessity of Discussing Monopolistic

The Necessity of Discussing Monopolistic
Republican Methods.
The movement of the National asso-
citation of democratic clubs towards
general and complete organization of
the active forces Of the democratic
party appears to meet the unqualified
approval of the democratic press and
people.
The energetic proceedings Of the Re-
publican league and the comprehen-
sive plan of action evidently contem-
plated by its new president and it's asso-
ciates ought to be. insufficient warning
to every intelligent democratoft the mag
nitude Of the preparations on the mon
opoly side The superiority of re.
publican Organization, due princi-
pally TO its greater command
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Gossaner Showers.

1.-THE spiders appeared bringing elegant lace,
Woven in patterns Of beauty and grace"
Not often, however, are such exhibits
shown in bulk, yet reliable accounts
furnish instances of showers of gossa-
mer webs, as seen in different parts Of
the world, presenting an appearance OF
wonderful beauty. One such. mentioned
in Whites Selbourne, had webs strong
of texture, in the meshes of which heavy
dew-drops hung in abundance, making
in sunlight very brilliant show; one
such fall continued all day. In Wis
consin such showers have fallen in sew
eral towns at once; the aerial tourists
having charge of this singular visitation
of beauty were supposed to have come
from the lake. The webs varied in
length from sixty feet to mere speck,
and were seen as high up in the air as
the power Of the eye could reach. OAR
win observed similar shower of gos-
samer webs from the deck of a vessel
when sixty miles from 'and.-Harper's
RaZar
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Why Land Value Tax is just

Land has two elements of value; ona
given it by labor the other by the com.
munity without any exertion OF labor.
The first should not be taxed; the sec
ond may be. A tract of land located a
hundred miles away from any settle
ment or from road leading to a settle
ment, has no value except such as labor
applied to it gives, and should not be
taxed; but tract located within one
mile of a growing city may be worth
ten thousand dollars per acre, most OF
it's value being given. it by virtue of its
proximity to the city, and the fact that,
as the city increases in population, the
land will eventually be required for city
purposes. Now, inasmuch as the most
of this particular value of the land has
been given to it by the community, and
not by the labor of any individual who
may occupy it, the interest OF that value
thus given belongs Of right, to the COM
1munity, and may be justly claimed and
taken by it through taxation. II, there
fore, the interest of its value is taken by
the community, the land, for all practical
purposes, is restored to the community,
though the person who occupies 1t may
continue to do SO, or even to sell, ex-
change, mortgage or bequeath it, and
if the taxes on such lands. whether in
city, village or country, amount to suf-
ticient to defray the expenses OF all
departments of the government, there
will be no necessity for taxing the pro-
ducts of labor, and, therefore, the two
laws of nature which / have named as
having been violated, will be restored
to their normal dignity, and their NO
lation ceases The cause OF enforced
poverty being thus abolished, that ter
rible foe to human happiness will dis
appear Henry S. Schill.