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Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-16
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
SAVED By HIS SON. =

rAs stery OF Drunken Fathers HefoB.
nation.
Il was q weekday afternoon meeting
Of the children. Carl Hartwell was one
of those present He seemed to listen
with his eyes as we'll as his ears, for he
leaned on the back of the bench before
him, and stared with big. eager eyes at
the speaker. The latter was telling
about the thirst of a drunkard 1t was
like furnace. he said, heated red-hot.
and II was asking for liquor to feed IL
all the time.
Carl did not seem to notice anything
else but the minister, who was talking
to the boys and girls Of his congrega-
ton. Carl thought Of his father, Abram
Hartweli, known to be q drunkard.
known to have this hot thirst
"How can you cool of such thirst?"
asked the minister. II saw q great
river of ice once glacier-oh, so coldl
Would that take out the heat from .
drunkard's thirst? know what will
take away his thirst Do you want to
know Prayer to God will do it And
whatever you do. whatever remedy
yOu tIys WhdtCvCE lnCulOlnOs uOa wow
out prayer. Add that to it."
Carl went away in deep thought
That thirst, the awful THIRST Of .
drunkard, and to think his father had
II, this hot furnacei Oh, II he could do
anything! He wanted to do so much
for his home, where tho mot her had
such an anxious face, the home that was
90 poor and needy and empty. Tho
baby there was such . pining little
thing. the pantry sometimes had no
food in It, the hod ever seemed to lack
coal, the stove was so often without
any fire. Oh, SO much needed to DO
done in that drunkard's home!
Well, he could do one thing which
the minister had mentioned; yes, he
could pray. He would pray, too. that
very day, that very moment A white
little face was turned up to the sky In
its mute supplication, like white
flower asking for rain on a hot day.
God sends rain to the flowers; would
he not hear the plea Of this boy-fscs
and send blessingq
Harkl When Carl opened his eyes
he heard a rumbling. II was not the
sound of thunder accompanying rain,
but It was the Earring noise Of heavy
Ice cart coming down the hot dusty
| street
"And 1t Is stopping.at StokeN'sr'
thought Carl.
6tokell was the keeper of the rum
hole at the corner. "And oh, there ID
fatherw thought Carl.
Abram Hartwell was standing on
the sidewalk, looking very sad and dis
contented- He was saying to himself;
"What nobody l am! Don't do any
thing, don't amount to anything, don't
care for anything, except-to drink
Oh dear!' Yes, he did seem to be q
very useless being.
"What am l good for?" he muttered.
He looked up to the sky. How he
wished he could be good!
| His face was coarse and red There
are flowers coarse and homely, very
unlike the white ones. Does not God
send rain on those homely ones also?
While Abram Hartwsll was thinking
Abest his useless lite end raising hi
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-16

81 told you 3d." Here is the
finest town in America for resi-
dences and schools, and it is only
growing becauee of its natural and
artificial advantages, and in spite
of the detestably immoral infu-
ences that it's "Christians" and po-
litical demagogues and hireling
newspapers, exert over it.
There is one man in this town
that did not want to scalp Gath.
The first letter Of his name is
Yours fraternally,
CHARLES G. MOORE.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-16

aud then he crept along the scaffold to
his partner. If he tried to brace him
up it was failure. He took the slack
Of the rope and passed it about him so
that he could not roll of, and then he
began hosting up the scaffold He
pulled that end up about two feet, and
thcn orept down and raised the other
to correspond.
There was lift of ten or twelve
feet, and he passed from end to end of
the scaffold five or six times before he
elevated it to the cornice and could
step of. The other man lay as if dead
and was pulled off on to the roof so
helpless that he could not stand He
was sitting with his back to a chimney
when got up there, and no dead
mans face was ever winter He trem-
bled in every limb, his teeth chartered,
and his eyes seemed to have lost all
expression.
whats the matter?' / asked the
other partner, who was calmly adding
little oil to the mixture in his pail.
.New man." he brusquely replied
How do you mean?"
Its his first time on a swing
scaffold." he explained. land he was
foolish enough to take a drink of
whisky to brace his nerves."
''And didn't it?''
''For half an hour so; then it COL
lapsed him, as 1t always does every
body, and he went to pieces quick as
wink"
us it your first experienced"
''Not by a dozenl Most Of 'em act
this way the first time. You've got to
give 'em sharp talk and tie 'em on or
they'll do something desperate"
sand weren't you at all rattled2"
"Shoo! Feel my pulse"
And he whistled merrily as he
stirred the mixture and waited for an
other man to come and go down with
him.
"How do you feel?" ask the other.
He tried to reply, but his tongue
seemed to have lost its power, and
after two or three efforts he began
weeping like child He was utterly
unnerved.-M. Quad, in N. Y. World.
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A Practical Plan.

A certain little tract, addressed to
inebriates, contains no sentimental ap-
peal to the emotions, but is full Of
practical common sense. Let every
ono addicted to the use of liquor read
it, and pronouncs judgment upon the
advice It contains: One gallon OF
whisky costs about three dollars, and
contains, on tho average, sixty-fve
ten-cent drinks. Now, If you must
drink whisky, buy a gallon and make
your wife the barkeeper; then, when
you are thirsty. give her ten cents for
q drink. When the whisky is gone she
will have left, after paying for 1t, three
dollars and half, and every gallon
will yield the same profit This money
abe should put away in the savings
bank, so that when you have become
an inebriate, unable to support your
self, and summed and despised by every
respectable person, your wife may have
money enough to keep yos until your
time comes to fill drunkard's grave
Union Sigma
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LONOON's CURSE.
The Gin Mill the Bane Of the Metropoli
tan Poor.

tan Poor.
Here at a moments glance you may
see the distinctive curse of London's
poor. The women drink. Mothers,
daughters, sisters, wives, grown
women, children OF tender years tho
gin shop is open to all. and all 60 to
it Nowhere in New York did l see or
hear of women not utterly abandoned
habitually frequentinR saloons No
whore in London is there Q public
house, but the women viii b a. good
~ customers as the men.
II Is impossible to overSste the infiu-
enoe. the soul.destrpying influence.
this has had ppoa thD homes Of the
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-16

LEXINGTON, KY, Dec. %, 81.
DEAR Mr.. MooRE-If We all
entertained the same opinion that
you do in regard to that little af-
fair of Balaam and his ass, the fol-
lowing couplet would never have
been written.
"The Pophet BALKAN was in
wonder 10 st,
When his asst sp axe; asses now
speak m ost."
You rs truly,
AJAX.
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE DEMON OF THE STILL.

The cog and wheel and bolt 20 strong,
Was each within its place.
The still was ready now to starr
Upon its maddening race.
The race to grind from food Of mon
Apoison, 20 sure and fell
That demons watched It drop BY drop
AAd loved its praise TO toll
: On. taste 70 of thp sparkling dreushsh
Bee here within this cup
Z al 70 want Of earth or heaven.
Aye, drink the mixture upr
And then the tempter's gloatins eye
Sparkling with rapture sees.
His victims taste and taste again,
TIL sense and reason fees.
Too slow its gurgling waters now.
Too slow its victims make.
Thirst for blood I fsin would now
This Quenchless burning slake.
Look hitheri 10, I see
A victim toward me stride
4 mothers Joy he sure must bA
A fathers hope and pride!
Come, demons, haste. and now keep watch
With keen and piercing eye
Ana list your chance for warm BRIGHT blood
Not let It pass you BY;
Are, might not he % brave and fair
BE won by truth and right
- lost to US and 'sosps at last
fhs dismal realms Of night
. 9urn, engine, turni wheels, swiftly fyl
Bands and oogs and bolts 20 strong
With winged speed 60 byi
~ we'll your CHASTITY part. for
Am standing with . gloating heart
A burning eye, to see
The life blood Of the heart 60 dry,
The souls thirst through eternity"
Che demon eyes watched eagerly
The awful power that bore
The unconscious youth round wheel end COG
While flesh from bone IL tore;
But now an angel from Gods light
dastes, In this dreadful hour,
% bear aloft the spirit bright
Far from the nendish poweA
Fhs rocking blood and quivsring nesA.
elake not the demons thirst.
The grosns Of pain, the mothers tearss
But whet his direful curse.
"Nsw to the still whore warm ana bright
The gurgling poison lows.
Which soon will blight the hearts and honei
Whsrs'er It hspless goes.
.Ah. we'll for me, thou faithful tool
That human blood nor tears,
Can stop thy chastity work, nor rouse
The deadened heart to fears
Here meath this still tho power Il death
My power fesistless. strong,
Il growing steady drop by drop.
TIL millions mako o thronG
OF wrstohsd helpless creatures lest
Ny realm Of night to 1ll
While willing servants med for gold
Run ON tho faithful still
Better than tear or blood o. groan,
Than msngled essh, I weeh,
Arc crime and suffering end woe.
Nov in this fluid seem"
"'Twiil MI the prisonA load with chains
Tho maniac In his cell.
Twill blight fair homes with want and shsm
Twill sink the soul in hell;
Ne power so potent nends below,
In all their cunning skill,
Gould e'er devise like this that mon
Have made to work my wtu."
Allie Andys, in Rural WcraA
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A BROOKE" TROUT.
1t Was Taken from Subterranean
Stream.
Plenty of Evidence that an Under
ground River Runs by Us-Proba-
bly, From Lake Tahoe.

G. ID. Brooke, who lives half-mile or
so east of Oak Park, has a fine trout
stream running through his land. A
couple of days ago his pump threw out a
speckled beauty several inches long, and
Mr.. Brooke thinks he could have lots of
fun bobbing for trout if he had an open
well reaching down to the trout stream
that flows beneath that locality.
There can be no doubt that subter-
ranean river of considerable volume runs
through that gravel section, for a few
years ago ". L. Willis, who lived in the
same neighborhood that Mr.. Brooke
does, pumped up number of mountain
trout. This stream seems to run down
toward the Costumes, as trout of good
size have been taken from pumps at
Sheldon, many miles south of here.
This stream, of the existence of which
there cannot, of course, be any doubt.
probably comes from Lake Tahoe. that
being the nearest mountain lake of suffi
cient capacity to keep up the supply that
Is known to exist beneath the surface in
this vicinity. Scientists have long been
OF the belief that there is subterranean
outlet to Lake Tahoe, and as none other
AAS''
suppose that this may be it. That it is
not mere pond, without source or exit,
is evident from the fact that the trout
that have been pumped up were without
any of the peculiarities that distinguish
fishes taken from underground reservoirs
or the waters of deep caverns, and evil
IDENTIFY had not long been on the journey
to this point.
All this is but another argument In
favor OF the city taking it's water supply
from the source referred to. Instead of
bringing Lake Tahoe water hither in
pipes, it is evident that it Tor water from
a similar and equally desirable sourcel
can now be had at our very doors, brought
here by Natures best engineering pro-
cess-a subterranean canal
The question is, does Sacramento in
tend to profit by the opportunity at hand
to procure pure water in inexhaustible
quantity? Rivers may become contami-
mated and poisoned, but water coming
from the snowbanks and springs of the
mountains and brought underground for
many miles is certain to be as free from
pollution as it is possible for water to be.
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PEOPLES PARTY.
A Mass Meeting, With Speeches and
Songs, at the Plaza.
The County Central Committee Fixes
the Date of the Convention for
August 10th.

The County Central Committee of the
Peoples Party met Saturday forenoon,
and decided to hold it's convention for the
nomination of a city and county ticket
on August 10th. It was announced that
James B. Weaver, the Peoples candidate
for President of the United States, would
be in Sacramento on that date, and would
be present at the convention.
A committee was appointed to address
the Board of Supervisors in favor of the
placing of deputies at various points
throughout the county, for the registra-
ton of voters.
MASS MEETING.
The Peoples party had a mass meeting
at the Plaza Saturday night. There were
not many there, but that was probably
because the announcement had not been
made soon enough.
a. b. Sanborn presided.
The meeting opened with several Peo-
pies party campaign songs by Mr.. and
Mrs. Woraz.
The Chairman then introduced William
boyne. He said the Peoples party had
come to stay. 1t was only few months
ago when there was no such party. But
now Peoples party clubs were meeting
|
There was an impression, he said, that
the Peoples party, Farmers Alliance,
Citizens Alliance and Citizens Associa-
ton were one and the same thing. This
was not the case. All were different, eX-
cept that they all aimed at reform. For
the benefit of those who did not know
what the Peoples party was, he then
read the National platform of that party.
Demands had been made upon the two
great parties Tor certain reforms, he said,
and when they refused the new
party sprung up. The only hope
| OF the country now was to elect
the the Peoples party ticket only
then would these much needed reforms
be brought about. The two great parties
were more corrupt to-day,.he said, than
they ever were before. lie believed that
both had achieved their last great national
victories. The Peoples party intended
to knock them both out. 1t would go
alter the weaker one first and then
tackle the other. 1t was a mistaken
idea, he said, that the members of the
Peoples party had to get some Of the old
political bosses to tell them that they are
alive. They knew what they were about
and knew what they wanted. The
speaker then went into the details of the
new party's principles. He dwelt at
length on the alleged evils of the national
banking system, and said the Peoples
party demanded reforms in this direc-
ton. The Government, under the admin
lstration of the new party, would own
| the railroads and the telegraph, would
crush out trusts and perform innumer-
| able prodigious feats.
Mr.. Boyne was followed by J. A. Will
Jams of San Francisco and J. NJ. Barton
of Placer County, who spoke in about the
same strain.
Mr.. and Mrs. WoraZ sang more son gs,
and then the meeting adjourned.
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COUNTY SCHOOL MATTERS
certificates and Diplomas Granted
Pupils Promoted.

SertlncateS and Diplomas Granted
Pupils Promoted.
The County Board of Education met on
Saturday. all the members being present.
Misses Nettie Price and Bertha Ebert
were granted recommendations for edu-
cational diplomas.
Miss Laura Hess and Mrs. Annie E.
Sheets We're granted recommendations
for life diplomas. The latter was also
granted grammar grade certificate on
her educational diploma.
Mrs. Sarah j. Toll received a renewal of
her grammar grade certificate.
Mrs. II. j. Tabor was granted gram
mar grade certificate on her educational
diploma; also Abb Hunter.
Brooks and Brook Basins and "Chil0
and Natnre'' were adopted and placed on
the library list.
The following promotions were made
IN the county schools:
Capital District Mrs ii. Dunn, teacher
Seventh TO eighth grade, Fred Bonetti
u; Roy Brooke, 81; fifth to sixth, Charley
Bonetti, 80; Charley Dawson, 81; Myrtle
Logan, 81; Lizzie Davis, 81; Sophie Pow
ell, u; Robbie Cornelius, rs.
Victory District. Miss Alice Magann,
teacher-Seventh TO eighth, Lester Ever
son. so; Eva Kerr, 81; Lille Darling 30;
sixth to seventh, Stella Brown, rs; Ada
NJ. Gage, s.; Blanche Henley, II; Frank
DOty, conditioned
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Opening the Canal.

The most acceptable proposition that
can be made to persons troubled with
chrouic constipation. is to open that inn
portant canal-the bowels. That proposi-
ton can be carried out by the parties
interested if they resort to Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, the most effective. most
genial alternative extant 1t is the mis-
take of many otherwise sensible people,
that they resort to drastic, or, in other
words, violent purgatives. Without ex
aggeration, this is highly injurious, since
such medicaments weaken the bowels
besides CONFUSING both them and the
stomach with pain. Relief sought from
the bitters comes freely enough, but they
never produce pain, excessive action or
subsequent weakness of the bowels.
Liver and kidney trouble, malaria, dvs-
pepsia, lack of stamina and tendency to
rheumatism, are remedied by this pleas
ant substitute for drenching cathartics.
The record-union., 1892-07-25
A COMING TROTTER.
Sacramento Likely to Have the Crack
Two-Year-Old.

Sacramento Likely to Have the Crack
Two-Year-Oid.
More interest is manifested by horse
men at Agricultural Park i'll the work of
Buchanan IL Carragher's two-year-o
Dexter Prince stallion than in any other
OF the many young horses in training
there
The colt was thrown out of training
soon after his splendid performance at
the spring races, i'll consequence of bad
attack OF pinkeye, and from which he has
not yet fully recovered. A couple of
weeks ago he was again put on the track,
however, and is fast developing speed.
On Saturday the colt went the full dis
lance of the track without q skip, finish
ing easily in 2:42, although several
watches made it 2:4l. Many OF those who
saw him perform were confident he could
have made the mile from three to five
seconds faster than he did.
AS the colt has been in harness only
few months altogether, his development
is remarkable, and, if he should fully re-
cover his health in the next few weeks,
he ought to get Il record this year, and
while still in the two-year-old form, of
very close to 2:30. He will probably trot
in the twO-year-old stake at Napa City
next month against the speedy daughter
OF Guy Wilkes that beat him by a nose in
Il hard race here last May.
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ANOTHER PIONEER GONE.
Joseph Zumwalt of Shasta. Formerl
of Sacramento. Dies

Joseph Zumwalt of Shasta. Formerly
of sacramento, Dies.
Information was received here Satur-
day of the sudden death at Anderson,
Shasta County, Friday night, of George
Zumwalt one of California's oldest pio-
neers. The deceased lived for many
years in this city and was we'll known
here. He was 81 years of age at the time
Of his death. Despite his years he had
been hale and hearty until quite recently,
when he was stricken down with paraly-
Sis
Mr.. Zumwalt was a native of Kentucky.
After living several years in Ohio, he
came to California in 1S49, locating in
Sacramento. He afterward moved to
Solano County, then to Colusa and then
to Shasta. The deceased leaves four sons
and two daughters, all grown. The re-
mains were brought to this city and in
TERED yesterday in the family plat in
New Helvetia Cemetery. Mr.. Zumwalt
was highly esteemed, and an evidence of
the regard in which he was held is found
in the fact that very large number of
the citizens of Shasta County came from
that distant point as an escort to the re-
mains.
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STILL WANTS TO BE CHIEF.
EX-Chief of Police Drew Has His Ely,
on tho Of7ca

Ex-Chief of Police Drew Has His Eye
on the Office.
Ex-Chief of Police Drew has not, ap-
parently, abandoned the hope of being in
stalled again in the Office of Chief OF
Police, now held by John B. Rodgers by
appointment of the City Trustees.
Judge Van Fleets decision declaring
Rodgers ineligible at the time of his
election last March created a. vacancy in
the Office, which the Trustees filled by
appointing Rodgers, he having in the
mean time become citizen in fact as
we'll as in name.
Now NJ. NJ. Drew, uncle of ex-Chief
Drew, has applied to Attorney General
Hart for permission to use the name of
the State in a suit to have Rodgers re-
moved, and General Hart will hear argu-
ment at 8 o'clock tomorrow.
Should the request be granted, and the
courts remove Rodgers-of which there
appears TO be not the remotest likelihood
than ". +. Drew will bring another suit
to have himself declared the rightful
holder of the place. 1t is not at all likely
that any of the issues involved will be
determined for many weeks, and in the
meantime the State Fair will have come
and gone.
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AN OLD MANS STORY.
He Says Two HIghwnymen Threw Hi
From n Cliff.

He Says Two Highwnymen Threw Him
From a Cliff.
Frank Winters is the name of an
elderly man who claims that he was
nearly killed near Folsom on Friday by
two men whom he met on a road in the
hills. His assailants are supposed to
have been recently discharged from the
penitentiary.
Winters says the men demanded money
of him, and when he told them he had
none one of them proposed that they
throw him over high bank or cliff near
by. The proposition was acted on
promptly, the men Selling and hurting
him over the embankment.
Winters fell upon some rocks beneath
and was badly cut and bruised. but man
aged to crawl out and make his way to
Folsom, where he told his story. He
had been acting as keeper for the Sheriff
at ranch, and was on his way to Folsom
at the time of the assault upon him.
The record-union., 1892-07-25
Berlin Cough Cure

For coughs and colds and all lung and
throat affections this article has superior
merit. 1t is perfectly harmless, gives i'm
mediate relief and cures the worst cases
in from two to three days. Endorsed by
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a bottle.
c. G. Liniment, the best remedy for
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Compound Sulphur Powder, the most
perfect laxative aud cathartic known.
Gives instant relief in cases of constipa-
tlon,. indigestion, piles, biliousness, liver
troubles, rheumatism, gravel, ETC., etc.
A great blood purifier and pleasant to the
taste. The w. H. Bone Company, San
francisco, sole proprietors. Kirk, Geary
q Co., sacramento, sole agents.
The record-union., 1892-07-25
SELF-DEFE NSE.
The Coroner's Jury Exonerates Simon
Fernandez.

The Coroner's Jury Exonerates Simon
Fernandez.
Coroner Clark OH Saturday evening
held an inquest on the body of Antoine
Picazzo, who died the other day from
fracture of the skull resulting from a
blow at the hands of Simon Fernandez
during fracas at Twelfth and o streets
few weeks since.
The men were engaged in TAX
ing up rails from the old street rail-
way, when one fell on the foot of an
Italian named Rignoli. He blamed Fer
nandez (who is Portuguese) for the
accident, and angry words followed, re-
sulting in fight. Fernandez claims
that several Italians came at him, and he
defended himself with pick-handle.
After hearing the evidence in the case
the Coroner's Jury rendered verdict
generating Fernan deZ
The record-union., 1892-07-25
Midsummer Weather.

The Weather Bureau reports show the
highest and lowest temperatures yester-
day to have been 9Oo and $40, with
gentle to fresh southerly winds and a
cloudless though hazy sky.
The harometrical readings at 5 A. NJ.
and P. NJ. were 29.S8 and 1919 inches.
respectively.
The highest and lowest temperatures
on Saturday were 90o and $50.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago on Saturday were go and
54', one year ago yesterday 96o and $50.
one year ago to-day 1922 and $50 and one
year ago tomorrow 1912 and 660.
The record-union., 1892-07-25
THAT LONDON FRUIT TRAIN.

1t Was Ahead of Schedule Time at
Last Accounts.
The special London fruit train, which
left here on Tuesday night last, was
getting over the ground quite lively at
last accounts. 1t arrived at Ogden at 6
A. NJ. on Thursday, and at Council Bluffs
at A. NJ on Saturday.
The train was running ahead of schedule
time, and reached Chicago at o'clock
yesterday morning. If no unexpected
delay occurs. the train should reach New