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Only they who forget themselves truly
Enjoy themselves 1t is in living for 9th
ers that we find the highest comfort in
life, Until we learn that we gain more
through what we give than through
what we get, we fail of the measure of
happiness that is possible to u.s. A
writer whose name and words are dear
to thousands Of hearts says, in en-
phasis of this truth in a personal
note: ''lf people knew how much hap
pier the life of self-sacrifice is than the
little round OF self-seeking, would they
not burst their Lilliputian bonds, and
walk al road, free souls, giving, as God
gives, to good and evil alike? How one
csa fee! as Christian, and yet not
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q n # &&k 4 7sS *Tf SM&
Plat FOR SETTING OUT SMALL FRUITS.
deep, pulverize thoroughly, and set the
trees thirty-three feet apart each way.
You then have forty trees, which the
cultivation given to small fruits will
keep in good, thrifty condition.
In the rows of trees the long way
may be planted four blackberry canes
between each two trees-twenty- eight
to the row, one hundred and forty to
the acre. In cultivating the black ber
ries you will also cultivate the trees,
and the blackberries will do all the
better for the partial shade afforded by
the trees. Between the outside rows
on one side plant a row of grapes one
rod from either row of trees, thus pro-
viding for an abundance of sunlight
even when the trees are grown. Be-
tween the grapes and one row of
trees set two rows of raspberries, five
and one half feet apart and the same
distance in the row. Between the
grapes and the opposite row of trees
plant row of gooseberries and one
of currants, the former five and one
half feet in the row, the latter three
feet. You now have twenty-five
grapes, forty-four raspberries, tw enty-
two goose berries and seventy-eight
currants, all in good shape to cultivate
the long way with horse and cultiva-
tor, and three unoccupied spaces of a
quarter of an acre each. One of
these may now be set to strawb berries
in rows four feet apart and eighteen
inches in the row. This will
give twelve hundred and thirty-two
plants and should produce eighty
to one hundred bushels of berries with
fair culture: enough to pay all ex-
penscs. The second space may be
planted to garden vegetables, and the
third space should be sown to clover
| as fertilizer. Alternate with clover,
vegetables and straw berries, always
| using the first clover crop as mulch
| for trees and berries, and the second
| crop as fertilizer, and you will be
pleased with the result.
Some viii say that the trees, when
grown, will shade the berry too
| much, but it is we'll known that black
DeFrlcS anu LdSpOeIIlcs, DIS wei dS cur
rants and goose berries, do better when
in partia! shade, SO the argument will
| not avail.
Again, others will say that by pro.
ducing the small fruit you will impov-
erish the soil before the orchard is in
bearing. Not unless you practice the
robber system of taking all and giving
| none. With clover rotation and liberal
| applications of barnyard manure, to-
| gether with good culture, the orchard
| will be in better condition at bearing
than when first planted. 1t has been
| tried here at SHADY Nook" and proves
success, so there is no theorizing
about the subject. L. Shawver.
| in Farm aud Fireside.
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SHED { MANURE
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A A A, boxes or pens for calves and cows
with calf, 6 by 10 feet each. 9 G, cisterns un-
der the wagon-way or abutments, from which
water for cattle may be drawn through cock.
the stables in either case. The stalls are
double and will admit sixteen cows
when all are filled. A A A A are boxes
for COWS and calves. The space marked
''straw and roots" may be changed to
a silo if the stables are in basement,
the bottom of the silo being on level
with the stables for convenient feeding.
The stables may be daily cleaned with
a wheelbarrow, the manure being
cclve yed to the manure shed; or great
cr space may be allowed for the
passage" the stalls reversed and the
manure conveyed with horse and cart,
passing through the building endwise.
There may be numerous notifications
of this plan, varying with the nature
of the ground, it's slopes and different
conditions, and the personal prefer
ences of the owner.-Country Gentle
man
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THE ARMADILLO AND iGUANA.
EuemIes o: Field Mice and Various Kinds
Of makes.

EuemIes OF Field Mice and Various Kinds
Of makes.
The armadiilo, as eccentric in his
habits as in his appearance, does the
duty of the domestic cat among the
field mice, which are terribly destruc-
tive. Voraci Gus in his appetite, he is
sedentary by inclination, but he can
find his game with very little trouble.
Mice are always more or less abundant,
though periodically, and almost pune
tually, their mum bers decline, but in
certain years they positively swarm.
Then the dogs subsist on them; they
fatten the poultry, and great flights of
fowls of the air arc perpetually on the
hover over their breeding grounds. AS
for the armadilo, he goes to work
methodica lly, quartering the pain like
a well-brcd beagle and smiling tho
earth with prcternatural acuteness.
When his nose informs him that a
mouse is near, he creeps up stealthily
toward the spot then, slowly drawing
himself up and making his spring, he
traps the mouse, or whole family of
mice, beneath his body. But he does
not confine him self to mouse and in
sect diet.
In attacking snake he uses his in
penetrable body armour as a weapon
of offense. A friend of Mr. Hud-
sons witnessed one of these en-
counters The armadillo rushed upon
snake which vainly sought to escape,
and rocllel himself to and fro on the
hCl hn
sections under the sharp edges of the
arm adillo's bony covering. Should ami
| NAL food fail him, the armadilIo ia Is
| back upon vegetables, so that he need
never take more than indispensable ex-
erc;sc, and can always keep himself in
| comfortable conditior. Another invct-
crate enemy of the snakes is their con-
gener, the iguana or great lizard, of
| which Mr.. Hudson tells comical story,
related to him by Guacho friend, who
was riding carelessly along letting one
| end Of his lasso trail behind.
''llc noticed a large iguana lying ap-
parently asleep in the sun, and though
he rode by it very closely it did not stir;
but no soon er Lad he passed it than it
| raised its head and fixed its attention,
on the forty feet of lasso trailing slow
!y py. Sudde My it dashed after the
rope, and dealt it succession of vio-
| lent blows with its tai. When the
whole of the lasso, several yards of
which had been pounded in vain, had
been dragged by, the lizard, with up
| lifted head, continued gazing after it
| with the greatest astonishment Never
had such wonderful snake crossed its
path before" Edinburgh Review.
| A boys idea of having fIn is to be
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THE WEDDING CAKE.

An En- glish Woman Tells How to Make
One of the Genuine Kind.
You're wedding cakes" says an
English woman visiting here, ''seem to
me very poor and plain. Ours are a
real sweet, you know. They are made
of three separate cakes of graduated
sizes, the first and largest often being as
large around-well, as the front wheel
of baby's perambulator. Each cake
is composed, first of the fruit cake,
which is a solid baked mass of rich
fruits quite six inches deep; over this is
4 deep layer of about three inches Of
rich almond paste, and quite on the top
is two inches more of rich icing.
The three cakes are exactly the same
except in size around. They are placed
one on top of the other in pyramid
shape, with more icing and sugar orna-
ments, cupids, flowers, and leaves car
ried in graceful design from top to
base
At the wedding breakfast the bride
puts the knife into the top layer, which
is then carried to one side and sawed
into pieces by the servant, for it Will be
hard. This is handed about among the
guests; the second tier is left with the
brides mother, and the bottom cake is
sent untouched to the brides home.
The fruit cake is often made as
much as three months before
hand, which gives its richness
time to permcate the loaf thoroughly.
The al mond paste is to me the most de-
licious part of the cake, and this you do
not have at all. st Louis Republic.
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LESSONS TO LEARN.

Some of the Things We Must Know Be
fore We Truly Begin to Love.
The only life worth living is the life
we can only learn to live by dying
unto self.
In all the wide universe there is no
point of rest for the human will but in
the will of an all-wiSe and all-lOving
Heavenly Father.
Assured of His love in Christ, there is
for us abundance of peace if we but
abandon ourselves completely to His
purposes of mercy and of blessing, and
rest our souls in His everlasting arms
of tenderness and power.
Accepting His will and trusting His
love, we may come to find Heaven be-
gun in the obedience o. love The cross
shall be TRANSPORTED. Service shall be
to us supreme privilege and duty our
highest joy.
The heart lat leisure from itself to
soothe and sympathize" may even now
and here, amid the sorrow of this sin
cursed earth. enter into the JOY of his
Lord-thc joy of doing good.
Only as the believer accepts trial and
bOffO" as part OF Jne leGVenly l. II
theirs loving discipline can he rejoice in
tribulation, and count it all JOY when
he falls into divers temptations. Only
in this view can he 'rejoice cvermore," +"
and lin everything give thanks"
God magnifies His grace in us when
He enables us to be patient, and loving,
and forgiving under provocation, and
resigned and cheerful and thankful
amid affiiction.
Rich compensation for our hours of
struggle and darkness is found in the
fact that though now for Il season we
1Gay be in heavincss through manifold
temptations yet having ourSclve7
learned obedience by the things that
we have suffered, and having found
Gods grace sufficient in our case to
turn the shadow of death into the
morning" we shall henccforth be able
to comfort others with the comfort
whcrewith we ourselves are comfortcd
of God.-C. f. Williams, in Northwest
ern Christian Advocate.
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1t has been well said that there is
nothing at all in life except what we
put there" God has given US far more
liberty than we usually suppose; He
has put at our command immense re-
sources, and told us to go on and use
them to the best advantage. We can
throw them away, if we choose, or we
can make of them wealth inestima-
bic. lie has given MS the potter's wheel
and ample beds of clay, to DO with as
we please. But there is no value in this
wealth of means unless it is used for
right ends. 1t is, in truth, not wealth
until it is utilized. Life can be IA bub-
bic, vacancy, a failure, if we so will
it. 1t can be a solid world of worth,
and success, if we so will it. God has
made man in His own image; and in so
doing He has made him, in a sense, his
own creator. Who would deliberately
throw away such an opportunity?-S.
S. Times
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You'll be sorry for this some day!"
howled the son and heir as his father
released him from the position he had
occupied across the paternal knee.
'Ill be sorry? When?"
"When / get to be q man?'
"You will take revenge by whipping
your father when you are big and
strong and l am old and feeble, will
you, Tommy"
mo, sir" blubbered Tommy, rub.
bing himself but I'll spank your
grandchildren till they can't rest!''-
Chicago Tribune.
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SPIRITUAL AFFAIRS.
MADE ACCEPTABLE.

Some years com" hearing roses.
Some years come bearing rue,
Some with harmonious closes,
Some discoFd through and through
We may not mold or shape them,
Or alter, or escape them.
We dare not blame: but VIC
May make all years acceptable,
o Lord OF time, to Thee.
Be patiently abiding
The secrets Of Thy will;
BY daily sure cOntiding
In Thee through good or i'll;
BY fight with self and sinDin2,
Now bafficd and now winning;
BY service fraVe-may we
Make each new year acceptable,
o Lord OF time, TO Thee.
Thy wisdom is unfailing.
Though we are dull to know,
Thy comfort all-preyailinG
For every want and woe.
The little moments trial
Beat out on Times great dial
Builds to eternity,
Where years are all acceptable,
o Lord Of love. to Thee.
Susan Coolidge, in 8. :. Times.
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have heart-full of love for everybody,
is strange. How one can be Christian.
and not live for others-is it possible?
Yet many are defrauding themselves OF
the true riches by being miserly in their
loves s Times.
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The NIaT-s, ut Intellect.

Father (rehukingly)-When was a
little boy l never thought of asking
such questions
Tommy tthe youngest)-Ah, but
papa, when you was little boy
wasn't born! Funny Folks.
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A Striking Illustration.

Jackson-Do you believe in the theory
of dual nature in man?
Faxop--Yes. Why. look at old Hen
uesseyi He's not himself tonight
Puck
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Tho Right WAY to HappIness.

A friend of mine says that while rid
ing along the beautiful slope of the
Orange mouL tain one day he saw a lit
tie girl who was crying very bitterly.
He stopped and asked her what she
was crying about. 1t seems she was
trying to catch her little dog, which
kept all the time running up the noun
tain side, just eluding her grasp.
MY friend said: Turn around, my
dear child, and walk home, and
see if the dog will not follow
you.' Well, she tried the experiment
and soon found her companion close to
her heels and the child, with face all
wreathed with smiles, went leaping
into the house. Perchance you have
been chasing happiness far enough.
just begin again by turning around
and walking toward your Fathers
house, and happiness will dog your
steps, You will not be able to escape
happiness. =. w. Robertson.
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"The subject of good roads is one Of
vital Importance. A volume
may be too limited to tell the endless
blessings of good country roads and the
loss and worriment of bad ones. l will
say, however, l regard the public high
ways of any country as much part of
that country as her laws and her people,
and her people may be expected to pros
per in proportion as she keeps her roads
in perfect order."-Gov. Reynolds, Del
aware, in Memorial to Congress on
Road Exhibit at Worlds Columb bian
Exposition.
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NEVER make hills or beds in the gar.
den. Level cultivation is the thing for
the garden.
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"A boys idea of having fIn is to be
allowed to mese all the noise he can. ~
Rams Horn
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WHY?
Why do YOU forget so often .

Why do you forget so often?
Why DO you speak words that you so often
regret?
Why do you take up with new acduafnt.
ances, forgetting old friends?
Why do you not use clear Judgment instead
Of too often acting upon impulseq
Why do you persistently neglect your health
when 1t Is your duty to take special care Of # .
Why are you so careless when a sudden chin
headache, tired feeling and general disrusf
with life come over you?
Why do you not stop to think that little
timely caution of the right kind Will overcome
all these troubles and put you in possession of
good health and feelings once more?
Why do you not remember that the nest
physicians, scientists and the leading people of
the land all recommend pure whisky as the
proper thing to take at such times?
Why do you not recall the fact that there is
only one pure medicinal whisky known to the
world. that it is exceedingly popular, that it
has been in use for twenty years, and that if
is Dufy's Pure Malt?
Why do you not denounce any druggist.
grocer or dealer who tries to offer you some
other or inferior whisky, saying it is just as
good?
Why do you not always insist upon having
just what you require, just what you desire.
and just what you know TO be the purest. the
best and most Efficient?
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

George A. Hardy of Portland, Or. is at
the Golden Eagle Hotel.
Miss Josie e. Frost has returned from
visit to San Francisco.
W. Q. Clark and wife returned from the
Worlds Fair last night.
Mrs. A. A. Wood Of San Francisco is
stopping at the Capital Hotel.
E. NJ. Guthrie of Los Angeles is stop
ping at the Golden Eagle Hotel
Albert Gallatin has been in the city.
His health is somewhat improved.
t: A. Cody. the well-known printer. is
IN the city visiting his old friends.
A. J. Rhoads is able to be out again
! after his severe siege of rheumatism.
Mrs. D. Smith and daughter and Miss
Garnett OF Dixon are stopping at the Cap
ital Hotel.
Miss Minnie Lewis of San Francisco
mas returned home after visit to Mrs.
b. U. Steinman.
Mr., and Mrs. William A. Runyon,
Mrs. Sol Runyon and Miss Ora Runyon
OF CORTLAND are at the Capital Hotel.
Walter Hennesey, one of the praduates
of the Christian Brothers. College. left
last evening for Portland, Or, on visit
to his sister.
Miss Anna Selkirk, the charming and
gifted contralto, who was born in Placer
vile, will visit her old home next month.
and will give concert on the evening of
June ID.
Mrs. Anna Roher left on Monday even
ing for Chicago, where she is to meet her
brother, Frank Ruhstaller. After a short
sojourn there they will leave for a trim
through Germany and Switzerland.
surprise party was held at the resi-
dence of Frederick Mier on Monday
evening, the occasion being in honor Of
MIR. Mier's birthday. Music and dane
ing were INDUCED IN tilIja late hour. and
there was serenade by double quartet
of the Turner Harmonic, composed of
Messrs. Noack, Hartig, Lothhammer
Wilson, kurstein. Laue, Flohr and Pro.
fessor Mertens.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel
yesterday: W. +. Cook, Chicago: John
j. Daily, Dallas; George A. Hardy. Port
land; \. NJ. Dueoer, Canton, o.: E. O.
Regensberg, Philadelphia; w. J. Barnett
New York; L. NJ. Guthrie, Los Angeles.
I. c. Arnold, P. r. Hutchinson. Mrs r
L. Brown, NJ. II. Bernheim, Arthur
Louie, San Francisco.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel Yesterday.
B. Drummond and wife, New JERSEY: !.
5. Mayes, Miss Garnett, Mrs. d. Smith
and daughter, Dixon; Mrs. @. P. Haven.
Carl Leonard, Rocklin; VIM. A. Runyori
and wife, Mrs. Sol Runyon, Miss Ora
Runyon, George Carly, Courtland: W, A.
Fish, Wneatland; j. Z. Warren and wife.
II. y. Onestield. R. E. Murry, Captain
ID. Marcucci, John X. Bulger, San Fran
cisco.
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Let Us Celebrate.

EDS. RECORD-UNIoN: Hellol Mayor
Steinman. How about that Fourth OF
July celebration? Why don't you call a
meeting of citizens to prepare for the
glorious Fourth, which is only month
away? Folsom, Santa Rosa ana Milpi-
tas are preparing for q big blowout, and
unless we get move on, by their gener-
GUS offers they will almost depopulate
the Capital OF the State on that day by
their seductive offers to our people to Join
them in their festivities.
Sacramento can i'll afford to pass this
Fourth without proper celebration, and
especially this year. The eyes of the
whole State are upon US. as the coming
boom and manufacturing center OF the
Sacramento Valley; and we should not
forget in this connection 10 send press
ing invitation TO the san Joseans to come
up and Join with US in having rousing
good time, that they may see the finest
Capitol building and grounds in this
United States, and which they are trying
to have removed to their little one-horse
town down in Santa Clara Valley.
J. q. MARITIME.
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About Street snl.inklinn-

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN Please give space
for the following in your valuable paper:
There is so much said about public i'm
provement l think that it is not out OF
place to say few words Of comment on
the management of public affairs. con-
slider this time when there is much said
and little done. Factories and manu-
featuring appears to occupy the public
mind, from the idler who will strike you
Tor the price of meal to the merchant in
his store; also, the various schemers who
are now trying 10 Introduce a new water
monopoly scheme, under the guise Of
furnishing pure, clear water are all ap-
parently equally interested in the future
development of our city. The present
management OF our city is negligent.
Just ride over the city any evening and
look at the condition of our streets, how
they are sprinkled. If a family goes out
their clothing are destroyed and their
eyes blinded with the dust. In the resi-
dence portion of the city the furniture is
ruined by the dust. There is no need Of
this. The sprinkling of the streets costs
the city between $4,000 and $4,000 the
way 1t is now doing. That money is
thrown away. When the contracts were
letting the specifications were very plain,
NO two honest men could mistake them,
and they were so fair that no contractor
could be ignorant Of them.
Ii has been proclaimed that our new
Mayor would run the city affairs as be
does his private affairs. This was the
first contract under his administration,
and the city was never as badly sprinkled
as this season. believe contract should
be as fairly carried out for the city as for
an individual. There are lust two WAYS
about 1.-THE Trustees either did not in
tend to have il properly done, or they
would make those contractors carry out
their plain, fair agreement with the city.
A few hundred dollars more would let
the contracts to men who could afford to
do it properly. There are always men
ready TO take public work at prices that
they cannot honestly execute, with the
expectation that they will slight it. as the
present sprinklers are now doing. |
have no sympathy with such contractors.
am willing that a man who sprinkles
the streets should make fair, honest liv-
ing, as well as any other man, but have
no sympathy with the man who takes
work at prices that he knows he cannot
honestly carry out, but expects to come
out square by half-doing the work. by
using such influence as he may pos
sess with the officials over him, and bv
so doing the city and public are injured.
l would like to know if the Trustees are
afraid of those street-sprinklers? If not,
compel them to carry out fairly the CON
tract with the city.
MICHAEL HUGHES.
Sacramento, Cal, May 80, 1898.
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RIFLE PRACTICE
National Guard Companies to Face the
TRrEets Next Month.

National Guard Companies to Face the
Targets Next Month.
The following orders have been issued
by the commander of the Fourth Bri-
gade, y. 6. c., concerning the coming
target practice for State medals:
In accordance with General Orders No,
Is, the troops of the brigade under com
mand of Colonel j. w. Guthrie will hold
the first days target practice for 1898 on
dates selected by him in the month oi
June.
The practice must be held under the
supervision of the Brigade and Regi-
mental inspectors of Rifle Practice, who
will comply strictly with the provisions
OF General Order No. o.
The Brigade staff, Signal Corps and all
retired officers, located III Sacramento
city, will practice between the hours o.
10 A. NJ. and P. NJ, June is, 1893.
All staff officers, Signal Corps and bat.
terry viii practice with Colt's revolvers
cal. 45.
Requisition for necessary ammunition
will be made iby the regimental com.
mander on general headquarters, State O.
! California.
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hack-a calamity to the town in which
they live. Ne surer measure of stagna-
ton and decay of any community than a
superabundanco of human jackasses,
foxes and wolves therein, and the only
possible relief is for the enterprising and
progressive citizens to spot these ami
mails and cease putting dollars in their
pockets; this and this alone will compel
them to go elsewhere. 4 course like
this persisted in would soon give us a
community where, as the RECoRD- UNION
quotes, THE wise would assist by their
counsel, the rich by their wealth and the
poor by their labor. Respectfully,
CANNASSINa COMI1rTEENIAN