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The record-union., 1893-04-22
MEMORIAL DAY.
Members of the Grand Army Desire
Its Observance.

Members of the Grand Army Desire
Its Observance.
AS the time approaches for the annual
observance of Memorial Day, the veter-
ans of the Grand Army of the Republic
are beginning to consider the matter, as
there is not much time to be lost if the
usual features be adhered to.
OF course the members of the Grand
Army Posts cannot be expected to stand
the expense of fitting observance of the
day. They can, of course, without much
expense to themselves, assemble at their
hail and march to the cemeteries and dec
crate the graves of their dead comrades
with flowers, but the custom has been to
make the occasion one of more or less in
terest to the public and visitors from
other places.
This necessitates the employment of
bands of music for the National Guard
companies, and some other items of ex-
pense which have been met heretofore by
public subscription. The observance OF
Memorial Day has always been carried
out by Sacramento on quite an imposing
scale, and this year there should be no
departure therefrom. All these public
demonstrations help the city by attract
ing hither many visitors from the coun-
try, and the citizens should-and doubt
less wilI-readily contribute the modest
sum required to meet the expense
1t is probable that committees of the
old soldiers will shortly be appointed to
solicit money with which to defray the
expense of a becoming observance of this
national holiday-one that appeals to the
patriotism of every loyal citizen of the
republic.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
CARING FOR THE ORPHANS.
One Hundred and Forty Children in
the Protestant Asylum.
The Little Ones Are Enjoying Good
Naturalization of Officers
Work of the Past Year.

At the annual meeting of the Protestant
Orphan Asylum the following members
of the Board of Managers, whose terms
had expired, were reelected: Mrs. n. d.
Rideout, c. E. Paine, F. L. circuit, Miss
Fenie Massey, Mrs. Allen Towle and
Mrs. r. c. Irvine. The hoId-overs were
Mrs. t. A. Snider, j. r. Foster, r. P.
Burr, D. A. Lindley, D. D. Whitbeck and
Mrs. NJ. J. Dillman.
The officers of the Board of Managers
are Mrs. n. D. Rideout, President; Mrs.
L. A. Snider, Vice President; Mrs. C. E.
Paine, Treasurer; Mrs. r. C. Irvine, Sec
rotary.
The Secretary's report showed that the
asylum was entering its twenty-seventh
year, with an income derived from three
sources-the allowance by the State of
SlO0 annually for each orphan child, and
SO for each child with one parent living;
the subscriptions from citizens, and the
money paid by the friends and relatives
OF the children-a very small amount.
Careful economy has barely enabled
the management to make both ends meet,
and generous aid has been extended by
citizens to enable it to make extensive
improvements.
w. Z. Brown last year surprised the
board by the communication announcing
that he would contribute 500 a month to
the institution.
The expenditures for the first two
years of the institution were respectively
s., 623 20 and So, $50 "A. For the last two
years they were SIG, ISL 80 and SIS, FOG "a.
showing the great increase in the scope of
its usefulness. 1t now shelters 40 chill
dren.
In February, 1892, committee of gen.
tlemen raised, by subscription, to make
extensive repairs in the L-street build
ing, SlI, $40 50.
The late Newton Booth left bequest
OF $4,000 to the asylum, which the execu-
tors were yesterday ordered by Judge
johnson to pay over to the Secretary.
The health of the school during the
past year has been uniformly good.
There are IS pupils-50 boys and IS girls
in the school, the salaries of the teach
ers and all school expenses being borne
by the city. A Sunday school is main
tanned in the kindergarten.
Last December W. p. Harlow volun-
teered to furnish both the Christmas din
ner and the gifts, and did both most lib
orally.
The children have attended, by invita-
ton, the principal picnics, and greatly
enjoyed Them
Thanks are extended to Doctors Hugh
son, Briggs, Light and Stow, for profess
slonal services; to the Capital Ice Com
pany for ice during the season; the REC
ORD UNION, NelcS and Folsom Te{eqr0Dh,
for copies of papers; J. y. Porter and r.
z: Irvine for Notarial services; to the
Matron, Mrs. j. q. Cody, and Assistant
Matron, Mrs. James Ward, to the sub
crlbers and other contributors.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
YOUNG CAIILEY,S CASE

His Mother Is Here aud Proposes to
Defend Him.
The mother Of young Edward Cauley
(whose name has been given as McCau-
ley, in regard to whom an account was
given in yesterdays RECoRD-UNIoN,
came up from San Francisco yesterday
and is making arrangements to defend
her son against the charges made by one
Mrs. Mary Smith and Miss Nellie Grant,
who aliege that the boy stole money from
them here last May, while they were tax
ing in the spring races.
Mrs. Cauley says her boy was led
astray by the two women, and that he
was put up 20 robbing strangers who Wis
tied the women's apartments. She gives
very damaging account of the doings
of the two women who have had the boy
arrested, and says she proposes TO en-
ploy good counsel for his defense.
If the case against young Caulev is
prosecuted some very racy proceedings
will, it is thought be brought to light.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
What is the Brand

An Eastern editor tells of one of his
subscribers, who, every time he gets
drunk, comes into the Office and pays a
years subscription, and won't take no
when told that he is already ahead. BY
so doing he is now paid UP to the year
1927, and is expected in the Office any day
with jag on and money in his hand.
The other editors have heard of this and
are endeavoring to learn what brand of
whisky that man drinks. They wish to
keep demijohn full of it in their offices
to treat every subscriber who calls.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
DUFOUR'S MISTAKE.

In Looking for an Indian He Runs
Against a raleface.
f. Dufour should provide himself with
spectacles, or consult an occulist. On
Thursday night he went on the warpath
after an Indian who had insulted his
little girl, and encountered Fred Valen-
tine, the well-known driver of a Buffalo
Brewery wagon.
Valentine doesn't resemble a noble red
man to any extent, but Dufour mistook
him in the dark for the miscreant of
whom no was in search, and gave him
just such beating as no doubt the real
culprit richly deserved.
The victim yesterday caused his assail-
ants arrest on charge of battery.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

~ Trustees, Lincoln, Placer County, Califor-
nia.-Sealed proposals will be received by
said board on TUESDAY, May 2, 1893, S
o'clock p. NJ, for the alterations and additions
TO school building according to and in com
pliance with plans and specifications now on
file In this Office copies of which may be seen
at the Office of VIM. H Hamilton, Architect
661 Market street, san Francisco. Each bid
must be accompanied by certified check in
the sum of . per cent. of amount bid. made
payable to the President OF sad board to
abide the result of awarding said contract as
by law provided. The said board reserving
the right to reject any and all bids.
ap19-5t CHARLES KENNEDY, Clerk
The record-union., 1893-04-22
BACK LICENSES.

Persons in Arrears VIII be Made to
settle Up.
Seymour and Hartman, who were en-
ployed by the Supervisors to collect back
licenses, have completed the rounds of
the city and collected large amount of
money. They are now going to let those
who did not pay during their round come
to them, and yesterday sent out four
hundred notices to such parties that if
their licenses are not paid within GER
tain time suit will be commenced to
collect them.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
NOTICE

ITO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, AND TO
i A. GOLDBERG. Notice is hereby given
that the hearing of the petition of A Schaden
and Others for a road in Road District No / i
oil sacramento County, said road being de-
scribed as follows, to wit: Commencing in the
center of road at its east end, running east
and west through the G. ]. Dillman Tract at a
point 2S.O6 chains north from the quarter
section corner between sections II and 20, T.
5 N, Il. F., Mount Diablo base and meri-
dian, and running thence S. $50 4. 100
chains through the land of A. Goldberg 20
feet on each side of line TO the west side of the
Upper Stockton road, will be heard by the
Board OF Supervisors Of Sacramento County
on MONDAY, May the LIST, 1898, at 1C
O'Clock A. NJ, in the Hall OF Records Building,
on street, between Sixth and Seventh streets,
Sacramento City, California.
Attest: VIM. b. HAMILTON,
SEAL lap17-l4tl Clerk OF said Board.
The record-union., 1893-04-22

r. L. Greer & Co., at their salesrooms.
J street, near Tenth, will sell at 10 A. NJ. a
variety of fine furniture, a piano, organ.
carpets, oil paintings. two ranch mowers,
horses, buggies, wagons and large as
sortment of articles.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
Pacific Climbs Shoot.

The Pacific Sportsmen's Club will hold
its first shoot of the season at Gerber's
ranch tomorrow, at live birds.
An international match" has been ar
ranged between Messrs. Van Alstine and
Chapman against Damn and Flohr, and
is characterized as contest between the
Franco atagonian contingent of the club.
The record-union., 1893-04-22

Persons DESTROYS of securing bargains
at auction cannot fail to find opportuni-
ties to-day if they will carefully consult
the Reconnaissance advertising col
umus.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
METHODS OF THIEVES.
They Proceed to "Raise'' Poultry
& ftnr. Nar.lr Trunin.S plan

They FFOCeeU 10 halSe'' POultry,
After Mark Twain's Plan.
Complaints are still frequently made to
the police of robberies by chicken
thieves. Several cases have been re-
ported of chickens stolen, being killed
on the premises from which they were
taken, partly plucked of their feathers,
and their heads left lying in neat pile.
The work is done in a manner peculiar
to Chinese, and the officers are confident
they are the most industrious and sue
eessful in raising poultry la Mark
IWain's formula.
The record-union., 1893-04-22

At their salesrooms, 923 X street, oppo-
site the State House, Crowell & Lam
bert will sell at 10 a. NJ. horses, wagons,
harness, furniture of all kinds, crockerv'
glassware and other things.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
The strrhes I'm Cnnr+

Manuel and Richard Strybe were ar
raigned in Judge Catlin's court yester-
day, charged with the murder of ri F.
Damon. They pleaded not guilty, and
their cases will be set for hearing next
Friday.
The record-union., 1893-04-22

At 323 street, near Fourth, Bell & Co
will sell at 10 A. NJ, vast amount O.
household articles, 10000 cigars, a double.
seated carriage and other vehicles, horses
harness. etc.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
Healthy Reeears.

Five Migrants were arrested yesterday
by the police, most of them for begging
on the street.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
SiltnrrtokRra.
". J. KAVANAUGH, Undertaken

No. 513 ST., bet. Fifth and Sixth.
A LWAYS ON HAND A LARGE ASSORT.
~ ment OF Metallic and Wooden Casket=.
Burial Cases, Cofhns and Shrouds furnished.
Cofhn orders viii receive prompt attention on
snort notice and at the lowest rates En-.
oalnning speciality. Ofics open day and
night. Telephone No 3O5.
The record-union., 1893-04-22

SUNDAY excepted. monday excepted.
A.--FoT morning. P.-For afternoon.
RICHAIsD GRAY, Gen. Traffic Manager
HUDSON EXCURSIONS TO WORLDS
d Fair.-Judson ~ Co. have succeeded in re-
scenic route for the Worlds Fair and the East
with lowest rate ticket. No crowding 10 Sc
cure large numbers. Leave Sacramento EV-
cry THURSDAY. No change to Chicago.
Our own manager in charge. Address JUD-
son & CO., 624 Market street, san Fran
cisco. or call on g. J. ELLIS. depot, Sacramento.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
Dividend NOtiee-People'S Savings Bank.

HNHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
Il Peoples Savings Bank have declared q
dividend for the semi-anauRl term ending De-
cember 81, 1892, at the rate OF five ana one
third 10 1-3) per cent. per annum on term do
posits and four az per cent. per aunum on or.
binary deposits, payable on and after Ianu.
airy 4. 1888. VIM. BECKMAN, President,
GEO. W. LORENZ. Secretary.
The record-union., 1893-04-22
THE LECTURE.

The United States, said the speaker.
has been steadfastly the friend to the op-
pressed. The establishment of our indie
pendence heralded anew creed. Since that
tocracy has been safe. Nearly all Govern
ments of civilized mankind have been
changed, in spirit if not in form. Russia
is the solitary and monstrous exception.
She stands to-day the same relentless, i'm
placable foe to liberty she has been for a
thousand years. She has not single
pity for the oppressed, not a solitary mis-
sion for mankind. Humanity has not a
single right her ruler feels bound to
respect. She is in every point of her cir
conference the direct contrary to every
principle we love and espouse. Yet,
strange anomaly as it seems, there has
been an attempt largely successful in this
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-12-13
NUMBER 81.
A SAILOR BOYS FORTUNE.
From Beggary In California to a Snug Conf
petence In England.


petence In England.
Thomas Stone, an 1s-year-old English
sailor, who has been living hand TO
mouth existence in Oakland for several
months, has fallen heir to the estate OF
his father, valued at over f32. 900.
1t was an early hour on stormy
morning last March when a bedraggled
and wornout young man applied nt tho
home of Michael Rigney, 215 Seventh
street, for II meal. He told straight
forward story about deserting his ship
In the bay the day before and said no
had slept under the Eighth street bridge
all night. Mr.. Rigney took compassion
on the desolate sailor and supplied him
with food and warm clothing. As
Stone proved willing to work and thero
was good deal OF labor to be perform
ed about the place, Mr.. Rignoy permit
ted him to remain, and since then no
has made the Rigney home his head.
quarters.
During his leisuro'Asurs Stone spent
his time instructing young son of the
Rigneys in the trade OF boat building.
In lot adjoining the house he estab-
lished miniature shipyard, with era
die, blocks and ways, and there he built
.aii siIo s'oain 'aunoh' Wnicn idcks
nv.nins % nu' an engine 20 lhake J., COM
pi. p,e.e : f',, q, 'aie Ei sno s'raiiser 'o,u was
aDoa' ,a,, 10 ioiiows' r,vo yours ugo nc was
eonooipoy ~ hneianu anu hau pch-
1uan' II. ~, roauinS 'aies vi auVehture,
,is reau'ns in"''o i'iiii SO 'ohs ior traVe'
,na' r,' nc ran AWAY 'hu WIht l" sea.
t, Mnea ne eaii'o noihe' ms iatncr .., @ 'ook
nm " LlveIpooi anu oouiiu nun over
70 sea captain I1r 'cyage 20 anu
lloiI' hus'iaii"' ,ie was sieilou ior ,w9
ye.ns, uu, i9ng Teio,e lne Voyas' nau
oeeh ,,nisneu 'io poy sureaiii' hau ueeh
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-12-13
Basque Is n Lonely Tongue stili.

The question, Who are the Basques?
that mysterious people who give their
name to the bay of Biscay, is always
cropping up, and Professor Won der Ga
belentz has recently endeavored to show
that the Basque language belongs to the
African Berber family of speech-for ex-
ample, the Kabyle and Taureg. His ev-
idence, however, only amounts to few
culture words being identical in the
Basque and Berber languages and GER
tain analogies in the laws Of phonetic
change. Moreover, he assumes that the
Basques and Iberians were the same peo-
pie.
But, as Canon Isaac Taylor points out,
the Iberian tongue, according to our
highest authorities, was different from
the Basque, and the French Basques are
different race from the Spanish
Basques, who are feebler people of the
Iberian type. If we assume that the
Basques conquered the Iberians, we can
account for the resemblances noticed by
Professor Won der Gabelentz, because
the lberians of Berber origin in acquir-
ing the language of their conquerors
would retain their own phonetic ten
dency and also some culture words in
both languages. As Canon Taylor re-
marks, we may still believe that the
Basque language is allied 10 the Ural-
Altaic type.-London Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-12-13
They Never VIII.

A woman stood at the corner of Baker
and Twelfth streets and waved her par
asol for the car to stop.
The driver nodded his head.
She waved parasol in one hand and
a shopping bag in the other.
The driver nodded and pointed and
stopped the car ON the other sido Of the
street.
She came liinping over the pavement
with swapping eyes and flushed face,
and as she put her foot on the lower
step she exclaimed:
"Are you all blind and deaf on this
carp
The conductor rang two bells ana
made no answer, and when she had takev'
seat inside passenger asked:
"Why didn't you explain that she was
on the wrong side Of the street for the
car coming down."
my dear man, it would have beer
breath thrown away" he replied.
"That woman lives around here and
has been riding on this line for five
years. I've explained and explained,
and so has every other conductor, but
what good has it donep Not one woman
in 20 will ever get it through her head
that car can't stop in the center os 4
crossing and block street, and so we
must put up with her sass and look
for our relief beyond the stars. DE
troit Free Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-12-13
Animal Fertilizers.

A dead animal Of any kind, fish, fowl
or beast, buried near the roots of q fruit
or other tree, will cause q wonderful
growth. The animal substance does not
pass into the vegetable, but being nat
ural and a powerful generator of cleo
tricity increases the current that passes
from the atmosphere to the earth,
and thereby larger quantity Of sup
port is drawn from the atmosphere
You can grow good crop of potatoes on
q brick pavement If moisture is retained
and the potato vines are connected with
moist earth by copper wires,
Commercial fertilizers do not enrich
the soil-do not add anything to it that
is Of value. The object sought in these
fertilizers is to put the soil into a condi-
tion that will enable it to conduct cleo
tricity. The electrical current passes
into the vegetable through its leaves,
carrying with 1t the gross matter that
goes to build up the vegetable cells, and
after that matter is deposited in the veg
etable the electric current must have a
conductor through which to pass to the
earth.
Wornout soils are poor conductors,
and the acids used in the hecommercial fer
tilizers, which are little more than acids
and sand, pulverize the dead soil and en-
hven 1t for short ttime.-Foster's Wealth
er Bureau.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-12-13
The Danger Of Matches,

We wonder how our ancestors man.
aged to get along at all before the in
vention of matches; they are SO indis-
pensRbly handy that We keep them in
every room in the house; the "men
folks" carry them in their pockets, leave
them hanging in their ''other clothes"
in a dozen closets in all portions Of the
house; we have handful resting within
reach while we sleep, they are dropped
here and there as we attempt to handle
them; If 1t is light and we readily see
them, they are picked up, otherwise they
are left till more convenient season.
which generally does not come, simply
because they are forgotten, being "only
amatch we can get plenty more for q
halfpenny, and time il too valuable to be
wasted over SO insignificant trihe.
Yet this 'insignifcant trifie" possesses
the latent power to destroy the finest
mansion, and with it lives Of sweetness
and beauty which the word can poorly
afford to spare. The cause of the con-
fagration may not always be revealed,
for the fire demon frequently covers or
destroys his tracks most effectually.
But how often is it apparent that only a
simple match-that insignificant trifle-
could have wrought the ruin!-Family
DOctor
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-12-13
A Brave Soldier.

A hundred years ago the unfortunate
people who came into the hands of the
surgeons, generally soldiers or sailors
who had been hurt in action, were forced
to undergo the operations necessary to
the prolongation Of life without taking
ether or chloroform, as is now admins
tered to make the patient unconscious,
and so free from pain attendant upon
the operation. To secure quiet, often
the subject had to be bound by ropes, SO
that much as he might desire to vince
he was utterly unable to do so.
Occasionally patients would show re-
markable fortitude at the crisis of their
troubles, but none ever showed more
than a soldier who, on the morning after
the battle Of Yorktown, Oct. 10, 1881,
was brought into the hospital, having
been shot in the knee. It was found
necessary to amputate the limb, and the
surgeon ordered the nurses to bind the
man fast preparatory to the operation.
"Never" protested the soldier. "You
may tear my heart from my breast, but
you shall not bind me. Can you get me
q fiddler
His request was complied with, and he
proceeded to tune the instrument, after
which he said, $50. doctor, now you can
begin" And he played during the whole
of the operation, which lasted 40 min
utes, without uttering single false note
or disturbing his features in the slight
est.-Harper's Young People.