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The record-union., 1896-04-14
FOR THIRTY YEARS
MESSENGER e. GATES HAS BEEN
A FAITHFUL EMPLOYE.
Ills FeIlow-Clerlxs Signa1iZe the Event
by Presenting Him With an
Elegant Ring.

Yesterday being the thirtieth an
nfyersary of the official life of Mes
senger E. Gates as an employe Of the
Southern Pacific freight office in this
city, his fellow clerks determined to
commemorate so important an event
by presenting him with souvenir as
mark of their good fellowship toward
him. They therefore presented him
with a beautiful Odd Fellows s1gnet
ring, of which organization he is an old
and honored member.
The presentation speech was made by
James F. Doody, a fellow-clerk In the
freight office, in the following words:
Messenger E. Gates: Your colabor-
ers and admirers of the freight office,
fully approaching your noble qualities
Of head and heart, and fully realizing
that in your case that old and trlte
phrase TO know him is to love him.
is fully exemplified, deem it just and
proper that some fitting testimonial be
rendered you to commemorate the thir-
tieth milestone of your life as faith
full freight office employe. Therefore
they have delegated to me the pleasant
task of presenting to you this trlf11ng
mark of their esteem.
Prize it not for it's intrinsic value,
but keep it as a reminder Of the many
pleasant associations and happy hours
you have spent with us in the freight
office.
1--WE feel confident that the emblem
adjoining this little souvenir-friend-
ship, love and truth-fully portrays the
character of your own dear self. COM
bined with excessive charity, the great
est of all your virtues, and the mantle
of which you have ever and at all times
thrown around those who sought your
assistance and advice, at all times so
freely given.
May the three links, dear old col
league, like the symbols which they rep
ending chain to bind you to your asso-
ciates of the freight office. The mate
rial of which this little memento is
Observation-Disclosures no more precious
in our eyes than is the name of Mes
senger E. Gates, whom we all love and
respect.
Accept it from my hands and treas
ure it. and may it ever be gentle re-
minder of the fact that though age
may wither, your eyes grow dim, or
that you lose the elasticity Of your
footstep-you will ever and always re-
tain a favored spot in the hearts of
your fellow colleagues of the freight
office"
With his fellow-clerks gathered
around him, Mr.. Gates though COM
pletely taken by surprise, very feelingly
responded
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Deaths In the Country.

Margaret S. Flynn, relict of the late
Robert Flynn, and aunt of Thomas M
and Margaret Cook, a native of County
Limerick, Ireland, aged IS years, died
at her home near Freeport yesterday.
The funeral will be from there on
Wednesday at 8 a. m, and services will
be held in the Cathedral here at 2:30
p. m.
Emilia Faustina, wife of Francisco S.
Rodrigues, and sister of Mrs. Rita
Rodrigues, a native of AZore Islands,
aged p years, s months and 1H days,
died near Florin on Sunday. Funeral
from her late home at $50 on Wednes-
day, and services at the Cathedral in
this city at p. m.
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THE ALLEGED ROBBERS.
CaIlendine, Baker and Townsend {
be Examined To-Day.

DdkcT dIu 4oWnSchu u
be Examined To-Day.
At the examination of l.. L. Callen-
dine, Fred. Townsend and Harry Baker,
which begins to-day in the Police Court,
the first -named will be defended by
General A. l.. Hart and the latter by
Hiram w. Johnson. Townsend has no
attorney. The prisoners are charged
with having robbed the office of the
Electric Railway Company last Octo-
her.
Officer Pennish and Deputy Sheriff
Max Fisher, who did such effective work
.n the case. have marshaled a great
mass of testimony to corroborate the
statements made by Townsend in his
confession, and it is expected the ex-
animation will last for several dhys.
In this connection 1t may be stated
that yesterday Officer Pennish recov-
cred buggy that was stolen from JUS
tsce Henry last June. 1t was found in a
barn on the premises Of a brother OF
Callendine, so the officer says, but for a
time had been kept in the yard of a
man named Hutchinson in the northern
part of the city.
Pennish states that Callendne and his
wife made their recent wedding tour to
Marysville in this buggy, and that he
has proof that it was stolen by Callen-
dine.
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wanted to take little nap. This auto
matte device would answer the central
office with the assurance that Mr.. Edi-
son was awake when he was doing
peacefully. Edison also invented an
automatic repeater to transfer mes
sages from one wire to another.
His first invention that brought him
in anything was an improved stock
printer, for which he received $4,000
Everybody knows about his phono-
graph, incandescent lights. kaleidoscope,
and Rineto-phonograph. Edison says
that the time is near at hand when
grand opera can be given at the Metro
politan Opera house at New York with
out any material change from the orig
inal and with artists and musicians
long dead"
Nicola Tesla is considered by many
scientific men to be more original
genius than Edison. He was born in
Servia and came to America and was
employed by Edison. Tesla does away
with the filaments inside the bulbs OF
small electric lights and makes diluted
air do their work.
Tesla sends currents of high pressure
through space without any conductor
at voltage many times greater than
that employed in electrocution. He
sends currents through his body that
vibrate million times a second or two
hundred times greater voltage than is
needed to produce death.
Tesla's aim is to hook natures ma
chinery directly to mans, pressing the
ether waves directly into mans service
without the generation or Intervention
CT heat. By so doing an enormous pro-
portion of energy could be saved that
now goes to waste. Tesla's polyphase
motors were adopted for converting
into electricity the power of Niagara
Falls.
1t is thought that the Niagara Falls
Power Company can, before very long,
furnish Chicago with energy at less
cost than the steam made there by coal
is furnished. Electricity is carried to
Frankfort from Laufen, where. it is
created with a loss of only per cent.
Electricity is generated at the falls at
Folsom, Cal, and is taken by overhead
copper wires to Sacramento, twenty
four miles, with a loss of not over 20
per cent.
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s'Little WeiohtS.,.

The superintendent of a large retail
store in New York. while talking to a
| friend one day, said:
1t is not always the most industrious
Or intelligent statesmen who succeed in
our business Sometimes a popularity
of speech or manner will make them dis
tasteful to customers. Note that young
man who is selling towels, for example.
He is too familiar. He leans over the
counter, and whispers as if he We're the
confidential friend of every woman who
buys a napkin He means only to urge
bis wares, but ladies do not like it.
They will not be served by him again.
l shall probably be forced to discharge
the poor fellow, though he means well. -
The trustee of one Of our colleges was
asked why Professor Blank was held in
comparatively light esteem as a teacher
lie is a learned man, accurate and ear
hest in his teaching said the INQUIRER.
ana an honorable gentleman Yet in
Terror men are advanced in general es-
TEEN, While he remains just where he
began ten years ago" There is but one
cause for his failure" was the reply.
hrs untidy habits. How can it be
otherwise with a man who comes on the
platform with soiled linen, greasy
coat, and black finger nails? He looks
like a tramp. Good and wise as he is
he does not command the respect of the
students DR. Weir Mitchell in a lee
ture to nurses said that competent, ear
nest women sometimes fail in the sick
room because of some popularity of
habit which renders them unpleasant to
their patients. Among these was the
use OF perfumes. No well-bred person
Will carry about a scent which NAV
prove offensive to half the people whom
they meet. Men and women in every
department of life find their usefulness
impaired by some little habit often nm
consciously acquired.-Youths' Com
panion.
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A DIAL OF FLOWERS.

Way down in the garden yonder
Inc myrtle and evergreenS grow,
And there reigns a gracious flower
CIT kissed by the suns warm glow.
The guardian of the peace it stands,
A sentinel that marks the hours
AS lightly Ger the earth they speed
In festive courts or ladies' bowers.
Its face is of the richest brown,
Its hands are rays of FURNISHED gold
That point to flow retS cluSt'ring round,
Forming this dial of wond'rous mould.
The tuberose fair, looks up and smiles
AS the sunfiower tells the hour of morn
And shakes her head in sweet delight
Right glad to see the day is born.
And in spotless raiment clad,
The lover of the quiet shade,
Sweet, pure mmosa opeS her eyes
To greet the day e'er yet it fade.
AS one by one the hours pass by,
And Aurora her bright course pursues;
The tiny violet lifts its head,
Fresh sparkling with the morning dews
And now in glory shines the sun,
For 10. it is the hour of noon;
And see, the rose, fair queen of all,
Bursts on our sight blessed boon.
For with her breath of rich perfume,
She gently fans all care away,
And leaves behind mem'ry sweet,
To soothe the slow, declining day.
The vesper bell is ringing soft,
The twilight shades are falling fast:
And the evening primrose claims her place
Still fair as in long ages past.
And now, of all sweet Floras prides.
In purest white and beauty bright
Night blooming cereus reigns supreme
A fairy goddess of the night.
And so the dial is all complete.
Each hour traced by natures hand,
Who rules with love her subjects in
This strange but beauteous wonderland
Sadie Taylor Johnson
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Superior Judge Johnson has gone to
Modesto.
Mr. and Mrs E. S. Hadley have gone
to Los Angeles for visit.
General j. w. B. Montgomery of Chico
has been visiting the city.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McElory of San
Francisco are registered at the Golden
Eagle.
Mrs H. E. Hall of San Francisco is
visiting her parents here, General and
Mrs. Cosby.
J. NJ. Halliday, Superintendent of the
Electric Power House at Folsom, was
in the city yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Haring and
daughter of Brooklyn, n. Y, are visit
ing Mrs. NJ. E. Williamson.
Albert Gallatin of the Sacramento
Electric Light and Power Company
came up from San Francisco last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Warland
and H. Warland Davenport of Paw
tucket, r. l., are at the Golden Eagle.
Uncle Ike Zemansky and Thomas V.
Litchtenstein will depart to-day for
Cripple Creek, Col, where they are to
engage in business.
Miss Florence J. Doane of San Fran
cisco and Miss Ivy NJ. Gardner of Los
Angeles, who are to sing at the Mcneil
Club concert, are guests of Mrs. E. r.
Hamilton.
]. A. Filcher, Secretary and Manager
of the State Board of Trade, is in the
city. Mr.. Filcher is an ex-President of
the California Press Association and
will attend the meeting of that body to-
night.
r. NJ. Folger of the Bridgeport
Chronicle Union" and S. S. Boynton
Of the Oroville Mercury" are in the
city to attend the meeting of the Cali
fornia Press Association, which takes
place at the Senate Chamber this even
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THERE WAS A PARTNERSHIP.
AS the Man Who Had Been Touched
niScnvarod

Discovered.
One night as halted in a doorway on
the Bowery to wait for a sudden down
pour of rain to pass over a pedestrian
who was slouching along espied me.
says the Detroit Free Press" and
turned aside to say:
Mister, hev you any sympathy fur
poor and distressed feller-man?"
Whats your case?" I asked.
1--WE been put out cause I couldn't
pay my rent, and wife, children and all
my goods are on the sidewalk in this
rain"
And what are you going to do?"
God only knows, sir! Think of a
landlord putin a family out in the
night and in such a storm as thisn"
"Will ten cents be of any use to your"
ut will, sir. Thanks. If / kin find
three or four more to chip in I kin git
huff to move my goods in somewhere.
May heaven bless you."
He started off and had been gone
about five minutes when a man who
locked fully as ragged and tough came
along and stopped to say:
"Hev you bin here long, sir?"
about ten minutes"
''Seen anythin' of man with brown
hat on and lame in the left leg?"
Yes, he has just left
did he tell you he'd bin thrown out
cause he couldn't pay his rent?"
Yes"
said his family and stuff was on the
sidewalk "
Yes"
and how much did you give him?''
"Ten cents"
"And which way did he go?'
Down this way. Are you interested
in the man."
Il should remark that, I was! He's
my pard."
How do you mean?"
"Why, we both tell the same story
and whack up when we git through.
Purity good pard Sam is, but not quite
dead square, and that's the reason I
wanted to know how much you gin
him. Ten cents, Ell! Wall, you won't
die Of enlargement of the heart-not
this winter"
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NEW DEVICE OF FAKIRS.
A Crowd Was Soon Collected and
Lively Business Followed.

A Crowd Was Soon Collected and a
Lively Business Followed.
Street fakirs always have a novelty
to catch the eye of the public. A num-
Der of these wandering merchants have
recently visited New Haven One of
the schemes used to draw a crowd is
worthy of mention. Here it is: An
aged man was leading a child, clad in
rags, down Chapel street one cold night
recently, runs a story in the New Haven
Register Every few minutes the
child would stop and utter a feeble cry
as if to resist. The strong arm of the
man hurried the poor little one on. Then
few tears could be seen finding their
way down the small face. When Orange
street was reached the little creature
made an cutlery. A tall, slender and
smooth-faced young man, evidently
touched by the pathetic sight, grabbed
the old man by the arm and exclaimed:
What do you mean by having that
poor little child out on the street on
cold night like this? It's almost freez-
ing"
Its cold" the little one interposed.
None of your business was the
harsh reply of the old man. He then
started to go. The young man pre-
vented this. He said:
stop. Out with your story. I think
you stole the child
II want mamma" the little thing
cried in a burst of tears.
BY this time a large crowd had col
lected.
I'm taking the child home' explain
ed the old man to the ever-swelling
crowd of spectators.
Here, then, take this" said the
young man, taking small pocket stove
from his satchel and giving it to the
child. THAT will keep you warm" he
continued
The spectators had now become inter-
ested. What is it?" asked bystander.
That is the S S. S.-Smith's safety
stove-that can be carried in your
pocket without danger of setting fire
to your clothes. I have a few of them
here to dispose off, said the young
man. addressing the very large group
of surprised listeners. The old man
and child disappeared down the street.
while the young man did a good bust
ness in pocket stoves.
The record-union., 1896-04-14
Woman In Spain.

If there be any truth in the statement
that the civilization of country is to be
measured by the status Of it's women,
the Spanish Kingdom is on the verge of
barbarism. Educationally it is below
Turkey. China, Japan and even Siam
Seventy-two per cent. of it's adults are
illiteratr. AS between the sexes, the
figures are 60 per cent. for men and 81
per cent. for women. "a large ladies'
library in Madrid usually consists Of
sixty or seventy trashy paper-covered
novels. If a woman, or man, for that
instance, requires higher education,
they must go abroad. Very few 60 The
social conditions make women worse
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BRIEF NOTES.

On Sunday the relatives and many
friends of the late Mrs. Charles Barnes
dedicated the monument erected in
the Jewish Cemetery to her memory.
John Neubar was arrested yesterday
afternoon charged with having commit
ted battery upon the person of Louis
Fisher, who runs a sandwich stand on
l. street.
David T. Biggs, a son of ex-Con-
gresham Biggs of Butte County, who
died last Friday, was buried in this
city yesterday. He was a native of
Missouri and 40 years of age.
William McCants was on one of his
sprees on Sunday night, and neighbor
named G. H. Lawrence has sworn to a
complaint charging him with disturb
ing the peace. He also says that Nc
Giants brutally beat one of his children.
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Ease and Fluency.

When Theirs was President of the
French Republic he was about to issue
some important manifesto and submit
ted the draft to a critical friend Eyes, .
said the critic, 1.-THE matter is clearly
expressed, but I miss the ease and flu
ency of your usual style" "Ah!" re-
piled Theirs, II have not worked those
in yet. The ease will cost me much
labor, and the fiuency I shall have to
drag in by the hair Of it's head
The record-union., 1896-04-14
En- Route to Folsom.

Nicholas Claussen, who received his
life sentence yesterday morning from
Judge Wallace of San Francisco for the
murder of his wife on February 18th
last, was brought up last night on his
way to Folsom Prison.
This is the criminal who first forced
his wife to live apart from him, and
then went to her house one morning and
shot her dead in the presence of their
three children. He did it for fun" he
ga id
The record-union., 1896-04-14
Rheumatism

no YOU WANT TO GET RID OF THOSE
II torturing palms that bother you as you
arise from your bed IN the morning! Do ysu
want relief from the always present stiffness
IL the back and limhsf Do you wa,t - ieel
like a bunch Of sprinss. WHY. elastic and free
OF action, full OF snap and vim. ready 70 txke
a hop-sk1p- and Jump with any q your younger
friends! In fact. do you want to have ysur
body strong and active1 Then wear DR..
Sanden's Electric Belt for ten days- 1t has
wonderful power to timber up the old muscles
and charge them with new life-the energy
Of youth. So thinks old John FnIfnaa. vino
IL known to everybody on Bernal Heaghts rs
almost a Nse-long cripple from RheuuatAxn.
He lives at the corner OF Koseiusco street aHa
Old Hickory avenue. He says that Dr. Son-
den's Electric Belt is the only thing he has
been able 20 nnd in Is years to relieve him
Of Rheumatism. II gives him rehef within two
hours after he puts 1t on. Under dase Of April
/. 1856. he makes q statement to the effect that
his Sander Belt has proven invaluable to him,
and that several of his friends who have tried
1t have found equally good results
The record-union., 1896-04-14
Ranch at Auction.

On Saturday next, at 10 o'clock, Bell
& Co. will sell at auction at 927 X
street a ranch of 1876 acres situated one
mile from Walshs Station, with two
story residence, large barn, granary.
blacksmith shop, Cyclone windmill
t5,000-gallon tank, ten-acre vineyard
and one-fourth of a crop; entire ranch is
under high cultivation. For terms, etc,
see advertisement
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Remember the name. as there are others
who attempt to profit by the good reputattsn
Of the DR.. Sander Belt. and would sell you
something you don't want A correspondent
writes from Pacific Grove: There are lots Of
people who praise your Belts very highly"
That is what makes people want h-praise
from honest people it has cured II cAnno'
help being praised. for 1t cures. gives ato
the body stronger electrical force than can
be got from any other electric bslt made. II
has patent regulator which none other has
and is warranted to last one year. Why don't
you try it? IL you are sick 1t will gave you
many doctor bills. Anyway. send for the book
about It. with prices. free. or call and consul,
the doctor free Of charge.
SANDEN ELECTRIC CO.
es2 Market ST.. opposite Palace Hotel. San Frsn-
cisco. Office hours, a. m. to $50 D. m. ; Ssn-
days. 10 to 1. Los Angeles, CAL 204 South Broad
way. Portland Or. 255 Washington street
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TWO FAMOUS INVENTORS.


About Edison and Tesla-Their Claims
Stated.
Thomas Alva Edison, "the Wizard of
Menlo Park" was thrown upon the
world at Is years of age. He became
newsboy on a railway line, but he found
time to edit little weekly paper, read
Newton's Principal" and made exper-
iments.
He became telegraph operator and
one of his clever inventions was device
which he called into play when he
The record-union., 1896-04-14
Clark Gets six Months.

James Clark who was arrested in Da-
visville and brought back here on a
charge of robbing one of his companions
pleaded guilty in the Police Court yes
terday and was sentenced to six months
in the County Jail.
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AT the w. r. Strong Company's ware
hosue on Front street Bell & Co. will sell
at auction to-day, at 10 O'Clock, forty
five tons of dried fruits of various va
rieties. claimed to be excellent stock
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Prince Bismarck is bitterly disap-
pointed because the latest child of Count
Herbert Bismarck is a girl. AS yet
there is no male in the third generation
of Bismarcks.
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"Always Up to Date"
(From the Lakeport Bee.

(From the Lakeport Bee)
The Sacramento Record Union will
issue Sunday morning edition here
after. 1t is live. enterprising journal,
and ALWAYS up to date
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CHEESEMAN'S SPECIFIC MIXTURE

WITH THIS REMEDY PERSONS CAN
cure themselves without the least ex-
posture, change of diet or change in appli-
cation OF business. The medicine contains
nothing that is of the least injury to the
constitution. Ask your druggist for it.
Price, 81 a bottle. TUT
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A Thousand a Month.

This is the number of bottles of John
A. Suffer Bourbon sold last month. B.
X. Bloch e. Co.
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The buggy has been identified not only
by it's owner but by Melvin, the wagon
maker who had made certain repairs to
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A PHYSICIAN WHO HAS DEVOTED
thirty years to the treatment of blood dis
eases, and who is in possession OF a
formula which has never failed to cure
syphilis in any stage. will take any case
under positive guarantee to cure or re-
fund money. Consult him at once. Write
for full information, free to the Moffat
Chemical Company, 632 Market street.
San Francisco. Cal
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.-ESTA
of THEODORE DEFINING, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed executrix of the estate of Theo-
dore Deming, deceased, to the creditors
of, and all persons having claims against
the said deceased, to exhibit them with
the necessary vouchers within ten
months after the first publica ton of this
notice to the said executrix, at the law
office of Holl q Dunn, No. $40 Fifth
street, in Sacramento. California, the
same being her place for the transaction
of the business of the said estate.
CHARLOTTE CHILDS DEMING,
EXecutriX.
Dated April 6, 1896.
Holl & Dunn, Attorneys for Executrix
apI-5tTu
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Way down in the garden yonder
The myrtle and evergreens grow,
And there reigns gracious flower
Oft kissed by the suns warm glow