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which separate Natal from the Orange
Free State. The length of this stream
is 1000 miles. Its banks abound in
Various valuable woods and around 1t
are found rich copper ores. In this
stream are many varieties of fish, which
are found until the river passes through
rocky region containing copper, below
WI ich the water is said to be poisonous,
a'most instantly killing the fish that
Venture near it.
Another remarkable river is the In
dus, a great stream In Hindostan. 1t
rises in Thibet, and it's course is q
wonderful one. On reaching the Sussi,
its most northern point, it turns south
ward, losing itself in the hills, and re-
appears at Takot, in Kohistan. The
Indus is LOO miles in length. After
receiving the waters of many tribu-
taries its channel grows narrow and
here it divides into many channels,
some OF which never return to the
Parent stream. 1t abounds in fish and
crCcodiles.
That classical river, the Ganges, is
erratic in it's course, like the Hoang
Ho. 1t is prominent both in the relig-
ion and the geography Of India. 1t
varies not only from season to season,
changes old passages for new ones. 1t
has been said that the Ganges delivers
into the sea every year 543, 600, 900 tons
OF mud, sand and other solid matter
Philadelphia Press.
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policy-holders. They must pay in what
they receive. They will have no other
kind Of dollars with which to meet the
calls for payment.
1t is said that the companies should
pay present policy-holders in gold, but
it is fact that the Chicago Convention
distinctly refused to put into the plat
form a proviso that any monetary
change should not affect existing con-
tracts, and it will be impossible to make
payments in gold if free silver coinage
prevails without seriously affecting the
financial condition of many Of the COM
panies. The investments in real estate,
ETC.. calling for gold would appreciate.
it is true, but all the other investments
stipulated to be paid in lawful money"
would largely depreciate relatively to
gold.
Mr. Mccall declares that there is
nothing sectional in life insurance and
nothing partisan, and that there never
can be, as it's policy-holders are scat
tered in all parts. 1t is business simply
and only, and it's relations are wholly
with the people who pay their money
for it and whose money has been in
vested for them; that there is and can
be nothing sectional or partisan in dis
cussing free coinage in its relation to
it's effect upon that business, and he
protests against the charges that the
insurance companies have taken parti-
san positions.
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225 MILES AN HOUR.
The Virginia Plover Makes More
Than Three TILES rlinute.

The distance covered by birds in
days travel is matter Of great inter-
est, but 1t has not been studied as it
ought to be. We know, however, in a
general way that under favorable cir
cumstances geese and ducks cover from
3UO miles up to 61O in a day of twenty
four hours. The Woodworking insect
eaters that travel by day probably av-
erage five or six miles. The gorgeous
Baltimore oriole, being easily traced by
both plumage and voice, has been noted
all the way from Rodney Miss, to Oak
Point, Manitoba, distance of 1928
miles, and he covered 1t in forty-eight
days-a speed Of twentyseven miles per
day. A lot of other birds were Jumped
together. and an average of twenty
three miles a day obtained. But the
observers were few. And then it may
be that the birds flew a hundred miles
in night and then rested for three
days thereafter. They averaged SO many
miles a day, but what was their actual
speed a-wing? Gatke. a German OBJ
server, who has devoted fifty years to
the study Of birds in migration on the
little island called Heligoland, con-
cludes that the Virginia plover travels
225 miles per hour, and that the average
altitude Of migrants in fine weather is
at least 10000 feet. VIII we ever learn
about these things definitely?
That the time of a birds arrival in
the spring varies with the weather Is
known to all. but to this rule there are
some marvellous exceptions. On May
1S. 1887, Wilson's black-cap warbler
was seen in q certain bush by an OBJ
server, who took especial note of the
fact, because 1t was a new bird to him,
and for other reasons. 1t was seen at
1:8O p. m. A year later the observer
happened to remainder the fact, and
went to the shrubbery to see II by
chance a black-cap had arrived, and
found one in the same bush at the same
hour. And this thing happened again
the third year. It doubtless just hap
paned so. and yet the birds that start
north late in the season, as the black
cap does, move with much greater reg
ularity than the early travellers do.
That individuals remain behind while
the main hosts Of tribe migrate is
very we'll known. It is worth while
noting, because 1t emphasizes the asser-
ton that eccentric people are found
among birds as among men. And some
travel far from accustomed haunts.
The SawinSon'S hawk from the ROCKY
Mountains has been found In the Adj
rondacks, and the horned lark of the
plains in Massachusetts,. I should not
be astonished to find an Idaho magpie
lowering around the Capitol at Wash
ington.
The reason why birds migrate has
rot been considered here, but the al
lotted space is already full. Many rea-
sons are offered. Of which the chief is
homesickness-a longing for the old
birthplace-but none Is entirely salts
factory. Perhaps one must go back to
the old days when palm trees grew in
Siberia and monkeys ran wild on the
Cape Horn archipelago to find the rea-
sen. 1t is a matter still under investi-
cation, and it is, as was said, In the
hope that some may be melted to join
in the investigation that this and other
wonders and mysteries Of bird life have
been related.-ChautauQu
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WONDERFUL STREAMS.
One River is Black and Another is
Sour as Vinegar.

Ora Of the most curious rivers that
have come to the knowledge OF men IS
the Webe Shebeyli Of Eastern Africa
q. deep and rapid stream, abounding In
strange fish and ferocious crocodlles.
Although 1t flows for hundreds OF miles
through fertile lands, the immense vol
ume of water never reaches the sea. A
short distance north Of the equator the
river is lost in a desert region Few
miles from the Indian Ocean.
Some of the more recent explorers OF
Alaska and British America claim that
the Mississippi can no longer be re-
garded as the largest river on the North
American continent. This distinction Is
claimed for the great Yukon River.
According to Ivan Petroff who spent
over two years in Alaska collecting
materials for the last census, the Yukno
empties into Norton Sound about one
third more water than the Mississippi
pours into the Gulf of Mexico. The
Yukon Basin comprises the larger part
of Northern Alaska, and 600 miles from
its mouth the river is a mile In width.
Many centuries before It was discov-
cred by white men it very likely served
as the water highway into the interior
for tribes whom we believe to have
crossed from Asia to the American con-
tinent. The Yukon River is over 1900
miles in length.
Travellers report that in Algeria there
exists q small stream which the chem
istry Of nature has turned into ink. 1t
is formed by the union of two rivulets,
one Of which is very strongly impreg-
anted with iron, while the other, mean
dering through a peat marsh, imbibes
large quantities Of gallic acid. Letters
have been written with the natural
compound Of iron and gallic acid which
forms the small yet wonderful stream.
The Rio de Vinagre. in Colombia, is a
stream, the waters of which, by ad-
mixture with sulphuric acid, become so
sour that the river has been appro-
priately named the River de Vinagre, or
Vinegar River.
The Orange. or Garieh, River, in
Southern Africa, rises In the mountains
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\ HALF VOTE FOR CAfOR.

In the Twentieth and Twenty-first
Assembly Districts there are Independ-
ent Republican candidates for the AS
sembly. and Regular Republican and
Democratic or fusion candidates. It is
essential that a Republican United
States Senator be chosen by the next
Legislature. The Republican and the
independent Assembly candidates each
dc clare for a Republican Senator, as
against T. v. Gator. or any other fusion
candidate. But it must be clear to any
intelligence that none of these inde-
pendents can be elected. A vote for
aEy one of them, therefore, is a half
vote for Gator, who shouts for q rev.
olution and wants to begin the hang
ing at once. The right thing for voters
to do is to ignore the Independents and
vote straight for the regular Republi-
can nominees for the Assembly. There
should be no mistake In this matter
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that under M. Cleveland IN his latter
term to March 4, 1896. the debt has been
increased by 1862. .6O2.245. and since
then it has been ptlihg up at a great
rate monthly so that to July !. 1895. Ut
amounted, principal alone to $847 $685.
800. and, as already stated, Is at the be-
ginning Of October, according to the
official treasury sheet before us, pr1not-
pal and interest, $1,7S5, ,982. .OOS co
likewise II Is perfectly fair to say
that had not the free silver radicals
combined in the Senate and prevented
the increase OF the revenue SO as to
meet Government expenses by saddling
the revenue relief bill with free silver
rider, Mr.. Cleweland's administration
wou1d not have been h1miliated by such
q showing.
So. then. In uwenty-eaght years the
Republican party reduced the national
debt S1,562. .AS8, 716. casting out the four
years interim under Mr.. Cleveland 8
fret term. Il reduced the interest
charge In that twenty-eight years from
S125. .623, ,99S Sd to $22. .S93, 1888 20. And
all this has been without avail" says
young Mr.. De vrfes. Does he propose
to 60 to Congress and talk such rot as
that in the face OF the unsolicited trd-
butes of the great European statish-
clans and historians. that in all the his
tory OF the world there has been no such
brilliant achievement by any people as
that of the Americans In discharging
rapidly an enormous war Indebtedness
Be it right here noted that while the
debt increased under no Republican ad-
ninistration. but under each was
greatly reduced. in those very terms the
country enjoyed its seasons Of greatest
growth, and the people their highest
prosperity. with high wages, augment
ed comforts, increased business, ex-
panded commerce and the largest meas
ure of general content.
For the few remaining days of the
campaign the Democratic -Poplistic out
1T should take De Vries into a corner
and coach the unfedged politician, out
of the simple pride every American feels
in his country and its splendid achieve
ments, and the desire Of all men that 1t
shall not be misrepresented by men
seeking Office under it.
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Shall the second congressional Dis

Shall the Second Congressional Dis
trict play into the hands of the De-
mocracy in its attempt to control the
National Legislature? Shall it be guilty
of the act of tying the hands of Gov
ernor Mckinley as President? Or will
1t. regardless of individual likes and
dislikes, aid in keeping a Republican
majority In both houses of Congress
IN sympathy with progress and pros
perfty?
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In the Matter Of Reclamation District No. Three
County of Sacramento, State Of California.

THE PETITION FOR THE FORMA-
ton of said district having heretofore
been approved by this board, and the land
owners of said district having heretofore
adopted and reported and recorded their
bylaws, now, on application of w. J.
SMITH. landowner Of said DISTRICT, it
TUESDAY, the 17th day of November,
1896, commencing at 10 o'clock a. M, and
closing at o'clock .. m. on that day, for
the purpose of electing three trustees of
said district, and that notice thereof be
published in the Record Union news
paper of general circulation in said coun-
ty, for one month and that the County
Clerk sign said notice.
And it is further ordered, that said cleo
ton be held at the Ryde pumphouse, in
Land vsy a ho Of S f tine coun
that David Bixler be, and he is hereby ap-
pointed Inspector, and 1. G. Hall and j.
l.. Aldrich be, and they are hereby APP
pointed Judges of said election.
BY unanimous vote of the Board of Su-
pervisors Of the county of Sacramento,
Attest: (Seal.) VIM B. HAMILTON.
County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the
Board Of Supervisors of the County of
Sacramento, State of California. o11-td
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. STATE
of California. County of Sacramento. In
the matter Of the estate of JOHN RICH
ards, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY.
the 30th day of October. 1896, at 10 O'Clock
said court, at the Courthouse, in the CITY
of Sacramento, county of Sacramento. and
State Of California, has been appointed as
the time and place for proving the will of
said John Richards, deceased, and for
hearing the application of Charles joseph
Richards and John Lincoln Richards for
the issuance to them of letters testament
tary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court this 10th day of October, 1896.
(SeaL) w. B. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY E. F. Pfund, Deputy Clerk
c. A. Elliott Attorney for Petitioner.
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Coin" Harvey refers to the veteran
Union Generals as "old wrecks, who
have hired out to the country's enc
mics to do it injury" What do the
veteran soldiers of the Republic think
OF such an expression from the man
who taught Bryan all he knows of the
silver free coinage to individual ac-
count fallacy?
The record-union., 1896-10-26

NOTICE TO CREDITORs-EsTA OF
MARY BERGER, deceased Notice is
hereby given by the undersigned, John G.
Berger, administrator of the estate of
Mary Berger, deceased, to the creditors of,
and all persons having claims against the
said deceased, to exhibit them with the
necessary vouchers within four months
after the first publication of this notice,
to the said administrator at law office of
Alexander, Miller & Gardner, 4051a street
Sacramento, the same being the place for
the transaction of the business of the said
estate in the county of Sacramento, State
of California
JOHN G. BERGER
Administrator of the estate of Mary Ber-
ger, deceased.
Dated October 3, 1896.
Alexander, Miller & Gardner, Attorneys
for Administrator o5-5tM
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Better pay more for supplies-if that
and get better wage and have a
neighbor beside you who gets a bet
ter wage also, and is able to buy of
you. than to vote for free trade, a
lessened revenue for the Government
and idle American hands, that foreign
workmen may live better at our ex-
pense. Charity begins at home.
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Mr.. Bryan has said on several occa-
sions that the change of the financial
system as advocated by him would nee
essarily produce a panic "for time"
Very well. Why vote for a panic?
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Weather Forecast.

Northern Californfa-Showers In northwest
portion, cloudy in southeast portion Monday;
fresh southerly winds.
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The Globe-republican., 1896-07-09

The annual meeting will be held this
year, on Thursday, July 80, at Up. m.
Among other things that claim your at
tention this year is the vote on county
uniformity Of textbooks. Voting for
county uniformity does not indicate that
changes are to made in the books used.
In view of the present depression due to
failure of crops there may be few changes
made. believe some reduction in prices
may be obtained, however, and there.
fore for this and other reasons l favor
county uniformity.
mail blanks this week to clerks and
treasurers. 1t is important that there be
a full attendance at the school meeting
this year. A treasurer is to be elected
and full report Of the financial con-
dition of the district should be made.
E. d. WEBB, Co. Supt.
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II is noticeable fact that many good
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by the modesty of the people who hest
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tell him you have been visiting, or are
going to have relatives visiting you, inn
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YOU would like to read if it were concern
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up your subscription-it will ease our
console nee in throwing the mantle Of
charity around you.
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Hicks Great " orks.

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Marvellous Results.

From a letter written by Rev. j. Gun
derman, of Dimondale, Mich, we are
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THE DELL.

The rain and wind storm of Monday
evening in the eastern part of this county
was dasher, the cas-. wind was fierce
one. Windmills, stables, light building'
and grain stacks were sent IN various
directions, but the corn crop is made
certain; corn will be king this season.
George Hornecker and family VI
Fonda, haye moved to Missouri. Ernest
and Emma will be missed from the social
circle in which they moved, as they were
favorites.
Charlie Davis is home from Pueblo,
Colo, on a 4th recreation and-well
Charlie knows the rest.
james Incl, wife and daughter are
home from a visit with his sons John,
Lou (Lew) and families in Oklahoma
Territory.
Henry Hoisington and Floy Incl
were in the Bucklin whirl Monday. Fioy
anchored on guy post and Henry went
whizzing down the street-they were
both in the TRACER building when struck.
Miss Sadie Morrison is convalescing
from severe illness of rheumatism.
Cap. Jack Hubbard of the coyote
band with two volunteers, made another
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days ago and five more scalps was the re-
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"A large number of DR.. Crumbine's
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at the Windsor, Saturday morning, when
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Mrs. Grey.
II. B. Lilleard has sold his farm south
of Fold, to John Campbell.
There is a good programme arranged
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Ford Congregationalist church next
Sabbath p. m. July 18th.
The summer kitchen of III. G. Davis
blew away Monday evening, and left the
family eating supper on the floor of the
building. His windmill and stable were
also racked. DELL
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Meteorological summary. at Dodge
City. Kansas, for month of June. 1896.
by Geo. T.. Todd. Weather Observer.
Highest temperature l04, date 18th
lowest temperature, 46, date June "a.
Mean temperature for this month for q
years %. Wind, prevailing direction Of
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of wind 9O52 miles. Maximum velocity
of wind. direction, and date Al, south
east, 5th. Total precipitation l.9S inches.
Average precipitation for this month for
% years 1928.
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