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The record-union., 1897-12-28

the past year. You spendthrifts! Re
solve and act against this for the year
to come. Wake up to the fact that
time spent is time irrevoeable. How
much of it do you think you have? Not
more than thirty years, probably. And
if by reason of strength some remain
effective for fifty years, what a petty
span Of time even that is. Too often
definite lines are not decided on until
after we are thirty, and falling powers
weaken Us before we are fifty. Thus
as they influence US, are crowded into
twenty or thirty years. We should
be mlserS of time rather than waSters.
Thus would even rest and recreation
have purpose and a dignity. And
some of you have tried to do, but
have failed to accomplish, and you envy
the many great and the many good
who have excelled in efforts. Cease re-
pi1ing and turn once more TO the task;
for the greatest have never had more
than your own measure of time-twen-
ty-four hours 10 the day And some
of you have s0rrowed and buried the
heart right out of your work. God
pity You, and show you way out into
some measure of sunlight during the
year to come. Remember that as long
as you live you have duties TO others,
and that the awakening of your social
conscience has in it the power to gath
er up broken threads of life. Efforts
for others is u wondrouS salve.
The record-union., 1897-12-28
THE SITUATION IN THE ORIENT

That England and Japan are sharers
in the fear awakened by the occupation
Of Port Arthur by the Russians, is es-
IA ahlished by the concentration of Brit
i'm naval vessels off Chempulo. Corea.
and the offer Of the japanese to send
officers TO drill and instruct the Chinese
army, and by the further offer not to
press for payment Of the war indemnity
But both offers VIII be declined. The
Russians VIII attend to the reorganiza-
tion OF the Chinese military forces. II
any respectable organization is possible
cut Of such material
The Chinese are the least Of all people
inspired by what other nations recog-
nize as patriotism. The provinces or
States of the Chinese Empire are by no
means possessed of regard for each 9TH
er, or entertain any special respect for
the Empire as whole. They recognize
the sovereignty of the Tartar Emperor
but not TO the loss Of respect for the
individuality of the States. Out of such
a people it viii be next to impossible to
evolve a fervent lighting force ready 10
The record-union., 1897-12-28
FIBROID TUMOR
Expelled by Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Interview With Mrs. B. A. Lombard.

l have reason to think that I would
not be here now if it had not been for
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. It cured me of fibroid tumor
in my womb.
Doctors could do nothing for me, and
they could not cure me at the hospital.
/ will tell you about it:
l had been in my usual health, but
had worked quite hard. When my
monthly period came on, flowed very
badly. The doctor gave me medicine,
but it did me no good. He said the
flow must be stopped if possible, and
he must find the cause of my trouble.
Upon examination, ne found there
was Fibroid Tumor in my womb, and
gave me treatment without any benefit
whatever. About that time lady
called on me, and recommended Lydia
E. Pinl1ham's Vegetable Compound,
said she owed her lie to it. 1
said I would try it, and did. Soon
after the flow became more natural and
regular. / still continued taking the
Compound for some time. Then the
doctor made an examination again,
and found everything all right. The
tumor had passed away and that dull
ache was gone.-MRs. B. A. LoMB< <RD,
Box II, Westdale, Mass.
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McSWAT'S MISTAKE.
It Was a Natural One, but It Caus-
ed Trouble in the Family.


1t was hot night. and Mr.. McSwat
had been unable to sleep.
He came down stairs before anybody
else was stirring, and went into the
pantry with a dim idea of finding the
necessary materials for getting his own
breakfast.
A haSty inspection was not reassur-
ing, and he went upstairs again for an
other wrestle with Morpheus.
An unusually loud yawn awakened
Mrs. McSwat
What are you doing, Billinger?" she
asked.
Lobelia," he said, with another dis
NAL yawn, what was your idea in COW
ering that large cake in the pantry with
sheet of fly paper?"
Mrs. McSwat sat bolt upright.
What do you mean?" she demanded.
Who says 1 put sheet of fly paper
on that cake?''
Il say it, he retorted. II saw 1T my
self not five minutes ago. Sticky fly
paper. White And covered with
flies
Covered with f1ies"'
There wasn't room for another fly"
"Billinger!' shieked Mrs. McSwat,
that isn't fly paper. It's the icing!
And I'll never make icing again by
your mothers recipe as long as I live
so there. Talk to me about"
But Billinger was half way down the
stairs on his way to- the barn to wait
till the storm blew over.-Chicago Trib-
lIne
The record-union., 1897-12-28

Here once more is the end of an old
year and the beginning of the new, and
though I am far from approving New
Years resolutions, l can quite under
stand how they seem to help those
who do not yet regard every day as
equally sacred against waste. Now do
many of us, like the boy who is puz-
zled in arithmetic, wipe our states clean
and start again? Admittedly the prob
lem still remains to be solved, but
the very idea of a clean slate helps
the mind by taking out of sight the
confusing figures that have misled. Our
problem, however, is more difficult than
that of any boy: it is to take one short
life, so divide it that results shall be
multiplied, and nothing be left over
save goodness. The terms are con-
fusing enough, particularly when each
one must cipher out the matter for
himself Alas! what a sorry lot of
scrawlings some of US have made. We
have taken life as our dividend, irres-
olution as our divisor. and the quotient
is nothing and much over in the form
of frazzled, wasted hours.
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SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
(By Nemo.)

Copyrighted by Dave Tabor)
It seems strange that Time should
ever be represented as an infirm old
man. Rather, he is youth, sprlghtiy
and hurrying beyond all imaginlngs-
Time never grows old. When cnlio-
ish plans are as many as our minutes
and our whims innumerable, then he
does indeed lag a little, and our Vlo-
lent hands come near numbering MN
sometimes; but as soon as we get
definite purposes in life, the rascal
takes to his heels, and eager though
we may be to catch up with him, we
neverrnore see anything but his twink
ling feet in the distance. And at last
as our steps begin to drag and falter
he circles round and round so fast that
we are sick with dizziness and eager
for rest. Old Father Time, forsooth.
Those who call him old know not
that Time is. ever young. What we
call the olden days were the new days
to those who lived in them; and our
day is in advance of theirs, and theirs
was in advance of those who preceded
them for progress in some form has
been the order since the beginning All
who pine with backward looking eyes
miss the present; for each new moment
is as bright as any that have gone
before. 1t is full Of new opportunities,
struggles, disappointments, tr1umphs.
A charm fingers around the new; new
chances have not been spoiled, new
toys have not been broken, new knowl-
edge has not become trite, new hopes
are still full of buoyancy.
The record-union., 1897-12-28
HAPPY

Happy indeed is he who has no mas
takes to look back at, but his happl-
ness is merely the happiness of an ami
NAL; for to have really lived, and
worked, and strained is inevitably to
have made mistakes. Happy also is
he of unrefiecting spirit whose memory
is short for the past and whose hope
carries him ever onward toward some
future imagined good without stopping
to estimate how that good is to be
reached. His is the happiness of a
child. But thrice happy is he who
has lived and erred and risen again;
who looks backward with an eye not
suffused with tears. but alive with
questionings as to how to avoid such
mistakes in the future, getting wis
dom from the experiences of the past,
from mistakes plucking courage, and
from disappointments wrenching free;
who looks onward with calm gaze, be-
lieving that what the spirit of a man
has done it can again do and more
also, since the present is based on the
deeds of the past, and the deeds or
the future will be possible by reason
of the deeds of the present-all ever
cumulative.
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WONDERFUL IF TRUE.

The dispatches relate the story of a
wonderful surgical operation in Switz-
erland-vouched for by the Medical
Record''-in which the stomach of an
old woman was wholly removed with
out death following. 1t is related that
the patient lives, is eating and digest
ing food we'll, and is growing stronger
daily, being now for an aged person IN
good health. This seems too extrav-
agant for belief and flies in the face
of the accepted doctrine that the stom-
ach is an essential organ Of the body
without which life cannot long con-
tinue
1t has been known these many years
that sufficient nutrition can be supplied
by passing liquid food into the intesti-
nal canal to maintain life, at rather a
low ebb, long time; but that human
being can live and have good health, or
live any great length of time at all,
without the stomach receptacle for food
and its digestion, has not occurred to
any one. Have we, as the Medical
Record" suggests, been placing too high
a value upon the stomach as a neces-
sary adjunct of life?
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Entirely Too Formal.

Dolly Swift-Young Mr.. Pensmith, the
editor of the Weekly Visitor has just
made me a written offer of marriage.
Sally Gayle is a handsome fellow.
What will be your answer, dear?
Dolly Swift-He is handsome, I'll ad-
nit, but I shall be forced TO decline him
with thanks. He is too horribly bust
nesslike. After requesting an early an
swer, he added: please write briefly, to
the point, and upon but one side of the
paper. Sign your full name, not for
publication, but merely as a guarantee
of good faith, and do not forget to in
close postage stamp if you desire re-
ply" Sally, a man like that would
calmly smoke while the baby fell down
Washington Star.
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The Los Angeles Herald" saws.

In olden times troublesome brothers
of reigning monarchs were sent to the
front to do battle. much as Prince Hen
ry has been disposed of, and IN the event
of their return with a conquering army
something has been put in their soup.
History sometimes repeats itself.
But not in these days. The age is too
much enlightened. manhood has too
much asserted itself, and the subject
has so far ceased to be the mere creature
of the will of the ruler, that the poison
ing and assassination of troublesome
royal relatives is no longer a safe per-
formance. 1t is likely to prove a BOOM
erang in these days of expanding democ-
The record-union., 1897-12-28

We place no faith whatever in the ru-
mors that Spain is so angry at the
United States, on account of the Wood
ford note, that she is disposed to antag-
onize us to the point of war. Spain is
not so foolish as to provoke unfriendli-
ness. The chatter about our sympa-
thies being with the insurgents is silly,
as also is the complaint of the Spanish
press that this country is disposed to
interfere in West Indian affairs. Spain
has not been appointed a censor over
American expression, nor does she hold
the office Of authoritative critic of our
policy The Spanish press will discover
that its expression, however unfriendly,
viii have no effect whatever among a
people where the press is free, and not
subject to governmental control.
The record-union., 1897-12-28
YEAR.

Turn away from the noisy, thought
less crowds and bend your ear to the
summons of life. The world moves
Forward; human growth is For
ward; the mighty swing of the uni
verse IN all its unmeasured extent is
Forward" Let your feet fall into the
marching time of imperishable con-
querinS power, Forward and Up
ward!
Last in the march of months there comes
December,
A solemn, stately sage, who says, ere
member.
! sing, alas, the dreary dirge of death
bear the pail: yet, with my dying breath
Another year is born, and ere go
| shed my silent mantle of pure snow
10 hide Times scars and wrinkles, and to
make
gentle cradle where the heir can wake
And hear the soft receding strains that
cheer
The final feast that speeds the fading
year.
The record-union., 1897-12-28
Too Good to be Lost.

Surgeon-Hurry up! Get the lnstru-
ments in readiness. Wen amputate ms
leg.
Student-But it seems TO be nolhllls
more than a simple fracture. silouiu
think the leg might be saved
Surgeon-Certainly it might; put ooh
you see that he's unconscious.-CleVe-
land Leader.
The record-union., 1897-12-28
Hoist With His Own Petard,

Lord Norbury and Councillor Parsons
We're passing by the Mas Jail in the
Judges carriage, when Norbury, no.
ticing a vacant gibbet, observed: Par
sons, where would you be. if that gall
lows had its due?" Without seconds
hesitation, Parsons responded, "Riding
alone London Daily News.
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His Method.

Mr.. Younglove-Whatd do you do when
your baby gets sick at night?
Mr.. Oldpop-I generally lie still and
wait to see If my wife isn't going TO
get up and attend 70 it,
The record-union., 1897-12-28
Weather Forecast.

tied weather Tuesday, with showers In ex-
treme northern portion; southerly winds.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

From all parts of the State the news
is that the holiday trade was large;
larger than the trade of any holiday sea-
son for four years, if not for ten years.
What is equally gratifying is that the
trade was for cash, with but few apph
cations for credit. In Sacramento the
trade, it is understood, was larger than
at any time for many years, if not for
any holiday season in preceding years.
The facts are ascertained through job
bers the express company and the more
prominent retailers. These facts indi-
cate therefore, that money is more plen-
tiful, greatly easier, and that the people
generally feel less Of burdens and more
of prosperity. They indicate that conf
dence is very largely restored, and that
after all it is one Of the strongest tent
hooks of prosperity OF course when
dispatch comes, as it will, and as natur-
ally in such a vast country it must, that
some factory at the East making a fail
ure of its business has closed down, the
calamity press will raise the usual cry
Of Where Is your promised prosperi-
ry?" In these cases the immediate en-
vironment, the local conditions are not
known to US; they are rarely recited in
the news dispatches. So, too, when
there is by some cramped firm a reduc-
tion Of wages rather than a partial dis
charge, the fearful pessimists, as they
have done for months, will roll their
eyes and mourn and whine about Presi-
dent Mckinley and the promised pros
perity of which the Republican party
preached in the campaign. But of the
hundreds of new industries started in
the year; of the hundreds of thousands
of men now employed who were last
year idle; Of the tens of millions of debts
discharged and mortgages lifted; of the
confidence returned, the unloosed purse
strings and the millions of dollars of
new investment by capital, the calam-
ityites hear nothing. Their ears are
open to but dismal cries, and no shout of
gladness sends the blood tingling joyful
ly through their veins. They wait only
for the slenderest pretext and slightest
excuse to mourn and prate of the dismal
failure of all things Republican.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

as it would certainly play to big houses
throughout Mexico, where bull fighting
is so popular that it has got to be a
veritable craze
The record-union., 1897-12-28
a Word or Two

TO sufferers from catarrh will not be
amiss if cure can be offered. Ely's
Cream Balm has become a favorite in
all sections of the United States. Your
cold in the head will be quickly re-
lieved by it, and the severest attack
Of catarrh will yield to and be perfectly
cured by thorough treatment. Catarrh
is not blood disease, but an inflamma-
ton of the passages of the nose and
throat due to climatic changes.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

Sir Robert Burton was nearly 6 feet
tall: Carlyle, . feet IL: Oliver Cron1-
well, feet 10; Dumas fils te same.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

Christmas and New Years tables are
incomplete without a bottle of DR.. Sic
gert's Angostura Bitters, the exquisite
1y favored appetizer. Beware of imi-
tatiOnS.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

Try McMorry's 5Uc uncolored Japan
tea; E. B. tea, 60c; G. P. tea. 75c; P. F.
Japan tea. 40c: 531 Nj street
The record-union., 1897-12-28
INDIAN TERRITORY.

Oakland Enquirer: The adjustment at
an early day of that political anomaly,
Indian Territory-which is not an organ
lied Territory, but chaos-seems to be
near at hand. Two committees of Con-
gress are at work on bill to carry out
the recommendations of Secretary Bliss
with regard to a new form of Govern
ment. They are unanimous in the opin-
ion that prompt and radical action
should be taken to dissolve the tribes,
abolish the existing tribal Governments
and place the inhabitants of the several
reservations upon the same footing as
the citizens of other Territories, with
equal rights, privileges and protection.
The problem is not merely political
one ii is a social one as well, for it in
volves the division of the land. now held
in common, and it's allotment in several
ty. and. in doing this leases and squat
ters' rights will have to be dealt with
The tribes viii resist and allege their
treaty privileges. but the Government
claims the Indians have violated the
treaties for years, and asserts that 1t is
absolutely necessary to terminate the
present condition of things and set up
a stable Government in the Territory.
AN IDEA.
Oakland Tribune: Prize fighting Is not
the only profitable industry in the sport
ing line for those at the top of the tree.
A celebrated bull fighter who is now in
the City of Mexico is to receive $4,000
for three appearances. and is also to be
given a benefit at which it is expected
he Will clear up $4,000 more. He made
his debut in the ring on Sunday, and
killed six bulls. ten horses being also
slain during the process. A kineto-
scopic reproduction OF such an event
ought to be a profitable undertaking,
The record-union., 1897-12-28
NEW

Some of you have wasted much time
The record-union., 1897-12-28
Judge of said Superior Court.
Holl & Dunn. Attorneys for Executor

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. STATE
of California, County of Sacramento
In the matter of the estate of CATHE-
RlNE BROWN. deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Friday. the
31st day of December. 1897, at 80 O'clock
p m of said day, and the court room.
Department One of said court, at the
Courthouse, in the City of Sacramento.
County of Sacramento, and State
of California, has been appoint
ed as the time and place for proving the
will of said Catherine Brown deceased
and for hearing the application of Mary
Lent and S. S. Slawson for the issuance
to them of letters testamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court, this 18th day of December 1897
(Seal) W. B. HAMILTON, Clerk.
By B. H. Gallup, Deputy Clerk
Hiram W. Johnson, Attorney for Peti-
toner. d21-td
The record-union., 1897-12-28
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT- STAr,

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. STATE
Of California, County of Sacramento.
In the matter of the estate of S. W
RALSTON, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Friday. the
31st day of December. 1897, at 10 O'Clock a.
IL. of said day, and the court room of 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 S. W. Ralston, deceased, and for
hearing the application of Marie A Raj
ston for the issuance to her of letters tes-
tamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court, this 10Th day of December 1897
(Seal) w. b. HAMILTON, Clerk
By E. S. Wachhorst, Deputy Clerk
White & Seymour. Attorneys for Peti-
uoner. d21-10t
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NHSztkm.
z7seIsfeNEzzXlL.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
County OF Sacramento, State OF CaIIfornla
IN the matter of the estate of ANNIE +.
HAMMOND, Deceased
Frank Hickman, executor of the estate
of said above named deceased, having filed
his petition herein duly verified praying for
an order to mortgage certain real estate
of said decedent for purposes therein set
forth,
that all persons interested in the estate of
said deceased appear before the said Su-
perior Court on FRIDAY, the 21st day of
January, 1898. at 10 o'clock a. m. of said dag
at the courtroom of said Superior Court,
at the Courthouse, in the City Of Sacra
mento. County of Sacramento, and State
of California, then and there to show cause
why the following real property, to wit:
The west fifty (50) feet of lot in the block
bounded by F and G, Sixteenth and Seven
teenth streets, in the City of SACRAMENTO,
County of Sacramento, State OF California,
together with the Improvements thereon,
or some part thereof should not be mort
gagged for the amount mentioned in said
petition, to wit: One thousand dollars
$1,000. or such lesser amount as to the
court or Judge may seem meet.
Dated December q, a. D, 1897.
MATT r. JOHNSON
Judge of said Superior Court.
Holl & Dunn, Attorneys for Executor.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. STATE
of California, County of Sacramento.
In the matter of the estate of c. CHAJJN-
CEY TIETJ EMS; deceased.
Notice Is hereby given that FRIDAY
the 7th day of January 1898, at 10 O'Clock
a. II. of said day, and the courtroom Of
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 C. Chauncey Tietjens, de-
ceased, and for hearing the application of
Theresa Tietjens for the issuance to her
of letters testamentary- thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court. this 21st day of December, 1897.
(SeaL) w. 3. HAMILTON. Clerk
BY f. S. Wachhorst. Deputy Clrek
Indorsed: Filed December q, 1897
w. b. HAMILTON, Clerk
BY E. S. Wachhorst, Deputy.
Holl & Dunn, Attorneys for Petitioner
G22-T1t
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CHANGED HANDS.
WINDSOR HOTEI
TURCLU HOTEL,

500 k street.
CONDUCTED ON THE EUROPEAN
plan; strictly first Glass; hot and cole
baths free to guests, electric cars pass
the door. FRANK MEYER, Prop.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-05

The defeat of Senator Dubois for re
aiection in Idaho is cause of regret.
1t will be deplored by friends of silver
everyw here and in all parties. 1t is,
however, the logical result of the mis-
take which he committed early in the
campaign of not severing his connec-
tion with the Republican party, as lid
Senator Teller, and throwing himself
on the silver sentiment of his state.
Had he done this he would undoubted-
ly have been returned, as Senator Tel
Ter has been.
The silver cause will miss Dubois in
the senate. His successor, Mr.. Heit-
field, is new man in public life, of
some ability, and his vote will be for
silver, but it will not be assisted by
that strong and aggressive personality
which characterized Dubois.
1t is unfortunate that Idaho's devo
ton to silver has not risen above local
factional differences. All the silver
leaders of the country threw their in
fluence for Dubois. They knew him
and trusted him and wished to retain
him in a position where he was of much
service to the cause.--Denver News.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-05
In the Kitchen.

"Life is such a grind" sighed the
coffee mill to the lamp chimney.
"Oh don't know" said the chimney.
"Of course the world is dark and cold
at times, but life to me seems bright
enough"
"You wouldn't think so" interrupted
the match, "if you got your head
scratched as do every day. And, say,
you wouldn't amount to much without
me, anyway, so put that in your pipe
and smoke it."
"You seem to consider yourself a
great car l." put in the nutmeg pulver-
izer; "but l am CRATER"
And then shaking the match rough
ly, the crater added: "You red-headed
skeleton! Why, you are nothing but a
stick"
At this juncture the cook came in.
The lamp chimney looked at her wick
edly, the coffee mill ground its teeth
and the match lit out.-N. Y Herald.