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Mr.. Scribbler-When I came to New
York | didn't have cent in my pocket.
Mr.. Murray Hin-I was worse OH
than that when came to New York;
didn't EVEN have a pocket.
Scribbler-How was that?
Murray Hill was born here.-Tam-
many Times.
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TO ENGAGE CAPABLE LADY OR Cen
tleman as local representative; guaran-
teed salary $50 per month. 903 l. street.
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Bunk 'Steer-Grealt Scott, Skinner.
You broke! l always fought Yer was
de slickest feller in de biz. Wot kinder
game did yer go up against?
Skinner de Sharp (sadly)-No game
at all. Just took me wife to church
fair, dat's all-Chicago Tribune.
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Kitty-How did that bashful young
millionaire ever manage TO propose to
Maud?
Jaek-It was simple matter.
Kitty-Indeed?
Jack-Yes; money talks, you know.
--Up-to-Date.
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REV. DRAKE OF SARATOGA WILL
preach at the Christian Church Sun
day morning and evening. It
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12l1 7TH ST-FURNISHED HOUSE
keeping room; parlors; electric lights,
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Flannigan-I met a man last week,
and, bedad, I'd have sworn it was your
self
O'Tcole-And wasn't it?
Flannigan-Niver a Bit But he was
I your very image barTin he was a
thrifie gray. I suppose, now, ye haven I
such a thing as a twin brother a few
years older than yourself ?-Tit-B
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FINANCIAL.

SACTO. COLLECTION AG'CY, 922 9TH:
bonds furnished principals money loaned
A HIGHLY RESPECTABLE PLACE TO
borrow money on diamonds, watches
and iewelry; strictly confidential 4l9
K, next to Metropolitan Theater.
MONEY TO LOAN-H. ]. GOETHE. 1O11
Fourth street
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PERSONALS.

DR.. RECORDS RESTORATIVE PILLS.
the great nerve tonic and specific for ex-
hausted vitality, physical debility vast
ed forces, ETC.; approved by the medical
celebrities of the world. Agent j. G.
Steele, 635 Market street, Palace Hotel
s. F. Price, box of 80, 81 25; of 100. 81
of ZOO So SO; of 400, IS; preparatory pills,
81. Send for circular.
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One day Justice Byles was trying
man for stealing. when a medical wit
ness was called, who said that in his
opinion the prisoner was suffering from
kleptomania> And your lordship, of
course, knows what that is" he added
Yes" said the Judge quietly. 1T is
a disease which am sent here to cure. =
-Tt-Bits.
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TO LET OR RENT.

NEWLY FURNISHED ROOM WITH
bath. suitable for two. 1921 Third st.
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ST understand that Slasher worked
SO hard on his new novel that he had
10 entirely seclude himself.
II hadn't missed him until lately.
NO; he didn't schedule himself un-
I'll after the book came out. .''-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
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'Wen, little chap" said the stranger
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IOST-FOUND.

LOST-A LADY'S LIGHT JACKET. RE
turn 10 this office and be rewarded. 1t*
LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN FROM
Armory, Sixth and L streets, bay mare,
marked white stripe on face; white sad
die marks on back missing since Aug.
1st. For further particulars address
9102, this Office. aul9-6t
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MUSIC AND ART.
DRESS AND CLoAKMAKING.

MISS NJ MURPHY, DRESSMAkER.
Removed TO S1012 K, where she will be
pleased to see old patrons and friends.
MRS. STORTZ & KNISL.EY, FASHION
able dressmakers. 3oo1a K street. Mad
dux Building.
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"'The milk is very warm when II
reaches us these mornings announced
the lady Of the house.
I don't see how that can be- de-
INJURED the miIknran, Eve always put
ice cold water in 1t just before leaving
the farm Detroit Free Press.
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sl2-FLAT OF 7 ROOMS AND BATH;
also S10 fiat, of rooms and bath: second
floors: nicely papered and thoroughly
cleaned: come and see them; cheapest
rent in city; keys at 1896 F street.
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FRANK H. SCHARDIN. ARCHITECT
Pioneer Hall. 1011 Seventh. Sacramento.
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FIRST-CLASS PHOTOGRAPH GAL
lery, with reception room. 415 j, inquir
below.
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Dobbs-You can't make a monkey of
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SUNSET TRANSFER co.

Office 429 X st. Furniture and Pianos care
fully removed, packed and shipped. Sunset
phone 54 red. Daniels & Hart
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THEOSOPHY-FREE LECTURE sun
day evening, at clock, in Theosophical
Cook, on "Occultism and the Occult
Arts and Sciences" All welcome 1t
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Y-CROCKER HOUSE, Third
and 0, on Sunday and Tuesday evenings
at O'Clock. It,
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$15-NEATEST FLAT IN THE CITY,
improvements. Apply 1919 Tenth street.
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OELIHBLE
~ and ENTERPRISIlNG
Sacramento Dealers.

LEADING JEWELER ramen- ul nesn-
to- 315 J street, north SIDE between Third
and Fourth streets; sign of the town clock
H. Wachhorst.
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719 NJ ST.-NICELY FURNISHER BACl
parlors; electric lights; bath.
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CALIFORNIA rlARKET,

II J Street, can supply you with dressed
poultry fruit and vegetables; also staple
and fancy groceries. Tells. Sunset 103 blue.
Cap. 147. J. L. HARVEY
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BE SERIOUS OR CEASE.

When the legislature met it was
hoped by all that it would be able to
get through it's work somewhat before
the full sixty days of the session ex-
PRED Few expect that it will do so
now. The senatorial election con-
sumed more time than it was thought
it would at first, and while it was on
little regular legislative work was ac-
complished. Now the people are hav-
ing the aftermaths of the senatorial
election in the shape of proposition
to have it investigated to ascertain
whether or not any undue or improper
influences, ecclesiastical or other. were
used to affect the result. The manner
in which this proposed investigation is
being discussed in the legislature is
not dignified. and it is not creating any
special respect for the legislature.
There is a popular impression, it may
be wrong, that there is great deal
of bluff about it all. If there is, it
should cease. If there is anything in
the whole business it is serious and
should be treated seriously. Perhaps
the members of the legislature who
have taken any special interest in the
matter consider that they are treating
it seriously. The public is not so i'm
pressed. The public is impressed with
the idea that there is more acrimony
and bitterness than seriousness in it
all. II there is to be an investigation.
let it be instituted in a proper and
dignified Uay. and after it is instituted,
let its conduct be proper and dignified.
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PUBLIC OFFICES AT AUCTION

Politically speaking, Kansas is the
Pandora's box of the American Union.
Everything comes out of it. The latest
thing to come out of it is the intro
duction in the state legislature of a
bill providing for disposing of county
offices by auction to the lowest re-
sponsible bidder. In substance, it pro-
vides that on the first day of January
of each year the applicants for county
offices shall submit bids. stating the
minimum amount for which they will
serve the county in a stated capacity.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
certified check for $50, as an earnest of
good faith These bids are to be opened
by the sheriff and county clerk. The
successful applicant will then be per-
mitted to move into the courthouse,
while the cash deposits will be re-
turned to the other bidders.
Whatever merit the plan has it does
not possess the merit OF being new, for
it is but a modification of the old
French plan of farming the taxes.
That plan never gave satisfaction, even
to the farmers themselves. 1t is not
probable that this Kansas plan would
prove satisfactory, if adopted.
OF course, it is understood that a
great many men buy themselves into
office in this country but they are
usually the highest bidders. tits true
that where this is done the money paid
for the office is not covered into the
state or county treasury but into the
h 4 n AZ n n
proposes that the money paid for an
office shall be covered into the treasury.
This would be gain for the public to
the amount paid for the office. Meri-
torious as the plan is in this respect, it
has its drawbacks. Experience teaches
that responsible bidders are not neces-
sarily synonymous with honest bidders.
1t is too often found that they are
responsible to nobody in particular,
and so far are they from being respon-
sible to the public their real sentiment
toward it is THE public be id"
The provision that the office shall go
to the lowest responsible bidder calls
to mind the disagreeable fact that
Star route contracts were let on this
same principle And then these lowest
responsible Bidders had way of
throwing up their contracts at oriti-
cal moment and this in succession I'M
til the highest irresponsible bidder got
the contract; and having got it, he
rarely, if ever. failed to do the gov
eminent. Just some such thing as this
might happen if offices were put up at
auction and sold to the lowest RESPONSE
BILE bidder.
Erratic as has been the course of leg
islation in Kansas it is scarcely pos
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Tracing His Family Tree.

Buffalo Express: / met a man in one
of the downtown hotels yesterday who
follows unique profession He makes
his living by hunting up. inventing or
otherwise procuring pedigrees for persons
who have newly acquired wealth and
social ambitions.
odd experience he said to me- in an
swer to a question. ''Oh. yes; frequently.
I've Just finished a job for the crankiest
old ignoramus that ] ever dealt with. He
one of the Oldest in the United States. In
fact. he was confident that some of mis-
ancestors were among the first white
men who settled on this continent. 1 went
to work to trace back the genealQEy
through succession of obscure New
England farmers, and. with only two or
three breaks. | managed 10 establish a
line for him going back to the May
flower. / thought that would please him,
ard at first 1t seemed TO.
But a couple. of days after ne had
paid and discharged me, he came around
to see me, and he was in a towering pas
sion. He accused me of cheating him. of
having sighted my work. and wanted
back the money he had paid me. When
/ finally got a chance to ask him to ex-
plain what he meant. he said:
Why. l told you distinctly that my
ancestry went back to the first white
men who landed on this continent. and
here you've stopped with the year 1870
Well I said. that was the year
when the first white men came TO this
part of the country You can't go any
. Cant EN-? he shouted. that shows
ell you know. l didn't have to read a
United States history half an hour 10
learn that white men landed on the
New England coast in 1O0l. want my
ancestry traced back to those men. sir,
and if you can't do it, I'll find someone
who can.
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THE STEEL POOL DISSOLUTION.

The breaking up of the steel pool is
a matter of congratulation to the
American people. 1t seems to show
them the iniquity of such pools; the
iniquity of the protective" tariff on
rails; and what a tremendous price
they have been paying for the benefit
of this infant" industry.
Since the disruption of the pool the
price of steel rails has dropped from
SIS, at which it was fixed Jan. %, to ST.
The former price was just dollar
above the English price. Last year
when the Carnegie company secured
the contract for 10000 tons of steel rails
from Japan, against the competition of
the world, the fact was heralded all
over the country and much commented
upon. 1t was thought to be great
achievement and was taken as pre-
saying a time, and that not very far
distant, when the United States would
be able to compete against all the
world in the manufacture of steel rails
if not in other branches of the iron
industry. The breaking up of the steel
pool shows that the time has arrived.
1t would still be interesting to know
at what price that japanese contract
was secured: no doubt it was at such
a price as TO make certain the securing
of other contracts for rails from the
same source whenever they should be
needed.
One effect of the breaking of the pool
is the placing of orders for more than
$1,000 tons of rails. This means a boom
in the steel rail manufacturing bust
ness. Whenever there shall be revival
of railway building it is probable the
price of rails will go up considerably
above what it is now. but it is doubt
full if it ever goes back to where it
was. Whenever a pool is broken and
prices drop to the natural level where
competition brings them, it is a very
hard matter to restore them to where
they were before. The people now
know what can be done in the matter
of producing the rails at certain cost
and they viii not consent that it go
back to where it was before they knew
at what price they could be sold.
The breaking up of the steel pool,
which has been in existence for more
than u years, makes plain one thing
above all others. This is that there is
no necessity whatever for any tariff on
steel rails. It is proposed to reimpose
the Mckinley law rates on them, that
the iron and steel industry may be
protected" from foreign competition.
Under that law the rate was six-tenths
of a cent pound, equal to s12 a ton.
Under the Wilson German law it is
seven-twentieths of a cent a pound, or
s. a ton Is there now any necessity
for a reimposition of the Mckinley law
rates on steel rails. or even the reten-
ton of the present rates? The dissolu-
ton of this great steel pool is an object
lesson in the evil of trusts.
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WHEN TIMES WILL IMPROVE.

Whatever may be said about Russell
Sage it cannot be denied that ne has
good business sense and business sense
is closely allied TO good, hard, common
sense. He talked at length the 9th er
day about the business outlook. He
had considerable to say about Major
Mckinley and what he would do for the
country. He said that enthusiasm over
Mckinley getting into office is all right,
but that getting into office is one thing
and doing something after getting in
is quite another. A very true if trite
remark.
THE good times we want" said Mr..
Sage, will come intelligently when
they do come We've got to do some
thing more than press a button. To
hear the average man down in Wall
street talk, you would imagine that the
magnificent era of prosperity we hear
so much about is camped out over here
just back of Hokoben, only waiting for
sunrise on the 4th of March to come
gloriously floating over here on
Lackawanna ferryboat. It won't. At
least I don't think it will.
1--WE have got to do something of
Importance before this era of pros
perity' gets to be fact. Before we have
good times. we have got to get rid of
bad times. Such changes aren't any
twinkling-of- the-eye business. Cruel
conditions have been existing. Serious
business disturbances have been affect
ing all of us. Recuperation doesn't
travel like electricity. Building up
safely. we must build up carefully; and
carefulness never vet went ahead at
double quick. 1t sounds well TO be
predicting that we are to have a sud-
den transformation scene in the bust
ness world but transformation scenes
are theatre scenes; they aren't quite
so natural and easy in the real world
where you and L have got to make our
living. you know, my boy"
Only an impractical dreamer would
think that good times would come as
the result of any mans election unless
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-13
MATILDA ANN.

I knew a charming little girl,
Who'd say. 'Oh. see that fiower,'
Whenever in the garden
Or woods she spent an hour.
And sometimes she would listen
And say, "Oh. hear that bird,'
Whenever in the forest
Its clear, sweet note she heard.
But then 1 knew another
Much wiser. don't you Think
Who never called the bird q. bird,
But said 1.-The bobolink."
Or 'oriole." or robin
Or wren as il might be;
She called them all by their first names,
So intimate was she
And in the woods or garden
She never picked "a flower;
But 'anemones. 'heDaticas,
Or 'crocus," by the hour.
Both little girls loved birds and flowers,
But one love was the best;
need not point the moral;
I'm sure you see the rest.
For would il not be very queer,
If when. perhaps. you came.
Your parents had not thought worth
while
To give you any name?
l think you would be quite upset,
And feel your brain a-whirl.
l. you were not Matilda Ann,
But just "a little girl.
Alice W. Rollins. in the Independent.
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AMERICANISMS.

1t is often charged against the Aneri-
cans that they have corrupted the Eng
lish language, in fact that the language
they speak can scarcely be called Eng
lish. The truth is that many words
and phrases in common use in this
country are just such words and
phrases as were in use in England
two centuries ago. If any one DOUBTS
this, all that is necessary is for such
person to read the Introduction to the
first series of the Bigelow Papers.
There Lowell shows how well the real
mother tongue has been preserved in
this country. The correctness of his
contention is proven anew by what
Harry Furniss, the English caricatur-
list, said in Boston the other day. After
speaking about American journalism.
of which he thinks kindly he said,
among other things:
1 have a daughter at home about
sixteen years old. She is doing a bit
of very good Illustrating for some
magazines. 1 think she will make a
name for herself. She wrote to me a
short time ago a list of words she had
picked out of an American magazine.
She didn't know the meaning of them.
Curiously they were good. old Anglo
Saxon words that had gone out of use
in England.
Good. old Anglo Saxon words that
had gone out of use in England There
are any number of such words in use
in this country and the use of which
is termed an Americanism. Any fairly
well read person in this country is
often surprised at the many explana-
tions of words in English notes on
Shakespeare and other writer's of about
the same period. To the American
their meaning is perfectly plain and he
wonders why the explanations are
given. They are often given because
the words are good, old Anglo-Saxon
words that have become obsolete in
England, but are still current in the
United States.
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MODERN INSTANCES.
Excess of Zeal at Monte Carl


London Daily Telegraph: 1t is an
nounced that during Miss Ellen Terry's
recent visit to the Riviera the authorities
of the Casino of Monte Carlo refused to
permit her TO the sacred precincts of the
gambling rooms. Their reason virtually
was that she had not on a wedding. or let
us say a gambling garment. In the
matter of iounces. laces. mentles.
feathers. silks. satinS, and other millinery
mysteries these Cerberi have. II appears.
their own Ideal of chic. People whose
robes fall short OF this are eliminated.
and refused permission to mingle with
those anxious to break the bank These
rough-and-ready judges are never COM
PEELED TO give Observation-Disclosures II be
the feather of the nat. the shape OF the
brooch. or the button of the coat that
gives an adverse poise to their decision.
But occasionally an appeal is permitted,
a writ of error, to say.
Thus some years ago, an English gen
tlernan. wearing long beard and what
he considered to be a good black coat.
was forbidden to cross the threshold. He
mildly asked the reason why, and was
austerely informed that his dress was not
chic. and that as Shakespeare puts it,
..sthe apparel proclaims the man. or
words TO that effect. When the authori-
ties were informed that the visitors name
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something is done after his election.
The Inaugural ton of the policy for
which Major Mckinley stands must
be had and a fair trial given it before
anything definite can be known as to
what the actual results will be. All
hope that it will bring the prosperity
for which all are anxious, but many
cannot but doubt that it viii. But as
Mr.. Sage says. ''recuperation doesn't
travel like electricity The business
of the country has been suffering from
dullness, depression and panic for a
number of years, and it is folly to say
that it will recover from it in a short
time. Things could hardly be worse
than they have been, and this fact
alone holds out some promise of i'm
proved business in the not distant fu-
fl1ra
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Farmer Bellamy s. Sutton, who
represents Shelby county in the
Indiana legislature. proposes bill that
hotels be made to print their bill of
fare in the English language, or with
draw from them the proposed relief
and protection asked for in a hotel bill
that is being favorably considered
When this bill came up Farmer Sutton
introduced his amendment. In sup
port of it he exclaimed: Il object to
having the only name down on hotel
bill for goose liver to be patty day for
grassay-" A bill of fare in a foreign
language has this advantage: 1t makes
a, person think he is getting some
thing besides boarding house hash
when he isn't.
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WAR VESSELS NO GOOD.
In No Way Are They Fitted to Garry
Cargo.

Washington. Feb. 12.-Secretary Her
bert has received a request from the
San Francisco board of trade to detail
a war vessel 10 carry grain TO the
starving people in India He has writ
ten to Senator Perkins today TO the
effect that IL viii be impossible 10 grant
the request. as the war vessels from
their construction and the great amount
of space occupied by their machinery,
guns. stores, etc, are not fitted to carry
cargo The United States mas nothing
in the way of transportation sufficient
for freight. The secretary suggests
that the best way viii be for congress
10 authorize the employment or charter
of vessel with sufficient cargo space
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The Grnndest Remedy.

Mr.. r. B. Greeve. merchant OF Chill
bowie. Va. certifies that he had con-
sumption. was given up to die, sought
Ali medical treatment that money could
procure, tried all cough remedies he
could hear of. but got no relief; spent
many nights sitting up in a chair; was
induced to try DR.. Kings New Discov-
erv. and was CURED by the use of two
bottles. For past three years has been
attending to business, and says DR..
Kings New Discovery is the grandest
remedy ever made. as 1t has done so
much for him and also for others in
his community. DR.. Kings New Dis
covery is guaranteed for Coughs. Colds
and Consumption 1t don't fail Trial
bottles free al d. c. NJ l. drug dept
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-13
Something to Know.

1t may be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for re-
storing the tired out nervous system
to a healthy vigor is Electric Bitters-
This medicine is purely vegetable, acts
by giving tone to the nerve centers in
the stomach. gently stimulates the
liver and kidneys, and aids these or
gans in throwing off impurities in the
blood. Electric Bitters improves the
appetite, aids digestion, and is pro-
nounced by those who have tried ii as
the very best blood purifier and nerve
tonic. Try it. Sold for soc or S1.00 per
bottle at 2 G. NJ 1. drug dept.
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THE HERALD "a a franchise MEM
be- os The United Press, and re-
cetves the complete leased wire
Overland and Pacific Const news re-
ports of The United Associated Press
es, embracing accurate intelligence
of all curreIlt events In the Whoie
world. with fits special wire an"
operator in its own Office THE HER,
AID is daily in Immediate possess
eioa OF the latest news MP Till the
hour of rSOiEg to press