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wo,,an Suffrage in This Country.

The total number of women regis
tered and thereby entitled to vote on
the suffrage question at the Massachu-
setts election held November 3, 1876,
was 80, 242. OF this number only 3d.
O6s voted. The vote was as follows:
In favor of female suffrage, 22,2o4;
against, 1854. Women voted on equal
terms with men in Wyoming under
the Territorial Constitution from 1871
until 1890, when Wyoming was adj
mitted into the Union. The State
Constitution, containing the clause
for woman suffrage, was ratified by
the people before admission. In
Kansas women have the right OF SUI.
frage in municipal elections. In 1881
over 60, 900 women voted in the
State. In many of the States OF the
Union school suffrage exists for wo'
men. Women in Montana who are
taxpayers have the same rights at the
polls as men. By popular vote IN
Colorado in 1893 there was a majority
of 5000 IN favor of woman suffrage
Boston Transcript.
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Temperance News and Notes.

1t never requires manliness to indulge In
anything. It always requires manliness to
abstain. {.
One of the most touching pictures for the
year Is q snap shot" Of two little girls In
rags standing bare-footed just inside the
saloon, with men drinking and carousing,i
and timidly asking, HAS father got here
yet?" ;
In a small town In South Dakota the
three saloons are owned, controlled and
personally managed by the mayor, marshal
and clerk respectively, and citizens not
holding office are not encouraged to enter
this branch Of trade. =,
The prohibition that gives society the
children who never saw q drunkard q
be such a big failure. :.
With 80 many good uses, why debauch
mankind with cider grog! A cider drunk
ard" Is the meanest Of all topers. With the
temptation 80 strong as it is this year, SO
much cider having been made, We need to
speak very plainly, and insist upon rectt!
tude In the use Of cider.
When Spain would found a society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals, she
raised the required sum by revenue from
her bull fights. We laugh at this idea, and
yet America deems 1t quite the thing to
run city, State and National Governmenta
on revenue derived from q traffic tbat
biutalizes and demoralizes the people.
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But q swarm of little sparrows, as if
knowing how easily the big birds are
angered, like to hop and twitter mis-
~chievously about them.
The Park keepers are greatly sur
prised at the spot chosen for the nest.
Last year there was also one solitary
nest for the entire season, but the par
emit birds, a couple of white ones, made
great effort to hide their home, even
adopting the remarkable ~expedient of
building a false decoy nest to attract
attention from the spot.-New York
Journal.
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available to show what the aggregate
national wealth of the United Kingdom
was in 1887. Bot there are abundant
later statistics to warrant the state
ment that, great as the growth of
British commerce, manufactures, rail-
roads and the resulting total produc-
ton of wealth has been under Vic
toria's rule, the contemporaneous
creation of wealth in the United States
has been much greater.
Editor Stead. in the current Review
of Reviews, says that the wealth of the
United Kingdom has been multiplied
four times since 1887. If he is cor
rect, it's valuation when the Queen
was crowned must have been about
$12, 500, 600. 900.
The census taken in 1910 showed
that the aggregate wealth of the
United States was about 81, 000, 900,
900, or an average of $41O per capita,
As last computed, by the census o.
1890, the total wealth of this country
is Sos, O37, 900, 600. That is just about
thirty-three per cent greater than the
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The Note.

A curious criticism has been msde
by a correspondent of the london
Chronicle of II. E. Krehbiel's book,
"How to Listen to Music" The cor.
respondent says that Mr.. krehblel
seems to be under the impression that
all cuckoos sing the same interval:
ssEither Mr.. Krehbiel has not heard
the cuckoo very much or he has not
heard many cuckoos. !have heard
the cuckoo sing a rather sharp second
sometimes o minor and sometimes a
major third. Last Sunday at West
Wickham he sang a fourth. Whether
the same cuckoo varies his note or diff
ferent cuckoos sing different intervals
T do not know" To this it may be re-
piled that probably Mr.. Krehbiel re-
ferred to the American cuckoo, which,
while closely related to the English
cuckoo, has native peculiarities of his
own that may extend to a different vo-
cal method from his English cousin
New York Advertiser.
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The Reason Why.

DR.. Newman Hall, who Is eighty years
old, was asked how he accounted for his
splendid physical condition, and he an
swered:
''Sober habits, attention to the laws and
habits of health, going to bed In. decent
time, and not working hard late at night.
I have never been a dlner-out, OF INDUCED
In heavy suppers. I take q cold bath all
the year round, and have always been Q
walker; 7 can now do ten miles at g stretch
without fatigue. My sight and hearing are
perfect. Teetotalism has had q great deal
to do with my good health. My father and
mother were total abstainers, and I have
been one for sixty years. I have never
smoked" -.
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SANS JUBILEE
SIXTY YEARS OF GROWTH IN THE
UNITED STATES.

Great as England is, the United States Are
Greater-In Population, Wealth, Manu-
actures, Railroads. Education and Pro-
ductive Power This Country Leads.
The burden of the Victorian jubilee
song, says the New York World, lsthe
great growth of Great Britain at home
and abroad during the sixty years OF
V~ictoria's reign.
But, in the language of the Man in
the Street, 'there are Others"
Uncle Sans jubilee, for instance,
would be very much more impressive
even than Queen Victoria's.
The British Empire in 1897 includes
a total ares of II, 1886, SOC square miles
and a population of $50, 900, 900, using
round figures. While a great part OF
this vast territory was acquired either
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A TEMPERANCE COLUMN
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

the Pledge-No Truth in the Wide
Spread Idea That Beer Drinking 10
Practically acknowledgements Doc
tors Declare Beer Makes Bad Risks.
Has the evil habit grown
Take the pledge;
II to drunkenness you're prone
Take the pledge;
For those who often fall
IT'S the surest cure Of all;
It will cure and disenthrall;
Take the pledge.
View the worla-look aroundl
Take the pledge:
See the evils that abound;
Take the pledge;
Ask whence the mighty tide
OF sorrows deep and wide
Which flows on every sidel
Take the pledge.
Count the thousands drink has killed.
Take the pledge;
And the hearts with sorrow fledl
Take the pledge;
Hear the hapless widows signs,
And the starving children's cries,
Read the old mans fearful eyesl
Take the pledge.
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same period.

the same period.
Inasmuch as economists tell US that
the outlay on houses is the surest
gauge of wealth, it thus appears that
the average accumulation of property
in the United States is more than
double what it is in the British Isles.
Coming next to commerce we find
Mr.. Stead claiming that British trade
and shipping are about five times as ex-
pensive and valuable in 1897 as they
were in 1887. He points to the fact
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Bismarck,s Confession,

Bismarck says: "My health IS recently
much impaired by the recurrence Of q pro-
bounced facial neuralgia. The pain be:
comes at times 50 unbearable that I can find
relief only by pressing my fingers upon az
cheek bones at both sides for minutes at q
time. In that case speaking Is difficult, be-
causeI can scarcely open my mouth. There
Is p~oetical justice In this, for I have sinned
In my life mostly with my mouth-in eat
ing, drinking and speaking. Alcoholic
drinks bring relief, but this relief is followed
by a reaction, the rest Is insomnia and neri
Yous b~ankruptcY."
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Excellent Cheap Chicken Coops.


1t is we'll to utilize the leisure OF
winter in preparing for the rush OF
work that always comes when spring
opens. One such preparation is the
preparing of the needed chicken coops
for the broods to be Matched out dur
ing the spring months. A simple ar
rnngement is shown in the cut. Empty
grocery boxes are procured and turned
upon their sides, the cover being re-
placed by Stats, the ove being re-
served for closing the coop at night.
Upon the top now nail three strips
that will project fifteen inches in front,
making the middle strip higher than
the other two. Tack upon these strips,
az shown in the cut, o piece Of tarred
paper, and a waterproof roof will not
only be secured, but a protection from
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popular education, but the United
States had a common school system
away back when Victoria began to
reign and long before, while Great
Britain has only had one for about
twenty-five years. Even to-day Brit
ish expenditure on public schools is
only 81. 80 per capita, while the United
States are spending $40 per capita
for the same purpose, or nearly twice
as much.
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While the people who speak English
under the British flag have been about
doubling themselves, the people who
speak that language under the Ameri-
can flag have multiplied four and one
third times. Putting it most gener-
ously for our British jubilee friends,
we have been adding to our population
twice as fast as they have for the past
sixty years.
Passing o to the comparison of
wealth, there are no official figures
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How Paupers Are Made.

Investigations made by the bureau Of
labor statistics OF Massachusetts, showed
that OF $3.50 psupers examined, 210S, OF,
65.26 per cent, were addicted to the use Of
liquor; S66, or 1851 per cent. were total abb
~stainers, while in regard to the other 256s
or 1893 per cent. no information could be-
secured. OF the total ebstainers Al per
cent. we're minors. Out OF 2701 cases 1874,
or 47.17 per cent. attributed their pauperism
to their W Incorporate habits. In 1542,
or 64.S2 per cent, out Of 2979 cases n OF
both parents were addicted to drink.
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the sun in front Of the coop. This will
be very grateful to the chicks in hot
weather, and to the mother-hen, which
often suffers in the ordinary coop in
the heat of summer.
These coops will answer their pur-
pose admirably, can be made with but
a few moments work, and need not
cost over fifteen or twenty cents apiece.
New York Tribune.
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Well-Kept Borders.

The beauty and value of q flower
bed or a farm depends not a little
upon q well-chosen and well-kept
border. We have never met a person
who admired q farm bordered with
dilapidated fences overrun with briars
and weeds, or a fine crop surrounded
with tall weeds. Cut EN- down in the
beauty (?) and viyor of youth, and re-
move the old rundown fences.-The
Epitomist.
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He Served wineless Dinners.

DR.. Gracey, our Consul to Foochow once
more, is a man OF most decided temperance
convictions. When he was in China before,
during the Benjamin Harrison administra-
he refused to serve State dinners with
liquors. Everybody was d~umbfounded, and
everybody was enraged. The leading An
elo-Chinese paper exclaimed about a man
who had the temerity to serve a wineless
dinner. We never heard Of fatal results
from such repasts, and were all proud OF Q
Consul who dared to live up to his convtc-
lions,
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4 woman employed in a rag room at Bel
lows Falls, Vt, found a sum Of money re-
Gently stitched into the lining Of an old
coat. She quit work at once and no N
has ever been able to ascertain the amount
Of her find, but she has erected q neat and
comfortable house, and Is prosperous and
contented.
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Minister Born When Washington Was
President.
This is a picture of a Coldwater
Mich preacher, who was born when
Washington was President. He was
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The Eastern Question.

The policy Of playing of n Power
against another in the Eastern question
still goes on, while the Sultan OF Turkey
continues the colonization Of Thessaiy and
the augmentation OF this army, ~
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either case water must be carried to
them and their pail is very likely to be
tipped over.-Anlerican Agriculturist.
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The Calrs Drinking Pail.
Calves during the first summer are
frequently pastured in an orchard or
tethered by O rope near the barn. In
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that the value of the annual exports
and imports of the kingdom ros from
800, 600, 900 in 1887 to nearly g.
500, 900, 900 in the nineties.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
A BITTER DOSE.
Six Months for Larceny, and Six for
Vagrancy, for Fred little.

Fred Title visited the residence of
Mrs. Flora Hill at 324 M street on
Thursday morning, and represented
he was starving. Mrs. Hills sympathy
was aroused, and she stopped her work
in order to cook the applicant a hot
meal.
While she was so employed, the base
ingratitude of the follow cropped out,
and he rurloined from the dressing
case a pair of gold buttons valued at
So
RetributiOn, however, was not long
in overtaking the thief. He made the
mistake CT pawning his illgotten gains,
realizing twenty cents on them. His
arrest followed, as a matter of course,
and yesterday morning he stood up be
fore Justice Davis in the Police Court
The sequel to the story is soon told
Title, it seems had recently been ad-
judged guilty of vagrancy and was SEN
fenced to serve six months in jail, the
commitment being withheld pending
his absence from the city. Justice
Davis recalled the circumstance and
after having sentenced the prisoner to
serve six months for theft ordered that
the commitment for vagrancy be en-
forced, TO run from and after the eX-
piration of the larceny sentence That
means a year in the County Jail.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
THE ANNUAL KICK.

There was great complaint yesterday
about the State ammunition, as there
had been in previous years. The cart
ern factories and rifemen declare they
are not of uniform merit.
But for defective ammunition it is
claimed by military men and veteran
shafpshooters who watched the contest
that Corporal F b. Edison of Company
F. Second Infantry, of Woodland would
have won the championship honors.
Two Sacramentans who stood behind
him declare that his second shot, which
was a clean miss, should have been
bullseye.
Edson's score would seem to warrant
the belief that he could not have made
a clean miss unless something was
wrong with his ammunition 1t was
4 o , , 4 > ; ) ) "a total of 43.
1t will be noticed that all his shots
We're bullseyes except two As, and the
clean miss. man who shoots as
steadily as that would not be apt to
miss the target entirely unless he
struck a defective cartridge And
Edison is noted for his skill and uni
form, consistent shooting.
Lieutenant Hughes of Company in
formed a Record Union" reporter that
after the shoot a number of the cart
ridges were opened and examined care
fully and that several were found to
be defective. 1t seems, therefore, as
If there has been some ground for the
annual kick against the State ammuni-
tion.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
THROWN OUT.
Accident Yesterday to Two Young
Ladies in a Cart.
morrow.

Two young ladies who had come from
Elk Grove in a cart yesterday had a
narrow escape from serious injury as
they We're driving through the city.
Ait Fourteenth and X streets their
horse became frightened at a street
car and wheeled about SO suddenly that
the cart was upset and its fair occu-
pants thrown heavily to the ground.
They We're goth badly bruised and one
had an arm sprained, but their injuries
We're not severe
The horse ran off with the vehicle and
dashed it to splinters, and the young
ladies had to go home by railroad.
The record-union., 1897-03-28

EIIMANN-In this city, March 26th, Chris
Ehmann, husband of Adelaid Ehmann
Gather of Carrie, Emma, Adde Edwin
George and Charlie Ehmann and Mrs
Frank Ripley; brother-in-law of George
Sermonet, cousin of Mrs. Katie F'ut-
terer), a native of Germany. aged 60
years, months and days (San Fran
cisco, Oakland and Santa Cruz papers
please copy.)
Friends and acquaintances are re-
spectfully invited to attend the funeral
this Sunday afternoon, from his late
residence, 1886 /. at O'Clock.
this city, March 26th, Mrs.
Catherine Hastings (mother of Mrs. T.
A. Ryan, George Hastings, Mrs. r. F.
Mullen, Myron James, Katie F. and
Charles Hastings, and sister of Mrs.
John Doyle and Miss Maggie Cunning
ham), a native of Queens County, Ire
land, aged So years, ] month and days
Friends and acquaintance are re-
spectfully invited to attend the funeral
Monday, at $50 a. M, from her late
residence, 2221 Ninth street: thence to
the Cathedral, where requiem high mass
win be celebrated for the repose of her
SOUL commencing at 10 o'clock. Friends
can view remains at residence Sunday.
after 10 a. m. Casket will not be opened
in Cathedral.
FOSTER-In this city, March 9th,
Mamie, only daughter of Antoine and
Addie Foster a native of Sacramento,
Cal. aged months and 2S days.
Funeral notice hereafter.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
Six Months for Davis.

ID. r. Davis was declared guilty on
two counts in the Police Court yester-
day morning. and was given six months
in which to ruminate over the evils
of his ways. and incidentally break rock
for county roads.
Davis, it will be remembered, is the
man who walked out of a place on
Fourth street with a gripsack contain
ing the stock in trade Of a patent med
icen vendor. and who subsequently
stole a box of tobacco from the South
ern Pacific Company's freight sheds.
He was given three months on each
count
The record-union., 1897-03-28
"CarefuI and Reliable"
From the Cucamonga.)

The Sacramento Record Union is
one of the most, if not the most, careful
and reliable papers published in the
State in relation to statements of fact.
It is invaluable for its accurate infor-
nation in relation to public affairs.
Editorially it is strong, but conservative.
That it wields a powerful influence in
the State is not surprising.
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TERRIBLE DEATH.
A rIan Named Fields Ground to Death
at New England rlills.

man named Fields, who for some
time past had been employed as a
teamster at Lands Station in Placer
County, was literally ground to pieces
beneath the wheels Of a, passing train,
on the railroad track near New Eng
land Mills sometime on Friday night.
The remains We're discovered early
yesterday morning, but how the acci-
dent happened can only be surmised. 1t
is understood by the railroad authori-
ties that Fields was under the influence
of intoXicants on Friday.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
Judgment for Plaintiff.

Judge Johnson yesterday gave judg
ment for plaintiff in the case of James
Touhey against Eli Mayo and others to
fOreclose a street assessment lien for
S24 II, with 10 per cent. interest from
August 4, 1893, SO attorneys fees and
costs, on the south % feet of lot D, P
and O. Fifth and Sixth streets.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
An Alleged Coat Thief.

Officer Pennish yesterday morning ar
who will be obliged to answer to a
charge of petty larceny. Smith. it is
alleged, entered the back yard of the
American Steam Laundry and stole
therefrom a coat and vest, and an AK
belonging to one of the workmen He
had the stolen property with him when
arrested and was also the possessor of
an elegant load of intoxieants.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
CaUital Lodge Delegates.

The representatives elected by Capt.
tai Lodge No. 81, l. O. O. F., to attend
the Grand Lodge, which viii meet in
San Francisco in May, are: Grove L.
Johnson, Richmond Davis, Nicholas
Harvie, George W. Mckay, Joseph w.
Prince and William A. Stephenson
The record-union., 1897-03-28
Hotel Arrivals.

Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel
yesterday: Park Henshaw, Chico;
Duncan K. Major, New York; H. G..
Dorsch, Quincy, Cal. NJ. G. Hoffman,
j. C. Eagleson, C. N. McLouth, M. H.
Barry, w. M. Phelps, Jas. Bardell,
Harry Steel T. E. Pope, San Francisco.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
Death of Mrs. Catherine Hastings.

The death is announced of Mrs. Cath
crime Hastings at her home, 2221 Ninth
street. She had resided in this city for
several years, and had many friends.
She was a. native of Ireland and 6o
years of age.
Mrs. Hastings was a sister Of Mrs.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
4 SuaD for Bows and small Men,

A lot of $50 '96 Crescent bicycles
built for small men and boys will be
sold at $50 each while they last. Cash
or easy installments. These wheels are
up to-date in all respects and superior
to any OF $50 wheels of other makes.
Guarantee runs same as on 81 models.
See them at kimball & Upson's.
The record-union., 1897-03-28

We carry a complete line Of optica
goods. Eyes tested free by a competent
graduated optician. klune & Floberg
42S j.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
HareS and Hounds.

A large string of high-class dogs are
entered for the coursing match at Ag-
ricultural Park to-day. The hares are
also said to be high steppers. They are
Of the big strong kind that are rounded
up in the vicinity of Franklin, and can
outfoot the Merced variety.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
Taken Under Amusement,

The case of Gunther against Spinks
was still on trial in Judge Hughes court
yesterday, and evidence was taken con-
corning it. The Judge took it under ad-
visement and gave the attorneys five
days in which to file briefs.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
Discharge of Assignee.

Judge Hart yesterday made an order
in the case of the estate of w. r. Strong
& Co. in insolvency for the final dis
charge of assignee and the release of his
sureties from further liability.
The record-union., 1897-03-28
Balloon Ascension To-Dav.

1t is announced that aeronaut George
Weston viii make a balloon ascension
and parachute jump at Oak Park this
afternoon at 3 O'clock
The record-union., 1897-03-28
Not Yet Set.

Judge Hart yesterday postponed set
ting the LandsbOrough cases for trial
until Monday, as the attorneys could not
agree on a time for trial, and has writ
ten to Judge Gaddis of Woodland to
know when he can preside
The record-union., 1897-03-28
SDriup Millinery.

Ladies are invited to call at Mrs
Sullivan's Millinery Emporium. 515 ]
street to examine the stock of hats
and millinery for spring Trimmed
hats from 81 80 to 50. Untrimmed
hats from soc to 81 30
The record-union., 1897-03-28

John Doyle and Miss Maggie Cunning
ham, and mother of George. Myron,
James, Charles, and Katie Hastings
and Mrs T. A Ryan and Mrs. T. F.
Mullen. The funeral viii take place to-
\ y,,a1
The record-union., 1897-03-28
Not a Vacant House.

The Folsom Telegraph is informed
that there is not dwelling house in
that town to rent, and many are want
ing such, which speaks very highly Of
the present status of the town
The record-union., 1897-03-28
Have You seen My $500 Pianos 2

1t is a very fine piano, lovely case,
brilliant tone; come and hear it; will
sell for SO down and SIC per month.
Pommer's Music Store, Ninth and j.