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CREDIT TO THE NAVY.

Winston Churchill says that our navy
has been underrated by our own peo-
pie these many years. No doubt of it.
We have not appreciated its real
strength, nor have we accorded the men
of the navy the full credit in peace
which they were entitled. The frank
American will confess that the achieve
ments of the navy in the present war
have surprised him, while they have ex-
cited his admiration and quickened his
pride. Mr.. Churchill says on this head:
That the United States had a navy
before this war began is fact that
has been but little appreciated both at
home and abroad. On the continent of
Europe it was openly declared and Sc
cretly hoped that the Spanish navy
would be more than a match for ours.
There were Englishmen-and Ameri-
cans, too, who had not read their his
tory-who forgot that leopard cannot
change his spots, and they shook their
heads and feared that we should meet
defeat at the first, until we could build
more ships and get more men. When
the Maine blew up in Havana harbor
there were people all over this coun-
try-patriotic men and women undoubt-
edly-who honestly believed that the
cause Of the accident, if not a breach
of discipline, was at least due to a
faulty construction of the ship. For
many years this branch of our service
has been persistently underrated by
those who knew nothing of what they
spoke. At every grounding or leak or
other mishap to our new ships many
murmured and scoffed and some of the
papers actually published jokes about
the insecurity of our battleships. If
any of these critics, after four years of
the hardest kind of work at Annapo-
lis. We're put on the bridge of a war
ship and told TO conduct her from port
to port, they would perhaps appreciate
that the successful handling Of a war
vessel, even in times Of peace, is one of
the most difficult tasks in the world and
is only acquired after a lifetime of the
most assiduous study and the practice
of it.
Yes, we all understand that now, Mr..
Churchill, and never again will we fail
of appreciation of our men of the navy.
They have taught US a lesson that we
will not forget-rest assured of that
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WAS A WAR VETERAN.
Funeral To-Day Of the Late Col
ouel w. H. HI. Russell.

The funeral of the late Colonel Will
lam III. FL. Russell will take place at o:oo
O'Clock this afternoon from his late
residence at 500 E street. Colonel
Russell was a soldier of the Civil War,
in which he distinguished himself.
He was quite prominent In the south
ern part of the State for several years,
but came TO Sacramento about four
years ago in the hope of improving his
health.
Colonel Russell leaves, besides his
wife, son and daughter@Charles and
Bertha Russell. Among ~ surviving
relatives are a nephew and two nieces-
Horace nj. and Virginia Russell and
Mrs. Edward NJ Taylor
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in
means just
the
paid the highest
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Do you suffer from Malaria
ChiIIs or Fever?

Do you suffer from Malaria
ChiIIs or Fever?
You are welcome to-day and until
August 10Th to the professional SER
vices of DR.. Blair, whose success in the
treatment of such troubles has been
equaled by few. if any You are well
come to his medicines. his care and
his treatment absolutely without money
and without price.
Do you suffer from Dyspepsia or
any form of Disease of the Stom-
ach?
You are welcome to-day and until
August 10th to the professional SER
vices of DR.. Blair. You are welcome to
his medicines, his care and his treat
ment absolutely without money and
without price.
Do your suffer ignorant of the
cause and anxious to know what
ails you?
You are welcome to-day and until
August 10Th TO the expert opinion Of
the Diagnostician whose list of dag
nostic symptoms have been, copied in
cold blood by nearly every medical ad-
wiser in the United States.
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have
free months of had with these
schemes
medicine
than fraud
and contenp
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1t is gratifying to know that our Cal
ifOrnia National Guardsmen have had
one chance at the enemy. On the last
day Of July, near the city of Manila, the
Spanish forces, 5000 strong, made an
attack upon the American lines. A
three hours battle resulted, which is
described as brilliant, stubborn and
bloody. The enemy was repulsed, driven
back and defeated with the heavy loss
of between 200 and 300 killed and
wounded, while our loss was thirteen
killed and forty odd wounded. The de-
tails of this engagement are lacking,
but the predatory bulletins agree that
it was a brilliant affair, and greatly to
the credit of the American volunteers
and regulars.
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S
remedies
addressed
to
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Return of Sales.

L. B. Mohr and G. A. Yoerk, execu-
tors Of the estate Of Charles H. Huels-
man, deceased, have by their attorneys
Holl G. Dunn filed their report and re-
turn of sales of personal property OF
the estate
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| June 26th-Since the 10Th / have not
been able to write, as I have been very
busy in putting in a foundation for a
sawmill. Will likely work at it for the
next month or more, and then go up
the creek AS the steamer Bella is
leaving to-day, / thought I would write
and try and get my letter out, but she
is whistling now, and / don't think I
will make it.
| Everybody is selling out their claims
| here and going out. You stay here
one winter, and that is enough. My
/ pard is so weak he cannot even work
every day. Now he's got the scurvy,
band over half the population have got
| it. They had enough to eat, they say.
| The winters are so cold, and the spring
comes on so soon and hot that they just
wilt, and have no ambition or energy
| to work.
There is no trouble to get hold Of
claims, but the thing is is there any
thing in them? 1t will take you one
winter to find it out. That means
| 81 900. AS look at it, it is better to
work for $15 a. day while / can get it,
| for wages are going to come down very
soon.
| There are many chances to make
| money here. / am going to buy lot
to-day for 5000. put up a log house with
dirt roof, 20x20 which / will rent for
| $50 per month. AS soon as completed
/ will build a small one for myself and
pard to winter in, if in town.
| A. Harbinson / have not seen yet. /
hear he is in. First trip in river we
| built one barge. 1t shot the White
Horse Rapids like a duck. You have to
understand it, if not you go under.
| If a man is all business, and has
money he can make money here. If
not he'd better stay out, unless he is
lucky and just happens to strike it. A
man is just as liable to strike it most
any place, on top of mountains or
benches, or on sidehills, so you see if
you are lucky you have it and any kind
of business pays here. No outside
boats have got here yet. Some of
those that were stuck at Fort Yukon
and along the river have come in, but
not all Of them, with some grub.
sold my hams for $50 per pound, but
ter 50 per pound, tobacco 81, milk 81,
sugar 81. There were none Of these
here when I arrived, and if I had known
what to bring in I could have made
1000 easy. AS it was, made $115.
Let all the boys read this letter I
am going to stay till 1 make 1t, unless
my health gives out, and again / may
go out on the ice this winter to bring
| in stuff that will pay me for my trouble.
| AS the river is falling very fast, there
will not be very many steamers get
here this season, mark me, and grub
will be as high and scarce as last year.
l am going to lay in a supply as soon
/ as I can, although I have eight months
provisions left after selling what / did.
! I have so many letters to write that
| 1 have to cut this short. Let me hear
| from the boys. Yours respectfully,
| Dawson City. r. M. BROOK.
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How Registration Stands.

In round figures there are now $500
| names on the new register, with five
days left. in which voters can be en-
rolled. There will probably be another
| thousand added in that time.
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DR. Blar
of
be
ceived to osen,n 20
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lish Consul had intervened in our be-
half"
Now if Cervera is of so kindly a ma
ture why did he place Hobson in the
peril to which he was exposed? Or,
if it was the act of the military author
naval power and point out that Hobson
and his men We're naval prisoners, and
in honor bound Spain should treat them
as he, Cervera, had promised in their
behalf?
If Cervera is so high-minded and no.
ble>an old man why did he permit his
subordinates after they had run up the
white flag to destroy so far as they
boats, and even to leave some Of the
guns loaded in the burning ships, when
the naval officers to whom he had sur
rendered were approaching to board the
prizes? Feeling the reproach of this
Infamous act, the old man has deemed
it necessary to say that he did not
know of this loading of the guns, and
that it was not done by his authority.
make any denial whatever concerning
the throwing overheard of the breech
locks of the ships guns after the white
flag had been hung out, an act that led
Commodore Schley to tell a Spanish
Captain was infamous and cowardly,
"a vulgar and treacherous act. Of which
an honorable foe would not be guilty.
There is altogether too much fuss
made over Cervera. He is by no means
the great man his admirers pretend, nor
has he done anything that common
humanity did not dictate in the recep-
tion of Hobson on his flagship in the
harbor of Santiago. After that action,
which he could scarcely have avoided
unless he became a murderer outright,
his treatment of the young Lieutenant
was neither just nor gallant
He had not the courage to intervene
in his behalf or to insist upon his treat
ment as became his rank, and to urge
his exchange, which he had voluntarily
promised to effect, and to communi-
cate which resolve he sent one of his
staff officers to the cruiser New York
to inform Admiral Sampson. There is
such thing as making magnanimity
ridiculous, and that is what a certain
class of people are doing in the Cervera
case.
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Take the self-denial gayly and cheer
fully, and let the sunshine of thy glad
ness fall on dark things and bright
alike, like the sunshine of the AL
mighty.-James Freeman Clarke.
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FREE And NO FRAUD ABOUT IT.!
All Medicines Given Away, All Consulta=
tiOn and Treatment Free.
THIS Is DR.. BLAIR'S INTRODUCTION TO THE
PEOPLE OF SACRAMENTO.

Will Positively
a Blair Has This
gushed Which Free" Has Been
Prominently
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THE worked coal mine and this is the story
some years past have employed mother
EARTH from and half miles from the mouth of the
ogging COAL The great distance under impossible
Io me to get pure air. which forced by fans
During breaks in machinery air would become bad causing
great pains IN my head dizziness ntng continued until
next was pans stomach indigestion dyspepsia Working h
the mines naturally hearty had dyspe
M % oao sunered terrible The prescribed for me- ou
oAV sol worse took several kinds medicine saw fap
aoues advertised and going drug bought some
'fee Gays was new my clear stomach we 20 l
pepsla These Ripans Tabues did it,
The record-union., 1898-08-10

The largest piano house in Northern
California, carrying the most complete
and extensive stock, is the Wiley B. AL
len Co., 415 K. JobberS and retailers.*
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DIR. Blair Will Not Be in Sacra-
mento To-day-Somewher Else To-
morrow. His Offices Here Are Per-
manent1y Located.
The record-union., 1898-08-10

Coronado water. Stockton sarsapa-
rilla and iron, champagne cider, ginger
ale. orange cider. ]. McMorry, agent
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THE SITUATION At DAWSON.
PROSPECT OF ANOTHER FOOD
SHORTAGE.
Many People Preparing to Skip
the Country Before
Winter.

Daniel MCGEE of 1926 M street, has
received an interesting letter from b.
M. Brook of this city, now in Dawson
City, which the Record Union is per-
mitted to publish:
Dawson City, June II, 1S9S-Friend
Dan: AS you see, / am here at last,
and wish l was back, but now will stay
till make it. Don't advise anyone to
come in. 1t is all over-estimated. Of
course there are some good claims, but
what are we all going to do, so many
of US, and no room for us all?
| am going to work tomorrow at SlJ
per day till such time as we can go up
to my pard's claims and dig. Just now
there is too much water They might
be very rich, and there may be moth
ing in them. He has three-No. and
two halves. One is alongside Berry's or
the bench on Ell Dorado Greek.
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What's in name?"
Everything, when it comes to medi-
cineS
A sarsaparilla by any other name can
never equal Hoods. Insist upon Hoods
Sarsaparilla.
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THE SADDLE ROCK
RESTAURANT AND OYSTER HOUSE

FIRST-CLASS HOUSE IN EVERY RE-
spect. Ladies' dining-room separate.
RAGHER, Proprietors. No 1019 Second
street. between ] and X. Sacramento.
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McMorry sells groceries. Agent for
Coronado water and Stockton sarsa-
parilla and iron 531 M street.
Electrical lamps at Scott's. 3O3 ].
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SEAL ROCK RESTAURANT.


NEWLY. OPENED. EVERYTHING
neat, clean and first-class Private rooms
for ladies. Martin Kovacsvich. Manager.
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BAY RESTAURANT

Private rooms for families; open day
and night. Orders served outside Oys
tere in every style MATT and JOHN
RADONICH, Proprietors.
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BOARD AND ROOM. 81 25 TO 81 PEB
day. Meals. 25c.
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TURCLU HOTEL

Accommodations first-class. Free bus
to and from hctel. W. J. ELDER. N'Rr.
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STATE HOUSE HOTEL.
Corner Tenth and Sts.. Sacramento

BOARD AND ROOM. 81 rs TO 81 PEB
day. Meals. 25c.
Accommodations hrst-class Free bus
TO and from hctel. w. ]. ELDER, MIR.
TURCLU HOTEL,
sos X Street.
CONDUCTED ON THE EUROPEAN
pan; strictly frst-class; hot and cold
baths free to guests; electric cars pass
the door. FRANK MEYER. Prop.
THE METROPOLITAN,
427H X Street.
AN ELEGANT MODERN ROOMIN0
house, centrally located. Rooms in suites
and single at popular prices. Travellers
solicited. MRS. e. ]. c. KETCHUM.
MASON FAURE.
RESTAURANT DE FRANCE AND
Oyster House, 427 X street formerly near
Golden Eagle HoteD Meals a la carte
at all hours. Family Orders. BanQuets
L. FAURE, Proprietor.
Mesa free press., 1898-04-22
Taking TIM Hint.

At home stations the private soldiers
washing is usually done by the married
soldiers wives, who are expected to sew
on missing buttons and do repairs, for
which small sum is deducted from the
private's pay.
Pat McGinnis had good deal Of trou-
BILE with his laundress. Sunday after
Sunday had his shirt come back with
the neck button off or else hanging by a
thread. He had spoken to her on the
subject, and she had promised to see to
it. but still the button was not on prop
erly.
He got out Of patience one Sunday
when the missing button had made him
late for parade and exclaimed:
Bother the womanl I'll see If can t
give her hint this time anyhow.
He then took the lid of a tin black
ing box, about 8 inches in diameter.
drilled two holes in it with fork and
sewed it on to the neck of the shirt that
was next to be washed When his wash
ing came back, he found she had taken
the hint She had made buttouJlola
to fit it Rival.
Mesa free press., 1898-04-22
The Leaky Missouri River.

f. r. Spearman writes Of "Queer
American Rivers in ST. Nicholas. Mr..
Spearman says:
With all it's other eccentricities, the
Missouri river leaks badly, for you
know there are leaky rivers as well as
ieaky boats. The government engineers
once measured the flow of the Missouri
away up in Montana and again some
hundred miles farther down stream. To
their surprise they found that the Mis-
souri,, instead of growing bigger down
stream, as every rational river should,
was actually 100000 second feet smaller
at the lower point.
Now while 90, 600 second feet could
be spared from such a tremendous river
that amount Of water makes consider
able stream of itself. Many very cele-
brated rivers never had SO much water
in their lives; hence there was great
amazement when the discrepancy was
discovered. But of late years Dakota
farmers away to the south and east of
those points on the Missouri. sinking
artesian wells, found immense volumes
of water where the geologists said there
wouldn't be any. So it is believed that
the farmers have tapped the water leak
ing from that big hole in the Missouri
river away up in Montana, and from
these wells they irrigate large tracts Of
land, and naturally they don't want
the river bed mended. Fancy what a
blessing it is when the weather is dry
to have river boiling out Of your well,
ready to flow where you want it over
the wheatfeldsl For of all manner of
work that river can be put to irriga-
tion is, / think, the most useful. But
isn't that a queer way for the Missouri
to wander about underneath the ground?
Mesa free press., 1898-04-22
Ter Mothers Spirit.

A young married woman was obliged
to remain alone overnight in st. Louis
hotel a few years ago, her husband be-
ing detained by business in a neighbor-
ing town. In the dead of night the wo-
man was awakened out Of sound sleep
by tremendous noise in the wardrobe
1t was such sudden and unearthly up
roar that the woman, sensible and prac-
tical though she was, was frightened
The noise ceased. then returned. The
woman jumped up, lighted the gas.
looked at her watch and found It was
just midnight and made q thorough
search both of the wardrobe and the
room. There was nothing, so far as the
evidence of the senses went which could
out the light and went back to bed. The
roise was not repeated either that night
or any other.
Six months afterward, however, the
woman was in San Francisco, and for
the first time in her life and solely out
Of curiosity she attended spiritualistic
meeting. Almost Immediately the me-
dium, a perfect stranger. turned to her
and said, "The spirit of your mother ia
present, madam, and she says that six
months ago (naming the precise date)
she tried to communicate with you by
means Of the wardrobe in the Blank
hotel, st. Louis. The woman's prac-
tical good sense did not desert her.
"Well, you just tell my mother, = she
said. sthat the next time she wants to
communicate with me not to make suoh
an awful racket in the dead of night
and frighten me half out of my senses. "
New York Sun.
Mesa free press., 1898-04-22
A Large Mussel Farm.

The mussel culture of Esnandes near
La Rochelle, was invented by ship
wrecked Irishman named Walton, who
set up fowling-nets on the mud, and de-
vised "mud-boat" to reach them. He
observed that the posts on which his
nets were set were covered, first with
musselSpat, and then with young mus
sells. These, being always covered with
water, and raised high above the mud,
had far finer flavor than the common
mussels. Walton soon decided to plant
more posts, not to support wild-fowl
nets, but to attract the mussels, and
from this primitive beginning the mus
sci industry of Esnandes sprang. The
mud banks are planted witch stakes as
thick as vineyard, and the fish are
constantly transplanted from one set Of
piles to another, in order to gain the
full benefit of the tide and food best
suited to the growth. There Is no rent
to pay for the mussel farms, as there Is
for the Whttstable oyster beds, for they
are on tidal sea, Like the gray muddy
blight of Weston-super-M Mare, and the
mussel-spat has not to be purchased
like oyster brood, but appears spon-
taneously like grains Of seed on the
posts.
Mesa free press., 1898-04-22
s1oo REWARD 800

: The readers of this paper will be pleased to
that science has been able to cure in all it's
stages and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional dis
ease, requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, hereby destroying the foundation OF
the disease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative powers, that they
offer One Hundred Dollar for any case that 1t
fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address, f. j. CHENEY d CO., Teledo, o.
Sold by Druggists 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Mesa free press., 1898-04-22
THAT SETTLES TT.

With the bloom and beauty of the season
its balniy airs and delightful temperature,
we feel like living with new life, and are
therefore often very careless in taking care
of ourselves. 1t is this forgetfulness that
lays us liable to attacks of rheumatism, the
more liable because we think there is little
danger of its coming on, bvt rheumatism is
an easy thing to take and sometimes hard
thing to get rid of unless we take the advice
of others and learn tnat the best way pos
sible is TO use St. Jacobs Oil. 1t has been
used so long as sure cure that this advice
is given in good faith form the testimony
of thousands.
Mesa free press., 1898-04-22
OLD AND MODERN GLOVE.
First Was Mitten, Most WondrousIy
COlored and JeweIed.

First Was Mitten, Most WondrousIy
Colored and Jewe1ed.
Before the tenth century English
ladies wore long sleeves with pointed
flaps that rested on the backs of their
hands, or when they went forth in win
ter drew the loose drapery of their
outer garment over their hands.
The first glove had only thumb and
no fingers, says the Pittsburg Dispatch,
like the mdttens Of the present day.
They were so proud Of them that they
emphasized them by bright colors, such
as violets, reds and blues. They were
wondrously embroidered and starred
with jewels.
No gloves were finer than those Of the
clergy. They were mostly of white silk
or linen, cunningly embroidered and
sometimes frdnged with pearls. One
ecclesiastic had red silk pair, with the
sacred monogram worked on the back,
surrounded with golden glory; and
later on they had gloves to match their
different vestments. In fact, gloves
had departed from the primary idea Of
utility and become a decoration. They
were too magnificent for common wear,
and in cotemporary pictures the mo-
bility seemed to have carried them
rather In their hands or In their girders
than on their fingers.
The knights mailed glove sheltered
his hand; it became sign of power,
and when gracious lord meant to sig
Nifty his intention to protect town he
sent his glove as sign Of his willing
ness. The glove, too, was token of
defiance when one knight declared war
against another; and at the same time,
as If to mark the difference between the
strong right hand Of man and the dain-
tier hand Of woman, he bound his mis-
tress' delicate glove to his helmet by
way Of showing his fealty. BY the six
teenth century gloves were common
wear, together with farthingales, cor
sets and low gowns.
Mesa free press., 1898-04-22
The Seasons Gloves.

Gloves for this season are the suedes
or soft finished leather ones. For street
wear they are pique stitched, and the
most stylish have but one button or
clasp and invariably match the color of
the gown, gloves of a contrasting color
being no longer regarded as in good
taste. Evening gloves grow longer as
the days grow shorter, some of them
measuring one yard and half from the
finger tips to the top. They will be
worn more wrinkled than for some time
past. Some few are lace trimmed, others
daintily embroidered, but the majority
have plain machine stitching in silk to
match the color Of the glove or per-
haps one shade darker. r.-Exchange
Mesa free press., 1898-04-22
AN OPEN tErrEa TO MOTHERS.

We are asserting In the courts our right to thu
exclusive use Of the word "CASTORIA," AND
PITCHERS cAsToRIA," As our Trade Marx
L DR.. Samuel Pitcher, ofHyannis, Massachusetts,.
was the originator of /" PITCHERS cAsToRIA."
the same that has borne and does now bear the
facsimile signature of cHAS. H. FLETCHER on
every wrapper. This Is the original " PITCHERS
cAsToRIA" which has been used In the homes
: of the mothers Of America for over thirty yearA
Look Carefully At the wrapper and see that It u
Z sts kfsd 1es kass asyays bought, and has the
signature Of cHAs. H. FLETCHER on the
wrapper. No one has authority from me to uss
my name except The centaur Company Of which
chas. II. Fletcher = President. n
4 As,eh 8. Ise7. eAMUEL PITCHER Md