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The record-union., 1898-10-07
CITY TAXES, 1898.

THE CITY TAXES ON ALL PER-
sonal property and one-half of the taxes
on ali real property will be due and
payable at the office of the City Col
OCTOBER, 1885, and will be delinquent
on the LAST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER
1898, at six o'clock p. M, and unless paid
prior thereto Is per cent. will be- added
TO the amount thereof. and if said one
half be, not paid before ret the last Monday
in April, 1S99 at 6 O'Clock p M an addi-
tional per cent will be added thereto
The remaining one-haif of the taxes on ali
real property will be payable on or after
be delinuuent on the last Monday in
April, 1899, at o'clock p. M, and unless
paid prior thereto per cent. will be
added to the amount thereof
All taxes may be paid at the time the
first installment is due and payable.
G.. G.. ROBERTSON
City Collector
Room 8. southwest corner of Fourth
and streets. o3-5t
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DR. CIRp0N

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rms old reliable and the
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the eyes, pain in the head,
ringing in the ears, loss OF
confidence, diffidence in
approaching strangers,
M lnlfnf}nSx ~G
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For cool, sharp glass of steam or
lager, FL Dorado, S26 J.
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thereof, and to carry out theprov.sions OF
khis section.
Amendment Number -Four.
t6eing Assembly Constitutional Amena>
ment No 80

os resolution to propose to the peoris
OF the State of California an amenSmenr
10 the Constitution OF the State. amend-
tig tiig article eleven. by adding a new sec
Son thereto, TO be known as section num-
yer yer nVe and one-half relating to consoli-
LATED LATED city and county governments The
lows: ~ ieau as ioi-
section 5I2. The provisions of section
s1ur sour and five of this article shall not. nor
thereto, apply to any consolidated citv
aanu au county government, now existing or
Hereafter formed, which shall have be-
sone, or shall become. organized under
secuon seven, or secure charter under
section eight of this article.
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MARRIED.

Natural gassupplies Tom Scott, 3O3 J. =
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STATE HOUSE HOTEL
Corner Tenth and Sts., Sacramento

BOARD AND ROOM. 81 25 TO 81 PER
day. Meals, 25c.
Accommodations first-class Free bus
to and from hotel. w. j. ELDER, Mgr.
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THE SINGI EToN RJIrDINc

TIE 0IN0LEI ON DOILDINO,
SOUTHEAST CORNER OF FIFTH AND
K streets. First-class in all it's appoint
ments. Rooms, single or en- suite Iced
filtered water and baths free to guests
c. F. SINGLETON. Proprietor
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Ask S. p. Co. Agents for more COM
piete information.
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THE METROPOLITAN,
427% X Street.
AN ELEGANT MODERN ROOMING
house, centrally located. Rooms in suites
and single at popular prices. Travellers
solicited. MRS. e. J. c. KETCHUM.
MASON FAURE.
RESTAURANT DE FRANCE AND
Oyster House, 427 X street (former1y near
Golden Eagle HoteD. Meals a la carte
at all hours Family Orders, Banquets
and Wedding Parties.
l.. FAIRE Pronrietor
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

When the Brahmin cleans his teeth
he must use small twig cut from one
of a number of certain trees, and be-
fore he cuts it he must make his act
known to the gods Of the woods. He
must not indulge in this clearly habit
every day. He must abstain on the
9Th, the Sth, the 9th, the 18th, the 18th,
and the last day of the moon, on the
days Of new and full moon, on the
Tuesday in every week, on the day of
the constellation under which he was
born, on the day Of the week and on
the day of the month which correspond
with those of his birth, at an eclipse,
at the conjunction of the planets, at
the equinoxes, and other unlucky
epochs, and also on the anniversary of
the death of his father or mother. Any
one who cleans his teeth with his bit
of stick on any Of the aforementioned
,1o--A mill have hall ~ hicl <><>>-k ~
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

The majority of our citizens t@he
the constitution seriously. They are
under the impression that all there Is
said therein is meant. 1t is not So
Some citizens of Pennsylvania thought
thew had a constitutional right to walk
on the peoples highway. They sct
shot for their ignorance! A very dan
gerous addition-or amendment, ram
er-to the state constitution OF Con-
necticut is about to be voted on by the
citizens of that state. 1t is wordeu
as follows: Every person shall De
able to read in the English language
any article of the constitution or any
section of the statutes of the state be-
fore being admitted as an elector. II
the citizens succeed in getting this en-
bodied in their constitution II Will
have a most pernicious and dangerous
effect. 1t will have a tendency TO make
people read. 1t may make them
peruse the state bill of rights and per-
chance give them a taste for that KIND
of literature. Then they will read the
constitution anu dltoi eAe '
ration of Independence. Then they
run chances of being shot! There are
a very few localities where a citizen
may exercise his rights under the con-
stitution without getting locked up;
very few places where he can do as
the constitution directs without get
ting into trouble. 1t is best to let the
constitution alone, that is the reading
of it, and take to the study OF propa-
ganda by deed. 1t is not near so dang
erous. All the literature of that ma
ture that was ever written and read
never led to such tragedies as have en-
sued from the mistakes of American
citizens who took the constitution ana
the Declaration of Independence seri-
usly.-Machinists' Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

amount is 25 cents. or this sum 10
cents goes to maintain the national or
ganizatlon, cents goes to the sick
benefit fund and cents Is retained by
the local body. Since the adoption oil
the plan 100000 has been collected
for the sick fund, of which $6S,OOO has
been paid out in benehts.s There is
held in reserve in this fund $25,Ooo.
The balance of $1,000 has been placed
in a special fund and members in good
standing for six months, who pay their
dues while working, and do not owe
more than four weeks when becom-
ing idle, have their dues paid from TINS
fund. In addition to the sick benefits
a death benefit of 500 is paid as well
as $50 contributed by the local IN
which the death occurs.-Eight Hour
Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

If the average man didn't smoke he
wouldn't be fit for woman to live
with
The happiest dream a man has is
when he dreams that he only dreamed
that he was married.
The chair that girl thinks is the
prettiest in the room is always one
that man is afraid to sit down on
for fear it will break.
picture of girls room generally
has divan in the center with a lot of
cushions and banjo on it, right
where any one would smash it if he
ever sat down.
Most men grin and let their wives
bear it
Every man acts a lot more lies than
he tells.
When woman tells man she has
found a gray hair in her head she gem
orally looks indignant at him.
Every girl would 60 around with a
ring on her engagement finger if she
thought the girls would notice it and
the men wouldn't.
When girl falls in love with man
she did not intend to fall in love with,
she generally finds she has fallen in
love with a man who did intend her to
fall in love with him.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

During the latter part of December
we learned that the state of Michigan,
where he of potato-patch fame reigns
as governor, was contemplating the
trial of manufacturing cigars at the
Marquette branch prison. We at once
telegraphed Gov. Pingree, the prison
board and the warden, and followed
the kilograms with letters to each,
protesting and giving valid reasons
why cigars should not be made in
penal institutions, but up to the pres
ent writing not one of the above have
been moved with sufficient courtesy to
reply to the protest. Gov. Pingree's
often repeated claims of profound con-
sideration for the workers and roasts
for corporations and rings is not in
keeping with his silence on this ques-
ton. We understand that the con-
tract has been let and that work will
soon be, if it has not already been,
commenced. If this be true we will
have a few things to say in future is
sues of the Journal. We are, how
ever, loath, in view of Gov Pingree's
public sentiments, to believe that he
has added filthy prison cigar making
to his great potato growing panacea
scheme for the ills of mankind. A
few years ago certain reform" gov
ernor undertook to manufacture cigars
in the penal institutions of the state
of Illinois. The members of the Inter-
national union in this state took issue
with him and vigorous battle was
ceaselessly walked against the ven
ture. The iniquities of the system
were fully exposed and predictions
made that it would prove a source OF
annoyance to those responsible for its
Inauguration and a serious pecuniary
loss to the state All of which proved
true, and, to make a long story short
the state of Illinois does not make
cigars any more in it's penal insttu-
tions.-Cigar Makers Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe in
creaseD
Awoke one night from deep dream
Of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his
room,
Making it rich, and like a lily in
bloom,
An angel. writing in a book of gold
Exceeding peace had made Ben Al
hem bold:
And to the presence in the room he
said,
"Wbot writest thou?" The vision
rais'd it's head,
And with a look made of all sweet ac-
cord,
Answered, "The name of those VINO
love the Lord"
"And is mine one?" said Abou. NAY
not so"
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more
low,
But cheerily still; and said, Il pray
thee, then,
Write me as one that loves his feliow-
men,"
The angel wrote and vanish'd. Inc
next night
It came again, with great waKenihs
light,
And show'd the names whom love OF
God had bless'd,
And In, Ben Adhem's name led all
the rest.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04
A Judge saws to husbands and wives

A Judge says to husbands and wives
who want to get divorced, Separate;
live apart for six months and think 1t
over" If that advice were generally
followed there wouldn't be one divorce
where there are six now Indeed, the
separated would resume relations with
such avidity that the reunion would be
as good as another honeymoon. One
can do a good deal of first-rate think
ing under such circumstances in six
months.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

Bill Snaggs thought he had been
walking out with Sarah Brown just
long enough to allow him to pop the
question. -.
"Will We have me, Sarah?" he said
one eve ming.
To this Sarah replied:
I'm no an so particular, BILL"
"And so it was settled.
Bill rushed home and into the
kitchen, where his widowed mother
was, and said.
Mother, I'm going to be wed, will
we let me?"
mo, l wouldn't" replied the widow
well, then if can't wed I'll keep
a bulldog" said Bill
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04
7ATEN-S-CHANGE IN FIRM

Messrs Higdon aud Higdon Patents
Lauy vra aud S0.icito.s Ut American
aud Foreign rutcnta, take 2!eAsure IA
Announcing to their maj iricLas anu
readers through this paper, that they
have added to their firm at Kansas
City, Mo. Mr.. Frederick g. Fisher and
Mr.. George Y. Thorpe, these two are
brilliant young lawyers.
Mr.. Thorpe has been closely identi-
fed with the firm at this point for the
past eight years as Mechanical Drafts
man and Specification writer He is an
expert Electrician and thoroughly fam
iliar with all of the workings of the
Patent Office at Washington d. c. and
as a member of their firm will have
full charge of the Specification De-
partment.
Mr.. Fisher has also been identified
with their Office at Kansas City, more
or less for about ten years. lie is
young lawyer of promise and an expert
Mechanical Craftsman thoroughly fam
iliar with all of the arts of mechanism
and a Mechanical expert of the high
est order.
These two young men are about
thirty-two years of age, and the firm
of Messrs. Iligdon and Higdon are
much pleased to announce the addit'
ional talent thus added to the firm at
Kansas City, Mo.
Therefore, the firm name at this
point on and after the LIST day of March
1898, will be Higdon, Fisher e. Thorpe.
Office rooms 6, :, &, 0. 10, Junction Main
and Delaware Sts., Kansas City, Mo.
Our reports will follow in the next
issue of this paper as usual. Send for
catalogues aud price list free. Please
men ton this paper.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

In this crisis in our commercial rela-
lions with that vast empire all of our
consuls herewith one unimportant ex-
ception, are green hands, and that at
the legation, where the most delicate
and difficult part of the work must be
done, the only person having knowl-
edge of Chinese language and affairs
is the interpreter or dragoman to the
legation, whose status prevents him
from having any serious influence. Ano
all this because the American idea" OF
a public office is not something to do
but something to get.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

Dear old DR.. Abbott is saying such
dreadful things! He says dancing is
good, withslimitations; alcohol is prop
er, with the same proviso; taste in
dress is right, and so as to diamonds;
and If the theatre sends you back to
life refreshed and invigorated, why go
and enjoy yourself. There is a new
Beecher in the old man, though he ad-
mits that truth is dangerous; the only
thing that is safe is platitude."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

In a recent gathering in Detroit GOV
ernor Pingree remarked that as gov
ernor "he had a license mot fran
chise) to offer suggestions" His prin'
cipal suggestion was, that in view o.
present lack of employment, caused
chiefly by the concentration of wealth
and business, that universal eight
hour working laws had become ne
cessity. AS an employer he favored
this, and he had written the govern
ors of the various states, urging con
sideration of the question by the legis
latures and asking their views.-Ex
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

The lady teacher who dissected live
cat in one of our public schools the
other day has resigned, but the chill
lren and public sentiment against her
are still i'll. If vivisection is allow
able, there is still a question with re-
gard to its surroundings. 1t might be
we'll to compromise matters by put
ting butcher shop in every school
that wouldn't shock anybody half as
much; but it is not the purpose OF
teaching to make barbarians of chill
dren.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

The general demand for flour has
been good, and while prices have ruled
considerably higher in sympathy with
wheat, all the markets have responded
in liberal manner to the advance. The
general fear among -four buyers has
without doubt, been that Letter hello
the. key to the situation, and, in con-
sequence, buyers short of -four are in
a hurry to get under cover before II
got. too late, and bought in freely al
the advanced values.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

The craze for royal ancestry mas De-
come so violent in Baltimore, owing
to the establishment of the new order
of the Crown, that the Peabody library
is oyerrun with persons wishing to
consult its fine collection OF the his
tories of English countries, which con
tain long genealogical lists and SHOW
lust where various royal lines shot on
dubious connections with the Smiths
the Joneses and the Browns. All kind
of kings are in demand, but, accord
ing to the Baltimore papers, any OH
king will do for most of those who seel
rival descent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

"Why," asks a writer, "do women
laugh so much more frequently than
mem" The writer is misinformed.
They do not laugh. They giggle. They
have a superficial understanding OF
things that ought to be laughed at,
and it perishes when the giggle does
A solid, comforting, substantial funny
thing that abides with a man for days
is to them but the faint tickle OF a
fancy that dies as soon as it is born
and that therefore wishes it hadn't
been born at all.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

"A locomotive factory in Philadelphia
has Just completed four engines on an
order from the British government
They are to be shipped to South Africa
The engines were completed thirty-one
days after the order was received. NC
such rapid work was ever done before
anywhere in the world. The Philadel'
phia firm received the order because
the British government wanted the en-
zines in a hurry, and no British factory
was able to turn them out as quickly
as they were wanted. The incident
seems to call attention to the folly o.
maintaining, the protective tariff sys
tenn in this country.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04
AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS.

We are asserting In the courts our right to the
exclusive use of the word "CASTORIA," and
"PITCHER'S CASTORIA." as our Trade Mark.
/, DR.. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachu-
sets, was the originator OF PITCHERS CAS-
TORIA," the same that has borne and does now
bear the fac-simile signature Of CHAS H
FLETCHER on every wrapper This L. the
original PITCHERS CASTORIA" which has
been used In the homes OF the mothers Of
America for over thirty years. Look carefully
at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you
have always bought" and has the signature Of
CHAS H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No
one has authority from me to use my name
except The Centaur Company OF which Chas
h. Fletcher Is President.
March 6, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER. M z
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04
Every druggist who sells as Harmless

Every druggist who sells as harmless
a patent medicine containing cocaine
or other dangerous drug that makes
slaves of those who take it should, by
law, be sent to Jail and kept there for
at least five years. Every villainous
manufacturer of such drugs should be
failed for ten years, or, better still, for
life. The whipping post as prelimin-
airy to Imprisonment at hard labor
would fit the case Of the scoundrel who
for gain fills the land with drug fiends
The keeper of a. brothel is more re-
spectacle and less harmful than he.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

A federation Of trades unions has
been perfected in Japan with mem
bership of $4,000 to begin with.
The state Of Illinois has ceased the
manufacture of cigars in the peniten-
tiary at Joliet, the venture proving q
failure.
In Finland the women not only vote,
but they follow the trades of carpen-
tiers, paperhangers, bricklayers and
slaughterers.
The Goldman automatic car brake
company has located in Anderson.
Ind, and is erecting works that Will
employ 400 skilled men.
The experiment to operate cotton
mills with negroes does not pay. They
won't sit ten hours a day at loom.
They want to be moving about.
A steam shovel in Lake Superior
iron ore region lifted and loaded 700,-
600 tons of iron ore during the past
year. They are mechanical miracles.
Under the new charter for Greater
New York, no bread will be permitted
to be made in the tenement house
bakeries.
So much stuff is wanted in Australia
from San Francisco that cargoes are
lying piled up for want Of vessels.
Many vessels are being held up for
spring to run in the Klondike trade.
A syndicate of New York and Ohio
capitalists has been warded the con-
tract for constructing the Nicaragua
canal, and will soon put 5000 men at
work, mostly Central Americans.
Tacoma, Wash, promises to be a
great manufacturing center. Eight
miles distant is 115 feet fall of water,
which is to be used to generate cleo
tricity, almost all the capacity of the
contemplated electrical plant.
The production of pig iron in the
United States for 1897 was 9,652,6S0
tons, an increase of 1029.55S tons, as
compared with 1896. The production
of basic pig iron for 1897 was 556,391
tons, Of which Edison made 35O,O6S
tons.
Those unfamiliar with manufactur-
ing have little conception of the enor-
nous machinery now being used and
made for large manufacturing plants.
Americans are making heavier, finer
and more complicated machinery than
was ever devised.
Perhaps the greatest engineering
feat the world ever witnessed will be
undertaken some time this year by
Japanese engineers in building an
immense bridge high enough for ships
in full sail to pass under across straits
one mile wide to connect two islands.
The German government recently
inquired of Great Britain and the
United States regarding women fac
tory inspectors. The reply of Great
Britain praised extremely the benefi-
cial activity of such inspectors, but the
reply of the United States was less ia
vorable.
The cloakmakers' union Of New
York, for the first time in years, is go
ing to do business without its annual
strike. and it has started a movement
to abolish general strikes. Pursuant
to this, meeting of representatives of
the Cloak Manufacturers association
and the United Brotherhood Of Cloak
makers was held few days ago, at
which it was agreed that none but
members of the union should be en-
ployed, and that all disputes as to
wages and hours of labor should be
referred to a joint committee Of manu-
facturers and cloakmakers. If the arbi-
tration committee cannot settle the
dispute, then it is to be referred to an
umpire selected by both sides.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04
n.tt are the best after-dinner
llOOu . FliiS pills, aid digestion. 25c.
According to History.

Jasper-I have been reading lot OF
military stuff lately, and it seems to
me wonderful how long SO many OF
the great generals could go without
sleeping.
Jumpuppe-That does not apply to
General Washington, AS nearly as
can Judge, he slept 10 almost every
house in the New England States dur
ing the War of,the Revolution. He must
have spent most of his time sleeping.
New York Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

Singular, isn't it, how lucky some
people are? John Owens, liveryman
at Millerton, N. Y, loaned a horse to
a customer. When he returned the
horses hoofs were balled with snow,
and when the liveryman knocked the
snow out from one of the broken
masses rolled a pocketbook containing
$11 and a small key.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

Mr.. Hogan from Limerick)-O did
OF moind the thrats av i'm as much as
the insultin style av his remarks
Mr.. Grogan (from Galway - And
phat did he say?
Mr.. Hogan-He says to me: Hogan
says he tbs great notion Oh have to
jump ON we and knock your face into
shape
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

A rural exchange from North Caro-
lima says: "A burglar broke INTO we
editors room recently. Ye editor tied
him to the bedpost, got Sc and a crow
bar from him. Call again burglars!
Our latch string is on the outside" At
lanta Constitution.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04

"What are the terms of the mar
rage contract?' asked the English
mans father.
very satisfactory, said the young
man who was to marry the American
heiress. II get 10 per cent of the kin
Telescope receipts New York Jour
nal
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04
A Novelette,.

Without the winter wind howled
dismally.
Zone more mouth to FILL" he NUT
tered.
1t is due to the interests of the truth
to state that he made the remark
quite cheerfully. Being dentist why
should he not?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-04
Cauebt him Coming and Going.

Sufferer-Doctor, paid you a dol
lar to put this porous plaster on my
back, didn't /?
Physician-Yes, sir; though of course
that included the prescript--
Sufferer-That is all right. am
not finding any fault. will give you
two dollars to take it off. Chicago Tri.
bune