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6 AMERICAN SENTIMENTS. The Public Schools Are Nurseries of Patriotism. Extracts Crom a Romarkable Fourth of Jnly Oration by Congressman Bowors at Vory Plain Talk. The Fourth of July oration delivered at Escondido, San Diego County, by Congressman W. W.

Bowers was a remarkable one in many respects and entirely out ot the usual order. It was a bold and manly presentation of the present condition of this country and was full of interest from beginning to end. As printed in the San Diego Am it occupies seven columns of space. We cannot reproduce it iv full, but the following is the closing portion ofit: From official reports we learn that at least one hundred paupers and ex-convicts leave the port of Liverpool each week for the I'nited States. The report, which was made by a special agent of the rovernment, goes on to say: "There is an agent at Liverpool who tikes ex-convicts, sees them on the ship and pays their good behavior money, afler paying their passage to the United States." And this is only one foreign port.

Just here it is propor for me to define what I mean by pauper, a term that does not seem to be fully understood, especially at our County Courthouse. The diil'erence between the pauper and the poor man may be as great as that between the beggar and the king. A largo majority of tho men in this country will always be in one sense poor men; that is, will always be obliged to work at manual labor to support themselves and families; will not have wealth enough to live in idleness. The great mass of paupers in this country are those who "nave no trade, no occupation, no habits of industry; who do not and never did intend to earn their living. In the nature of things the condition of most of the European nations is such as to conduce to the multiplication of paupers.

Tho official reports show that for the thirty days of Aprils ISM, 86,400 immigrants landed at six ports in the United States. Tho report says: "The increase of paupers is alarming: most of the Italians. Polesand Hungarians land inthe l'nited Stales utterly destitute; of these 85,000 landing in April, 13,188 were Italians, Hungarians and Bohemians and 3,220 Poles, a total of 25,156 of the destitute class, the pauper class; over 800 for every day; and we must reckon that of the landing during the same thirty days from other countries we may say are undesirable immigrants, making over 1,000 of the undesirable persons landing upon our shores every day, to be a burden and a curse to tin country." Is not the bare statement of the fact enough to make every thinking American citizen ponder very seriously over the result? Dut this is not all. The Judges of our courts are every day making citizens of these ex-convicts and paufiers, Ignorant and vicious, possessing one qualification for citizenship same possessed by one of these oak. trees of your beautiful and they are given privileges denied tiie American boy, who possesses every other qualificatio a knowledge of tiie history of his native country, of the principle! upon which it is founded morally, mentally and physically, inheriting a vested right inthe privileges and immunities of citizenship by reason ofthe price paid for them by his father.

Who gave his life for them; but he was not bom quite so early in the century as tue ex-convict who left Liverpool last year. If this nation is to continue there must be a change, a radical change, in this respect. To-day all over tho union there are organized bodies of men controlled by persons who are not citizens of this country that absolutely dictate to American workmen and the American employer, absolutely making slaves of American workmen, fixing the time aud place when and where they may work, ordering him a.s a galley slave is ordered to work. No matter if a working man's family be suffering, and he is offered bmployment whereby he may support them, he dare not accept it if they forbid on pain of personal injury if not death, but is condemned to ait idly down and see his fiunily sutler. 1 have said that this was a free llag.

Is it whilo under it thousands of white American citizens aro held a.s much abject slaves ss ever were the negroes in the South, not their employers, but by organizations dominated by foreign adventurers who are working this country for thoir own benefitT Yonr born In tiiis State, 18 or oven 21 years old, is not allowed to lie apprenticed to learn a trade except by tho gracious permission of these organizations; Out'the workman Mho landed from a foreign countiy las) week is allowed to work at and receive wages as soon as he lands. ThiaJs tiie stato of affiurs in this oonntry to-day. you ask me if lam opposed to workingmen's or trades' unions? I will tell you; I am opposed I any and all unions or organizations of men ofany condition tluit nr- SUbverslVi of the principles enunciated in the Declar ration of Independence, and that are embodied in the preamble of tbe Constitution ofthe I nited States. I am opposed to and despise that American citizen who has a wife and children lent npon him few support, for education and guidance, who tamely submits and allows iorcign or domestic rovers and adventurers -who so Ear as giving hostages to society are to take the bread out of the mouths of his wife and children by condemning him to idleness, prohibiting him from earning an honest living for himself and fiunily when he has an opportunity. bat right have these rovers to oppress the women of this country? is organization necessary? Then let those workingmen who have wiveaand children join ther for mutual benefit and protection; break the shackles placed upon them by crafty adventurers and let the rovers herd together by their own unions.

There ill be no trouble arising organizations In which only men with Gun- Dies to support are admitted. Ninetenths oi the trouble and among workingmen in this country ben brought about by rovers and adventurers nun without family tics to Mud them. Let men with families say to those who havenonee "We do not stand equal; you Lave no responsibilities; you havo no thought for but yourself; you ought not, you shall not make my family your prey; you shall not rob us of our fair opportuu urn an honest living, and secure a part of tlie comforts and luxuries Of The American citizen Is of right, and ought to be, a free man. I belielve that the right- of every boy, every man and every woman to learn any horn trade or occupation should not be abridged by w.v In this country, as it now is by this muss of undesirable immigrants, who we may constitute the right wing ofthe is attacking liie institutions of tins country, and that have depressed the value ot American citizenship cheapened it that unless a turn is hounded it will become worthless. The olher wing of the army besieging this country is of a totally dilierent cnaraciar.

but la even more to be feared than the other. It is crafty, persistent r.nd powerful. Its point of attack is the free public schools of the United States. Those destroyed and thoir battle is won. One evening, nearly sixteen years ago, at Dcs Moines, a President of the United States made a brief of the most remarkable speeches ever made in this and always excepting the address of Lincoln at Gettysburg.

I would like to read it all to you but can only make a brief extract. He said: "Let us begin by guarding against every enemy threatening the perpetuity of free republican institutions. In a republic like ours, where the citizen is the sovereign and the official the servant, and where no power is exercised except by the will of tlie people, it is important that the sovereign should possess intelligence. The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, bnt between patriotism and intelligence on one side and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

Encourage free schools, and resolve that not one dollar appropriated to their matter how be appropriated to the support ofany sectarian school. Resolve that neither the State or nation, or both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land the opportunity of ji good common school education, unmixed with se itarian, pagan al luistical elements. matters of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep Church and State entirely separate. With safeguards, 1 believe the battle which created tiie Army of the Tennessee will not have been lbughf in vain." Every true American can say amen to these words.

The attacks upon our free schools grow more violent ami a-e made with greater boldness every day. We hardly realize how effective they have become. Bnt a great State like Wisconsin surrenders her free ol system to foreign she has on is time to i alarmed. Very strong and powerful influences are at work among us to destroy the free school system of the United States. Many foreign powers are aiding and.

i abetting the attempt. You can hardly pick up a magazine that does not have an attack covert or the free schools. Our own country lias furnished a mau. who, after writing and publishing a book condemning the public schools, was called to a high office under the general Government. A prominent writer in the North Review for May last, in an article denouncing the free schools, used these words: ''We do desire religious and practical education for our children, and it is impossible to get cither in our public Bcbools, which are the creation of mediocrity i'or the perpetuation of mediocrities." These words of Maurice Francis Eagan I shall take for my text for what more 1 may say to you to-day.

And lam going to talk plainly as an American should, who believes with Grant, that "the free school is the promoter of that. intelligence which is to preserve ns nation." The free schools were the creation of, and are sustained by the best and highest Intelligence of the land. They aro Bailed by the mediocre and the crafty. By those who would destroy the personal and religious liberty of tlie American people. Mr.

Lagan, nor any otherVhur eh- Lfnan ofany denomination or creed known among men, has any right to look to tho free schools for religious instruction for his children. Give sectarianism to the public schools and strychnine to your children, and the result will bo the same in both cases both will be destroyed. The free schools belong to the State. They are tlie nurseries of patriotism. Had those States which seceded aud attempted to destroy this nation been dotted over with free schools, as is the State of California today, not oue of them could have been persuaded or driven into rebellion.

Nor would all the land have beeu dotted over as it is to-lay with the graves of men shot to death to preserve the Union. No State that nurtured and sustained free schools ever for one moment proved traitor to that tlag. I believe three things only should be taught In the public schools. Tirst, patriotism; second, pure morality; third, tho common branches of an English e.lu■ cation, snd they are of importance in the order named. I believe tlie teaciier who cannot subscribe to that platform is I not projierly qualified for his or her position.

I hold that the first duty ofthe parent or teacher in this country is to teach the youth to grow worthy and true American citizens, all else desirable will follow. The friends of the public schools should say to every church of whatever name, of whatever creed, "Under this llag you liave full liberty to build your i churches and denominational schools to propagate your faith, and none shall molest you so long as you do not inter- fore witii the liberty of others; and you shall be protected by ail the power ofthe nation, but the liberty accorded to you, you must accord to all 1 When God placed our first parents in the gat-den of Eden, giving them dominion "over all the earth and every living thing therein, He commanded of one tree they should not eat. So the American people should say to all the churches: "You have dominion over ay this para-j disc; all yours, save only the public -liools; over tliese you shall not have dominion. Thus saith the spirit ofi American Are you a Methodist? Then teach your children to be Methodists, but first them to be American citizens. Are i (you a Catholic? Then teach your children to be Catholics, but first teach them to be American citizens.

Are you a Democrat? Then, if you think it ia right, teach your children to be Democrats, bui first teach them to be American citizens. And yon, school teachers, teach your pupils mathematics, to read and write, but first teach them their duty as American citizens. As you see I havo written down what I intended to say to you to-day. Whether I have said what 1 have written I do Dot know; 1 submitted it to a friend to look i over, and alter reading It that friend said, i "Are you not afraid tliat this will joopar- i dize your renomination Well, whether it does or not. that is a minor onsidera- tion, and of no interest to anyone bur and bas nothing to do with the ftects I have stand.

Bnt it is to the fear of just such cnse pi. nces by office-holders and office-seekers we owe most of our trouble, so many of them dj're not do not (tive voice to their honest sentiments, dare hardly speak in favor of American citizenship for har they will lose vol and they take tluir 9 from tho policy of thoir respective political parties. It is time for a change of froni, and if it be treason to my political party to declare my opposition to this onrestru ted immigration; my opposition to tin making of citizens ofthe ex-convicts and paupers of I assisted to reach tliis countiy 1 foreign nations; my opposition to giving immigrants special privileges over our own people; my opposition to allowing foreigners, not citizens of the Unil States, to dictate to and crowd out our own Workmen, to forbid OUT American learning any CSSpectable trade in country; my opposition allowing hydra-headed sectarianism to lay a ii on the publio schools, to touch a single I oneof them with one of its bo it. declare my opposition to all these things, now and hereafter. And if the penalty is to be relegated to SACRAMENTO DAILY RECOKP-UyiOy, MONDAT, JXTLY 13, PAGES.

obscurity, then welcome the deepest obscurity, rather than the publicity of any oilice obtained by having been something less thau a man, worthy to be called ah American citizen. THE LEPEVRE-SCHAD AFFAIR. Isadore Schad Was Not Arrested, as Had Been Intended. It was stated in the Rkoord-Uxion on Saturday that the police had arrested Isadore Schad in connection with tho attack on Roy Lefevrc on Friday night. It was long alter midnight when the faet3 of the alleged attempt on Lefevre's life were learned from the police, and at that hour the officer having charge of the matter expressed his intention of immediately arresting Schad.

lt appears, however, that on further inquiry into the affair the officer became satisfied that there was no occasion for Schad's arrest, and it was not made. Mr. Schad says he can prove that he was in bed at tho time Lefevre claims to have been assaulted, fnrthcrmi re thai ho entertains the utmost unconcern regarding the young man and ins relations with Mrs. Schad, from whom he had permanently separate! I. SOCIAL AND FERSONAL.

Judgo Catlin is home from tho north. W. B. Mi-okfessel has gone on a visit to the seaside. A.

C. Scott i.s recovering from liis reoeiii illness. M. S. Schnabel of Newcastle i.s at tho Capital Hotel.

Mrs. Hoover of Elk has pone to Mendocino Oounty on a Judge George E. Williams of Placerville is registered at the Capital Hotel. P. Glenn and E.

Wilson of arc registered a( ths Golden Eagle Hotel. Mrs. M. J. Ailen oi Akron, Ohio, is at Vs hite Rook visiting her sister, Mrs.

J. E. Butlor. George B. Greene of Courtland and T.

J. Stephenson of Franklin are at the Capital Hotel. E. A. Itoberts, Register oi" the United Stales Land Uliee, is en a visit to his old home in Grass Valley.

The Misses Davis of Oakland aro on a visit to E. 1.. Tom lor of Rough and Ready, Nevada Cbunty. Mrs. W.

C. Pitch and hor daughter, Miss irma Pitch, tho talented vocalist, are visiting at Monterey. Miss Evelyn Arnold of Polaom is visiting her father in San Erancisco, and will remain there several weeks. Miss Led la Peltfc of( tekland. who had been visiting Miss Eda Wallace for two weeks has returned horn Misses Mary Louise and Mary M.

I fo'dstoneofSau Erancisco arr the guests of Simon Cohn and Family Eolsom. Mrs. Prank Southaek and fiunfly of Francisco are visiting tbe former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bailey.

Delia and Mabel Emmons, who had been visiting Mrs. EL Morgan of vada City, have returned to San Francisco. Mrs. Joseph Stamper and her daughter Leah, who had been visiting Jacob Hym.in and wife of Folsom, have returned home. Miss Emma Quick of San Francisco is visiting Mrs.

C. P. Loughridge of vada City and Miss Eva of Grass William F. Bin-bank, of tlie Oakland Enquirer stalf. passed tlirough the city yesterday, on Ids way home from his vacation at Lake Tahoe.

Mis? Annie Bennett and Will Curtin of San Francisco, who have been visiting -Mrs. Frank Powell of Folsom, will leave with her ibr the city this week. Mrs. William Morgan and Miss Rachel Morgan of Nevada ('ity are in Oakland, visiting Miss Carrie Xafi'ziger, after which they will visit Santa Cruz. Miaa Mary Meyer, who haa been visiting her sister, Mrs.

A. Slumenthal, of Nevada City, has returned San Francisco, accompanied by Mrs. Blumenthal and her children. Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Ward Iloole of Chico have issued invitations to the wedding reception of their niece. Miss Neelie Gilbert Van Huesi and Allen Cole Wagner, on next Thursday evening. W. R. Daily, the well-known young theatrical manager and journalist, was in Che city yesterday.

Hehasiust returned from the Fast, and is en route to San Francisco, booking his attractions. A New Yerk correspondent writes to a San Francisco paper that "Oscar A. Benn-tt of Sacramento has been giving newspaper reporters a lecture on the placer and mines of E. C. Rust, ofthe Winters was in town on Saturday on his way to Amador County.

Ruse is the Secretary of the California Press Association, and reports the organisation ia a most nourishing condition. Judge Niles Searls and wife of Nevada City are in San Francisco, whence, with Robert McMurray and wife, will take a trip for health and pleasure. If Mrs. Searls is strong enough to stand the journey, they will go to the Yellowstone i'ark. If not, they will visit Santa Cmz and Facitic irove.

H. Burnham left Folsom a few days since for his annual outing among tha trout streams and lakes in the mountains. He wili remain until about the Ist of August. He had with him a complete outfit for a sportsman. Mr.

Burnham is an accomplished angler, a first-class shot and an adept in outdoor sporting and knows how to got a big lot of en joy menl out of Atrip of this kind. His daughter Nano accompanied him. I Friday evening a number of young people called npon Miss-Ruby Merkeley hi tne, Bouth of tbe oty, where a pleasant time was enjoyed. Thoso present were: Bert Tozer, Frank Dray, Davenport Ered Simmons, Cyrus Miller, Al Trainor, 1-rank Trainor, Harry Jones, Henry Kleinsorge, S. Luke Howe, Win.

Howe, Homer McKee, Mabel Deming, Edna Lewis. RitaColclow, Edna Carroll, Cora and Nellie Mott, Pauline Foster. Lucy Abbott. Grace Dixon, Trudie Maydweli, Flla Klotz, Ida Ing. iva Hughson, Mis- Sherburn.

Arrivals the Capital Hotel yesterday: O. B. Guthrieand wife, Homestead; Geo. li. Greene.

CourtismL W. J. Chappelle and wife, Limited Mail Company; G. W. King.

Dixon: Wm. J. McGee, Jackson; P. A. Pidcles, Latrobe; P.

J. Stephenson, Franklin; C. V. Ho ward, Truckee; M.s. Schnabei, Newcastle; T.

Richardson and faniily, Oklahoma; S. Hibben, Los Angeles: Mrs. M. c. Kirk, Spokane, E.

C. Jobson, Sacramento; W. I. Hammon and family. Oakland; G.

Kini'tli and daughter, Biggs; John Crofton, Courtland: Mrs. Annie Chotfield, Biggs; Miss I. Woodbridge; Reuben Clark, Williams; C. N. Stegiuan, Frauciscn; E.

A. Mitchell, Newcastle; Geo. F. Willijinis, Placerville. Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel Yesterday: F.

B. Glenn, E. Wilson, Jacinto; S. Mitchell, Visalia; Fawtlev, Snn Francisco: B. Dean, Wm.

H. WhartT and wife. A. Applr ton, F. Davis, San Francisco; George J.

Sawyer and wife, Chicago; C. K. Grosjean. San Francisco; H. Soulier, Cedar Rapids; T.

Bennett. San Francisco: F. M. Tillotsen, Denver; Jos. Friebis, Miiwjiukce; 11.

M. Stich, San Francisco; C. Selllnger, city: F. J. H.

Kehlbeck, J. Thompson, San Francisco; s. T. Mowder. Woodland; L.

Hartman, Balttmore; fi. CL Worthington. Centralia, 11. 11. AmsbUrg, Ashland, Mrs.

VY. C. GaSS, Miss Sybil Simpson, city; H. P. Jaloruuk, K.

C. 11. Dunston. San Francisco; Prank V. Sleeth, Hugh Sleeth, Philadelphia; D.

Mc- Qttiddy, San Francisco; A. L. Hart, Fresno; M. C. Marsh, Los Angt les; H.

M. Furman, Stockton: W. F. Nichols, J. D.

Houser, Jos. F. Valentino and wife, Jno. Caslin, D. Gunn, D.

Barnes, Jno. H. Hawley, San Francisco. Konl Estate at Auctlou. On Thursdaj- next at 10 o'clock A.

Bell Co. will sell at auction on tho (iremiMS, tho west hfttf of lot 2, in tha bounded by Twenty-first, Twentysecond, and stroots. Tho lot is 40x160 feet, aud has a pood two-story hotzse of seven rooms and bath, hot and cold water, closets, pantrys; also a good barn. SEWAGE DISPOSAL. Interesting Paper on the Subject By a Sanitarian.

The Workings of the Precipitation System at Wimbledon, Tlio Effluent Can Be Advantageously Applied to Irrigation. A lato issue of the Belleville (New Jersey) Press, edited by F. Reid Miller, son Of Frank Miller, the Cashier of tlie National Bank of D. Mills Co. of this city, contains a letter from a nt rigning himself "Sanitarian," which I will be found foil of interest to Saoramen- I tans just at tliis time.

It answers fully the questions propounded by several of our correspondents lately. The coriej spondent says: In a recent issue 1 pointed out to your readers thai the sewage plan proposed by the city of Orange, as shown by their j- pamphlet, crude in oona 1., foolinb as an economic measnn and in open violation of the sanitary laws of tho State, liet me Btate that tft'ore are always two ji j.i principles to be considered in any age system. Tbo iirst is i ffirfency, the second is economy, lnan efficient I sewage system the waste must bedisin! fi ud, deodorised, purified and claridttl. hould also be utilized in Borne way. And there nidnber of method which this being in tSur own count ry.

1 have had several opportunities of seeing one of theso methods in practical -ation at England, and is an American one, my in- I rest was naturally increased. Itis wellknown that many efforts bave.been made of lato years in the direction of purifying and utilizing impure liquids, as tho waste from chemical add other factories. The separation of the suspended matis accomplished eithci by collecting the liquid in tanks, allowing time for the subsidence of the solids or by filtering through suitable mediums. If tho subsidence is slow, owing to tho fact tbat the specific gravity of tbe led solids is uearly equal to that oi the liquid in which they are suspended, then the process of subsidence accelerdby intermixing in the liquid oneof several well-known substances that have now 1 mg been used for such purposes as, example, lime or alum. This procedure is known as precipitation, but the fault with the older method nas been fha! this process only throws down a limited portion of tho deleterious matter, effluent would, carrj otf with it many substances tbat were harmful from a sanitary point of view.

Tlds was the condition of things in 1884, when a Royal Commission on metropolitan sewage discharge printed report. sine" then, however, under the impetus, doubtless, ofthe Biver Pollution Bill, passed by Parliament in 1885, many inventors have been at work, and it seems that a satisfactory solution of the question has been reached, though the processes may be still further improved, perhaps, or their utility extended in some re! spects. Al any rate, the "Amines" proc I saw it in tbe autumn of 1889, seemed to be the perfection of plans. Invented by Mr. Wollheim, a Xew Yorker, it obtains its name from making use of certain organic bases belonging to the chemical group of amines ammonia compounds.

The modus operand! is as follows Tiie amines are used either pure or in the form of amine salts, or in one of the numerous substances containing them, and they are used in combination with lime, preferably the milk of lime. The proportions used vary, according to the nature of the sewage. At present herring brine is the most abundant, cheapest and most convenient substance that contains the amines. Its price is nominal, because the empty herring barrels can be obtained in Holland at a nominal price. This brine ia introduced into the freshly-made milk of lime of the consistency oi a thin cream.

It is immediately decomposed, and a very soluble, new gaseous reagent is evolved, to I which the inventor has giv; the name It has a peculiar briny odor, similar to that oi'tho Seabreeze blowing i over seaweed, as on a rocky coast at low tide. This reagent is a very powerful disinfectant. When introduced into sewage it rapidly destroys all the mieio-organisms tiiat are associated with putrefaction or disease. Tho further steps in the process are described in an PJnglish journal, August fi, 1889, as follows: "The disinfectant mixture i.s added to the aewage as issuing from the sewers, ftnd is thoroughly intermixed with tlie a age by ordinary mechanical appliances. The etlect is almost instantaneous.

By theacti of the limo violent llocculai ion is set up, and the suspended matters tend to subside. Simultaneously tho putrid smell of the sewage is replaced by the peculiar brine odor of the reagent. In this state tin- sewage flows into settimg tanks. There the subsidence of the solids takes place at a rapid rate. When it js complete (in a depth of feet it takes only an hour) the brilliantly clear and bright supernatant liquid effluent, completely deodorized ana disinfected, may be discharged with perfect safety.

To lish life it is innocuous when diluted with i more thau ten Limes its volume Of water, but it contains in solution fertilizing principles, and it may. therefore, be advantageously applied to irrigation. Tho precipitate remaining at the bottom of th-- tanks is also of the same briny odor as the effluent, and free from any tendency to putrefaction. It. may, consequently, be loft exposed, without the least risk of nuisance, for any length of time, in midsummer.

It is brownish yi Ilow in color, and lacks entirely the slimy app aranceof ordinary sludge. Its quantity does not exceed that resulting from otiier treatments. The manurial value of the sludge ia stated to be somewhat above that Ofthe best farm-yard manure. When the fresh sludge resulting from the liis: treatment is fortified by the addition of one-fifth of the quantity of disinfecting mixture originally Used, another volume of sewage equal to the first will lie treated by it with like effect, and the same operation may be performed athird time after the affluent from the second has been drawn oil. This feature reduces the final est to nearly one-half of what it would otherwise be.

Tlie uses to which the sludge may be finally put arc many. When taken from the tanks it contains over SO per cent, of moisture. After draining it of a largo portion of the same in special settling tanks it will be available for tilling up low-lying lands. If it is to be used as manure it is reduced in filter presses in solid cake, but it can be still fUrther reduced in bulk and weight by I air drying and crushing to a line powder. "There are other valuable principles beside the manurial contained in the cake and also in the powder.

It is believed, from experiments now in progress, that means will soon be found for extracting and utilizing the same with a fair margin jof profit. The cost of the process as re, gards materials ased naturally varies with the conditions and requirements in each particular case, ln round figures it may bo stated to bo from Ad to id per 1,000 gallons treated. In the case of the Loni don sewage, taking the daily flow as gallons, the cost need not exceed £330 daily, equal to be about .4125,000 an- I nually, which means 7Jd per head of pop: ulation, or a rate below Id in the pound." Tho chief argument that has heretofore been used against precipitation methods lis that the sludge cannot be utilized. At the present time it is true that It cannot bo sold at prices to balance the cost, but both tho effluent and sludge possess special properties, which render them I availablo for agricultural and commercial purposes, and which, iii timo, if not now, can be made to yield a return that will go a great way toward repaying the cost of the plant and process. On tho Wimbledon favm, 1 was told that the sludge had boon used so successfully that land yiolded, upder its use, three.

crops instead of one in a single seagou. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Thoy ITavo a Grand Time at Folsom and Oraiurevr.lo. District Deputy Grand Chancellor Chris Wilkie, of District It! of the Grand Jurisdiction of California, Knights of Pythias, accompanied by a score of Past Chancellors an.l Knights, went to Folsom on Saturday evening, where he installed th.c newly elected ofiicers of Folsom i. Xo.

167. The acting grand officers selected by the District Deputy were: banceiior, H. Hirsch; Grand Vice-Chancellor, Arthur O'Neill; Grand Prelate, Aiiih-r: Grand MLaster-at- Arms. W. old fit id: Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, J.

H. Liggett; Grand Master of Kinance, ftoffolt; Grand of Exchequer, W. A. Gilbert: Grand Inner Guard, L. Pb-cr; Grand Outer Guard, Douglas.

The installed officers were; Chancellor Commander, Fred Taylor; Viee-Chancel-1 P. Cox; Prelate, A. F. Forth Master-at-Arms, Masick; Inner Guard, (ieorge Watson; Outer Guard, J. B.

Leonard. When i he installation ceremonies were over the Knights and their lady friends repaired to the banquet-room, where an elegant repast was spread. After they baa done ample justice to the bountiful supply of eatables provided by the local lodge, a dance was inaugurated and the festivities continued until a late hour. The Sjicramento team worked in the amplified tiiird, aud tho Grand Orient Degree was conferred upon live candidates. Yesterday morning, through the courtesy of Knight Thomas Regbey, the visitors were permitted to make a tour through the Prison, where much of interest wns to be seen.

The return trip was made by wav of Orangevale. The members of the visiting delegation wiil always retain pleasant memories of this bappy occasion. PLUCK ON WHEELS. A Tonus san Franclsoo 'Cyclist's lioiiKh Mountain Last evening about 0 o'clock J. M.

KreisS, of the Lay City Wheelmen arrived in this city afler a long trip on his safety bycicle to Lake Tahoe and vicinity. He left Sacramento just two weeks ago yesterday, and made Nevada City before dark on that day. From there he struck out over the mountainous road to Tahoe. After spending a day in riding around the lake, be Started homeward, and reached tlu-- city yesterday after a ride of ninty-five miles during the day. The total distance traveled was 550 miles, and Mr.

Kreiss appears to be none the worse for his rough experience. All that lie carried was a small bundle tied to tho handle of his machine, and a knife and pistol which he bad strapped to a belt at ids waist. lie was attired in an ordinary bycicle suit. A number of the Capital City Wheelmen of this city met him, and congratulated him on his successful and daring trip. BRIEF NOTES.

The closing exercises of the Marguerite Kindergarten, at Twenty-third and streets, will take place at 10 o'clock next Friday morning. P. 11. Dodge was arrested on Saturday on a warrant Issued at the instance of W. H.

Llewellyn, who alleges that Dodge disturbed his peace. Ex-Chief M. O'Meara of the Fire Department has again disappeared from tho city, and his triends claim to bo ignorant of his whereabouts. The report of the City Auditor shows that the receipts from l'olice Court fines last week were The amount imposed was just more. Maretta Keal has been granted letters of guardianship over the person and estate of her mother, Mary RiChardson, an incompetent.

A bond was given in the sum of $1,000. A lady's black basque, trimmed with velvet braid, was found on Saturday evening on street, betweeu Ninth and Tenth, and brought to the police-station. The owner can have the property by calling for it. Tlio newly-elected officers ofthe Liquor Dealers' Association are: Fresident, li. F.

Dillman, re-elected; First Vice-President, B. B. Brown; Second Vice-President, P. Van Guelder; Secretary, K. Barnett; Treasurer, Frank Kulistaller; Sergeanta'-A rms, Peter Flaherty; Executive Committee, Arthur Miller, J.

11. Corbin, Geo. Lichthardt, J. Gilbert, M. S.

Nevis, M. Cronan, L. Nicholans, M. Gattmann, and the President and Secretary. THE CONCERT.

It Drew Out tho Larproat Crowd of the Season I-oat Evening. Without a doubt the largest gathering ever assembled at an open-air concert was at the Plaza last ovening to listen to the excellently arranged concert giv. by the Hussar Band, of which Pedro Cortes is the director. No. 6, a piccolo solo, by Mr.

Cortes, showed tlie ability of this youug musician on thai instrument. Ho was oncored to the echo, to which he responded, and Bbould have responded a third time, so enthusiastic was the demand therefor. Mr. Out. slicing not only a musical director and piccolo player of great ability, has bnt few equals and DO superiors on thesaxaphone on this cojisl.

No. 7. a potpourri from "ii Trovatonv' arranged especially iur this band and played, with the aid of ix anvils, was highly appreciated, as wns shown by the bearty applause which followed; but owing to the lack of lime the baud did not respond. the comic fantasia, "Tlio Musicians Strike," was a feature of the evening. Each musician in turn quietly lelt tlie conductor to "chop wind" for his own amusement, with no band under his control.

This niece was also loudly applauded. The next concert Avill be given by Hussar Kand at the Plaza on Wednesday evening of this week, commencing ut o'clock. A Future Diplomat. Smart can I dipr up the garden for you to plant your flowers? a thounhtfu! boy! Yes, dear, and here's 10 cents. I'm sure no Other woman in this neighborhood has snch a kind, thoughtful mother's boy as mine.

And then that kind, thoughtful mother's boy goes triumphant lv forth and says aloud, so that all may hear who listen: 'Bully! I ditln't at first sco howl was to get them worms without her linding out that I was goin' fishin'. You bot, I'm a Magazine Used in Millions of 40 Years the Highest of all in Leavening S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889, PURE Rad Blood. Impure or vitiated blood is nine times out oi ten caused by some form of constipation or indigestion that clegs up tbe when tbe blood naturally becomes impregnated with the ei- I fete matter.

Theold Sarsaparillas attempt to reach tbis condition by attacking the blood with the drastic mineral "potash." The potash theory is and obsolete. Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla i3 modern. It goes to the scat of the trouble. It irouscs thc liver, kidneys and bowels to healthful action, and invigorates the circulation, and the impurities are quickly carried off through natural channels. Try it and note its delightful ictioJ.

Chas. Lee, at Beamish's Third and Market Streets, 8. i-rritcs: "I took it for vitiated and wliile on the first bot- lc became convinced of its mer- ts, for 1 could feel it was work- ng a change. It cleansed, puri- led and braced me up generally, ind everything is now working full and regular." Vegetable 0y Sarsaparilla DR.ABERNETHY'S JL BRANDY. Oures CRAMPS and COLIC I It is all that you claim for it, recommend every family to have it in their house.

WM Sacramento. A valuable aid to digestion, and sure to bc appreciated bv as its good qualities become known. H- HARKNESS. M. D.

Qoticea. L. 1., NO. 17-MEETINO THIS (MON- EVENING al 7:30 o'clock; election 01 officers. JOSIE J.

UEOAN, President. Maby A. Naqub, Becretary. it pAPITAi, REPDBLICAN UNION LEA( iVK will meet for election of officers TUESDAY IA ENING, July nth, at 8 o'clock, at Courthouse. All desiring to join will And membership roll at the office of Frank Hickman.

101 i l-ourth street, until Tuesday owning. WM. FETKIE. President. H.

it MAN AND WIFE. SECUyy ation on ranch or hotel. Address C. 815 street. SITUATION BT A FlRSTclass engineer; would have no objection to running a tmediing engine; is competent and capable.

Address J. E. FAKREEL Sacramento Postomee. ON PANTS; pay. Bteady work.

OOP street. WANTED-TO EXCHANGE. A Fl Its Tclass sewing machine tor a good young hone. Addiess letter to F. H.

CLEMENS 1524 street, Sacramento. WA NTED GIRL FOR GENERAL housework. Apply at 717 st. JyT-tf WANTED-A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN to do Uousework. Apply at 1724 street.

Jy.7"l* WANTED-100 nEAD OF STOCK TO ranch; line feed; 8 miles from Sacramento on Volo side; terms, 25 per month. Inqalre of EDWIN K. ALSIP or on farm of J. 11. ZACHARIAS.

WANTED-FIVE GENTLEMEN. WIDE awake, with good addres-; salarv or eommission. Apply to THE MANUFACiURING 703 street. WANTED-MEN FOR FARMS, VlNEyanls, dairies and all kinds of labor; women and ijiils for cooking and general housework; of work tor desirable hplp. Apply at EMPLOYMENT OFFICE, Fourth street, and L.

Set ov TO ON TWENTY-FIFTH stre. t. between and stretts, Inquire oi Mm LIKE, street. Tl) ITE OF FCRNISHifIJ KRUNT rcoms, wuh kitchen, for Ught housekeeping. 1528, corner Second and sts.

STREET sur.ny rooms to rent, with bath; central location to business. OP FTVE ROOMS AND JL stable; reut 97 per month. Inquire ot M. DUFFY. 1100 ,1 street, OF NINE ROOMS.

gas, in good repair, at 7is Eighth streei. Inquire at 722 Eigftth street. rr-xs LET-A SUITE OF FURNISHED rooms with board, also single 1 ii street. FOR NICELY FIJRNISI ft: i i iront rooms, single or en suite, for light street, jyl-tt mO LET-A HOUSE WITH BASE- meat; in alley. and Thirteenth and Fourteenth.

Inqnirc at 710 Lstreet HOTEL OF 100 EtOOMS, 7vLL FURnished.i'uil of hoarders and o.Ticrs, to lease; best location, uiquiic at k.ot Foarth. FURNISHED ROOMS AT CENTRAL House from S5 pcr montli upward: also faniily rooms at low nrices. HORNLEIN Propiietors. gov IX)R SALE-FORTY OOOD HEAD OF mileiicows. Apply at MRS.

H. N. BENT- I.EV'S RANCH, live miles up the river on the Volo side. COR SALE-NICE LiODGING-HOTTSE OF V. ten rcoms, well loratcd.

Addres; P. O. Box "ill, Si.c anu nto. IjlOR SALE-OR FXCiIANGE FOR REAL estate, a saloon doing a good business. Address SALOON KEEPER, this office.Jyll-6* FOR SPAN OF YOL'NgTsOUND drai: i.orsis.

harness uuu wagoq. Ajiply at Thirtieth and --treets. ffOR SALE-140 ACRE3 OF RECLAIMED land on Grand Island. Sacraniento CO tin I fronting on Old River, between Walnut Grove and Isteton: orchard of pears, plums and quinces; will be sold at a bargain. For terms and particulars inquire at this office or at tlie U.

S. Land Office, San Francisco. jy l-tf FINE THOROUGHbred Jersey heifers. Appiv at 15150 street. IpOR GOOD ICE CHEST, TEN feet long and eight feet high.

Inquiie at tnis office. IjlOR SALE-oNE THE PINEST AND 1 jar res; saloons In city; extra family extronce; 'xst location; stocit and icase. Inquire at this office. FOR SALE OR TO RENT ON LEAS 12--ten acres of bot'o 11 Und. one mile below Washington, Volo connty; if sold win take small aymer.t uown.

Apply to EDWIN K. ALSIP ct R-al ite and Insurance Agents, 1015 Fourth ttreet. Qoticee. DISCOLORED LACE, SILKS AND VELvet made like new. Charges reasonable; 815 Thirieenth street ITTUIE HERMIT OF MOUNT great Sierra prophet, fortune teller and Indian doctor, 1225 Fst.

Business consultation fl upward; medical consultation free. mHE WEEKLY UNION IS ONLJTfTso -JL per year. A CAPAI OUR Busy Fm it-Growers in a Pretty Yolo and Iti Adjoining Farms. TN THE SPRING OF LAST YEAS Robert A. and Neal D.

Barker themselves with William McKay, all of Oakland, with a view of searching out a suitably location In whloh to engage in tho profitable occupation of fruit-growing. After visiting totalities, they decided 0:1 tho Capay Valloy, Yolo Couniy, aad the Khodes at Tancred. Negotiations were opened with Um Capay Valley Land Company, owning tiio tract in question. With 11. miia, the, General Agent of that company, they arranged for the purchaseof about 220 aerosol foothill land.

This being more than they thought of taking for their own use, thoy spoke to a number of friends about it, with tho result that the tract was divided among tho Ing people: B. L. lltckok, 40 acres; W. T. Barnett, 20 acres; N.

T. Greathead, 20 aorer, Mrs. L. Greathead. 20 acres; W.

McKay, 23 acres; N. D. Barker, 20 acres; R. A. Barker, 20 acres; J.

P. Brownlee, 20 acres; E. H. lett, lOacres; Joseph Barker, 10 acres; A. W.

Kelly, 10 mam, and Frederick Kelly. 10 acres. So far this had boen merely a iirlvato venture of the gentlemen above named, but In talking up tho question 01 dividing tho land already purchased, lt was lound that so many moro would like to Join lt than thearea of the purchase would admit of, that it was suggested on all hands, "Why not get some mora land and divido lt up in the same way?" Then followed the idea of a stock company to take hold of a larger traet and arrango for the cultivation of the wholeof It, after subdividing It according to the requirements of the subscribers. A provisional board was formed, a prospectus issued, and finally, on tho Sth of June, 1890, the Western Co-operative Colon Izatlor and Improvement Company waa duly registered and proceeded to business, with the following officers: President, William McKay; Vice-President, M. P.

Brown; C. Ellis, Charles Brooke and B. A. Barker; Secretary and General Manage Neal D. Barker; Solicitor.

C. E. Snook; urer, First National Bank of Oakland. Thc balanco of the tract, 373 acres, was pur. chased.

A contract was entered into Tor the purchase or a largo number of fruit trees, vines, etc. This early purchase of WU the means of saving between $0,000 and $4,000 to the company, the prices in some cases having moro than doubled since then. Tho ideai which the prospectus set forth havo been but slightly modified and the progress or the company has been uninterrupted. Those who weut Into it doubtlngly have become enthusiastio, and almost all the members arranged to set out all their lands in lrult trees, the first year. Consequently in this, the flrst season, some 40,000 treea and between 20.000 and 30.000 vines will be planted.

The satisfactory working of this scheme has had the eflect of attracting considerable attention to the work of tho Colony-Company, and a number of people are now desirous of Joining in with them. An additional 200 acres have been added to the sixty acres originally purchased. For the company is predicted a very bright future, as well as for the beautiful valley in which their operations aro conducted. How this marvelous little garden bas como to be so long neglected is a puzzle to every one who has visited it, but one thing is very and that is that this neglect will never again be lelt in the valley. The fruits set out are mostly or the sUindard varieties--peaches, apricots, Bartlett pours, prunes, figs, raisin graphs, while ulong both sides of the avenues, throughout the tract, walnuts will throw their grateful shade.

A considerable number or citrus trees are also being set out; quite a sufficient number to demonstrate that these fruits can be successfully grown in the valloy, about whieh tho colonists appear to have no doubt, provided proper care is given to the young trees. Neal D. Barker, General Manager of compauy, resides on the tract, sind to his care Is to be ascribed much of the success or the venture. Mention should be made of the town-site, about which there is a pleasant innovation which might with profit be followed by more ambitious places. A small park of some three acres has been laid out right in the center of the town.

This park it ls proposed to beautify by planting in it from timo to time as muny of the beauties aad curiosities of tree and shrub life as may bo obtained by diligent search and a wise expenditure of money. It lsnot expected that Tancred will ever be a Itirge and busy city, but it is thought that it can be made a very pleasant little place to dwell ln. A petition has been circulated recently and very largely signed, asking the county to oept Island avenue, on the colony tract, as a county road, ana to build a bridge across Cache Creek at this point, in order to Rive tho settlers on the east side of the creek accews to Tancred Station. The Tancred colonists quite willing to give the necessary right of way, and are verv desirous of having a bridge there, as the colony lands extend along both sides of the stream. It ls thought that it would be a very wise expenditure of pubila sionuy to grant them thi9 very necessary Improvement, as the operations or such companies arc or widespread benefit to tho whole county and State.

The. at tractions and com- forts of thc cities aro well known, but to those who are willing to settleon the land and Bhow that the country also afTord-- attractions i and comforts, and ways of making money pleasantly, every inducement should be held i forth. The following Ifl a list of the principal mem. bers of the Tancred Colony, with the number of acres owned by each, and a fact worthy of mention is that in euch contract or deed is- I sued by the Colony Compauy there is a pro-1 vision that no intoxicating liquor shall ever be manufactured or sold on the land. Tho apparent success of thc enterprise shows tliat the ideas und plans of the colony, as set forth inthe prospectus some time ago, aro not im- I practicable: C.

T. Hull, Berkeley, 5 acros; W. P. Hammond, Oakland, 14 acres; C. 8.

Kas! son, JSan Francisco, 11 acres; Jos. Barker, IO acres; A. W. Kelly, Kincardine, 5 acres; T. Greathead, 5 acres; K.

G. Greathead, Oakland, 10 acres; tt. A. Barker, San Frani Cisco, 10 acres; N. D.

Barker, Tancred, 10 acres; Dr. K. Favor, San Francisco, 27 ucres; J. P. Brownlee, Kincardine, acres; W.

T. Barnett, Berkeley, 5 acres; M. P. Brown, 10 acres; Chas. Brook, Oakland, 10 acres; I C.

Boutelle, Berkeley, 20 acres; Mrs. T. A. Crellin, Oakland, 5 acres; C. ii.

Feaci-, Tancred, 5 acres; H. C. Ellis, Oakland, 10acres; J. Vanstone, Winnipeg, lOacres; E. A.

Vaui atoxxc, Tancred, 5 acres; E. Wadsworth, iKtmento, 6 acres; M. A. Thomas, Oaklaucl, tf acres; James Graham. San Francisco, 11 acres; A.

Stark, 12 acres; J. Stark, 10 acres; M. Vrooman, 5 acres; C. E. Snook.

IO acres; 0. T. Greathead, 12 acres; Wm. Mc; Kay, 5 acres; Mrs. Wm.

McKay, Oakland, 5 acres; Mrs. E. C. Wooley, Brooklyn, N. IO Mrs.

BL Beckiey, Oakland, 5 acres; T. A. Marriett, 5 acres; J. C. Harrison, Tancred.

i acres. The land reserved by the Colony Compauy, including townsite, consists of ul i.