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WAKEMAN'S WANDERINGS. The Poet Traveler's Peeps at Norway—VIIL Fascinating Discursive Talks About ; Its Goodly Folk and Magnificent ! Scenery—Quaint Churchyards and i Curious Customs—Some Wondrous ! Nature Spectacles Described—The Itomsdal and the Naerodal—Water- falls Twenty Times Higher Than Klagara—Scenes of Grandeur aud Sublimity. [Special Correspondence of tho Record- Umxon. Copyright 1593.] London, Nov. 30, 1893. There is much about Norwegian scenery, scenes and incidents worth re- lating discursively, which is likely to prove helpful to succeeding travelers, in their experiences, or entertaining to i readers who can only travel in this stern i and mighty land of the north by the not ; Unpleasant journeyings of fancy with j kindly tempered writers for their willing j guides. There are no roadside shrines, save of nature's exclusive handiwork, in all Is'orway. Indeed one traveling along the grand stone roadways almost feels a long- ing for those mute connecting links of j human and spiritual interest. Groups of peasants kneeling before cross or eiligy, or beside consecrated fountiin, are here never seen. The only objects by the way- side to possibly pique curiosity of inter- est are upright stone posts on which are cut or painted enigmatic figures. Not even an antiquarian sentiment can be conjured by these. Their significance is very great however to the landed pro- prietors, for they relate with nice exacti- tude the number of meters each is com- pelled to keep in perfect repair in sum- I mer and wholly clear of drift snow and J other obstructions in winter. All law is I enforced with absolute impartiality in { Is'orway, and that is why the country has | the linest roads in the world aud has also been transformed, in scarcely more than j a generation of time, from a nation of j drinkers and almost sodden drunkards, with all accompanying evils, to a land of sobriety, cleanliness, amplitude and con- tent. Jordbaertor strawberries almost con- stitute a national dish in Norway. In- deed, I have often thought that these matchless berries, "A' the sweeter they are wee," are a providential compensation and pro- vision to the folk of the high latitudes. I have found them in my wanderings growing wild in greatest luxuriance in high latitudes, in Norway, the Highlands of Scotland and the Shetland and Orkney j Islands, even in dreary Labrador, and in where, in the early days, I saw j miles of the then trackless prairies crim- j son in hue from tho then ripening fruit. They are so universal and plentiful in j their wild state that there is no necessity ; for their cultivation. The markets of \u25a0 Bergen, Stevanger and Throndhjem are j lairly odorous with this delicious fruit, i At every station, at every home and in every hotel in Norway they are securable morning, noon and night, and at all places rich cream is served with them. Where- ever travelers may go, upon busy or un- frequented highways, or even along lone mountain paths, they are everywhere for the picking; and if one is too lazy to help himself to nature's largess, blue-eyed, flaxen-haired children are everywhere at j hand with tempting baskets, which are i yours for the most trilling return iv coin j Avhich you are willing to bestow. In- i deed, so universal is this custom of straw- berry eiviner and selling that a perlect j typification of Norwegian childhood in j summer would be formed, in paiuting or sculpture, by the figure of a ragged, Kiniliug-laced, yellow-headed urchin j standing at the roadside with upheld basket of jordbaert in tiny, horny hand, and hopeful, expectant look in kindly eyes of blue. The tiny Norwegian graveyards beside the mountain churches will have a ! peculiar interest to every traveler iv and j out of the way districts. They have a i certain primness, desolation aud yet wild and uncouth seeming of nature's kindly prodigality of every living thing in green jibout them that give them a strange and \ impressive character. The churches j themselves are curious little boxes, and | possess a peculiar air of austerity and solemnity, as if built with tiie sole pur- pose of contrasting the infantile eitort of man with the majestic evidence of the Creator's power everywhere surrounding j them. The churchyard, which is also the j graveyard, usually surrounds the entire I church, and is often filled or richly bor- | dered with mournful tirs and evergreens. The numberless high, rounded and prettily-sodded mounus can scarcely be seen for the wild maze of evergreens, plants and llowers. Beside nearly all the I graves, or family burial-plots—a peculi- ! arity 1 have not noticed in any other ! country—are benches or rustic wooden j settees, to which tne mourners come and ] muse among the memories of the j loved ones at rest beneath. There are j lew headstones. Instead there are crosses j ofblackened wood, intensifying the sol- \u25a0 emn suggestiveness of the place. The Is'orse are not given to eifusive inscrip- tions, and the transverse beam of each black cross usually has but two lines. The first begins witli fod (boruj. and the | Becoud with tod (died;. There is onlyoc- • casioually added a verse of scripture, i upon the pediment, expressing the uni- versal Christian faith in immortality. lv leisurely traveling through Norway, where one from vagarous impulse or ne- cessity is likely to often come to house of bonder, cabin ofpeasant or hut of mount- ain saeter, there are certain formalities of I'titiuytie weil to be borne in mind. The civil stranger is almost joyously wel- comed in any home. Alter the wonderful handshaking of the first greeting is over, the housewife immediately prepares re- freshment of coffee and smoerbroed, or buttered bread. You are supposed to wholly ignore these agreeable proceed- ings. Wnen they are about ready for your entertainment you must rise and profess to be in readiness to depart. Then the housewife is voluble in entreaties for you to remain. Heluctance and entreaty must now have full play until you are overpowered by hospitable entreaty arid consent^ alter renewed handshakings to remain. At the peasants' cabins and the saeters a similar formality must be ob- served. The peasant woman or the saeter girl will run forward to meet you, always bearh.g a vessel ol iresh milk in her hand. You must at lirst reluse with some expression or gesture conveying the idea thai you are unworthy of the attention. The woman volubly insists that you must accept her kindly oneriug. Then you take the vessel, but only the slightest sip of milk, and return it with further mani- festations of unworthiness. This enables her to further urge and insist, whereupon you accept the civility heartily and take a long draught. You will be a fortunate traveler, then, if you are not forced, by (he woman's fears that you are not quite sure of your welcome, to drink not a pint but a gallon! Sceniculiy considered Norway presents such limitless varieties and countless numbers of tremendous spectacles that it is difficult to select even a lew which may be regarded as pre-eminent tor grandeur and sublimity, i'erhaps the great gorge of Uomsdal turnishes the most ama/.iug number of waterfalls to be seen from any one point in all the world. The .spectacle of from a score to half a hundred, each from 50U to 8,000 feet in bight; a mighty torrent, the river Kauma, thundering along beside you, itself in places a series of tremendous cascades, solid walls of stone rising precipitously at either side from 3,000 to 4,000 feet: wherever a break in the gorge occurs, either some weird horn of stone piercing the sky-line above or endless mountain chains showing caps of glittering white; and this not for a lit- tle distance, but lor nearly fiftymiies—is all so dillerent from any other scene in any other land, so bewildering in its very superabundance of craudeur, and almost so appalling either in sight or memory, that the successive scenes are impossible of fitting description by writer.or painter and almost incomprehensible to one who looks in awe upon them. Another scene possessing similar feat- u>es and yet with some added elements of majectic grandeiu is found in the Nsero- (ial, where that shorter but stiil more in- tensely gloomy gorge opens out, above Gudvangen, upon tho somber, mountain- walled Naerofjord. The N;crodal is but eight miles in length; but its walls are so close; its two iamous waterfalls, tho Stalheim-fos and the Sivle-fos, are such mighty and lofty exhibitions offorce and power, as though the uppor ice fields were all pouring over the cliils their com- bined, pulverized masses; the river a mad river always roars through the wondrous Norwegian dais —is so foaming and thunderous; while the mighty mountains rise to such awful bights there above your head, the kingly Jordalsnut with its oval crown towering precipitous- ly above ail; thai the whole scene is one of surpassing solemnity and unparalleled savage grandeur. It is said that there is but one other scene in all the < >ld World equaling this Narodai, and that is the Fass of the Taurus in Asia Minor. Norway is above all else, a land of mighty waterfalls. None is so wide or discharges such a vast volume of water as Niagara, but there are perhaps live hun- dred or one thousand that the most hur- ried traveler cr.unot tail of seeing, which are several times higher; scores are ten times as high; and the waters of several have a perpendicular descent of twenty times the lail of those of our American "thunder of water 1" 1 have no doubt that there are still in unexplored districts of this wondrous Northland far more ma- jestic waterfalls from glacier-melting nights than have yet met the tourist's wondering or impassive gaze; for the whole lace of Norway is simply an ice- mountain rent and torn into almost measureless assures and gorges betweeu which creep arms of the sea, and into which everlasting descend torrents, and waterfalls from the melting ice-plateaus and mountains above. The Louden and Gloinmon Kivers, tho largest two in Norway, discharge their united waters in the Sarpen-fbs, a more uoDle waterfall than that of .Sehatfhausen on the Khine. In the uoper Telemarken district is the Kiukan-los, literally the reeking or steaming waterfall, which drops straight from its source over 800 feet into ti gulf of wall-surrounded caul- dron, so clogged with tleece-iike lolds of vapor that its bottom cannot be seen. In sailing along the tiords you can count hundreds ol falls of lrom 1,500 to 2,000 feet high; so high that the water is often pounded by the resistance of the air into spray, from spray iuto mist, and this into such ghostly wreaths of vapor that they disappear into nothingness belore the tiorJ or valley level is gained. I have myself clambered along the edges of the Komsdai cliffs with my post boy guide, Feier Lars.en, and discovered scores of falls, entirely unknown to the guide- books, or travelers of tho valley road be- low, which lall into churn-like cavities from L,6OU to 2.UUU icet in depth, i< appear- ing at tne Kauiua river-edge in outshoot- iug cascades, or perhaps pounding through cavernous tunnels oi their own making to show to the beholder upon the highway like a mass of white coral set hundreds oi feet up against the side of the black ana onyx-like precipitous val- ley walls. '1 he most expressive waterfalls of Nor- way no far known are th<; \ oeriug-fos and the Skjesgedai-fos. l>oth of these are in the Hardanger district, noted also for its sublime fiord and mountain scenery, the latter comprising the vast Folgeiond or glacier-field and its hand- some, hospitable, picturesque and thor- oughly characteristic peasantry. The Voering-Jos is reached, from Yik, on the l\k! Fiord, a branch of the noble liar- danger. Toe going snd coming, leisurely done, requires a day. You ride hi the saddle to the Little Oifiord; are rowed \u25a0 upou this to the Maabo Farm; and here other ponies are secured for a long and dangerous scramble up and down a v ild ana broken mountain iuto the exquisite valley of Maabo. It is like a giant bowl carved out o! ebony with an emerald .v. Tueai - te thousands of leet U» fjeids never free ol snow and ice. The is River brawls and foams throutih tbe valley. At one side is a wild ravine 3,000 u-ei deep. Into ti-.i- pours the Voer- ing-foa irom an altitude ol £,££jfeet. The upper masses arc- split and broken lor • et, and then, with added tremend- their tinal awful plunge for bel ' • \u25a0 - " from b ivau re surroundings and horrible roaring of the almost rock-sur- ronnded cauldron, the Voering-fos posses- vreird fascination from the mighty oe of water rebounding from the rocky, narrow-pent bottom of the gorge in a dense column of dazzling foam and r, nearly as hign as the watertall it- self. Something like tho journey to the Voenug-fos, that to the Skjseggedal-fos is made by land and water, but ponies cannot be utilized. One must walk. The scenery all tue way from the hamlet of Odde is surpassingly grand, comprising many other important waterfalls, lordly mountain peaks, somber gorges, and rearward, the spectral expanse of the Folgeibnd ice-fields. The last part of the journey is by row boat across a magnifi- cent mountain lane, I,.VX> leet above the sea, the Kineedalsvand, into which the !">kj;fggc-dai-ioa really pours Its waters. The total bight ot this lion of Norwegian waterfalls does not exceed that of the Yoering-ios, but its surroundings are more jweirdly savage and grand. The water descends at first in a score of veil- | like streamers, dazzling white against '\u25a0 ebon biack. From the vast and terribly ; thunderous abyss where these leap and rebound with* frantic fury one mighty I fall descends. From the second great I whirlpool the entire volume is dis- | charged, sometimes like the Niagara rapids, though in steeper cascades, into the Kiuyedaisvand still a thousand leet below the bottom of the great fall. From I the foot of the latter the entire spectacle ; is like tremendous streamers of white .dropped from glittering glaciers, which crown the mountains behind and abovo, at last gathered into one- mountain-high ! lleecy fold, which in turn is whipped and torn into vagrant billowy masses to tho steely blue lake far below. Not having traversed the glacier fields ; of Norway, 1 can have no knowledge of ! the vast and overpowering scenes that may be gained from their frozen nights, lint all tilings considered, and admitting j the human element into scenic efTecls j with its always warmth of influence, I j believe the two finest views to be had in i.Norway are at Mulde, and the "King's ! View" from above Sundvalden. From an easily accessible great elevation behind Molde ono can gaze not only upon human habitations beneath, the soa sweeping in through tho tremendous walls of the ' fiord, curious and quaint craft which ply i along the coast, hundreds of picturesque ; islands, but a vast amphitheater of moun- I tains rising tier upon tier, until lost in | glittering bights which blend with tho 1 sky and clouds. Among these weird, far | bights are the fantastic Komsdalboru, tiie j Matterhorn of Norway; Snsehatten with jits white aud dazzling helmet; the wend ; and mighty horn of i'erpuatind; the ser- j rated glittering pikes of the Langfjeld; | and those mighty still unknown and un- I tracked bights at the head of that water- j way of black shadows, the lone and som- bre Sor Fiord. A no more bewildering array of Alpine peaks can be found iv Switzerland; while all Swiss scenery lacks the wondrous magic of the sea. From the inn at Suudvolden one may ascend on foot the huge mountain which gives access to King's View. The latter portion of the ascent ia extremely diffi- cult. When near the top, but not ex- pecting the sudden surprise in store, on turning a sharp angle ol the rock the whole mighty picture is instantly spread ! before you. First is a tremendous fertile plain, studded with lakes, tho lakes with islands, the land between with hamlets, farms, churches and all the splendid evi- denco of human thrift and home provis- ion; and this vast plain is encircled by lines of forest, then tiers of eternal stone ribboned with waterfalls, then mountains ofrook, mountains of snow, mountains of iee—tho whole melting iuto pictures as filmy, fantastic and etheral as the sub- Btance of half-dreamed dreams. I know of no other such extensive view in all the world; no other at once so exquisitely beautiful, so incompreheusively vast and so surpassingly sublime. From .F.tua alone is there scene for even comparison. That ono the sea cramps and confines and compresses into a narrow strip of laud in which live brigands and serfs. Hero are a free, happy and prosperous people, on whom it almost seems that the <Voil Is actually smiling through the inellable | glow of dazzliug mountain tops. Edoar L. Wakemax. HUNTING THE TIGER. The tiger is, to my thinking, a moro royal beast than the lion, for what ho loses in size and brute strength, he more than makes up in grace, agility and ad- dress. That this is generally accepted in countries where he lives is proved by the adjective "royal," whicli is always coupled with his name; but it is an ad- jective uttered with terror and not re- spect; it is the royalty of the tyrant and not the king. To him women and chil- dren even are not sacred, and he sacri- fices them with truly Homeric carnage. Like a wolf in the sheepfold he enters the j houses of some of the native villages, i killing for the mere pleasure of seeing I and tasting warm blood. Caring only ! for tho iresbest-killed meat, he disdains ; anything else, and when hunger tor- ments him again rushes to new heta* combs. Like all the cat family, he never thinks of the morrow, but, in real Bohe- mian fashion, lives for to-day only. In one of these littlo Indian villages, where even yet firearms are a cause of wonder and envy, a large man-eating tiger had lor several nights in succession visited the different houses, and hardly a family but mourned the loss of .some member of its circle. The tiger carried his audacity so far as to come iv broad daylight, and, like a wolf in the fold, en- tered the houses while the men wore in the fields, and killed right and left. 1 was in the neighborhood, and hearing of it, took Thursday and my two best rifles, and went to the natives' aid. These poor devils had relied on their sor- cer's incantations to avert the evil spirit; i and he was now at his wit's end, and I glad to see us, you may be sure. I have j always respected a man's religious opin- ions, and 1 resolved, if possible, while ridding the country of a monster, to do it in such a way as to rolled the greatest credit on the native beliefs, especially as i saw that the priest's lack of success was : appreciated by tho natives, and that they i were evidently losing confidence in su- S perhuman aid, preferring to trust to our I ritie-barrels as a stronger stall in the dif- I ticulty than tiie religion in which every I one should trust. How to arrange it was the great ques- tion. The animal had tasted human j blood, and was sure to return. Tho very I night before, while the incantations were \u25a0 goiug on that were to free the village i from his evil spirit, the tiger had sud- ! denly appeared in their very midst, fast- j ening upon two of the chiefs, at his lirst \ bound, aud, in spite of their struggles and their friends' spears, he had carried J one of them off, leaving the other disem- j bowelledon the ground. At last an idea Hashed upou me. I I bought a fine, healthy buil of one of the < Indians, and at night, accompanied by ! my guideand the sorcerer, led him out ' to the edge of the clearing, beyond the i last hut of the village and tied him to a j stout bamboo on the side of the road a j dozen paces or less from one of tho priest's pools ot' hallowed water, with which, at regular intervals, he had SUT- t !,:• led the village. Into this basin I poured a lew drops from a llask I car- I ried it is needless to say not ofbrandy— I and then drew my companions into a \u25a0 natural hiding place beyond a lot of wa- ter plants not unlike sugar cane. I gave i Thursday two rounds of ammunition, but : cautioned him under no circumstances to j fire without explicit orders from me i when and how to do so. We had lain i nearly an hour in this pleasant spot, I drinking in malaria aud fever, when the tiger appeared. It was a beautiful moon- J light night, and we could see him advanc- I ing at a stately pace, his wide black bands i ! moving rapidly enough to give him the appearance Of being entirely brown, just ' as tho quick turning of a colored disk , leaves only a white impression to tho | eye. He came with head up, a superb , Bight, and when ten yards lrom us i scouted us, us well as tho buil, ami paused, evidently torn with conflicting doubts, and uncertain how best to gratify Jiis Insatiable stomach gorged with hu- man blood lrom over forty victims the night before. His lips parted, showing a set of sharp, Ugly teeth; his skin wrinkled, especially over his forehead; his nostrils | quivered, distending to their widest at j tho prospect of such delicacies, and his i eyes gleamed with cruel anticipation. It j seemed, lying there within one of his \u25a0 bounds, as though he took a long time to decide. At length he crouched ready to spring, but whether upou the bull or us it was impossible yet to tell. My gun was at my shoulder, tho barrel pointed between those wicked eyes. There was a ! moment of intense suspense. The poor | bull tried to break away from its chain, ; and, tailing miserably, uttered a heart- | rending sound, and lowered his horns i toward the tiger to ward oil' death for a : little, at least. Tho tiger drew himself l- together like a steel spring, and bounded • upon him with such force that he threw I him upon his side; then, climbing upon i his massive shoulders, the cruoi beast j opened his throat with the precision of a ! butcher, and then lay flat on his stom- j ach in the midst of his feast. The bull ! made ineffectual efforts to roll over and ' smother his assassin, but the latter was ' not to be shaken off. Tho blood poured iuto his thirsty throat in great gulps; it was frightful to see. lie opened the stomach of the now passive bull, und ab- I Bolutely swam in blood, tearing oil bits of j smoking llesh here and there, in a terri- ble frenzy, drunk with pleasure, aud fe- verish with a nameless lust. | Onoe coid, the body lay neglected, and the monster turned to us! Could he be hungry after such a feast of JSardanapa- lus? I'robably not. In fact, wo saw him advancing slowly, his tongue hanging out, his eyes heavy, his gait almost stag- gering, toward the pool of holy water. I could not help laughing aloud at the suc- cess of my plan, aud my companions j gazed at me in terror, thinking I had lost ' my senses under tho last half-hour's ex- ' citement. As tho poison I had poured into the j pool began to affect the beast, he uttered i several piercing yet half-strangled cries, and, with a few rapid contortions, fell over dead. The next morning the whole village assembled to do us honor, aud express their admiration of our prowess, but, finding our guns had not been discharged, and that it was at the sacred pool the "man-eater" fell, they experienced that religious terror to which uneducated races are so susceptible, and bowed before the Driest, whom tiiey found mightier than the beasts of the forest. This feeling was encouraged by my giving him the skin and toeth of the tiger—tho former meas- uring four yards from nose to tail—aud we left them performing one of their cu- rious dances in honor of their all-puissant dcii. They tell a queer story in India of an | Englishman who came out to add a I tiger's head of a certain size to his already large collection, armed simply with a lull suit of plato armor aud a long dag- ger. Clothed in steel from head to foot, dag- I ger in hand, this—to say tho least—orig- | nal hunter walked at night along the ! shore of a pond whore game came to drink. On the second night a huge tiger sprang upon him from behind und felled : him at a blow. The cool Englishman \ lay perfectly still, feigning to be dead, while tho tiger broke its claws and | strained its jaws on this man ot iron! '< Finally, seeing just the right opportunity : the Englishman plunged his poisoned j dagger deep into the tiger's heart, and tho latter fell without a sound. When remonstrated with for waiting so long in such a dangerous embrace he calmly re- plied : "I wanted to be sure that his head was ! exactly tho ri^ht size before killing such a superb specimen, and having satisfied myself on this point I waited a moment to strike home without injuring the part 1 was after !" —Tho Whole Family. SUPERIOR COURT. Department One—Catlln, Judge. Friday, December 15th. Susanna Hoyt vs. J. K. Hoyt, (i. W.-Hacfe vs. John Keith et al.—Demurrer continued one week. v. 1;. Leach vs. His Creditors—T. W. CNeil appointed assignee. Denioke vs. Gomez—Demurrer continued one wei k. A. M. Starling VS. His Creditors—Petitioner discharged. I;. 11. Co veil vs. A. Coolot—Demurrer to an- swer continued. A. J. Bilva vs. Silva & Rose—Demurrer, etc., continued one week. People, ex rel. Peters vs. J. <;. llit<—Motion to tax costs continued one week. Zeimer Bros. vs. Their Creditors —Order to sell building and loan slock. Lucy Coyle vs. John 11. Coyle—Demurrer overruled. Leroy Bmitn vb. His Creditors—Furniture, salary, etc, set aside to petitioner; assignee to file a new bond in $400. D. J.Considlne \s. His creditors—Petition forremoval ol assignee Heiaen denied. F. i>. Meyers vs. Eli Mayo—Demurrer con- tinued one week. \V. .f. Thomas vs. Hia Creditors—T. \V. O'Nell elected assignee. People vs. Em LI uaie. burglary—Plea of not guilty; 11. g. Soule appointed to defend. People vs. Horace Frost and John Kawles, robbery—Pleas of not guilt\; W. i-. Kentro appointed to defend. People vs. Fred shoemaker, robbery—Sen- tenced to ninety days in County Jail. D. J. Considine, Insolvent—Petition for sale ol reaJ i Btate granted. T. W. Stanstleld \s. His Creditors—Examin- ation of debtor continued ono week. Department Two—Johnson, Judge. Ki:i may, December 15th. Estate of Louis Jacobs, deceased—Contin- ued one week. Estate of William Daly, deceased—Final account settled and distribution grained. Estate ol Joseph Gath, deceased—Motion to set aside order allowing liual account, con- tinned one week. Estate of MaryE. Waokman, deceased—Pe- tition for letters ot administration continued throe \< Estate of Mary A. Torrey, deceased—Same order. \u25a0 of M. R. Rose, deceased—Decree of distrlbntion r-ot aside. Estate of Elisabeth t. Rose, deceased—Same order. Estate of A. L. McConviii, deceased—Order iv compromise claim of .Margaret Thelsß. Lsuue of Barbara Studarus, deceased—Order to 6fll r<a! estate. Estate of Sarah C. Smith, deceased—Final account allowed and distribution gran Estate ot < 'win T. 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They afford instant relief and speedy cure of the most torturing and disfiiruriii_- of Itching, burning,scaly, skin and scalp d'- Tliev l.cause the blood a/id skin of even- emp- tion, impuritj and nstitute the most ellective treatment of modern times. Sold throuehout the -worid. Price, Cctictoa, 60c.- Soap, Coc; Resolvent, $1. Potter Deuo ; ANd'Chesi. Corp., Sole Proprietors, Boston. jß3> " How to Cure Skin Diseases," mailed free. niIiPLES, blackheads, red and oily skin pre- II In nted and cured fey Cuticcba Soap. «TJi IT STOPS THE PAIN. |gf/«jW^ Backache. kidney pairs. weakness, rheumatism, and muscuiar pa.ir;s re- Bijß^w^^Heved in one minute by the Cuti- P^Q\^cura Anti-Pain Plaster. 25c. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. AfiSOU/TEIY PURE Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. (KL^Powder: The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. —No Ammonia; No Alum. TJsed in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard. dTIfC lloupareiU __ INTERESTING STY^S CAPES and JACKETS. Ladies' Umbrella Skirt Jackets in three shades, navy blue, Havana brown and black, just received. They are handsomely braided. We have just received another Stylish Jacket in a full line of sizes that is particularly desirable, in fact is the swellest jacket that we have been able to show for the price this season. It hns a double Worth cape and comes in four colors, Havana brown, navy blue, tan and black. Price, #12 50. HOLIDAY ITEMS. Never have we been able to show such a comprehensive stock of Holiday Goods as this year. Everything that is desirable and appro- priate for Holiday Gifts can be found at THE NONPAREIL. Our Toy Department has been a busy scene during the past ten days, but we still have plenty of Toys left to gladden the hearts of thousands of little ones. Handrno Scarfs and Real Lace Handkerchiefs. Of these we have a large assortment at prices ranging from $2 to $25 each. WASSERMAN, DAVIS & CO. Corner Fifth and J Streets, Sacramento. AGENTS FOR BUTTERICPC PATTERNS. Have the early frosts or too late a lin- cr . a FOR rUrt £ering by the sarden sate asain aroused pm ne PILES that RHEUMATISM so peacefully I*ULU& niiDißg slumbering the summer long? Well, if CUTS it's very bad you must change your diet DBm «- e SORE and perhaps take some distasteful drug bnUIStS ryjTQ —the doctor will tell you what—but first ens) AIUfQ tT£s> rub thoroughly the part afflicted with w^nKIHS WOUNDS PONDS EXTRACT, then wrap it SORE CftDCC warmly with flannel, and the rheuma- YURMXT SUHII§ tism may wholly disappear. It willcer- InnUAl Headache tainly be much relieved- now that you catarrh AND have the POND'S EXTRACT try it for ANQ any of the many things its buff wrapper ALL. mentions. It's a wonderful curative. Ar I til PAiM But don't accept substitutes. SHAVINC POND'S EXTRACT CO., 76 Fifth Aye., N. Y. J. FRANK CLARK. UNDERTAKING PARLORS, 1017-1019 Fourth <t., Sacramento. JJIMBALMING A SPECIALTY. GEORGB jj H CLARK, Funeral Director and County Coroner. Telephone No. 13 1. W. J. KAVANAUGH, Undertaker NO. Sl3 U STREET. EMBALMING A SPECIALTY. OFFTCE Fa open day and night. Telephone Mo. 3u5. FARMERS HAPPY! Business Men Pleased! And all because of "Farmer" Barwick's recent storm. Plenty of moisture insures bounteous crops and prospect of bounteous crops good Christmas cni er. . The siock ot • l< g.mt, new and late novelties In CROCKERY, BISQUE and GLASSWARK exhibited this season at our store cannot and will not be equaled or excelled. Make you- selections now and we will place them carefully away to your order. JOS. THIEBEN CROCKERY COMPANY, -3ESIBEE- J STREET. Open Evenings. SEE WINDOW*. Baker & Hamilton, —IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF— HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL, COAL, POWDER, Agricultural Implements and Machines, BARBED WIRE, CORDAGE, BELTIXG. Sacramento California Furniture! Furniture! AT LOWEST PRICES. W. D. C OjYIS TOC X , Northeast Corner Fifth and X Streets. a minor—Charles Heisen released from guar- dians bond. QState o! John J. Xiotsck*\ deceased—Peti- tion lor sale of property oontinaedtoor week-. Estate*and guardianship ol L. B. Mol r, de- ceased—Annual account of gfuardian allowed. col Magdalena I ichs, deceased \u25a0 Hale ol bank stocic ordered. Estate of Louis Jacobs, deceased—Petition to lei aside probate of will, continued one vreek. Estate of Eleanor i>. Brady, deceased—Sale oi real estate confirmed. Estate of 1. W. Morgan, deceased—Final ac- connt allowed a;:d distril uiion gran tea. Esi leofM. W. liieiv>. deceased-^Hearing of return <>f nale of personal property contin- day. Estate of £L B. BCott, Jr., deceased—Order dischar^iiiL- execntors. Estate "i 1 re.i. rick Yonng, deceased— < >rdor discharging administrator. H. W. Q. Triinpler vs. A. J. Cotton et al.— Con tinned. Ella S. Oppenheim vs. Emanuel Oppenheim — Demorrer continued one weeK. J. T. Stoll vs. Mrs. M. Leonard—Plaintiff allowed to tile an amended complaint. P. M. smitti vs. Gregory Brother* Company —Hearing of demurrer and count.-r-claim continue.l one week. Harriet E. F.lch t.s. Elizabeth Hooker— Sail.' order. F. I). Myers vs. Eli Petition for entry of judgment continued one week. fruit*, geefcs, iJro>uce, Cstr. GREGORY BROS. CO., ISO, 122, 126 and 128 J street* Wholesale Dealers in FRUIT AND PRODUCE. Solo agents for the Davis Green Fruit Pack- int: Machine. Send for circulars. SVA/E A re i irepared to sup- I i —y , \u25a0 ply the public with ! iID i~* -l Choi Plants S.^_ , ami Bulbs of ail the newest and latest va- ! "^ "^ rl ties. IID J±k XL. J_J N( >w Is THE SEEDS !£il35 NG C. B. STRONG & CO., .11." and ."17 J Street) WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS. JOEL POHEIM j£^ I have j list received the Finest Asscrtment ol Trousering Full Line of English Worsteds I jgfy''%fffift Which I purchased yssMjs AT A BARGAIN All(1 ow <)fT«r tlu-m to the Public pipi 20 PER CENT. REDUCTION \u25a0 SEE THE WINDOWS! HI A Perfect Fit Gaaraflteed er No Salt! Ji\ JOE POHEIM, THE TAILOR Cor. Sixth, Sacramento. ; We Intend Closing Out STOCK OF HOLIDAY GOODS. WILL SELL RETAIL, AT WHOLESALE PRICES. Lojkatttiis: FANCY BOXES—Retail price, $3; our prlt-e, soc. IMPORTED GRASSKS— Retail price. 10c; our price. !<•. rMPORTED GRAaSES--Retail price, 20c; our jiric-, tic COLUMBIAN CANDY BOXES-Retail price, $2; our price. 50c. CHRISTMAS CANDJ ES, all sizes, 14ca box. COME EAF?I»Y. H. FISHER & CO., 808 J STREET. Mince_Meat T^VERY IN'GP.EDIENT PERTAINING jLi thereto can i>e found at our store, mciud* ; Ing a l'reati supply of BOILED CIDER, RAISINS AND CURRANTS, CITRON, LEMOX PEEL, MOUNTAIN APPLES, NEW ORLEANS MOLASSES. ! Southwest^ corner Eleventh and 1 Streets. J. \A/. GUTHRIE, 187 J Street, Plumber, Gas and Steam Fitter. TIN ROOFMNG. JW Telephone No. 105. ©enetral Notices. pAUI> (iF THAN Ks.-i •< ijtfp A N V E~S?E(> \j ond Infaniry, N. (J. C, returns thanks u> the following tlnns ot the city who contrib- uted to the Buccesa of the shooting touma- ment iield on Sunday, December 3u • Butr'alu Bievring ( ompauy, Bakerdi Hamilton, Schaw Ingram A. Batcher, A. B. Hopkins Company' Auaius, Booth A Co., Et.uer Bros. Com puny H. Marks, Charles V. .Naihau A. Co., L. a' Elkus, A. .1. I'onimer, Schmidt & I'arker' Mohr & Voerk. l'luenix Milling (ompauy Simons A Beesley, Crystal Palace, Josepli Ihieben Crockery Company, Clark Bros t v Stanley, Homy hckhardt. Ivimbttll ,t Upton \V. B. Miller, Holbrook, .Merrill cV: BtetßOnl ii.ile Bros. & Co., Sacramento Ulass ana Crockery i ompany, c. J. 1 Frank Kuh- i-tailer, John Brenner, T. \V. McAulule, UU3 i La I.en.-on, W. (;. Vau Norman. It I^LECT SCHOOL-SEMINARY BLU-I-- yj Ipg, I street; Primary and Intermediate grades taught: si^oi.tl classes for very young children; nae ofQurney if desired. d;.'-sa» / iLAIKVi iVANT. - ;>IK.s. BAKIHi )LMeZ \j L»eu\er':> well-Kiiowu business and test medium, has returned tmd can be con.-,uh*-d upon ail affairs of me; she reads the pa~r and unravels the future; diagnoses diseMse without questions; >utisiaution guaranteea: call and be convinced; circles Sundays and Wednes- days. 7^l'.. .1 .street. dl4-t>t* oCHMii-rs saiwai\\"rjlila~and iron KJ andCoronado Mineral Water. McMuKRY, 03l M street, sole agent. I IOSTPONED.—THE CiIFT OK A HORSE, _L harness and phaeton, to have taken piac« j tnis month, is postponed until February. W. Z.HUJLL. dl2-6t« pJLAIRVOTANT, CARD-READEB; FOLt^ yj tune-telling by palm; majjie charnn. riob% X street. 0t» POTATOES GETTIXU DEARER — ORE- X gon Eurbanks, fl; Fairly Kose, $1 L's sacii; Mountain liutt r. 2oe pound; Creauu-rv buuares, sue best Eastern Bams, 14c. SIMU.NS & iJKESLEY. X atru.t. MARKUP LADIES' SAI'EUUARD;~PA;n ented; no medicine; no equal; money retunded if not satisfactory. Send lue to LADIEa' N' >VEIiTY i U., Kansas City, Mo. HARKY SV. BIVETT, STEAM CARPET cleaning, corner Twelfth and 0 street*; carpet cutting, sewing and rerittlng; Xurnituro packed tor shipment; second-hand carpets and furniture bought and for sale. Tele- phone '.I'j^. ipiRST-CLAS.-, JAPANESE COOK WANT.S a situation in city or country. Address K. ODA, yOJ JL> street. d!6-3t« \1 TE OFFER TO UENERAL "aUENCY \> and canvassers exclusive territory, lre<j newspaper advertising, a chance to ueliver goods beiore puyiny for them, immense profits and a permanent business. Address CON- SOLIDATED. Lynn, Mass. TTS * TJLAST W'JE HAVE IT. -KT;EN,"IJRIUIIT J\_ and brainy men ami women wanted every- wuere to take orders for "Shepp's World's Fair Photographed"; only book oi copyrighted photographs of buildings, scenes and exhibit! oi the World's Columbian Exhibition; author- ized by the Exposition management: oifici.il certificate accompanies each volume; bonanza for workers; drop everything ana handle it; \ou will make money last; book ready; credit given; big commissions; illustrated circular*, terms, free. Address i.LOBE BIBLE PUB. CO., 3bti Dearborn street, Chicago. 111., or Phlladelpnia, la. o^cJ-Ti.-^m JAPANESE YOUNG MEN WANTSITUA- tj tions as waiters; they understand cooking and can help In housework; speak good Eng- lish. HE.NRY KL'SUI, Japanese Mission, 'JU3 Dstreet, this city. dIU-ot* ©fl §ct or pent. mO RENT—A DESIRABLE FIVE-ROOM L Cottage; pantry and bathroom. Apply i . in sixth Btreet. \u25a0X RENT—MODERN 5-ROOMCOTTAaE, Jj 150lMi slreei. Apply 1005 U st. dl3-W* TVO LET-$:2l-HOUSL 250G L STREET. L In.iuire oi M. A. L'LUtCE, 129 J street, up-stairs. dl2-lw* TO LET-NO. 1408 Q,STREET, COTT.vUE _L of rive rooms and basement; bath, gas anil all modern improvements; nice yard; reason- able rent. Inquire at 140 '\u25a0 rrO RENT—FURNISHED HOUSE. 722 \_ Eighth street. mO LET—A LOWER FLAT OF 6 ROOMS, X 1119I8U Inquire at 1117}$ I st. rpo LET—A FLAT OF SIX ROOMS AND JL bathroom, on .1 Btreet, between Fifth and Sixth. Apply K. I. BURR. m- X — DESIRABLE NEW UPPER • ) ttat; Six rooms, papered; bath, base- ment; modern iinpro\eineuts. Apply ' l'J L. m,) FIFTH STREET To LET—NEAT Z cottage; 5 rooms, bath, closets, l>ase- ment; rent, S~^- STROBEL, agent, ;>l7 J._ mO LET—FURNISHED ROOMS. Ai'l'LY J_ at WEATHER BUREAU OFFICE, I^l J street. §0V §rtlC. FOR SAJLE—UPPER FLAT, SIX BOOMS, basement bath, all modern conveniences; rent 523. Apply 12^7 Hor 50-s Tenth g fge't. d!6-lw* i-oR SALE—A GOOD SECOND-HAND F Calferaph i<>r sale cheap. Address M., tliisomce. ul-l-lw^ poi: SALE.-THE FINEST RANCH AT 1^ Colfax must be sold. Can be had at a bar- yam Young trees and good-paying property. The healthiest climate in California. A. S. WINCHESTER, Collax, Cal. d!2-2w »\-E WILL EXCHANGE A WELI.-ES- \\ tabllshed variety business valued at i $1 000 for improved property on outskirts or adjacent to this city. Applyat 402 J street. FOR SALE—DIFFERENT SIZE TIPE, dipped; guaranteed to stand high pressure, at low rates. SACRAMENTO PIPE WORKS, in octagon building. n< ar depot. Foil SALE-BY CAUL STROBEL, 317 I street, vacant lots on H. .1, M, N. P, Q. X, \V Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets; any re;i- sonable offer will be considered; Highland Park lots and suburban acre lots devilish cheap for cash; also a nice %-acre and 5-acre improved home; farms—fruit, berry, hay 1 and—and house for rent. A Days More And We Will Be Enabled to JTell the Public Many Things | That Will Interest Them. .A. Ferw IDa-ys jLXlore:. CHRISTIANSON & CO., 703 to 707 J Street. The Market of New Sacrnmento. Big Reduction in Wall Paper. ! ROOM WANTED FOR SPfcIXG GOODS« | SEE OUR PRICES. EH. KRIS k CO., 626 J. CAPT. RLHSTALLER'S Extra Gilt Kdge MADE OF HOPS AND MALT ONLY, IS THE BEST BEER IN THE WORLD TR V IT\ LACE CURTAINS. SPRING TIME HAS ARRIVED. AND houso-clranin;? is under way. Send your I Lace Curtains to the AMERICAN STEAM LAUNDRY, ' Klnateentb, and I Streets.
