The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 1, 1895, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1895. 17 A POETIC PANTER IN THE REDWOODS Keith Discovers a New Field and Tells of Its Romantic Beauty. Keith has found anew theme for his|things looked at. They should express cunning brush, and the paints he mixes ‘ the way he thinks of them when away with the spirit-touch of nature. This summer he went among the red- woods for the first time, and he received a | revelation. Now he is ardently at work in | his studio on several canvases w. steadily growing into delightful expres- sions of one of the most charming of ne- ture’s combinations of form and mood. He brightens here a penetrating ray of sunshine, deepens misty shadows in a forest depth, or more darkly purples the shaded heights of a majestic trunk that rises through a wonderful succession of soft color tones. The redwoods have in- spired Keith, and now they are apt to be- come as characteristic of work as his sturdy oaks with pastoral arroundings, and his scenes in the Sierras. His pictures will be a new story of the C nia red- ‘woods. The redwood forests have in some de- gree inspired most people who have been among them. They always interest- ing from whatever po iew they are world but in the seen. Found nowhere along a strip of the C ia coast they are one of the fs ures of the " too, as not State, and the ‘To some, variously elo- quent in the redw elsewhere, and the sofitude, th ajesty, the myriad forms of beauty is not wholly tree and le bears some- thing that eply felt, but can hardly be s . _Thr:y are few and rare w are with Emer- son: rowed field v 0xen strong; y rank with the poet in ture. If he hasthe erperet her meanings | e poet may bear her mes- those who can receive them. attempt this feat and a few n aading to their portrayals of worthy feeling with which they | ciew her, as the poet may combine beauty nd greatness of thought with artistic rhvme and rhythm of verse. This vhat Keith is trying to do with the redwpods. He does not belong to the school of art which regards kindly a cop- per kettle or a dead duck as a thing to. be | painted in a masterly way ‘for art’s sake.” 1In his impressionist style he puts on his canvases things that please for the s | cts themselves as well as for the merit of | He wants the poetry of nature subjects, and he makes an effort to | it there as he sees and feels it. | is point of view is the most interesting | one from which to regard Keith’s new work in relation to the California red- woouds. He has been to them and h come back full of their unwritten songs, | and it is the poetry of the redwooas that | he talks about and is struggling to express | with his brash. | The artist does not talk as eloquently as | he paints, but his brief sentencesand his | pictures together told an interesting story studio the other day. He had no eption of how many thousand feet of \ber one of his big trees would make, t he told what he thought were the beauties of the redwoods. | He went into the redwoods this summer because his friend, Charles A. Keeler, who and loves nature, induced him to. he has spent his vacations amid s and canyons of the Sierras. dvice he went to Wat- | t were my first impressions? Well, I thought ‘Here the place for me to paint,’” he said. “When I got out in the woods the first thing that struck me was | the solemnity there. That was the chief | thine I felt all the time. The larger trees give the ever-present sense of majesty, but | that solemnity was what I felt most.” from them.” times with his brush. thought of the redwoods as a field for landscape artist. *'1 discavered that they are wonderful interesting,’’ he said. Those who are familiar with Keith’s | oaks know that he has said that many , He talked on, as he | painted the other day, and told what he a ly e sai *They are peculiar and have an individuality. Their color tones are marvelous in their beauty and must be shown at too great distance. But there are so many things I like about the redwoods. Those colors, for in- stance. Idon’t think many people see them. The color tones of the trees vary, in fact, and they change constantly with the lights and shadows." You find them differ- ent in the same light. In a group of trees one will have a light stem, others will have various tones of brown, running al- most into rec, and others will be purplish. Some trunks are made grayish by lichen and the eolor changes in the deep rifts in the bark. “But it is the play of light and shade that produces the most exquisite color tones. In dense shadows you see dark and rich purple and . reddish browns. Where the sunlight breaks through it fairly glit- ters and the effects are wonderfully rich. From where the sunlight lies the color tones shade off in various hues in the darkest depths and each trunk will show changes of color effects from its base up- ward. Then there are various trees of cows' browsed about slowly wandering water from which the smell of damp, earthy mold was quickly suggested b mossy, rotting logs and the black ground, not a{l hidden by grass and flowers. “That foreground needs more light,” said the artist. ‘‘Now watch, and you will see what a difference sunlight will make.”” The brush took up some white pigment, faintly reddened, and the base of a giant in the partly open foreground began to glitter. Then light touches across and above the trail made narrow sunbeams break through aslant. From those touches the whole foreground seemed to light up with the noonday glory that had stroggled in, That was the way the artist was work- ing out his pictures. “The picture was not a copy of a scene just like that. In form it was born of imagination, but Keith had learned how the redwoods grow and how the sunshine paints the forest, and he was putting on canvas nature'’s poetry as he re- membered it and still felt it. Keith analyzed further what he found the redwoods to be from an artist’s point of view. “They are picturesque, of course, and in many ways,”’ he observed. *There seem to be two types of redwoods, as far as form goes. Here and there you will find one standing out alone on an exposed hillside like a sentinel, and they are generally smaller, and they are torn by the winds and have fantasticshapes. Long, irregular branches stick out, and the trunks may be irregular. But in the forest the trunks grow up_superb and symmetrical like masts. You can run _your eye upward 100 or 150 feet without finding alimb. The tops of most run “E to a point like spin- dles, but there are others that have tops that are flat or that picturesquely bend out to one side at right angles. There is beauty among the redwoods everywhere. You look out through them sometimes and get a glimpse of skg or the ocean and the cliffs along the shore. The under- rowth is nearly all peculiar to these forests. 3 “There is a great variety of shrubs and flowers, especially along the streams and about the quiet pools you often find. Here and there [found a madrone. Thave heard artists and others say that the madrones do not grow among theredwoods, and that shows how most people fail to observe. A LONE, WIND - TORN HILLSIDE SENTINEL. N [Reproduced from an original pen sketch made for ““The Call” by Mr. Keith.] juality that I th wholly different. Thec "best in_the oak: of most and like the their sturdines: presses majesty. Yes, Sierra have that maje of The spirit of his work he spoke of soon. “That feeling is what I want to_get into | my pictures,” he went on, “and it is a dif- | ficult thing for a painter to reproduce the state of feeling he has. That is what an artist should do, though. He interprets | nature. His pictures should not, to my y ; | mountain lake than by Tahoe, mind, be simple copies of the objective | stance, becanse Tahoe “is so big that it |of the forest. nk is The redwood rather ex- 1e sequoias of the | course, but they are too The redwoods are better for a painter’s subject. The big trees of the Sierras are so large that they must be painted at a distance to get them into a szre and then they lose in grandeur. srandeur can better be shown by a smaller for in- variety. T still like the oaks, but they are | green all aro und amid the undergrowth. n the evening sunlight the trees look just like mahogany. You don’t find such color tones among big trees of the Sijerras. There the prevailing tone is buff brown. The artist was touching up a half-com- pleted picture showing an old trail leading narrowly backward through tall brown monarchs and overgrown with shrubs and flowers. It gave a little glimpse of bright sky through the distant treetops, and | through the great bare trunks the distant | ones seemed to fade in the shadowy depths In the foreground some SR> e 5t A S A A ey PO SOME GIANT FOREST REDWOODS, = SUPERB AND SYMMETRICAL. [Reproduced from an original pen sketch made for “The Call”-by Mr. Keith.] - The plant life is very rich, including a va- riety of forms. The fresh mornings up there are grand. They make you feel as though you had been made over and had started in to liveagain.” There is another phase of the redwoods with which Keith has fallen in love, and | which he proposes to paint. He saw the | fogs drift in time after time and enwrap and veil the stately giants, and he became quite enthusiasticaily ambitious to tell with his brush * How the Fog Comes to the Redwood Trees.” That is quite an_interesting thing fora painter to essay. Such a picture would be peculiarly appropriate, because the ocean fogs are the very essence of life to the red- wood forests, and ‘the dismal banks of vapor are more welcome there than the sunshine. It is maigly the fog belt that limits the redwood forests to the narrow stretch of California coast, running from about the northern boundary of the State to the upper edge of San Luis Obispo County. Just why the belt does not run on northward along the foggy Oregon coast cannot be told, but within the pres- ent range of these trees they are found | only where the kindly fogs can reach them with their moisture. They donot grow on the coast mountains above the reach of the fogs, and they extend toward the interior from the western slopes only where the fogs are allowed to pass through by gaEn in the hills. The same fact applies to the undergrowth of vegetation peculiar ‘o the redwoods. Keith saw the picturesque side of the fog phenomena, and many others have seen it,'too. Many who have not seen it might look and see it also. It should be seen as the banks which gather over the ocean start landward near the shore. Itisone of the sights of Golden Gate Park, but it is naturally oftener fled from than enjoyed. From Strawberry Hill, however, the on- coming fogs are an interesting study if the poetry is not chilled out of one. The banks that slowly grow out of nothingness over the sea late in a summer afternoon seem to come en masse to theline of breakers at first, and then the winds that are checked and changed by scattered hills drag out from the bank long masses that are slowly torn into shreds that are hauled slowl{ over the sand dunes in a skirmish line. 'The dense, vapory but shar{)ly outlined masses strangely roil and curl. They strike the low junipers, pause, and then very soft] curl” around them. They startin” afres| in evanescentily changing shapes that seem to invite a difficult capture by the eye, and are whisked this way and that way by eddying currents. The shreds and trailing masses come thicker and seem to revel as they float, tumbling easily down- ward over the tops of trees and buildings, and now glancing upward on a hillside. The picturesqueness of a fog appears dur- ing this time of invasion by the vanguard and before the landscape is wrapped in an all-pervading mist, and it was this way the fog has coming to land that Keith studied carefully. *‘Some of the fog effects up there were most beautiful,”” he said, while recounting what he had found. “It drifts in long trailing masses that. are sometimes like tresses of hair, and it hangs about the trees and mountains in the most picturesque way. Now and_then it will hide the trees at a distance, all but the tops, that look like greenish ihosts. and the effect is quite enchanting. In the distance everything will be gnf ana misty at times, with more and more local color nearer. Sometimes patches of bright sunny sky will be seen through rifts, and sometimes when the sun is shining against the fog from behind the scene is beautiful. These effects are difficult to get, but I am going to try them.” The several redwood scenes among which Keith is now - diligently. dividin his time as his pleasure guides him woul be in some degree revelations to most people qm familiar with these noble forests. They would fulfill their purpose as interpretations of nature by revealing things not seen before and which can be seen by some when they are shown. WHAT TO DO FOR MICROBES. A Texas Florist Discovered What Scientists Could Not. DISEASE IS FERMENTAT’]ON. Microbes the Camse, and to Cure All Diseases You Must Kill the Germs. RADAM RIVALS PASTEUR. An Anlisepgio Gas, Harmless to e, But Death to Microbes. DISCOVERED AMID FLOWERS. The Gas Saved the Life of the Inventor. Now It Is Saving the Lives of Thousands. A singularity of many great inventions and discoveries is that they were brought about by men who were least suspected of being able to solve the problems involved. Where & thor- ough understanding of mechanics was thought necessary, often the man unfamiliar with me- chanical principles stepped in and did what others could not; where a carefully grounded knowledge of science was deemed indispens- able, the man who knew nothing about science became the enlightener of the scientific worla; instead of the professor, it has generally been the student under him who has originated new combinations and applied new principles. The inventor ot the steamboat was neither a sailor nor a mechanic. A priest discovered gunpow- der. An apprentice first made dynamite. Edi- son had as competitors men who knew a thou- sand times more about electricity than he did, and yet he accomplished scores of things they could not. There is an easy solution to this apparent mystery regarding the origin of inventions and discoveries. In every branch of industry there is a deep rut. Once a man falls into that rut he seldom gets out. Had Edison attended college and had he been taught electricity by a college professor he would undoubtedly to- day be caring for some small electric-lighting plant, while the phonograph, the duplex tele- graph, the stock-ticker and the kinetoscope would still be visions and impossibilities. ‘There have been fewer strides taken in the field of medicine probably than in any other branch of science. The man who dared to dis- close & new theory was cowed into silence by other physicians. Years ago, when Harvey dared to announce that the blood circulated through the whole body, he was set upon by a TUBERCLE BACILLI. (In Consumption). What Harvey did in his time has since been outdone by another man. He dared go further than ohysicians and medical scientists dreamed of going. Alone he dared advance a new theory, a new system, and fight the abuse and oppression which met him from those who ought to have been the ones to ywelcome it most. Eightvearsago he began the warfare with ideas lndfirlnchfles which eiectrified the whole world. He could not then argue like his opponents, but he accomplished results which proved what arguments could never prove. For eight years the results have been accumulating, until to-day there are 1.000,000 eople who believe in him, trust in him and E]euu him for his discovery. This man is Wil- liam Radam, the inventor and discoverer of Radem’s Microbe Killer. It is easy enough to laugh at a new discoy- ery. At first men laughed at the telegraph, the cable and the telephone, and called them pretty toys. They don’t laugh any more. It is easy enough to laugh at a man who says he can cure al! diseases with a single medicine, but what are you going to do when he proves his assertion? There s a pretty romance of facts concerning this wonderful discovery. unequaled in_fic- tion. Twenty-five years ago William Radam, A young man, then 25 years old. landed in New York. From New York Mr. Radam went South, and in_Austin, Tex., he purchased a tract of land and began the culture of flowers and trees. In abusiness way he was success- ful. The tract of land he originally bought was added to by other purchases, irrigated and became a garden. By this time Mr. Radam was wealthy. He was one of the leading florists and nurserymen of the great West, and his name was known throughout the East, where he was recognized for his skill in buying seeds and plants for his nursery. But a shadow rested upon Mr. Radam. He could see his bank deposits increasing daily, but he could also feel his health leaving, his muscles weakening. To the original complaint of ma- laria had been added rheumatism, then ca- tarrh, and finally the dreaded consumption. For seventeen years he had employed physi- cians. Perhaps they slightly retarded his dis- eases, perhaps they accelerated tbem. At any rate Mr. Radam found himself eight years ago on the threshold of death. With feeble steps he could still wander among the flowers he loved, but he knew that he could only live a short time. Yet, in this condition, he was on the verge of a great discovery. In his long career as a florist Mr. Radam’s great success had been brought about by his ability in praserv‘ln? his, plants from disease. When a plant or stalk began to look sickly he looked for some cause and always found it. His discoveries in this line were worth report- Infi(n science. r. Radam early decided that the fungi on rlnmu were nothing more than microbes, and he reason for different plants being differ- ently affected was that they were affected by different kinds of microbes. ‘There was noth- ing nmew in this theory, although Mr. Radam discovered it himself and did not read it in the textbooks on boun{. He tried to save his plants by cutting off the fungi, but soon founa out that this treatment had no permanent effect. The fungi grew out again, generally in the same place, but often in many other places. This led him to the additional dlueove:{ that the little fungi or microbes were actually in the sap of the plants, and that unless the sap was purified the condi- tion would remain the same. He tried many ways of treating the roots of his affected plants, Oceasionally he was successful, as some species of microbes yielded to his application of anti- septics to the roots. But efforts, on the whole, were a failure, and he found that the safest way was to remove the infected plants, 80 a8 to save the healthy plants. It took Mr. Radam only another step to’dis- cover that in reality the various kinds of mi- crobes had a_similar effect n plants—that is, they attacked the plant caused ferment- ation.” The rust on the rose leaves, he found, was nothing but fermentation, the result of the action of microbes. The rotting away of the wood of plants was fermentation. He applied the theory to other things with equal success. As_the ‘years rolled on he continued his in- vestigations. One day there came to hima py _thought. He.had already discovered that all the diseases of plants were caused b; mierobes or bacteria. Their action produoes fermentation. Without 'fermentation there could be no . As a coral reef is the tomb of myriads of tiny insects, 8o he found that in fermentation, which they caused, the microbes lived, &mpl‘lted Fer- mentation was once arrest fermentation it would the micropes had all been killed. Upon th lines Mr. Radam pursued his investigations. To arrest fermentation ‘he found antiseptics ‘were He tried all the known anti- eCFSATY. :Fllcl and they failed, for if they killed the crobes and thus arrested fermentation they also killed .the plants. Tobacco smoke, he found, was of use only temporarily. He burned other substances in the greenhouse and watched the results. Some results bene- fited the plants and others did-not. One day Mr., Radam noticed : that during- certain of these experiments he felt in better .health. In fact, he found himself a sort of baroineter to tell the condition of his affected plants. If he felt in good spirits after an experiment with certain gases he noticed that his plants, looked better. He atiributed this'at first to his_mental preoccupation. One day, after settling with his physicians and being told that he had better put his business affairs in shape so_ that others could carry on his business in case of his death, Mr. Radam walked through his greenhouses and gazed sorrowfully at the plants he must soon leave forever. He came to some diseased plants and paused. Suddenly the thought struck him that what was true with plants might be true with man—that disease in man was caused by microbes, as diseases were caused in plants. From that moment he was a changed man. He said to himself that if he could find some anti- septic that would destroy the microbes in his system he might get well. This was the way he reasoned: If there were microbes in his sys- tem which caused his aiseases, then there must be fermentation. It took but a momert to con- vince him that what his lungs threw cif was nothing but fermentation. Then, if be could but arrest this fermentation it would signify that he had killed the microbes, which caused the fermentation. Up to this time Mr. Radam had never read BACILLI (OF TYPHOID FEVER) TYPHI a medical book, and he knew nothing about chemicals, except those he had used in his greenhouse experiments. Eight years ago a few of the bolder physicians declared that cer- tain diseases were caused by microbes, but the public did not believe themn, and, as a matter of fact, those physicians were not certain of their claims themselves. But Mr. Radam had never heard of their discoveries or pretended discoveries. He hdd worked the theory out himself, reasoning that it nature had affected affect human beings with microbes? With antiseptics he purchased Mr. Radam experimented upon raw meat. None of them came up to the requirements he exacted. Ii they preserved the meat they injured it. Sub- stances which would not injure the meat were t00 weak to prevent decay. Then Mr. Radam began compounding these antiseptics with other drugs. His experiments were not suc- cessful. He continued, howeyer, until he had experimented with all the drugs obtainable in the drugstores of his city. Still, he was un- successful. It was then that Mr. Radam re- sorted to gases. None of the known gases pro- duced the desired results. For days and nights Mr. Radam worked. One day Mr. Radam mixed a combination of gases, some obtained by chemical extrac- tion and others obtained by burning certain drugs, and placed the result ina bottle with & piece of fresh meat. The next morning the meat looked fresher than did the results of his other experiments. This encouraged him, and he left it several days. Soon the meat began to ferment, but Mr. Radam knew he was on the right track. If he could HEALTHY BLOOD CORPUSCLES, only make the gas stronger then he would have accomplished the results desired, and the fresh meat would keep forever. Under pres- sure lle{;nssed a quantity of this gas through water. He found that the water absorbed eight hundred times its own volume of the gas. That ig, one cubic inch of water would absorb eight hundred cubic inches of gas. This gave him just eight hundred times as powerful an agent with which to conduct his experiments. Into a bottle containing some of this impregnated gas Mr. Radam placed a piece of fresh meat. After leaving it there three weeks he took it out. Every cell in the meat was as perfect as when he had placed it in the impregnated gas. He ate the meat and felt no evil effects. Then he began taking internally some of the impreg- lnawd water. Within a few days he felt bet- | ter. The lungs began throwing off large quan- tities of fermentation, the rheumatism was less severe, and, in fact, Mr. Radam felt better than he had in years. He continued taking the gaswater, as he called it, and within two months the discharge from his lungs had ceased and he had gained ten poundsin weight, to say nothing of the improvement in his gen- eral condition. To cut & long story short, within a year Mr. Radam had completely recovered his health and his weight had increased from 144 to 207 pounds. Mr. Radam had noticed that different plants bad been difterently affected by the sub- stances he had tried upon them. Therefore, he was not certain whether the means that had cured him would cure any one else or not. He had no intention of giving up the florist business to engage in selliug medicines, and he looked upon his discovery only as what had been the means of restorjng him to health. In spite of this, however, there grew upon him the desire to know what effect the medicine would have upon others. If he had made no mistake in his theory all diseases were caused by microbes, and, in_ order to pre- vent fermentation, which is really disease it- self caused by microbes, an antiseptic wes needed poweriul enough’ to destroy the mi- crobes without injuring the person taking the medicine. A short distance from where he lived & young man was dying with consump- ion. A few months previous three members of the same family had died from consump- tion, and the death of the young man in ques- Mnnkwns supposed to be only a matter of & few weeks. This young man visited Mr. Radam one day and asked him how he had been cured. Mr. Radam told him that was a secret of his own. “But,” said he, ““‘the medicine that cured me is in that little jug. It is pleasant to take, it is absolutely harmless, and I believe it will cure you of your consumption and that it will also cure any disease that man is heir to. Ican’t give you any of the medicine, nor can I sell it to you. ButI am going outof the room for a moment, and if you should steal that jug of gas-impregnated water I should never make any trouble about it. The law does not allow me to prescribe it, nor induce geople to take it, butif you should steal itand take it your- self according to directions, three or four wineglassiuls a day, then if you should be killed by it no one would be to blame but vyourself.”” Then Mr. Radam went out of the rom. When he returned a few minutes later the young consumptive was gone and so was the jug. Within a week there was a decided improve- ment in the condition of the young man who had stolen the medicine. His appetite was better and there was less fermentation in the lungs. In o few months he was practically well, and is alive and in good health to-day. His appreciation of the medicine was so great that Xe came to Mr. Radam and told him of a woman relative of his who was suffering from cancer of the breast. Again Mr. Radam told him he dare not prescribe the medicine, but he was perfectly willing to make up another jug of e gas and place 1t where it could bo stolen. This was done and in & short time the young woman also recovered. By this time the report had gone abroad that Mr. Radam had discovered s wonderful medi- cine which had performed wonderful cures. Sick people visited him by the dozens. ‘Almost as much to his own surprise as to the surprise of others, the medicine seemed to cure every disease upon which it was tried. It proved then what Mr. Radam had already proven to the scientific world, that all diseases ara caused by microbes, and that the microbes produce fermentation and decay. To cure the dicense it was only necessary to kill the microbes. . The demands for Mr. Radam’s medicines were s0 Eren that he agreed t ghca it upon the market at a nominal price. He now feared no attacks from the physicians or persecution from the laws, as he had successfully demon- strated that his remedy was as harmless as water, and, furthermore, that it had effected maryelous cures in many cases and had actu- ally benefited every person who had tried it. On account of the manner in which he dis- ered it and the action of the medicine it- self, he gave to it the name “Microbe Killer.” A curious feature about the success of Rad- am’s Microbe Killer has been the attitude of the medical profession tow: it and the the- orfes advanced by Mr. R: At first they HUMAN BLOOD FULL OF MICROBES. laughed at his discovery and joked nbonlt)g: His theories, they said, Wére nonsense. eases were not caused by microbes, they de- clared, but were sim &fly diseases. G From their attitude of laughter, as the suc- plants with microbes, why should she not also i cess of Mr. Radam’s medicine and theories be- came more apparent, the medical profession turned to i:lloll!y. From his laboratory Mr. Radam was coms pelled to go to the courts. Up to the present time he has had many cases in court, in all of ‘which he has been successtul. Probably the most persistent attack was made upon the Microbe Killer by & physician and chemist, who declared that the Microbe Killer was a poisonous combination. This at~ iack was inaugurated in an open letter pub- lished in a trade journal. It was followed u by similar attacks under the signature of “M. D.” and other means of concealment. The CHOLERA ASTATICA. (Comma Bacillus.) writer claimed that his chemical formula would make the Microbe Killer. Mr. Radam immediately began a suit for damages after demanding a retraction of the sl‘llemen!s and articies. The suit came to trial. From the hundreds of volunteer witnesses among the persons who had been cured by the use of the Microbe Killer the court receivedy the evidence of twenty, as many as it deemed necessary. These witnesses testified that they had been cured by the use of the Microbe Killer. Some had taken only a few gallons, whileothers had taken 100 galions or more of the gas. The long case as last came to a close. Judge Andrews, in his charge to the jury, told them that the plaintiff had been libeled, and that the whole article was libelous on its face, and that the plaintiff had clearly proved beyond all gob sibility of doubt the Microbe Killer was abs lutely harmless, and that it had effected won- derful cures. The jury immediately returned’ a verdict for Mr. Radam, and warfare was ended. But Mr. Radam went further. He actually cured of consumption a man who had been declared in writing by the physician against whom the suit was brought as having con= sumption. ‘What more could be wanted to vindicate an inventor, a discoverer of new theories, than the result of’ the controversy? What seemed at first persecution proved to be a wonderfuls invention. The success with which the Microbe Killer met caused imitators to become active. In his safe Mr. Ranam has dozens of circulars from quacks who were selling and manuiacturing' imitation Microbe Killers. Some even wentso far as to use Mr. Radam’s name and portrait as the name-nnd portrait of the seller of the medi- cines alleged to be cures. Some even used jugs identical with those used by Mr. Radam for the convenient keeping of his Microbe Killer. Mr. Radam has won many suits against these im- postors, and has many suits still pending, which he cannot fail to win. In spite of the fact that Mr. Radam is not a physician, he knows more about diseases and microbes to-day than any other living man. To the objections and persecutions of medical men and alleged scientists, who claimea that microbes were not the cause of disease, Mr. Radam simply said, as Harvey imitated Gali- leo: ‘“All diseases are caused by microbes, for all of that.” Then Mr. Radam had no actual proof of h theorles regarding microbes except his convic- tions and the cures brought about by his Microbe Killer. To-day he is in a different position. During eignt years he has been & close student, not of medical books, butof nature. W ith the most powegful microscopes obtainable he secured mictbbes from nearly every disease known to medical science. He went further than this. In his own laboratory he comstructed a wonderful instrument for photographing the microbes. PNEUMOCOCCUS, (0f Pneumonia.) Thousands and thousands of the microbe photographs Mr. Radam has made. In his main office at 1288 Broadway, near Thirty- fourth street, New York, Mr. Radam hasa large collection of these Kic!“ms and the finest microbe laboratory in the world. There you can see in photographs all the microbes which destroy life. If you prefer to see them in re- ality 1nstead of in &flmmgmphsy there are re- volving tables loaded with microscopes, under the lenses of which are living microbes. In different bottles he keeps the different mi- crobes. Under the powerful lenses upon the slides the microbes will live only about one hour, Then fresh microbes are placed upon the siides and the performance begins again. You see the little demons, millions in a single drop. swimming about, jostling each other, breaking into sections, and each piece almost _instantly becoming as larze as the original microbe, cavorting and turning about, now in one direction, now in another. That is the way the microbes act when in the sys- tem. In anaimost incredibly short time one microbe becomes a mass of microbes, then millions. There are scores of interesting experiments which Mr. Radam will show the visitor there— only too glad to show them. He will prick the end of your finger and extract a drop of blood, which he will place under one of the micro- scopes. Then you can see for yourseli how vour blood looks. You can see the microbes, f there are microbes there, and there is likely to be. Gradually with the dose of & wineglassful two or three times a day the whole system be- comes impregnated with the Microbe Killer, The microbes are destroyed, no matter what kind of microbes they may be, for the Microbe Killer destroys the microbes of every disease, and in & very short time the invalid recovers. Similar experiments and mlcro-phowgnphs to the above are shown at the San Francisco office, 1330 Market street, where ail interested are invited to call. 3 There is no need to inquire whether the Microbe Killer cures anf g;rflcnlnr disease. The question never should be asked. Itcures ai &t purifies the blood. A person may have a cancer, tumor, headache or sore eyes, Bright’s disease, consumption, sore throat or any other ailment. It matters not. We do not follow the doctors’ methods of diagnosing and treating specifically. We cure all. We bring the blood into a pure and healthy condi- tion, and with that all disease disappears. The names of various ailments are of no con= sequence, but those who want to know them must ask the doctors. We onl¥idistinguish between disease and health, an@ /mvariably effect a cure. When a plant is unhealthy there is fermentation about the roots; when a man is unheaithy there is fermentation in the stomach. If the roots are destroyed the iant perishes, and when the human stomach s completely fermented the man dies. All remedies, to be effective, must enter the stomach. If, then. the remedy be antiseptic less it will purify the stomach, fres ases caused by mi- Microbes take and harmy it from férmentation and crobes and cleanse the blood. | up oxygen and give out carbonic acid, hence the sourness, fever and pain accompanying the disease. Now, whatever goes into the stomach goes to every part of the body. To cure the kidneys onlyis not possible, because we cannot send the Microbe Killerinto them and not into any other glll‘l of the A Wherever your pain is the Microbe Killer will find it out and cure it. Pamphlet giving full particulars regarding this wonderful medis cine, also testimonials of cures, mailed free. RADAN'S MICROBE KILLER €0., 1330 Market Street, , SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. BRANCHES. 360 Morrison Street, Portland, Or, 825 Third Stveet, Seattle, Wash. 13815 South Spring Street, Los Ane geles, Cal. 67 West Santa Clara Street, San Jose, William England, Marysville. A. M. Eaton. Woodland, And of All Druggists. A LADIES GRILL ROON Has been established in the Palace Hotel N ACCOUNT OF REPEATED DEMANDS ‘made on the management. It takes ti of the clty restaurant, with direct_entran Market st. Ladies shopping will find thi: desirabie place to lunch. 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