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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1895. 17 Two Californians appear in the field of literature this week. Miss Ina Coolbrith bestows a yolume of rare poesy. She is a singer of whom the QOccident is justly ud. | Taylor Rogers adds to the world's, knowledee of financial questions by a book | called “Scientific Money.” He will be | read for the earnestness of his words, his clearness of thought and facility of ex-| pression. | Other fields of literature are also well | represented in the week's publications, | | MISS COOLBRITH'S POEMS. *Songs From the Golden Gate' the Promi- nent Book of the Week. It was a wise determination on the part | of the California Guild of Letters to un- | dertake as its first work the publication of | the poems of Ina Coolbrith, and the asso- ciation may well be congratulated on the S omplishment of the task. which bears the title ' s From the Golden Gate” and is| ted by William Keith, has just issued from the Riverside Press, ridge, and is in every respect a most piece of bookmaking. It can y fail to attract the attention of cul- tured people to the work undertaken by | the Guild and ought to materially increase the support and co-operation given to it. | Miss Coolbrith is one of those upon whose work depends the repute of Cali- S~ ) Small need in your green, sunny places, Glad dwellers, have you of my SOngs. For you the blythe oirds of the meadow Trill silverly sweet, every one; But I cannot sit in the shadow Forever and siug of the sun. In all these songs of sentiment, whether the mood be light or serious, whether the treatment is carefully elaborated or ‘“shaped with but little art to broken num- bers,” there is a felicity of word and phrase, a lyric grace of sweetness and rhythm, and that subtle spirit of beauty which infuses into the form of verse the life that makes it poetry. Where there is so much of good it is difficult to make se- lections, and we shall not attempt it. Nor shall we venture upon much in the way of quotation from the descriptive poems. These are not inferior to the lyrics in ex- cellence of poetic workmanship, though they are less interesting, because they lack the personal human element that breathes through evefy line of the others. As Keith's illustrations add much to the charm of the volume and ably supplement several of the descriptive poems, the lines | which Miss Coolbrith has written upon his art may be appropriately quoted in this connection, inasmuch as they afford at once an example of her descriptive powers and her mastery over the sonnet form of verse: THE ART OF WILLIAM KEITH. Here, vast and awful, the Slerras rear Thelr everiasting summits to the sky, INA COOLBRITH, AUTHOR OF ‘' SONGS FROM THE GOLDEN GATE.” fornia literature in circles best fitted to | The mighty watersof the sunset lle judge it. The publication of the present | volume is, therefore, to us a matter of | more than ordinary literary importance. | It gives to California a new hearing before | the tribunal of highest criticism and justi fies her in demancing something more | than a passing notice of her accomplish- ments in the domain of letters. In this small volume there is much which will | take its place in the permanent literature of America, and will be accounted excel- | lent not only for the sentiment which | animates it but for the art which has em- | bodied it in forms of beauty and endowed | it with the harmonious cadences of a true | music. | Miss Coolbrith has not undertaken a | wide range of work. With three excep-| tions the contents of the present volume | might be aivided into poems of descrip- | tion and poems of moods. It is the latter | class that predominates and gives coloring to the whole. In a short poem, entitled “To-day’s Singing,” occur the lines: Weave me a rhyme to-day. No pleasant roundelay, But some vag ne, restless yearning of the heart.. Shaped with but little art To broken numbers, that shall flow Most dreamily aud slow. 1 think no merry tancy should belong To this day’s song. Itis in the mood thus expressed that Miss Cootbrith has done most of her sing- ing. but she has shown how to carry that | mood throuzh a thousand varieties, and the vague, restless yearning of the heart has not aiways been revealed lightly and with little art, out at times deeply and seriously, with the finest and truest artistic elaboration. Itisworth noting that the moods are never morbid. Always bealthful and pure, they are associated with sentiments of wholesome cheerful- ness and a lofty faith, so that we may say in these verses are realized Swinburne’s dream of ‘‘fair passions and bountiful pities and loves®ithout stain.” A helpful and cheering philosophy un- derlies all these “Songs From the Golden Gate.” The winds that come in from the ocean are not more free from depressing influences. They give bright glimpses of earth ; they help to solve problems of pain and sorrow; they make life pleasanter as well as more earnest for all who read them. In all this sweetness and cheerfulness, however, there is no trace of a superficial gayety or an absence of knowledge of “the mystery and the burden of the intolerable world.” Thereis, on the other hand, an evident will-power exerted to master the mystery by faith and to bear the burden bravely with a strong heart. In the poem “Marah’’ occurs a protest against the de- mand that all songs should be gay, and while for the right enjoyment of it the whole should be read it will suffice to show the argument and the answer to quote here the first verse and the last: The song were sweeter and better It only the thought were glad. Be Lidden the chafe of the fetter, The scars of the wound you have had; Be silent of strife and endeavor, But shout of the victory won. You may sit In the shadow forever 1f only you'll sing of the sun. To the weary in life’s wildernesses The soul of the singer belongs; | | | for the Grand Army of the Republic and 1n all their changing opalescenc ere The oroodl: nelancholy of the sere Dun autumn woods; the lsughing leatery 0f budding boughs blending each tender dye ‘With the lush green of the awakening year. This is not painted canvas—this is life, Creation. earth, in all ber varying moods! These fields athriil with motion and with light, These forest ways with dream and my stery rife, Here nature’s heart throbs through the soli- tudes, Here nature’s soul 100ks from the mystic helght. Three poems in the volume stand out distinct from the others, both in nature and in mode of treatment. These are “California,” “The Captive of the White | City” and the “Memorial Poem” written | read on Decoration day, 1881. Poems writ- ten for special occasions are rarely of much merit. The memorial ode of Miss Cool- brith is one of the few that has outlived the day for which it was written. It| abounds with strong lines giving noble ex- pression to noble thoughts. Among the passages are many which will farnish fit quotations for memorial orators to adorn their prose with as long as the observance of that sacred day shall be honored among us. It is, indeed, one of the classic memo- rial odes of the Nation, and will be per- vetuated in memory of the heroic dead, of whomn it finely sings: | ‘They have not died in valn. Through them she lives with head no longer bowed Among the nations, but erect and proud; Washed clean of wrone and shame, Her freedom never more an empty name And all her scattered stars as one again. The “California” though not the longest isthe most notable poem in the volume, | and exhibits the powers of the author at her best. California sits by the Golden Gate and complains that none have fitly sung of her glory : Ah, what indeed is this Old land beyond the seas that ye shonld miss For her the grace and majesty of mine? Are not the fruit and vine Fair on my hills and in my vales the rose? When to her coast the white man came so full of vigor and with so much of pur- pose in his eyes, California laughed and sang because she thought *“I shall be known, I shall not sit alone, but reach my handsunto my sister lands.” This expecta- tion, however, has not been fulfilled. Cali- fornia remains unsung. “All my lays and legends fade away from lake and mountain to the farther hem of sea and there be none to gather them.” Thus California still waits the coming of the singer, “him of diviner speech,” and of him she says: My laurels lend the glory of thelr boughs To Crown no narrower brows. For on his lips must wisdom sit with youtn And in his eves, and on the lids thereof, The light of & great love— And on his forehead truth. In the voice of the lofty lament which Miss Coolbrith has put into the mouth of California there is something of a prophecy. The glory of this golden land will yet be as sweetly and as nobly sung as that of any land on earth. Our bards sublime will come when the heart of the people and the culture of the State has been pre- pared for them, Many now living are | San Francisco News Company. 141 pages; | of doing something to hasten the coming of the master. Miss Coolbrith herself has done much. She has given a proof that | the genius of California is not a suppliant for the world’s approval in the finest fields of literature, but boldly challenges criti- cism. Inthese poems there is fine work finely done. Here is poetry not as a pas- time, but as a study; not an aniusement for a few, but an inspiration for all who are capable of drawing delight from such pure sources. The illustrations by Wil liam Keith are admirable, aptly illumin- ating the author's thoughts and senti- ments. [“Songs From the Golden Gate,” Ina Coolbrith; illustrations by William Keith. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (Riverside Press, Cambridge), Boston and New York. For sale by Cunninghzam, Curtiss & Welch and all bookstores; 160 pages; §1 50.] | “SCIENTIFIO MONEY." Ax Able Financial Treatise by Taylor Rogers of San Francisco. i ‘“Scientific Money” is the title of a book | which has just made its appearance from | 1 the press of the Hurlbert Printing Com- | pany, San Jose. } Taylor Rogers, Mayor Sutro’ssecretary, | | | | | | | is the author. Mr. Rogers is a man of culture and recognized- business acumen, and this book entitles him to rank among the leading thinkers of the day on ques- tions of finance. combined plea for paper money. He de- mands the abolition of the present metallic system as a sure means of solving nearly all the great National problems of the age. “‘Scientific Money” is bright, thoughtful and never dull, no matter what may be said of the logic of the argument. The author claims that in the establish- | ment of gold and silver asthe monetary | basis the Government diseriminates in favor of two industries. The mines from | | which th metals are taken rest in the | | bands of a limited number of persons and are worked by a comparatively limited class of our population. Therein lies the | discrimination of the Government. In the outset, Mr. Rogers lays down as his platform that an American dollar should have only these qualities: | First—It is a stanaard fixed by the Nation for | and as a measure of the value of all other things. Second—TIt is a legal tender for all debts. Third—It is any substance without com- modity value and in convenient form for use in exchanges. Fourth—It is redeemed when debts are paid | and exehanges are effected by it. In his work, touching the question of discrimination, he writes: The United States has produced since 1848 | #£1,870,000,000 in goid and $1,072,000,000 silver, aggregating $2,943,000,000. Accord- | ing to the oracles of the gold standard, each | dollar of this vast sum represents a day’s work, | | and is thus stored up weelth. If this effort had | been applied by the rules of economic truth, | | would this country present, as the tragedy of | | this century, the crowning of a few million- | | aires, while at their chariot wheels straggle an | | army oi tramps, regged, heart-broken and without hope? To gather this pile of metal required more | e close of the Rebeliion, for on July1, | 5, our debt ran to the highest, $2,773,000, 1 000. All mines are private property in | | the same sense that tools, cattle, railroads | binks and lands are. They are subject to sales, | taxes, liens, judgments, succession and wills, | and have no exemption or rights not conferred | on all other property existing in private owner- | ship. The Government works no mines, and | until recently sold them with the land bought as homesteads, pre-emptions, ete., disregarding | all their existing mineral value. Even where | mines are know to exist, the United States will issue patents therefor. These facts show that | { mines are not Nationel, but purely private con- | cerns. | If humanity must perish without gold and silver then let fervent prayers rise, like holy | incense, that our patriotic metal-worshipers | will soon invade the penetralia of the tropic | jungle and tie the miner’s pan to the icy pole. | Ave, let the prayer be deep, that their search may be measured like “the wounded snake that slowly drags its length along” and as en- during as the heavens ‘‘with cycle and epi cycle scribbled o’er,” und patient as the martyr | “wrapped in his pale robe of fire” * * * The | sradual demonetization of silver shows how heartless metallic money is. It is quite clear how and why the metallist should antagonize | | & paver currency. But that gold, after 4000 years of friendship, knit together througha | myriad struggles, should turn on silver and | stab it in the dark is & picture to which the fu- | ture historian will point as the darkest con- | quest of modern nations. Poland and Ireland | may stand weeping, and for sympathy, but greater wrongs than theirs are to-day being | written in the blood of many lands. | After bringing many arguments to bear 1 | in favor of a paper money, Mr. Rogers as- ! | serts that the wealth of the Nation and tie | popular will of the people would be back | of the issue; that its influence on the | financial and ‘industrial world would be beneficial beyond estimate and forever | relieve trade from the disastrous results of | the eternal struggle between gold and | silver. | It is very evident the author hasnothing | in common with either the gold or silver | men or the bimetallists. [Printed for Tay- lor Rogers, 3333 Washington street, San Francisco, by the Hurlbert Publishing Company of San Jose. For sale by the | | | paper; 25 cents. | A TUNEFUL SON OF THE.SOUTH. | Samuel Minturn Peck’s dainty volumes of verse are among the most popular in the | country to-day. Itisabouc ten years since his lyries and songs began to appear in the { news papers, and were quickly copied from | one end of the country to the other. His Tep utation as a poet was fully gained be- | fore he thought of publishing a volume, | says the Philadelphia Press, and when he | did seek a publisber he found that his | wares were welcome, | aloosa, where he lives in the old | homestead, is the umvyersity town | Alabama. The new movement has | scarcely struck the place as yet, though ?.hel‘e re signs that 1t will do so ere long. The village is at the head of the Warrior River, which flows into the Tombighee and 80 on down to the Gulf. Mr. Peck has described his home in one of his favorite poems: AN ALABAMA GARDEN. Along the pine-clad hill it lies, O'eriooked by limpid Southern skies, A spot to feast a fairy's eyes, A nook for bappy fancies. The wild bee’s mellow monotone JHere blends with bird-notes zephyr blown, And mavy an insect volce unknown ‘The hafmony enhances. family The rose’s shattered splencor flees With lavish grace on every breeze, And Tilies sway with flexible eage, i Iryads snowy crested; And where gardenias drowse between Rich curving leaves of glossy green The cricket strikes his tambourine, Amid the mosses nested. He was brought up in_ this environ- ment by his father, sometime Chief Justice of Alabama, and took his course at the university. When not occupied with managing his estate, a cotton plantation, he tried his | band at verse-making. Some of his poems were copied out by a friend and were sent to the New York Evening Post and Inde- pendent. They met with such a favorable reception that he took up the writing of poetry seriously. Two books of his poems, *“Cap and Beis” and “Rings and Love. Knots,” have gone through several edi- tions, and a third volume, “Rhymes and Roses,” will appear this fall. ‘A BTUDY OF DEATH.” The mysterious relations between good and evil and life and death offer to the in- | The book is a condensed argument and E | another.” work than it cost to win the grandeur of peace | . HON. TAYLOR ROGERS, AUTH OR OF “SCIENTIFIC MONEY.” quiring mind of man problems inscrutable | but forever interesting. From the begin- | ning of time philosoplers have sought to solve these problems or at least to explain | them sufficiently to satisfy human reason | why death and evil should exist in a world | where happinessis so scemingly dependent | upon goodness and lif Another attempt at the solution of this | profound and universal mystery is made | by Henry Mills Alden in “A Study of | Death,” which is intended by the author | as complementary to his previous work, “God in His World.” The aim of the | book is to impress upon the reader that ‘“‘death and its evils are essentially one and belong to life not only in its manifes- tation but in its creative or genetic qual- ity.” “Life,” says the author in bis pref- ace, “in its principle is not good or evil, mortal or immortal, but as creative it be- comes evil as well as good and 1s immorta only as including mottality.” In another place he says, “We pass from glory to glory, and that crisis which we call death is only a transition from one harmony to So he argues that, because we istence have no conscious knowledge of pre-existence states, it does not follow that the future life will be wholly denied such knowledge. In the elucidation of the theme the | treatise is divided into a proem and four books. The proem, “The Dove and the Serpent,” gives the note ana scope of the theme. PBook I, “Two Visions of Death,” | distinguishes between the ou rd sign of | death and evil and their essential mean- ing. Book II, “Native Impressions,” con- siders the earliest human views of these dark mysteries as parts of a normal pathol- ogzy. Book III, “Eradignl Son—a Cosmic Parable,” is a restatement of cosmic_phil- | osophy (as related to the theme) in living terms—a suggestive sketeh of the prodigal’s ‘“far country,” its illusions and its limita- tions, as the field of a natural destiny, whose contradictions are reconcilable in a spiritual apprehension of the eternal life. Book IV, “Death Unmasked,” is devoted to_the Christian philosophy of death and il. The work contains at the end an in- dex sufliciently analytical to show the tex- ture of the writer's thouzht. “‘A Study of Death,” Henry Mills Alden. New York: Harper Bros. Price $1 50. A SET OF ROGUES. A romance written in the old fashion having a mannerism suggestive of the style of Daniel Defoe, but differing from the novels of a former generation inas- much as it has a distinct plot instead of being a string of haphazard adventures through which the hero passes, is a clever story by Frank Barrett bearing the title of ““A Set of Rogues.” The suggestiveness of last-century literature is carried out on the title page, which, after giving the names of the rogues as Christopher Sut- ton, John Dawson, the Senor Don Sanchez del Castillo de Castelana and Moil Daw- son, proceeds to set forth that the book is a narrative of ‘‘their wicked cohspiracy and a true account of their travels and ney on the ice up the Yukon and across the Chilcoot Mountains; arrive, half starved and half frozen, at John Muir’s deserted hut on the banks of the Muir Glacier, and are finally picked up by a United States revenue cutter and taken to Sitka, where Phil at last finds his father. The story gives an interesting glimpse into an unknown region, and will prove both instructive and profitable reading for our young people. [New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch, San Francisco. THE WANDERING JEW. Eugene Sue’s masterpiece will never lose its hold on the reading public. From time to time new editions are found necessary to supply the demand. The latest edition is from the press of Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Itisprinted from new plates made from the original Chapman & Hall edi- tion, by far the best of any extant transla- tion. 1In its breadth of canvas, its scope of human emotions, its variety of incident | and enthralling grasp of development, this romance sull holds its own as one of the immortal masterpieces of French litera- ture. The clear tvpe, ample margins and excellent illustrations make this edition the best that hasever been offered to the American public. [T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York and Boston; 18 full page illus: trations, including two photogravure frontispieces. Two vols., 12mo, gilt top, illustrated, 698, 771 pp. ; $3.] GENERAL HARRISON TO WRITE FOR WOMEN. Ex-President General Harrison is en- gaged in writing a series of magazine arti- cles for the Philadelphia Ladies’ Home Journal. The papers are being written by General Harrison especially for women, to meet a desire on their part to intelligently understand the workings of our Govern- | ment and the great National questions. 1t will be the aim of the articles to explain just what the United States Government meansg; the origin and meaning of the constitution; how laws are eracted and enforeed; what the powers of the Presi- dent and other officials are; what the judi- ciary system means; how our foreign relations are brought about and their | meaning; how Congress and the Senate legislate—in fact, a complete explanation | of the Government told in a popular way. A MANUAL OF DYNAMO ELECTRICS. This is a handy little volume, which its | authors, McFadden and Ray, call a treatise | on “The Practical Application of Dynamo Electric Machinery.” It is designed to | meet the needs of a growing class of students who find themselves confronted | with the necessity which demands of them some knowledge of fundamental principles | in the application of electricity, but who | have little technical understanding of the | subject. Most of the books treating upon adven tures, together with many often sur- | electrical matters are so purely technical prising things now disclosed for the first |as to bewilder rather than enlighten the time as the faithful confession of Chris- | uneducated reader, but these will find the topher Sutton.”” present little work, which is written by The storv is not unworthy of the title. | two practical electrical engineers, to be a The wicked conspiracy is one devised by a | very useful and comprehensive handbook Spanish adventurerof high birth and some | of the subject of which it treats. [Chicago: fortune, to obtain possession of a iarge | Laird & Lee. 16mo.; limp cloth. Price English estate whose rightful owner isa | 50 cents.] woman held as a slave by the Barbary | pirates. His sclieme is to palm off a young girl as the daughter of this woman, and after putsing her in possession of ‘the es- tate divide it among the conspirators. The means by which the scheme is carried out is entertainingly told. Don Sanchez finds tjiree strolling players—John Daw- son, his daughter Mboll and Christopher Sutton—utterly penniless in an Knglish village, and succeeds in enlisting them in the enterprise. They succeed in their ef- forts, and get Moll Dawson recognized as the heiress, and for a time all goes well; | but Moll falls in love, and then complica- tions ensue which lead to more adventures | and a romantic love story. Despite the wickedness of the conspiracy the English rogues are so_genial and the Spanish schemer is so perfect a gentleman in manners that the reader can hardly fail to sympathize with them and be pleased with the very happy termination which the author has given to both the conspiracy and the lovestory. The style is crisp and bright and the narrative never drags, so that it may be rightly accounted one of the more entertaining novels of the day. “A Set of Rogues.” New York and Lon- don: Macmillan & Co. Price, in cloth, $150. SNOW SHOES AND SLEDGES. Readers who remember Kirk Munroe’s thrilling story, “The Fur-Seal’s Tooth,” will welcome this account of the further adventures of gertain of the characters met in that narrative on the Alaskan coast. Phil Ryder and Serge Belcovsky are two phenomenally clever lads, who, by a series of curious misadventures, find themselves stranded, so to speak, in Northern Alaska. They are taken in charge by the captain of a trading steamer, who undertakes to set them on their way.toward Sitka, where Phil has reason to believe his father is awaiting him. The captzin of the trading steamer falls sick with the measles; the crew mutinies, and our two young'heroes overcome the recalcitrants, nurse the captain_ and navigate the steamer up the Yukon River to Anvik. There they learn that Phil's father has gone on ahead'of them, and they start in hot pursuit with dog- teams and sledges. The escapes they have are as thrilling as the most ardent lover of adventure can desire, and through them all the fur-seal’s tooth appears and dis- appears as mysteriously as it used in the first story, The travelers make the jour- BEETZEN MANOR. A translation, by Elsie Lathrop, from the German of W. Heimburg, a popular writer of the romantic school. “Beetzen Manor’ isa pitiful story of the conven- tionalities that hedge in the life and op- portunities of the high-bred German woman, even In these progressive davs. Convention, bigotry, the narrow rules, relics of feudal days, pursue Heimburg’s heroine from the cradle to the untimely grave to whick they eventually hound her. The story is a powerful one, which the author is content to teil without using it as the text for a sermon, and even the translator’s work, which is hopelessly bad, is not sufficient to destroy its interest. [New York, London and Berlin: The In- ternational News Company. 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It is a necromaunt in three chimeras, by “Thomas T. Stoddart; but the original “Death-wake” is the strange poetic con- ception of a youth, and in its best pas- sages there are strangely musical touches and a distinct and original accent. Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley, president of the Woman's Club of Chicago, and author of many cheery little verses published from time to time in different veriodicals, | Leips has collected her literarr productions under the title of “Under the Pinesand Other Verses,”” and will soon have them pub- lished m book form by Way & Williams of Chicago. Mrs. Catherine Brooks Yale, widow of the artist and inventor, and long known to her intimate friends as a charming story-teller, is soon to have a collection of her childrén’s stories published in book form under the titie of “Nim and Cum and the Wonder-head Stories.” The book in its quaint humor and its insights into ani- mal life, may interest older persons than those for whom it is_primarily intended. 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Iilustrated; 271 pa; Harper & Brothers, New York; $1 25. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co. A Stupy or Deatm; by Henry Mills Alden. Fully indexed: 336 pages. Har- per & Brothers, New York. For sale by avot, Upham & THE CHARLETON; o. by Robert Buchanan and Henry Murray. A study in hypno- tism; 272 pages. Published by F. Tenny- son Neely, Chicago and New York. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co. A SEr or Rocues; by Frank Barrett. Published by Macmillan & Co., New York and London; 346 pages; $150. For sale by Payot, bham & Co., San Francisco. How 70 STUDY STRANGERS—By Nelson Sizer. [Paper, 367 pages, 70 cents. Pub- ]')iSh?\d by Fowler & Wells Company, New York.] “Among the Pueblo Indians,” by Carl and Lilian W. Eickmeyer. Illustrated with hotographs taken by the authors. The }\Ferriam Company, 67 Fifth avenue, N York. For sale by Johnson & igh, San Francisco. “Hadassah,” by Mrs. J. F. Black. Golden Rod edition. Laird & Lee, 265 Wabash avenue, Chicago. “*Successward,” a young man’s book for young men. By Edward W. Bok; 186 pages, 12mo, decorated cloth, giit top, $1. Published by Fleming H. Revell Com- pany, New York, Chicago, Toronto. “So From the Golden Gate,” by Ina Coolbrith, with illustrations by William Keith. [Published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (Riverside Press), Boston and New York. For sale by Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch and by all bookstores. Cloth, 160 leecy il pages; $150. COLEMAN’'S WILL. An Estate of 850,000 Left in Trust for the Testator’s Young Son. Carlton C. Coleman’s will was filed for probate yesterday by the Union Trust Company, which is nominated as execator. The estate is valued at $50,000. Mr. Coleman bequeathed the property to the Union Trust Company for William Tell Coleman, the son of the testator. If tbe son skould die before the age of 30 years, the trust is to be closed and all the estate given to Robert L. Coleman, the testator’s brother, and in any event the son is to have only. the income until he is 30 years old. he will was signed on February 16, 184. William Tell Coleman, the son, is 11 years old. 'We ‘Want to ;Tell You We Sell Crockery And Sell it Awful Cheap. Crystal Glass Table Tumblers. Crystal Glass Water Goblets Glass Butter Dish. ‘ystal Glass Sugar Bow Crystal Glass Saled Dish. Dinner Set, beautitully dec. semi-porcelain. 100 pieces, complete {or 12 persons.........§8 7! Dinner Set, 100 pleces, gold illuminated, a perfect gem. = Dinner Set, pieces, complete for 6 persons. 475 Cuspidores, Majolica decoration, each..20c and 30¢ Great American Tmporting Tea Co. 617 Kearny st. 146 Ninth st. 965 Market st. 140 Sixth st. éfl}!;ll’olk st. 21 Montgomery ave. 333 HnyaElt. 5T 218 Third st. 2008 Fillmore st. 3006 Sixteenth 104 Second st. 2510 dission st. 3259 Mission st. 1053 Washington af 917 Brol‘lwnfi - { 131 San Pablo ave. ,P:u'k st. and Alameds ave. (ity Stores, Oakland. Alameda Headquarters.............52-58 Market st. 100 Stores and Agencles in operation. A Big Saviug for Housekeeprs, 6 E. Twelfth st. HEALTH LAWS NERVOUSNESS. Exercise moderately. eight hours. Sleep from six to Retire at 10 o'clock. * If you don’t sleep soundly use Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. It will clean the organs of the body, and you can sleep re- freshingly. » o 1f you wake tired, you need better health, and Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla will bring this. % 0 ‘When nervous and restless take moder- ately long walks, and use Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla, The heart, lungs and stomach are gov- erned by nerves originating in the brain, and these nerves are quieted by what you take into the stomach, if you take Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. g Twitchings of the eyes and muscles of the face are symptoms of nervous prostra- tion. You need rest, change and Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. o B A nervous man or woman should never overload the stomach. Moderation in everything, even Joy’s Vegetable Sarsa- parilla, is essential. xS Nervousness, melancholy and a torpid liver go hand in hand. Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla will stir the liver, quiet the nerves and banish melancholy. g 0 Substitutes are poor, but poorer are the people who take the proffered substitute for Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. > B After using one bottle of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla you will agree 1t is good medicine. - A nervy man may offer a substitute for Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla, but you can refuse the substitute. SKIN DISEASES. Castile soap and warm water used night and morning will dry up pimples and blackheads. e Don’t pick pimples with your nails. s * TUlcers, body sores, scrofula and eczema disappear with the use of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. *e Sweaty hands and feet shounld be washed daily with cold salt water. % 0 If you have a skin disease don’t eat fats or take mineral drugs. Use Joy’s Vegeta~ ble Sarsaparilla; it is made of herbs. . ¥ Dandruff is due to the oils of the head drying and scaling. Use cold water in the morning and rub the head thoroughly. ® % « When your nair is falling it is time to use Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. You can then put the body in good health. * % Itching, burning skin often comes from dyspepsia. If you use Joy's Vegetabla Sarsaparilla the burning will cease. " Shun the substitute. s Itching blotches all over the body, in hands, face. neck, loins and back are the result of a disturbance of the digestive tract. Use Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla and they will disappear. e 0 ° Rushing of blood to the head, hot and cold flashes and bearing-down pains are stopped with the use of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. * * 5 No matter how smiling the face of the substituter may be, refuse his substitute and use Joy’s Vegetable Sarsapariila. PAINS AND ACHES. Cold produces pains; carelessness, scanty clothing and draughts bring on colds— avoid them. g A pain in the back means a disordered kidney, often produced by a cold. 0 » A pain in the face, neck, head or chest is too often neuralgia—hot applications are beneficial, and be sure to use Joy’s Vege- table Sarsaparilla moderately. . ¥ Pains in the joints and muscles are rheu- matic pains, produced often by exposure and cold and cured often by the moderate use of Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilia. g * Pains in the bowels may mean a dis« ordered liver, a cold in the bowels or chronic constipation; if you use Joy's Veg- etable Sarsaparilla these pains will disap- pear and mean nothing. *x £ Pains in the stomach spring from dis- ordered digestion and spring out again when you use Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. S B Away with substitutes, they fill the cof« fers of the druggists and that's all. *® ¥ Headaches, pains overthe brow, pains at the back of the head, painson the top of the head or temple are relieved and com- pletely cared by Joy’s Vegetable Sarsa- parilla. o Pains in the shoulder usnally mean a torpid liver, but this torpid liver can be made active by the use of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla and the pains will cease. % » Violent pains in the region of the liver, caused often from gallstones, are relieved by the use of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. g 0 If you wish to use Joy's Vegetable Sar« saparilla, ask vour drugeist forit. If he attempts to substitute leave his place and try another druggist. This is certainly fair.