The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER S, 1896. 11 15 1T INSANITY 7 OB 1§ 1T LOVE? Contract Signed by F. W. Reiner and Ida Blythe. He Is Waiting His Examina- tion Before the Insamity Commissioners. Has Recklessiy Spent a Small For- tune Here Within the Past Two Weeks. Frederick W. Reiner, the wealthy com- mission'merchant of San Rafael, whose reckless expenditure of money recently bas drawn considerable attention to him, was taken before the Insanity Commis- s yesterday morning. As-all the ses had not been subpenaed his ex- amination was continued till to-day. One.of the evidences of insanity that Will be submitted against Reiner is a con- tract that he entered into Sunday aiter- w Ida Blythe of 25 Grant avenue. ia Blythe and Viola L= Page were the k them to supver. When he awoke xt morning he found that he had been robbed-of $160 and he suspected Ida Blythe of tuking the money. Ths led to : for exhibiting a deadly weapon i Judge Campbell remanded him for iation by the Insanity Commis- er got in- wated on the nmight®of November 24, ¢ spent considerable money for wine ter he met them in the Midway and rers. eiier has been confined in a padded in the Receiving Hospital since Fri- morning. He hasreceived many call- among them Ida Blythe. Sun: rinoon she called, and Reiner immedi- v called in two of the aitaches of the spital and requested them to witness natures of himself and Ida Blythe ract, er read the contract, which he bad en himself on a sheet of iooiscap. It in effect that in consideraticn of | 1d_presents, value unknown, Ida agreed to become the traveiing on of Freaerick W. Reiner, and to nd {s ful to nim and owe al- ¢ ce. to no man but him. Reiner on s part agreed to pay her traveling ex- and to keep her supplied with »cket-money and wearing apparel. contract was duly signed and wit- , and then Reiner told Idato go nd he would not prosecute her for g the $160 from him. The contract | in the possession of the Sheriff, and produced in court this morning. A | rtion of its contents will be submitted as evidence of Reiner’s mental incapacity. dge Hebbard issned an order yester- y morning that no person should be mitted to see Reiner, and a notice to hat effect was posied up in the hospital. | t was brought to the Judge's attention 1at Sunday aiternoon Reiner had given | eck for §200 to some person who called | > see him. The check was cashed and | was paid to a well te for a 2 en by Reiner to his con- anion and her friends nt of bis diseharge by issioners. The ban- | et a thing of the future. When morning, only $119 Reiner’s pockets, which was n tlua custody of the steward at ital. ige also issued an order to the | Property Clerk not to recognize y order presented to him signed by leiner for his property. When Reiner s ordered into custody by Judge Camp-. Wednesday he had in his pockets 81n coin, a valuable diamond ring and ring, 2 magnificent diamond pin, 2 i watch and chain and certificates for ) shares in the Harlan Pin-Coupling pany. Friday, when he was taken to the Hospital, two orders sizned by operty Clerk. One was presented by Sullivan, who for some weeks acted clerk in Judge Low’s court during illness of the incumbent, and other was presented by an attor- € Both were referred to Chbief Crowley and the Chief declined to recognize them, as Reiner was awaiting his examination on a charge of insanity. Reiner, if discharged by the Insanity Commissioners, is to leave for Germany, his mother, who died recently, left him a fortune, estimated, it is said, at $250,000. Since November 24. when he first came into prominence here, he has recklessly spent a small fortune. STAMLE MUST_RESGh One - More . Interesting Scandal e women belonging to the Mid- | i such constant contact with young women a well-regulated hospital, with the result that the board not only suspended the interne and the nurse fizuring in this mid- night incident, but also three other nurses. X These three are charged by Miss Patton with as gross a neglect of duty as the others. She says that while they were enjoying the society of an interne in one of ‘the offices a patient was discovered to have died, suffering with poeumonia, i wholly unattended, while another sufferer from the same complaint was found lying almost naked on the floor. Miss Patton held her position as head nurse in the time of Dr. Titus and during that time was suspended two weeks on a charge very similar to that which. she bring against the four nurses. The charge was found to be without foundation, the nurse who made it afterward admitting that it was not true. There are those who say that the same will be shown in this case. Among these are Drs. Morrow and Doyle, internes at the hospital. They su_pfor_! Dr. Gunn in his very emphatic denial tnat there was anything nearly so serious as is charged took place, and are inclined to be severe in their criticism of Miss Patton. For his own part Dr. Gunn says that there was nothing more to the incident than per- haps a littie breach of etiquette. He says he was walking down the cor- rider of the hospital while one of the nurses stood in _front .of the door of the nurees’ room. He put his hand on her shoulder and gave her a push before him as a mere bit of pleasantry. She l.aughed {and so did he as he pased on. That, he | declares, is the head and front of what hes been turned into a scandal. However this may be, there is no doubt that things have been ranning loosely at the City and County Hospital; that the | members of the Board of Health have become convinced of that fact and, with the energy that has so characterized that bady, they will begin an investigation this morning that may result in turning over the whoie estabiishment. It is altogether possible that these de STEWED DOG WAS UPON THE MENU Wittkowski Had Only to Whistle for His Supper. And It Came Runping In to Him From the Street on All Fours. 0id Discovery Made by Officer Mc- Currie in a Vacant Lot Near California Street. Hugo Wittkowski ate a dog. Perhaps he ate several. He occupies a domain which has a surface, certainly, if sparsely, strewn with remnants of deceased dog. On one occasion a puppy’s head was picked up at one end of his lot and the tail of supposedly the same animal was gathered/ from an ash pile at a distance of 100 feet, | viz., at the farther end of the same lot. Atother periods feet that would not match have been viewed by somewhat unsympa- thetic neighbors, who have not yet de- Some of the Principal Characters and Their Simple Utensils in the California-Strect Canivorous Colony. velopments may resuit in the board re- udiating the Training School for Nurses, about which there bas been so much dis- cussion and radical differences of opinion. “For my part,” said Dr. Fiizgibbon last evening, “I cannot see how we can ever hope to bein any measure secare acainst such scandal so long as young doctors, such as are the internes, are broug ht into or girls such as are the pupil nurses. There are over thirty young woinen out at the hospital learning to be nurses, while there are half as many young doc- tors.l’ Continuing the doctor said: **We have heard a good deal about the lax diséipline out at the hospital and the board has de- termined to prosecute a rigid investiga- | tion, and it will do its best to correct what- | place.”’ Dr. Hart is the chairman of the Hos- pital Committee. 1t will devolve upon him to take the initiative in the prosecu- tion. George Robinson, the steward, charged with receiving unwholesome food at the hospital, having knowledge of its condi- tion, yesterday sent in his resignation. ————————— A “BORROWED” INTERPRETER Collector Wise ' ithout Any One to Talk Chinese for Him. Collector of Customs Jobn H. Wise is obliged to secure another interpreter of the Chinese language. He has had lots of trouble with his interpreters ever since Dick Williams was arrested for crooked- ness, while holding that position. Col- lector Wise, as soon as Williams was ar- rested, began to hire Chinese to act as his interpreters, but the treasury officials qnickly came to the conclusion that the Arises From the County Hospital. Revels of the Ianternss and the : Nurses Are Not Viewed With Official Favor. When the Board of Health meets this morning it will take up another serious problem, lying beyona a doubt this time within its jurisdiction. The City and County Hospital, which has been the thorn in its side of every Board of Health since that now tumble-down institution was new, presents itself again witha scan- dal to be disposed of. 1f Dr. Stahle will not have his resigna- tion all written out for presentation it will not mean that he 1s to continue right along at'the head'of the hospital, for he is not. . It has been decided that he mustgo, and Interne H. Gunn and four of the purses are already under suspension. It-ail growsont of a mild scandal that is reported with different degrees of gravity from different points of view, but which has grown out of a laxity of disci- pling that has reflected against the superin- tendent and preserts the reason for his retirement. The head nurse, Miss Patton, reports the story in the first instance and in its gravest proportions. She was awakened a few nights ago by the rollick- ing screams and laughter of women echoing with the deeper tones of a man through the hailways of the hospital to her bed chamber. Having dressed and descended the stairs as rapidly as possible, she Jdeclares that she found the young interne running up and down the main corridor with one of the nurses seated on bis shoulder. The young interne pped the nurse on her feet directly in fiynt of Miss Patton. Miss Patton reported this remarkable demonstration to Superintendent Stahle and be, after hearing, both sides of ‘the Government would get the worst of the bargain under this system of procedure. Last October Collector Wise received an order from Becretary Carlisle directing that he dispense with the services of the Chinese interpreter and secure a white man who understands the Chinese Jan- gauge to transact the business satisfactory Treasury Agent Major Moore. Mr. Wise, however, retained the Chinaman, elaim- ing that he was not paying the interpreter irom the Government’s ?und!. This did not please the powers that be, and eventa- ally the Chinese interpreter wasdismissed, leaving Collector Wise without such an dssistant. He quickly got over this difficulty by “‘borrowing’’ Interpreter Jones of United States District Attorney Foote, and he has been keeping Mr. Jones busy for the | past two weeks. This arrangement did not work successfully, as Mr. Jones was doing two men’s work and only receiving one man’s pay. Moreover, his services were frequently demanded in the Federal courts where he belongs, and his absence caused much annoyance in the halls of justice. On the other hand, when he was in the courts, the brokers and others having Chinese business in the Custom- house were greatly hampered for the want of an interpreter of Chinese. Yesterday Attorney Foote put a stop to the annoyance so far as his department was concerned by sending a letter to Col- lector Wise stating that he would have to recall the loan of Mr. Jones. As the case stands Collector Wise is without an inter- preter, although there are several white men who speak the Chinese language on h.s list of applicants. ————— Held for Forgery. L. D. Savage was yesterday held to’answer before the Superior Court by Judge Joachimsen in $2000 bonds on the charge of forgerey. He is accused of iorging the name of W. A. Dawes, coilection ageut, to an orderon the Emporium for $5 75 for which he received goods, There is another charge against him which will be heard to-morrow. ——————— Havens Won the Prize. Charles 1. Havans’ design for the new Mission High School has been accepted by the Board of Education and he will receive the 5 per story, dismissed it., The matter was then carried by the head nurse to the members of tbe board, together with other stories of other lapses which should not properly have a place in nt of the cost of the building that goesto the flclc(‘ehfiflll architect. W. O. Banks recelved the second prize, which was $500 in cash, and Cahill & Condon the tl ird—$300 cash. Havens will give a bond that the cost of the building he designed will not exceed $137;000. | { l veloped the advanced taste for dog fricas- See or puppy stew. Hugo Wittkowski isa tall, spare man, whose residence will not be found in any City directory. Yet, for something like two years and perhaps more, he has resided within 200 feet of the corner of Kearny and California streets, the en- | trance being on the north side of Cali- forma. Just west of Kearny street, on California, are several old-fashioned wooden buildings, which are occupied by various lines of business. Back of these are other small and dilapidated structures and back of these is a large open space of ground, which is hemmed in on all sides by buildings. One of these buildings in the rear is everevils it may discover to exist, even if | 0ccupied by Hugo Wittkowski, rent free. we have to turn every official out of the | Others of the structures in the back are also reported to contain free tenants. In truth, here is a sort of gypsy paradise, for the tenants cook in the open air and use their houses only for sleeping rooms. In the large area before mentioned, stakes are driven and these uphold pots and ketties over a gypsy campfire. Every night the neighbors see the fire lignted. From the kettles proceed the fumes of something stewing. On the ground are two or three, or perhaps more, men, who are waiting for their supper to be done. They are smoking pipes and seem con- tented, having solved the problem of living at a cost of almost nothing. None of these is Wittkowski, He has his own cooking ouifit, Around his fire some of his friends gather occasionally, for he frequently ac- commodates three or four other persons in the shack which he calls home. He also cooks in gypsy fashion, anda some- times he cooks dog. At various times the other persons who frequent the locality bave seen dead dogs about. Once Witt- kowski was seen to emerge from his shack with a bloody hatchet, ana the neighbors afterward saw the plump body of a dead dog prepared for cooking. How long this might have goné on is uncertain. But Wittkowski provoked others by coming around at a late hour and disturbing their rest. He claims to have been a soldier and to have taken part in many battles, A piece has been sliced off one of nis ears, and he has stab wounds and cuts enough on his person to suggest _rersonal participation in various encoun- ers. Sunday Wittkowski was preparing to cook a small, nondescript dog when Officer McCurrie of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to animals received infor- mation which sent him to Wittkowski’s shack. There he found the carcass of a dog that had been skinned. Some one had found the body of the dogin & pot ready for cooking and had cut off one of the hind legs to take to the California- street Police Station. Officer McCurrie had quite an animated conversation on the subject of the defunct dog with Wittkowski. ll‘he substance of Wittkowski's averments was thut he had killed the dog, but he denied that his par- pose was to eat it. On the contrary, he professed to be engaged in preparing the carcass for a friend living at North Beach, who is a consumptive, whose name is John Merk, according to Wittkowski. Stewed dog is, so Wittkowski claims to have found out, good for consumption. Officer McCurrie looked all around the place, and made many inquiries of Witt- kowski and of others. Wittkowski said that he had killed the dog by hitting it on the head with a piece of gaspipe and then cutting its throat. There was nothing that could justify McCurrie in arresting Wittkowski for cruelty, for there wasno evidence on that point. A neighboring bartender said that Wittkowski had a record as a large eater. Recently he ac- complished the feat of eating three dozen eggs at one time, according to the vera- cious bartender, and followed this with a gallon of beer. Altogether Wittkowski, with his one eye, his prodigioua appetite, his numer- ous scurs and his penchant for dogflesh, had made qui'e a sensation. Last night the campfire in the vacant lot burned, and three men gathered about it while their supper stewed in a pot. They are not dog-eaters, and they shrugged their shoulders in silence when the subject of a dog diet was. mentioned. None of them would speak of Wittkowski, who is feared by them when he is under the influence of liquor, or is otherwiss un- duly excited. ‘The property on which the dog-slaugh- tering has been carried on is owned by a savings bank. An effort will be made to have Witt- kowski change his habits under penalty of ejection, Wittkowski had only to whistle for his supper and some dog would respond from the street. THE RAILROAD PEOPLE, They Are Attending to the Business of Shipping Oranges, and Will Send No Lobby to Sacramento. Bhipments of oranges to cities east of the Missouri River wiil keep the wheels of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe in motion for some weeks. The product de- signed for the Eastern markets consists of 8000 carloads, reckoning each carload at twelve tons, It may exceed this estimate slightly or fall a shade below it. The rate to Chicago or St. Louis is §1'25 per 100 pounds. The crop is fair, beth in quality and quantity. Shippers gain experience every succeeding vear, and will doubtless hand!le the crop with profit to themseives, after paying the charges of transportation. The buik of the cutput comes from the groyessouth of Tehachapi,yetthe orchards of Newcastle, Oroville and other belts of the Sacramento Valley region contribute consignments io the Eastern merchants. The Southern Pacific people count on hauling from 50 to 60 per cent of the Cali- fornia crop. Tne representatives of the Atlantic and Pacific, or Santa Fe, figure on getiing from 40 to 70 per cent of the business. ~The raisin traffic for the season is about finished so far as the transportation com- panies are concerned. The shipments were lighter than the annual acreage, due to the early frost. The Atlantic and Pacific has opened a stage line from Kramer station to Rands- burg, the new mining camp about which there is so much excitement. Kramer is a stavion on the main linc east of Mojave and is distant from Randsburg only twenty-four miles. The stages make the run in three and a balf hours. Tke fare from San Francisco to Randsburg, includ- ing the stage ticket, is $14 85. Travei on the line is reported to be brisk. The San Krancisco and San Joaquin Valley Railrond people are attending strictly to the business of operating trains and hauling passengers and freight be- tween Fresno ana Stockton. The road is reported to be doing a profitable business. The roliing stock avaiiable is sufficient jor the demands of transportation. Some work is peing done in the building of stations along the iine of the road. The consiruction of tne roundhouse at Fresno is going ahead in good form. vervthine is tranquil at the yellow building. Thera are no signs or whispers of any changes in the compensation of emyloyes on the 1st of the year 1897. The retfirning prosperity has not sufficiently returned to justify an advancein wages. Word comes from a source high upin the councils of the corporation that there wili be no Southern Pacific lobby at Sac- ramento during the session of the Legis- lature. There is said to be nothing fora lobby to do. No affirmative legislation will be requested, and no adverse legisla- tion is snticipated. Mr. Vining does not have in mind at | present any changes in the transfer sys- | tem to be inaugurated January 1. He ex- | pects everything to go along just as if the | old year was holding over. s Much oi the peace of mind and general BLUE BLO0DS T0 G0 ON PARADE How the Equine Aristocrats Will Display Them- selves. And the Polo Pony, That Colt of Luxury, Will Step for Ribbons. Four-in-Hand Drivers for the A. B. Spreckels Cup—Judges of the Horse Show. The great arena where equine youth and beauty will pass and repass in review to- morrow and for three days following is ready, and all that remains is for human youth and beauty to come and see. It s safe to say that the lights of the Mechanics’ Pavilion will fail during those four evenings over the fairest specimens of horseflesh ever gathered on the Pacific Coast. It will be a band of blue bloods, with not an entry whose line does not run un- broken back to some stable in Araby the Blest. There will be the big draft fellows, those Hercules of their race, magnincent in their strength, and_the well-groomed Shetlands, the clean-limbed roadsters, the hackneys, the single-step saddlers, and the runpers ribby and lean, but whose speed is as the winds in their flight. Then there will be that colt of fortune— that creature stal'ed in luxury, whose food is the zoiden grain that grows in the vale of Tempe and whose drink is the waters ot the fountain of Helicon—the polo pony. They willall be worthy of the fair that will look vpon their proud prancings. What a combination of per- fect veauty—what an exquisite centaur, or centauress, is a woman and a horse! Surely the artists of the classics should have put the head of one of their god- desses upon the shoulders of a charger and left ver to gallop down the ages in. imperishable marble. To-night tbe Pavilion will resound with the tramp of thoroughbred hoots as the bla nketed troops enter their stalls, and on the morrow they will show them- selves. . The equine dispiay will open with the elaborate luncheon, to which tie Governor of the State and staff and all the horsey gentry will come—fully 500 guests all told—and President Henry J. Crocker of the asscciation will bid them be seated. And before this grand festive board the blooded animals wili paraae. The four-footed exhibits will be judsed as joilows: Richard F. Carmen of Car- mendale, Huntiugton, L. I, and Reginald W. Rives of New Hamburgh, N. Y., will view and decide upon the merits of horses in harness, horses in cabs, tandems, uni- BTN INOMS YN Y 2L O0PX0P FZ/IS D, 2 - e ~l& i iansd |&oocnes (Zgab | | DonoyoE! FIWNIWOoHT 7% 37 oh KB 1o/ Row| e ) = 4s20 2l acocn] il oo L ${Frpas | JITHI tranquillity at railroad headquarters can be traced to what is called Judge Mec- Kenna's conservative interpretation of the duties of the Board of Railroad Commis- sioners, —_———— In Germany a man losing both his hands in an accident can claim the whole of his life insurance money, if he be insured, on the ground that he has lost the means of maintaining bimself. A loss of the rignt Land reduces the claim from 70 to 80 pe: cent of the toral. / corns and four-in-hands; R. W. Rivesand Marion Storey of Port Chester, N. Y., will judge the ponies in harness, under sad- dlé, pony stallions and brood mares. Mr. Rives will judge the hackneys and coach- ing stallions. R. Van Brunt and J. B, Ferguson will judge the thoroughbreds and coaching stallions; A. B. Spreckels, trotters and breeding staliions; Robert N. Graves and Green B. Morris, trotters, driving classes, roadsiers and pacers; R. Van Brunt ana R. ¥. Carmen, seddle- horses and municipal and park police; J. R Children Cry for Pitcher’'s Castoria. D. Doran and George Vaun Gordon, throw- ing the riata; John McCord, Robert'F. Morrow and James McNab, draft and Fire Department horses. The following apportionment of times for duty has been arranged by the ring committee: December 9—Day, J. B. Crockett and Major J. L. Rathbone; evening, J. A. Donohoe and John Parrott. December 10—Day, J. D. Grant and_George A. Pope; evening, J. B. Crockelt ana Major J. L. Rathbone. December 11—Day. J. A. Donohoe and John ;-.rrou; evening, J. G. Grant and Georgs A. ope. ecember 12—Day, J. P. Crockett and Major J. L. Rathboue; evening, J. A. Donohoe and John Perrott. For the aisplay of fine vehicles several splendid carriages have been purchased at the New York horse show especially for this occasion, and the principal exhibitors in this line will be George A. Pope and W. 8. Hobart, Henry J. Crocker's grand chestnuts will drag the Talbot Clifton coach, that gérgeous four-wheel creation in yellow which the noble horsev Briton left behind him. There will be many others who will compete with their blue- blood teams for caps, ribbons and glory. The principal event of the show will be race or contest for the A. B. Spreckels cup, to be presented to the best and mos: skillful amateur dariving four-in-nand throush and over obstacles. The entries are Henry J. Crocker, Joseph D. Grant, Walter 8. Hobart, Charles A. Baldwin and George A. Pope. Aside from the fact that more and bet-: ter horses have entered the lists for this show, the reduction of the prices of admis- sion will make the Paviilon during the four days’ season a popular and . general place of public resort. Only a compara- tively few rows of seats have been re- served, all the rest being for general admission ticket ho'ders. All of the re- served seats have been reduczd this year 50 per cent. The general admission seats will be two rows of seats on each side of the arena, five rows on the Larkin-street end, all the rows on the Polk-street end and all seats in the gallery. HS SKULL WAS CRUSHED | | | J. G. Cavanaugh, an Aged Dish- washer, Meets With In- stant Dzath. He Walked in Frontof a Mission-Street Electric-Car and Was Struck Down. John G. Cavanaugh, an aged dish- washer, was instantly killed by ear No. 1009 on Mission street, between Army and Precita avenue, last evening at 9 o’clock. The old man, who has no regular address, as far s can be ascertained, and who is a pensioner of the Government, was crossing the street when the accident oc- curred. He evidently did not see the approaching car nor hear the ring of its bell, but walked directiy 1n front of it and met hisdeath. His skull was crushed, but he escaped the mangling wheels, Three persons, Mrs. Mary 8. Smythe of 8016 Mission street, Mrs. R. C. Winters of 309 Fifteenth street and R. E. Kenny of 917 Market street, witnessed the accident, and all agree that but one person was responsibie for the fataiity, the dead man himse!f. Sergeant Martin of.the Seven- teenth-street police station placed the motorman, L. Nelson, under arreston a charge of mansiaughter. He was subse- quently released on his own recognizance. ——————— An ¥scape Captured. George Williams, the petty larceny thief who made his escape while being taken to Judge Conlan’s court for semtence Saiurday morning, was captured yosterday siternoon by Policemen FraikMcGrayan and'T. L. Ryan and Baiiiff Kelly in his room at 112 Fourth street, while he was reclining.in bed smoking acigarette. He was taken to the City Prison and en additional charge of vagrancy booked against him. ST L At the Art Institute To-Night. A concert will be given to-night at the Mark | Hopkins Institute of Art under the direction | of Henry Heyman. The principals will be Mrs. Blake Alverson, contraito; Miss Dorothy | Goodsell, soprano; Miss Mabe. Hussey, organ- | ist and accompanist. A choice programme | will be interpreted. The occasion is the first ! of a series of concerts celebrating the thirty. sixth exhibition of the San Francisco Art As- | ' sociation. XEW TO-DAY. LIKE HYPNOTISM. Hab'ts That Appear Almost Hypnotie. The tenacity with which sowe habits stick to veople, or people stick to the babits, is very remarkable, particularly the tobacco and coffee habit. Peopie act almost as if they were in reality under a hypnotic spell. They promise themselves and friends time and again that they will leave off when they find health forsaking them, but they make one excuse or another and keep on the dreary way as if guidea by an unseen spirit of evil. Pbysicians realize the uselessness of treating a patient for any of the multitude of nervous diseases so long as the poison- ous alkaloids of tobacco and coffee are being taken into the sysitem, even in minute doses. Iiis a simple matter to break the coffee spell if the food drink, Postum, the health coffee made by the Postum Cereal Com- pany, limited, of Battie Creek, Mich., 1s used in its place. This is a fac simile of fine Mocha coffee in looks when brewed, and changes to the rich golden brown of old Java when cream is added. Being made wholly of grains intended by the Creator for man’s subsistence, 1t makes red blood quick!y and is fattening and nourishing. The muddy complexion dis- appears and 1n its place comes the clear skin of health with rich blood conrsing back of it. Many people are sick and do not know that it is the insidious poison of coffee that prostrates stomach and iiver and causes it. They laugh at first, but a trial of a week without coffee and using food drink, Postum, makes one wake up to a great big live fact. " . The children can sip from papa’s or mamma’s coffee-cup, if it happens to con- tain Postum, and their listie bedies will grow round and fat under the mnourish- ment of the pure grains, but it is,a heart- less proceeding to feed the tender bodies on coffee, as every one knows the puny, sickly looks of coffee-drinking ebildren. Let people adopt healthful food and drink, and “throw physic to the dogs.”” “Just as good” as Postum Cereal are words used to defraud the public, A CRAYON PORTRAIT FREE FOR A HOLIDAY PRESENT. Commencing TUESDAY, December 8, and untit furiher notice, PROFESSOR CLYDE KELLER will draw the Portrait in Crayon, Free of Charge, of every purchaser of 50 cents’ worth orover as the WONDER CUT-RATE DRUG STORE. 1028 Markeg(frest an F—amciéce. | Dec. 5, 10, 15, 20, Philadelphia Shoe Co. No. 10 Taimo S, STAMPED ON A SHOE MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT A Better Selection Of holiday £00ds can be found in our store than in any retail stoestore i1 this city. We have just réceived our stock. Everything 1 new, nobby and b. and at such low prices. So take advantage and buy befors the asso ¢ is broken. Ladies’ Fpr-Trimmed Fausts, warm lined and in different cq'ors, 8ol cheaper than e ver. Ladies’ Felt Fur-Trimmed Fausts, flannel $1.25 Quilted For-Trimmed Faubts, tlannel fined.. 3 Ladies Fur-Trimmed Vi paten; leat her tips, flaunei-tined Men’s Fels Faosts, flannel lined S orking Cro. het Slippers when yvou can buy them fn pink, red, ue or black, with fleece-lined soles, for $1 a pair. Your material would cost you more money. Compare our prices of - pers with the prices of o much cheaper and give. Men’s Embroid-red Veiver Stppers, patent-leather trimmed... .. 780 mbroidered Velves Slip- pers, paten:-ieather trimme! %1.00 Men'’s Chenflle Worked Embroiderea Velvetslippers, patent-leathertrimmed. 81,25 §1.20 Men’s Leather Siippe; Men’s Russe: or Wi at prices to sult the times: -Colored Grain Alll- gutor Slippers, parent-leather rimmed .81, 25 Men's Vici Rid ~iippers, in black, brow o wine-coior. mois lined. .....81.50 The above Leather or mbroidered Siippers in either Upera or Everett Cuts. A& Country orders solicited. 85 Send for New Iliusiraied Catalogue. Address B. KATCHINSKI, PHILADELPHIA SHOE co., 10 Third Street. San Francisco. WIECOX COMPOUND ANSY® PIELS Safe and sure relief, never fail, others are imftations. At;ggé . W l?a‘::’;;: Woman's Safe cox CINE CO.. 22480, Eight 'hilada., Pas OCEAN TRAVEL. CEANIC S.S. CO. DAYS TC HAWAN, SAMOA, HONOLULU NEW ZEALAND, v AUSTRALIA. S.5. AUSTRALIA. S. 8. ALAMEDA sails via HONOLULU and AUCKLAND for SYDNEY, Thursday, December 10,802 P . %% ¥R ALIA for HONOLULU only, Tues- day, December 29. at 10 a. M, Special party rates. Line to COOLGARDIE, Aust.,and CAPETOWN, South Africa. J.D. SPRECKELS & BROS, CO., Agents. 114 Montgomery streat. Freight Office, 327 Market st.. san Francisco, PACIFIC COAST _ STEANSHIP 0. TEAMEES LEAVE BROADWAY whart, San Francisco, as follows: For Mary Island, Lorin 1isnco_and Sitka (Alaska), a 9 For Vicioria and Vancouver (8. C.), Port Town- send, Seattle, Tacoms, iverett, Anscortes and New Wi atcom (Bellingham Bay, Wash.), 9 A. M. 0, and every fifth day there- after, connecting ancouver with the C. P. B R., at Tacoms with N. P. R. R., at Seattle with G. N. t Port Townsend with Alaska steamers. For Jiureks, Arca'a and Fields Landing (Hum. boldt Bay), str. Fomona 2 P. M., Dec. 8, 7,11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, and every fourth day thereafter. For Sania Cruz. Monterey. San Simeon, Cayucos, Port Harford (San_iuls Obispo), Gavioia, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Hueneme, ~an Pedro, East San Pedro (Los Angeles) and Newport, at 9 A. M. Dec. 1, 5,9, 13, 17, 21, 26, 29, und every fourid day thereafter. JYor San Diexo, stopping only at Port Harrord (San Luis Obispo), ~anta Barbara, Fort Los An- reles, Redondo (Los Angeles) and Newport, 11 A Dec.3,7, 11,16, 19, 23, 27, 81, and every fourth day thereatier. For Ensenada, San_Jose del Cabo. Mazatlan, La Paz and Guaymas (Mexico), steamer Orizaba, 10 A3 25th of each month. ihe Company reserves right to change steamers or salling dates. Ticket office—Palace Hotel, 4 New Monigomery sireet. GOODALL, PERKINS & CO., Gen'l Agents, 10 Market si.. San Francisco, THE O.R.& N. CO. DISPATCH FAST STEAMERS TO PORTI.ANID From Spear-street Wharf, at 10 a. . FTARE{S:aFitalas Including £ 88 Second-class Jberth & meals SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS: State of California....Novr29, Dec. 9,19, 39 Columbia....... .. .. Dec. 4, 14, 24 ‘Througn tickets and through baggage to all Essern poinis. Rates and foiders upon. applice General Agent, tion w0 F. F. CONNOR. 630 Market street. GOODALL. PERKINS & CO., Superintendenis COMPAGNIE GEXERAL TRANSATLANTIQUE Trench Lin» to Havra. OMPANY'S PIER(NEW).42 NORTH ‘River, foot of Morton st. 1 Tavelers by @ this 1ne &vold both ransiz hy English rall way an; the discomort of crossing the channel 1o a smail boat. New York 10 Alexandris, Lgypn Via Facta firsi-class 8160: second-ciass, 5116, LA CHAMPAGN LA TOURAINE. LA GASCO K. LA NORMANDIE LA BEETAGNE.. Mew” &L 3usties pARLiCuIars apply to A FORGET, Agam, No. 3, Bowling Green, Now York. 3.7, FUGAZL & CO, agents o Monigomers Avenue, san Fraucisco. WHTE STAR LIRE. Unlted States and Rogal Mail Steamers BETWEEN New York, Queenstown & Liverpool, SAILING EVEKX WEEK. ABIN,§50 AND UPWARD, ACCORD- ing 10 steamer and lccommodulonlfl selected : second cabin, $12 50 and $47 50; Majesia and Teuionie. Bteerage Tickets from Engiand, Ire Isnd, Scotland, Swi o n, Norway and Denmari through 1o San Francisco at lowes: rates. Ticket and cabin plans may be procu dates :‘-:t:n(m H. AVERY, Pacific Mail Dock, or ai the 13 Markel sireel flice of the'C E:mr‘:m Hotel. Company O LETCH k. General Agent for Pucitic Coaste STOCKTON_STEAMERS Leave Pler No. 3, Washington Se, &t 6 ¥. M. Daily: Ireighc received up S Accommodations Reservea by Telephona. Theonly line maxing through rfates on Valley Hoad frelght . HaZy Tarrels, Gity of Stoektan. “eiephone dato 803, Cai Nav. sud Imot. Ce VALLEJO ARD U. 8 NAVYE-YARD. STEAMER “MONTICELLO,” ex. Sal. & Sun.. *10:30 a.x., 4 and 9:30 p. *10:30 A ¥, 4 2. » a 8 P Frelephone Biack 261. *Excursion trip, giviug 6 hours at Navy-Yard. FOR SANJOSE, L0S GATOS & SANTA CRUZ STEAMEB ALVISO LEAVES PIER 1 DAILT ai10A M. (Sundays excepted); Alviso datly a; Soager. Face berwesn san Feanciogo and Al ing A en San Francisco 50¢; to San Jose, 75c. Clay st., Pler L. W:& Santa Clara st., San Jose. Sundays excepted).