The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1897, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WE]Z;NESDA,Y, MARCH 17, 1897. 11 FIGHTING FOR A TRIEL BY JURY | Irs. Craven Ready for the Ordeal on Her Deeds to Begin. Attorney Delmas Throws Out the Invitation to a Legal Ban quet. But the Fair Pecple Fight Shy and Will Stroggle Desperately for More Time. It will not ba the fault of the Craven attorneys if the effort of the Fair peopls to delay the trial of the pencil deeds by an aitempt to thwart the wish of the woman to have a jury in' the case tucceeds. Judge Slack spent yester- day listening to the merits of her re. quest, Attorney Delmas had the floor morning and afternoon to expound the law. 1t was, of course, a legal argu- ment, but there was spice and relish in- terlarded through it that gave it a zest to the layman. Deimaes is anxious to go to trial at once with the big case. It should have begun esterday morning, but at the last mo- sent Charles L. Wneeler discovered that | ‘lhe Cause was one which the bonanza heirs were not anxious to submit toa jury. Forthwith on behalf of Miss Vir- a Fair there was interjected into the | affair the fog of equity; that is, that the | heiress' rights could be better determined | in a court of equity. | 1t was to fight this plan of delay on the | part of the army of lawyers in the empioy of the dead bonauza king’s millions th Defmas was fighting, and in his odd satiri cal moments he took some strong thrusts at the Fair people. : 'l.hvra Was a grim satire in his invita- tion to the long-delayed legal banguet. Your high-priced experts are herz,” he began. “Prefessor Kytka is here with bis big ¢amera. Your doubdle magnifyin glasses and your microscopes are here, 1t all these facts which you have dinned into our ears are true, if our deeds are forger- les, which you ought to be now able t prove by ‘the voluminous evidence you have taken, and the army of experts, cameras and microscopes, come and prove it. We are ready ifor the ordeal now. *‘If our deeds are forgeries they can be proven soin a court of law,anda jury verdict to this effect will annihilate them as thorouzhly as any decree of a Judge ting as a chancellor in a court of equity. the deeds are bad in law they are bad equity. _“You have declared they are forgeries. Now is your time to prove it.” The attorney proceeded to lay down the law and- the facts. The lawyers who had charge of th- interests of the estate had In a written agreement, stipulated hat the case could be tried by jury upon en days’ notice. It was the Fair people asked for repeated delays, and now when the court had decided that no vail any- been resorted interests had said that notile to the property , forsooth nothing couid be er than to make good. The suit was a_plain -action to quiet _ continued Delmas. *Nobody ever / dreamed it was anytning else,” he con- recoliections of his childhood life in the { Flowery Kingdom. He has taken the | name of his illusirious benefactor, and is | known by the name of Usa H. Forester. He carries on an_extensive bazaar-store | 8nd is the owner of considerable property |in Lansing. He has an intelligent, iu- | teresting iamily, and, save only in the | general contour of his features, he is as | Lhnmughl_v American as any of his neigh- | bors. “ My parents lived in a piace called Zing, |in the interior of China,” said Mr. | Forester, a day or two ago, during an in- | teresting chat upon his rather eventful | history. “We seemed to be in danger and | had determined to leave the city. We | traveled all night, going in the direction of the mountains, where we thought we should be safe, when we feil into the hands of the iebels. I remember that I ran pack to a town, but they followed me and | took me prisoner. When I tried to get away again a soldier stabbed me in the leg.” After tha: I went with the rebels peacefully. They kept me bprisoner, as near as I can fix the time, about eight months, when the city where we were stationed was captured by General Fores- ter. The general is mistaken, I think, regarding the danger I was in when he | beriende ! me. I was a prisoner of the rebels and was not in danger of execution. However, I do not underestimate the ser- vice which he rendered me.” | Mr. Forester says he never was so frightened in his life as when he first saw | the English soldiers under General Gor- | don’s command. "1 had never seen a foreigner before,” he said, “and the sight of the strange-looking men nearly scared \ me to death.” “You have no desire to return to your natiys country?” “None, except from curiosity. 1 would be unabie to locate my relatives or to | make myse:f known. I do notknow what became of my pureuts, and I have forzot- ten entirely my native ‘angnage. 1 simply | know that my first name, ‘Usa,” which I | bore in China, sixnifies 1 the language of | my parents *have wealth.’ ' 4 | Mr. Foresier has resided in Lansing | twenty-seven years. After leaving school i at Clayton, N. Y., he spent some time as | a clerk in New York City and at Hagers- town, N. Y. Heis proud of the fact that | he came to Lansing without @ doliar, and | that he has acquired his present wealth in | the business and social world entirely un- aided by others. ATHLETIOS FOR WOMEN. New Cnndifln;li #q;ira a Higher Physical Development for the Sex. Already there is talk of the organiza- tion of women’s athletic clubs in some of the large cities. This should cause no surprise, says a writer in the Woman’s | Home Companion. A higher physical de- | velopment for women is required by the | rapid advancement of the sex in those | pastimes nd business pursuits formerly | monopoiized by men. Public sentiment | bas undergone a marked change in the | last few years, making it possible for | women to engage in athletics for the im- | provement of their physical well-being | without exciting borrified comment from | those who have a high regard for the pro- | prieties of life. Itis no longer contended { y considerable number of people TEn that in doing this she necegsarily sacri- | fices the dignity and refinement velong- | ing to an ideal American womanhood. All modern arguments seem to be in favor of stronger and more rugged physical development on the part of the | weaker sex. It is tne kind of develop- | ment that brings the strength necessary | to sustain the burdens and trials of mater- | nity, the oblizatious of wifehood, the | duties of home-making, the responsibili- ties of official trust and the exactions of tie various fields of usefulness that have | been open=d to women all over this coun- | try. There has been an evolution of the popular conception of the ideal woman. She may reprosen the highest type of | womanly grace and refinement .and still poast of well-trained muscles, steady nerves, a beafthful dizestion and a sound | organizatign. The woman who has been taught (o onl{ the place of the “cting- | ing vine’ is unfitted for the newer condi- tions of life. She is unprepated for any of the many emergencies that may burden £ New Laws in the Interests Of the deeds. defective certificates of in evidence until the genuineness of have been proven. . recording ef conveyances. The third amends section 1880 shall be allowed to testify as to any death of such deceased. behalf. Qnmnn LR R R R R R R R L RN EELE E % | : The present Legislature has passed three bills especially in the interests of the Fair children in their fight against the Craven pencil ' »The first was approved March 1, and amends section 1207 of. the Civil Code referring to the transfer of property and fixing the time acknowledgment shall become valid. amendment provides that no certified copy of a record shail be admissible The second amends section 1230 of the Civil Code relative to the no person prosecuting a claim against an executor or administrator of an estate, upon a claim or demand against the estate of the deceased, This clause will prevent Mrs. Craven -being a witness in her own Three Fair Children. The the instrument recorded shall first of the Civil Code by providing that matter of fact occurring before the 22202090202000222022002822R29228! tinued, “and this was an issue for a jury to pass upon.” Decisionsand legal references were quoted at length. ““For months,” concluded the attorney, “we have been called forgers. The news- papers have been filled with interviews and statements to hamstring and cripple our cause. The Grand Jury has been in- voked, and a criminal persecution against our witness threatened. Surely now that we ask that we be tried for these charees, onr request will be granted. If the other side could prove these deeds fraud a simple ‘mathematical demonstra- on,’ we ask that iv be done. If our wit- sses could be convicted in the criminal | clurts a jury would bave done so. We ask that 1n this trial, when the reputa- tion and e the liberty of Mrs. Craven is at stake, if it-be proved her deedsare forgeries, that we be also tried by jury.” Attorney Wh i i course this mo AN AMERICAN OHINAMAN. Interesting History of Usa H. Forester of Lansing, Mich. In. his “Persoual Recollections of the Taipifig Revellion,” which occarred in Chira thirty years ago, General Edward Forester, who commanded the imperial forces, relates an interesting story of the capture of hands of the rebe's, hundreds of whom were captured and beheaded by order of Lt Hung Chang, who was then at the head of the Government. “Among those led out one day to be slaugntered,” General Foster writes, *‘was fhe 1j-year-bld son of ope of the Wangs. Used as I haa become to bloodshed and | death, I could not stand by and see tbis innccont lad murdered. When I inter- ceded withi the Mayor he readily con- sented to spare the boy’s life. “The lad turned out to bz a bright-witted and tender-hearted little fellow. I kept him with me whiie in China as assistant to my st companied me 19 Egypt and Europe. Tinaily I brought him to this country and | aced him in school at Clayton, N. Y. )n attaining manhood he settied at Lan- ing, Mich., where be married an Ameri- can girl. A few months ago, while trav- eling in the Western States, [ stopped at Lansing and hunted up my ex-steward. It was a pleasant meetmg, for I found him a happy business man of considerable property.” g . “The little Chinese lad thus befriended by Gencral Forcster is to-day a leading business man of Lansing, with but faint ngpu, & Chinese city in the | eward, ana he subsequently ac-'| | | her with responsibilities and duties requir- | ing strength, self-confidence and endur- | ance. Encouragement should be given to every form of athletics, properly con- | ducted, that promisis to increase the bodily strength and health of women. e BICYCLE SURGERY. Various Diseases Which Ave Treated by a London Repairer. There are enterprising bicycle people in England as we!l as in this country, saysa writer in Harper's Round Table. A year or more ago London was flooded with .the following circular by a bicycle repairer, which is ingenious enough in its wording | to bave been the product of a Yankee: | “Bicycle surgery. “Acute and cbronic cases treated with assurance of success. “Languid tires restored to health and | vigor. | “Dires blown up without pain. Wind fee. No cure, no pay asked. | "“'We understand the anatomy, physiol- ogy and hygiene of the wheels, and | homeopathic and allopath.c treatment, as individual cases require. Sure cure guar- | anteed. ““Testimonials: “‘My wheel had three ribs fractured, and you cured it in one treatment.’ “ My tires were suffering from a case of acute aneurism, which had been pro- nounced fatal by other bicycle doctors,.but you cured the disorder, and 1 did not lose a day of my toar.’ “Thousands of testimonials like the ‘above on upplication. “Dr. BLANK, B. 8. (Bicycle Surgeon.) “No.— Tottenham Cour¢ Road.” | | ! ——— | Skipped a Year. | A curious_coincidence is related by Colonel 3. W. Higginson in his remin- jscences in the Atlantic Monthly for Jan- unary. He =ays it was often his habit to read late into the night, and sitiing up | 111l 4 one morning he left bis bookmark at an unfinished page, haviog to return the book to the college library. A year later he happened to take the book from the library again, chanced to get ap at 4 o'clock to read And began where he left off. Afierward, looking in ms diary, he found that he had skipped a precise year between the two days and continued reading the same passage. g P Lincolushire is the most level and Wes; moreland the most hilly county in En, land. e — BurxETr's Corn Cure. 327 Montgomery st. 25¢ THE LATEST THING IN AIRSHIPS Charles Stanley of the Mis- sion Adds One to the Collection. He Has Fixed His So That It Will Alight Safely as Well as Fly. Uncle Sam Has Given Him a Patert and Now Capitai Is All That Is Need d. The imaginative flock of airships is Iarger by one because of Charles Stanley’s fanciful genius, Mr. Stanley is an industrious and thoughtful middle-aged mechanic now employed at the Mission foundry out on Harrison street and he is also one of those men with an inventive turn of mind whose nights are given to studying how to make ideas work by machinery and whose careers may be trailed by the patents they bave dropped. He belongs 5o for to that great majority of this_ class thing but inventions. Up at Vallejo he who have not been able to get rich in\any- | aupon which the latter deliberately spat into the open palm. Petherick was so en- raged. by the seéming indignity that he was about to knock the chieftain down. On second thought he resolved to return the compliment, which he did with more emphasis than elegance. This seemed to delicht the chief, and later Petherick learned that spitting into the visitor's hand was the mode of salutation in that country. ———————— MAKING THE TORTILLA, Process "of Producing Mexico’s Main Article of Food. Edward Page Gaston, writingin “Bread- making in Mexico and Zuniland,” in the January Woman’s Home Companion, thus describes the making of the Mexican tortilla: “‘The tortilla is typical of old Mexico ana is encountered wherever the influence of the cactus republic has reached. It was found as the main article | of food among the ancient Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest more than three and a hali centuries ago, and the little hand-ground and palm-fashioned corncake has well held its own' down through the ages, being to-day as popular and in as general use as ever. ¥ ¥ x Shelled corn intended for this use is first soaked over night in limewtaer until the ovter husk of the kernel 15 loose enough to be removed by being rtoliel between the bands, and is then ready for grinding. ““This is done by the Mexican women of the lower class, who often work in the doorways of their homes, bending over | the historic stone handmiil'called in Mex- ico & metate. The miliis simply a rough slab of stone supported by four stocky legs, and is made of volcanic tufa, the coarse grain of which is best adapted for | the grinding of corn, beans, chile, seeds, | cheese or whatever it may be desired to | finely pulverize. The stone handmill is an 1‘ indispensable item in the culinary ontfit | of the tropical home. The accompanying | handpiece, looking like a rude rolling-pin, 18 also of stone. and i+ briskly worked up and down the incline of the sfone table by | the woman as she bends to her work with The Stanley Patented Flying Machine, Which Is the Latest Mission Invention. once created a boat intended to be sailed, rowed or propelled like a bicycle, and while he was a motorman on the San Mateo electric road he devised a trolley that wouldn’t slip and a track brake that wonlid stop any car in five feet. But he thinks that he bas achieved suc- cess at last. He realizes in advance that it is plain that his arship will go to New York in thirty-six heurs and a local capi- talist is waiting to see his model work be- fore putting up the $5000 needed to build one a hundred feet or so long. The Stanley airship has been vatented, and so it has become a new invention, and then airship ideas are all interesting. This one consists of the familiar aluminum cylinder filled with gas and driven with propellers, and the inventor depends on “his new devices for its success. The upper four-fifths of the aluminum cylinder consists of compartments to bs filled with vas, and the rest sffords a sort | of basement for machinery, freight and passengers. Mr. Stanley figures out that withna cyiinder, the main part of which is 100 feet long and 40 feet in diameter, he will have a weight of ship and macuinerv of 6300 pounds and a buoyancy of 8000 pounds, leaving & margin of nearly a ton for passenvers, buggage and freight. This buoyant body is to be moved through tue air by two propellers, at front and rear, the front one hauling on the ship and the rear one pusuing. The machin- ery in the lower part of ihe cylinder will consist of an engine of great iightness to nse some power yet undecided upon, and the necessary shafting, gearing, et. The front propeller is one of Mr. Stanley’s novelties, he says; but the two chief im- provements on the other aluminum cylin- der pians are horizontal propellers above and the aeroplanes on. the side. The great inconvenience about airships is the necessity for alignting now and then, and itis recognized by all rirship inventors that alighting on the foreign element be- low is something worthy of grave consid- eration. It must be done with gentleness and in good order, for a great airship thrashing around amid blasts and barbed- wire fences would be a saddening spec- tacle. Most airship 1nventors count on swoop- ing close to the earth and poising deii- cately while anchors and hawsers are thrown out and made fasi, whereupon ! he great fabric may be lashed down. But there 18 great dunger in anchoring on the swoop and poise, and Mr. Stantey’s hori- zontal propellers solve the difficulty. When the buoyant ship is fairly over the depot area these propellers will steadily and with any needed degree of wentleness force the ship downwara to (he anchorage while the other propellers hold the nozzle against the wind. Tuere is a rudder for lateral steering and side aeroplanes, or rather rudd.rs for turning tne ahig upward or downward. Other inventors have fixed one big rudder on the side for this purpose, but Mr. Stan- ley says that they would tilt the ship to | the angle of the incline of the course, and 1 he will have three or more working syn- | enronously, but of aiff :rent sizes, with the largest benind. Thus the ship will main- tain & horizontal position. The pilot will stand in the front part of the cylinder with windows be'ow, above and about him, with his hand on the rud- der-wheel ana by an engineer's signal- cord and two levers. These levers wiil work the side rudders. Now, when the pilot wants to turn to one side very aquickly he can suddénly pull one lever and throw the planes on one side into a vertical position. They will t.us act like one oar in the water, retarding the prog- ress of one side and adding to the effect’ the rudder behind. The whole device is rather simple, and Mr. Stanley says that he is so sure that it wiil work thatif he had the money, he would put every cent into a big one with- out_wasting any of it on experimental models. The details of providing state- rooms and for passengers, etc., will come later. [ estimate that this ship would go to New York in thirty-six hours,” said Mr. Stanley yesterduy. “There would possibly be two or three stops on the way with v.cant lois hixed up for landing, though they needn’t be large, and two men would be enough at the depoi grounds. We would right away get the contract for carrying the United States mails, and with the saving in time, rich people would pay more v an they would on the cars. Our operating expenses would be next to nothing. For safety, I would rathsr ride on that airship than on a motor car.” Mr. Stanley is building 2 model one foot long to work by clock work. Tie patent was secured February 6, by Attorney C. H. Hubbs, and the invention is now among the airships of the Patent Office. A Curious Salutation. When Petherick, the traveler, came upun the Mehr trive of the Nile country be was given a great recsguon by the na- tiv-s, Finally the head chief of the Mehrs entered Petherick's tent. latter ex- | tended his nand to welcome the visitor a steady swing of body, shoulders and arms. * * * Ttisclaimed thatthe flour for the tortilla can be perfectly milled only by their ancient methods, and when one sees the result of the grinding he is ready to admit that possibly they are rizht. “As the moist windrows of the meal roll off the grinding-board it is caught in a basin, and is then all ready for being formed into cakes for baking. When ready to bake a woman takes a small lump of the heavy mixtare and lays it in the paim of her hand; then, with the other hand, she rolls it into a ball, and be- gins to quickly pat it into the required thinness, dcfll{ spreading the fingers to aliow it to enlarge its size, and changing it from hand to hand untilit is only an eighth of an inch in thickness and gener- ally about six inches in diameter, although | gometimes as large as a dinner plate. % * * The plastic cakes are lossed, one wfter another, as commleted, -upon the stove, called a brasero, and as fast as deli- cately browned and turned they are placed in a steaming heap, enveloped in a cloth 10 keep them warni, and from which arises a most temoting odor."” CAPTATN JAMES WATSON, An 01d-Time Navigator’s Remarkabls Career. An eventful and most interesting career was closed by the death of Captain James ‘Watson, which occurred at his bome in the town of Westchester, says the New York Times. Although 98 years old, he retained his mental and physical vizor in an exiraordinary degree up to the day of his death. On Thursday evening he was apparently in good beaith. Early the next morning came a siroke of paralysis, which proved fatal. When 15 years old young Watson went on his first voyage as cabin-boy on the Havre packet ship Courier. This was in the sprinz of 1814, and J. Fenimore Cooper and George W, Blunt, the latter afterward notea as a hydrographer and nautical publisher in this city, were cabin- bovs on the same ship. Both Cooper and Biunt retired from the me'chant marine service soon afterward, but Watson stuck to it and worked himself up, step by step, to the rank of captain. He commande | the packet ship Albany in 1832 and in 1837 was made captain of the fine new Havre packet Vireinian. It has been often said of Captain Watson that he was one of the most popular navigators with both ship- This mere wreck of a woman had help. Mgs. BERTHA LEHRMAN, No. 1 Erie “ Doctors failed to do me any good. ily gaining flesh; am stouter and -~y so highly educated, and so well placed, should have de- pended on morphine, instead of seeking a radical eure. There is no excuse for any woman who suffers—she need not go withont Mrs. Pinkham stands ready to help any woman; her address is Lynn, Mass. Write to her; it will cost you nothing. In the meantime get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound at the nearest drug store. The following letter from one of your sisters will encourage you: owners and passengers that ever sailed out of the port of New York. In consequence of his high standingas a trustworthy and safe commander his ves- sel, the Virginian, was chosen by the Gov- ernment to bring the French indemnity money to this country three generations ago. Many notable men and their famili: s were passengers on the Virginian to and from Hayre. Commodore Stcekton, who wasgone of his'passengers, presented Cap- tain Watson with a valuabie telescope, which is still in possession.of the family. Captain Watson was a close observer of the great Napoleon’s career, and his per- sonal relations with residents of Havre and other French cities brought him in touch with some of the events of that stirring period in the history of Europe. On one of his voyages Captain Watson ran his vessel into the port of Liverpool just atter the news reached there of the battle of Waterloo. In after years he was able torecall a great many interesting details of the Napoleonic period. About fifty years ago Captain Watson reured from business and went with his family to ltve on the ancestral estates in Westchester. Besides the property left him by his father he inherited part of the estate of his grandfather, Captain Israel Hunnywell of the Revolutionary army. He reta.ned ail of this property 1or asso- ciation’s sike until a vear or two ago, when he was induced to sell about thirty acres. The old navigator's life was singularly trangnil and enjoyable for the past two score of vears. He! made many .friends, and he de- lighted 1o entertain them. His mind remained remarkably clear to the last, and he kept himseli thoroughly informed on the affuirs of the day. Al- though never seeking public preferment, he always took the liveliest interest in politics and was always on the side of honesty, conservatism and clean govern- ment. The old gentleman had a clear recollection of the war of 1812. He was one of the lads who helped to throw up breasiworks to defend the city of New York against the British, and he also saw the British fleet lying in Westchester Creek. Caprain Watson leaves two unmarried dauzhters, Maria Hunnywell and Agnes Arden Watson, both of whom were with nim when he died. Funerai services will be held to-morrow and che inierment wiil be in the family vault in the old Bt. Peter’s Churchyard. —————— OUDINOT’S MEMOIRS. Story of Napoleon’s Career Told by a Marshal of the £mpire. There seems to be no end to the litera- ture connecied with the Napoleonic era. The ““Memoirs of Marshal Oudinot” are the theme of exiended review by the Lon- don eritics. Naroleon, after the battle of Marengo, gave Qudinot the command of & corps in the camp at Boulogne; where preparations for a descent upon England again occupled the mind of the Emperor. Two years were wasted in this work, when Napoleon sud- denly changed his plans, and hurled upon Central Europe the armies he had intended to use againsi England. In 1805 the cele- brated Corps of Grenadiers, raised by Junot, and afterward known asthe *‘infer- nal column,” was placed under the com- mand of the young generai. It wascom- posed of the finest men of thearmy, and on more than one occasion decided the fate of battles. Oudinot was elevated to the rank of marshal and Duke of the em- pire aiter the battle of Wagram. His first wife died in 1810, and in January, 1812, he married-Mlle. de Coucy, the author of these memoirs. Oudinot was seriously wounded at Polotsk, while 1n commana of the Second Corps in the Russian ex- pedition. His young wife, hearing of his wound, joined him at Wilna, and shared in the disastrous retreat of the French army. Chapters 4and 5 contain a graphic detail of their sufferings from the terrible | and daily increasing cold under which tne Grand Armee gradually melted away. During the retreat the wounded general suffered torments. Dr. Cagriomont tried to dress the sick man’s wouad, but everything froze be- neath his ' ands and he had to give upthe attempt. They tried 1o use the provisions brougiit on one side from Wilna and on the other from Konigsberz, but every- thing—bread, wine, ham, pouitry—was frozen and could not be thawed, even when put before the stove. A slight damp- ness was all that appeared on the outside of the eatables; the inside. remained as hard as stone. In the advance upon Beriin the columns of Bertrand, Regnier and Oudinot’ were unable to cancentrate, owing to the diffi- culties of the country, and at Gross-Beeren the latter received a severe check. This repulse, combined with others received by Napoleon’s lieutenants, culminated in the supreme defeat at Leipzig. The Duchesse describes the confusion at Versa lies on the eve of the abdication of Napoleon: It was almost dark when we arrived. We took possession of two adjacent rooms in an already crowded inn in the Rue de P'Orangerie. During the whole night an incessant and confused noise told us of the passage of a larze number of men, horses and carriages, and soon the daylight re. vealed the most astonishing sight tbat human eyes perhaps have ever looked We stood motionless at our win- what we saw passing, my children, the empire! ~ The empire, which was departing, with all its pomp and splendor; the Ministers, all in their coaches and six, takinz with them pori- folio, wives, children, jewels, livery; the entire Council of State; the archivesy the crown diamonds; the administrations, And installments'of power and magn:fi. cence were mingled on the road with humble households who had heaped up on a barrow all they had been able to NEW TO-DAY. PICKED UP ON BROADWAY. A True Incident.—A woman was picked up in the street in an unconscious cons dition and hurried to the nearest hospital. On examination her body was found to be covered with sores caused by the hypodermie injection of morphine. once held an honorable and lucrative position. in a large publishing house in New York. Herhealth began tofail. In- stead of taking rest and medical treat- ment, she resorted to the stimulus of morphine. The hospital physicians discov- ered that her primary trouble was an affection of the womb, which could readily have been cured in the first stages. If, when she had felt those se- vere painsin the back, the terrible headaches, the constant sense of fullness, soreness and pain in the pelvie region, she had used Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, it would have dissolved and passed off that polypus in the ‘womb, and to-day she would have ‘been a well woman sitting in her office. ‘Why will women let themselves >go in this way? It seems passing strange that a woman like this one, 8t., 27¢h Ward, Pittsburg, Pa., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: “I can hardly find words with which to thank you for what you have done for me. I suffered nearly seven years with backache and sideache, leucorrhcea, and the worst forms of womb troubles. I have taken four bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and one box of Liver Pills, and used one package of Sanative Wash, and now can say I am well and have been stead- heartier now than I have been for years. Ji am recommending your Vegetable Compound to my friends. Again+| 3 I thank you for the good health I am enjoying.” carry away from the houses which they were abandoning, as they thought, to the pillage which was about to burst forth over the country. The cannon had begun to thunder at daybreak. ———— TELEFHONED TO HIS DOG. Now Tom Reynolds Has to Be Mighty Carefal, or He’ll Loss the Dog. Tom Reynolds of Reynoldsville, was in town this week. Tom bas an intelligent dog, which was sent to him from ‘Austratia and of which he very fond. The dog is also badly infatuated with Tom, who has a telephone in his house. Tom has taught the dog to understand that the machine can talk by holding the receiver 10 the dog’s ear. On several occasions when Tom has been away he called up his resiuence and had the dog brought to the’phone, when he would talk to the eanine 1n such soothing language us to fill the canine with delight. He would, of course, rec- ognize his master’s voice, and make all sorts of demonstrations of joy. About two weeks ago Tom brought the aog to Punx:utawney, and while here talked over the 'phone to his friends at home. He also permitted his dog to listen. From this the dog got the idea that there were only two 'phones in existence—one at his home and the otner at the Hotel Waveriy in Punxsutawney, as the cirenmstance about 1o be disclosed wiil abunuantly prove. Last Sajurday Mr. Reynolds came to Punxsutawney and called up the dog at home as ususual. ‘The doz barked and whined and made a great ado, all of which could be heard over the wire. Abcut an hour afterwarid, just as Tom was about to leave, jadge of his surprise to see his dog come bounding into the hotel! He had run jourteen miles in less than an hour. Now Tom says that, as the dog is firmly of the impression that there is but one other telephone box in the country besides the one in his house, he will not dare to talk to the dog :rom any other point, be- cause if he does tuat dog will start imme- diately for the Waverly Hotel, Punxsu- tawney, expecting to : Wire Fences in England. English devotees of the hunt are meet- ing with occasional disaster on account of the growing habit among farmers of in- closing their lands with wire fences, sometimes barbed, in the piace of rail fences. A few farmers are so obli ing as to take down these wire fences in’ the win- ter, others tie red rags on the wire, so that the obstruction may be announced in time to the horseman, but a few farmers who are against the hunters on principle say that if men aye going to ride over their lands they do so at their own risk, and re- fuse to announce the presence of wire. The other day a six-season mare, as clever a huntinz horse as was in the dis- trict, was literally cut to ra-s, the sirand of barbed wire being run loosely through the top of a hedge and lapping around her like a snake when she was brought down. ‘The mare was shot and the rider escaped a broken neck only by a miracle. This happened in one of the most fashionable bunting districts. The annual coal bill of the P. and O. line of steamsh ps exceeds £600 000, FEW TO-DAY! JREE T0 EVERY MAN THE METHOD OF A GREAT TREATHENT FoR WEAKNEMS OF MEN. AFTER EVERY- FAILED, WHICH (URED HIM THING ELS Painful diseases are bad enough, but when a man is slowly wasting away with nervous weakness the mental forebodings are ten | times worse than the most severe pain. There isnoletup to the mental suffering day o night. Sleep is almost impossible, and under | Buch & straiu men ace scarcely responsinie for what they do. For yesrs the writer rolled and tossed on the troubled sew of sexual weakness until it was & question, wiether he hud not Detter take s dose of poison and - (hus end all his throubles. But providential inspiration | came to his aid iu the shape of a combination of medicines that not only completely restored the- general health, but enlarged his weak, emaciated parts to natural size and vigor, and he now declares that any man who_will take | the trouble 10 send his niame and_address may | have the method of this wonderful treatment free. Now, when I say free I mean absoiuteiy without cost, beeatise I want every weakened man 10 get the benefit of my experience. Iam not a philantnropist, nor do I-pose as an enthusiast, but there are thousands of mefi uffering the mental tortures of weskened manhood who would be cured at onca could they but get such a remedy as the one thas cured me. Do not try to study out how I can afford to pay the few postage-stamps necessary to mail the information, but sead for it sna learn that there are a few things on earih that, although they cost nothing t get, are worth a fortune to some men and mean a life- time of happiness to mostof us. Write to Thomas Slater, box 2283, Kalamasoo, Mich., and the inform:ation will be mailed in & plain | sealed envelope. RAILROAD TRAVEL. SANFRANCISOO & NORTH PA- CIFIC RAILWAY 00, Tiburon Ferry—Foot of MarketSt. San Francisco to San Rafael. WEER DAYS-—7:30, 9:00, 11:00 a.3.: 13:3%, 8¢ 0, 6:30 P. . Thursdays—Extra irl .. Satordays—Exira trips a 1:5 and 11:30 r. a. BUNDAYS—3:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.a; 1:30, 3:30 5:00, 6:20 P. 3 San Rafael to San Francisco. | WEEK DAYS—6:15, 7:50, 9:20, 11:10 . 12:45, 3: 0 F. M. Saturdays—Kxiratrips aci8hr. ¥ and 630 5 SUNDAXS 5110, 9140, 11220 4. a0: 110, 3ud :00, 6:25 . 2. Between San Francisco and Schuetsen Park same ‘schedule as above. Leave Arrive San Francisco. é:;,:é{‘ ®an Francisoa, Week | Su: SoN- | WeRg Davs. | pavs. |Vesdination.| v | Divs | 7:30 aM[8:00 ax| Novato, [10:40 ax{ 8:40 ax | 8:30 Pu|9:30 AM| Petaluma, 0 PM 25 AM Santa Rosa. ex| 6:23 P | 5:10 #x|5:00 ¥ Fulton, 7:30 Ax Windsor, Healdsburg, I ytton, Geyservilie, 8:80 P |8:00 ax! Cloverdale. [ Fieta, Hopland & 7:30 am| 8:00a%| Ukiah. T30 aM 8:00 Ax|Guerneville. 8:80 P T30 ax|8:00 A 10740 Ax Sonoma 5:10 rx\s:m v and Glen Ellen. 0 x| 6:23 2% 3 0 A% Senas 10730 Ax|10-3: Au ';gg;’:lggo:: Pol- | "6:10 pu| 6:22 pu Stages connect at Santa Rosa for Mark West Springs; st Geyserville for Skagzs Springs: s | Cloverdule for the Geysers; at Pleta for Highland | Sprimey, Kelneyville, Soda Bay and Lakepor:: at | Hoplind tor Lakeport and Barciett Springs: at | Tkiat for Vichy Springs, Saratoga Springs, Bloo Lakes, Laurel Dell Lake, Upper Lake, Pomo, Potier Valley, Jonn Day's, Rlverside, Lieriey's,’ Buck- | pell's, Sanhedrin Heights, Hullviile, neville, | Greenwood, Orr's Hot Sy Mendocino Ciy, | Fort Bragg, Westport, Usal, ets, Cahto, Cor Layionville, Harris, Scotis and Kureks. rday t Monday round-rip tickets at reduged | veio, Satuj rates. On Sundays ronnd-trip tickets ta i polats be- yond San Rafael at half raves Ticket Offices, 850 Marketst., Chronicle ‘!mulu IR A. W.FOSTER, R __Pres.and Gen'Manager. Gen. Pass Aguat HOUNT TAMALPAIS. SAN JoAQUIS VALLEY RAILWAY CORPARY Fno)( JANUARY 81,1897, passenger tralus wiil run daily s Southbound. Stations. -Stockton. € steimbonis of the U. | teave Ban Fruncisco and stockion at N. (33 NEW TO-DAY THE DELIGHT OF THE HOUSEWIFE E ISTO BUY TH Best ngggCE RIES LEAST MONEY! Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Old Virginia Cheroots, staple price 10C package, now... 5¢C 10-1b. pails Pure Leaf Lard. 75¢ Large cans Boneless Sardines.. 2234C 1-Ib frame Pure White Honev........ oc Choice Eastern Sugar-cured Hams, per Ib... 1ic Full Cream Cheese, per Ib..... T0C Large Fat Salmon Bellies, just in.. 5¢ Crosse & Blackwell’s~ Mixed Pickles, 35c siz ... I5C Crosse & Blackwell’s Mixed Pickles, 6oc size... 25¢ Hecker’s Farina, regular price 15, this week 9c Hecker’s Self-rising Buckwheat Flour, per package... sl Y0 Poé::'and Sberry, worth $1 50 a gal. 35 75¢ All $1 Bottles Whisky, this week.. 70c Gordan & Dillworth’s Tomato Catsup, 30c sizt veee 1OC 10-Ib. Sacks Eastern Cornmeal..... 2215¢ Genuine Imported French Sardines, 3 cans for. 25¢ Marin County Creamery Butter, nothing better made, pér square. 35 Fancy Ranch Eggs, per dozen....... 1214c Fletcher Cocktails, all kinds, regu- lar $1°25, this week 75¢ Postum Cereal, 25¢ si 19¢ Postum Cereal, 15¢ size. 12¢ Eastern Cream Cheese, per lb. 1234¢ chilling’s Best Schilling’s Best Tea. Pound. 35 Pound. 50C 25¢ 30¢ 40 40 65¢ Send for Monthly Untalogue. We Propay Freizht to 100 Stations. ‘We Ship Everywhere. WM CLINE Wholesaie and Retaii Grocer, 949-951 MARKET STREET, Between Fitth and Sixth, San ! rancicco. RATLROAD TRAVELR LEAVE| FROMEEBRUARY 15,1897 | AnmivE SOUTHERN FPACIFIC COMPANY. (FACTFIC SYNTEN.) Yrains lenve nnd are due (o nrrive as SAN FRANCISCO- “8:064 Kiles, flan Joso snd Way Stations... S84 7:00A Atlantic Express, Ogden and Fost.. $:439 %5004 Benicia, Vacaville, Rumses. ‘mentd. Orovills and Redding via is. . 645 avis. .. 7:304 Martinez, San Ramon, Val Calistoga and Santa Rosa. 8:804 Niles, San_Jose. Stocl 6125~ :00r Sacramento Rive . 1:00% Niles, San Jose and | iverme 13307 Port Costa and Way Stations 4100 Marthiez, San 4:00r Bevicia, _Vacaville, oodlang, *Knights Landing, Marysville, Oro- villo aud Sacramento . 4:30¢ Lotbrop, Stockton, ced and Freno, going vis Niles, 11:104 2 Fetnzing > 11438 8:00r 1oz Angeles Express. Fresno, Sauts Barbara 7:454 2 nie d ¥y z::iA 6:00p European Mail, Ogden and Fast. : 434 G001 Haywaris, Biica and Han Jose. Fii5a 17:007 Valigjo .., ... . 17:45» T:00p Ole‘fian Lxpreas, hn;‘ 110, and 12:45% ] “RANTA CRUZ DIVISION (Sarrow Gauge). T®:i5A Newark, Centervillc, Creel, 8 Stati 74 #2200 Nowark, Cente: n jose, New Almaden, Felton, Boulder Creck, Santa Cruz and Principsl Way ‘Way tations . TYISION G435 San Joso audl Way Almaden Wednesday 8154 San Joeu, Tres Finos, Pacilic Grove. Paso' Rubles, Sam Tuis Ohispo, Guadelupe, Surf and Prineipal y San Jose wid Way Station Hird & 1 ‘Mateo, Menlo Park, Gilroy, Tres Pinos, Siuta Salinas, Monterey and Pacifiet *8:30p San Jose wnd Way Stali Melrose, Seminary Park, 1:004 | Piteliburg, San Lesadro 2:00r b 4:007 - ] Sig0e Haymards. 2008 H :00p » 9:00p | § Runs through to Niles. 10:50% {12:13p ) ¢ From Niles. 1112:008 CREEK ROUTE FERRY. "‘.'-'j 1{;: nuc‘I’s%-pm of Market Street (Slip 8)— 2 » ; 0 1100a0. $1:00 *300 $3:090 A0 1500 *6:0ri. Prom OAELARD—Feot of Brondway.— 600 800 1 0200 *190 1300 300 4500 A for Momi ¥ for Afternoon. . Nunw::xa:»nl:ll: SRR aturdays onlg. Monday, Thursda; Saturlay nights only. entllae and Buturiage. 4 Sapdasy aud Tharsdare. Atlglptic Pacific Leaves da ly a1 5:00 p. w., carrying Puliasn Drawing-room and Modern Up\x!o!vmd "Tourtss Bleeping-cars, which run dally through 10 Chi via Cuy. ik 1 K o oxcon Fixcursions, via Konsas Oity, Monireal und the Wi ou " 5o e ran Eam, e best raflway from Califorma to the ew rails, Dow tlea: no i ineresting scenazg, £00d meals in Harvey's dining-rooums. San Francisco Ticket Office, 644 Markes 8t.. Chronicle Bulldiug. Telephone Mais 1684¢ Oakland, 1118 Broad way. NORTH.PACIFIC COAST RAILROAD (Via Sausalito Ferry). #rom San Francisco, Commencing Sept. 13, 1893 WEEKDAYS. For Mill Vallex and San Rafgal—e7 5 11:00 A. M. *1:45, 3:45, \b.n:A::‘:s.o'r.‘Q Annex cars for Deuver and Chi White' Mouatsins icave evecy Extra trips for San Rafuel on Mond; . W dars A Saturday e For Point Reyes and way stations—7:! Weekdays, 800 & . Sundars, 15 b % Savas ‘o Cazadero and way stations—7:25 ayy; 145 7. 3. Sarurdess, S