The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1897, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1897, _—'———_———,__h—————*—-——————'# PRISONERS UNDER AN BASY PLAN San Quentin Neither Pun-| | ishes Nor Reforms Convicts. | PEOPLE WANT A BETTER METHOD. Men in High Places Indorse “The Call’s” Demand for Improvement, | CHIEF LEES OX MODERY PENOLOGY He Says Classification and Work Embrace the True Idea of Reform. Since THE CALL began to urge the refo atior of the penitentiaries many citizer subject. Among those who believe there is urgent | need of something along the line of prison Lave taken a great interest in the reiorm are such men as Rev. C. W. Wendte, Dr. Edward R. Taylor, M. M, Estee and Chief of Police Lees. it has been the experiencs of all who | have studied the question that the great- est obstacle in the way of reformatory methods is practical politics. The masses who have control cf prisons all over the country are under the spell of politics, and they refuse to let go in obedience to the behests of advancing methods. For this reason it has always been found diffi- It 10 secure permanent reforms in new countries, where there is a tendency to let the penitentiaries remain very primi- | tive. | But the people of California are begin- ning to wonder when there will be an end | of the reign of chaos in prison:. They see | that such pleasure gardens as San Quen- | tin are practically breeding places for all sorts of crimes, and as a resuit they are beginning to demand a change of the svstem. e 1 ot They nning to ask how | r places are con- ire whether it is possi- | ble for sometk better to be done in | this State. | ief Lees has studied the penological | systems of all the world, and has made a ¢ of the criminals who have come under his own observa- n tion. Spnkin‘g of vrison reform and the government of penitentiaries last night he said: “Ihere are two words that convey the entire_meaning of prison reform along scientific lines—work and classification. In all the best prisons of the world, such as that at Pentonville, there is a system by which each prisoner is studied on his airival. He is put into a sort of prison of deten ion and stady, where nis condition is careiully noted from time to time, and when he has advanced sufficiently, say after eight or nine months, he isgiven more liberties and treated more as a citi- zen and less as a man under the ban. *‘People who know the least about pris- oners and jails have the harshest ideas about the treatment of prisoners. This is seen in the fact that the policeman who first begins his work, as well as the | Sheriff, wants to send up all his first ar- rests; butas we grow older in the serv- ice, as we study men and the causes that lead them to evil, we see tha: there is oiten a chance to reform them and that the purpos= of a prison is not to crush and degrade a man beyond reform, but to enable him to get back to a goad condi- tion. The peopie who say there is little chance to reform men and women who have gone wrong speak without adequate knowledge. Icould name many cases of reformation, 1 know a man who is now a prominent citizen and a gentleman in his deportment, as well as reputed to be honest in ull his dealings, who served five terms in the penitentiary. The last term settled him, and wh-n he got out he came 1o me and ‘said: ‘Cap, vou need have no further fears of me, lor I have enough of itand I am done.’ Itold him I was in- credulous, and he said if I would get him anything to do he would show me he meant all he said. I huve seen him going on for years, leading an upright and sac- cessful iife, because, as he xaid, he saw the evil and folly of crime “There are hundreds of such cases all over the country and the penitentiaries ought to be buiit and sorunas to give <uch men a chance to work their way out. I even go further and nold that for first offenses, unless the case is peculiarly ag- gravating or brutal, there ought to be a suspension of sentence. The prisoner ought to have judgment entered against hin all right and be reprimanded and warned of the conseguences of sentence. The conviction would be entered, but he would have a chance to be a man if he so desired. In this class of cases I would call a man back and send him up if he went wrong aeain and would give him a hard sentence for the second offense. I say this1s a good plan, becanse it gives a man a chance to escapeiihe striped clothes, and would often frignten the convicted man into good behavior, whereas a sentence mightturn him entirely ihe other way, It is a mistake to say there are many men Who want Lo go back to prison, even at San Quentin. I have not seen any such men. They steal againand go back, but it is not because they want to, but be- canse they cannot get away. But we do need a penitentiary where prisoners are graded and where a more thorougu tem is in use. Surveyor Norton’s Expianation. L. D. Norton, the land surveyor who ran the lines for the Governinent in the timber-burn- ing case, desires 1o correct what he believes to be a mistaken impression that the prisouers, Galvin and Butcher, were acquitted because of o blunder in nis surveys. ‘Inesurveys were c , but it wes staied in _the complaint e fire started in & certain townsuip in range 4 west, wh ev e showed | that it w Deputy L range At r stated to v s Aitorney’s office the wrong number of ange. st Bohiman Hus Absconded. { ¢ Bohiman, charged with adul- fled the State. Her case was called Judge Carroll Cook’s court yesterday, and | continued until some information of the fugitive’s whereabouts can be obtained. Mrs I3 HONOR ON A HEAD HONT Mayor Phelan Has Sharp- ened Up His Little Hatchet. Some Laws Which He Believes Will Decapitate Many Deputies. Two-Thirds of the County Olerk's Force Marked for Slaughter and There Are Others. Mayor Phelan has his ax out for the County Clerk’s and the District Attorney’s offices. He believes he has discovered a considerable array of legal authority in the light of which the act of April 2, 1880. under which those offices are at present conducted, is unconstitutional, and at one fell siroke he expects to deprive the Coun- {tv Clers of two-thirds of his working force. With the same weapon the Mayor ex- | pects to decapitate the chief clerk in the il)ls(rl‘.‘l Attorney’s office, and by a de- cision of the Supreme Court he threatens to throw Joseph Danne, special counsel for the District Autorney, out upon the cold world. The Mayor communicated his views upon these matters to Auditor Broderick yesterday. His claim s that the County Clerk 1s entitled to only such deputies as are authorized by the act of February 13, 1880. ‘The number of deputies thereby pro- | vided for was tmirty-two. An act was passed April 2, 1850, which provides that a “‘County Clerk of any city and county having over 100,000 inhabitants’’ may em- ploy four persons to act as clerks for each Juige of the Superior Court and three per-ons as copyists, or seven persons for each Judge, at an annual compensation of $131,000. The Mayor contends that this act is un- constitutional, as special legislation on the grounds that there was at the time of its passage no general classification of cities or of counties providing for any ciass “‘having over 100,000 inhabitants,” and that by its terms 1t is applicable oniy to that class of municipal corporations known as *'cities and counties.” A similar point 1s indicated as the bar- rier to the office of chief cierk to the Dis- trict Attorney. Joseph J. Dunne's fate is supposed by the Mayor to be decided by a case carried up from Modoc County, where it was held that the right to em- ploy special counsel to assist the District Aitorney was denied the Board of Super- Vi It was in that case held that the District Attornev’s proper recourse was an appeal for tance to the Attorney- { General. Suit on a Judgment. A. H. Emery has been sued for §761 58, al- 100Ic1®e, 1010101010101010 — There is never a dearth of news among the Saivationists; e:tier some popular officer is “‘fareweiling” or some one is ex- pectea here. Last week Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Keppel, Adjutant Barker, En- sign Sprague and Captain Neuman bid farewell to the Pacific Coast, and now on the fourth of next month the colonel’s tuccessor, Lieuntenant-Colonel William Bvans, will arrive in San Francisco, and be given a genuine reception by the army {u this city. Colonel Higeins, chief secretary ot the United States, will be nhere to introduce Colonel and Mrs. Evans to their new com- mand, and the chances are that Colonel Holland will also be present. Rather in peculiar coincidence of the occasion is that just five years ago on the 4th Colonel and Mrs. Kippel were welcomed here. The national convention of the Chris- tian Church, which is now in session at Indianapolis, Ind., is the largest ever held by them.The daily attendance]reaches 3000, Rev. E. T. Nesbit has acce;ted a call as pastor of the Christian Church at Con- sord. Rey. James Small and Mrs. Princes Long are conducting a very successful re- vival in the Christian Church at Healds- burg. Evangelist Melvin Putman preached to s very large congregation at the West Side Christian Church last Lora’s day at 14 x He beginsa meeting at San jose aext Sunday, Miss Boyd, for many vears a missionary In India, will arrive in this city this week on his return voyage, and wiil be given a teception at the First Christian Church on Monaay, November 1. Protessor A. M, Elston of Berkeley Bible Seminary will read a paper before ‘he Christian Ministerial Association rext Monday on “Sermon Building.” The State conventior of the Christian thurches of Missouri met last week at Trenton. The reports from the churches sbowed a large increase in membership. There are 1310 Sunday-schools, with 107,533 pupils, and the -total number of ommunicants in the church of the State 150,000. The membership of the Christian church (n California has increased during the past len years from 8000 to 19,000. The services by candle-light continue at the First Christian Church, The topic for the evening service will be “Hypocrisy.” Morning sermon, ' “Life as Viewed by Jesus.’’ The new St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church in New York, which was dedi- tated recently, cost, with the parsonage, $340,000. Rev. J. P. Mclntire, chaplain in the Onited States navy, now on leave of ab- sence, is in the city awaiting orders. It is probable he may be assigned again to the Baltimore. Newell Simpson Albright, D.D., pro- lessor of Biblical and historical theology m the Ihff School of Theology, Denver, fieu on the 10th inst. The vote for the admission of women before the last general conference of the Methodist Episcopal churches was 7502 for and 2606 against. The votefollowing was 7455 for and 3636 against. The young people of Central M. E. Church are 1o give & reception 10 the members of the Young Men's Chbristian o = e 3.010:1010i0:10:010:0/0101V101010 0P+ Association at the association par Thursday evening, October 2 r. E. E. Kelly will preside, and Rev. Charles E. Loc! D.D., the new pastor of Central| M. E. Chureb, will be present. The Metnodist District Stewards’ meet- | ing for San Francisco District will be held n the Central M. E. Church, San Fran- cisco, November 2, at 11 o’cloci. Dr. S. M. Jefferson’s Bibie lectures at the Young Men’s Christian Association have proven most interesting. These lectures are free to the public. e next will be given Saturday evening, Noyem- ber 6; subject, *“Literary Value of the Bible.” Tuesday evening Rev. John A. B. Wil- sou, pastor of the Howard-street M. E. Church, will preaca at the Jewish Mis- sion, Columbian Hall. 1133 Mission street. The Methodist Deaconess’ Fields of Work Committee will meet at the Y. M. C. A. building to-morrow morning, Octo- ber 25, at 10 o’clock sharp. Tue second concert in the members’ course at the Young Men’s Chri<tian As- sociation will be given Thursday evening, November 4, by the Eureka Quartet, as- sisted by Miss Xena Roberts, soloist, and Miss Frances Luse, reader. Rev. W. 8. Urmy of the First M. E. Church will preach several nights this week at the revival services in the Fii- teenth-avenue M. E. Church. At Howard M. E. Church this morning Rev. John A. B. Wilson will take for his .:'ubjec: “Tke Primal Source of Christian oy.” Rev. Dr. Locke of Central M. E. Church will take for the theme of his discourse this morning, “Jesus Christ—God and Man.” Subject for ihe evening’s service, “The Saloon Must Go.” Rev. Arthur Anderson will conduct the services this evening at Richmond M. E. Church. Rev. John Stephens, pastor of Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, corner Hayes and Buchanan streets, will deliver an address this evening in answer to THE CALL'S question, **Shail we make San Francisco an oper town?”’ The pub- lic is invited. During the last five years 262 Congrega- tional churches have been organized. Mrs. F. H. Pierson, corresponding secre~ tary of the Presbyterian Woman’s Board of Home Missions, will be in San Jose Tuesday, Octover 26. She will hold a worker~’ conference in the aiternoon at 2:30, and there will be an evening meeting of a popular character. Whitworth College, the Presbyterian educational institution of Washington, is to be removed from BSumner to Port Townsend. A large building erected in 1890 for hotel purposes, at a cost of $75,000, has been bougbt lor a few thousand. The location is one of the most beautiful on Puget Sound. The deatn of Rev. Lewis Thompson of the Qakland Presbytery occurred at bhis home on the 18tn. He had reached the age of 88 years 11 months and 18 days. Mr. Thompson organized the first Presby- terian church on the Pacific Coast. At the annual meeting of the Sherith Israel Congregation last Sanday afternoon the following-named officers were elected : President, Louis Brown; vice-president, M. Goldwater; secretary, Alexander L. Badt; treesurer, Judah Boas; sexton, Abe Leszynsky; trustees for three years—B. Shiedeman, Charles Harris, H. Roman. The Congregation Beta Menachim Streisand elected the following officers at its abnual meeting Leld last Sunday: President. I. Baer; vice-president, L. Gar- ren; seccretary, 8. J. Levy; trustees—J. lors . E. Simon, S. Axelrod, J. Dav Rittigstein, 8. Israel, kowitz. The annual meeting of the Congrega- tion Beth Israel, Geary-street Temple, will be held in the vestry of the synagogue this aiternoon. _Bishop Nichols is expected back some time next month. Rev. Dr. Stebbins will speak at the First Unitarian Chureh this morning on “The Way of the Spirit.” Emmanuel Baptist Church will hold a bazar, commencing on the 26th inst. and lasting until the 29th. It will take the form of a pastoral fiesta. The forty hours’ adoration commences to-day at 8t. Rose's Catholic Church. Miss Doyle, daughter of the weli-known lawyer, John T. Doyle, left for St. Louis during the week to enter the Order of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. The young lady will make her novitiate in the mother- house of the Western proviuce of the so- cietv. which is situated in St. Louis. Rev. Dr. J. Pierce of Berkeley supplied the First Church of this city on the 17th. Rev. C. H. Hobart of Oakland will supply to-day. Rev. Dr. Wood of Philadelphia is expected to preach two or three Sundays next month. A mission will be opened in St. Franais Church, Vallejo street, to-day by the Jesuit Fathers, Revs. H. M. Finnegan and A. G. Van der Eerden. The opening sermon will be preached at the high mass to be celebrated at 11 o'clock. The first week will b - devoted to the men of the parish and the second week of the mission will be for the women. A rally and essay contest of Mission Dolores branch of the League of the Cross will be held tnis afternoon, at 2 o’clock, in Mission Parlor Hall, Seventeenth street, near Valencia. The religious exercises of St. Rose’s branch of the League of the Cross will be held at 8t. Rose’s Church on Friday even- ing, October 29, at'8 o’clock. Rev. C. J. Powers, C. 8. P., was at Mon- terey last week and on Wednesday even- ing he delivered the address at the open- ing of the fair whick is being held in behalf of the Son Carlos missien. The sermon at the 10:30 o’clock mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral _to-day will be preached by Rev. C. A. Ramm, and Rev. E. P. Dempsey will deliver the discourse at vespers, Rev. Peter O'Reilly, who was ordained last June in All Haillows’ Seminary, Ii land, for the diocese of Los Angele arrived at the sceue of his future life and missionary labors. Rev. Fathers Clarke and Doherty, C. 8. P., open a mission at Jackson, Amador County, to-day. Two of the Paulist Fathers will open a mission at Fresno on Sunday, Novem- ber . The address by the Rev. Dr. L. L. West at the Minnesota Association, on “The Fellowship of the Spint,” is mentioned in one of our Eastern papers as being “‘anjad- dress of power.” Dr. %en has been called to the pastorate of Plymouth church in this city. The Catholic Teachers’ Institute of the archdiocese of San Francisco will hold its fourth annual meeting at the Sacred Heart Presention Convent, Taylor and Elns streets, on Thursday, October 28. The Very Rev.J. J. Prendergast, V. G., will deliver the opening remarks. Sev- eral of the reverend clergy who are inter- ested in the work have also been invited to attend and to speak at the 1initial ses- sion. Glaser, J. J. Lef- 8. Cieslar, | TO-DAY’S GREAT BASEBALL GAME., [ssiomers o s v e co Reliance is as confident of winning to-day’s great ball contest with Stockton as Joe Goadard is of defeating Faker Tom Sharkey if they ever meet in the roped arena. Reliance is bringing over a great aggregation of ball tossers. And Reliance needs to do this very thing, for the Stockton nine as it trots out on the diamond will be a corker. There is not a weak place In the team. Harper will twirl for the nine from San Joaquin’s capital. Billings will be tho receiving end of the battery. will hold down the init al cushion. Monohan atshort. This is a great infield. Selna, the fcrmer king-pin of first basemen in the Caiifornia League, Smith will play at second, M. White at third and The infield of Reliance 1s equaily as for- midable. It consists of Maguire at first, Stulz at second, Lange a: third and Josh Riley at short. to others would be impossible chances and Haltren. famous fielders. Edge at Sacramento last Sunday. inning. with a dead ball. The grounds at Recreation Park are in great ball game is assured. Lange is the greatest third baseman in the State. On the same day at Central Park the Will & Fincks p'aved at Central The score was 7 to 4 in favor of the visitors, play the game, which was a dull and featureless affair. A similar story is that of the games played a week azo last Sunday. He accepts what he is seldom credited with an error. Stock- ton's outfield comprises speedy men and seldom a ball eludes them. Arrayed against Harper will be that great National League player, George Van Van Haltren formerly pitched for Baltimore and then became one of its F. E. LANGE, Van Haltren did the twirling for Reliance in the game with Gilt Gilt Edge was defeated by a score of 8 to 5. The games played at Recreation Park have been the finest seen here this season. They are played with the regulation ball and not with a two-bit dead one. Last Sunday Stockton shut out the Olympics, the score standing 4 to 0. The game was plaved in an hourand foriy-five minutes. Not a run was made until the second Park It took two hours to fine condition. They are very fast and a The following is the make-up of the nines: Reliance. Stanley... Perrine. . Second basems Stockton. -Billings Harper Selna Smith {. White Mounohan Walters 1. White tewart nai Colonel Irish called the actention of the department to the fact that this was not the first occasion on which his office had been ignored. It wili be remembered that he was ignored in the matter of the bogus brandy shipments several months ago, when Mr. Wise was Collector and E. B. Jerome was his special aeputy. Mujor Moore, in conformity with orders from Washington yesterday, secured sworn statements in writing from all the parties concerned and forwarded them to Washingion. Custom-house clerks and other employes now hide under their desks when they see a reporter on the horizon. They are airaid of being suspected of giving information to the press, and when one of them was asked yesterday whether it was raining outside he declined to answer, and took refuge behind a bookcase. Young Mr. Jackson’s desk commands a full view of the Custom-house, and the raking fire of his eyes is feared more than a volley from a Gatling gun. SOUTHERN HAILS. A New Arrangement Whereby a Saving of a Day Is Effected. Samuel Fiint, Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, Eighth Division, left last Friday night on the overland train on his annual trip to Washington to confer with postal othcials on matters connected with his department. C. M, Cotterman, Clerk of Railway Mail Service at Portland, Or., is visiting the of- fice in this city for the purpose of consult- ing with the officials relative to the work of his office. On Mondays and Thursdays on the Sun- set Limited mail will be dispatched at 5:30 P M. for Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura counues, reaching Los An- geles on the following morning at 10 o'clock, Santa Barbara at noou, making practically a gain of one day in the vice. Mail wili close at5 P. M. and at § tion D at 5:15. Trains arriving on We nesdays and Saturdays at 10:15 A. M. will bring mails from the Southern States, Southern Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California. ———————— New Lamps for O1d. R. B. Elder, Scott Elder, W. H. Metson, F. C. Drew and Ida G. Cnagnette have incorporated | MARRIED AT HIGH NOON ‘ John OC. Ohlandt and Miss Theresa Lahaney Wedded. Dnngan MoLean and Miss Henrietta McQlellan of Vallejo Also Made One. Jobn C. Onlandt, one of the proprietors of the California Fertilizing Works and eldest son of Nicholas Ohiandt, the capi~ talist, aged 25 years, was married at high noon yesteriay to Miss Theresa A. La- haney, aged 24 years, at the home of :_he groom’s parents, by the Rev. Dr. Julius Fuendeling of the St. Marcus _Germnn Church. The wedding and marriage cer- emonies were very quietly hetlkd. e The bride and groom were the rec of many valuable and beautiful presanits. Mrs. Oblandt is one of the daughters o Patrick W. Lahaney. The groom, who has been connected with his father in business for many years, is a prominent Native Son, having at one time occupied the presidential chair of Precita Parlor, N. 8. G- W. ; Dancau McLoan and Miss Henrietta McCle made a hasty trip to this city from Vallejo yesterday alternoon and re married by the Rev. Dr. Julius uendeling at the latter’s residence, 705 Bush street. 3 f McLean is a well-known California paper man, having been connected " the Vallejo Chronicle for many Mrs. McLean has been a resident of Vallejo for some years. { ‘“ixsuluedmlely 2lher the wedding thep coupleentertained a number of their local friends at a dinner, and then left for a K wedding tour of the coast. —————————— Taken to Boston. John H. Colville, the absconding book- keeper of the Winter Place Hotel in Boston, who was arrested here several days ago. was taken from the City Prison Friday evening by the Pacific Are Lamp Company with a capital Inspectors thields and Burke of Boston. They of $30,000. aud with San Francisco as the | took last nights train for the East. Colville's priucipal piace of business. | wite accompanied thew. NEW ~YO-DAY. ARICOCELE. A Disease That Drains the Vital Power of Men. Its Work Is Treacherous and Breaks Down the Strongest Men. JEROME UNDER A CROSS FIRE Major Moore Investigating His Conduct Under Orders. Issued a Duplicate Permit in Violation of the Regu- - lations, Also Unlawfully Ignored the Official Existence of Naval Officer Irish. Clerk No. 1, class 6, otherwise E. B. Jerome, de facto head of the Custom-house clerks and deputies, is in hot water again. He is now being investigated for an al- leged breach of the rules. Last Friday Major Moore, sperial agent of the Treasury at this port, received in- structions from the Treasury Department at Washington to investigate complaints made by Naval Officer John P. Irish and Broker Harry B. Thomas. Broker Thomas had sent a letter to the department com- plaining that Jerome had violated Cus- tom-house regulations for the purpose of defrauding him out of a fee of §4. The case, as set forth at length by Mr. Thomas, was published in THE CALL a few weeks ago. It appears that a clergyman—Rev. J. M. Monroe—arrived from Australia and ap- plied at the Custom-house for a permit for the release of his personal effects. He was informed that under the ordinary procedure it would require five or six days' time to liberate his goods. Mr. Monroe was in despair. He wanted to start for the East within two or three days, and he coula not go without his el- fects. In his ailemma he was introduced to Customs Broker Thomas. Mr. Thomas offered his services as brokerand they were accep ed. By dint of working after office bours and inducing some custom-house clerks to remain after the close of busi- ness he succeeded in getting all the papers ready for the release of the igods on the next forenoon, September 26. Mr. Thomas was handed the permit, but to his surprise the preacher refused to pay $4 brokerags and roared that he was being eaten out of his skin by a lot of land-sharks—and this in spite of the fact that he had previously asked Mr. Thomas as to what his charges would be and that Mr. Thomas had as- sured him that it would not beany higher than the usual brokerage fee and that the matter of compensation coutd be settled after the permit had been granted. The thritty Mr. Monroe not only re- pudiated his coniract, but went upstairs and roared his indignation into the re- ceptive ears of Clerk Jerome. He spoke of land suarks and robbers who were try- ing to abstract $4 from him by false pre- tenses and extortion. Clerk Jerome listened and sent the Col- lector’'s messenger downstairs to summon Deputy Collector Farley. Mr. Farley re- sponded promptly. Of course Mr. Jerome being only a cierk ana Mr. Farley being a | Deputy Collector it wouid be natural to suppose that Mr. Jerome had no authority to order Farley upstairs, downstairs, across the stairs or over the stairs, but Mr. Farlev not bemg a biind horse in volitics accepted the wink and did not re- | quire the nod. Mr. Fariey was “‘instructed’ visea” to make a duplicate permit and to deliver it to the reverend kicker. The rules of the cepartment require that a duplicate permit shall not be issued in the absence of proof that the original had been lost. There wzs no pretense that the original hud been lost. Both Mr. Monroe and Mr. Jerome must have known that the broker had the original, for Mr. Thomas had refused to surrender it until Iis fee had been paid. Notwithstanding this knowledge the duplicate was issued, and the Naval Offi- cer was snubbed by not being given an cpportunity to countersign it as reqnired by the Revised Statutes of the United States. Mr. Thomas lost his fee, and the wily preacher went on his way to Canada with his luggage in the baggage-car ana his tongue in his cheek. Mr. Thomas was not sent for, nor was he allowed any opportunity for stating his side of the case. Colonel Irish, the Naval Oficer, made a formal complaint to the Treasury De- vartment of the fact that his office had been snubbed in’ violation of the fol- lowing: SECTION 2626. At ports to which there are appointed a Collector, Naval Officer and Sur- veyor, it shall be the Guty of the Naval Oi- ficer * * * Fourth—To countersign all per- mits, clearances, certificates, debentures ana NEW TO-DAY, DANGER IN SODA. Serious Results Sometimes Follow Its Excesslve Use. Common soda is all right in its place and indispensable in the kitchen and for cooking and washing purposes, but it was never intended for a medicine, and people who use it as such will some day regret it. We refer to the common use of soda to relieve heartburn or sour stomach, a habit which thousands of people practice almost daily, and one which is fraught with dan- ger; moreover, the soda only gives tem- porary relief and in the end the stomach trouble gets worse and worse. The soda acts as a mechanical irritant to the walis of the stomach and bowels, and cases ar2 on record where 1t accumu- lated in the intestines, causing death by inflammation or peritonitis. Dr. Harlandson recommends as the safcst and surest cure for sour stomach (acid dyspepsia) an excel.ent preparation soid by drugeisis under the name of Siuart's Dyspepsia Tab eis. These tab'ets are large 20-zrain lozen es, very pleasant to taste, and contaia the naturalacd-, peptones and digestive elements essential to vood digesticn, and when taken afier meals they digest the food per ectly and promptly before it has time to ferment, sour ana poison the blood and nervous system. Dr. Wuerth states that he invariubly uses Stuart’s Dyspeps:a Taolets in all cazes of stoma“h derangements and finds them a certain cure not only for sour stomach, but by promptly d:gesiing the food they create a heal hy appetite, in- crease flesh and strengthen the action of the beurt and liver. They are nota cath- artic, but intended oniy for stomach diseases and weakness, and will be found reliable in any stomach troutle except cancer of the stomach. All dru:gists sell Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets at 50 cents per packuge. 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Make noteof ia S CURES RUPTURE A consumptive patient, Tabules, found his weight increased but was made anxious because expectoration ceased who made use of Ripans’ , and feared on that account that harm would result, but on consulting a physician he learned that Ripans Tabules of the lungs in any material do not affect the conditions degree, but if they do so at all they have more tendency to favor expectoration rather than to suppress it. Consequently there is no reason why a consumptive should discontinue the use of Ripans Tab- ules because expectoration has ceased. Furthermore, in: lung troubles an increase in weight is the best indication of improvement, and as the tion they increase nutrition and are doin required to produce best results. A pow style: et cont TEN RIP, AT A e Compry. 1 Boras i, o YR or o B ont et for e —OF s Tabules regulate the diges- g the very service i lass) is now £ e e Wil bo sent for five sente” poor and b