The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 16, 1898, Page 10

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL UNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1898 PARNELL MEN T0 CELEBRATE : Anniversary of the Lead- éer’s Death Observed. FEATURESOF DEMONSTRATION FIRST THERE WILL BE A BIG PARADE IN DUBLIN. Following Comes the Convention to Setermine the Policy of the In- dependent Nationalist Party. BY J. J. CLANCY. Special Correspondence of The Call. DUBLIN, Oct. 1.—For the last seven years the chief political event of the autumn in Ireland has been the celebra- tion of the Parnell anniversary—tha the anniversary of the death of the great Irish leader, on the 6th of October, 1891 The celebration does not take place on the 6th of October, however, unless it be 2 Sunday, for Sunday is the of the week in which people v, whether in Dublin or in the ¢ | can attend it. But the fth of October, | whether it fall on pday or not, is | now known as Ivy day, from the fa that the ivy leaf has been worn on that day ever sin 1891 by all both in Dublin and the provinces. How it is that the ivy has come to be particu larly associated with Parnell 1 can tell. Already there are different theo it t current, although rs since lvy day was in- ult is it to come at which occur even | On this oc- | hursda tion will take plac, st Sunday, and the for it are now an ad- All the railways running anged to carry pas- | at excursion fares. in o ive ar ngers for that d The public local bodies in the variou s vk ed to send deputatior and some of the larger municipalities will, as usual, be represented by their Mayors and municipal ‘officers in their robes, as will also the Corporation of reover, authorized to attend in state uniforms with their trades of the city in the procession, hich places have been assigned to them and to the provincial deputations by ballot he demonstrations which taken place this year in Men of ‘W to with which has y Fire B r full working nd engines. Th 0 to participat Dublin a distan ho have alwa | law. | con. eman, who is , 1s | known ordon of Wate His title, which is self-conferred, came about in this w In the days, now long past, | when Mr. Deacon s caretaker of the | mandate : sary. Ug to the year 1872 the two great ‘‘county fa milies” 'of Galway—the Burkes, represcnted by the Marquis of Cian- ricarde, and the Frenches, represented by the Earl of Clanarty—divided between them the Parllamentary representation of the vast county of Galway, & share in which they seemed to regard as an aps panage of their titles and estates. In 1572 the Clanricarde-Clancarty candidate wus beaten at the polls, even though the fran- chise was still unrestricted and the sys- tem of voting by ballot was not yet the From that day forward, so great was_the disenchantment of the Marquis of Clanricarde, the relations between bim and the county became _altogether changed. He fined his tenants in the shape of an increase of rents for having dared to vote according to their con- sclences, and, if they did not pay, he; evicted.. He ceased to live in Portumna | himself. His policy was continued by his | successor, the present Marquis, Whose first act on his accession was to stop the | building of a magnificent castle which was commenced some years before, and which was to take the place of the old family mansion burned down about 1820. The new building had been all but fin- {shed, a tower and a few windows only | be anting when all work was stopped | in 1875 or thereabouts, since which time building operations have never been re- sumed, and the unfinished castle is stll, it has been for more than twenty oars, in the possession of a caretaker. Nor are things likely to change during the | lifetime of the present owner of the Clan- ricarde title who lives the life of a solitary in London, without ever a thought, appa ently, of his magnificent seat on the banks of Lough Derg. What will happen when the next owner comes into possession it is4 difficult to conjecture, for, after a contin- | uous existence of hundreds of vea | , dur- | ing & portion of which time it played a | conspicuous part in Irish history, the | Clanricarde family will in_the | at least, with the present Mar- | quis. is death the title will become | extinct, while the estates will devolve on | Marquis of S magnificen dle out, who is a Mayo man, | scat of his own at Westpc An that v, and may never choose to’ come to Galway. On the whole, | I should not be surprised to see the new Portumna Castle turned before many | years into a hotel. Such are the ups and downs of fortune! s We have just had here in Dublin a visit of a fortnight from Forbes-Robertson and his company in their classical plays. need not say that he is the rate actors of the e i and such artists are Dublin, which pride crimination in matters ¢ the stage, s the reputation | whose verdict, in fact, w: of more than one famous actor. It may | be interesting, therefore, to learn that, | wh Dublin thinks a good deal of Hamlet, it does not ~Robertson’s Macbeth an_equally good per- The truth is, Dublin is given to judging every tragedian by the Kean and particularly by Edmund Kean, who , probably, the gre tragedian that ever lived. Apropos o story alted which is rather char s of Irish telling. {ean was on one occa- erford—in a building, las, the city equally great born in a house rears ago, | furniture Forbe think his formance. tic of nd _is, Edmund les Kean, 0 hich, up to a few portion of th n named C actor, C in that c was used of the local Young Men’s Chris- on, he fell foul of the au- that institution ‘and was di- rected to quit his post. He resisted this i it he were living in the | the debt-laden mem- | aristocracy habltually | at deflance, he upper. story, called it his | and withstood a regular | the populace, who hoisted thoritfes of century when of the Irish ded th oum, e, alded by las rto taken part in wie Parnell anni- | 560 SIGO0 A (01 day and assembled | versary celebration, for it would be un- o idije nhis stronghold every night inf{ Teasonable to expect all such persons to | thousands to hear him deliver from the | come up to Dublin from remote places | o0 ‘windows the story-of his wrongs. It | twice within a few months; but, all the | Wis g famous time in -Waterford. and | ~demonstration is certain to be | goo knows what would ultimately | large and impressiye. have happened had not a ~ compromise The usual programme is to have a pro- | peen arrived at between the contending cession through principal streets of | forces. I may add that to-day Mr. Dea- Dublin to wh Parn: buried /, the leading Parnellites re- | assembling on the following day to dis- cuss-in convention the political Situation and to determine the policy of the Inde- pendent Nationalist party for the coming | Year. This year, of course, the same | programme will be followed. The pro- cession will take place, as 1 have said, on the 9th Inst., and the convention wiil | be held the foliowing day. At this gath- | ering the principal subject will this lme | be the atfitude to be taken up by Par-| nellites in reference to the elections for | the new councils est: - the local | overnment act of the last session of Parliament, What wiil be determined on say: but the probable | ntion is clear enough. | 1 cannot, of cours: decision of the cor The Independent Nationalist party, under the leadership of John Redmond, M. P., | has already made it clear that it does | not want the complete boycotting of the | minority. It has always insisted on the | expediency of giving that minority a fair representation on the new elective bodies. It desires to see that minority fully, ev enerously, presented. . But, far as | know, it means to use those new bodies to the obtaining of home rule, and | S 1 that they | should everywhere contain a majority of | Natlonalists. It is one thing, and a right | thing, to accord the minority full repre- | sentation; it is another and, while home | rule is denied, it would be an unjustifiable thing to give them the controlling power in places where they are not enlufi»u to it by their numbers; and this, to put it brief- 1y, will be, as I imagine, the declaration of the Independent Nationalist Conven- tion. Another point that is likely to be insisted upon is absolute freedom of elec- t The history of some past Parlia- mentary elections in recent years is the foundation of this plank in the platform, and those who remember the history of those_elections are the strongest in urg- ing thie particular demand. I may add that the proceedings of the convention are looked forward to with great interest not only by Parnellites, but by anti-Parnell- ites, for every one recognizes now that, although the Parnellite members of Pa liament are but twelve out of eighty Na- tionalist members, they represent a_far Jarger proportion of people in Ireland than that_figure would imply. 1 have just returned from a trip on the new teurist route, commonly called the Duke of York route, on the Shannon. It was a most enjovabie excursion, and I should most strongly advise any Ameri- can_ visitors who may come to Ireland next summer not to miss it. The way to proceed is this: Take a ticket from the roadstone station (Dublin) of the Mid- land line of rallway to Athlone. That particular journey occupies, by a fast train, only some two hours and three- quarfers. If you arrive in the morning you can walk almost straight from the | train into the steamer, which leaves Ath- lone at 10 a. m. for Killaloe. You | spend the next seven hours and a half on the river, at the end of which time you can, if you are in a hurry, resume your journey by train for Limerick, ar- riving, via that city, in Dublin the fol- lowing morning at 5 o'clock. But, in all robability, most visitors will be in no urry to get away from places naturally 80 picturesque, and, to Irishmen, so fuil of historical associations. The journey down the Shannon from Athlone to Killa- loe appears all too short. For the first fifteen miles, indeed, the scenery is not out of the common. The great river flows through a rather flat country, dotted for miles and miles on either side with the whitewashed houses of the peasantry, embowered amid clumps of trees; and but for the hmumernh?e curves of the stream and the excessively green mead- ows that skirt the water’s edge for miles on both sides, the landscape would be comparatively uninteresting. But when Bnu reach Portumna and enter in Lough erg the sight is as beautiful of its kind as anything in the world. This great lake is twenty-five miles long and in some parts twenty miles wide. Bordered on each side with waving woods, amid whick here and there peer out stately res dences o~ ivy-grown towers and other relics of the past; studded with islands rich In follage, ecclesiastical remains of remote ages, and in religious and histori- cal memories which still stir the blood of the peoé)le; now bright with sunshine and anon darkened , with the clouds which never seem entirely absent from that enchanted reglon—it is a spot In which the visitor, whether given to angling, shooting or mere sight-seeing, would like to-tarry the whole summer through. One ‘circumstance in particular will strike the tourist in whose thoughts poli- tics are uppermost. It is _that on the western shores of Lough Derg are sit- uated many of the most notable scenes of the last ireat land agitation. At and in the nel‘fh orhood of Portumna was enact- gdl—an oo 53%1 to some extent 1s still eing enacted—the great struggle betwee: the Marguis of Clanricarde. and. his ton: antry. ower down is Woodford, the scene_of a hotter fight of the same kind, and Bodyke, in the County Clare, the story of the evictions In which, a few | sition in saying: nost citizen of what calls Intacta. con_is a fore tself the Urt FOOTBALL GAMES AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. The latest athletic news from Stanford University appears in the following let- ter to The Call: STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 15.—Last week's practice on the gridiron has been far from encouraging. The men have been coming on the field late, making it impossible to have thing but a ‘short line up. The snag, too, past weeks has been lacking in the play of the football squad. The men have been slow in lining up and fumbling has been worse than ever. To remedy this condition of affairs a football meeting was called Wednesday. Coach | Cross and Captain Fisher addressed the meet- ing, urging the men to get out on the fleld | more promptly and to play with more life. Coach Cress told of the methods at Yale and other Eastern colleges and summed up his po- “Every one must do his part; no one can shirk and expect to remain on the fleld.”” Erb, '01, was appointed captain of the second eleven. As far as possible the same line up will be kept on the second team in hopes of developing & stronger eleven for the Varsity to_go up against With some few notable exceptions, the men | who are doing the most consclentious work on the fleld are the old Varsity players, who in most cases have a cinch on their positions. | Murphy is punting in excellent form. Parker, at end, got himself into condition early and aiready has the endurance and speed 80 neces- | sary for the wings if the work of the whole | team is not to be retarded. Captain Fisher, though having the responsibility of the team on his shoulders, is playing an excellent game. A number of last year's second team are do- ing good work this year and in many respects | are almost up to Varsity form. Wilson, at tackle, is fast and always brings down his man. Rusk, at the other tackle, is strong in the line and semes to be able to break through any one put against him at will. His great fail- ing is in not watching the kicks. Other men whose work s particularly noticeable are Bun- nister and Hill at full and McFadden end. Bunnister bammers the line effectively and keeps his feet well. Hill is also strong at bucking. ‘Among the new men who came out last week are Longheed, last year's baseball cap- tain, for quarter, and Eaton, a big freshman, who will try for a place In the center. Training rules have been signed by the foot- ball candidates, and are as follows: (1) To abstain from the use of ail tobacco and alcoholic liquors. (2) To retire regularly not later than 10:3 p. m (3) To refrain from eating between meals. (4) To obey implicitly the commands of the coach and captain while on the fleld and re- spond to the call for practice promptly. Arrangements are being made for a_train- ing table, which will be started this week with a few of the most promising candidates. New men will be put on as soon as they prove that they deserve it. The *baby”’ eleven has mot been doing much this week, as a4 number of the strong fresh- men have been laid off on account of injuries. Captain Rice has had a bad knee; Geissler's neck has been out; Carson, too, has not recov- ered from his injury recéived in the Lowell game; Frisselle {8 having trouble with his hip. P. CUTTEN. —_—————— WANTS TO BE A MASCOT. Major General Merriam was in receipt of the following letter yesterday, which is as amusing as it is patriotic. It is a sample of many of the letters received by the department commander, but the officlals at headquarters have conceded to this particular epistle the distinction of being ‘‘the warmest member in the bunch.” The name of the writer and place from which the letter comes is withheld: General Merrjam, Presidio, Cal—Respected Sir: Can I accompany you to the Philippines? T am 30, 6 feet 8 inches, weight 160. Free from all evil habits. A Methodist. 1 want to go With you and care for the sick. Have had come experience and very much desire to ac- company you and make myself useful. I make no charges for my labor, be it ever so ardu- ous, and all I ask is my clothes and trans- portation. I want to care for the sick and Verse myself In hospital work. 1 am single and @il alone in the world, and want to do all the good 1 can for our noble ‘“soldier” boys. If you camnnot muster me in, can't you take me as a_mascot? I enlisted with the Red Cross of San Francisco last May, also with the White Cross of this place, and should you be so kind as to let me accompany you, I Will give work under the Red and White Cross. Remember, I charge nothing for labor, only clothes and transportation. I have two'(2) little dogs, that I would like to take With me, for they were the means of saving my life in a burning build- ing. They are very nice and clean. I have kept them in my room with me for the past five years. Through them I have learned a les- son and want to do all the good I can for the sick. If you went me under the above conditions (accept of me and my two little dogs as mascots), wire me at my_expense and will take the first train for San Francisco. If you don’t accept please write me a letter, and it you do wire at my expense. Yours with much respect . —_ P. 8.—T am sorry to be obliged to trouble you, but I hope I may accompany you, and at some future time show my appreclation of your courteous attention. Please take me along. | throne of grace on his behalf. SOLEMN MASS FOR THE SOLDIER DEAD Impressive Services at Maniia. DEPARTED HEROES HONORED FIRST CALIFORNIA MOURNS ITS LOSS. In the Historic Church of San Miguel Regimental Chaplain McEinnon Preaches a Touching Sermon. BY SOL N. SHERIDAN. Special Correspondence of The Call. MANILA, Sept. 6.—Solemn mass was said in the Church of San Miguel, near the palace of Malakanan, this morning, for the repose of the souls of the mem- bers of the First California Reglment who laid down. their lives for their country in this far-off land. Father Doherty, General Merritt's chaplain, was the celebrant and a most touching sermon was preached by Father Mc- Kinnon, chaplain of the regiment. It | was a most impressive scene, the quaint | old interior reminiscent in all its parts of the appeal of the Spanish mission- aries to the senses of the savages, the earnest faces of the American boys in their brown fatigue suits, the solemn chanting of the priest, the strong, clear boys' alto of the na- tive lads of whom Father McKinnon has constituted his choir. It was a scene that those who looked upon will never forget, and there was consolation in it for those who had felt the sorrow which must come to the soldier who sees his comrade stricken down in bat- tle at his side. - Certainly, never regi- ment had a better chaplain than Rev. Father McKinnon. Faithful to every spiritual trust, he has periled his life to go to the front when the lives of his boys were in peril. He has been the stay of the strong and the material staff of the weak. He has prayed for the dead, watched by the sick and con- soled the living. He is a man without fear and without reproach. As his pray- ers have been freely given, so will the weaker petitions of every man who has felt his ministrations ascend to the It is testimony which, though shumble, will be heard at the last day. And while the Americans keep watch beside their dead there is growing a new danger those in authority feel most keenly. Aguinaldo is not yet ready to take the fortunes of war, although they turn against him. He is strengthening himself in the interior wherever that is possible, and he has men of his own in quarters in the suburb of Malate. It is true that some of his leaders are not true to him. Your real Tagallo is true to nobody. He is, in extreme cases, not even true to himself. Pio Pilar, for example, would like to set up an army and a revolution of his own. So would Pa Ah, the Chinese leader, out at Ma- lalon. The annexation party, too, among the natives is growing in strength each day. Nevertheless Aguin- aldo is by far the ablest man of the lot, and it is just possible will be able to hold the diverse elements together until he has made his case before the Paris commission. He wants, or says he wants, a Fllipino republic with an American protectorate. That is a dream the variety of which can be realized only by those who have seen and stud- ied the Tagallo. The American system is a good sys- tem, by your leave, for Americans. You cannot graft new systems upon the old Asiatic trunk. It is too old, and the sap runs too much evil. The graft is poisoned and the tree lives on to poison with its rank growth all the generations that may ever be born upon this rich though fetid soil. All this we know who have been here. There is not an American in the whole army of occupa- tion who will not tell you, if this land is to be regenerated, the regeneration must come from the rivers of blood to follow the extermination of every na- tive in the islands. It is hard—but re- generation is hard. America is strong for the task, but there must be no shrinking in the performance nor from the consequences. OEebmore Cagfomlan has been hon- ore: Yy _an order from hea Major William D. McCanhy?q“\’-;?ff_' ganized the brigade hospital when the first expedition landed, has been ap- pointed Superintendent of Spanish Hos- pitals in Manila, a position of trust such as has been conferred on few phy- siclans. His jurisdiction is wide and the task will be arduous, but those who know Dr. McCarthy will feel that he is competent for the task. He has se. lected for his clerk Haatiot O Corporal Fred PILLAGERS NOW WILLING TO GIVE UP Indians for Whom Warrants Are Held Will Soon Surrender to Authorities. WASHINGTON, Oct 15.—The foll B .—! win; dispatch has been re i Dopaieh s cefved at the Interior “WALKER, Minn., Oct. 14.—H A -, Oct. 14.—Held coun- cil to-day. Several of the Indiang. for whom warrants are lssued are ready to glve themselves up. Think all will do so by next Wednesday. = W. A. JONES, Chmnilssioner.” ' FIRES ARE KEPT BANKED. ‘Window Glass Plants Fail to Start the Season’s Operations. PITTSBURG, Oct. 15—The window- glass plants throughout the United States falled to start the season's operations last midnight. Fires were banked and may be extinguished and 15,000 workers, who had been looking forward to a general re- sumption October 15, are forced to remain idle. The strike is for an advance in the wages of the cutters and flatteners, but is {(e:.‘l,\;n;hgf Tesult of a fight between the A é"" o It,:ngf. and the American Fed- e manufacturers say the fi kept banked for a reasonabie tl;xen'e.w'vlvlhg: they will be extinguished and not relight- ed until the owners are sure they have a clear and conck workers, ncise contract with the MUST BEAR UNION LABEL. Contract Relating to City Printing Is Held to Be Constitutional. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 15.—Judge Scarritt of the Circuit Court has held that the or- dinance passed by the City Council last spring making it obligatory that all city printing bear the label of the Typographi- cal Union is constitutionally correct and will stand the test of the courts. Under this ordinance the Board of Pub- at was authoriz ] Typographical . Union to use its lbefi Lawton & Burnap were lower bidders Excuse pgnail. ears back, read like that of a miniature rontfer war of modern times. At Port- umna {8 a remarkable sight, to explain which a few preliminary. Wotdl are neces —————— Advances made on furniture and pianos, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1033. than the firm that obtained th tract Sl R e - clalm] ordinance was clul.‘ufelllhflo{ i DR. PIERCE’S REMEDIES "WHAT MAKES MAMA S0 (ROSS 2" A Child’s Question An- swered by a Famous Speciaiist. The mother had one of her ‘“nervous spells” and the little boy had been warned to be very quiet. The restless little fellow moved on tiptoe about the room trying to aiause himself, but al- most every move he made was followed by the querulous cry of the mother, “Willie, don’t make so much noise.” At last in his over anxiety to be quiet, the boy dropped a book on the floor, and his mother’s angry scream of protest drove him to the shelter of his father’s arms. The father laid down his paper and caressed the tearful boy who whispered between his sobs “Papa, what makes mamma S0 cross?’ Papa made no an- swer. - He did not kngw how to angwer. He could only wonder that in a few “WHAT MAKES MAMA years the gay and sprightly girl he had | married had lost all her spirits, had faded in face and fallen off in form, | tion. and had developed an impatience of | temper and an irritability of disposi- | tion which was generally ascribed to | “nerves.” But there was something else that papa did not know. He didnotknow that every such nervous outbreak caused his wife intense mental suffering be- cause of her own weakness. He did not know that even now behind closed fingers that hid her face the mother was weeping because of her own pas- sionate impatience with the chlid she loved. “What makes mamma so cross?’ It is a pitiful question. In it the little child puts his finger right on the most | salient feature in the failure of mar- riage. It is not the case of one wo- man, but the case of thousands. The result is a home unattractive to the husband, and the children's love for the mother adulterated with fear. The husband, tired of tears and scolding, drifts to the village store or the city club to spend his evenings. The poor wife sits and looks up at the motto, which she hung on the wall with a wifely pride in her heart and a wo- manly prayer on her lips—'‘God bless our home.” She feels that the home is cursed instead of blessed. Poor woman! She 1s not to blame for her nervousness and her tears. It is the natural and necessary result of her condition. The finest musician in the world could get nothing but dis- cord out of a harp whose every string was strained to breaking. That's the way it is with the woman. She s lit- erally “all unstrung.” Her nervous system is shattered. All the harmony of the sweet girl nature {s turned to discord. It is a condition peculiar to her sex and common to wifehood. Per- haps this condition began long ago in girlhood with irregularity in one of the important female functions followed maybe Wwith a disagreeable and _de- bilitating drain on the system. Per- haps it is the immediate consequence of the great changes which take place with marriage. Behind such a nerv- ous condition will be found inflamma- tion burning like a fire into the tender tissues, ulceration eating like poison into the organs of generation. There will be irregular periods, and the bear- ing down pains, associated with pro- lapsus, a disagreeable, unnatural and debilitating drain, sapping the life and strength of the evstem. Some or all these are behind that nervous condition 80 painful for the mother, so pitiful for the family. We know that this s so because the treatment of thousands of women similarlv afflicted has proven it to be so. We know just as surely that this condition is curable, because In all the thousands of cases treated only two out of every hundred have failed of complete and perfect cure; and even these two have generally been benefited. This is not a matter of mere statement. It is a matter of record and a matter of evidence. A half a million of wo- men could be put into the witness box to testify that they have been cured of irregularities, ulcerations, inflamma-~ tions and disagreeable drains on the gystem by the use of Dr. Plerce’s Fa« vorite Prescription. The larger part of this vast army of women are in evi- dence over their own signatures report. ing their former sufferings and thelr permanent cure by the “Favorite Pre- scription.” ‘We can only offer here a few such letters. Mrs. Cordelia Henson of Colton, Body County, Ky., writes: “In Octo- ber, 1889, I gave birth to a baby and the treatment I received at the hands of the midwife left me with falling of the uterus. I had no health to speak of for three vears. I had another baby which was the third child. My health began to fail and T had three miscar- riages, so I found myself completely worn out. T had so many pains and aches my life was a burden to me and also to all the family. for T was nervous and cross, and could not sleep. Just after my last miscarriage (In 1896) I was taken with a severe pain in my left side. Had four doctors come to see me, but at last T found I was slowly dying.: The doctors sald I had liver, lung and uterine trouble. I was in bed for months, and when I dld get up I was a sight to behold. T looked like a corpse walking about. T com- menced to take Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. ‘Favorite Prescrip- tion’ and ‘Pellets” ‘and I was soon a well woman. I have suffered all a wo- man could suffer at my monthly«pe- riod until since T began the use of Dr. DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES A around my eyes are going away and I Jeel better in every way. My cheeks are red and my face is white, t:ut be- fore it was as yellow as saffron. “Your medicines have done wonders for me,” writes Mrs. James W. Blacker of 629 Catherine street, Syracuse, N. AY. “For years my health was very poor; I had four miscarriages, but since tak- ing Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med!cal' Dis- covery and ‘Favorite Prescription’ have much better health, and now I have a fine healthy baby. Hundreds of grateful mothers write to give thanks for relief from suffering usually experienced in confinement. Mrs. Carrie B. Donner of Green County, Wis., is only one of the many grateful mothers that thus testify to the efficacy of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. She says: 3 can highly recommend Dr. Fierce's Golden Medical Discovery and also his ‘Favorite Prescription,’ having taken the latter for nine months previous to confinement. I suffered scarcely any compared with what 1 had at other times."” Many grateful letters come from hus- bands who are made glad by the wife’s new health and happiness. years my wife wa jess condition, suffering from female weakness,” writes J. S. Everitt, Esq., of Hagerman, Washington County, Fla. SO CROSS.” “Last September I decided to have | her try Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip- She took several bottles of the medicine and gave birth to a ten- pound son on January 3f, 1868. She is now sound and well and doing her housework.” “My wife was sick for over eight years,” writes Albert H. Fulte, Esq., of Altamount, Grundy County, Tenn. | “She had uterine disease and was treated by two physicians and got no relief. At last I read in one of your Memorandum Books which you sent me about Dr. Pierce’s medicines_and we decided to try his ‘Favorite Prescrip- tion.” I sent to the drug store and got one bottle and the nrst dose gave ease and sleep. She had not slent any for three nights. Being sure that it would cure her I sent for five more bot- | tles, and when she had taken the sixth bottle she was sound and well. We now have a fine boy at our house.” Inflammation is promntlv allayed, ul- cerations healed and the nerve centers strengthened by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It stops unnatural and disagreeable drains on the system, reg- ulates the periods, and, in fact, adjusts the organs peculiarly feminine to har- monious operations in all their func- tions. The real pleasure in life then returns. The form rounds out, the eye brightens, the dragging step of disease glves place to the springing step «f health. A smile, instead of a tear, goes into every stitch going into the tiny garments being made ready for the coming guest—a guest who will receive a glad welcome from a heart rich in maternal love, and a body strong in maternal power, to cherish and nourish its infant life. All this transformation can be wrought in your own house, if you are a sufferer, without expensive consulta- tions, without indelicate questioning or disagreeable examinations and offen- sive local treatments. You can consult Dr. Plerce b letter without cost. This is one of the most generous professional offers ever made. The specialist as a rule multiplies his fees for advice by the vears of his ex- | perience. Dr. Plerce as chief consult- ing physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute of Buffalo, New York, has given thirty years to the spe- cial study of diseases of women. His vast experfence and success make him as a sovereign among specialists. He places all this at your service without charge. You can write without fear and without fee. Every letter is held strictly private and strictly confiden- tial. We want to impress ugon you that this free consultation by letter gives everything that it promises. and is what it purports to be, the offer of an honest medical opinion on.your case and condition given bv a specialist on woman’s diseases, who has in thirty vears treated many thousands of wo- men. Designing men, through alluring and cunningly worded advertisements, con- stantly endeavor to work upon the feel- ings of sick dnd ailing women by invit- ing them “to write to a woman (!) and secure a woman's sympathy.” It is well to remember that the best sympathy is to be had at home and not from strangers, perhaps hundreds of miles distant. The object of the sick Is to get well, and however preclous sympathy may be, it never yet cured a seriously afflicted woman. While the sympathy of your milliner or dressmaker might be appreciated and be just as beneficial, if not more so, than sympathy from a stranger, yet it cannot effect your cure if you are an ailing woman. It is loudly proclaimed through the press that “a woman can best under- stand a woman's ailments,” and on this ground sick women are invited to “‘write to a woman” and get the benefit of a woman's advice. The sort of “un- derstanding of her ailments” wanted by a sick woman is a trained medical un- derstanding. If a woman has this trained medical knowledge she under- stands woman’s ailments not as a wo- man, but as a physician. If she is not a doctor she cannot understand the ail- ments at all, and cannot treat them successfully because she lacks the necessary training. As far as known there is no regul qualified woman physician cori:‘ecfltre]g with any proprietary medicine especial- ly designed for women—no one, there- fore, %\mlldn:id by learning and experi- ence, to advise. on questions of and its cure. e It is certain that there is no one, man or woman, connected with any “put- up” medicine for women excepting only Dr. Plerce’s Favorite Prescription, who, Plerce's medicines, but now I can say | like Dr. Plerce, is a regular graduated 41 have no paln. The dark circles|and qualified physician, and who has, Dayton, | 1| therefore can be as good. For five | s in an almost help- | | like him, devoted more than thirty years | to the special study and treatment of | diseases of women. 2 In the strictest sense “Favorite Pre- | seription” is a temperance medicine. It | contains no alcohol, whisky or other | intoxicants, and is free from opium, | narcotics, syrup or sugar. Without any | of these it preserves its healing virtues in any climate. Al dealers in medicine sell Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. There is no other medicine to compare with it in its remarkable cures. Do not there- fore accept any other medicine in its | piace as ‘just as good.” Nothing is | just as good for you which cannot show |a “just as good” record of cures of | female diseases. No other medicine can | show such a record. No other medicine The “wonder book’” of family medi- cine, is Dr. Plerce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. It focuses on the leading facts of physiology and hygiene the concentrated light of ages of scien- tific research. 1t deals with nature and disease in the light of common sense. In simple language it traces the | of human life from its source. | speaks paternally to the young man and young woman on - those grave | questions that concern each sex. It | speaks with scientific authority to those who contemplate marriage. And with all this there are hints and helps for all the accidents and contin- gencies that can touch the health of the family. This great book contains 1008 pages, and is sent entirely free, on receipt of stamps to defray expense of mailing only. Send twenty-one one- cent stamps for the paper covered edi- tion, or thirty-one stamps for the edi- tion bound in cloth. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buf- | t A resclution to propose to the people of the | State of California an amendment eighteen of article eleven of the Constitu- tion, in relation to revenue and taxation, by which it is proposed to amend sald section to read as follows: Section 15. No county, city, town. township, | t board of education or school district shall in- | cur any indebtedness or liability in any man- | ner or for any purpose exceeding in any year | the Income and revenue provided for it for | such year, without the assent of two-thirds | s of the qualified electors thereof, voting at an | s election to be held for that purpose, nor un- | less before, or at the time of incurring such | o collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay | the interest on such indebtednes due, and also provision to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof on or before maturity, which shall not exceed | forty years from the time of contracting the same; provided, however, that the City and | County of San Francisco may at any time pay | & | the unpaid claims with interest thereon for | materials furnished to and work done for said city and county during the forty-third and | forty-fourth fiscal years, out of the income and revenue of any succeeding year or years: pro-| Vided, that any and all claims for making, re- | pairing, altering or for any work done upon or for any material furnished for any street, lane, alley, court, place or sidewalk, or for the con- | £ Struction of any sewer or sewers in said city |1 | and county are hereby excepted from the pro- | | Vistons of this section; and in determining any claim permitted to be paid by this section, no of “Clatm: 1 hear-and "determine. all clalms of every king and_character agdinst laws as may be passéd its judgment. thereon shall be nal,” The ferms of the Court of Clatms shall be leld as fol. to organize such court, to provide cedure thereof and to carry out rhe “provisic of this section. = consolidated city and county g elected at the same time and same manner as the Go only have a casting vote th, the Governor, inability to dis his_office, State, the powers and dutles of devolve upon the Lieute | residue of the term, or unt | tmpeached, displaced, resizn, capable of performing the du or be absent from the tempore of the which it is proposed to amend sal to_section | read as follows: high and technical schools as may indebtedness, provision shall be made for the | w i as it falls | > State shall commence at twelve o'clock meridian the first Monday after the first day of Janu next succeeding the election of its members, and shall be biennial unle must adjourn to some nor more than sixty d ‘shall have exclusiwé jurisdiction to tlie. State,: under such by the Legtsiature, and lows: 2 S Tn the City of Los -Angeles, . commencing on the second Monday of March: - In the City and :County- of- San. commencing on the seeond: -Mondgy rancisco, in_July, and In the City of Sacramento, commencliz on the second Monday of November. of. each yer. The Judges holding such term of. court.’shail recelve no extra compensation therefor,.- but shall receive their actual expenses,.tc be: | out of the general fund of' the Staté The Legislature shall enact all AMENDMENT NUMBER FOUR.’ (Being Assembly Constitutional Amendnie: No. 37.) 3 Z A resolution to propose to the people.of the State of California an amendment to ‘the Cc stitution of the State, amendirg article eleven, by adding a new section theret as section number five and on said proposed new secti Section 5%. The provisi and five of this article shall not, nor & legislation passed pursuant thereto, apply to any consolidated city and county government, now existing or hereafter formed, which shall have become, or shall become. organized under section seven, or secure a chafter under section eight of this article. AMENDMENT NUMBER FIVE. (Being Assembiy Constitutional Amendment No. 36.) A resclution to propose to the people of ths State of California an ame: ¢ sect fifteen 2nd section sixteen of ar of Constitution of the State of roia, by which it 18 proposed to amend said sections to read as follows: Section 15. A Lieutenant Governor shall bs lace and in the nor, and his term of office and his qualifications shail be the same, He shall be president of the Senate, but shall n. In case of the impeachment of r his removal from office, death, harge the powers and dutles o resignation or absence from the e office shall t Governor for the the disability sha.L And should the Lieutenant Governor be or become in- s of his office, president pro Governor un= rnor shall Section 16, ase. Senate sha il the vacancy in the be filled at th tion when memb, shall be chosen or — until Goor ernor sha b | gifice of Governor for any of: the reasons af 'ATE OF CAL] > amed, and neither the Lieutenant Governor EXBCUTIVE DEPARTM Dor, the president pro e ipeas of the Sanere D shall succeed to the powers apd duties of Gov. WHEREAS, ernor, then the powers and duties of such o California its. thirty-second session beginl- | fice shall devolve upon the spaaker of the A ning on the fourth day of January, A. D. 1897 | sembly. until_ the atfice af Governor shall Ba TWOthirds of all the members elected to each | filied ut such gemeral election. of the two houses of said Legislature voting Sctian in favor thereof, proposed the following de- DMENT NUMBER SIX. scribed amendments to the Constitution of the | (Belng Assembly Constitutional Amendment State of Callfornia, to-wit: 3 No. 28.) = 5 : resolution to propose to the people of the AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE. State of Callfornia an. amendment 0 section (Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No. e nine of the Constit of the Stata 41) alifornia, relating to grammar schools, by Section 6. The public school s lufle primary and grammar schools. evening schools vstem shall in- hools, and such normal schaols established by he Legislature or by municipal or’ district uthority, but the entire revenue derived from e State school fund an: te school tax shall be appiled exclusively 3 primary and gram ammar chools shall include in a chool district, or unfon school districts, having more than one thousand inhabitants. in hich a course of ‘study s be t which prepare pupils to en cultural, x or scientific department of the Univer- ¥ of California. AMENDMENT NUMBER SEVEN. Being Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 34.) A resolution to propose to the people of the of California an amendment to section wo of article four of the Constitution, in rela- on to sessions of the Legisiature. by which it d to amend safd section to read as ions, of the Legislaturs a 7 the Governor shall n the interim convene the Legislature by proc- amation. The Legislature shall then remain n session for twenty-five d after which it : less than thirty the time of ad statute of limitations shall .apply in any man- e her: and provided further, that the City of | journment. If the two bou Valiejo, In Solano County, may pay its exist- | BPOR & TUEE £ B ot oy N T clamation ing Indebtedness incurred In the construction | S¢slon. the Governor sbatl By proclamation. of its Wwater Wworks, whenever two-thirds.of the | fiX & dafe for Such tECOnvering, which shall b | electors thereof voting at an election held for | | that purpose shall so decide. Any indebted- | | Hess or lability incurred contrary to this pro- | visfon, with the exception héreinbefore recited, | shall be vold. AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO. (Belng Senate cunsm\;:}unnx Amendment No. 10. A resolution proposing to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Con- | stitution of the State, by adding a new sec- | { tion, to be known and designated as section | D! their approval, the above-described proposed ame seven and one-half, article eleven thereof, pro- | ‘!\'ldlng for the framing by the inhabitants of | counties of local county government acts for | their own government. The said proposed new section to_read as foliows: | “Section 7. The inhabitants of any county | may frame a county government act for their own government, relating to the matters here- | inafter specified, and consistent with and gub- | Ject to the Constitution and laws of this State, | by causing a board of fifteen freehoiders, who have been, for at least five years, qualified electors of such county, to be elected by the qualified electors of such county, at any gen-| | éral or speclal election, whose duty it shall be within ninety days after such election, to pre- pare and propose a county government act for such county, which shall be signed in dupll- cate by the members of such board, or a ma- | Jority of them, and returned, one copy thereof to the Board of Supervisors or other legisla- tive body of such county, and the other copy to be sent to the Recorder of Deeds of the county. Such proposed county government act | shall then be published in two papers of gen- eral circulation in such county, or if there be ot fwo such papers, then in cne only, for at | | least twenty days, and within not less than thirty days after such publication it ehall be submaitted to the qualified electors of such county, at a general or special election, and if a majority of such qualified electors voting Thereon shall ratify the same, it shall there- after be submitted to the Leglislature for its | Tejection or approval, as a whole, without Pomwer of alteration or amendment, and if ap. ';.mved by a majority of the members elected POy h house, it shall be the county govern- ment act of such county, and shall in such | Tt ecome the organic law thereof and super- fede any existing county government act, and e mendments thereof, and all special laws Bl aoistent with such county government act. e Gopy of such county government act, certi- a8 S the_President of the Board of 'Super- B o¥,r other legislative body of such county, Yha authenticated by the seal of such county, | 20 n% forth the submisslon of such county | Government act to the electors, and its ratifica- fion by them, shall be made in duplicate and o ehted, oné in the office of the Secretary of Ao ee. “the other, after belng recorded in' the Sifce of the Recorder of Deeds in the county, o ag the archives of the county. o %ourts shall take judiclal natice thereof. The county government act so ratified may be The sded, at intervals of not less than two Seare. by proposals therefor, submitted by the Jestslative authority of the' county. to the o iifled electors thereof, at a general or spe- others. Tt shall be competent in all county govern- ment acts framed under the authority given by fthis section, to provide for the manner in Which, the times at which, and the terms for Which' the several township and county officers | other than Judges of the Superior Court, shall | De ‘elected or appointed: for their compensa- tlon: for the number of such officers, for the consolidation or segregation of offices, for the Sumber of deputles that each officer shall have, And for the compensation pavable to each of Such deputles, for the manner in which, the fimes in which, and the terms for which®the memners of all boards of election shall be lected or appointed and for the constitutlon, | regulation, compensation and government of | Such boards, and of their clerks and attaches: also, to prescribe the manner and method by | Which all elections by the people shall be con- | ducted; and may in addition determine the fests and conditions upon which electors, po- litieal” parties and organizations may partjci- pate in any primary election. Whenever any county has, In the manner and method herein pointed out. adopted anv county government act. and the same shall have been approved by the Legislature as Doresald, the dlrectlon of sections four and five of this article providing for the uniformity of a system of county governments throughout fhe State. and likewise providing for the elec- tiom ‘and appointment of officers. and the regu- jation of their compensation. shall not apply. Said gounty government act shall. as to any of the matters heretnabove provided for and de- Clared by such county government act. not be Cubjact fo any law or amendment enacted by fithe Tegislature. except by amendment first Tubmitted to the electors and ratified in the manner hereinabove set forth. AMENDMENT NUMBER THREF. (Betng Senate Constitutional Amendment No. s i A resolution proposing to the people of the State of Calffornia an amendment to the Con- stitution of the State, by adding a new section, to be known and designated as-section five and one-haif, article six. thereby providing for the organization of & Court, to be known as the Court of Claims. The sald proposed new sec- tion to read as follows: Section §%. The Court of Claims hall .con- slst of any three Judges of tha Superfor Court, who may be requested by the Governor to hold | court at the regular terms thereof, The Court 1 assembling the Legislature shall session. No pay shall be allo; for a longer pemod than sevent no bill shall be introduced cept at the first twenty-five da | without the | members_thereof. sio Legislature of the State choice as provided by law Amendment Number One. being Senate Amendment Number Two, being Senate Amendment Number Three, being Sen- Amendment Number Four, Amendment Number Five, Amendment Number Six, being Assem- complete its ed to members five dayx, and ther hc ex- of the sesstor, consent of three-fourths of the NQW, THEREFORE, Pursuant to the provi- of,the Constitution, and an act of the nia, entitled n act to provide for the submlission of. pro- ed amendments to the Conmstitution of the tate of California, to the qualified electors for approved Mar D. 1883, ments are hereby published and advertised to be voted upon, by ballot, by the qualified electors of the | state. at the election to be held throughout this State on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER §, A. D. 1808 The said proposed amendments are to be sep- arately voted upon in manner and form as fol- lows: 5 ch ballot used.at such election must con- tain written or printed thereon the following Words, whereupon the voter may express his Constitutional No. 41 Amendment (exempting City and County of the existing indebt s of the City of Vailejo for the construction of its Water works from the provisions of {he Constitution reqairing such clatms %o be pald from the income and reve- nues of the year in Which they were incurred). For the Amendment? Yes No Constitutional Amendment 0 (providing for framing local county government acts by inhabitants of counties for their government). For the Amendment? ate Constitutional ~Amendment No. 44 (providing for the creation of a Court of Claims to determine claims against the State, and to consist of three Superior Judges designated by the Governor to serve without extra compensation). For the Amendment? belng As- sembly Constitutional Amendment No. 37 (exempting consolidated cities and counties, organizad or to be ar- ganized, or holding a charter wun. der the Constitution, from certain leg- islation in relation to countles). For the Amendment? being As- sembly Constitutional Amendment No. 3 (relating to office of Governor, providing for succession thereto in Gertain cases and removing disability of Lieutenant Governor from holding other office during term). For the Amendment? a fon held at least forty days after the s ;:f;:ueclae:l!on of such proposals for twenty days | bly Constitutional Amendment No. 33| Yes P ewspaper of general circulation in such [ (¢lating to and def ning Grammar{ — county, and ratifled by at least three-fifths of SL‘hnoLt).A i No fhe qualified electors voting thereon, and ap- [ For the Amen % Droved by the Legislature as herein provided | Amendment Number Seven, being As- P the approval of the county government act. | ~ sembly Censtitutional Amendment o eubmitting any such county government act | No. 34 (providing for adjournment of | Yes any alternative article or proposition may be | Legislature for not less than thirty resented for the choice of the voters, and may | nor more than sixty days during cach | ~ No be voted on separately without prejudice to sesston). For the Amendment? Witness my hand and the, Great Seal of the tate of California, the day and ye ok et d year herein IAMES H. BUDD, Gov L. 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