The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 26, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCI CO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1598. SUPERVISOR DEVANY . TO MAYOR PHELAN Some Queries That Are of Interest to Voters. A Few Facts About Gas Rates and Street Paving. Supervisor Lawrence Devany has ad- dressed an open letter to Mayor Phelan which contains some queries and state- ments of fact that are of particular in- terest at the present moment to the voters of San Francisco. The part the Mayor has played in recent events of a public nature is fully dealt with and place Mr. Phelan in an en- light as a public official ny has taken the public into his confidence in this matter and it is to be hoped the Mayor, in his reply, | will be equally as generous, as the sub- | ject matter of the communication deals with matters that are of peculiar in- terest to the voters of this city. The letter follows: SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25, 1898. Hon. J. D. Phelan—8ir: In reading some of your speeches I observe you have other “‘meritorious pavements” are ex- cluded from the street specifications. The specifications now are the same as when this board took office, and if the other “‘meritorious pavements” are not includ- ed in the specifications it Is because the champlons of these particular pavements did not have faith enough in their lasting qualities to accept the offer of the Street Committee to put down experi- mental blocks at their own expense. You evidently have been more successful than the board in succeeding in having an ex- perimental block of wooden pavement laid. The public is too famil! ure of wooden block pav a fallure which has co: thousands upon thousand hazard any more experim It might be well to pavements a are the There 1s preparat Aspt bituminous s r with the fail- - taxpayers of dollars—to ts in this line. that asphalt rock pave- ate yus —after they are , however, in . the pavement is mixed, where- 1 rock is lald on the state that it comes In your speech eeping the the as street in from the hand of “with reference to you Streets clean, I believe you pledged your ok carefully after that. been carefully looked streets have been during the last two ht have added, if you rten the convention, that, nade many statements which go far to | ¢ * * with truth was no made through the formality of an intr duett ong other things which I will to on directly in your speech before the Nor P 1 convention you s D on every square issue d the interests of the peop people.” Will Yy vote recorded agai: f Supervisors which wa Don't interests of the people? dulge in glittering generalities, but name vote—the record is open. You als “Mr. Devany was pointment to his frien ng at this, for v nce—who you think ed with one doilar for vou might be able to as- ch of a disappointment I Or you might try this wheelmen, reminding that through their t 1 received the largest Supervisor. Ask them if treets and the reet” has been car- ) suit them, and to whom they t for this work. = still coquetting with the spite of the kindly ad- e Court gave you in that | you must have | e the arduous touch on the If there had ought to be L day's wage . You also scandal.” entire board advertised y bid—that of d Electric th The contract You vote of the board. to you for your approval. held the contract the full legal length of time, re- turning it to the board without Yy You gave as your re consequence of the boara r Mutual E ¢ Company perm t poles and wires that this was prevented from bidding. You omitted the board had refused the to the Bay State Electric the Market Street Rall- the Spring Valley Water Union Telegraph 3 aving Station and all other applicants, for the reason, with 1 you singularly coincided, that the ed to the further erection s. granted the petition of the Mutual Electric Company there were a dozen concerns having power to spare ady to ask the board for the same priv- ge. 1 will let it rest with the pub- whether the board acted unwisely in refusing to permit the erection of any more poles and wires. You state, when- ever you get an opportunity, that the| Mutual Company promised a saving of | $40,000 on the lighting contract, but fail to state that the charge for lighting this | y year is about 10 per cent I than the price last year, an actual, not a promised, | saving of nearly, if not quite, $40,000. Your advice to the board to reject all bids and await the decision of the Su- plerior Court in the case of the Mutual Electric Company against the Board ot Supervisors would have plunged the city in darkness had it been followed, as the board has no power to purchase light ex- cept by inviting bids. Throwing the city in darkn might have suited the pur- poses of your campaign, but I doubt if the people generally would approve of such action. 1 observe that you are very solicitous about the welfare of the Mu- tual Electric Company, ignoring the fact that there are other companies entitled to as much consideration as the Mutual Company. But. perhaps they are not as close up to you. But your latest veto affecting the pay- ment to the Gas and Electric Light Com- pany for payment of its bill under this contract is unique for the reasons given therein. You claim that Supervisor Rot- tanzi has no vote in the Council for the reason that he hoids a Federal position, which is incompatible with the municipal office to which he s elected. That Su- pervisor Rottanzi was unwise enough— you would argue—to offer his services to his country in time of need he should, for that son, be excluded from the enjoymgent of the honors conferred upon him by his fellow citizens. It all our citizens were imbued with the intense Americanism which you seem to possess tia 1d glorious ending the war would for Spain. t take up the question of the of Market street—for which you full credit. It has been stated ress quite recently that scientists succeeded in liquifying air, and that roduct is extremely powerful, and if not pr andled very dangerous. In reading the thought struck me that your un 3 aralleled success in manipulat- ing Boards of Supervisors and nominat- ing conventions might have been Instru- mental in causing the same startling ef- fect on your gall. With the possession of a liquified gall it is easily conceivable how you can lay claim to the credit of having paved Market street, or of hav- ing accomplished anything during your business administration to which you, or any one else, can “point with pride.” You know you can truthfully tell the public that you had nothing to do with this work—did not encourage it—in fact, quietly opposed the use of California bi- tuminous rock in favor of the wooden block pavement, which has proved an ut- ter, and to the taxpayer, an expensive, e that whatever acquaintance | exception of the writer, the Non-Partisan party vot- proposition for the reets; the repaving of Mar- and the award of contracts for he repair of bituminous rock streets— contract effecting a saving of m housands of dollars to the city, nd being the first systematic attempt at iring the bituminous rock streets yet ‘It is understood that there is a com- bination in the Board of Supervisors in the interest of that particular pavement (bituminous rock), and that all other pavements, no matter how meritorious, including California asphalt pavements, are excluded. This California asphalt was offered when Market street was about to be paved at a price very little greater than that asked for bitumen.” For the information of your convention I submit the figures which, in the hurry and bustle of the moment, I presume you omitted: City Street Improvement Company, bituminous rock, $15,000. Alcatraz a1t Paving Company, asphalt, % A difference of $11,241 30, or nearly 75 per cent in favor of bituminous rock. It is rather fortunate for the city that an un- derstanding did not exist in the board in favor of asphalt pavements. “I have had some definite information upon the subject of this understanding in the board, but it is of such a character that I cannof state as facts what I have learned.” for for 1 would suggest that your public ut- terances during this campaign scarcely justifies the public in expecting you to state facts. “I do not know what else I can tell you that has occurred during the adminis- tration that will be of interest, except the matter of unseating the Board of Super- visors. As to that, I think the chairman of your c ntion knows even more about it n I do not wonder at your endeavoring to drag in the rman of the conven- tion or anyt to share with you the that disgraceful affair. The de . part you took in that matter is of public record, so need not be dwel furtk I can fully under- stand your prote Supreme Court ir this case and am pained to observe the obtuseness of the press and people on your position in this matter. If the pub- lic will go back to the perfod of the dis- cussion of the “water question” it will remember t grounds in b you took very decldea vising the board that so estigation was commenced ht be prolonged to This opinfon of yours > been concurred in by the “ourt, and it is only human na- ture to expect that you should be eager to have your opinion finaily confirmed by the highest tribunal of .ie State. I think, however, you were injudicious in calling on the court In so public a man- ner. Had you telephoned the court with a polite but firm request—mentioning your name of course—to ‘“rush” the de- cision, there is no question in my mind that you would have met with equal if not greater success than you did by ndlot appea spmewhat disappointed at the ac- count you gave of your ‘stewardship’ to the Democratis nominating convention. I really thought your Heftiness would de- scend from the lofty perch you occupied while addressing the Non-Partisen party, but you maintained the same dizzy alti- tude before the Democratic convention. I thought, for instance, that instead of abusing every official, both elected and appointed, you might have entertained the convention with what you yourself had done during the term of your busi- ness administration. You might have dis- pelled the tradition which still lingers in the Tax Collector's office of that visit of yours, and of the embarrassment which followed when you discovered that you had wandered into a strange place and of your subsequent apologies for your intrusion. You could have stated the re- sults of your xisits to the various insti- tions over which you are supposed to extend your watchful care—for instance the engine houses, jails and quasi public institutions. When the Finance Commit- tee of the Board of Supervisors last pald a visit to the public institutions it was pleased to observe that although you had not up to that time paid them a visit, yet with rare thoughtfulness you sent your portrait to one of the reformatories for the adornment of the reception room. ‘While the sending of the portrait might not conform to the letter of the law, which requires your personal investiga- tion of all public and quasi public insti- tutions, still I do not think there are any who are so censorious as to find fault with your action in this particular in- stance. You failed to make any mention of the guessing contest you so successfully car- ried out in the Treasurer's office, your guess, though $118,000 short, was by far the closest of any submitted. The “Weekly Satellite” (the number contain- ing your portrait), in its able editorial de- nouncing as maliclous and false the charge that in the contest you endeavored to “See and Count,” instead of “heft” as the conditions required, does you full jus- tice, when it further says: “That such charges could only emanate from the de- based brain of some driveling editor who has some two-bit contest of his own. We have known Mr. Phelan since we were boys; have played marbles with him and we state without fear of successful con- tradiction that any one who says he would take an unfair advantage of any one is misinformed wrong.” That you have won the prize is admitted by every one and it now only remains for the ref- eree, the venerable Deacon Fitch, to pre- sent you to His Honor Judge Wallace to fallure. You complain that asphalt and recetve it. That the Supreme Court will deprive you of it, T think you need not have the slightest fear, as you won fairly | and squarely. I see you are trying to oil up the Sun- set District people after having vetoed the bill for engineer's fees for the sewer— thus preventing its construction. You re- member you vetoed this bill on the ground that the charge was excessive. This was several months ago. But when a delega- tion from the Sunset Club came to you a short time since you promised not to veto the bill, but would let it become a law without your signature. You kept your word all right, but what puzzles me is this: If the bill was excessive and ex- orbitant a few months ago why should it not be just as excessive and exorbitant now. Surely it cannot be because the elections are close at hand and that there are some votes in the Sunset District. 1 observe that some of the papers take exception to your wearing a ‘plug” hat. 1 don't see where there can be any ob- jection to this practice, as it is the cus- tom with all club men. There is nothing snobbish in this. It is not as if you parted your name in the middle. For instance you might some of these days be signing yourself J. Dennis Phelan—and even to this I suppose you will find a few foolish objectors. Yours, etc., LAWRENCE DEV. —_———— PHELAN AT NORTH BEACH. Democratic Candidates Address a Meeting in the Forty-Fourth Assembly District. The Democrats of the Forty-fourth As- sembly District met in Bersaglieri Hall last night. The chief speakers of the evening were Mayor Phelan, Bert Schles- inger, Franklin K. Lane and Barclay Henley. Unfortunately for Mr. Phelan he was late in arriving, and as Barclay Henley had just had the platform the hall was pretty well emptied. Dr. Wash- ington Dodge had intended making Na speech, but when he arrived and found Henley talking he started out in search of another meeting, remarking that he did not care to talk to empty chalrs. Mr. Schlesinger was the first speaker. He started with James G. Maguire and went right through the ticket. While | he had good words for all the Democratic candidates, he had nothing to say against those on the Republican ticket, except that they were untried. He did harp for | a time on the monopoly string, but could find no possible way of connecting the names of the Republican nominees with any of the corporation Richard P. Doo- lan was then presented and promised that the streets of rth Beach would be his particular care. Franklin K. Lane took the platform and almost wept a he spoke of the terrible calamities | which would fall upon the city if the Republican candidates were elected and, incidentally, promised a revolution in the City Hall should hé be chosen as City and County Attorney. He could not see how those untried and terrible Repub- | lican standard bearers could ever be elected. To a rapidly diminishing audience Bar- clay Henley then.began to tell of the| unquestioned honesty of every Democrat | on the ticket, and said that Phelan’s de- feat would be proof that man’s capacity for self-government is a failure. Mayor Phelan finally arrived and was given a hearty welcome by a crowd of small boys equipped with fish horns and police whistles, who had monopolized one corner of the gallery. His speech was the same old story. He held up his re. cord during the past two years as some- | thing beyond reproach and threatened | the downfall of the gas and water com- | anies if re-elec! He also placed him. f on record as being the best friend the poor workingman ever had. Short speeches were made by Dr. Le- | land, Jeremiah Deasy, Finlay Cook, T. ’Hur:nf'l, Rhodes Borden and Lewis F. By- ngton. NY. —_———— Addressed the Sailors. Democrats held a mass meeting at Sailors’ Union Hall, at East and Mission streets, last night. There was a fair| attendance and a number of municipal | candidates were on the platform. Mayor Phelan addressed his remarks principal- | Iy to the sailors, and claimed that the | success of the party would mean the growth of an immense commercial trade | for the port of San Francisco. He again | referred to the newspapers as doing him | serious wrong, and urged that it was | necessary for him to appear before the | people to counteract their injurious | statements. | Washington Dodge, candidate for As-| sessor, told the sailors how he would | heap taxation upon the corporations and | lessen their burdens. He was followead | by B. L. Fitzgerald, Rhodes Borden, | James N. Block, John A. Brown, Willlam | M. Hinton, John P. Dunn, Judge Conlan, | Lawrence Hoey, H. B. Andrews, Bernard | Bienenfield, Frank J. Murasky, L. F. By- | ington, F. K. Lane, E. P. Mogan ard T. F. Bonnet. ————e—————— Edward Holland Club. Saturday night the Edward Holland Re- publican Club was formed in the parlors of the Commercial Hotel. The meeting was called to order by Harry Lewis, act- ing as chairman. Following are the names of the officers selected: President, Gabriel Jacobs; secretary, H. Marks; treasurer, R. 1. 'Wren; sergeant at arms, F. Sellinger. Edward Holland, nomines for Supervisor, First Ward, on the Re- publican, Non-Partisan and 'Citizen's Re- publican tickets, spoke briefly, alluding to the coming election as a most important one. —_— e Colored Republicans. The Forty-third Assembly District Col- ored Republican Club held a meeting at 11 Stockton street Monday night. After the usual business was transacted the club adjourned to attend the meeting of the Afro-American League. The league was addressed by the Hon. Charles L. Patton and John Neamoore of Los An- geles. ———————————— Julius Kahn Club. The Julius Kahn Republican Club of the Thirty-first district met Monday night at Tierney's Hall. About sixty new mem- bers signed the roll. Thomas Graham, | William A. Deane, M. L. Tierney and Ed | Holland addressed the meeting, and re- | cefved a rousing reception. The club de- cided to attend the Gage and Neff parade in a body. e ee——— Meeting of Republicans. The Twenty-third Assembly District Republican Club will hold a meeting on Thursday evening at Potrero Opera House. Charles L. Patton and other canc didates will make addresses. It is ex- pected that the meeting will be the larg- est ever held in the district. Judge Louderback. As the election campaign progresses interest in the selection of Superior Judges increases. There are four to be elected. Among the various candidates Judge Louderback is eminently fitted to occupy the Superior Court bench. He was Police Judge some years ago, but voluntarily retired from the position. He made one of the best Police Judges that San Francisco ever had, and his record was pure and honorable. TUn- der his administration life and prop- erty were protected and crime and vice suppressed. His public, private and professional life and character have been pure and excellent. There are various reasons why Judge Davis Lou- derback should be elected. He is a foe to vice and crime and the low and vile are combining against him. He will not be owned nor controlled by corporations nor monopolies, but will decide all matters according to the right of the case. He is the candidate of the People who want to place the courts beyond the power of corpora- tions, politicians and ringsters. —_—————————— Secretary of Agriculture Wilson writes about The Coming Wheat Crop, in next Sunday’s Call. J fififififlfifififlflfififlfififififlfifiaflflfifififlfifififlfifififififififiififlfiflfi PATTON MAKES MORE SPEECHES T0 WORKINGMEN Another Big Meeting on the South Side. SHORT PARLEYS IN ORDER NEW CHARTER AND PUBLIC UTILITIES THE THEME. All of the Republican Municipal Can- didates Gather at a Rally at Twenty-Seventh and Ala- bama Streets. e There was another booming Republi- can meeting on the “sunny side” of Market street last evening, to which over 300 of the men employed at the dif- | ferent car shops and factories in that district turned out to hear the Republi- can nominees on principles and pledges. The meeting took place at a hall on the corner of Twenty-seventh and Ala- | bama streets, and though the quarters | were too crowded for comfort, there was no dearth of enthusiasm. All of the prominent candidates and able speakers of the party were on hand, and though the speeches were for the most part of no great length they were well received and went farther in the way of influence than would have the same number of lengthier ad- dresses. | Charles L. Patton spoke to his hear- | ers of the possibilities that would ex- ist under the new charter. Public own- ership of public utilities, he said, would | be not only a possibility but a proba- bility. The gas and water and the street car companies to which this city under present conditions pays such large tribute could, under the provis- ions of the new charter, be forced to content themselves with four or five per cent of profit rather than the enor- mous rate that they demand to-day. Gradually, he said, the city and the people would come to the possession of these utilities themselves. “You have elected to live under that charter,” said Mr. Patton, “and no man or set of men have the right to say that you shall not. If I am elected I shall certainly see to it to the extent that I can that no man or set of men does deprive us of that right.” Mr. Patton also | stated that he is confident that this city can be run at an expense that will not exceed a rate of $1 on every hundred of the assessed valuation of $350,000,000, and he proposed to conduct municipal business on the same careful and eco- nomical lines that he would a businéss of his own. D. J. Murphy, who is out against the Mexican “Sword of Damocles” for Dis- trict Attorney, spoke in his usual stir- ring manner and was frequently inter- rupted by the hearty applause of his hearers. He spoke not only in his own behalf but as well for his fellows on the ticket. He referred to his record on the bench in this county and his twenty- four years in public life and defied any of his opponents to bring aught against him that had not been honest and above board. Henry Martin ambled in with a smile for self and Kahn, “who could not be there,” and said that he had not come to make a speech but to get better ac- quainted. After proposing three cheers for him, which were liberally bestowed, Justice of the Peace Barry partly filled the space he had occupied, and in one of his graceful speeches explained his theories of justice, and ~ave an earnest pledee of fealtv to the constitution and }he people whose suffrages he is seek- ng. 1. J. Truman was introduced. and said that if elected, one of his first official acts would be to abolish the “hefting” practice now in vogue in the Treas- urer’'s office. He sald that his friend, Asa Wells, “who will be the next Audi- tor,” will have the duty of counting the cash that will come under the care of the Treasurer, and he thought that with him and Mr. Patton to supervise the proceeding the people could be reason- ably sure of eventually getting their share at least of the public funds. Willlam A. Deane did not need either introduction or exposition. He was greeted with hearty cheers and after a few words was allowed to go on to the next meeting. Thomas F. Graham Judge Low, Judge Joachimsen and A. B. Treadwell. Who are listed for Police Judges, were introduced, and acknowledging judicial dignity, said only enough to assure their hearers that their principles were right. Coroner Hawkins spoke for only a minute. He said that he thought his administration had been indorsed by his renomination to the office that he has filled during the past two vears, and he merely wished to renew the promises that he had made during the preceding campaign. ‘W. H. Cobb, who is out for the As- sembly from the Thirty-fifth District, delivered one of the best speeches of the evening. He drew attention to the unusual economic conditions that exist | in this country and the success of the | Republican administration in coping | with them. He argued for a Congress | and a Senate that would uphold the President in his future plans and indose M his past action, and he pointed out the necessity of electing ftate legislators who were of the same sympathy and | politics. Nearly all of the candidates were heard and given the heartiest applause before the meeting was adjourned. POLL TAX AS AN ISSUE IN THE CAMPAIG Collector Talks of His Experience. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 908 Broadway, Oct. 25. The poll tax has been brought into the present campaign by the independent can- didate for the Assembly, William J. Schmidt, who pledges himself to intro- duce a bill into the Legislature to stop the collection of poll tax. There is not | much chance for Mr. Schmidt's election, | as the Republican nominee, A. A. Mc- Keon is making a winning fight, but the poll tax matter is receiving much atten- | tion. John A. Foster, who has made a record on a poll tax collector, published the fol- lowing statement this evening: Having read with a great deal of attention and interest the different articles published on the poll tax question, and noting that corre- spondents are either unable or unwilling to give the real reason why the tax is so un- popular, I thought 1 would give my experience | poll ‘tax collector four years ago. When 1| was appointed by Henry Dalton as poll tax collector in March, 1884, I told him if he wanted his personal or political friends spared to appoint some other man, as if he appointed me 1 would know neither {riend nor foe in the | matter. His answer was: “That is the kind of man I want; one that will do his whole | aty | 1 started in to collect the tax. I found that | the office-holders, county and city, almost to | a man, refused to pay. They stated to me that | they had always been exempt and did not pro- pose to pay anyway. I started in and attached the salaries of the officials of the Police, Fire | [of und Street departments in the city, a Judge | of the Superior Court and several county offi- clals, and finally brought them all to time. | That is one reason why the tax is so unjust and unpopular. Why should the poor sewer digger be forced to pay and the high-salaried official g0 free? One president of a bank in | Oakland refused to pay until I threatened to | seize the furniture of the bank for his poll tax. An ex-Judge of this county, who sat on the bench many years, informed me that he | had never even been asked for his poll tax | in all the years he had been in Oakland. I | doubt very much wiether you could find a me- chanic or laboring man in this city who would say the same. | 1 believe that If the tax was collected fairly | from’ every man who was able to pay, without | @ respect to his position in soclety or his political affiliations, you would hear very little com- plaint against the tax. The object of the tax i#8 a good one, as it goes to the maintenance of our. public schools, less, of course, the 15 per cent commission for collecting. And let me say right here, the abuse the poll tax col- lector receives fis ce{»l the position in for twice the salary. n conclusion let me say 15 enforced in nearly is a curse to the poor man, as he and he alone is made to pay it. 1924 Filbert street. There is some dissatisfaction over the manner in which the party designations | of the different candidates appear on the | officlal ballot. In each instance the fu- sionists are first classified as “People's arty,” then “Democrats” and so on. The emocrats have made some objection to this and claim that their party name should take precedence. This view of the matter does not suit the Populists, who do not see why they are not as deserving of prominence as the Democrats. A delega- tion of candidates visited the County Clerk’s office and asked to have the or- der changed, and it is possible that the alphabetical rule will prevail. his evening there was a united rally of the Young Men's Republican Club and the regular Seventh Ward Republican Club at Castle Hall. The attendance was very large. 2 Ex-Assemblyman Bretz is constantly in receipt of letters from all parts of the State stating that the straight Populists intend to vote for Gage, as by killing the fusion candidates off the foundation for some permanent reforms may oe laid. Big Republican Meeting. The regular weekly meeting of the Fortieth Assembly District Republican Club will be held at the club’s hall, south- | west corner of Post and Fillmore streets, at 8 o'clock this evening. Most of those prominent on the Republican municipal ticket will be present to tell the truth, as they see it, and to meet the voters of the district on their own ground. 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(DAZAAD S el R e veiling TuXeto and Maline nets,| 2 oz. Colgate’s (chemically pure) chenille and soufle dotted o | glycerine c and plain, strong value in | 2 oz Hudnut's camphorated brown, navy and Cream........ yard| ° chalk tooth powder. Y | 2ix21 inch chamois skin .50 | 2 oz bottle superior sewing ma- % dosen ladles 8- | onne ol - 3 25 - | kid gloves butt. 9,‘\;gde and | gar;«.t:gaus:me :l:u:;g S 10¢c loves, size 5% only, | Bociety tints wi ; CLoi b bk i S0C | 5%ceks Daper, 2 envelopes, hel- only—to be offered to-day.... pair| lotrope, azure, cream, pink..... 15c Frisca's busy sie—987 to 947 Market St.—oppusite Nason meet me there! |pprococOO000OO000G e PALACE ‘.fl’: SGRAND HOTELS 3 o SAN FRARCISCO. Connected by a covered passageway. q 0 1400 Rooms—900 With Bath Attached. Under One Management. KOTE TEE PRIOES: Europcan Plan.$1. American Plan. .4 per. Correspondence Solicited. JOEN C. KIRKPATRIOK, Manager. Qo0cooc0cCccoo0000Q D { FELDS H’gilgg‘r.fl’n 7z FOR SHIRTS, UNDER'% WEAR. and MEN'S and BOYS CLOTHING. (<] ° [ 4 o e ‘FROTOGRAPTED offer exceedingly low We prices and a large, fine stock Special values this week: X v d P ‘Wool Under- Royal Derby Ribbe ure 5020 n wear, worth regularly this week, per garment | 15tDay. £ 10th Day. YITALIS,, o™ ABOYVE 30th Day. RESULTS. Itquickly & surely removes Nervousne | Kightly Emissions, Evil Dreams Wasting Diseases and of self-abuse or excess and indiscretion. Restores Lost Vitality, Im) iy, | effects Excellent values in flnet Natural Fleece | fia"rc.:u i x.:emzy.b:n? Insanity and Consum : 3 en jon. Cures when all others fail. Insist on hating VIT: ‘Underwear per garm e e b R e e A o A T | per puckage or six for 85.00 with a guarantee to Curs or efund the Money. Circular Free. Address CALUMET CURE CO., 834 Dearborn St., Chleage® Sold by Owl Drug Co.. S. F., and Oakland. Baja California DAMIANA BITTERS I ‘s powertul aphrodisine and specific tonia 50— B | for the sexual and urinary organs o t HAGELHIE ek .. Fo%es and a great remedy for diseases of the RSN ESNENCEREN | kicreys and bladder. A great | Invigorator and Nervine. Sel | Merits; no long-winded testimonials necessary, ALFS & Weekly Call,$1.50 per Year | BRUNE, Agents Boys' nobby Top Coats, tan and dark bl"’own. an established value at $3 50 $5—this week. sersesnane ¢ Boys’ Three-Piece Suits, the best suits offered for ever the mon- ey, ... Men's English Covert Cloth Overcoats that have been selling for $7 45 ER, 223 Market street, S. F.—(Send for Circular.) S A card engraver and designer who lives in Brooklyn, sayst ®1 work steadily all day in a downtown office in New Yorl. Often when I get through at night, I am tired and faint at my stomach. I suppose my stomach is tired too. Anyway I feel hungry and I am apt to eat too much supper, and the conse- quence is I frequently used to6 have a bad stomach all night and a head on me the next morning. that if I take a RIPANS TABULE . after my supper, it digests all rightt Whenever my stomach has ‘extra work to do, the Tabule takes hold and helps like. But I have lately found,