The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 2, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1901 THURSDAY...........covsessneesee . MAY 2, 1901 JOH;J D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. " Address ALl Communications ta W. 8. LEAKE, Menager. Telephone Press 204 OFFICE. . .Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press Delivered hy Carriers. 15 Centn Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postage: “@ TLY CALL dncluding Sunday), one ycar. rlILY CALL (including Sunday), § month: ILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 month: DAILY CALL—By Single Month. WEEKLY Sgki: ters are subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Matl subscribers in crdering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chiosgo. (Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619.") 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Alcazar—*“The Congquerors. Grand Opers-house—"Mr. Barnes of New York. Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—S pecialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeviile. Recreation Park—Baseball. Bmeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. = 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. ©Call subscribers contemplating a change of | residence during the summer months can have | their paper forwarded by mail te their new mddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer Fesorts and is represented by a local agent inm all towns on the coast. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. ht be warranted in concluding that there is an element of prejudice in the advo- cates of municipal ownership of public ser- vice industries. The miain argument for municipal ownership of a water supply is its greater cheapness to the ratepayer. To stimulate inquiry and convey some information that seemed to be nceded we called attention to the power of a municipality to compel the purification of a corporate water supply so as to render it fit and safe for potable use at all times, and showed that in the case of five of our largest cities which own their water works the supply is non- potable and so dangercus that the ratepayers pe- riodically resort to other sources, at considerable ex- pense, for their supply «f drinking water. Of course such a condition means that the usual inadequacy of public administration of purely business affairs is pro- jected into the administration of a water supply. The pcople, who are the municipality, are quick to use their power to compel a private corporation to spend 2ll the money necessary to purify its water supply. But the representatives of the people, their Mayor and Council, mindful of the advantage to a politician of a record for economy, are slow to impose taxes for the purification of a municipal water supply. How slow, or how inefficient, let the long. experience of Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and other cities testify. Now all this seems tc us a most reasonable state- ment of facts that are within the knowledge of all in- telligent observers, but liere comes the Oakland En- quirer saying: “The San Francisco Call, which has been arguing that municipal water supplies are unwholesome, be- cause people do not hold city governments up to the same standard which they exact of private corpora- tions, is respectfully invited to consider the case of New Haven, which is the latest one to attract gen- eral attention. New Haven is one of the few remain- ing cities of its class which does not own its water works, and on account of the impure water supplied by a corporation there has just been a very serious epidemic of typhoid fever. Four hundred cases %f the disease have been reported, and the manner in which the germs found their way into the pipes has beer. established. The pretense that private water sup- piies are better than public ones is preposterous.” The condition of vhe water of New Haven, being as bad as that of some cities under municipal owner- ship, will not wait as long for correction because the people of New Haven can compel the corporation owning the supply to purify it without waiting to overcome the inertia cf government. The mere fact of ownership does not mzke water-good nor bad, nor do we know of any ore who pretends that it does. Bue the fact remains that the power to.compel a cor- porate supply to be made good is everywhere stronger than the power to purify a municipal supply. The brightest minds enlisted on the side of municipal ownership freely concede this and declare that such ownership must uplift 2nd reform municipal govern- ment throughout, or it will be a dangerous experi- ment. We are not aware that such ownership and the uplifting and refinement of municipal government have been in active partnership in Chicago, Philadel- phia, New York or even Boston. An individual is often made a better m3n and stronger by increasing his responsibilities, but we are not sure that it is so ith government. Perbaps that is why all students of the science of governirent agree that the fewer the things trusted to government $o do the better for the governed. 7 S ————— Russia claims that in seizing Manchuria she has no cther object than that of providing a bulwark against the possibility of a yellow invasion of Europe, but to 2n observer from this distance it looks more like opening a way by which the Chinaman can move westward over the Russian railways and get into Europe with comparatively little trouble. USE FOR BRYAN AND ALTGELD. OME of the greatest discoveries in physics and S mechanics have been made by accident. Sir Isaac Newton never thought of the law of gravity until am apple fell on his head and hurt im, and set him wondering why things do not fall up instead of down. A bey who wanted to go fishing covered the automatic cut-off in a steam engine by tyirg on a string to move the valves which he was hired to move by hand. He dug some worms and went to the creek and Watt’s invention was perfected. The Democratic party has by accident discovered a uce for Bryan and Altgeld. It is an accident, but may do more for that sick and sore party than all the medi- cine prescribed by its best political physicians. These two leaders have been a problem. Indeed it will not be exceeding the facts to say that they have been an affiiction. They have mzde the party acquainted with giief, but the acquaintanice has not ripened into friend- ship. They have inoculated it with every political virus in the country. When *hey brought it near death’scele- brated door they sought to revive it with transfusion of blood from Populism. But that operation carried into its veins scorbutic taints that were worse than the diseases intended to be cured by the operation. Every time they held consultation the patient mcaned and moved uneasily on its cot, but was pow- erless to refuse whatever dose they mixed, be it poke 1oot or black drop. At last by accident their .real wtility to the party has been discovered. The only way in which they can do it any good has been re- vealed. The two hotly contested city elections of tl'te year were in Chicago and St Louis, where Harrison and Wells were the regular Democratic nominees for the office of Mayor. Wells was a Gold Democrat who voted for McKinley in 1806 and last year. Harrison was not identified with the Gold Democracy, but re- fused to worship with all his heart at the shrine of the divine ratio of 16 to 1. Bryan at once went into the St. Louis campaign against Wells and refused to go into the Chicago campaign for Harrison, where Altgeld, representinz both Bryan and himself, openly took the field against the regular nominee. Mr. Bryan's justly esteemed weekly organ, the Commoner, jumped on Wells with all its type, sheepshank, mallet and other printing office appliances. It reviled and rib-roasted him, and sought to make him resemble thirty cents. It roorbacked and took fzll after fall out of him, in the most approved style. Mr. Bryan sat up nights to concoct editorial denun- ciation of him, and chewed the silver tongue ‘which has enchanted millions. Meantime Altgeld took the stump against Harrison and opened against him that celebrated cave Of: the winds which has supplied the stiff breeze that has bel- lied the party sails in many a campaign. To say that the two icaders handled red-hot pokers fog the two candidates is not to say it all. They boasted that they would make them pay for heating the pokers. Result: tice to the Republicans of the two cities it must be said that they could not help it. There is no way by which either a candidate or a party can refuse and drive off support, so they had to stand and take their We are sorry for them, but they are not | to blame. They should be happy that this thing did | not happen earlier. I Bryan had been beaten at Kunsas City and he and Altgeld had opposed the nominee of that convention one shudders to think what might have happened to President McKinley. At last these two political banshees have found their | place. They can serve their party only by opposing | it, and can hurt the opposition only by stipporting it. medicine. intends to stay in politics all his life, the Republican new microbe threatens to get into its blood and body. | It must study germicides and stop the peril right A BOOM FOR OLNEY. HILL of New York and Johnson of Ohio are great Democratic race for the Presidential nomination. In Massachusetts a movement has sunguine men in Boston who believe that, despite the advanced age of their favorite, he can beat the other According to his friends Mr. Olney is by all odds the strongest Democrat ir sight. Among the points tion in favor of tariff reform and sound money, his support of Bryan during the last campaign on the which he conducted the foreign affairs of the Gov- ernment when holding the office of Secretary of Stata. bring back to the party ranks all the conservatives who bolted the Chicago platform, that his later sup- that his summary action in bringing Great Britain o consent to arbitrate the Venezuelan controversy will himself now as a candidate popular sentiment in ‘his favor will grow so fasi that by the time the Presi- delegates to do but to ratify the choice of the people and nominate Olney by acclamation. but it is safe to say if the boom ever gets well started George Fred Williams, who has attained something der the Bryan regime, will proceed’ to dissipate it. Williams can have no Presidential aspirations for cf the party ifi his State, and he is not going to sit around idle and let the conservative reorganizers get the wreck of last year. 1n the meantime Bryan himself is not watching the lias indeed announced that he is not a candidate {or renomination, but the announcement was made in a more of bitterness than of sweet repose. In a re- cent number of the Commoner he said: “The reor- than they are about the platform. In view of the fact that they suffered a crushing defeat the last time they than 40 per cent of th: votes in St. Louis at the re- cent city election, it might be well for them to con- He says that, if winning is the only thing to be con- | sidered, our party might make victory certain by in- 1f principles are immaterial, this plan ought to be ac- ceptable to the so-called ‘conservative’ element. It ‘excitement’ which the ‘business interests’ . com- plain of.” | party needs to seriously study the situation. This where it is. not to have the track to themselves in the been started to get a piace for Olney, and there are two and win out in the national convention. they cite as evidences of his availability are his posi- so-called issue of imperialism, and the ability with It is asserted his recovd on the money question will port of Bryan will win the radicals and Populists, and rally to him all the jingoes; so that if he will announce dential convention meets there will be nothing for the A claim of that kind looks fairly well on paper, like a dictatorship of Massachusetts’ Democracy un- himself, but has a hearty desire to continue boss control of everything that is left of the mac»hine after fight with any considerable amount of philosophy. He mznner which implies that retirement means for him ganizers seem to be more concerned about winning controlled a Congressional campaign and secured less sider the suggestion made by a Baltimore Democrat. dorsing the Republican ticket in the next campaign. would also have been advantageous in avoiding the i It will be seen there is danger ahead for the Olney Harrison and Wells both elected. In jus- | Remembering Mr. Bryan's campaign threat that he | boom. So long as it remains a merely speculative suggestion the factions will not oppose it to any great extent, but if it be once started as an earnest move- ment there will be no lack of Bryanite guerrillas to tear up the track ahead and ditch it before it gets out of Massachusetts. 3 VOICES OF CONSOLATION. UR Eastern ' contemporaries are just now O showing to the world'one of the sweetest uses of gentle journalism. Like ministering mothers ~ they come to their readers morning zfter morning with words of comfort and cheer to | brighten as far as possible the gloom of dreary days | of rain. It appears the situation is serious. For weeks the residents of the country on the At- lantic coast from Maine to Maryland have had hardly more than fleeting glimpses of the sun. Com- plaints about the weather, toasts of the weather | bureau, satire and sarcasm directed at the sky, have ‘ceased to entertain, and even swearing seems no | longer able to satisfy the sodden spirits of the people. | Recognizing its responsibility to the public in such a period of clouds above and mud below, the press has bravely undertaken to cheer the multitude. The Springfield Republican, after. admitting that during the month of April up to the 26th, the day of ‘publication, there had been but two days in | which the sun was visible from rising to setting, and that of the total number of hours during which the sun was above the horizon 80 per cent were cloudy, went on to say: “The old almanacs, however, tell of worse Aprils than this, or that of 1874. One was in 1852, when the rainfall for the month, as registered at Worcester, amounted to 10.77 inches, which pre- sumably includes a recorded snowfall of twenty-three inches. Those storms were also widespread, and it is recorded that the Potomac River at Washington | rose a foot above the high water mark of 1847, whea the water was higher than it had been since 1784.” - The Baltimore American also seeks to cheer up the sufferers by reminding them that worse times-have been than those that now are. It says: “There is a | tendency to exaggerate the rainfall of the present | month. It has been exceptional, though not unpre- | cedented. In the spring of 1859 it rained in this State | for thirty-nine days. It did not rain all the time, but | it rained every day, calling to mind the definition | given by a resident of the Isthmus of Panama of the difference between the rainy and the dry seasons. In the dry season, he said, it rained every day, while in the rainy season it rained all the time. The spring of 1830 was like the dry season on the isthmus.” - | | | Telling gloomy people that “things have been | worse” has, as we all know, a cheering influence. Misery loves company. - There is a satisfaction in | knowing that some one has had worse luck than ourselves. Doubtless many a rain-soaked citizen of Massachusetts or of Maryland was consoled some- what by the information thus given by his newspaper that things had beeh wetter in 1859 and 1852. The best consolers, however, are those who sing sweet songs, and so the Boston Herald recalls the verse of Riley: It ain’t no use to grumble and complain; It's jest as cheap and casy to rejoice; ‘When God sorts out the weather and sends rain, W'y, rain’s my choice. The Philadelphia Public Ledger sings no lyric seng, but seeks the sawe énd by didactic verse. It says: “Though the weather for some time has been, generally speaking, awfully, horribly, nastily, windily, rainily, dreadfully dark, damp, doleful and disagree- able, we have determined that we shall not :umention the mean, miserable, nortifying subject, but govern curselves according to the counsels of that old nur- sery rhyme which says: When the weather is wet, we must not fret; ‘When the weather is dry, we must not sigh; ‘When the weather is cold, we must not scold; ‘When the weather is warm, we must not storm; But weather, bad or good, Always be in a happy mood. It is gratifying to ses journalism making itself so useful to the East under such trying circumstances; but it is surprising that rot one paper among them all has had the sense to say to its readers: “Get a move go West, where the sun shines; meet McKin- ley in California.” SENATORIAL DEBATE. T a meeting of the Massachusetts Board of A Trade last wesk Senator Hoar made an ad- dress which, if correctly reported in the sum- mary given in our Boston exchanges, was not alto- gether fair to the West. The theme of the speech was “Senatorial Debate,” and the argument was to the effect that some system should be provided ' for putting an end to prolonged discussion. In that con- clusion the country generally will agree, but in making his argument the Senator is reported to have charged Western Senators with interfering with the progress of business by excessive speaking. One re- port says: “He alluded to the fact that some eight or ten new States had recently been admitted which are inferior in wealth, importance and intellect to a single Massachusetts ccunty. They had sent men to Congress to represent them who are undesirable and urfit, and yet their votes count.” It would be easy to pick out certain Senators from the West whose course in Congress affords some ground for Senator Hoar's statement, but nothing like a sufficient number of such Senators can be found to justify his sweeping condemnation of “eight or ten Western States.” It is known that Carter of Montana talked the rive- and harbor bill to death, and that thg election of Clark to the Senate is in no way creditable éither to the Senate or to the State that sends him there. When all such facts are conceded, however, there remain good grounds for objecting to. the Senator’s statements. - It is not from the West only that long-winded tali- e1s enter the Senate. Hoar is himself a long debater when he gets started. His speech on the administra- tion policy in the Philippines contains something like 30,000 words. Morgan of Alabama is not a Western man, but he also is about as much of a talker as any one in the Senate. Furthermore, there have been and are now in the Senate members from Eastern States | whose elections, if not so gaudy as that of Clark of Montana, are none the less suspected of having been worked out by the samz methods. G There may be States in the West that are not so rich as that county of Massachusetts which contains the city of Boston, but there is not one of them that is not equally important, equally endowed with in- tellectual capacity to look after its own affairs, and just as much entitled to representation in the Sen- ate as the whole of Massachusetts. Senator Hoar ! should not ‘make speeches at Board of Trade-meet- ings. They are evident!y too exciting for him, and he talks about too many things that ain’t so. | Several Eastern capitalists who want to supply this city with water have askad Mayor Phelan if the city is serious in its expressed desire to own its own water supply.,This is a fairly good indication that some East- ern people do not ‘yet know his Highness the Mayor or are striving to pose as wits, : A has no ground for compl " ! | | | i W hat Suffering Americans Bring to Them- selves by Submitting to the Drug Habit and Nostrum Vendors. i el TR By Professor Victor C. Vaughn, . DEAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDPICINE AND SURGERY, UNIVER- SITY OF MICHIGAN. Notwithstanding the fact that we Americans are very practical people, we are quite credulous and the nostrum ven- der probably flourishes nowhere else as he does' among us. We swallow gallons of concoctions of various sorts prepared by unscrupulous pretenders, many of whom are wholly ignorant of chem- istry. physiology and all other branches of medicine. In spite of the general good sense for which we are justly re- puted, at the core we are filled with su- perstition and are ready to drink from every cup offered us, invariably hoping that in it we may find the elixir of life and a panacea for our many ills. So eager are we in the pursuit of wealth, so- clal position, political ambition or some other glittering bauble that we cannot take the time to rest our tired nerves, and when the consequent aches and pains goad us some hasten to the physician, asking him to do the impossible, while others eagerly read the so-called histor- ies of wonderful cures and then proceed to swallow bottle after bottle of some preparation of unknown composition. Fortunately most of these are inert, but this is not true at all. Many a babe has fallen into its last sleep under the influ- ence of the medicine administered by its mother. Some years ago I made a chem- ical examination of so-called opium cures then.in the market, numbering nearly a score. All of these, with one exception, contained an opiate in some form; the one exception was a solution of common salt in water. I -was once severely be- rated by an aged man, who was consult- ing on account of slight indigestion, because I advised him not to take any medicine, but to. drink a little natural wine with his meals. He sald that no physiclan was justified in prescribing alconol in any form, but he had already told me, in giving trouble, that he had taken more than a hundred bottles of certain bitters. Now, the wine recommended contained not more than 10 per cent of alcohol, wiiile the bitters contained more than 50 per cent, and, in my opinion, were to some extent at least responsible for the condi- tion of his stomach. This illustrates the wisdGom and consistency practiced by many of us. Testing Drugs Before Using Them. Many of the powders, tablets and other preparations now so widely used for the relief of headaches and other pains are positively injurious and a number of deaths result from their employment. The fact that no recognized ill effect fol- lows immediately after the use of a drug does not prove that it has no bad effect; indeed, the appetite may be increased and a general tonic effect be felt under the in- fluence of a drug which is slowly causing degenerative changes in the liver or kid- neys that can never be repaired. The remote as well as the immediate effects of drugs should be known before they are employed in the treatment of disease. ‘| This is the explanation of the fact that the scientific medical man finds it neces- sary to study the action of new drugs on the lower animals before he dares to pre- scribe them for man. It has been said that the effects of drugs on the lower ani- mals and on man are so dissimilar that nothing of value can be learned by such experiments. This statement is not true, as every pharmacologist Knows. ‘While the different species, of vertebrate animals often show wide variations in the | doses necessary to produce certain ef- fects, under the full influence of the drug the results are practically the same. The best practitioners of medicine do not em- ploy new drugs in the treatment of dis- ease until their effects upon the lower animals, ‘even in the minute microscopical changes, have been investigated. first-class medical school has its phar- macological and pathological laborator- ies In which these studies are prosecuted. Medicine for the Individual. ‘When the chemist has succeeded in the greparauon of some new compound which e thinks, on account of its composition, may be useful in the relief of pain he does [not test its efficiency by administering it to man. He gives the compound to the pharmacologist, who carefully studies the effeets of the new drug on dogs and other animals, observing its action on the puise, respiration, etc., and recording these ef- fects by means of delicately contrived in- struments. After completing his studies the pharmacologist turns the animals over to the pathologist, who makes a most minute search of the various organs for any abnormal conditions that may be present as a result of the action of the drug. It is not until all these observa- tions have been carefully made and re- peated many times that the action of the new drug on man is tried. In this way practically all the drugs now employed by the regular medical profession have been studied. There is another point of great importance that is closely investigated by medical men. It is well known that a drug that may be curative of one condl tion may be capable of doing great harm in other conditions. Because a certain remedy has proved useful and even cura- tive to one man in the treatment of pneu- monia, that is no proof that it may not be harmful to another suffering from the same disease. The condition of the heart or kidneys in one case may counter-indi- cate the use of the remedy. It must be evident from what has been stated that no medicine, unless it be of the simplest and most harmless character, should be taken except upon the prescrip- tion of a competent medical man after a personal examination of the patient. Nev- ertheless, it is probably true that nine- tenths of the medicine taken by the peo- ple of this country is not prescribed by physicians. Members of the regular med- ical profession are not in the habit of giving medicine unless it be indicated, and many diseases are treated without any medication. The Physician and the Charlatan. It must not be supposed that medicines are altogether useless or that all diseases can be treated witheut them. For in- 'stance, malaria is caused by the presence of a parasite introduced into the blood by the bite of a mosquito. Quinine is the only known substance that can be intro- duced into the body in sufficient quantity to kill the parasite. However, even in this case the quinine must be adminis- tered at a certain time with reference to the onset of the chill and in certain-dases before it will prove effective, and a quali- fied physiclan, after an examination of the patient, is the only one competent to decide when and in what form and doses the drug should be auministered. The physician must first ascertain whether or not the disease is malaria. This he does iy a microscopical examination of the blood, and then after acquainting himself quinine to be taken at a time when it will be effective. . Diphtheria is treated with antitoxin, but this does not indiecate that any and all diseases are benefited by the injection of any kind of iymph or serum. The char- latan is always ready to warp and twist the discoveries of science to his own financial advantage. clan in a case of suspected diphtheria takes a culture from the diseased throat, and having satisfied himself of the true nature of the disease by proper examina- tion proceeds to use an antitoxin, the ef- by experiments upon animals. It is a sad commentary on our civiliza- tion that this most beneficent discovery of the value of antitoxin in the treatment of out scientific dreds of peonle with locomotor ataxia ers to scientific knowledge. There are watch in need of repair to any but the most skillful workman, and yet they will trust their bodies in meed of repair to men who are wholly ignorant of anatomy and physiology. Looking at this from a selfish standpoint the re&utable physician int, because the the history of his | Every | The qualified physi- | lous men to support claims that ase with- | oundation, and that hun- | might call a “dry humoris and other nervous diseases are being | treated and deluded by ignorant pretend- | PAPERS ON CURRENT ' TOPICS. | PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. COPYRIGHT, 1901. XI—-USE AND ABUSE OF MEDICINE. | with the history of the case he orders the | Murgan’muat have proposed to his wi P ficiency of which has been demonstrated ' tonished his teacher recently b: diphtheria is now being used by unscrupu- d men who would not intrust a valuable | man who was idly skimming the fashion | to health and tends to shorten life. Many drug habit, to which thousands are vie- tims, furnishes him no inconsiderable por- tion ‘of his income. Nostrum® venders very commonly sell their preparations under some meaning- less or misleading name. In, many of these -compounds or mixtures alcohol, opfum, chloral, antipyrine or some other harmful dru: victim has takes that he does not feel well without it and goes on binding himself in fetters which he cannot break. Every physician of | large experience has met wi larze exn et with cases of Using Medicine Ignorantly. There is no doubt that the widespread prevalence of the drug habit is injurious chronic diseases of the digestive organs, lhwg;t and kidneys are induced by this abit. Granted that the varied gnd numerous digestants so largely employed possess the activity claimed for them, it would be better in a great many instances to improve the appetite and strengthen di- gestion by an abstemious indulgence in the good things of the table. he best and most rational treatment for a tired brain or nerve is generally to be found in rest and not in the administration of a sedative. The best physicians recognize these facts and reserve the prescription of sedatives for the few cases in which they are absolutely required. It has fallen to the writer to treat many cases of the opium habit in its various forms, and in only a few instances has this most per- nicious and destructive habit had its or- igin in a physician's prescription, but I have seen several cases that were due to some drug advertised under some fanci- ful rame. I was once consulted by an eminent clergyman who for many years had used a drug for his catarrh. He de- nied that he had ever taken opfum and he was honest in this statement, for he did not know that the preparation which | he had used so long, as he thought with | much benefit, was an opiate. I once found | a lady practically starving to death while | she was consuming bottle after bottle of a much lauded “predigested” food, which in reality consisted of nothing more nor | less than a grape-sugar syrup. For this | Ler husband was paying a dollar a bot- tle, when he might have purchased the same article from his grocer for a few cents a gallon. I once knew of a faker whe would purchase from a druggist a small quantity of the oll of mustard. He would then soak numerous little bits of wcod, about the size of matches, in_the oil and proceed to the street corner, where he sold readily for 25 cents apiece his wonderful discovery of magnetic or elec- tric weed, found by himself after much | privation and suffering among a tribe, of | South Amerfcan Indians. The purchaser was advised to introduce the bit of wood into the nose, when, on its coming in con- | tact with the mucous membrane, he would feel the electricity. This was a guaran- teed cure for nasal catarrh. ! Long Life and Medicines. One who has seen a halting heart skill- fully stimulated by the hypodermatic use of strychnine to the performance of its normal function, and has watched the red ! currents return to the pale Mps, and awak- ened consciousness remove the glaze from the eyes with the beams of intelligence, | is_ready to exclaim, “What a precious | gift the gods have bestowed upon us!” | The same thought comes to one who sees the surgeon’s knife - move painlessly | through the tissues by the help of the | local anesthesia induced by coeaine. On the other hand, one who studies the | wrecks that result from the morphine or | cocaine habit are ready to say, “What | demons the devils have turned loose to prey upon us!" Medicine is a two-edged | sword, and should be handled only by | those driiled ir its use. The man who desires to live long and be healthy and happy while he lives will not acquire the habit of indiscriminate drug taking, but will resort to medicines | only on the prescription of some compe- | tent, reputable physician, and in his ex- perience with members of the medical pro- fession he will find that the best of them sre not given to the ordering of many rugs. CHANCE TO SMILE. Mrs. Farmer—Git out o' here or I'll put a load o’ buckshot in ye! Chilly Nytes—Ah, mum! It's sech a re- lief ter find a lady w'ot kin talk suthin’ besides dress, golf or automobiling.— Judge. 7o Mrs. Schermerhorn (at piano recital, re- proachfully)—Mortimer, you actually look | 25 though you were soriy you paid $ fo hear Professor Clawer play! Mr. Schermerhorn (bored)—I am. stead of exclaiming “Bravoe! Brave!” I feel like crying, “‘Stop, .thief!”"—Brooklyn Eagle. on’t plek a z}mn‘el with him. He's a man as well as a Senator. He'd as n fight as eat.” ‘Did he ever fight gnybody?” Not er:;la}lx}n:rd o:; he dslawed a young woman y a day or two ago.” —Daily States. “(Vthl.t'l de matter?”’ asked Plodding e ‘Nightmare,” answered Meanderin, Mike, rubbing his eyes. “I t'ought some'—’ body handed me a million dollars.” “*An’ you was kickin'?"” “Pete, did you ever try to count a mil- lion dollars? De work is somethin’ fear- ful!”—Washington Star. Belle—You'll get a roKoual Mr. Fisher, or I'm mlg en. SO o Nell (who has freckles)—~What! Mr. Fisher of the Walton Angling Club? Belle—Yes; he told me his specialty was fi;lchrl‘r!lg speckled beauties.—Philadelphia ecord. o poker “Ye: min about gende In- “p, bad it you taught your wife to play that was an excellent {d Last month I won back Iro?:: h:l{ one-quarter of my salary.”—Flie- Blaetter. ‘“You ean't buy prlness," remarked th?TbachelD'f. sald “Tut, tut!” the marri “What's the matter with o nets?"—Philadelphia Record. Hodkinson — Splitter's -~ automobile is something of a novelty, Is it not? It seems to be made in two separate parts. Perter—Oh, you must have seen it since he divided it with a lamp-post.—Harper's ar. man. spring bon- “I've’ just found out how J. Plerpont ife o " “(}{a probfifly‘ said, ‘Darling, wil u oursel m; e o e ok you cago “I suppose you enjoy these pant flings that you see in the newgli)p. rs about Easter bennets,” she remarked in le (orber:aa;ldcm answe . Siri < Kker. don’t enjoy anything thatuir?:;l up the subject.”—Washington Star. A pupil in the juvenile department as- dng & circla a8 ‘s straight Mao oy e , crooked all the way round."—m&h;tg; News. Hoax—That friend of yours who writes paragraphs for the Howler is what you t,” isn't he? joax—Yes. He's pumped out.—ohio%ute i Journal. “The idea! Wrat's this?" exclaimed the €. p““wbflt‘s what?” inquired the other. - “It says here ‘Leghorns will be much used this summer.” I've heard of a shoe- g is introduced, and after the n a few bottles he finds | 5 ) FERSONAL MENTION. Isaac Bird of Merced is staying at the Lick. Arthur B. Foster of Grass Valley is at the Palace. George 1. Humphrey of Los Angeles is a guest at the Occidental. W. G. Halstead, a mining man of Smartsville, is at the Grand. Mayne Darlington, a mining man of Idaho, is a guest at the Palace. J. C. Bull Jr,, a banker of Eureka. Is spending a few days at the Lick. James McCormick, a banker of Redding, registered at the Grand yesterday.” A. B. Lemmon. a newspaper man of Santa Rosa, is a guest at the Grand. Millard Sanders, a prominent horseman, who lives at Pleasanton, is at the Palace. W. F. Funnell, an extensive fruit raiser of Napa, accompanied by his wife, Is staying at the Oecidental. ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 1—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—W. Ellery, at the Astor; 8. B. Goodman and wife, at the Cadillac: H. E. Holborn, at the Grand Union; C. Lands- borne, at the Ashland; Miss Lincoln, Mrs. J. Lineoln and Mrs. 8. L. Pool, at the Holland; A. H. Butler and Miss Butler, at the Imperial: L. M. Kaiser and wife, at the Albemarle; W. C. Ralston, at the.Her- ald Square. From Los Angeles—L. Hickok, at the Marlborough. ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1.—Charles H. Cochran of San Francisco is at the Arlington.. ANSWERS TO QUERIES TO CORRESPONDENTS.—Answers to quertes sent to this department are sent in as soom as obtained and they appear in print in the that they are turned in, as space will Questions are easily asked, but answers not easily obtained in every instance, <o th s after -n?;udz: feel disappointed. ol ts answer two or FIVE-DOLLAR PIECE—O. E. O., San Mateo, Cal. From a numismatie stand- point a $5 piece of 1835 does not command a premium. SURFACE OF A SPHERE-L. A., City. To find the surface of a sphere or globe multiply the square of the diameter by 3.1416 and the product will be the convex superficies. PARK MUSEUM—C. L. Coates, Anan- da, Cal. C. P. Whitcomb is the curator of the museum in Golden Gate Park. Charles A. Keeler is the director of the museum of the Academy of Sciences. DISTANCE—J. A. K., City.' The dis- tance from the ferry, along the north side of Market street, to Golden Gate avenue and out the avenue to Devisadero street, ig 14,400 feet, or a little less than two and three-quarters miles. STONE MASONS—E. G., Chicakasaka, L T. The pay of stone masons is $3 a day in San Francisco, sandstone cutters 34 a day and stone carvers $475 a day. A per- son coming to this city to seek that kind of work must take his chances of secur- ing employment. DOUBLE PEDRO—A. T., Newhope, Cal. In the game of double pedro if A wants one and has an ace, and B wants, ten, buys and makes all his points, A wins, because he holds the ace. the ace being high and counts first. The count is high, low, jack, game and pedro. COINS—E. S. B., City. A premium of from 25 to 50 cents is offered for a 3-cent | piece of 1865, 20 to 40 cents for 3-cent pieces | of 1866 and from 25 to 35 cents for 3-cent pleces of 1867, 1568, 1569 and 1873. None is offered for issue of that denomination for. 1881 and 1887. . No premium is offered for the other coins named in letter of inquiry. DISPLACEMENT—A. L..City. To find the displacement of a vessel, multiply the mean of the lengths of the keel and be- tween the perpendiculars by the area of the immersed midship section and divide the product—if for a ship of the line or full built merchantman, by 42: if an ordi- nary merchantman, by 43; If a sea steam- ship, by 44, and if a river steamship, by 45. The 'quotient will be the displacement in tons. PHILIPPINES—H. F. M., City. Briga- dier General James F. Smith is the Col- lector of Customs at the port of Manila, For positions in the postoffices in nxp)lcnflonl must be flled with the First Assistant Postmaster at ‘Washington, D. C. For positions in the Custom-house in the same territory file applications with the Treasury ment at Washington, D. C. THE THIRTEENTH—E. L., City. The Thirteenth United States Infantry did not have its flag taken from it by its superior officers while n the Philippine Islands. It vou desire to know the nationality of the, mer who composed that regiment while in the islands you will have to write to the ‘War Department, and if there is any good reason for furnishing such information the department will classified and mail you the answer. the Philippines Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® —————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® —_——————— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c a fiound, in_fire-etched boxes or J':E bas- ets. Market, Palace Hotel building.® ——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. & Wi Is Guzzler in the swim? Wagg— Well, e drinks like a fish. ——— The Santa Fe to Yosemite. Beginning May 1 Stoddard & Son will run a daily stage line from Merced to Yosemite Falls, connecting With the California limited. Leav- ing San Francisco at § a. m. to-day you are at Yosemite Falls to-morrow afternoon at §. The rate is $28 50 from San Francisco for the round trip, carrying you by way of Merced big trees. P S — Nervous exhaustion and debflity are the effects of a trying summer. Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters feed the merve cells ar restore vitality. No, Maude, dear, the Speaker of House doesn’t make all the lpeech:s. o Bradford-Silver Creek QUICKSILVER Mining Companies, San Benito County and Santa Clara County. $1.00 BUYS TWO SHARES, ONE IN EACH MINE. PAR VALUE 51 0 PER SHARE. Property well developed and thousands ef tons of ore in sight. We will be actually Producing Quicksilver in two months. The price of this stock will be advanced May 2. We have the materials on the grounq for a large furnace, and Mr. Robert Scott, the B T e, will bo ot iy e ™ 1 less"than stxty days. . " It you want an income for life buy some of this siock now. SEEBING IS BELIEVING. You can easily see our property. Ome hour and twenty minutes to San Jose. nine miles by team. Let us show you these mines and judge for yourself. H. R. BRADFOI Prestdont ‘and General Mansge 3 7 N. Market street, San Jose. horn, lb‘:xte :nl'eghoru‘a new to me. 1 s:fl* se ti USETS are res r it E’Phu‘n%elphu Press. i S Prospectus. office, 317 Mont st., San DE FREITAS, Agent. and all information at ooy e