The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 5, 1902, Page 25

“BISIN PARK HISTORY I MADE KNOWN Thirteen Hundred Acres Are Added With Call's Aid. Speculators Are Baffled in Attempt to Secure $100 Per Acre. P SN 25 Notwithstanding Embarassing Work of Sentimentalists, State Succeeds Getting Splendid Area at Reasonable Price. —— Now that the Big Basin Park lands have actually - been purchased by the siohers in behalf of the State, and e is mo longer any necessity for the cealmient that was deemed to be ad- visable while negotiations were going on, he inside hi y of the struggles and culties : the commissioners had h the property owners Is coming out. Big B Lumber Company cornered were eligible for park soon as there was any t the Legislature could be per- ke them. The agltation thal d on in favoer of the park was due to the general semtiment in 1 preserving a great tract of red- ber from destruction for ‘the per- I enjoyment of the people. of the Big Basin Park Commis- at at the very time the Semper- ns Club literature was circulated 1r mento, setting forth that 5000 acres 50,000, the sum finally appropriated by ¢ State for purchase of lands in the certain members of the Semper- s Club bad in their possession.op- from the Big Basin Lumber Com- at the rate of $i00 per acre on 2400 acres. PUNCTURED BY THE CALL. Possibly t & gre was due to these options roar was raised and main- n interested quarters when of the State's interest punctured the fable that were saleable at $100 per acre g the facts concerning actual essed valuations of the very stion. A great fight was waged. As the outcome of the campaign the benefit of the State carried on by Call against those who were seeking d lands at the $100 rate that they h secured, e BState has gained 130 acres more t the timber men at first prog it have for its money. In- g $100 per acre for tracts nnected, exposed to the , poorly provided with water ng the best selection of rees in the locality, a rate $66 per acre has been secured, of the Waddell Creek have ught into the park and the great- ave been included. The Big mber Company started out with position of getting the entire the State for 2500 acres. It to the State 3800 acres, con- mmetrical tract, so placed surround! timber is made commercially because it is of tity to permit the building etc., necessary to get it out danger of fi sem 100 small of the roads, for market, and the company is really receive to for that acreage much less tied up ever since the negotiations for the park in the basin began, nearly two years ago. Then there is the interest to be computed for a period on the investment, w t regsonable rate amounts to m sands of dollars. Then the owners have paid in taxes $3000 during the last year. The payments for the land will be made in five annual installments. There are therefore taxes to be paid by the owners for some years more. At this time, just as the purchase is concluded in behalf of the State, the price of timber land is fully 100 per cent higher than it - when the negotiations for the Big in acres began. Coupled with the fact that for 3800 acres the Big Basin Lumber Company and the nterests represented have accepted $250,- h would be &t the average rate % per acre only, if there were no uctions, it will be seen that the tim- n have in effect finally confessed @s to the justice of the conten- The Call concerning the real value de. The lands were worth not wi de veloped from the Lestimony of | e Big Basin could be obtained for | FRITZ SCORES A WIFEBEATER John Thormahlen Con- victed of Disturbing the Peace, Strikes Spouse and Step- daughter and Chokes | Them, —— John Thormahlen, grocer, Buchanan and Grove streeis, was convicted by | Judge Fritz yesterday on a charge of dis- | turbing the peace and was ordered into |custody to appear for sentence to-mor- rew. 1‘ Last Sunday morning about 2 o’clock Thormahlen, who lives at 6173% Birch ave- nue, went home under the influence of ‘Hquor and started in to beat his wife and to choke them. The screams of the women were heard by Policeman W. Quarles, |and when he reached the house Mrs. | Thormahlen was stretched out on the {floor and her husband was choking her. ilo be clubbed isto submission. | Andrew Donegan, a boy, was on his way home from Work and also heard the | screams’ of the women. | mahlen holding his stepdaughter by the | throat over the banisters and striking her iwilh a club. Neither of the women would | testify aginst Thormahlen. Mrs. Thor- | mahlen begged the Judge not to convict | ber husband. *‘The business will suffer if | | he 15 sent to jail,” she pleaded, “and you | {would not alone be punishing him, but I {'would be punished also.” | Thormahlen, when asked what he had {to say for himself, said he was drunk |and did not know what he was doing. The Judge in szid: “I consider your action that of a brute. Men like you, who seem to take a pleasure in beating your wives when bru- talized by drink, must be taught a lesson. Because the business will suffer while | |fense of beating your wife. It is to be | regretted that the innocent must in these cases suffer along with the gullty, but in this case I cannot take that into con- sideration, and I intend to give this de- fendant the full penalty.” Visitors’ Day on the Oregon. Visitors should take the McNelll & | Tucker Jaunches from Clay-street float to- {day. Hours from1la. m. to4p. m. * | dragoon the State into paying the price originally asked when practically the en- tire basin had been brought under one | control. “The greatest obstacle we had,” said one of the commissioners in an in- terview yesterday, “‘was found in the sen- | timentalists who were in haste to take up anything that was offered, for fear | that the baseless threat of cutting down purchased would be carried out.” | As a part of the history of the struggle |1t will be recallled that one afternoon a children, who were attracted into the in- terior of a church at San Jose by a brass band that played on the sidewalk at the | hour of assembling, gravely passed a res- 1olulxon, posing as timber experts, that lands that the great majority of them had Dever seen were worth $100 per acre. added facts of Big Basin Park history are learned. It is estimated by the com- | missioners that the price paid for the | very finest timber, in the final deal, | amcunts to not more than $70 per acre | and the other lands come at a much low- er rate, At the first meeting of the commission- ers, {t was made known that the Big Basin Lumber Company was offering to the State only two disconnected tracts of timber, two and a half miles apart, these | embracing about 2400 acres, approximate- | 1y, but with the understanding that other lands could be acquired on terms to be made with the timbermen. Commissioner | W. H. Mills at once said that he would never consent to having a tract pur- chased that was not a unit. Between the tracts that were offered the timber could have been cut down. Private hotels and other speculations could have been lo- cated there, using the property bought by the State for their own immediate benefit. In the original land offer there was no part of the west fork of Waddell Creek included. Along that creek is some of the finest redwood timber in existence. The west fork has a volume of water capable of providing a fairly spectacular water- fall and by a series of obstructions to be placed contains the possibilities of keep- ing up a very.good water supply for the park during the summer season. The only water offered to the State at the start in the Big Basin was the east fork of the Waddell, which is a fair-sized | stepdaughter, Katie Leo, with a club and | Thormehlen attacked the officer and had | He saw Thor- | convicting Thormahlen | you are in jail is no palliation for the of- | L e e e o e e N |the trees uniess the State immediately | 1 | convention composed of men, women and | From one of the commissioners some | 3 HE Native Daughters’ Home, which was established about three years ago at 925 O'Farrell street, near Van Ness avenue, for the accommodation of members of the order in this city without homes or those from the interior visiting here and not desiring to stop at hotels, has been un ostentatiously but very successfully ful- filling its mission since the date of its establishment under the direction of a home committee consisting of Mrs. W. 8. Leake of Califia Parlor of Sacramento, Past Grand President Dr. Mariana Ber- tola of Ramona Parlor of Martinez, Mrs. H. M. Greene, recording secretary of | Buena Vista Parlor of San Francisco: Past Grand President Miss Clara K. Wit- | tenmeyer of Ramona Parlor, Martinez; | Past Grand President Mrs. Louise W. Morris of Buena Vista Parlor, San Fran- | cisco; Mrs. Julia A. Steinbach of Alta | Parlor of San Francisco and Mrs. J. Cock- rell of Golden State Parlor of San Fran- cisco. The home has beccme so popular, how- ever, that the demand for rooms has out- grown the accommodations and the com- mittee has under consideration a plan of extension. Being in a measure short of funds to meet the necessary expenses and not wishing to draw upon a.reserve held for extraordinary occasions the ladies have decided to hold a rummage sale, | which will commence next Saturday at | 1508% Powell street and continue until the large number of articles that have been contributed shall have been dis- posed of. It is expected that it will take about ten days, or possibly two weeks, to sell all the articles. In response to an appeal from the home committee, which has been circulated broadcast throughout the city, there has been contributed a | great number of articles. | Among these are suits of clothing, dresses, shirt waists, underclothing, gloves, books, toys, games, glassware, chinaware, trinkets, furpiture, ping-pong sets, croquet sets, curtains, rugs, carpets and fancy work, also articles of furniture. ! The committee does not propose to give | these things away, but- will offer them at | very reasonable rates, and those who at- | tend the sale will no doubt find “just the very thing I have wanted for months but could not afford to pay the regular price {for.” 1t will be a genuine bargain counter | sale, and from the Interest that has al- |ready been taken in the matter there is | no doubt that it will be attended by many { who are looking for bargains. The home committee will be assisted in the sale by Past Grand President Tina L. Kane of Ursula Parlor of Jackson; Past Grand President Mae B. Wilkin of Santa | Cruz Parlor, Santa Cruz; Past Grand | President Carrie L. Durham of Joaquin | Parlor, Stockton; Pasf Grand President | Minnie Coulter of Buena Vista Parlor, |San Francisco; Past Grand President | Mollie B. Johnson of Califia Parlor, Sac- | ramento; Mrs. M. Leighton and Miss M. e R e e i e | INTURED TROOPER TO BE GIVEN AID Military Entertainment and Ball to Be Held by His Fellow Guardsmen. During the sham battle given in the Meéchanics' Pavilion while the Knights of Pythias were in this city Sergeant A. N. | Smith of Troop A, National Guard, was struck in the right eye by a charge of | gunpowder, and the eye was so seriously |injured that it had to be removed. A | grand military entertainment and ball will be given for his benefit in the Me- chanics’ Pavilion on Saturday, the 1Sth inst., under the auspices of the Naval Militia and Troop A. The committee in charge congists of Lieutenant Commander George W. Bauer, N. M. C.; Captain Charles Jansen, commanding Troop A; Lieutenants Thomas S. Harloe and T. B. ‘W. Leland of the Naval Militla and Lieu- tenants C. Wells and E. Carr of the troop. During the evening there will be a bat- tery arill with four one-pounder Hotch- kiss guns by 150 men of the Naval Mili- 1ia, under Lieutenant Commander Bauer; an exhibition saber drill by Troop A, un- der command of Captain Jansen, and a physical exercise drill by Company C, First Infantry, N. G. C., commanded by Captain Frank C. Moore. There will also {be an exhibition drill by Canton San | Francisco No. 5 of the Patriarchs Mill- tant, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Captain C. H. Kornbeck commanding. Other organizations will add to the pro- gramme. The band of the Naval Militia will give concert music. —_— e . Police Aid Destitute Woman. ‘ Mrs. Emma Mosher, a destitute woman, | carrying in her arms a three-months-old baby, applied to the Southern station last evening for shelter. She said she had ar- | | | MEMBER OF THE HOME COM- MITTEE OF THE NATIVE DAUGHTERS. Lacy. A number of friends of the home have expressed a willingness to act as salesladies. g ° ABSENCE FROM DUTY CAUSES HIM TROUBLE Police Officer Potter Vacates His Beat, Resigns Position and Leaves Home. Police Officer Henry N. Potter of Com- pany D, Mission division, under command of Captain Marcellus O. Anderson, is no longer an active member of the Police Department. Potter, who stood well with his superiors and companions and was looked upon as being an efficlent officer, vacated his beat on Howard street from Eleventh to Twentleth for more than two hours on the night of September 30. The absence of the officer from his beat was reported to Captain Anderson. When Potter walked into the station he was questioned as to his absence and gave an unsatisfactory explanation. On the 24 inst. he handed In his resignation, stating that he would rather resign than 80 before the Commissioners and be rep- rimanded by that body. He then went to his home at 1402 Guer- rero street and packed his valise, telling ?é- wife l;; v:a: g:‘lng to leave the city rever, @ left his ho: t il me and lz:u not —_—— Murphys Will Be Tried. Indictments found by the Federal Grand Jury at Los Angeles against Frank M. Murphy and his wife, Gertrude Murphy, have been received in this city, and with. in a few days Murphy and his wife wiil be taken to the United States District Court in Los Angeles for trial on the charges of forging money orders. Mur- phy is held here on a charge of burglary, but the State authorities will deliver him to the Federal officlals, Mrs. Murphy Is a daughter of Pr. Turner, a physician of Los Angeles. e — THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1902. NATIVE DAUGHTERS’ HOrIE MUST BE MADE LARGER Ladies Composing Committee in Charge Will Open a Rum- mage Sile Next Saturday to Secure Funds for Making Necessary Extension—Useful Articles to Be Dispased Of SR Charles Calhoun Tries Hard to Avoid Pay- ing Alimony. His Brother Declares Lady Is Able to Support Her- ’sel_f. ; Charles A. Calhoun owes his divorced wife, Bertha A. Calhoun, $1650 alimony, and is determined not to pay it. Mrs. Cal- houn is equally determined that he shall, and out of her efforts to collect the amount due has grown trouble galore. Mrs. Calhoun secured a divorce from Calhoun in 1897, and an order directing him to pay her $50 a month alimony. Cal- houn objected to the order and had the amount reduced to $15 a month. Even this amount proved, as he alleges, too. much for the Calhoun purse, and he refused to pay it. Time and again Mrs. Calhoun had him haled into court, and on three different occasions he was adjudged gullty of contempt because of his refusal to contribute to the support of his former wife. OWNS PROPERTY. Calhoun has claimed all along that his wite owns property In Berkeley from which she derives ample income to pro- vide her with the necessaries of life. He made an affidavit in which he declared that the property was worth $000 and was the outcome of years of toil on his part, and that he should net be required to give it up and add to Mrs. Calhoun’s income by monthly contributions, too. Mrs. Calhoun admits that she owns the property, but says it is of no greater value than $3000. She also filed affidavits in which she avers that there is a mort- gage of §1700 on the property, and that by reason of her husband’s fallure to pay her alimony she has been compelled to incur debts for provisions and clothing for herself and children amounting to $1900. . Several affidavits concerning Calhoun’s inability to pay and Mrs. Calhoun’s abil- ity to work were flled yesterday in Judge Seawell's court, where the matter is pending. One affidavit, a statement by B. F. Calhoun, a brother of the defendant, is one of the most peculiar pleas in sup- port of a plan to evade obeying a court order ever filed here. M. M. Miller, Cal- houn's attorney, is its author. It reads in part as follows: inherent desire to live in lux- nr?h:;;‘e‘:uu:n:h to cultivate a standard of tdieness -that would cabt into eternal oblivion the best efforts of any of the numerous sons of rest who are to be found at all times loung- ing around on the grass in the public parks of this city. ABLE TO WORK. That said Bertha A. Calhoun is young and fn better physical condition to earn a living for herself than the defendant in this case, and that her claim on him for support under exist- ing conditions is nothing short of a rank im- position and converts the law into a farce. Mrs. C. B. King has the same feeling in the matter as Calhoun's brother. She filed an affidavit containing the following: The eald Bertha A. Calboun is noted for be- ing both indolent and improvident and alto- gether unworthy of support of any kind from her former husband for the following good and gubstantial reasons: First, she has an abund- ance of property to keep her in reasonably good circumstances. Second, if she were in- clined to couple even a slight degree of indus- try with her income from the property ehe would be comparatively independent. Again, her- former husband is much older than she and is physically in a *poor condition, and, substantially speaking, his earning capacity is really no greater than hers. Judge Seawell took the matter under advisement. BURGLARS TAKE TIME TO LOOT RESIDENCE Thomas 0’Connor’s House on Eddy Street Entered by Means of Skeleton Key. The residence of Thomas O’'Connor, en- gineer in the San Francisco Laundry, 1602 Eddy street, was entered by burglars last ‘Wednesday between 11 8. m. and 2 p. m. Entrance was effected by means of a ekeleton key, with which the front door was opened. The burglars took time to thoroughly explore the interior of the house and helped themselves to everything that | could be carried off easily. Among the articles reported stolen are three stick pins, two pair cuff bottons, one pair ear- rings set with pearis and rubles, lady's gold watch, Good Templar's badge, nick- el-plated .bank containing about $40, box containing trinkets and a gold half-dollar of the year 1868, silver bangle, silver stick pin and other articles. Miss N. B. Pike, a roomer, had her P containing $11 50, and several arti- cles of jewelry stolen. The police were notified, but so far they have been un- able to find any trace of the burglars, who are believed to be professionals. IPATTO t Remnant Sal Just One- These Remnants arccut from this Fall’s Patterns, all new and fresh, in extensive pattern both gorgeous and somber. bought before. of from 10 to 20 yards, suitable as 15x18 feet. SPECIAL SALE, is the crowning carcer as SAN FRANCISCO’S We will offer H impossible to clusive designs. x AXMINSTERS—Lovely new fall patterns, standard manufacture, styik- ngly pretty coloring; reg- $l.00 ular price, $1.25; now SUPERIOR AXMINSTERS—2100 M yards just from the milis, in colors and patterns most exquisite specially made for us; re; ular price, $1.50; now.. 51.20 BRUSSELS—A choice of the many patterns is the most &erplexlns thing for you in buying is extra qual- ity 1902-1903 floor cover- ing; regular price, %c 7Sc TOW wevnvrennons COCOA AND NAPIER MATTING O will endure the severest use. COCOA MATTING—A quality that will show itself in many years of use; plain color, woven with red borders— 86 inches wide, reduced to .. .BS5e 18 inches wide, reduced to .385¢ room surroundings. graceful draping effects. ‘A SILK—For pillow covers, 3% %\;rtlnm: ar'x;ii“ove.fi 5 rapery; inches ; 0(: Colors: f5¢ regularly; ROW......- R _DRAPERIES — Beautiful p&gggns figured tapestry, put up com- plete on any_ sized door, with orna- ments for $19.50. Others charge $30. We have them A also at . DE ARABIAN CUR- ne quality, our old price Sold elsewhere 3.50 to $9.50. $6.50 We urge our finestoc by this week at prices Storcs. 20 to 40 Per It pays to trade in the Mission. More So Now Than Ever Befor MISCELLANEOUS. - Great Carpet You can now buy as you never Bring Your Room Measure and we are sure to please you. These remnants are in pieces Our Great Carpet Sale Commencing this week, in conjunction with our POPULAR ion varictics aad assortments to choos: from B ind clsewhere, and in the most distinctive and ex= WINTRY LOOKING WEATHER SUGGESTS THE NEED OF HALLS, SCHOOLHOUSES, PUBLIC BARS,ETC. These mattings The entire line this week at prices that have never been quoted before. _New Drapery Goods TTERES—FresH arrivals—the prettiest effects that design- ers at the factories can produce—the colors are in delicate harmony to suit They_come for single or double doors ‘We bought such a great will be selling them this week only from $8.50 as low as........ once more that during our Great Speclal Sale all k of Spring=Scated Parlor Furniture, Manufactured Ourselves, Superior to any Eastern Product, will be sold b 25 SIEN'S € == | B Half Price variety and all color cifects, for floors measuring as much H event of our long and glorious ! FOREMOST CARPET HOUSE. WILTON VELVETS-—A superb product of characteristic beauty and elegance; a luun% wearer; regular price, $1.35; now. 0 Te- BODY BRUSSELS—In nowned floor covering our Iimmense fall purchase enables us to show a Rosk: ropusr fo soo:$1.30 steck; re lar Tow - - this ING The heaviest made, pure wool, close weave and in a va- rlety of new fall and winter patterns; regular price, %0c; 75c T SRR TR S 2 N THE FLOORS OF ASSEMBLY will be offered APIER nmnwg—m it hgvy twilled jute, much softer l:d more pliable than the cocoa matting; red borders— 36 inches wide, reduced to. 27 inches wide, reduced to [ ) ] in i < $2.00 8 TAFFETA — Suitable for bed- |j spreads, couches, bedroom draperies, -3 inches wide; ‘k = The thing B many patterns. Special FIG BURLAP- for wall and bex couches, pleasing 36 inches wide; colors. Special at. ne of the prettiest cugg& "xlx.uw manufactured. From 57.50 $12 to $9 and now special whits quisite article, Rococo—a most ex- from § to Cent Lower Than Downtown SIEN G0, & one-half of the present value | stream in wintér, but in summer dimin-|rived from San Rafael at noon and had T commissioners first considered s before said, the price of aill er lands has, in the interim, Members of the commission freely ac- knowledge the assistance that The Call afforded du: the concerted effort to GRAPE-NUTS. TRUE ARMOR. Proper Food Defends Against Disease There is an assayer and chemist in Ro- sita, Colo., Mr. C. Wulsten, who shows actual every-day demonstration that sclentific food Wwill make a man young again. He says: “The question of proper Tood which will assimilate and protect the system from loss and waste of brain and muscle be- comes a serious one When man advances to my ege of past 6. I am continually nder a brain and muscle strain which the last thirty-five years wore upon setiously. My digestion became im- paired and my whole system weak. 1 saw Grape-Nuts in a grocery store, d ght 2 box. T tested it in my lab- ry enf found it correct according to declaration of its substances in pro- n with the phosphates intact. made it my principal food and gained ne year eighteen pounds in weight, the pleasure of seeing my indi- leave me entirély. After a year alf of its use 1 feel twenty years nd am as strong and supple as was before during the last decade, ply have found the true armor is defending my body egainst dis- nd withering age. of advantage in field work and pecting in the mountains. > out on geodetic expeditions quantity of Grape-Nuts along This abolishes cumbersome 1d food-cooking utensils. A lit- can of condensed milk, my and 1 haye my food in . a ensed form, welghing unde to carry and T never get rtrated reagents are the in ail chemical operatione, £ are the reagents that s laboratory (the stomach) in perfect working order. is perfect” Your product l ishes to little more than a rivulet. As the lumber company has about everything in sight under its control its opportunijties to dictate to the State would seem to have been extraordinarily good. But the commission was resoluté and de- termined to get a good bargain for the State, notwithstanding the fusillade of abuse and a convention called to coerce the transactions. The park area, as finally acquired, em- braces portions of the west fork of the ‘Waddell and of the east fork of the Wad- dell, along with sufficient watershed to insure a water supply. On the park rim above the basin are elevations of from 1800 to 2300 feet. It will be recalled that the feet high. The high peaks on the rim of the basin are not in the park, but they are so situated that‘they cannot well be devoted to private uses. Trails will make them accessible. From them can be sur- veyed a park panorama without a rival. The famous Tiergarten in Berlin bas 7000 acres. The Prater at Vienna is 6000 acres in extent. In these forested areas | are comparatively few trees of the prim- | eval growth. In the Big Basin Park are thousands of trees ranging in age from 4000 to 6000 years, as estimated by the expert foresters who have viewed them. Under the law the commissioners are to make rules and regulations. They will be | assisted by Professor Pinchot, head of the | ¢ivision of forestry of the United States. A suggestion has been made that the | University of California shall have some | supervision over the park eventually. | Many ¢questions will soon arise. The | commissioners will report to the Gover- nor, making various suggestions. A for- est warden will be appointed to protect the forest from fire. Some of the commissioners desire that there shall be only one hotel in the park and are decidedly of the opinion that the structure stall be of stone. A wooden ho- tel, if it should catch fire, ‘would menace the safety of the forest. With this goes also the idea that campers will be limited to an area near the hotel, so that all fires £hall be under surveillance. Banta Cruz and Santa Clara counties will vndoubtedly construet fine carirage 10ads into the basin, for they have ad- vantages in being pol: of departure. The Big Basin is only about two and one- half hours distant from San Francisco by rail. While only a very small portion of visitors from abroad visit the Mariposa big trees or the Yosemite Valley, nearness and the fact that it contains the only redwood park in the world, will cause thousands of yisitors from all countries to visit the Big Basin dnnually, them, that were features of one stage of | summit of Mount Tamalpais is but 2500 | | walked the streets for hours in search of | employment, but had been unable to find any. Her husband, she said, di€d several | months ago and last Thursday she lost | her position as servant in San Rafael, | and falling to find another there she came | to the city, where she understood work | was plentiful. The mother and baby | were turned over to the matron at the | City Prison, where they were made com- fortable and a subscription was taken up that will enable the mother to provide for herself and child until she can find employment. ADVERTISEMENTS. | THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL. Few People Know How Useful ItIs in Preserving Health and Beauty. Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the ysa(est and most efficient disin- fectant and purifier in nature, but few realize its value when taken into the human system for the same cleansing purpose. C is a remedy. that the more you u‘igafinfl‘ the better; It 18 mot & Qrug at all, but simply absorbs the gases and Im- purities always eresent in the stomach and intestines and carries them out of the system. Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, drinking or after eating onions and other odorous vegetahles. Charcoal effectually clears and improves the complexion, it whitens the teeth, and, further, acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic. : It absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels; it dis- infects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh, ‘All druggists sell charcoal in one form or another, but probably the best char- coal and the most for the money is in Stuart’s Absorbent Lozenges. They are composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal'and other harmless antiseptics in tablet form, or rather in the form of large, pleasant tautlnii lozenges, the char- coafl being mixed with honey. The aaily use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition of the eneral health, better complexion, sweeter Erelth and purer blood, and the beauty of it is that no - possible harm can result from their continued use, but, on the con- trary, great benefit. A fium\lo hysician in '?,”ulfi'ol the penefits of charcoal says: “I advise Stu- art’s Absorbent Lozenges to all patients mfl:nns from gas in the stomach and bowels, and to clear the comslellon and purify the breath, mouth and throat; I also believe the liver is greatly benefited by the daily use of them; they cost but 35 cents a box at drugstores, and alth h in some sense a patent preparation :"'t', believe I get more and better charcoal in Stuart's Absorbent of the ordinary charcoal tablets.” The process now in use for collecting A German army physician declares he tin from the waste of sheet tin by elec- will cure tricity is comparatively costly, has discovered a serum which even chronic rheumatism. Blood Poison Cured Free. SCHMITZ OPENG GATHOLIG FAIR Makes an ‘Addross at St. Vincent de Paul Beneflt: The Remedy Is Sent Absolutely Free to Every Man or Woman Sending Name and Address. When Mayor Schmitz ascended the platform last night to formally open st Vincent de Paul's Church fair the new church building at the corner of Green and Steiner streets, where the festival is being held, was completely filled with peo- ple. The interior of the building, with its protusion of red, white and blue bunting and the pretty booths arranged around the walls, presented an attractive specta- cle. Mayor Schmitz in setting the wheels of the fair in motion told the parishion- ers of St. Vincent de Paul's parish that it gave him the greatest pleasure to as- sist them in ralsing money for the com- pletion of their church. He said that he belonged in that parish and that he would do all in his power to make it a success. He congratulated the young ladles in charge of the various booths on the skill with which they had prepared the various attractive features. The Mayor declared that he wished to see St. Vincent de Paul's fair as complete a success as was the recent Irish fair in Mechanics’ Pavilion. At the conclusion of the Mayor's remarks the police band, under the leadership of Patrolman C. R. Harrelly played a selection. This band 1 the music during the evening = E e The Ilustrations Above Plainly Bhow What This Grand Discovery Will Do. and was frequently applauded for its de- A celebrated Indlana Physiclan has discov- | and natural in two weeks, and after com- | lghtful playing. mfl:‘h:mmmtwmo::l e - Dt'-h'f!mmtlm An entertaining programme of vocal Blood Potson ever known. It quickly cures all | OF B ,my body, and I am ab- [and Instrumental music was rendered. such indications as mucous patches in the | “Cjately Well nnfig into Fort Wayne |DUFINE the Intermissions in the pro- mouth, sore throat, copper colored spots, | brings scores of ot pevayme | cramme the people enjoyed themselves inspecting the good things in the booths. There are twelve booths and each is at- tended by a number of young ladies. The booths are all decorated in an attractive style and contain all manner of fancy and useful articles. The fair is to last three weeks, and each night there will be an entire change of programme. The la- dies in charge of the various booths a St. Anthony’s, Mrs. Michael C. Haley; St. Elizabeth’s, Miss Elizabeth Shea; St. Margaret's, Mrs. Hugh McNab; St. Fran« cig’, Mrs. Frank C. Creede; St. Cather- ine’s, Miss Catherine Murphy; B8t Jo- seph’s, Mrs. Edward F. Burns; Sacred Heart, Mrs. Mary Convey; St. Vincent de Paul’'s, Mrs. Willlam Byrne; 8t. Hel- en’s, Mrs. Jeremiah Deenen; St. Ger- trude’s, Miss Gertrude Buckley; St. Rob~ ertina’s, Mrs. J. J. McNamara; Sodality’s, Miss Grace Haley. Catarrh..>=- I had been affected with a chronic catarrh in the head, kidneys and bladder for many years. I have tried many ca- tarrh remedies, also medical treatment, without avail. 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