The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1904, Page 6

1904. [MBRIA SHOWS PATTI SINGS FAREWELL AND LEAVES STORM BRUISES Steamer Encounters a Heavy Gale in Atlantic and Great Damage Is Done to the Deck —_— CAPTAIN'S ROOM WRECKED T SR Waves Sweep Over the Vessel. Flooding the Cabin and Bad- ly Imjuring Four Seamen el T NE day from Liverpool Umbria arrived nd Queens her e and he showing with the seas. The forward under the bridge en repaired with canvas The steamer had violent wn t neox westerly gales bulkhead in and had be was stove a tens seas gales very heavy head thro the passage. The greatest force of t gale was on January 6 and Among the pass gers was Melton or, artist of the London Illustrated s, who is on his way to Japan did the the Umbria ove atest dam- her port B Monday, smashing the front t side of the deckhouse an aptain’s room. The cap- ” ometer and other »yed an water po terrific was the port force th ashed e of them the « arpaulin and the brass ull n- 1 h another wave, A th n the afte cabin. her king stripping off Alcazar. The play was the flame, and the S ce to s what to hear and t ek last There v at was ¢ Valter was cannot , and the splen- h his first ap- pearar eted must have been highly f to him. Fred Batler sh 1 t a role that will nger than he The that the 1| s& Block's in others i M e same Durkin was appropri- the Dougl : b as hero, h nd Maria Howe played ditto n th ter of Mrs. Wolton. The part, however, did afford her an J i nf doing r special work sets well upon her npever- Chutes. Mr Mre. Walter Deaves’ “Merry Manikins” ¥ new at the Chutes yes- terday and made hits at both perform- ances. La Drew and- La Zone, “tHe daffy dame and the tad”; the Girdel- | lers, society acrobats and equilibrist and Luce and Luce. comedy sketch art- ists, also made their first appearances and were well received. Joe and Sac Britton, the clever colored dancers; Ma- bel Lamson, the illustrated song singer, and the amimatoscope, showing many new and interesting moving pictures completed the programme. The ama- teurs will appear on Thursday night. —_———— TRINIDAD, Colo., Jan. 11.—A fire which originated in the basement of Fowler's fur ture store caused $100.000 damage this noon before it could be put under control. Th Masonic block and the Bloom block were stroyed. For a time the entire business p tion of the city was in danger. e ————e after There is no specific for consumption. The nearest approach to a cure is right | living and Scott’s Emulsion. No matter what the -treat- ment may be Scott’s Emul- sion will prove a valuable addition. It has often turned the scale of health the right way. Because Scott’s Emul- sion contains the pure cod | liver oil it furnishes }£1eat and | fat. Theh: hosphites pro- vide tissué?ggd. glood-fl(’)od and marrow-food. The com- bination of the two represents a wonderful form of nourish- ment and one that can be readily taken and retained at any stage ‘of the disease. Scott’s Emulsion gives best results when used most reg- ularly. Made a part of the consumptive’s regular diet it _will invariably afford relief. | Occasional use of * Scott’s | Emulsion is a test unfair to the Emulsion and the patient, ‘We'll send you a sample free upon request. W YORK, Jan. 11.—The swamnr(‘ the effects | 'Great Audience Is ' Pained by Part- ‘ ing Ditty. Police and Firemen - Safeguard the Assembly. Qh, Patti, how could you? How could you? [ What have we ever dgne to you that you should impose at ' miserable “Last Farewell” upon us? It is a damned spot that will not out. The cheapest ballad monger at the Orpheum has never done worse, the Bowery never beaten it. The rhyme is atro- clous—"‘real” with “feel,” for one shin- | ing the music—save the | mark!—a shrieking banality; the senti- ment—I thank thee for the word, Wal- lace Brownlow—"putrid,” positively putrid. And Adelina Patti sings {t— sings it with a stage tear, as she says, “I-smile, but I am weeping,” or some example; other such gibberish in which the thing abounds. More, the unspeakable name of its perpetrator is upon the programme. The song is advertised as for sale in the foyer. It is further shamefully ar- knowledged to have been expressiy composed for Mme. Patti's farewell tour. The inference is obvious, and | goes far to justify those who have cried out upon the commercialism of last visit of the singer. With Handel, Schubert and Gounod upon the programme, with all the wealth of Mo- zart and—to think for a moment of all there is yet in the Patti throat, and be- fore a vast audience at least entitled to common courte the singer's in- troduction of this unholy claptrap is | utterly inexcusable. It spoiled for me all that went before and came after it. Yet otherwise the singer was not in so good voice as on the first evening. This doubtless was caused by the shock attendant on the railway accident in which the Patti ccmpany was concerned on Sunday Per s in consequence of -his t the song happened. The first night A But she gave us “Angels Ever it and ir,” and with a charm t is wholly hers. Fearful, after my nthusiasms of Thursday night, to be v disappointed yesterday, I was 1 to find again that exqui- iique vocal quality that is the f Patti’'s power. One hardly fully yesterday, however, cer- not in the Handel number. It it ore rim in the first encore, favorite Gounod “Serenade,” de- liciously phrased and balanced. Miss ¥ za Zamels undertook the violin ob- ligato with quick and delicate sy thy, and with & support ‘at the charming a bit viano there of ensemble work vou'll hear this side of Christmas. Ma- dame liked it herself, for she gave Miss was as Zamels a sounding kiss as’ she came off the stage and led the young violin- > to the footlights to share the ap- plause. To this madame gave as en- core the mever to be sufficiently cxe- crated “Last Farewell.” Schubert’s “Serenade” was the next programmed number, and not striking- ly sympathetic. In fact, until mmadame reached the “Home Sweet Home" she was not at her Thursday night level. But here she came to her own again. I suppose no one can sing this old, old song, that even the whole bad band of barrel organists has failed to kill, as | Patti can still sing it. There were pas sages in it purely divine, and one cried fout: “Oh, the pity of it, that this thing can ever die!” As second encore she gave the “Comin’ Thro' the Rye” again. But there was not in the ren- dering that amazing moment of youth, that buoyant coquetry that carried the thing off so victoriously on Thursday. The audience was by no means so en- thusiastic as on that famous day. The applause was as lengthy, but thinner. Yet after the last note of the last song that this greatest of singers will sing here, it rang out tumultuously. ‘Again and again the little lady returned—I heard her say “Bless their hearts!” as she went to bow for the last time—and how, oh, how, we should have loved her but for that “Last Farewel There was a stageful of audience be- sides the houseful outside, and when the curtain went up, revealing the assem- bled multitudes like a great chorus, there was a twitter that became a roar of laughter. Then, really, these are | good people that Patti brings. Signor Sapio as accompanist is a-host in him- self, discreet, sympathetic and thor- »iighly musicianly.” Miss Zamels, who | went on at a moment’s notice with a | couple of solos in place of Anton Heg- ner, who was ill, again proved herself {a delightful fiddler. She has, by the | way, Ysaye's own fiddle for seventeen vears. Her substitute humbers were the prelude of “The Deluge” (Saint- ens) and the rarely heard “The Bee" of Schubert, that, arranged for ‘the cello, was to be given by Mr. Hegner. Miss Zamels' other number was . the unod-Wieniawski “Faust Fantaisie,” conspicuous for some fine harmonics in its clear and- fervid rendering. Miss Margolies was again heard in some briiliant Liszt, and Mr. Cunningham in a smooth and tender “Liedanden Abendstern” from Tannhauser, with a rather untiramatic “I'Pagliacei” pro- logue as encore. Mr. Virgo's numbers were “O Vision Entrancing” and “Quando le Sera.” There seems no par- ticular yeason for Mr. Virgo to sing. And so, and so, the greatest voice of the last century has for us gone with the things that return no mor2 and to the tune of “The Last Farewell.” BLANCHE PARTINGTON. AT S . TRAVEL LONG DISTANCES. © Many Persons Come From the Interior to Attend the Matinee. San Francisco has heard Madame Adelina Patti, Baroness Cederstrom, the most famous singer of her time, for the last time. & The farewell concert given at the Grand Opera-house yesterday afternoon attracted an audience that completely | filled the ._ndnoflnm and also the big|ing stage: : "SCOTT & BOWNE, | gog Peail Street, New York. | The enormous demand for seats re- : BEHIND MEMORY OF EXECRABLE AR S A N R sulted in a permit being issued by the police and fire departments for seats to be placed on the stage. The 400 chairs were securely fastened to the floor and every precaution taken for the safety of the audience. More than 3000 people gained en- trance to the opera-house yesterday afternoon, and as many more would have liked to have been among those that listened to the last songs to be rendered in this city by the famous Patti, There were not more than 200 men in the big audience and the sight of S0 many women was one not often presented in a theater. Marcys R. Mayer, manager of Mad- ame Patti, was for a time as great an attraction as the diva herself. He was besieged yesterday by dozens of pretty women, who sought his aid to secure seats. BIG DEMAND FOR When the doors of the opera-house were opened there was a waiting throng of charmingly gowned feminin- ity possessed of tickets for the seats on the stage. The stage seats were not reserved, and the novelty of going “be- hind the footlights” and observing the artists at close range’ was a great ag- traction to hundreds. Captain Spillane of the Police De- partment had a number of picked men on hand, and Assistant Chief Dough- erty of the Fire Department also had a squad of men on duty at the theater. The policemen and- firemen were sta- tioned in front of the opera-house, in the foyer, the lobbies, the aisles and on the stage, and the manner in which the crowds were handled reflected the greatest credit on the officers and fire- men. The audience was a remarkable one in every respect. Some were there to re- vive memories of thirty and more years past, while there were little tots in arms who in the future will be able to say that they listened to the voice of Ade- lina Patti. Of course, there was not the elaboratc display of gowns there was last Thurs- { day evening, but the audience presen:- ed a brilliant appearance, costly after- noon dresses and street wraps being worn. There were many people in the audi- cnce that had traveled long distances to be present at the concert, and the opera-house was animated in the buzz of gossip for half an rour before the curtain ascended. NOVEL SIGHT IS PRESENTED. When the curtain went up the novel sight of a large crowd seated on the stage drew considerable comment from those in front.. Those that were on the stage were the fortunate ones, how- ever. They not only heard Patti to better advantage, but were rewarded with the unusual spectacle of the crowded theater in front. There was a veritable sea of human faces reach- ing from the seats near the footlights and stretching upward to the very roof of the opera-house at the back of the top gallery. * The indisposition of Hegnér, the cell- ist. necessitated a change in the pro- gramme, and the announcement: by Signor R. Sapic, the musical director, was received in kindly spirit. The various artists associated with Mme. Batti received a generous wel- come, it the big share of applause was reserved for the famous singer whose -name is a household word. When Mme. Patti lightly tripped upon the stage the applause was Intense and kept the diva bowing for a full min- ute. After the rendition of her first song there was a renewal of applause, Flowers were hurled on the and the distinguished artist returned ‘to respond. PATTI SINGS HER FAREWELL. The words of “The Last Farewell” were sung, and it seemed as if that vast gathering was indeed parting with an old With that remarkable depth of feel- ~ which she Is famous, Mme. 1 ‘her audience to a point intense 5 1 | POPULAR ENGLISH ACT- RESS WHO IS HERE AGAIN AFTER MANY YEARS. ES Sl This was Mme. Patti's farewell to that great gathering: It seems €0 sweet once more'to meet, To know and feel your fave is reai; And here to-night, with faces bright, Y shown I' Your hearts hav elcome home. by days, you could not last; dear friends, the dream is past 8o fare thee well, farewell to theg foreve Good-by, old friend we'll never meet again. Though sad my heart, yet sadder is the parting, But sadder still to bréathe the last good-by. And all the kindness that you've always shown me, Each gentle word is graven on my heart; Although 1 sm¥le, yet still my tears are flowing, And just because it is the last farewell DIVA KISSES TINY TOT. The song was indeed the farewell of the singer whose silvery tones have been heaid for half a céntury, who has won the homage of many millions of men and women, who has swayed rul- ers of millions, When Mme. Patti left the stage after singing her farewell song her eyes were filed with tears and she greeted a number of ladies that had gathered | elose to the entrance. | Patti threw her arms around two of the ladies of her company and kissed them affectionately. One woman who had a little child of two years in her arms pressed for- ward and held the child out toward | the diva. Patti took the little one and kissed it, making the young mother the happiest woman in that large audience {of the gentler sex. The scene of enthusiasm was repeated later on when Mme. Patti again ap- peared. The cheering was kept up until the singer. sang “Comin’ Through the Rye,” and then again that wave of ap- plause went up in a mighty volume and | would not cease. Again and again Mme. Patti returned to the stage. She kissed her fingers to her admirers, bowed and passed from sight. Back on the.stage of the opera-house Mme. Patti was fairly besieged by those who had- purchased the. stage seats. The police officers were unable to restrain the eathusiasm of dozens of Women who flocked around the diva as she was escorted to her carriage by her husband, Baron Cederstrom. | A final number by two, singers of the company followed the exit of Mme. Patti, and the concert was over. The vast audience slowly dispersed. “I have heard Patti again,” was an expression freely used in the lobb: while there were many that congratu- lated themselves at having taken ad- vantage of their first opnortunity to hear the once great singer. Some there were, however, that quietly. remarked, “We will never hear the {ncomparable Patti azain.” And so San Francisco took its fare- well of the woman whose name will live forever in the realms of melody. Tivoli. The real opening of the new Tivoli Theatér took place last evening. *Ix- fon” cauld hardly be counted other than a holiday piece and not the real business of the Tivoli, which is to dis- vense an abundance of melody along with a variable quantity of fun. Had it been in accordance with the plans of the Tivoli management to give “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” as the first attraction in the new house then there would have been fewer empty seats during the first weeks of the season. ‘With “When Johnny Comes Marching Home" the house may be said to have found something that ought to be a strong drawing card. The opening per- formance of this work was given last i F ol | l 3 25 S evening. It was put on with a chorus that crowded the stage whenever it was all concentrated within the compass of one scene. It not only filled the stage; its volume filled the house so strongly that it was like a first-class imitation of grand opera at times. In truth the ensemble is the thing in “When Johnny Comes Marching | Home.” The solo work is not very am- bitious from the musical goint of esti- mation, but there is a story and . the acting was well enough' done to carry to the end the interest that fairly be- gan in the second act and to hold the audience in suspense, notwithstanding that the “argument” as printed in the programme in advance left very little to be guessed at. The cssence of the story is that a newly married Union crmy officer, ]bruught by a singular train of circum- tances under suspicion as a spy, rath- er than to permit blame to fall upon his wife or upon her young brother, who is guilty, goes through a court- martial without telling the truth that would save hinfself from peril. Finally, in the last scene, when the execution of this officer is due to take place, a grotesque character, which is of course Ferris Hartman, supplies the excul- pating facts. The odd thing about this last scene was that Hartman actually went into it with seriousness enough to arouse the suspicion that he would be a melo- dramatic light if ever his coruscations and twinklings in the comic arena should become dim. If there was any surprise in the performance’ Ferris Hartman furnished it in the scene al- luded to. The opera, possibly where it falls down in solos, more than makes good in choruses. It is fun_.y only in spots and these are not too funny. It is mil- itary from beginning to end. The American flag is seen and - aved fre- quently. It comes on in marches, in parades and in tableaux. With it there is a running accompaniment, from time to)time, of Southern songs, “Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground,” “Dixie” and “Maryland, My Maryland,” serving as a counterbalance of amity against ““Marching Through Georgia” and “The Star SpangledBanner.” The cast took in Cunningham, Schus- ter, Brownlow, Hartman, Aspland, Fo- sarty, Webb, Eugenia Barker, Francis Gibson, Nettie Deglow, Bessie Tanné- hill, Anna Lichter and Annie Myers. The last named distinguished herseif by a particularly melodious rendering of “Way Down Upen the Suwanee River,” which was harmonized quite skillfully. Lichter sustained the vocal requirements of her part very well. Not so much could be said of Eugenia Bark- er. “Teddy Webb had a good chance to do a little, a very little, as Uncle Tom "in burnt cork work, and that went all right. The veices of Cunninghameand | Brownlow had some good songs, and Tannehill has a duet yith Cunningham that is excellent. The scenery of “When Johhny Comes Marching Home” should not be over- lcoked. There is a moonlight scene that was so good that the audience applaud- ed it on first sight when there was no one on the stage; so there was no doubt that it was the sparkling of the moon- light on the river and the fireflies flit- ting about in the dusk of the magnolia trees that caught the public fancy. In addition to the white chorus there was a black one and a regular Southern plantation “breakdown” on a large scale to lend variety and verisimilitude. In the line of adhering to the unities of time the female chorus appeared in the first and second acts in full-blown “crinoline,” such as our thothers wore in the days of the '60's and thereabouts. ‘When the stage was crowded and the tiltive crinolines were puehed about by dancers, like so many inflated balloons, the audience laughed at the outworn custom of the good old time to its full content. Hartman had one turn in crinoline. “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” is good enough as it is now brought out at the Tivoli to be worth 'the money and time of every one in the city and all the suburbs. SONG Mrs. Langtry Proves Herself Clever Actress. “Beauty -Shop” at| Fischer’'s Great Success. | ———— | Stranger here for sixteen years, Mrs. | Langtry last night reappeared to local | ken in a new comedy by Percy Fendall, “Mrs. Deering’s Divorce.” The audi- ence was large and gowny that greeted i the once famous English beauty, and would probably have been as large ! whatever she had presented. As with Patti it is a case of personality, curi- | osity and sentiment. Those who saw | her sixteen years ago wanted fo see | if the “Jersey Lily" still retained her beauty. Those who hadn't wished to see the woman who came first into prominence by pouring an ice down the august neck of the Prince of Wales. Others again—but whatever the reason every one was there and the house, crowded. I did not see Mrs. Langtry sixteen years ago, so cannot say whether the actress has “retained” her beauty. It is, however. a handsome woman, tali, slim and shouldered like a Juno, that comes out this time. They gave her fifty-one years in the foyer last night, | she doesn’t look them by a good ten. | She still suggests, though irregular in feature, the classic mold of her pictures; her hair, bronze in its lights, is still worn in its graceful, old fashion, and her bearing is the same regal habit of former fame. One thing is changed. | They said she could not act when she | was here before. Mrs. Langtry can act | now. | Percy Fendall has made a character in Mrs. Deering that fits the chicf lady of is cast very happily. With the play as a whole he has not been ful. The story is of a rather tempestu- ous pair who have too hastily decided upon divorce. They still love each other, but think they don't. A year after the divorce the husband decides | to marry again, a wealthy spinster | with views. He comes amiably to tell his wife about the matter and finds her on the eve of receiving a visit from the wealthy spinster, who is thought- fully coming to look into her future husband’s references. This scene is excellently handled by the playwright. In fact, the whole first act is lavish in promise. The husband goes to an ante- | room while the catechism takes place, his wife, divided between laughter and tears, giving him an excellent “charac ter,” that is duly noted down by the spinster. In the character of the spin- ster Mr. Fendall has again been fortu- nate, the humorous and pathetic being very skillfully blended. Deering comes | out after her departure to thank his | wife for her amiable recommendation, and in five minutes is in the midst of an affectionate quarrel with her. The act closes with Mrs. Deering's accept- ance of a rich, “silly ass™ kind of fel- | low, Jimmy Foster, who adores her. Up to here the play is plausible and quite ingeniously compounded. As will be seen, Mr. Fendall had a meaty plot to his hand and thus far had skilifully developed it. Here, however, he seems to have become tired. His second act, containing one very humorous scene between Captain Deering and his im- mensely respectable future mother-in- law, Lady Granpier; another between Mr. Deering, the prospective father-in- law, and Lady Granpier, is sufficiently funny but unconvinecing. Its pedple talk as even the lowest of high society | never talks, and the act ends in a near approach té what south of Market calls a “rough house.” The third act again is lightweight, with Mr. Fendall's big- gish opportunities gone a-glimmering. It takes place in the “parlors” of a fashionable dressmaking establishment, where Jimmy Foster, Captain Deering and all the rest of the people rather impossibly find themselves. Still, there is plenty of entertainment in the: play and it is exceliently acted. Capricious, witty, high-spirited, Mrs. | Langtry is as Mrs. Deering. There is a constant suggestion of Mrs. Campbell in the deep voice, though the nervous, snappy delivery is very unlike the suave measures of Mrs. Pat's phrase. Not less unlike the serpentine quality of the Campbell movement is the large, free, almast gawky gesture of Mrs. Langtry. It is a very satisfying as-| sumption, her playful fencing with Cap- tain Deering, her scene with the spin- ster, the delightful bit where, listening | to a risque story from the model father- in-law, she sets the couch shaking with | a laugh that is the best of its sort since Dolly Varden's, all of high comedy or- der. Of course, Mrs. Langtry’s gowns are charming, a black satin frock in the first act—she is laughably in mourning for Captain Deering, white | and glitter in the second, and black vel- | vet and ivory satin in the third. Curi- ously the actress’ “make-up” was dis- tinctly amateurish. The support is of unusually good | quality. Frederick Truesdell as Cap- | taln Deering brings a not plausible part convincingly into the picture. He is virile, good natured and slightly | scampish—in the “Man-from-Mexico” way, just as the part demands. The scene between him, Mrs. Langtry and Mrs. Haydon in the first act is a rather remarkable example of stage manage- ment. It goes with splendid zip. Har- lod Mead is the “silly ass” man, Jimmy Foster, and is vacuously clever. Steph- | en B. French is an excellent Lord Gran- pier, with a little overleaning to the farce comical. The women also are very satisfying. KathePine Stewart is an elaborately | comical and splendid .person as Lady | Granpier, and Ina Goldsmith as the | spinster daughter Susannah is intelli. | gently humorous. The rest as well as these are well gowned, and the -set- | tings are solidly beautiful. Not expect- ing too much, one may enjoy ‘“Mrs. Deering's Divorce.” BLANCHE PARTINGTON. —_——— TORONTO, Ontario. Jan. 11.—A. E. Ames & Co., bankers end brokers, who May with Habilities of $10,000,000, ml'z. ‘-h-l'l 1 sued a circular to their creditors stating that a second payment of 25 per cent of tmmt-'?—m g~ | shoula | bacco. MAKES APPEAL . FOR COLDFOOT Commissioner Urges Better Facilities for One of the Most Northerly Stations AR TR WANTS NEW ROAD BUILT L 8 Request Is Made That the” American Colony Be Given Adequate Aecommodations s WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—D. A. Mc- Kenzie, United States Commissioner at the Koyukuk River, Coldfoot, on Alaska, had an interview with the President to-day. The pestoffice at Coldfoot is one of the most northerly stations of the United States. The postmaster is a woman. She receives and sends out ten mails each year. Commissioner McKenzie is in Wash- ington to urge on the authorities the necessity of improving the transporta- tion facilities of Alaska. A read, he suggests, should be constructed from the Yukon River to the Coldfoot re- gion and a reindeer station be estab- lished in the northern part of the Ter- ritory, where reindeer may be bred, both for food and for the carrying of burdens. it is impéssible now to obtain meat in Coldfoot ex- cept that of wild animals killed in the vicinity, and that is scarce. Prov sions of all kinds are high, as on ac count of the practical, impassability of the trails, it costs $400 a ton transport provisions from Seattle to to | colatoot. Commissioner McKenzie called the President’s attention to the urgent need that the colony of Americans,lo- cated at Coldfoot be given reasonable transportation facilities by the Gov- ernment. —e————— Central. If any person does not feel a shud- der run up his spine at the Central this week it is because he has no spine no nerves. For “The Moonshiners” a goed old Morosco play of nerves., The fact that there are no real pile- drivers or real fire engines is account- able for only because such things would be out of place in the Blue Ridge Mountains. They have a r#al villain, however, and he is compensation .for the absent piledriver and the missing fire engine. “The Moonshiners” is dangerously like “In Old Kentucky,” with the horsey part cut cut; it is alee kin to a dozen other melodramas of the plain folks stamp. The promiscuous shoot- ing comes in just e such actions come. But there is shooting and what would the Central be with- out the smell of powder after the ad vertising curtain had been dropped? The one innovation of the melodrama is that Georgie Woodthorpe smokes pipe. Georgie has to be one of the po’ white trash,” and she carries h Missouri meerschaum with an air, bt te those who sit in the frant rows t secret will out. She smokes cubeb to- The smell of it reminds you of your youthful days, when you used the o sneak behind the barn with brave, imitation cigarettes when p was not at home. ides Miss Wood- thorpe’s pipe, there is Tommy Shearer, who fills in the gaps with blackface specialties. The gaps demand some- thing strenuous, and he is some of that. —————————— Wealth of Greater New York. W YORK, Jan. 11.—The a sessed valuation of taxable property in New York City for 1904, made pub lic to-day, shows a total for all bor- oughs of $4,798,344,788, an increa of $281,798,299 over 1903. Land val- ues comprised $3,697,686,935 of the total. These totals include the real estate assessments for individuals and corporations. but not the special fran- chise assessments, estimated ‘at about $250,000,000, which will be added on March 31, when the books are closec ADVERTISEMENTS. = Miss Agnes Miller, of icago, speaks to young women about dangers of the Menstrual Period. . &Tofiw:w:m:—lmh i gl gy gl e :ez-?nmulmw it meant three days of intense pain. The doctor said this wasdue to aninflamed condition of the uterine nppundafie: | "caused by repeated and neglected eo! rls only realized how G Com- them. Thank God Pinkham’s Vegetable pound, that was the only medicine which helped me any. Within three | weeks after I started to take it, I noticed 2 marked improvement in my general health, and at the time of my next monthly period the pain had diminished bly. I kept u the treatment, and was cured a mtg I am like another person since. I am in rrfea health, my are brighter, I have added 12 to my weight, my color is and I feel :‘fh:o?:m .".-Chkl:o. 0. ve., — §5000 forfeit if ariginal of above lettar proving gemuine- The monthly sickness reflects the condition of a woman's “l time should ve promp