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The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
'bELVEDERE WILL
FIGHT SMITH,
People There Refuse to Be
Discarded by Railway
Consolidation.
WANT A NEW FERRY.
Contract and Bond Arranged for
a Service to the Island
Suburb.
ELECTRIC LINE TO SAN RAFAEL
The Belvedere Company Supports the
Enterprise in an Encouraging
Manner.
ELECTRIC LINE TO SAN RAFAEL

The people of Belvedere, having become
alarmed at the possibilities of consolida-
ton OF the Donahue and the North Pacific
Coast railways, have taken decided stand
for self-protection in the matter of trans
portation accommodations.
They have pursued no halfway policy.
After mature deliberation it was deter
mined to establish an independent ferry
service between San Francisco and Belve-
dere, and this enterprise is to be backed
up by the Belvedere Land and Water
Company to the extent of all electric
street railroad line to San Rafael from the
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
sCHEYER's HEAVY FINE.

Inspector Rivers Latest Capture Ia
Given an Allopathic Dose of Justice.
Judge Campbell gave Morris Scheyer. a
South San Francisco butcher, severe
dose of justice, which the latter apparently
expected. yesterday.
Scheyer was arrested by Market Inspec-
tor Rivers near the Four-mile House sew
eral days ago us he was coming into town
with load OF immature calves. Scheyer's $
attorney made hard fight in the Police
Court to clear him. but the evidence was
conclusive and instead of the light fine
that the defendant, from his smiling g coun-
tenance, ardentIy expected, he was ordered
to pay penalty of $50. This is the eighth
arrest that Inspector Rivers has made
within the past few weeks.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
6
Election of Delegates.

An exciting election was held at Court In
dependence No. 104, A. o. F. of A., for dele
gates to the Grand Court on Monday evening
The contesting delegates were William A.
Deane, r. J. OReily, James Grady and Charles
Spader- The first ballot stood: William A.
and Charles Spader 20. second ballot was
called for in the case of O'Reily and Grady,
Spader dropping out. O'Reily won by two
votes, the ballots cast being 43 to Al. The con-
vention will be held in Watsonvile, Santa
Cruz County, i'll MAY.
Court Independence is quite factor in
American Forestry, having grown to be one OF
the leading courts in the order in little over
two years, and being able to class itself as one
OF the most substantial courts as to financial
standing in this jurisdiction.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
An Angry Wife Hears Her Hus-
band Make an Appointment
With Another Girl.
DETERMINES TO BE PRESENT
She Meets the Fair Unknown Strange,
and Administers Severe
Flogging.
INTRODUCTORY.

Ed Homan-Hello Central, give me Main
Telephone girl-Yes, certainly; here she is
now.
Homan-Hello Lii, -- -
- on the corner of Geary and Jones streets
at 6:3O this evening, sure.
Lii, otherwise the mysterious blonde-All
right, Ed. You may count on me. But say,
Ed, how about your wife?
Homan-Oh she is at home, safe enough.
Mrs. Homan to the telephone girl-For
heavens sake don't tell 'em the wires were
crossed-I want to be there.
From the after results it is plainly eyi-
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
THE FLAG AFFAIR.
General WarfieId Explains the Alleged
Insult to "Old Glory in Hon.
oIuIu Recently.

Regarding the report from Honolulu
that duving carousal of several young
men the American flag was trampled
apon, General Warfield. who has just re-
turned from the islands, says:
81 heard of the occurrence while I was
in Honolulu, and from inquiry I believe
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01

Ladies Southern ties ST. 45, all shades every
TOE. Ryan d Ryan, 10 Montgomery avenue, y
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01

Be sure as you value their
health to get the genuine WILL
BORIS Emulsion. 1t assimilates
with the food, increases the flesh
and appetite, restores energy to
mind and body, throws off scrof-
ulous humors, cures coughs, con-
sumption, colds, asthma, pneu-
monia, influenza, debility and
wasting diseases. Manufactured
only by DIR. A. B. WILBoR,
Chemist, Boston, Mass.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
DR.. WILBOR'S
COMPOUND OF
PURE COD LIVER OIL.
WITH PHOSPHATES.

Preserve the children's golden moments,
Guard well their precious lives,
And If you'd have them strong and healthy
Have w ILBoR's EMULSION always ready
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
HARD TO KEEP AWAKE.
Young Woman. Peculiar Complaint which

Young Woman's Peculiar Complaint which
Is Troubling Physicians.
The services of physicians of Wadena,
Mimi, have been invoked In one of the
most peculiar cases. 1t is that Of Miss
Hoff, of Shell City, daughter of Rev.
Mr.. Hoff.
She is perfectly healthy and strong
and vigorous in every way, but Is
troubled with singular complaint
which seems to be getting more pro-
nounced as time passes.
The trouble with Miss HoR is that
she has hard work to keep awake. II
she sits down for a few minutes during
the day she falls at once into sound
sleep, and several times Us she was
about the house she has been known to
fall asleep standing up.
She is easily awakened by those
around her, but if left alone she falls
off again into another nap. The trouble
has been gradually coming on for some
months, and the young woman now
sleeps most Of the time.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18

and brightness and joyfulness of mutual
love and helpfulness, and healthy, rosy,
rollicking children, or tortured with pain
and sickness and mutual fault-fnding and
dependence, and lacking the binding tie of
healthy, happy offspring. A world depends
upon the young wife. If she has taken
proper care of herself and is healthy in a
womanly way, the probabilities are ali in ia.
vor of happy home filed with the music
of childish laughter. Too many young wo-
men neglect to take care of their wornanly-
selves. They shrink from the distastefll
examinations - and "local treatment y
upon which most physicians insist There
is no need for this.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription acts di.
rectly on the important and delicate organs
concerned in wifehood and motherhood. It
makes them strong and healthy It allays
inflammation, heals liberation, soothes pain
and gives the tortured nerves rest and tone.
It prepares for wifehood and maternity.
Taken during the expectant period, it BAN
ishes discomfort and makes the coming of
baby easy and comparatively painless. It
insures the newcomers health and an am
pie supply of natural nourishment. Over
10000 women have testified to its merits.
Druggists who offer substitutes aim to get
q few pennies extra profit.
DR.. Pierce's great book, Common Sense
Medical Adviser" would prevent more
than half the sickness in any family. It
ailments without doctor. It tells all
about anatomy and physiology and the
origin of life, and is the most valuable,
practical medical work ever printed A
free copy in paper covers sent for II one
cent stamps to pay cost of mailing only.
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y. For cloth-bound, 81 stamps.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18

upon typographical considerations.
The sewers of each district were To con.
verge at % common center, at which
would be located receiving basin
and steam pumping works. A tunnel
was to connect each of these district
centers with the reservoirs and pump
ing works of q sewage farm some miles
distant.
All the houses of Berlin arc
now connected with the new
drainage works, which are car
rying annually from 100000
to s5,000,000 cubic meters of sewage to
be distributed by scientific irrigation
over the surface of municipal farms
having an aggregate extent of about
$4,000 acres, or upward of 3s square
milcs. Additional land has been
bought from time TO time. Thus, the
past summer an ancient, aristocratic
estate of 1000 acres, the immortal seat
of one OF Prussia's proudest families,
with fine old chateau and magnifi-
cent park of stately elms around it,
was purchased at the price of 100000
marks (about $1,10o,ooo) for no other
purpose than to be added to the irriga-
ition district and to be transformed
into orchards and wheat fields.
1; 1t is interesting to note that the sew
age farms of Berlin measure to-day SO
per cent. more in extent than the whole
territory on which the city itself
stands, and that capital of altogether
1872 100000 has been expended on the
whole Berlin sewage system. including
the farms and their improvements and
machinery. The farms are, of course.
all cleared and tiled, and are now, after
the whole venture has been fairly under
way, richly productive. Thousands of
tons of the finest fruits are annually
sold in Berlin stores which were grown
on these sewage farms. though I
confess that on visit to these sew
age farms not long ago the idea that
this unsavory-smelling land had pro-
duced, perhaps, the very velvety peach-
es or the tlelicate-favored pears had
yesterday had on my table, was not
wholly to my liking.
From an American point Of view 1t is
novel to consider city's drainage
works as a self-sustaining or productive
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
WHITE HOUSE GUARDS.
Caught Mapping During the Night and Z
General Shifting Results.

caught Mapping During the Night and q
General Shifting Results.
! A New York Sun special from WASH
ington says: It has just been discov-
erred that President Cleyeland's night
bodyguard Of policemen have been I'M
the habit OF sleeping all night and In
consequence there has been a shaking
up Of the white house force. Several
nights ago the police captain In charge
OF the white house watch quietly let
himself into the grounds with private
key and found police sergeant and
q private sleeping in the executive offs
ces and two others asleep in one Of the
rooms on the ground floor. TwentyI
four hours later there was a general
shifting about and the guards now on
duty in the grounds were transferred
for duty In the house, while those I'M
side were detailed for duty under the
trees. The policemen who have been
IN the habit OF sleeping every night
viii be punished for violation Of
rules. The sentry-boxes that were
placed just outside the main door Of
the mansion year or more ago arc
still in service, and they are SO placed
as to command view of every entranoel
and exit Of the building. I
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
Ew OF BERLIN cAsrLn


enterprise, like its waterworks or it's
gas works, but it is precisely in that
light that Berlin regards it. Before
the new system was introduced, the cit
liens had to pay for the removal of
night=soil. ETC. So it created no new
burden on the citizens when they were
required, under the new sewage sys-
tenn, to pay a sewage rate. That is, at
moderate rate, charged against oil
property served by the new system.
The parts of the sewage farms that
have been brought under closest cult
walton are very profitable and the rest
of the land is becoming more and more
SO year after year. The net income
from the entire IS square miles does
not yet pay the full interest on the in
vestment. The fertilizing value of the
sewage is so great, and the administra-
ton of the farms so superb, that within
another five years the investment will
have become enormously productive,
although the land, when bought, was
rather sandy and arid, as most of the
soil i'll the immediate vicinity of Berlin
naturally is. Eventually the sewage
farms will have earned profit enough
to pay back all that was invested in
them, and they will then become a
source of surplus income that will mate
rally lessen the burdens of the munic-
ipal taxpayer. After 1900 sinking
fund will be created, into which annu-
ally portion of the profits from the
farms will be paid, and the amount of
the loan necessary for the purchase of
the land will thus be gradually paid Off.
WOT. II WON SruIrRRBAND
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
BERLIN's PURE WATER.
It Passes Through Many Impor-
tant Purifying Processes.
But Its Chief Safeguard Lies In the Fact
That It Does In No Way Touch
tho City's Vast Sewage
SvRtem.
Especial Berlin Letter

Especial Berlin Letterl
A plentiful supply of pure, whole
some water and perfect-working
system of drainage are among the
prime requisites of well-governed
municipality. In both particulars
many of our otherwise charming and
prosperous American cities are at
fault. Every once in awhile the hue
and cry is raised of infectious diseases
broken out In city quarters Of
tceming population, diseases traced
clearly back to the impure water sup
ply or defective drainage. True, in
comparison with the days Of our for
bears, who knew nothing OF microbes,
bacilli and bacteria, who were una
ware of the poisonous vapors and the
death-dealing infusoriae taken into
their bodies with rank water and ILL
smelling odors, even those American
cities which are poorly managed in the
two respects spoken of are vastly bet
ter off. But hygiene has made such
strides Of late years that it is really In
defeusible if the utmost care, both as
to water and drainage, be not taken
nowadays. And yet but few months
ago there was bad water scare" in
San Francisco, with reports Of many
deaths due to this cause. The Chicago
river and Lake Michigan continue to
be the dumping grounds for the vile
refuse and offal of the worlds fair city,
and her health department continues
to attribute a large portion of the NOR
tally to the contaminated water sup
ply. In New York matters in this re-
spect are not so bad, perhaps, but still
very far from satisfactory. And thus
1t Is with the large number Of other
large and progressive American cities.
The need of absolutely pure
drinking water and of perfect
sewage must be generally recognized
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
TO TRAIN NURSES.
Red Cross Society Opens a Hospital
In New York City.
One Of the Special Features OF the Insti.
tuition VIII Be the Treating of Dis
eases without the Use Of
Alcoholic Stimulants.

The New York Red Cross society
hoisted Its flag on Thanksgiving day
at 233 West One Hundredth street, New
York city, where on November 80 the
society formally opened a hospital and
q training school for Red Cross nurses.
The hospital is under the direct patrons
age of Miss Clara Barton, president Of
the National Red Cross association, and
she is expected in New York during
the week of the bazaar which is to be
held soon at the Waldorf for the benefit
Iof this hospital and training school.
(! The Red Cross society Its work rec
ognizes no nationality, sect or color,
but treats patients from the one point
OF view-that Of Christian charity. Ono
of the special features Of the hospital
department is to endeavor to care for
diseases without the use Of alcoholic
stimulants.
DR.. Lesser said that they had cured
900 cases without ever using drop Of
alcohol.
! During the last five months the sis
tiers, nurses and physicians of the New
York Red Cross society have been doing
out Of door work among the sick poor!
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18

CASTLE BRIDGE WITH v
in every part of the union before thor
ough reform may be wrought. In this
matter the example Berlin furnishes
may be instructive.
It was in 1873 that the Berlin munic-
ipality acquired control Of the water.
supply and -atlonce proceeded to create
a new and improved system. At the
same time it determined to abandon the
growingly dangerous practice Of drain
ing the city sewage into the diminutive
Spree, and it entered not only upon y
marvellous system for the disposal OF
sewage, but also proceeded, in the inter-
est of the public health, to create .
great series Of sanitary institutions.
The sanitary authorities ut Berlin had
led tho world in recent inquiries into
the relations of water supply to public
health, and now the character of the
service rendered by the Berlin water
works is constantly improving. Tho
water is taken from the Tegel and
Nugget lakes. two sheets of water IS
and 20 miles from the city. This water
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
WEARY FOR HER.

I'm weary
For my dearie
From the mornin' to the night;
I'm missin'
OF her kissin'
An her footsteps fallin' light
o I'm weary
For my dearie
From the p1ornin' to the night
Tn weary
For my dearie
When the lark flies Ger the loan:
When the meadows
Feel the shadows
An the cows come lowing home
o I'm so weary
For my dearie
An she's far away from homei
I'm. weary
For. my dearie
When the hearthstone hiokers bright;
When the lily
Dews fall chilly
An the hollows hold the night
o I'm weary
For my dearie
An her black eyes beamin' bright
30 weary
Tor you, dearie-
An you're hidden from my sight
An the blossom
Seeks your bosom,
An the snow falls ghastly white.
Where you're sleepin'
An I'm weepin
From the mornin' to the night!
p. L. Stanton. in Chicago Times-Hera1d.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18

goes through series of publications
SO chemically perfect that all germs of
disease possibly lurking in it are de-
stroyed. During the last two years there
was only part of one day when the wa
ter. was not as clear and wholesome
as desirable, owing to defect in the
machinery which was at once rcmedied.
No epidemic ofany kind lat all traceable,
directly or indirectly, to the water sup
ply has occurred in Berlin for 20 years.
More than that, there was not single
case Of serious disease which could be
laid to the burden of the water supply
within the same time. The supply is
abundant at all times, and the pressure
Is SO gagged that there is never any
water famine" not even in midsummer
up in the highest atories Of the tall
downtown buildings.
But a greater undertaking still was
the solution of the sewage problem.
Berlin had drained into the Spree, and
had used vaults for solid waste instead
OF the modern all-receiving sewers.
Good drainage was as necessary as good
water, and the permanent discharge of
impurified sewage into the Spree was
out of the question. Artificial purifca-
stion, and the manufacture of Fertilizers
from the precipitated solids, would
have been possible. But Berlin wisely
adopted the better plan of natural puri-
flcation by the irrigating of land. I'm
mense research was bestowed upon the
subject, with the result that the Berlin
drainage is the most perfect in the
world, and, so far as physical forms
and conditions are concerned, is I'M
questionably the city's most notable
achievement in municipal housekeep-
ing. The city was divided into 1e
drainage districts, called "radial sys-
tems," the divisions being arranged
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
GIRL KILLED BY HAIR BLEAcH.I
Dye Poisons Buffalo Woman and Causes
Her Death.

May Mack, who lived at 14e Oak
street, Buffalo, N. Y, is dead from usingl
hair bleach. A few days ago Miss
Mack had her hair bleached. A day|
latter she complained Of pains in her
head. A sore broke out on her fore
head, and this, coupled with the patn,I
led her friends to believe that the hairI
dye had poisoned her. AT two o'clock
IN the morning she complained of morel
severe suffering than ever. She WENT
to bed, and an hour later, when Mrs.
Cestell went to her room to see how
she was, she was unconscious. Inc
Fitch ambulance was then called.
It was thought that Miss Mack had,
taken morphine to kill herself. ThfY|
Is not only denied by her friends, but
II seems unlikely, as the girl was els
ways happy, apparently, and had never
shown any tendency toward despond-l
ency. No remnants Of morphine or
other poison could be found In herr
room, nor could amy vial or paper that
might have contained poison be foundI
It Is believed that the dye she used
on her hair caused her death.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
Lightning and Troes.

Cedar and fig trees are rarely struck
by lightning. The beech, the larch.
the fir and the chestnut also seem to
be peculiarly obnoxious to the bolts Of
Jove." There are trees, however, which
appear to attract rather than to repel
the lightning flash. The trees gener-
ally enumerated in the category Of those
which the lightning is most apt to strike
are the oak, the yew. the elm and the
Lombardy poplar.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
William Stanley,

farmer, lately from near Lourdes,
Howard county, Iowa, now living in
Southwestern Mimi, is prepared to
give full and reliable information in
regard to all lands for sale in his Sec
tion of the country. Parties desiring
a home in that locality wonld do well
to correspond with him.
Address William Stanley, Rock,
Redwood county, Mimi. to may
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
A Good Performance.

''Whilc we were in the country we
went to the theater. The play was
The Robbers and it was SO naturally
given that when we came out my wife
missed her bracelet" Fliegende
Blaetter.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
Richard Proctor's Clever Daughter.

Miss May Proctor, who went recent-
ly to Norway for the purpose of taking
observations on the eclipse of the sun,
is the daughter of the late Richard!
Proctor, the astronomer, who founded
the journal knowledge. Miss Proctor;
delivered a series of astronomical lee
lures during the voyage, which were
greatly appreciate by the young ladies'
from various colleges who accompanied
fha Nv
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
Burning Meteors.

It is supposed that meteors begin to
burn when they are within
about 125 miles Of the earth,
and the combustion is completed;
and they disappear at from IS,
to so miles above the earth. When we
see a falling star, therefore, we may
consider that we have watched it
through flight Of about 100 miles be-
fore it finally burns out and disappears
from view.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
The newly

The newly
welded couple
step through the
door of the fu-
ture. They pass
from the happy,
I b Dug ht1 e . 8
present into an
avenue of posi-
bilities. The fu-
t ure Is what
they make it
W h a t til cir
health makes it
happy or mis-
cradle "a sue
cess or failure
full Of the love