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HUSBAND AND COFFEE.
Would Be Foolish to Stay With 1t.

I must tell you about my husband
and his experience with coffee He had
been nervous and more or less irritable,
suffering with nausea and waterbrash
from time to time and sleeplessness,
with a considerable amount of indiges-
ton
l finally induced him to leave off
the coffee, for while his ailments We're
different somewhat from mine, I was
convinced that it was the poisoning of
the nervous system that caused his
troubles as we'll as my own.
We have now been using Postum over
a year, and are in the very best Of
health, stout and hearty every way.
You may be sure we have learned to
make Postum so it tastes fine, for we
believe in good things We made
Postum rather sloppy at first.
l cannot describe what a blessing we
have both derived from the use of Pos
tum- l have written these facts in the
hope that some others may be benefited
by the statement and leave off the cof-
fee that is the real cause of so much
physical suffering. A friend of ours.
Mrs. Emma Dahlgren, had dreadful
stomach troubles for years, boating
after meals. great nervousness and Sc
rious constipation. The physicians
could not do her any good, but imne-
diately after she left off coffee and be-
gan using Postum, she got over her
nervousness, constipation and other
sufferings, and now enjoys fine health.
She Is not like the same person; cheer
full at all times now. while formerly she
was very respondent and ILL., Mrs.
Lena Noble, Fairfield. Ia.
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EPWORTH LEAGUE.
The District Convention Begins Its
Sessions at Santa Cruz.


SANTA CRUZ. April 15.-The Ep-
worth League District Convention be-
gan it's business session this morning.
The reports showed progress. The
total membership is 3,463. In the dis
trict there are thirty-eight churches and
thirty-one leagues.
Fraternal greetings were received
from Mrs c. A Fitch of the Congrega-
tional Christian Endeavor Society and
Rev. f. H. Hayden of the Baptist
Church and responses were made by
c. B. Perkins, presiding officer of the
convention.
In the social department the principal
address was made by c. H. Jacob OF
San Francisco
A resolution prepared by committees
from the San Francisco and Los An
geles Districts to the effect that the
league give hearty cooperative efforts
to secure the International convention
for California in 1901 was adopted, and
the league will send a large delegation
to Indianapolis to work for the conven-
ton.
A junior rally in the evening was pre-
sided over by Elite B. Lloyd of Pacific
Grove.
The league decided to hold its next
annual convention at Pacific Grove. The
following officers were elected: H. d.
Smith, Santa Cruz, President; H.
Winston, Pacific Grove, First Vice Pres
ident; G. E. R. Hart, San Jose, Second
Vice President; Fannie Johnston, Col
lege Park, Third Vice President; j. G.
Tooker, San Francisco, Fourth Vice
President; E. c. Hurlburt of Campbell,
Secretary; A. G. Jacob of San Fran
cisco, Treasurer; Eta 3 Lloyd of Pa
cific Grove. Junior superintendent;
Tessie Crothers, San Jose, intermediate
Superintendent.
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The Murdoch Note Suit.

WILLOWS, April 15.-To- days pro-
ceedings in the Murdoch case was taken
up in reading checks and drafts signed
by William Murdoch, which will be ex-
hibited as to signature. About LOCO
checks will be offered in evidence. The
taking of testimony for the defense will
begin on Monday. The defense will
claim that the signature to the note is
forgery, and that it was traced from a
deed signed by William MURDOCH which
deed has been in possession of Mary
Helen Murdoch. the plaintiff The de-
Tense will try to impeach the plaintiff S
witnesses, and a conspiracy will be
charged 1t is said that the testimony
for the defense viii occupy three weeks
in hearing
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BIG CARGO OF FLOUR.
The Lenox Clears for the Orient
With Over 47,OOO barrels.

PORTLAND, April 15.-The oregon
Railway and Navigation Companys
steamship Lenox cleared to-day for ORR
entail ports with the largest cargo of
flour ever put afioat on the Pacific
Coast, and. with the single exception of
the steamship tSylyania, which cleared
from Newport News a few weeks ago,
it is the largest cargo ever put afioat
anywhere in the world. 1t consists of
Al 1913 barrels.
The Lenox is the third steamer to
leave Portland within the past thirty
days, and the combined Oriental flour
shipments on the three steamers were
105, 255 barrels, over three-fourths of
which was for eHongkong and the re-
mainder for Japan ports. The LenoX
also carried a shipment of about 1000
bushels of barley, said to be the first
of this cereal to be exported to Japan
from the Northwest
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Railroads in the Philippines.

1t has often been suggested that the
building of railroads through the Phil
ippines would greatly facilitate their
development. As applied to Luzon
alone the suggestion is true. If a rail-
road should be built from the north
and south of Luzon into and from Ma
Mia, it would double the population of
that city and increase its export trade
to a paying. extent. 1t would have a
still greater influence in the pacifica-
tom and civilization of the people. They
would become familiarized with one an
other and with ourselves. 1T would
accustom them to the spread Of modern
ideas and result in more general diff
fusion of knowledge. Spheres of foreign
influence in China are scarcely more
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THE VALLEY ROAD.
Scene of Activity From Stockton
to Port Richmond.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 15.-The
Valley road from Point Richmond to
Stockton is a scene of activity all along
the line, and it will not be many more
months before the Santa Fe's terminal
is finished and ready for business. The
big Franklin tunnel through the noun
tains above Port. Costa will be COM
pleted by July 1st, or near that time
The east end is in 2,224 feet and the
west end 2, 400, and only 934 feet remain
between heads.
From the west end to Pinole fully 80
per cent. of the work is finished with
the exception of two points. One of
these is the LOO foot tunnel. of which
there remains 200 feet to put through
From Pinole to Point Richmond the
work has been opened up at all of the
most difficult points. and the contrac
tors are about to begin on the 800 foot
tunnel at the point
The piers for the big draw bridge over
the San Joaquin River are being put
up, and the grade is completed between
Stockton and the river On the unre-
claimed land west of the river dredge
are at work throwing up the twelve foot
bank that will be necessary to raise the
roadbed above the level of the levees.
The bank is practically completed for
four miles, and is also completed from
Old River westward from the end of the
marshes.
From there to Antioch, eleven miles,
the grading is completed and ready for
the track. The bridge across Middle
and Old Rivers and the viaduct across
Alhambra Valley have not yet been be-
gun, but will be shortly. The heavy
grading over the coast range and the
1,lG0 foot tunnel on the way are COM
pleted, and Chief Engineer Story is
confident that the greatest of his diff
culties has been surmounted.
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n Africa and Polynesia. Surely YAM
zee greed at this, the first opportunity,
seems to demonstrate that the British
American friendship will not be of long
duration"
A number of papers also point out the
absolute necessity of larger navy
The semi official Post in an inspired
article SAYS: probably the Samoan
ANTIQUITIES would not have arisen at all
if the other countries had to reckon
with strong German fleet ready for
any emergency"
Many of the papers have emphasized
the fact that the absence of cable con-
nection with Samoa was largely respon-
sihIe for the most recent troubles. They
urge the laying of a cable as soon as
possible.
The Cologne Gazette points out that
the system of unanimity is a feature
which the United States has previously
strongly insisted upon, in quoting Presi-
dent Harrison in 1892. The paper also
deduces that, even accepting the Amer
lean Interpretation of the treaty, Ad-
miral Kautz has put himself in the
wrong.
The officials of the United States En-
bassy are we'll satisfied with Baron Won
Buelow's speech, which agreed with his
previous statements to the United
States ambassador, Mr.. White, who
considers his speech to have been mod
crate and pacific, and he cabled WASH
ington So
The correspondent of the Associated
Press here learns that both the United
States and Great Britain expressed the
hope that the unanimity principle would
not be carried to an unreasonable ex-
tent, which might easily illustrate the
whole purpose of the commission and
result in a deadlock if one Power stood
out against the others on every ques-
ton.
The appointment of the Samoan Com
mission and the final acceptance by
Great Britain of the German proposal as
to- it's scope and methods is hailed with
joy by the entire press, and the belief IS
Expressed that something like order and
harmony will now be re-established in
the islands, and thus revive one of the
main disturbing factors standing in the
way of an understanding between the
three countries.
The United States Consul General.
Frank Mason, has revised figures show
ing that in the last three months there
was an increase of SO, 407 ,034 in the ex-
ports to the United States.
The Hamburg inspectors have lately
found trichina in the American picked
pork, and have ordered that henceforth
every piece be tested separately.
The ''Voewaerts'' announces that
many Arab coolies from Northwest
Africa are arriving at Banadense from
tier, whence they are sent to cotton
mills throughout Gerany.
The Queen of Roumania, who is now
in Germany, has accepted the role of
floral queen at the Cologne floral tour
nament in May.
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American Control in Hawaii.

One indictment brought against Pres
ident McKinIey's policy of benevolent
Intervention in the Philippines is that
Americans are utterly without expert
ence in the control of Oriental races,
But the traveller who steps ashore at
Honolulu finds town as polyglot as
Manila and yet Enthusiastically Ameri-
can in its characteristics 1t is about
as large as the old city of Salem. Mass.
Honolulu has fourteen churches a
Young Mems Christian Association,
three or four newspapers, lodges of the
Masonic, Odd Fellow, and ether orders,
post of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, camp of the Sons of Veterans,
asylums for the poor, hospitals for the
sick and insane, a railroad, electric
lights, telephones, public parks and
public baths, and a compulsory system
of education. 1t is, in brief, thor
oughly modern community, created out
Of the most incongruous elements of
population that are gathered anywhere
in the civilized world.
Four-fifths of this motley population
is composed of either Malayo- Poynesi-
ans or Asiatics, the chief race elements
of the Philippines. The Americans in
Hawaii number all told only 3.OS6. or
less than per cent This little hand
full has controlled Hawaii and controls
it to-day, not by force of arms, but by
force of character. Hawaii is Ameri-
can for the simple reason that the men
of our race who went there three-auar-
tiers of a century ago and their success
sors have proven through all these
years of free and fair competition that
they were the wisest, the ablest and
the strongest counselors and leaders
and administrators of the strangely
mingled people of this ocean realm. Tt
has simply been question of the sur
vival of the fittest.-Winthrop L. Mar
win, in the American Monthly Review of
Reviews
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San Francisco Leper Hospital.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.-The
leper building at the pest house. was
burned to the ground to-day by order
of the Board of Supervisors, to make
room for a nuch needed new structure.
The building to be erected on the site of
the old leper building will be of cheap
construction but in it's dimension it will
be ample for the present needs of the
unfortunate who are to occupy it. 1t
it to be fitted with comfortable beds ana
all furnishings necessary for the COM
fort of the patients and Their attendants.
1t was thought best not to build an
expensive building, as it is hoped that
in the near future arrangements can be
made with the Federal Government for
the accommodation of California lepers
at the leper colony in the Hawaiian ISL
andS
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Necessary Findings for
Your New Dress.

Non-rustab1e hooks and eyes,
black OF white, two dozen on
card. Price. &c card.
Best quality horn bones, one
dozen in bunch; priced as to
length, &c, &c, Sc and Zoe per
dozen.
Covered dress steeIs, assorted
lengths, in bunch of dozen.
Price, SC bunch.
Featherbone for boning waist
of dress. Price, Zoe and 15c
per yard.
Cotton wha1ebone casing, in
various co1ors. Price, 112c per
yard.
ALI silk seam binding ribbon,
for binding seams of waist.
Price, i2c piece.
Rubber, nainsook covered,
dress shields, priced according
to size and quality. 15c and Csc
per pair.
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favor of it, and then inquire again and
you will find that there is no other ratio
that he is in favor of. We denounced
international bimetallism as a delusion
and a snare in 1896 1t has been proved
to be SO since 1896 We declared for the
ratio of 16 to l in 1896 and no party has
risen to advocate any other ratio but
16 to l.
Until some other party proposes
some other ratio and tries to secure BIZ
metallism at some other ratio, there is
no reason why We should discuss ratio
with them. The ratio of IS to was de-
cided upon. not at the Chicago Conven-
ton, but at the primaries which elected
delegates to attend the Chicago Con-
vention. The ratio of Is to / had been
submitted to the people, and those who
wanted it in 1896 are in favor of it now
When people ask us to drop our fight
on the money question and fight trusts,
remember that the Republican party
is to-day preparing to organize trust
more potent for evil than all the indus
trial trusts combined There is a bill
now before Congress- reported by the
Republican committee, that turns over
to the national banks the absolute con-
troll of the paper money of this country.
1t provides for the retirement of the
greenbacks by an issue of bonds draw
ing ~ per cent; it provides that banks
shall be permitted to issue up to the par
value bonds, and with the l per cent
tax on circulation and this shall be re-
! duced to small fraction of l per cent.
Here is your evidence of good Republi-
can policy. They want to issue bonds
in place Of greenbacks, tax the people
to pay the interest on the bonds, and
then they refuse the tax that banks
now pay on the circulation that they
have. Why pile up the taxes on the
people and lower the taxes on the
banks?"
In conclusion Mr. Bryan declared
against the increase of the standing
army. denouncing it as an unnecessary
burden upon the people. He urged that
the Porto Ricans should be given their
choice between annexation and a re-
public of their own
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WASHINGTON, April 15.-The Pres
ident has appointed Lawrence Town
send of Pennsylvania to succeed Bel
lamy Storrer as United States Minister
to Brussels, Belgium. Mr.. Townsend is
at present United States Minister at
Lisbon, and his transfer leaves a va
cancy in the Portuguese mission, for
which a selections has already been
made, and will shortly be announced
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CURTIS & CO.'S MARKET, SO8 K Street.

than lines of railroad, building and pro-
posed The people of the Philippines
are divided into tribes, knowing little
of one another and usually living in a
state Of armed neutrality Under the
Spanish regime the northern islanders
were sent to the southern garrisons,
While the southern tribes were i'm
pressed into service in the north. The
immediate effect of transnsular rail-
road would be to lessen the feeling Of
tribal hostility and avoid the ever
present danger of internal war; The
other islands are too small for the in
PRODUCTION of railroads. Samuel w.
Bedford, in the American Monthly Re
view of Reviews.
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Destroyed by an Earthquake.

NEW YORK, April ia dispatch to
the Herald" from Buenos Ayres says:
A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro an
nounces that Wednesdays earthquake
destroyed the village of Gen Sarmiento
Three lives have been lost-a woman
and two children. The "Herald'S' cor
respondent at Montevideo telegraphs
that a message from the frontier has
been received that a heavy uprising has
taken place in the province of Matte
Crosse, Brazil, against the newly elect
ed Governor, Antonio Luise. The move
ment is led by Jose Mario Martinho, the
defeated candidate at the last election.
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SAN JOSE, April 16.-Shortly after
II o'clock this morning All Foon, See
Yup, was shot in the head and mortally
wounded while walking along Taylor
street, near the Sixth-street Chinatown.
The murderer was seen by several Chi
nese who say he is a Sam Yup man,
but he escaped in the darkness. A bit
ter enmity exists between the two soci-
cites, and trouble has been brewing for
some time
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WASHINGTON, April 1j.-Bartlett
Tripp. a member of the Samoan Com
mission, who will represent this coun-
try, has been summoned to Washington
to receive his instructions. 1t has been
found that he can reach here and still
depart from Washington on the 10Th,
and leave San Francisco on the 10Th. AS
the instructions are very long, it was
considered advisable to give them to
him in person. So far as known at the
State Department, there was no formal
conference of the Samoan Commission.
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Zeigler Defeats Wongo.

NEW YORK, April 15.-Owen Ziegler
of Philadelphia knocked out Frank
Wongo, a Canadian Indian, in the sec
ond round of what was to have been
a twenty round bout at 1873 pounds be-
fore the Greenwood Athletic Club of
Brooklyn tonight. Ziegler knocked
Wongo down in the first round and the
Indian only managed to get to his feet
when the referee had counted nine. The
Indian was outclassed, and the second
round had barely begun when Ziegler
knocked him down and out with a right
swing on the Jaw
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All Quiet at Guam.

WASHINGTON. April 15-Tbe fol-
lowing cablegram has just been re-
ceived by the Navy Department from
Admiral Dewey:
Manila, April 18th
Secretary of the Navy, Washington
Wheeling arrived six days from Guam
Quiet and order there. Most friendly
to Americans Native government es-
tabhshed by Taussig working WELL Ma
tive soldiers a fine body of men Nan
Shan Omitted States naval transporD
in Guam
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Stylish Spring Dress
Goods at soc per ward.

Our great assortment of dress
goods at this popular price, was
selected with equally as much
care as were our higher priced
fabrics, and never was a show
ing more complete. Handsome
plaids, pretty checks and mix
lures, in all of the best and
most sought for co1ors, making a
stylish summer costume or tall
ored suit, and one would scarce
guess the cost when made up.
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Artist HoIdredge Dead.

ALAMEDA, April 15.-R G. Hold
redge, an artist of repute, died at the
County Infrmary to-day. He was one
of the organizers of the San Francisco
Art Association, and was one of the
first members of the Bohemian Club.
AS an artist for Scribners he was with
the United States troops when General
Custer was massacred. AT one time he
ranked among the leading landscape
painters of the country.
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Vice-President Hobart.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Vice Pres
ldent Hobart was resting easily to-
night.
Representative Hilborn of California,
who is suffering from bloodpoisoning at
the Garfield Hospital, had recovered
consciousness tonight. but is not yet
considered out of danger.
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Sudden Death of a Teamster.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.-Pat-
rick McDermott, a teamster, was found
dead in a stable to-day. A bottle Of
carbolic acid was at his side, but an
examination showed that he had not
swallowed any of the fiery stuff. 1t
is supposed that he died natural
death
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General shafter Much Better.

BUFFALO On. V, April 15.-General
William R Shafter, who was taken with
a chill yesterday While en- route to Buff
falo, is much better to-day. His tenn
perature was normal, and the doctor
did not anticipate any recurrence of the
chill The General received this after
noon, and dined at the Buffalo Club
with DR.. Peter Cornell. He will leave
tomorrow for Chicago.
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Spanish ambassador.

LONDON, April 10. = Special dis
patches from Madrid say the Duke of
ARGOS, the late Spanish Minister 10
Mexico. who married Miss Virginia
Lowery of Washington. has been des-
ignated as Spanish ambassador to
WASHINGTON
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Death of an Early Pioneer.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.-William
S. Pearson, who brought the first over
land mail by stage to San Francisco,
died to-day at the age of Il. He had
been a resident of California for the
past fifty years. Pearson was a native
of New Hampshire, and came to the
coast among the earliest pioneers. He
engaged in mining in Amador County,
and was known all over the coast as a
stage owner in Nevada County and
other mining regions.
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storrer is Acceptable to Spain.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-The State
Department has been Informed from an
unofficial but reliable source that Bel
lamy Storrer is persona grata to the
Madrid Government. and that he will
be properly received as United States
Minister.
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Trimming Suggestions
for Your New Dress.

Bow knots, butterflies, birds,
etc., one Of fashion fads, to be
put on your dress at random.
Very attractive in effect. Come
in black, white and coIors;
made of mouselinne de sole,
braid and spangles. Priced,
Csc, 45c, soc, Use and S5c each.
The latest effects of boleros
and low yokes in black spangles
and colored bead effects. Priced
from $3.50 to $1,000. Very
stylish.
Black and co1ored spangIe
trimmings in band and wave ef--
fects, in widths from u to
inches, used extensively on
stylish crepon suits. Priced as
to width and fneness, from zoe
per yard up to $3.50 yard.
Do not pass the trimming
counter by after having pur-
chased your new dress. We've
always the latest and wanted
styles in dress garniture at the
lowest prices.
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was warned away by Mis-. Harrington,
but persisted in his efforts to raise a
window. Mrs. Harrington fired re-
volver, and the ball struck Dougherty
just(below the heart, and he died few
hours later A Coroner's jury exoner-
ated Mrs. Harrington from blame.
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Will Not Work Under Contract.

BUFFALO On. W, April 15.-About
LOO grain shovelers, members of local
Union No. 8, have adopted resolutions
declarative of their intention to refuse
to work under the contract system,
which, the shovelers allege, is Cypress
i've