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The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08
POOL SELLING BILL.
New Measure Is Introduced by As
Semblyman Duryea

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 7.-Within a
few days the Assembly will be con-
sidering a bill prohibiting the selling
of pools on horse races and it will not
be the one the Committee on Public
Morals of that house had referred to
it. Duryea of Placer. chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, introduced such
a bill to-day and it was promptly re-
ferred to mis- committee, it being the
intention, it is said, to report it back
Immediately with a recommendation
that ii pass.
Duryea's bill fixes the penalty for
the violation of its provisions at a fine
of not less than $4,000 nor more than
$4,000 or Imprisonment for not less
than one year nor more than five
years. The period from September 1
to September 80 is left open so that
the State and district fairs may not be
affected.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08
ADVERTISEMENTS.
THEORIES ABOUT FOOD.
Also a few Facts on the Same Subject.

Also few Facts on the Same Subject.
We hear much nowadays about
health foods and hygienic living. about
vegetarianism and many other fads
along the same line.
Restaurants may be found in the
large cities where no meat. pastry or
coffee is served and the food crank is
in his glory. and arguments and
theories galore are advanced TO prove
meat was never intended for human
stomachs, and almost make US believe
that our sturdy ancestors who lived
four score years in robust health on
roast beef, pork and mutton must have
been grossly ignorant of the laws OF
health.
our forefathers lad other things to
do than formulas theories about the
food they ate. A warm welcome was
extended 10 any kind from bacon TO
acOrns.
A healthy appetite and common sense
are excellent guides to follow In mat
ters of diet, and a mixed diet of grains,
fruits and meats is undoubtedly the
best.
AS compared with grains and vege-
tables. meat furnishes the most nutri-
ment in a highly concentrated form
and is digested and assimilated more
quickly than vegetables and grains
Dr. Julius Remmson on this subject
says: Nervous persons, people run
down in health and Of low vitality
should eat meat and plenty Of it. If
the digestion Is too feeble at first it
may be easily corrected by the regular
use Of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after
each meal. Two OF these excellent
tablets taken after dinner will digest
several thousand grains Of meat. eggs
or other animal food In three hours.
and no matter how weak the stomach
may be- no trouble will be experienced
IL regular practice IS made Of using
Stuart Dyspepsia Tablets, because
they supply the pepsin and diastase
necessary to perfect digestion, and
every form Of indigestion VIII be over
come by their use
That large class of people who come
under the head Of nervous dyspeptics
should eat plenty Of meat and insure
its proper digestion, by the daily use
OF safe. harmless digestive medicine
like Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets COM
posed OF the natural digestive prfnci
ples. pepsfn, diastase. fruit acids, and
salts. which actually perform the work
of digestion Cheap cathartic medi-
cines, masquerading under the name
of dyspepsia cures, are useless for in
digestion as they have absolutely no
effect upon the actual digestion OF food.
Dyspepsia in all its many forms is
simply a failure of the stomach to
digest food, and the sensible way TO
solve the riddle and cure the dyspepsia
is to make daily use at meal time Of
a preparation like Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets. which Is endorsed by the medi-
cal profession and known to contain
active digestive principles
All druggists sell Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets at so cents for full treatment
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08
NEW CLERKS NAMED.
Chief Clerk Lloyd Obtains Services ol
Two Expert Engrossers.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. THE Re-
publican members of the Assembly
held a caucus this afternoon to hear
some suggestions from Chief Clerk
Lloyd on how to facilitate legislation.
There has been some trouble in re-
gard to the engrossment of bills. Two
serious errors have been made. bills
being sent back as correctly engrossed
without the amendments being in
cluded.
At the afternoon session Of the As
sembly Chief Clerk Lloyd was author
lied to employ two expert clerks. He
will send for C. S. McMullen of Oak
land and L. F.. Stinson of Grass Val
ley, two experienced desk and en-
crossing men.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08
DEFEAT SEEMS CERTAIN.
Amendment Changing Method o.
Electing Senators Not Liked.

SACRAMENTO, FeD. 3. = SAN
ford's proposed constitutional amend
ment providing for the election of
United States Senators by direct vote
of the people is doomed to defeat.
A caucus of the Republican members
called by Wolfe to consider the meas
ure discussed 1t at length and then
called for a vote Nineteen members
voted against the measure When the
absentees are gathered in it Is GER
tain that the amendment Will be de-
feated by majority that will leave
no hope Of different result on recon-
sideration. The Republicans hold
that the present manner of election
best safeguards the office, and is a
conservative method that cannot be
improved.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08
BEFORE GRAND JURY.
Sacramento Inquisitorial Body Inves-
tigating Scandal.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. THE charge
of bribe-taking preferred against Sen
ators Emmons, Wright, Bunkers and
French of the State Legislature was
under investigation to-day by the
Grand Jury Of Sacramento County
The entire day was spent by the Jurors
in examining the witnesses who were
called by the investigating committee
of the Senate to substantiate the
charges preferred in the affidavit filed
by William corbin.
This morning Clarence Grange, the
secretary of a San Francisco building
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08

KATE READ LOSES.-Kate Reads effort
TO obtain $4,000 damages from M. Friedman
Co because a folding bed which she pur-
chased from the concern kicked up and
bruised her on the throat did not impress the
jury In Judge Graham's > court, and after hf-
teen minutes deliberation yesterday afternoon
verdict was returned for the defendant.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08
Prince EiteI Much Better.

BERLIN, Feb. Prince Eitel
Frederick has so far recovered from
his attack of pneumonia that his ply
clans have announced to-day that
no further bulletins would be issued.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08
WOULD ABOLISH BOARD.

Assemblyman Atkinson introduced
a resolution in the lower house to-
day providing for the framing by the
Committee on Commissions and Pub
lie Expenditures of a bill abolishing
the State Board of Charities and Cor
rections.
The resolution brought to light the
fact that there has been some un-
pleasant feeling engendered between
the board referred to and the As
semblymen who have visited the In
stitutions under its control. In his
resolution Atkinson quotes an article
from a Los Angeles paper which tells
of the Assembly Committee on State
Charities and Corrections going
to inspect the State institution there.
it being the third Assembly committee
to make the trip, and adding:
'.It is said outside the charmed cir
Gle that the legislators are assuming
the powers of meddling in the ap-
pointment of new superintendent for
Whittier. This will be resented by
the board of trustees. One thing that
is apparent is that these committees
do not agree unanimously with the
State Board of Charities and Correc-
tions, and it is reported that the MEM
bers of the board even refused to go
into conference with a legislative COM
,mittee because the statesmen had but
a hazy idea of why they had come
to the southland, except for a good
time
Atkinson's resolution, after quoting
this article, goes on to say that where
as the Board OF Charities and Cor
rectiOns is a creature of the Legisla-
ture, trusted at the expense of the
taxpayers with the duties of enlight-
ening said Legislature on public SER
vice and the various institutions un-
der its control, and that whereas the
"insulting statements" in the article
referred to show that the board is
forgetting the consideration due tO.
Legislature and Its duty, the bill
asked for be prepared by the COM
mittee designated.
A motion by Houser of Los Angeles
to lay the resolution on the table was
defeated and it was referred to the
committee suggested.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08
BOY DROWNED IN POOL
BUT SIX INCHES DEEP
TwO-Year-Old Child of Reno Meets
Death i'm Sight of His
Father

RENO, Ney.. Feb. THE two
year-old SOM of Emelio Demilii of
Loyalton, CAL, while playing In field
fell into a pool of water six inches
deep and was drowned to-day. The
child's father witnessed the accident.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08

TO SELL TO CITY.-Congregation Emanu FL
and the Eureka Benevolent Association own
ers of Mission block No. Sc. bounded bv
Eighteenth. Nineteenth, Dolores and Church
streets, yesterday petitioned the Superior
Court for permission to sell the property 10
the city for $151,35 The block is to become
q part OF the new Mission Park
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08

inspection of this institution commends the
and especially commends the expenditure
OF money from the contingent fund for the
erection of cottages, and further commends
to similar institutions in this State to follow
this institution in the erection of cottages such
the one just completed at this insti-
tuition.
The asylum at the time of visit con-
tained 1910 patients and we found that BY
the erection of cottages hereinbefore men
toned, these patients are all we'll cared for.
After recommending that the va
rious institutions be allowed the full
sums of their estimates for the main
tenance of the same the committee, in
conclusion. says:
Your committee desires to call attention to
the fact that the practice by the Senate Of
sending upon tours of investigation commit
tees consisting of two three members from
each of the several committees, who will later
have the various subjects affected in charge,
appears to US to be most desirable, both as 8
measure of economy to the State well as
when viewed in the light of the results general
ly desired to be accomplished 1t appears to us
eminently proper that the members of this
Senate especially the particular committees
having in charge the matters treated in this
report should be able to judge of the neces.
sities of the various institutions of the Sta-e
desiring aid financial or otherwise at the
hands of this Senate, and 1t appears to us
that this information only be obtained at
first hand through the means Of personal OBJ
servation.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-08

ling under oath, this state of mind be-
ing the result of hearing his character
discussed by swamp land squatters
that lost their holdings in an action at
law. Hartling was in the employ of
the successful litigants.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-11
ENTIRE COUNTRY INTERPRETED.

The Hartford courant takes the posi- tion that the yellow fever outbreak is "the country's affair."" adding:
 To us 1t does not seem a. fair thing that New Orleans should be left to pay. The arrival of the fever has all ready cost New Orleans millions of dollars in lost business; 1t bids fair to cost her many millions more. And this is the battle of the whole lower Mississippi valley. of all the cities along the. gulf cost. of the entire coun- general goyernments direction at New Orleans. The whole country. 1t seems to Us, should defray the costs.
 This is ah added reason for favoring national quarantine law. If the en- tire subject of quarantine and its regu- iation and enforcement could be placed in the hands of government officials the expense would then be indirectly borne by the whole county. =
 From one very important point of view it is certainly the countpy's affair. violent epidemic of yellow fever in one city. whether 1t is New York. Phila- delphia, Charleston. New Orieans or any other is menace to the country at large. The disease may spread from the infected city to others. as 1t has done in the past. Witt the constant travel from and to all portions of the Union no city can claim absolute im- munity, for there is always the pos- sibility that a case will be carried from one city to another in spite of all pre- cautions.
 It Is because the possibilities of in- lection are SO great that all the country should feel interested in suppressing the disease and that the whole country should bear the expense. As The Courant well says. any city in which the fever obtains a foot-hold must suf- fer enormous monetary loss, aside from the expense of institutins and main taining a quarantine system, and it does not seem just or fair for such city to also pay aii the cost of confining the disease within its own borders. while the entire country is or may be benefit ted by its expenditures. If there is now no law under which the govern ment can conduct and pay for a national and effective system of quarantine the next Congress should enact such a law, in order that we may have both uni- formity in health preservation from epidemics and that all the burden may not fall on one city or community.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-11
A CONNECTICUT EXAMPLE.

The Yankees are proverbiaI whittlers, and it seems that when they get into the Legislature they keep it up. We suppose that few men do all the talk ing and the rest do nothing but whit tie. That Is the only way we can &C., count for the fact that during the late session the State supplied 2.6s2 pocket knives to the members of the two houses. That is something over nine knives to the member. and we should say a man could do a comfortable amount of whittIing with that much good cutlery. We have not learned whether the State also provided shingles for them to work on, but they should have been put in with the knives.
 But whittling was not the only way these solons found to dispose of their extra time. for there is an item in the bill of expenses showing that the State paid for 97s fountain pens for the mem- bers to draw up bills with. We pre- bers had never seen a fountain pen and mistook 1t for a tooth pick but doubt less their children could find use for them at school. The cost of these two items Is placed by The Hartford Times at 5000, being a little more than four no one can reasonably charge the Legislature with the crime of stingi- ness-with itself Putting the pocket knives at what any of us would con- slider a liberal price for such articles, the pens must have cost about SIP each. They were probably gold mounted and engraved with the monograms of the recipients.
 All these extras were purchased by and for the Legislature under the head of "stationery," which shows the in genuity of the New EngIander. The the head of "sundries." but perhaps there is no law under which the State can supply sundries to the members, and the other word covers 1t nicely. The Times says the entire purchase was probably illegitimate, and adds: The practice of 1t is vicious. Defence of 1t Is impossible" We do not con slider the language unduly severe. The business has n very distinct odor of graft. whether there was collusion between the sellers, the buyers and the beneficiaries we have no means of knowing. but 1t Is putting it very mild ly to say that the transaction was a profligate use of public money. The State of Connecticut may we'll feel ashamed of it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-11
STRANGE WAYS IN PERSIA.
Clerical Traveller Finds Yeracity a Sea
 VBrfua ThAre

Clerical Traveller Finds Veracity a Scarce
 Virtue There.
 veracity is e scarce article in Persia ac- cording to Rev. Napier Malcolm. In his ''rive Years in the Persian Town" he writes ot conditions in Yezd as follows; Tn the Yesd baxaars probably not less than one third Of the speeches made by Musselmans are falsehoods One day a cook of a Flu ropean went to the bazaar and after the usual haggling fixed the price of some meat at twelve krans for thirteen pounds But said the cook, you've got your thumb on the scales Did you think retorted the. butcher. that I would give you thirteen pounds for twelve krans unless 1 kept my thumb on the scaies? We had ueighbor who was considered fairly respectable man. whose sole business was the forging of aeaIs. But the fact is that every class from the highest to the lowest. is thorough ly permeated with the leaven of dishonesty. Mohammedan assured me that truth speaking and honesty had nothing to do with religion. but was purely matter of climate. Tn that case said l. the people of Persia ought 10 speak the truth very we'll. for one Of the Greek historians who lived before the Mohammedan era declared that.ehe Persians were famous for speaking the fsuth.' But who does not know re piled the Mohammedan. that the climate of a country changes entirely every 1000 yearsf" .~..*...
 Of the strangest of telegraph lines MT Malcolm writes The poles were rough SUCKS, lke those a WasneEWoHdH uSeS u England to prop her clothesline. suppose taking the good line with the bad. there was on an average about one insulator to every three poics-that Is. without couu'-' ing the fusuIators which hung midway be tween the poles. apparently by way of ornament. In a good many places the line lay on the ground; at others 1t crossed the road about the level of a horsemans chin One day in YeGd a European wanted to send a telegram and inquired when the line would be up. They sent him a polite mes sage that the line was always down-that was not the trouble. but camel had stepped on it."
 Concerning the alleged resemblanees be tween Christianity and Mohammedanism Mir Malcolm says: There are really not many resemblances to note. An officer of Indian troops replied to a Musselmans sug- eestion that there were resemblances be- tween the two religions: There Is hardly a single practical point where Musselmans and Christians are not entirely at issue. whereupon the Musselman said. Sahib you have read your bible and have also read the koran. I always make that remark to Christians. I made 1t to a padre the other day and they most always say, Very true. Mohammedanism has great deal in com mon with Christianity" Well, sahib. when they say that I know that they have not read the koran and that they have not read their bibles"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-11
IT IS FOR LADIES, roo.
They Cum stop Their Hair Falling Out
 With HerPlcide.

Ladies who have thin hair and whose hair Is falling out. can prevent the hair falling out, and thicken the growth, with Newbro's "Herpicide" Besides, Herpicide Is one of the most agreeable haid dressings there is Herpicide kills the dandruff germ that eats the hair of at the root. After the germ is de- stfoyed, the root will shoot up, and the hair grow long as every Even sample will convince any hsdy that Newbro's Herpiclde is an Indispensable toilet requisite It contains no oil or grease. it will not stain or dye. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10o. in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co.,. Detroit. Mich. F. G. Fowler. Spe- nial Axant tu-fri
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-11

as to bring out the architectural ef- fleets, and with tentative change In the roof of the dome. The Advertiser ,.sin .in order M that the public may nay s.,,s zee the the very same cut of the Lockwood de- tiser. It viii be seen at . glance that the new cut is not from any angle at all; 1t is a distinct front elevation. Fur saa bstwes s s sa pa6di Sf It is far more radical than "a tentativ. change in the roof of the dome" It is very plsin that the whole design of a great difference in its height, form, iA N the addition of two subsidiary domss So so. 0e ensnae snsH Tn n sh. assf adto ssea ment. or gable end effect, on the cen- tral portico of the main building. There are additions of ornamental work about as In the first design. They appear to be complete. columns standing out from the wells The .x wings bg,din do noa ss stano i first design, There are corridors with columns and front entrances into these corridors"
 architect to change his mind and his plan in response to public criticism, provided 1t stlli will conform to the ion S Sf the tsee aetoh o2 cnie Justice Mcclellan. who, to prove that the critics were wroHg in their con demnation of the first Lockwood de- sign, endorses the presentation of very diRerent design from the ortgtnal one7 There Is Bothing in Judge Me- Clellan's letter to show that this sec ond design differs materially from toe first one. Ir substance, he says: rels is the picture the critics, in their fgno, ,ancs Doe. or ,se blame placed upon ,it?' But 1t is not that picture. Unsatisfactory as 1t is from the point of view Of those wno want the State to get the best state House possible for their money, It IS far and away more impressive than the first Lockwood design.
 A suggestion seems to be in order . Now that Mir. Lockwood has had liber- ty to change his design in order to meet public criticism. that Is to say, to disregard the terms of the competition, the other competing architects should be granted the like liberty; or. since the commission has never passed on presents as the Lockwood design 1t would seem to be proper to annul the first decision and order a new competi- tion. With the lights we have before us we shall obtain. better results and disarm criticism. This iast-the dis arming of crIticism--is much to h, de- sired. 1t will be a great pity to build opinion as long as it exists. Much bet ter would 1t be to erect such a build. ing that generations to come will praise 1t as pure in art and as a flne tribute to the good taste Of the peo- pie of the present day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-11
Important. She has a good figure ." Tn gold bonds or tights?"
Iowa and Massachusetts.

Boston Herald
 A State census that has been taken in Iowa reveals that the men outrum- Der the women by 4e,000. Every one knows. since the late Governor Andrew pointedly discoursed on the subject, ponderance of women in the popula ton. We hardly know which class to pity most. the men In a State where there Is a deficiency of women. or the women in a State where there is a de fciency of men. A Philadelphia news paper suggests that the Iowa bache- Tors and the Massachusetts spinsters ought to be introduced, and goes so f A as to say that there is opportunity f . series of personally conducted" @ rsions both ways. We should haiuly envy the lot of the conductors of such excursions If they were to be in any degree personally responsible for the consequences of the excursion9