The San Francisco call., 1905-01-31

Christian Science-did Mrs. r. H.
Anderson of PAL Oak street convey
her ailment to Han You of 1888 Mar
ket street and have it diagnosed and
prescribed for by that eminent scien-
tist. Prior to submitting her case. to
him, however, she inquired if he was
legally authorized druggist, and in
response he exhibited to her a license
bearing the Tax Collectors signature,
which showed that he had paid to that
official the sum of $25 and had re-
ceived in return the document dis
played, which was equivalent, he ex-
planned, to a certiflcate issued by the
State Board of Pharmacy. Consider
ing herself sufficiently safeguarded by
law, she instructed him to go ahead
with his treatment.
The ingredients of the compounds
which he put up and sold to her she
did not know, but supposed they were
quite as safe as the stuff prescribed by
his predecessors in her case. He was
heavily and variously stocked with
herbs some of which looked like dried
sagebrush roots, while others were
suggestive of secondhand tea leaves,
and he was also long on reptilian spe-
cifics, such as desiccated tarantula, oil
of centipede, blood Of Gila monster,
extract of lizard and crocodile tears
distilled. These wings might not be
agreeable to think of consuming, but
they assuredly could not be less eff
fective than any of the more eupho-
nious and alliterative- titled proprie-
tary articles she had previously ex-
perimented with, including Pale Pills
for Pink Patients, Roarer's Ready Re-
lief and Mother Maginnis' Magenta
Makesure, each advertised as infallible
and all proved failures.
1t was not pleasant, therefore, for
Mrs. Anderson to ascertain that the
legality of Han You's practice was
questioned and that she vas expected
to- appear before Police Judge Mogan
and testify as to her dealings with
him. Disappointing as her experience
with the Caucasian doctors and drug
gists had been, none of them had been
instrumental in dragging her into
court to relate her physical ills.
In the face of the most honorable
court Han You flourished the docu-
ment which he had displayed to Mrs.
Anderson as his pharmacists license.
but the attorney for the State Phar-
macy Board was ready with proof that
the Tax Collector had never written
the signature thereto appended. He
was rather sorry for Han You, was the
attorney, but the general public and
the profession of pharmacy must be
protected.
Then it was that Han You begged
that most honorable court to believe
he had paid the s25 acknowledged In
the false license, ana that the re-
cipient Of the money was young
man who represented himself as a
deputy Tax Collector. But, alas! 1t was
evident that he (Han You) had been
victimized by swindler. Would the
most honorable court continue the
hearing of this most miserable case
MI
the defendant, although innocent of
intent to violate the laws of this land,
might possibly be convicted of having
violated them, and he did not desire
to have the stain of such conviction on
his character during the season of
goodwill among his countrymen?
The most honorable court did most
considerably grant Han You's request,
and the next hearing of the case is
set for February 6.
BY thrusting Teutonic music upon a
Latin auditory the merchants doing
business in the vicinity of Stockton
streets junction with Montgomery
avenue primarily provoked the dis
orderly conduct for which Emile
Fisinio, Joseph Taboni and Peter
Cato were arrested last Saturday af-
ternoon. The band was engaged for
the; purpose Of attracting the atten-
ton of North End residents to the fact
that they could save money by shop
ping in their own neighborhood in
stead of downtown, and the expert
ment would doubtless have been sue
cessful If its projectors had only con-
sidered that the Italian quarter is in
the North End and had engaged
Italian instead of German instru-
mentalists. But what else than dis
order could have been expected when
Rossini and Verdi and Puccini and
Mascagni were ignored and Mozart
and Beethoven and Wagner We're in
terpreted. If the programme had only
been mixed or even confined to Amer
ican, English or French composers by
way of compromise the potato and
onion throwing might have been
averted. But to play German selec-
tions and nothing else was simply akin
to waving a red flag in the face of
bull. When the audience clafnored
for bread they were given stones.
They asked for I'll Trovatore" cad
the response was die Gotterdam-.
merung." A request for Mascagnrs
"Intermezzo" was answered with
Mine Lieber Schwan." from Lohen-