LOVE'S COMING.
Ella Wheeler.
She had looked for hia coming as warriors
come
With the clash of arms and the bugle's call ;
But be came instead with a stealthy tread.
Which she did not hear at all.
She had thought that his armor would blaze
in the sun.
As he rode like a prince to claim hia bride;
In the sweet dim light of the falling night t
She found him at her side.
She had dreamed how the gaze of his strange,
bold eye
Would wake her heart to a sudden glow;
She found in his face the familiar grace
Of a friend she used to know.
She had dreamed bow his coming would stir
her soul,
As the ocean is stirred by the wild storm's
strife;
He bought her the balm of a heavenly calm,
And a peace which crowned her life.
THE OLD FSHIONED MINUET.
The Dignified Oanee Which. Gen.
Washington Is Said to Have Liked.
M. A. Barr In The Continent. 1
"Is it difficult to learn ?" we asked of
a noted professor who has formed two
classes for teaching the minuet, and
who can boast of great success among
our society belles in that direction.
"No, not so difficult to learn as to
teach, for young ladies find it very
hard to accustom themselves to move
Blowly after flying about in the valse,
jumping in the polka, ' and getting
through the quadrilles in a kind of
sling trot. To move the arms slowly
and gracefully is half the battle, and in
taking the hand of a partner, for they
must not permit themselves the jerky
motions usual in the quadrille and lan
cers." Magri, dancing master to the Royal
Military academy, gives five indispensa
ble requisites for making a good figure
in the minuet, which are as follows : "A
languishing eye, a smiling mouth and
imposing carriage, innocent hands and
ambitious feet."
Dufort's description of the minuet is
still quoted to all beginners : "The cava
lier takes his lady by the hand and makes
two steps forward with her, both
keeping on the same line, after
which he causes her to describe
a circle around him, which
brings her back to the same spot
whence she started. They then cross
each other during four or five minutes,
looking at each other as they pass,
and end with a profoxmd bow."
This dance, so full of formal and
high-bred courtesy, was the favorite
recreation of the dancing assemblies in
our early republican court, and so ele
gant and majestic is it that we read of
Gen. "Washington "walking a minuet"
in the Boston or Philadelphia assem
blies, and have no feeling that he had
thereby detracted from bos native dig
nitv. Brother Gardner Is Opposed to
Woman SnfTrage.
Detroit Free Press.
"I hold heah in my hand," said the
president as the meeting opened in
due form, "a petishun signed by 220
pussons prain' dis club to admit de fe
male sex to membership. I'm sorry to
see 'em waste so much time. When de
time arroves dat dis club can't be run
widout de help of de odder sex, Paradise
hall will be a decided ruin."
"Does I understan' de president to be
opposed to what am called woman's
rights ?" asked the Rev. Penstock as he
Buddenly bobbed up.
"You does, sah you does. Take de
movement from its incepshun twenty
y'ars ago to de present date, and it has
nebber included one true woman. It
has bin a movement mapped out an'
followed by a class of males an' females
who have somehow kept cl'ar of idiot
asylums, an yit who doan' know 'nuff
to be lunatics. To de wife an' mother
de true woman of de fireside I grant
homage and reverence. I class her
second only to de angels of heaben.
To de female who emagines dat de
Lawd created her to be suthin' greater
dan a woman, I grant de same respects
as to a man, an' gin her de same chance
to stan' up in a crowded kyar. I doan'
want to meet her nor talk to her nor
read to her. She am a mighty poo'
woman an' a slim sort of man."
"Does de president mean dat it shall
go out to de world dat dis club am
'posed to woman's rights?" inquired
Penstock.
"Yes, sah."
"I should like to see a vote taken on
de queshun."
The roll was called and the vote
stood : For woman's rights, 12 ; against,'
194. Elder Penstsck sat down with a
jar which was heard eighty rods nway,
and the routine business was then
taken up.
aionterey'n .Fertility.
fFannie Brigham Ward in P oneer Preat
The principal crops in this state are
corn, barley, beans and sugar cane and
they tell stories almost as tall as the
corn about the marvelous growth of the
latter. Riding along the watercourses,
anywhere in the suburbs, one sees im
penetrable thickets of giant wild cane,
rivaling Jack's historic beanstalk in
height. A gentleman who owns what
he calls a "quinta pequino" (little gar
den) of 100 acres, near Monterey tells
me he bought it, in 1882, for $22 per
acre, and that the first year's yield of
only ten acres of -it in sugar cane real
ized $700. Judge Golindo, a resident
of this city, and one of the federal
judges of Mexico, informs me
that his sugar ranch was seeded
twenty-three years ago. The
cane has ripened year after year more
than nine feet high, and there has never
been any falling off in the yield. But
there are drawbacks to this flattering
picture. Irrigation, which is trouble
some and expensive at best, is essential
here, and the trouble in this section
seems to be that all the available water
has already been transferred from the
rivers to the irrigating ditches.
The water question, which in Utah
the Mormons have regulated to the
nicety of clockwork, is here among the
mysteries which "no fellow can find
out." If you ask a farmer as to his ir
rigation privileges, he will tell you he
has "nine days' water," "thirteen days'
water," 'twenty days' water," as the
case may be which means that he has
the privilege of turning water on his
Ltnd once in nine, thirteen or twenty
days for which privilege you may be
sure he pays a good round sum. It
must be borne in mind that the rains of
heaven, like many other things in
this tropical clime are not to
be depended upon.
A -Mprlns" Chicken.
Detroit Free Press.
"Is this a spring chicken?" asked a
traveler at a hotel dinner.
"Yes, sah," answered the waiter
promptly.
"How do you know ?" asked the eater,
solemnly.
"'Cos, sah, when decoak tried to pull
de jints open dey spring right back
again, sound as ever sah."
"Conclusive," said the traveler with
a sigh as he "passed" on spring chicken.
THE WORLD'S METROPOLIS.
WILL NEW YORK CITY
HEART AND BRAIN OK
WORLD ?
New York Tribune.
BECOME Til
THE CIVILIZED
A few years ao some timid souls
were crying out that Philadelphia, Bos
a . 1 1 1 a
ton ana uammore were taking awaj
the trade of New York, and there were
not wanting some to predict that this
city was in danger of falling behind in
the race. These forebodings seem to
have died out. New York has gone on
with its silent, stately growth, heedless
of all this discussion, and now a writer
in lhe Century, William C. Conant
predicts that "long before another cen
tury passes, its population will surpass
that of London, and that it will be the
unrivalled centre of finance and com
rnerce, of luxury and fashion, of art
and literature the heart and brain, in
a word of the civilized world.
New York may not come out ahead
in this great race of the cities, but there
would be some risk at least in predict
tng that it will be left behind. . If w
count Brooklyn, etc., it is already the
third citv in the world, and not far be
hind Paris, which is the second. It
cannot be many years before it out
strips Paris. It is the financial and
commercial capital" of. America, and
nothing, apparently, can shake it from
this position. The development of the
Mississippi valley will make Chicago
one of the great cities of the future.
but it cannot have the commanding
position of New York as the natural
gateway between Lurope and America
Mr. Conant well says: "Providence
"never lefore laid out a nation on a
"scale that was more than petty in
"comparison with the continental
climatic and oceanic frame of the
"American republic. Never be )re in
" history has' there been a movement of
men that was not petty and cramped
in comparison with the outpouring o
"all races into this vast national frame
work. A great proportion of this
brontl stream of commerce and immi
gration must flow through New York
harbor. Here railroads, telegraphs
steamship lines and all the machinery
of commerce must continue to be con
ccntrated. "When the natural ad van t
ages of New York are considered the
territory it drains, and its avenues ol
approach both by land and water
with fho development it has already at
tained, even the imagination seems un
able to depict its future.
ENOCH ARDENS TRUE STORY
Cincinnati Saturday Night.
"When Enoch Arden came home after
that memorable and disastrous vovage,
which shipwrecked him and his hopes.
he crept ivp the street to his old home,
as Tennyson informs us, and looked in
the window. There he saw Phillip Rav
and Annie, his wife, and their child, all
seated around the hearth cracking Val
nuts.
The whole bitter truth came upon
him with terrible force. Annie, sup
posing Enoch to be dead, luvl married
Philip, so as to have a home for hersell
and cliiUl, and a maa about the house
in case of tramps. It was a sad coming
back for Enoch, and he was mad about
it. Not so much because Phillip had
married his wife, fer there wsre plenty
more wives to be had ; not because his
child had learned tr call another man
"pa," though tjiat was a bitter pill
Neither of these things worried him
half i much as to note that Phfllip was
wearing his (Enoch's) clothes. With -a
menacing gesture Enoch wai just about
to dash into the house and annihilate
them, when suddenly the anger in his
countenance was supplanted by a look
of terror and he slunk away as silentlv
as he had come. He had caught sight
of Annie's mother, who during Enoch's
absence had broken up house-keeping
and come to live with her daughter,
and bad become a fixture there.
Enoch told some of the bovs after
wards that it was the narrowest escape
of his life, and that he would rather, be
shipwrecked every five minutes than tc
encounter his mother-in-law
THE SUBSCRIPTION BOOK BUS
INESS.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The average American reader is at
tracted or repelled by a book according
as he finds in it something which in
terests him on account of the subject
matter, and not because of its artistic
treatment, lnw class oi doors are
largely circulated by subscription. The
book stores of the countrv are few and
far between, and the most successful
publications are sold on the agencv
plan. Publishers have found out that
the American people are not esthetes
in literature, but utilitarians, and book
makers, whether authors or compilers,
are obliged to keep that idea in view.
Often the work is done in a slovenlv
way, and n"o high order of literary
ability is required to perform it, even
when it is well done ; but with all its
liabilities to abuse the standard of util
ity marks a wholesome tendency in the
world of letters.
One subscription book published in
Chicago has reached the.enormous sale
of 400,000 copies, without ever being
mentioned in the. notices of new books
by any newspaper, or being placed on
the shelves of the book trade. Such
books are never advertised, and, as n
rule, are utterly unknown by even then
titles in library circles or to literary
men. Six of the leading works of this
kind published in Chicago aggregate a
sale of probably 1 ,200,000 copies.
THE FOLLIES OF GREAT KEN.
The Household.
Tycho Brahe, the astronomer,
changed color and his legs shook under
him on meeting a hare or a fot. Dr.
Johnson would never enter a room with
his left foot foremost. If, hv mistake,
it did get foremost, he would get back
and i!ace his right foot foremost. Julius
Ciesar was almost convulsed by the
sound of thunder, and always wanted
to get into a cellar or underground to
escape the noise. To Queen Elizabeth
the simple word "death" was full of
horrors. Talleyrand trembled and
changed color on hearing thj same
word spoken. Marshal Saxo, who met
and overthrew opposing armies, fled
and screamed in terror at the tight of a
cat. Peter the Great could never be
persuaded to cross a bridge ; though he
tried to master the terror, he failed to
do so, and whenever he set foot on one
he would shriek out in distress and
agony. Byron would never help any
one to salt at the table, nor would he
be helped himself; if any of the article
happened to be spilt on the table, he
would jump up and leave his meal un
finished. SOLIDIFIED BRAN.
A Minneapolis man has invented n
way to compress wheat barn into solid
bars like sticks of wood, and it is
thought that in this form it may be
largely exported. The stick can be
prepared for use either by cutting up
or soaking in water.
EDWIN BOOTH'S DEBUT.
Ilia First Appearance i
III, as His father's
tnte.
Exchange.
Itlchard
n Hubatl
In 1851, his fa' her being announced
as Kichard III., led indirectly to Edwin
attempt ng that character. One par
ticular night, as he and his sen were
preparing to go to the theatre, he sud
denly changed his mood and refused to
start, saving he was ill and unable to
perform. Edwin . suggested that he
should rouse himself to the effort at
least present himself at the theatre
thinking when within the building he
wouia iorego nis strange resolve, lie
reminded his father how well he had
rehearsed, and how well in health lie
had been all day, but no argument
could move him.
" What will they do witlwut vou
father?" the son said in despair. "What
can they substitute at the last mo.
ment?"
"Go on and act it yourself, " was the
curt reply.
After some further altercation his
father insisted that his son should as
sume and act the character of ltichard
on that night, There was great dismay
at the old man s sudden freak
"No matter," said John R. Scott,
you can can do it ?
"That's what my father says ; he is
at the hotel, and has sent me here to
act in hi place."
So he dressed himself in his father's
clothes aud, greatly excited, he "went
on." The costume was "a world toa
wide" for his slight figure. All was con
f . sion behind the scenes, and the un
willing substitute hurried to the first en
trance. The theatre was crowded. At
his appearance the applause rang out in
a wild burst, but it suddenly ceased. No
apology had been made, and the aston
ished spectators allowed the play to pro
ceed. He. who had absorbed into his
own being every word, look and tone of
his father, soon wrung from the audience
a gratified applauso. John II. Scott
showed great concern throughout the
play, fearing the breaking down of his
young Kichard, but in answer to the
prolonged call at the close, he led him
proudly before the curtain and intro
duced him as the "worthy scion of a
noble stock, adding in sotto voce,
wager they do not know what that
means."
On Edwin's return to the hotel he
was questioned coldly by his father as
to his success. The elder Booth was
found apparently exactly as he had left
him, unchanged in mood or position :
but it is believed now by Edwin that ho
witnessed the whole performance and
was not dissatisfied with the result.
Un. she rman Abroad.
E. V. Smalley.l
In 1871 and 1872 Gen. Sherman
spent a year in Old World, visiting the
Mediterranean countries, Turkey, the
Caucasus, Kussia, Austria, Germany,
aud the nations of western Europe.
He kept a journal of the tour a big,
solidly bound volume, written in a clean,
graceful hand, intended only for a per
sonal record, but abounding in vigorous
descriptionsof people and places, r r:end3
who are privileged to read it do not
find much about the armies of Europe,
He attended re .lews when invited, but
he cared more for the affairs of peace
the people, their wavs of living, and
their comparative standing in the scale
of civilization; the cities and their char
acteristics; the railways, ports, agricul
ture and manufactures of the regions
he visited.
In time of peace he is evident'y
more a citizen than a soldier. He went
to the battle-fields of the then recent
Franco-Prussian war, however, and,
remembering with what vigor his an
tagonist at Atlanta. Gen. Hood, had
resisted the movements to coop him up,
what tremendous blows he had struck
in quick succession at different points
on the steadily - enveloping line, and
how he had finally escaped with his
whole rmy, he came to the conclusion
that, with courage and good general
ship, Napoleon could have cut h's way
ut of Sedan, or Bazame out of Metz.
A Free Pan Over All K. llroads
Exchange.
Mrs. James P. Caldwell rode on a
free pass e other d:iy from Mexico,
Mo., to Leadville, Col., to see her son.
This pass was given to her husband and
herself twenty years ago, and is a life
pass for both, and will pass them over
anv railroad in the United States. It
was given them by the North Missouri
Bail road company after they had res
pectfully declined the company's offer
of a gift of $10,000. How the com
pany happened to offer the
couple who were well-to-do in the
world a gift of $10,000, is told
by The Hannibal Journal: In January,
18!l,the Confederate bushwhackers set
fire to the bridge over Young's creek,
and Mr. Caldwell got out of bed in
season to check the flames with a pail
of water. Then he hurried to Cen-
tralia to give the alarm, leaving his
wife and children to keep the fire in
check. It was a bitter cold night, and
Mrs. C ildwell had to wrap her children
in blankets, but despite the cold they
worked and extinguished the flames.
The bridge, however, had been re
duced to a mere shell. Mrs. Caldwell
knew that it could not bear up a train
that was almost due, and, hurrving to
her house, she got a lantern and stood
on the bridge in the biting blasts of a
January night until that train with its
freight of human life had been warned
and stopped.
Perfectly Horrid.
Philadelphia Call.
Philadelphia Belle I should think
actresses would get dreadfully tired of
saying the same things every night.
Chicago Belie ro should 1.
Philadelphia Belle And when one
play runs right along they have to wear
the same dresses week alter week, it
must be horrid.
Chicago Belle les, but that is not
the worst of it. Just think of the mo
notony of being kis ted by the same lead
ing man lor niontus at a time, n i
couldn't change once a week I'd just die.
A COLONY BROKEN UP.
New York Sun.
A colony of Russian Jews in Inde
pendence county, Arkansas, gave signs
at first of flourishing in a high degree,
but with the advent of summer violent
intermittent and bilious fevers pros
trated the major part of the colonists.
and effectually broke up the settlement.
Ten of the colonists have returned tc
St. Louis in an exhausted condition.
and received temporary assistance from
the Israelites of that city.
THE FRIENDS.
Mr. R. T. Bentley, a member of the esti
mable community of Quakers at Sandy
Springs, Md., says he was severely affected
by rheumatism in his right hand. Mr.
Bentley applied St. Jacobs Oil. the exeat
nain-cure. and by its continued use. in a
short time, was completely cured.
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No bankine house in the city more fully
deserves this title than the Pacific, corner
of Pine and Sansome streets, San Francis
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beat of accommodations and absolute in
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Dresidencv of Dr. R. II. McDonald, who
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the farmer, merchant, manufacturer and
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failing dividends. The past year has been
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WHAT IS CATAREHT
From the Mail (Can ). Dec. 15th.
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caused by the presence an development of
the vegetable parasite amceua in mc in
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The Fate Which Overtook the "City
of Boston" Captain Mnrrsy'H
IdeaH and Kxperlences.
A few years ago, the City of Boston sailed
from harbor, crowded with an expectant
throng of passengers bound for a foreign
shore.
She never entered port.
The mvsterv of her untimely end grow-
deeper as the years increase, and the At
lantic voyager, when tne nerce winds nowj
around and danger is imminent on every
hand, shudders as the name ana mysteri
ous fate of that magnificent vessel are a
luded to.
Our reporter, on a recent visit to New
York, took lunch with Captain George
Siddons Murray, on board the Alaska, of
the Guion line. Captain murray is a man
of stalwart build, well-knit frame and
cheerv. cenial disposition, lie has been
a constant vovaiier for a quarter of
century, over half that time having been
in the trans-Atlantic service. In the course
of the conversation over the well-spread
table, tbe mystery of the City of Boston
was alluded to.
"Yes," remarked the Captain, "I-shall
never fort?et the last nicrht we saw that ill
fated vessel. I was chief officer of the
City of Antwerp. On the day we sighted
the City of Boston a furious southeast
hurricane set in. liotn vessels laoorea
hard, 'j he sea seemed determined to sweep
away every vestige of life. hen day
ended the gale did not abate, and
evervthinar was lashed for a night
of unusual fury. Our good ship
was turned to the south to avoid
the possibility of ice-bergs. The City of
Hasten, however, unaouoteaiy went to tne
north. Her boats, life-preservers and rafts
were all securely lashed; and when she
went down, everything went with her.
never to reappear until the sea gives up its
dead.
"What, in your opinion, Captain, was
tne cause oi tne loss oi tne cuy oj nos
tonr
"The City of Liynerick, in almost pre
cisely the same latitude, a lew days later,
found the sea full of floating ice; and I
have no doubt the City of Boston collided
with the ice. and sunk immediately.
Captain Murray has been in command of
the Alaska ever since she was put in com
mission and feels justly proud of his noble
ship. She carries thousands of passengers
every year, and has greatly popularized the
Williams & Guion line. Remarking upon
the bronzed and healthy appearance of the
captain, the reporter said that sea Hie did
not seem to a very great physical trial.
"No f But a person's appearance is not
alwavs a trustworthy indication or his
physical condition. For seven years I have
been in many respects very much out of
sorts with myself. At certain times i was
so lame that it was difficult for me to move
around. I could scarcely straighten up.
did not know what the trouble was, and
thouch I performed all mv duties rearularly
and satisfactorily, yet I felt that I might
some day be overtaken with some serious
prostrating disorder, ihese troubles in
creased. I felt dull and then, again, shoot
ing pains through my arms and limbs.
Possibly the next day I would feel flushed
and unaccountably uneasy and the day
following chilly and despondent. This
continued until last December, when I was
prostrated soon after leaving yueenstown,
and for the remainder of the voyage was
a helpless, pitiful sufferer. In January last,
a friend who made that voyage with me,
wrote me a letter urging me to try a new
course of treatment. I gladly accepted
his counsel, and for the last seven months
have given thorough and business-like at
tention to the recovery of my natural
health; and to-day, I have proud satisfac
tion of saying to you that the lame back,
the strange feelings, the sciatic rneuma
tism which have so long pursued me, have
entirely disappeared through the blood
! il .. T , fc.-f
Rheumatic Cure, which entirely eradicated
all rheumatic poison from my system. In
deed, to me. it seems that it nas worKeu
wonders, and I, therefore, most cordially
commend it.
"And you have no trouble now in expos
ing yourself to the windsof the Atlantic?"
"Not in the least. Iam as sound as a
bullet and I feel specially thankful over
the fact because I believe rheumatic and
kidney disease is in the blood of my fam
ily. 1 was dreadfully shocked on my last
arrival in Liverpool to learn that my
brother, is a wealthy China tea merchant,
had suddenly died of Bright's disease of
the kidneys, and consider myseii extremely
fortunate in having taken my trouble in
time and before any more serious effects
were possible.
The conversation drifted to other topics,
and as the wrifcer watched the face before
him. so stronein all its outlines and yet so
cenial and thought of the innumerable ex
iMjsures ana narasmps io which h owner
had been exposed, he Instinctively wished
all who are suffering from the terrible
rheumatic troubles now so common might
know of Captain Murray s experience and
the means bv which ne naa been restorea
Pain is a common thing in this world, but
far too many endure it when they might
lust as well avoid it. it w a laise pnuoso
phv which teaches us to enaure wnen we
can just as readilv avoid. So thought the
hearty captain of the Alaska, so trunks
the writer and so should all others think
who desirehappinesa and long life. ; j
For Throat Diseases and Coughs,
Brown's Bronchial Troches, like all really
good things, are frequently imitated, lhe
genuine are sold only In boxes.
i
We call attention to the advertisement
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The want of a reli
able diuretic which,
while motto it a a
tiiuulant of tne kid
neys, neither excite
nor irritates them,
wan long irinoe mip
plied by Ttofltetter's
Htomaoh Bitters. This
fine medicine i exerts
the requiaite degree
of snmnlatlon upon
S. tbese organs witnoui
producing irritation.
i and U, therefore, tar
better ataptea tor tne
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often resorted to.
Iylepia, forer and
ague, and Idudred
dbeases, are all cored
by It. For sals by all.
Druggists snd Dealers
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generally.
Your common sense should teach you
that if any doctor or dnifrgrist knew of a
better remedy for colds, coughs and lung
complaints, than Arumen's Couf?h Svrun,
he would either put it up for general sale
or sell the prescription to Mr. Ammen. who
oners to the world Sl.uuu lor the prescnp
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Ask for it, and take no other.
Skinny Men. "Wells' Ileal th Renewer"
restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia,
impotence.
- RESCUED FROM DEATH.
William J. Coughlin, of Somerrille, Mass.
says: In the fall of 1876 I was taken with
bleed in ci of LCNG9, followed by a severe
coagh. I lost my appetite and flesh, and was
confined to my bed. In 1877 I was admitted to
tho Hospital. The doctors said I bad a bole in
my lung as big as a half dollar. At one time a
report went around that I was dead. I gave up
hope, but a friend told me of DR. WILLIAM
II ALL'S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS. I got
a bottle, when to my surprise, I commenced to
feel better, and to-day I feel better than for
three years past.
"Dr. Pierce's Magnetic Elastic Truss" is
advertised in another column of this pa
per. This establishment is well known on
the Pacific Coast as reliable and square in
all its dealings. Their goods have gMned
an enviable reputation.
The Strongest and Best!
THOMAS PRICE, Analytic Chemist, pronounces
the GIANT BAKINO POWDER nearly one-third
stranger than any sold on the Paclflo Coast
Ran Francisco, September 34, 1883.
H. E. BOTH IN, Prtwldent Bothln Mfg Co.:
Dkar Sir: After careful and complete chemical
analysis of a can of Giant Baking Powder, purchased
by us in open market, we find that it does not con
tain alum, acid phosphate, terra slba, or any injuri
ous substanoes. but is a pure, healthful Cream Tar
tar Baking Powder, and as such can recommend it
U consumers. WM. Ti WENZEIX CO..
We concur' Analytic Chemists.
R. BEVERLY OOLE, M. P.,
J L. MEARS.M. D , Health Officer.
ALFRED W. PERRY. M.D.,") Members of San
W. A DOUGLASS, M. Francisco Board
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Manufactured by the
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17 and 19 Main Street, San Francisco.
"Will the coming man smoke T" was set
tied by Prof. Fiak in bis channiner pam
phlet. He says, moreover, that the rational
way to use tobacco is through the pipe.
All agree that only the best tobacco should
be used. Which Is the best? That to
which Nature has contributed themoetex
qolslte flavors. BlackweU's Bull Durham
Smoking Tobacco fills the bill completely.
Nearly two-thlrds of all the tobacco grown
on tbe Golden Tobacco belt of North Caro
lina Kes into the manufactory of Black
well, at Durham. Tbey buy the pick of
the entire section, nance
BlackweU's Bull Durham
Smoking Tobacco is the
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The Durham Bull trade
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Gray Hair or Whiskers changed in.
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