The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1895, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THE 3TORY OF GUARARWPE PROBPERITY gs have been instituted in the ourt of Santa Clara County by the heirs of the estate of Mrs. Maria Cole- man, deceased, for the eviction of certain parties from lands claimed by the estate, but which have been filed upon under the homestead act by Matt’ E. Arnerich, irles P. Owens, John Doyle and others, enew claimants to_ the land contend it is more valuable for agricultural purposes than for mineral, and the right to the disputed- territory will be tes when the applicants for homesteads offer their final proofs at the land office. But the very fact of such proceedings recalls a history. The alleged mineral land upon which the homesteads in question have been ijoins the Rancho de los Capitan- a Me; ant. The northwest as confirmed by the JTS grant w hited State: pany in 1850, and a patent was issued But there are those who claim, bose to prove, that the Guadalupe Compa and the Baltimoré g Association illegally appropriated hundreds of acres of land | plain,” may have a sort of companion- | to the Guadalupe Mining | AND three colonies, and Guadalupe was divided into as many districts. The mining company sank shafts, tun- | neled the hills, erected immense hoisting | and reduction w constructed railroads and bridges and mountain roads. It maintained a large general merchandise-store, and blessed the | village with a schoolhouse that also served | as a church. After doing these many good things it turned its property over to the mortgagee, the late William O'Brien, | through whom it descended to its present | ownership. The mines ceased to pay on | account of low prices, and so the doors of the works were closed, and the village of | Guadalupe, which had contained a popu- | lation estimated anywhere from 1000 to | 1500 souls, was gradually deserted, until i to-day the traveler is struck by its desola- | tion. From the hillslopes, the rows of window- | less cabins look down almost pathetically on the gigantic works wherein no fire has burned nor any wheel revolved this many a year. veet Auburn, “loveliest village of the 175 DEGhING orks, built huge furnaces, | their backs upon the settlement. The Chi- nese disappeared a little later, and the Mexicans and natives hung about the place for years. At present a couple of na- tive families are the only inhabitants save the watchman, who is, for the greater part of the year, Mayor and Council, police force and white population of Guadalupe. An old frame building that once served as headquarters for the Guadalupe Fire Department is now utilized occasionally by the parish priest of Los Gatos, who cele- brates mass for the few remaining natives and others of his faith thereabouts remote from regular places of divine worship. After all it is not improbable that with improved conditions and a revival of silver mining an impetus may be given to the quicksilver mining industry that will re- | populate Guadalupe in the duration of a single moon. IN SEARCH OF A BARGAIN. | The Customer Was Prepared to Spend i His Cash to the Best Advantage. | Aman in a heavy gray overcoat, fur cap and thick woolen mittens walked into a | downtown restaurant the other evening | and took a seat at one of the tables. His | arms were full of bundles. He deposited | these on the chairs beside him, took off his | hat and mittens, placed them on. top of | one of the bundles, put a pair of glasses | on his nose and began to study the bill of | fare. | “H’m—is a bowl of soup 15 cents?’ he | asked, addressing the waiter who was stand- | ing over him in an attitude of respectful attention. $o¥en nir.? “Any cheaper if you take a meat order?” A VIEW OF GUADALUPE. [From a photograph.] - th outside of the grant and in close proximity to the historic settlement of Guadalupe, nd thet land will now be the object of. ntention in the land office and the Asearly as 1846 prospectors near the |tudeof candles arranged on large circular | )f the future Guadalupe mine discov- | zinc frames, which were raised and lowered | ered Indians painting their faces witha red substance which, upon examination, proved to be cinnabar, and it the outcrop upon which those aboriginals were seated proved to be the apex of a tre- | mendous lode from which thousands of fl s of quicksilver have been extracted. | piece in this once “liveliest village of the | hills.” The first buildings that arrest the atten- | tion of the stranger driving from the di- | reetion of Saxni Jose are the old dancehouse | and saloon. Old-timers say that if the | walls of that dancehouse could only speak | they could some very harrowing as well as | jubilant tales unfold. This, the ‘‘old fan- | dango house,” is a shell of a building, 60 | feet long and 30 wide, with high canvas- covered ceiling, and a stage on one side for | the musicians. It was lighted by a multi- | by 8id of ropes and pulleys. | “A white-haired Mexican who is sunning elated that | himself on the grass near the steps of the | dancehouse is drawn into conversation, | refers to the good times that the dance- | house yielded in the happy days of yore. nd he shakes his head regretfully as he | E “‘Yes, it’s 10 cents if you take meat wi 1it.” | "H’rq—have you got a nice porterhouse | “Yes, sir. What else?” “T'm not ordering it 3 | the porterhouse steak ? t. How much is y cents 2"’ | . “That’s what it says on the bill of fare, | isn’t it?”? “I think it is.” “Well, that's right.” ’s your roast turkey ?” icen! it’s 35 cents, is it?"’ “Yes, sir.” ““Any extra charge for vegetables?” “No'extra charge for potatoes, If you | wanted fresh mushrooms, new peas or | roasted ears we'd have to charge you | something extra for them.” “You couldn’t furnish them at once. | anyhow, could you?” “We should have to keep you waiting | quite a while for them, sir. “T haven’t ordered anything yet. H'm— | roast pork, 25 cents, Throw in the apple The Guadalupe mine had been worked [ It had often been socrowded asto make | sauce with it?” thirty years when it .was closed early a decade ago by reason of the sion in the quicksilver market. The they have “‘petered out.”” It is, how- contended by the heirs to the Capi- tanci 1 1 if opened up to-day, would take rank with | could mistake. - The bar is shorn of allits | the largest qui | dancing a hardship, if notan impossibility, | first flash of many a feud among the pas- ession seems to have gone abroad that | sionate, quick»bempe_red Mexicuns,_and the | icksilver deposits of the Guadalupe | floor had several times been crimsoned | Got any baked chicken pie?” were worked to their utmost’ limit, and | with human blood spilled in' the hasty | | strife. | | Adjoining one end of the dancehouse is | os grant that the Guadalupe mine, | a building whose original character no one | 5. ver mines of the world. | old adornments, but enough remains to | It is further maintained that on much of | render superfluous a question as to its for- | | on its waxed boards. It had witnessed the | | “That’s what it says on the bill of fare, | isn’t it?” “T think it is.” | “Well, that's right.” “H’m-—prairie chicken, half 40 cents. “Yes, sir. What else?” | ‘T haven’t ordered it yet. How much is it?” *“It says 30 cents on the bill of fare, esn't it!"’ “H’m—yes, it says 30 cents.” “Well, that’s right.” “H'm—cabinet pudding, 15 cents. I the land that has been filed upon by home- stead applicants the cinnabar deposits are of great richness, while agriculture would be far less lucrative on the land than quicksilver mining even at the present low market values. The village of Guadalupe was crushed out of existence when its mines closed down. It was said to be the prettiest mining camp in California; situated in a canyon, with-a river running through it, and with sloping hills on either side that | made an exceedingly picturesque sight. Less than a score of years agoand the hills that surround the beautiful valley of Santa Clara confained no settlement so full of life and vigor as the mining village of Guadalupe. A mint of money bad been invested there, and the mines were being worked profitably and with bonanza pros- pects. A colony of Cornishmen, expert miners, had been attracted to the place by inducements of fat wages and permanent employment; and a little army of Chinese bad been brought into the settlement to periorm the miscellaneous work that re- quired no’ scientific mining skill. - The native Caljfornians centered there from | many miles around, and hence there were | mer purpose. The windows are shattered; | the floor is falling in. This saloon might | boast of full many a tale of red-handed | conflict. Lives have been stricken out on | its floor. | To this interesting village of deserted cabins—this burial ground of bonanza | hopes—the San Francisco Press Club made |an excursion once upon a time, and to | some member of that excursion party, per- haps, may be attributed the perpetration | of a string of verses found tacked up on | the door of the fandango-house. Fortun- | ately for his reputation, the anthor’s name | does not appear on the screed; but here is | a sample of the rude rhymes: The ceiling once moist with the steam of tamales; The flooring that reeked with the overflow wine; | The shelf, where the serried array of bright bottles “Had served for adorning a Bacchanal shrine, Are here but the heyday of glory 1s over, All rent is the ceiling, the floor in decay, And the shelving is broken, and brilliant-hued bottles Are here. but in dreams of the evergone day— And here, where the greaser was regal in revels, | The gringo, who laughs at the ruin, is here. He i3 here making merry o'er graves of the greasers And taxing his gullet with rivers of beer. ‘When the shutdown occurred in Guada- | lupe the Cornishmen were the first to turn don’t want any cabinet pudding, that's | certain. What’s this? Coffee, 10 cents?” |, ““Ithink that's what it says on the bill of | fare, isn’tit?” | “That's what it says.” “W ell, that’s right.’’ “Well, I don’t drink any coffee at 10 cents a cup!” he ejaculated, rising and put- ting on his cap and mittens with great de- liberation. “It's the last straw.” “You don’t have to order coffee, you know,” suggested the waiter with some idea of soothing him. “I know it,” replied the other. “T don’t have to order angthing if T don’t want it. Furthermore,” he- continued, turnin up the wide collar of his overcoat and pic%(ing up his bundles, “I'm not going to order anything, either. I'm under no obliga- tions to order anytHing, am 1?2 *No, sir.” “That’s my understanding of it,” he said. moving toward the door. “When a man goes to a store he’s not obliged to buy every%hhlg on the bargain counter if the prices don’t suit him. T've got just 45 cents to buy a good meal with, young man, and I'm going to find some good place, by finger, where I can get a good meal for 5 cents if it takes the rest of the week. Good evening.”—Chicago Tribune. . “If you don't take Langley’s Directory, you don’t get the names.” Out Monday. | University of M What else?” | ANK G BY FRA The present war has increased the im- | portance of our mission to Korea. That country from now on will be the wedge | between Japan, China and Russa, and our | Minister there will be an important char- | acter. There is a large American colony | now in Seoul. The Americans are doing | most of the mission work of the country, | and there are a number of American offi- cials connected with the Government. The | climate is a good one, and the place is by 1o means so black asit has been painted. You remember what General Haldeman, the late American Minister to Siam. said about it. He was asked whether he wished | a reappointment to Siam, or whether he would not prefer to go to Korea. He re- plied: “If I were told that I must go to Siam or | to hades I would, I suppose, answer that | I woul®go to Siam; butif the command | was that I must 20 to hades or Korea, I certainly would not choose Korea.”” General Haldeman had evidently not been to Korea. The Minister there has a much better pos than our Minister at | Bangkok. He has better quarters, and | Korea is one of thefew countries in which | Uncle Sam owns his own house. The | King, I think, donated the land, and the home of the American Minister is a com- modious, one-story building, covering con- siderable ground, and_decidedly comjort able, though 1 was told that it was slightly unhealthy, and that the secretary of the legation who had last lived in it had nearly died of fever in consequence. Thisisnoth- ing, however, for a Consul or a diplomat, as to which witness the number of consuls who die every administration at Vera Cruz from yellow fever, and the others who are taken off by miasma in other coun- tries of the world. A few repairs would make the legation buildings in Seoul all right, and our Minister has something like five acres inside the brick walls which surround his home. He has another one-story building which forms | his office. The King has given him a guard of soldi and he has five times as many servants as he ever had in America. When he goes about the city he is “toted” along ina sedan chair by four men, and his offi- cials stand at the gate and are ready to open it whenever he comes into his yard. The place pays $7500 a year, and_this on a silver basis 15 equal to $15,000. There is a reading-room, which is kept up by the mis- sionaries and other foreigners, within a stone’s throw of the legation, where Amer- ican and English periodicals and newspa- pers come every month, and a little fur- ther up the same street there is a clubhouse where one can, if he will, get a Vermouth or Manhattan cocktail, and can amuse him- self with billiards in company with players from a dozen different parts of the world. 1 think our Minister spends the greater part ot his time iv the reading-room. The fact is, I never saw him in the club, and I don’t know that he frequents it. more of a student than a clubman, and his life has been \-smn( in teaching school. He is now 63, and he was born near Buffalo. His father died en he was 11, and he had to look out for himself. He got an educa- tion, and in some way drifted to Michigan. He was for a time the Superintendent of | the Detroit schools, and then for ten vears was the head of a female seminary. 'or some years he was connected with the 1, and he went fresh | from schoolwork to Korea. During his_youth he had distinguished | himseli as a farmer, being the champion rake wder of the neighborhood in which he lived, and when he was ap-| pointed as Minister to Korea he concluded | that he would benefit the country by im. proving its steck. He boughta bull and | several c in California and took them | over with him on the steamer. I don’t, know whether he expected them to go | along as a part of his personal effects, but I | was told in Yokohama,dapan, that when | he arrived there the steamship company | charged ‘him $800 for extra baggage. At| any rate he took his cattle to Korea and | was surprised to find there a better grade of beef than that which he had carried over 6000 miles of sea. He isrewarded, however, by having good milk and butter, though in case he remains in the counfry not more than three years the extra bageage bill will make his coffee cost from this item alone about a dollar a day. I was in Seoul at the time Mr. Sill arrived, and I called | at the legation only a few hours afterward. | An absolutely naked Corean boy was swinging on the gate. and I found the house turned upside down with the Minis- | ter's effects. During my stay the Min: ter | was presented to the King, his Majesty | giving me the honor of an audience the | same day. Mr. Sill made a very good im- | ion, and his Majesty told him that he | glad the President had sent such a distinguished_scholar to represent him in Korea. The Kinfiv spoke at this time in the highest term of Dr. H. N. Allen, the sec- retary of the legation, who had acted as Minister during the interim, and who, by the way, has done more for America and American interestsin Korea than any other foreigner. Dr. Allen is to-day the most powerful foreigner in the country. He is a modest, retiring young man of about 40 years of age, who was sent out to Asia as a mis- sionary doctor, and who, aiter spending a short time in China, went to Korea. At this time the missionaries were held in low esteem by the Koreans, and they were working hard to get a foothold. “About twelve or thirteen ye ago a great re- bellion occurred, in which Kim Ok Kiun and others seized the King, and in which the conspirators nearly killed one of the King's family, Prince Min Yong Ik. He | was almost cut to pieces with swords, and s life was despaired of when Dr. Allen was called in. Heappreciated the situation. He knew that he would be charged with killing the Prince if he failed to cure him, and that the Prince’s chances of life and death hung upon a hair, Dr, Allen, how- ever, concluded to risk it on his own skill and Prince Min Yong Ik’s vitality. He sewed up his wounds and nursed him for days. 1nch by inch and atom by atom he drew the Prince away from the grave and finally made him a well man. This gave Dr. Allen a great reputation throughout the whole land. He was called in to prescribe for the Korean nobles, and during the years of his mission in Korea he actually turned into the mis- sion funds over $5 a year which he got from his outside practice, The King and Queen took his adyice on many matters of foreign policy, and when they sent their embassy to Washington he went along as their confidential foreign adviser. He stayed with them for some time in Wash- ington, winning friends everywhere ana afterward went back to Korea as our sec- retary of legation. To-day when any mat- ter of interest to foreigners is to be carried through in Korea Dr. Allen is always ap- caled to. Through him the missionaries ave found access to the best classes of the | country, and their work is not confined to the coolies, as it is to a large extent in Chiga. Dr. Allen has not been connected with the missions in any official way for %'esrs, and his work has been practical and iplomatic rather than religious. Heis a man of high education, a born diplomat and thoroughly efficient in every respect. There are a number of Americans con- nected ‘with the Korean Government. General Clarence Greathouse is the foreign dviser to the King, and his Majesty con- sults him on all matters of foreign policy. Hissalary is, I believe, about $12,000 a year, and he has a magnificent escn\:liuhment, with numerous servants. He spends a great deal of his time in the E:Jm and he is connected with mnni of the modern re- forms. Not long ago the King gave him a rank, and I believe he has now 5“ right to wear a gold button under his ear. General William McE. Dye, who went over to Korea to reorganize the army some years ago, is still In the service of the iin é e took part in the late war in this country —and then went to Epypt, where he served with great distine- tion in the army of the Khedive. He | cans who are connected with his Majesty, | \be promptly paid. ‘business at night, and h T . CARPENTER | has now been in Korea about eight years and during that time his beard and hair have become as white as snow. Ancther American connected with the army is Colonel F. J. H. Nienstead, who aided in drilling the troops, and who is now at the head of the King's imperial school. He seems to be willing to wait for his s: an Towa man of about 40 years of age. Heisa fine lawyer, and is a graduate of Yale College. Packed with common-sense and a man'of business ability, he is making a very successful Consul-General. The Vice Consul-General is George H. Scid- more, who has been for years connected with the service, and who has considerable diplomatic abil At Osaka and Hiogo, the great commercial centers of Western Japan, the United States is represented by Enoch J. Smithers, who has been con- nected with our diplomatic service for a quarter of a century, and who did good work at Shanghai and Tientsin. At Na- gasaki we have W. H. Abercrombie, a rich d | American, who has one of the finest houses | a bright fellow, and, like the other Ameri- | in the Far East, and who is a man of culture and brains. The Consuls, however, have to do only without very muc| fuss about its non-pa?— ! ment. suppose this matter has been | changed now, and the foreign loan which | the King has made, or is trying to make, | will enable all of the official salary debts to | ‘When 1 was in Korea, | however, the King owed the American | officials about $60,000, and nearly every foreigner in his service was from one | with the business interests of the country and with the furthering of American trade. All matters connected with this war are left to the legation at Tokio, and this is i a better condition to-day than it has been for years. The Minister is Edwin Dun, a relative of Senator Thurman and a man well fitted to deal with the Japanese from his residence of many years in the country. month to a year behindhand. The only American who was paid up | promptly at this time was the King's | electrician, Thomas W. Power, a young | Washington man, who was just about | completing the putting of an_electri ht { plant into the palace. His Majesty is very | much afraid ofpu ssination. He has two | great palace cities, each of which contains | between five hundred and a thousand | acres of buildings, and which are about | two miles apart. Mr. Power had put 2000 | incandescent lights into these palaces, and hundreds of them are kept blazing from 5 o’clock in the evening until 6 o’clock in the morning. Maj all of his sleeps in | crazy if he! the dark. He goes almost He speaks Japanese aswell as he does English, and he has intimate per- sonal friendship with_the greatest of the Japanese statesmen. He is a big, broad- shouldered, red-headed man of about 45. He is a thorough American, and ke has the nerve to demand and the diplomacy necessary to secure the best results for our people in the Far East. In the past the Germans and the English have systematically bulldozed Japan into giving contracts and favors to them at the expense of the United States, but under the present regime we are likely to get our own share of everything, and it will take more than the average diplomat, either Japanese or European, to pull the wool over Edwin Dun’s red eye brows. HONJ.3.SILL PINISTER 10 His name is Nicholas W. McIvor, and he is | Port Warden, has a reccrd as a secret so- | ciety man that can hardly be equaled. He | has” been_a Rechabite for fifty-one years, an Odd Fellow for forty-seven years, a Mason for twenty-seven years, and a mem- ber of the Encampment for thirty-four years. Captain Wiggins smoked steadily for fifty-five years. Three years ago, at the age of 73, he decided to stop, and he did <o at_once, without any temporizing. His health improved from then on, and he as as good a prospect of becoming a cen- tenarian as any other man in Georgia.— Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. - { HOTEL ARRIVALS. PALACE HOTEL. Miss A Oakley, Chicago Dr M R Piggott, US N P B Armstro { J D Leomons, Wash H M Yerington, Carson Mrs Y 4 Viswander, Japan von & w, Saginaw ¢ Philade] rds T C Boss, Belmont 1l W ley, Stanford st R C Patten MHG Miss I o, Bostor Milwaukee by & md,N Ny 'y & w,Chicago F F Sn - Dr H P ¢ il, Stantord RUSS HOUSE. J Kaiser, Red Bluit D R Allen, Wis H 1d G B Wilso F A Hol! F C Fost « « ¥ ¥ J E kiah ¥ I son,Tomales 1 1 Mo G T C B Mulligan, ¢ W Dk G R Sneatl:, Sun O A Barke | 7 € Valentine, 1 | H H Brown, Alameda doesn’t have light, and his situation is | really so dangerous that he can’t aiford to | do without it. The light plant which has been put in is | one of the finest in the East. Itcame from America, and was so well put up by Mr, Power that one of the dancing girls could have run it.- The Koreans, in fact, had been managing the machinery for several weeks, and the officials thought that the | ight was complete, and those to whom | the King had handed the money for Mr. Power held it back and refused to give it | to him. He protested and waited for a few | days. They showed no signs of paying bis | salary until, at last, one night when the King was in_the midst of his state business with his officials about him, the light went out. Couriers were at once dis- patched to the plant, and the Koreans in charge were asked what was the matter. They could not tell. They pointed to the machinery. It was running beautifully, but there was no light, Mr. Power, 1 was told, had merely disconnected the dynamo, by taking out a hidden screw, which left the wheels running as usual, but which produced no light. The King was enraged at his officials, but not at Mr. Power. He knew nothing abont the salary having been kept back, but he simply fold the high Korean noble who had charge of this department that if the light was not at once produced his head would be chopped off. This would also necessitate the cutting off of other heads, and within an hour Mr. Power’s money was in his band, and he had a lot of Korean nobles on their knees about him, begging him to use his magic and bring back the light to the King. He held off for a time, but was finally persuaded, and having turned the Koreans out of the light plant, he inserted the screw, and, presto! the palace blazed with the rays of elec- tricity. There was no trouble after this about Mr. Power’s salary, and he steadily ew in influence. He had charge of the King’s armory and repaired his Gatling guns. He was about to build an electric railroad from Seoul to the Han River when the present rebellion broke out and every- thing stopped. There is a large colony of missionaries in Seoul, and there are missionary stations at the leading seaports of the country. The field is taken up almost entirely by the Presb{terinns and Methodists, and both churches are doing excellent work. In ad- dition to these the French Catholics and the Church of England have a number of missionaries, and the Methodists have a Korean school or college, under the charge of the Rev. H. A. Appenzeller. I paidsome attention to mission work during the trij which I made through Japan, China an Korea last summer. 1 found the mission- aries hard-working, earnest men, and they are doing a vast deal of good throngh the ‘masses upon whom they have to work are so many and the missionaries so few that there is not as rapid progress as might be otherwise. There are mission stations scattered throughout the Chinese empire, and there are now 1266 missionaries at work in that country. They claim that they have 40,000 Chinese who are regular communicants, and the increase has %een rapid within late years. It is eighty-six yearssince Protestant missions were started in China, and the chiei work has been done during the last thirty-five years, at the beginning of which there were only six communicants. One of the friends of the missions claims that if the same advance continues duringwhe next thirty-five years there will be 26,000,000 Protestant commu- nicants in China and a Christian commu- nity of 100,000,000 geople. As for me, I very much doubt this estimate. There isa reat mission work going on in Japan, and §amn is the paradise of the missionary. He isallowed to do as he pleases, and the people are more easily converted. Some of the best work of ‘the missionaries is through their hospitals, which are very much needed, and which are now thor- ougly appreciated by the Asiatics. The work in this line has been improving every year, and the man who tells you that the missionaries are not doing anything in Asia has not, as a rule, been inside of a missionary’s house nor looked atall into the real work which they are attempting to accomphish. b: g & Japan is now_ considered quite as desir- able a country by our diplomatic agents as England or the Continent. The salaries ofng)e Consuls are high and our diplomats live much better in Japan than they do in Europe. Nearly every one of them has a large establishment, ‘with plenty of serv- vants, and they ave, as arule, of a higher grade than those lppoxm.ed to the big cities of Europe. The Consul-General at Yoko- hama isone of the ablest men who has ever been sent abroad in that capacity The positfon of Minister to Japan is now worth about $35,000 a year in silver. The Minister has a fine, modern home in Tokio, and he lives within a stone’s throw of half a dozen Japanese nobles and Princes. Copyright, 1895. Fond of Societies. Captain Lewis Wiggins of Savannah, the endall, Cambridge %vins, Cambridge | 3 Jac J Fench & wi, 5 Ri Mrs T ICarr, Mary Miss 3, Jones, N Dr H Taggari, St & w, L Angeles san Jose 1 Arthup Los Angeles stine, Fort Bragg iton, Salt Lake C Fowle s ¥ Prince, US S Olvipia J Milbank & w,Wisconsin 3 e n internatio; be held in s on childhood in the spring of . Among the questions to be discussed are the physical, moral and mental eleva- i dren, children’s hospitals, the care of deaf-mute and blind children up to the time of their admission iuto an educa- | tional institution, care of poor and aban- doned children, reforma tories and vaga- | bordage in relation to childhood. e Pz ian cabmen are not allowed to | smoke pipes while driving. NEW TO-DAY. MR. Mr. ¥rank Wise of Secramento is & prominent citizen and ranchman of that far-famed county. Helsa strong, active, manly man. Heisa true | son of the Republic, and one of those who might well be termed the backbone of the Nation. life has been full of adventure, full of stern, honest ‘work, Now, at a little past the meridian he is en- joying the fruits of his early Industry. Like all other people, his life has been one of mingled hap- piness and sorrow. The greatest unhappiness of his life was probably the possession of a terrible disease, This disorder seized him as & victim, and though he tried and labored and followed up the advice of friends and physicians, no relief came. At last, sore distressed and with but little faith he sought out one of the specialists of the old Hudson Medical Institute. Now for the rest, let him tell his own story : MRE. FRANK WISE, A well-known rancher near Sacramento, says: “I desire to express my gratitude for the skillful manner in which I have been treated by the Hud- son Medical Institute of Market and Ellis streets, San Francisco. ¥or years I had been afficted with catarrh of the bladder and nervous prostra- tion. Had been treated by a number of physicians without any benefit. Life, indeed, had become a burden to me, and T had about despaired of ever getting rellef. But a few months ago I put mysel? under the care of the physicians of the Hudson Medical Institate. “Betore belng treated by these specialists T was a continued sufferer, both by day and night. My sleep was disturbed every half hour or bour by the bladder trouble. ¥ was despondent and hopeless. Now Isleep soundly all night without being dis- turbed, am cheerful and hopeful and feel that I ‘have a new lease on life. In fact, I can thankfully say that under the skillful treatment of these doc- tors Thave been restored to health in every re- spect,and T can conscientiously recommend the staf? of physicians of the Hudson Medical Institute 1o all sufferers, knowing that they will be honor- ably and skillfully treated. (Signed) “FRANK WISE, “Sacramento City, Cal.” His | FRANK WISE. | AT THE INSTITUTE, | What the Specialists Are Doing Daily te | Restore Health and Strength to Sufferers. Itisan established rule of the Institute that no | incurable Qiseases are taken. If an applicant is found to be suffering from true cancer or tubercus lar consumption he is frankly told that he cannot be cured, though much may be done to allay his sufferings, but as medical science has vet failed 10 discover any cure for these two dreadful maladies, all the physicians at the Institute say freely and frankly that it is beyond human power to remove these evils. Nevertheless it should not be forgot= ten that there are many instances where mistakes have been made in diagnosing these diseases, so it is well for all sufferers to apply for help at the Ine | stitute. All the following cases are curable: Catarrh of the head, stomach or bladder; all bronchial diseases; ail functional nervous dis- eases; St. Vitus' dance; hysteria; shaking palsy; epilepsy; all venereal diseases: all kinds of blood troubles; ulcers; wastes of vital forces; rhenma- tism; gout: eczema: all skin diseases. from what- ever cause arising; psoriasis; all blood-poisoning; varicocele; poison oak; lost or impaired manhood ; spinal troubles: nervous exhaustion and prostra- ; inciplent paresis; all Kidney diseases; Inm~ sciatica; all bladder troubles; dyspepsiag indigestion; constipation; all visceral disorders, which are treated by the depurating department. Special instruments for bladder troubles. There are a few of the special diseases in which exceptionally remarkable cures have been made Dby the specialists, and it may frankly be stated that 8 helping hand is extended to every patient. Ciroulars and Testimonials of the Grest Hudyan sent free. HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE, Stockton, Market and Ellis Sts. Send for PROF. J. H. HUDSON'S celchrated lecture on “The Errors of Youth and on Lost Man- hood.” It will cost you nothing. Visit the Institute when you can. All patients seen in private consuliing-rooms. Out-of-town patients can learn all about their cases if they send for symptom blanks. All letters are strictly confi- dential. Two thousand testimonials in the writing of the individuals cured. Oftice Hours—9 A. 3. t0 8 P. M. Sundays, 9t013