The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1895, Page 22

22 THE SAN FRA NCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1895. T L Pz Z They were returning from Havernack in the cool of the June evening. were Martha Cox and Mrs. Deacon Muncie, who had accompanied her to town. Mrs. Muncie had takenin a big bundle “They" | : | trouble punishment.” | Y% / Wi ~ ADELINE RNAPP- of carpet rags, which she had left at the weaver’s. “Ithought I'd have ‘hit or miss’ this | sternly time,’” she was saying, “because the last one was a stripe, and I do like v’riety. When we first come out here to live it ust to seem tome as if the wearyingness of the | troubl asmuch | he n’ about all | : 1 | ened at thi prairie’d drive me wild. I neve of a hand to like samen the change I c’d make was in the house. ust to change round there pretty often. I'd set all the furniture different and get some voudd,o'n't blieve trouble comes from the ord ?" aid T didn’t b'lieve the Lord meant affliction to come to folks, Deacon Mun- cie,”” Martha said, flushing. “I suppose you mean, Sister Cox,” the minister interposed, still kindly, ‘‘that the Lord, who is merciful, does not wish to afflict his people? That we all believe, but we must also believe that heisa wise Being, who knows that he must afflict us for our good.” But Martha's evil spirit seemed urging her on. “Ican't say as I mean jest that, elder,” she said. “Itdon’t seem to me reasonable to s'pose that God punishes us hefore we've done anything wrong, an’ I'm sure I ain’t sinned any more’n most folks, but | | myhull life’'s been a | since I c¢'d recollect. at isif you call *‘But whom the Lord loveth he chasten- eth,” murmured the minister, shocked, but merciful still. ‘‘An’ scourgeth every soul whom he re- ceiveth,” added Deacon Muncie, Martha looked from one to the other, piteously. Bray,” she faltered, “‘as I've any reason to s'pose the Lord loves me more'n any one else in Dilworth, but I've seen more 'n any one else in the church, an’ n’t scourged you yet, Deacon Muncie.” en Deacon Graves’ kindly face length- “‘The Lord’s ways is not ez our ways, Marthy,” he said with a troubled glance at Deacon Muncie’s astounded visage. “An’ we mustn’t question his v'riety that way, but it ust to get awful | ' methods of ‘dealin’ with us, poor worms o’ unishment ever | more | “1 don’t know, Elder | The congregation was held spellbound by the power of his eloquence, and from Deacon Muncie in kis front. pew to the smallest Sunday-school boy in the gallery not a soul in the house but knew that “Marthy Cox was catchin’ it.”’ As for Martha she sat in the old, familiar meeting-heuse, among the neighbors and acquaintances of a lifetime, as one smitten by the lightnings of judgment. Rigid, pale, motionless, to the outward eye she was hardened and unhearing, but inwardly every word the speaker said was burning itself upen her brain. It wasa hot Augun% day, but she was chilled to the bone. This sinner, this proud, self-sufficient wanderer from the throne of grace, this stiff-necked heretic, this upholder of schism—she won- dered if that was the unpardonable sin— was herself, Martha Cox. She felt herself outcast from the very grace of Ged. The last hymn was sung.. The congre- gation was hushed, awaiting the benedic- tion, when Martha became aware that Elder Bray was extending the customary inyitation to the Lord’s table. In all her forty years of church member- ship she had never missed a communion Sunday. But now all was changed. She felt the eyes of the whole congregation upon her. B The benediction was pronounced. -The communicants sank back into their seats to await the departure of outsiders, the children and non-members, but Martha Cox still stood motionless in her pew, nearly fainting with the agony of the bat- tle qng}:ng in her soul. Finally, feeling within her a wrench as of the separating of soul and body, she slipped into the aisle and, half-unconscious, wholly desperate, joined the out-going line to the door. | §iThere was a murmur through the re- maining membership as she passed out; a delicious thrill of horror convulsed every | lamb inthe fold, and a few of the sisters exchanged scandalized glances. Only lit- | tle Deacon Graves looked very concerned | and sbocked, and half arose as though to | go after her. But the door closed upon | her recreating figure and the solemn offices | of the sacrament were already beginning | as Martha, scarce alive, passed out upon i the street. II. She knew not whither she went as she [hmried along in a direction quite away ,@"fflif y "\u\"lk\“ /) N -\ J f; LB s an € ..b'j_ "{;,T,,Mfih “9 {WIHLH , il o, R L S - RV oW “SHE WALKED ON IN AN UNFAMILIAR WAY UNIIL AT LAST, COMPLETELY TIRED CUT, SHE SANK DOWN UNDER A TREE.” tiresome by spells, m’notony, Martha ?"” Martha Cox was looking ahead, between old Sorrel’s ears, at the level gray road. BShe was a faded little woman, with pale brown eyes and ashy brown hair. Sbe had & thin-lipped, sensitive mouth and pale cheeks. The vague wrinkles on her face were not the kind that give any clew to the experiences of the soul behind them. “Idon’t know’s I ever had anything else to contrast it with,”” she said a little dully. “Your carpet’s goin’ to be hit or miss, but seems ’s if my life’d been hit an’ miss all th’ way through.” Mrs. Muncie’s disapproval was unmis- takable. “Itain't no ways right for you to talk that way, Martha,” she said severe- iy. ‘It savorsof unfaith. They ain’t no kind of doubt but what the Lord’s afflict- in’ hand’s been laid heavy on you all your life, but his ways is not as ourn, an’ they can’t be no doubt every one of them | troubles has heen. sent in mercy. No tellin’ what sins of backsliding they may have saved you from, Martha Cox. The Lord deals wisely with his people.” “I ain’t so sure he sends ’em,” Martha said haif defiantly, “I ain’t got so little faith in God, Jane Muncie, as to b’lizve he ever means misfortune to come to folks,” She had said it! For the first time in her life she had given utterance to the thought that through the whole monoton- ous course of her dull drab existence, with its dull drab troubles, had been her com- fort and ber stay. As for Mrs. Muncie, she was almost too scandalized for utterance. they had reached her own house and she had alighted. She paused, with one brown-gloved hand on the latch of her neat, white gate. “I am afraid, Martha,” she said, “that vour heart is not right in the sight of the Lord. Watch and pray, for you are in danger of being led away by spiritnal pride.” Martha was too frightened at her own temerity to make any reply. She drove on in silence. She was busy with hoe and shovel and littie cart the next day, collecting dust for the chicken-yard from the highway before | ray and his | her gate, when the Rev. Eli two deacons appeared, driving Deacon Muncie’s big _gray colt before a comforta- ble carry: as she told herself, that they were coming to see her,and she retreated hustily into the house to make herself presentable. It was a solemn trio that greeted her when she answered Deacon Muncie's knock. The Rev. Eli was the first to speak. was a tall, spare man, with reddish chin whiskers and a habit of puffing out hislips | and cheeks whenever he delivered bimself of a remark, as though the air were in haste to fill the vacuum which nature abhors. Deacon Graves was short and wiry, with kindly blue eyes and a humorous expres- sion about the mouth, While Deacon Mun- cie was frankly portly and prosperous, withal bearing his prosperity meekly, as from the Lord. ‘“‘S8ister Muncie was telling me, Miss Cox,” said Elder Bray, kindly, . ‘‘certain remarks of yours that lead me to fear {ou are letting worldly doubts bedim your light.” Martha, taken by surprise, made no re- ly. Deacon Muncie frowned slightly and eacon Graves looked very uncomfortable. *Oh, I don’t thiuk it’s ez bad ez all that, Brother Bray,” he said. Martha looked at the little man_ grate- fully, but before she could reply Deacon Muncie said, seating himself in one of the rush-bottomed chairs, “Miss Muncie says, Martby, as how you proiessed yesterday By this time | all. Martha “felt it in herbones,” | He | Don’t you hate | the dust.” Deacon Muncie was some little time collecting his thoughts sufficiently to speak them. ‘I am afraid, Sister Cox,” he said, “that you are adding the sin of envy to that of spiritual pride. If it has pleased the Lard t’bless me, his servant, in a worldly way, Iambut a humble instrument in bis hands, and receive his mercies as I would his chastening, in meekness and gratitude of spirit.”’ *“This is very serious, Sister Cox,” cried the elder. ““The views you advance are | heterodox—I may say schismatic in the ex- treme. The matter is serious, very seri- ious’’; and his large, loose cheeks sucked in portentously. Foor Martha! She had never before been charged with advancing views, and the elder’s meaningful words struck dismay to her soul. She stammered forth her protes- tations until Deacon Graves was moved to say tenderly: ‘‘There, there; we know vou're perfectly sound in thé doctrines, Marthy. It’s only a misconception of terms.” The little deacon had heard this phrase at the May meeting and repeated it with unction: ‘*A mere misconception of terms. We’re sure you trust the Lord, an’ accept chastisement as from him.”” But here again Martha all unwittingl tore down the refuge offered her. “¥ baven’t deserved any chastisement,” she said doggedly. “Idon’t b'lieve the Lord means it as such. Itis jest as things is happened to me, an’ my luck’s been a hea; worse'n some others.” I couldn’t help it, an’ neither could he, without altering the face o’ nature. I ain’t complainin’ of my lot, I only say ’tain’t reasonable to hold God responsible for it."” Heresy so rank could not be overlooked, even by Deacon Graves, and argument, ex- hortation, threatsof the wrath of outraged divinity, all fell fast and furious upon Martha’s devoted head. Not even the “season of prayer,” with which the elder closed the- visit, served to bring peace to the erring sister’s heart. They left her at last and she returned to her hauling of dust, cast down but still obdurate. This was but the beginning. From that time “Marthy Cox’s case’” was the chief subject of conversation in Dilworth. It was discussed at the sewing circle and talked over at the postoffice. Singly and in squads Martha was visited by the various pillars of the one church in Dilworth. Each and all, however, failed to share her position, and when Mrs. Mun- cie finally declared 1n the sewing circle her belief that “Martha Cox was little better'n an infidel,” there was scarcely a dissenting voice. Matters grew from bad to worse until the quarterly sacrament Sunday came. It had been reported during the week that Elder Bray would preach that' day on unbelief |and’a general feeling prevailed that the occasion would be noteworthy. The little church was crowded on Sun- day morning when Martha; prompt as usual, took her place. 8he wondered some- what at the large congregation, but hers was a serene uou% despite her troubles and, perhaps, of all in Dilworth she had been the least disturbed by the stirring events of the past few weeks. Thete could be no doubt, however, but that the sermon that’evening was ‘‘reach- ing her.” Elder Bray, finding all argu- ment unavailing, had” at last become con- vinced that this erring soul must be afforded a glimpse of the rod of the Al- mighty’s wrath, and heshook it faithfully before her shrinking gaze. He reasoned of righteousness and of wrath to come, of dogma and doctrine, of the sin of unbelief and of the dangers of schism, the awfulness of spiritual pride and. the peril of grieving the Holy Spirit. from her home. She said to herself that she was an outcast from the Lord’s table, but the words did not convey any particu- lar meaning to her numbed brain. She walsed on in the unfamiliar way until at last, completely tired, she sank down under a tree by the roadside, and discovered that she had walked a consid- erable distance beyond the last scattering outposts of the village. She gazed about her dispiritedly. On the prairie, a little distance from her, a flock of turkeys were feeding, guarded by a small boy, who from a low mound was eyeing ber curiously. He was a queer, weazened bit of a boy, barefooted, bare- headed, onlgp thateh of sunburned hair protecting his head from the hot sun, A pair of faded overalls, tied around the waist with a bit of rope,and a ragged hick- ory shirt were all his garments. Seeing that Martha did not move, he presently approached her. “‘What's the matter?”’ he asked. “T am cast out from the Lord’s table,” said Martha, simply. The boy looked vaguely sympathetic. “That’s too bad,” he said. “Hain't you got any place o' yer own?"’ Martha did not heed his question. The mere telling of her pain had loosed her tongue, and she continued, gravely, as though the ragged urchin were the ‘duly appointed judge to hearand determine her case. “They tell me the Lord has sent affliction upon me."”’ ‘*Affliction? What is that?” ‘“Why, trouble of every kind. He's taken my friends from me, my home, my money, py health—all I have.” ‘“Jewhilikins! What a greedy he must be! Can’t you pay 'im off no way?'’ “Pay him off? Who? God?"” Martha was startled by the question to forgetful- ness of her agony. “Yes,” said the boy, “git even with ’im, I'd sue’im, make ’im unload. Who's he anyhow?” “Why! Don’t you read your Bible?” asked Martha, helplessly. ‘f“l‘t’"’a‘}a“’. that? I hain’t never heard of Aroused {o a sense of her res?onsibimy forgetting her heavy burden o fizain an sin, Martha endeavored, as well as she could, to give this weird being some idea of God and the creation. She told him the story of Jesus, with a wholly uncon- scious native eloquence, while he stood there, unmindful of his turkeys wander- ing over the prairie, only bent upon losing nothing of the marvelous story which this stranger woman said was ‘‘honestly true.”’ “Do you really mean that.you don’t know—that youdon't rememberabout it?" questioned Martha, incredulously, as the agtounding fact came home to her that here in Christian, orthodox Dilworth, this boy was hearing the old, old story for the first time. i 7 S “‘Remember!” he sai perplexedly. “Whg, how long ago did it happen?”’ “Oh,” Martha nglied vaguely, ‘“over 1800 years ago.” The idea of time had never before presented itself to her that Wway. “Oh, my!” exclaimed her hearer. “Why, ma'am; I'm only 9 years old—I couldn’t remember that long ago.” Then he bethought himself of his tur- keys and hurried to collect them, while Martha watched him, the first clear thought since her experience of the morn- ing gradually beginning to take shape in her brain. When he approached her again, herding the turkeys before him, she joined him and they walked homeward in the lengthening afternoon shadows. She had been aware of this colony on the outskirts of the village. She knew that one .or twe of the women, Jike herself, did odd chores for several families of her old acquaint- ances. Mrs. Muncie had ocecasional “help” from the settlement, but that such a heathen as this boy could exist in any Christian community seemed beyond be- lief. He grinned compassionately with a comprehensive glance at his garments, when she asked him if he did not go to school. “8’lectman come an’ said we must go oncst,” he cried, ‘‘but whose gwine lookin’ like this’ere? We uns didn’t.” No, hedid not have to herd the turkeys every Sunday, and he assented eaqerly to Martha’s proposal that on the following Sunday he come himself and bring the other ‘“fellers” to hear more fully the mar- velous story of the Light of the Worla, For Martha’s resolution was taken, and peace had come after the tumult of her bitter agony. She could notattend the one church in: Dilworth—she did not even know that she was fit to enter its sacred portals; but perhaps God would suffer her to teach these of gin little ones, and she would endeavor to do what she could 2 show him to them. And so the next Sunday, the next and the next, saw the queer little mob gathered in her spotless kitchen to hear ‘them stories,” and in a few weeks the little class was an understood thing. It was Mrs. Muncie who first made the startling discovery and spread through the congregation the news that ‘‘Martha Cox was teaching the youngsters from that Kansas colony every Sunday.” “I don’t se¢ how she dares do it,” said Mr. Dean, the Postmaster, to the group of brethren who were discussing the matter in the store one evening. “Sheain’t no more’'n an atheist herself; don’t go to church, an’ act’ally got up an’ left the place sacrament Sunday.” “‘She’ll teach them all manner of un- truth,” was Deacon Muncie’s dictum, and Elder Bray looked very serious indeed, and talked gravely of the dangers of blind guides and false doctrines. It ended in a delegation, consisting of the three officials, making another unavail- ing visit to Martha to protest against the meetings of the little class. “‘The elder says it’s pure schism,” Mrs. Bray announced in sewing circle, where the -official visit and Martha’s refusal to abandon her class were being canvassed. ““There are quite a number of our young folks who are in danger of being led astray by Martha Cox. Jennie Marsh was over there last Sunday, an’ stayed to help teach them heathens.’” i “For my part,” said Mrs. Muncie, firmly, “I think we ought to do something. I've talked with Mrs. Jenks that works for me, She saia her Jim hadn’t no clothes to come to our Sunday-school, an’ I don’t s'pose she really could make him fairly pre- sent’ble, but that ain’t no reason why he should be learnt soul-destroying doctrine by Martha Cox, 'n so I told her if she let him go there any more she couldn’t do my work. I couldn’t in conscience employ her. Ireckon that’ll do some good.” There was a murmur of inixed approval and dissent to this, but the approval car- ried the day, and before the circle ad- journed it was unanimously decided that Martha Cox’s dangerous schism should be at once and forever nipped in the bud. Threats of credit s(up[('ll, of patronage withdrawn from their flocks of turkeys and chickens, of work denied them,” soon brought the otherwise indifferent squatters to see the evils attendant upon schism and heresy, and one by one the boys and girls dropped, though not without protest and | sorrow upon their part and Martha’s, from the Sunday afternoon assembly. Tim Burns, Martha's first acquaintance in the colony, was presently the only one left. “I ain’t never goin’ ter leave off comin’,’”” he said to Martha one day as they were driving home from Havernack. It was near Christmas time. Martha bad gone to the town, as usual, with a basket of eges and some fat fowls, for which she had a steady though not extensive mar- ket, and Tim had accompanied her as a great treat. They were nearly home when Tim suddenly shouted: “Jerusay! What’s a-comin’? Look out, Miss Marthy! See there, quick!” Down the road at a furiouas gailop, with an overturned cutter behind him and a broken hitching-strap slapping about his head, came Deacon Muncie’s gray colt, headed directly for them. *Turn her out, quick, Miss Marthy!” was Tim’s exhortation, and Martha gave a great tug on the left rein to bring old Sorrel out of the road. The rotten leather broke off short at the buckle. The half- blind animal turned {ull across the way in response.to the guiding pressure of the re- maining rein, and in another instant the Tay chnrgeti full upon the ancient sleigh. li‘here was a shriek from Tim, but Martha never heard it. She lay unconscious on the snow when the deacon and a pursuing crowd from the village appeared upon the scene. They lifted Martha tenderly. One lee was twisted under her and one arm hung limply at her side. “It’'s a jedgment, sure’s fate,”” groaned Mr. Dean, the Postmaster. ““We'll hope for the best, Mr. Dean,” said Deacon Muncie, piously. ‘It may be the Lord’s a-dealin’ with her. Drat that colt. Lexpect he’ll be ruined, even if he ain’t done hisself no hurt afore hie stops.” Carefully the hurt form was piaced on a assing wood sled. “We'll take her in here,” some one said. ‘It happened handy, for she'd have to come here any- how, I.reckon.” “Here” happened by some grim malice of destiny to be the county farm, the nearest house, and into it poor Martha was borne, never again, ;lllive, to pass the gate now opened to admit er. The news of the accident spread like wildfire, and it was not long before a throng haa gathered of Martha's old friends and neighbors—even schisms being for the mement forgotten in honest sym- pathy over this new misfortune. 2 Nota soul in Dilworth saye little Tim Burns doubted that night that the acci- dent had been a judgment of God upon Martha Cox for her doubt of him, and one and all, as the days went by, endeavored to win Martha to this point of view. “I wish they wouldn’t all hector her so,” Dr. Bennett said to Elder Bray one day, meeting the latter coming up the pathway ust as the man of pills was leavin i\iarthn’s bedside. *‘She keeps a good, sti! upper lip through all this worry, but I can see it's wearing on her. It's enough to turn the poor thing’s brain. Why do you bother her? Dear me, she’s one of the kindliesi hearts that ever lived. Her soul’s all right, but I won’t answer for her mind if this thing goes on much longer.” The doctor was new in Dilworth and had not yet felt the full force of the commu- nity’s orthodoxy. The elder realized this, 0 in justice withheld the otherwise mer- ited rebuke, but he drew himself up as be- came his cloth. *I must be about my Master’s business, Dr. Bennett,” he said, *if, perchance, it may yet be possible for this stubborn heart to break and let grace prevail.”” The stubborn heart broke at last, and saving grace prevailed. One morning, when the last grinning patches of snow had melted from the shadiest corners of the county farm yard, there came to Mar- tha, lying in her narrow bed, an official- looking envelope with the Havernack post- mark. Curiously she opened it to read the announcement that at a certain hour and in a certain place at Havernack, on the following Monday, unless she should ap- pear and redeem the same, her costage would be sold for taxes. She told no one of this fresh blow. She neither wept nor moaned. She tore the notice and the envelope into small bits, and in the still hours when she lay wake- ful and alone that night she laboriously chewed and swallowed them one by one. In the morning, when the inmate of the farmhouse whose duty it was to act as at- tendant upon her helpless companions in woe appeared at Martha's bedside she found her smiling softly to herself. *‘Bless the Lord,” she said as the woman spoke to her. “Bless the Lord for his mercy and goodness, for he hath afflicted me in wisdom.”” Without more ado Susan Haines fled to the wife of the overseer and befiged her to hasten to Martha Cox’s room, for the poor thing had lost her senses. *‘But, of course, she hadn’t,” Mrs. Mun- cie exphineq to several interested groups at the sewing circle. “The Lord, in his mercy, bad brougnt her to_her senses. It is real refreshin’ to see how humble-spirit- ed and grateful she is. She recognizes the Lord’s afflictin’ hand in everything that’s come to her, an’ seems like she couldn’t be thapkiul enough for all she’s suffered. declare, it’s real edifyin’. It took a heap o’ suffering to break her proud spirit, but she’s hully deFendent on the Lord now. Deacon Muncie, he bid in her cottage at the sale; seems like kind of a -special girovieeuce that it sh’d a happened so. arthy, she says, seein’ as the rd was obliged to take it from her for ner soul's 00d, she couldn’t but bless him that it fell into the hands of a good man. Oh, she’s clean surrendered. It's a beautiful sight to see how hap;)y she is a-trustin’ the Lord so completely.” And throughout Dilworth there was no other feeling but one of thankfulness that the church had been saved, at last, from schism. Only little Tim Burns stoutly main- tained in his unregenerate brain that “‘Miss Marthy’d had so much trouble it just natchelly 'd made ’er looney.” NEW TO-DAY. 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NLY 414 HOURS FROM SAN FRANCISCO ‘and but 1 hour's staging: temperature of water 125 deg. Fahrenhelt, famous for its medicinal prop- erties; tub and plunge baths: good bunting and no better trout streams in the State; no fogs and an entire absence of mosquitos and other annoying insects; first-class service. Round trip from San Francisco, 85 50. Take Tiburon Ferry at 7:40 A. M. or 3:30 P X, connecting with stages at Geyserville. Terms: $2.aday; $12to $14 a week. Write for circular. GEO. J. CASANOV A, Manager. SEND YOUR WIFE AWAY 7ITH THE CHILDREN, AND, IF YOU CAN, £0 yourseli, for a vacation to ZATNA SPRINGS. You will find it & delightfully home-like place at which to forger the cares of business and house- keeping. 7There you can find rest and recreation, and gain renewed health and strength for the busy months sure to come to us all in Californis. Why, to enjoy the pleasures of the big, sufe SWIMMING TANK s worth making the trip, to say nothing of balmy air, health-giving_waters, charming scenery and perfect service. Terms, $10 to $14 per week. Take 7:30 A. M. Southern Pacihc train for St. | Helena: thence by stage to Ktna Springs. Un- limited round-trip tickets, 7. Special telephone connection with St. Helena. For o.her information call at 108 Drumm street, San Francisco, or write to W. L. MITCHELL, Manager, Lidell P. 0., Napa Co., Oal. THE STRICTLY TEMPERANCE RESORT, /4 NOYW OFPXEN. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. TEE GEM OP ALL RESORTS, CAZADERO Hotel and cottages, in the heart of the Sonoma redwoods. Terminus N. P. C. R. Sausalito ferry. Terms reasonable, For particulars address C. E. WARD, Manager, Caradero, Cal. BELVEDERE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT, Belvedere, Marin County, NOW OPEIN Acco.\(}\!oDATmN FOR A LIMITED NUM- ber can be had by applying at once to GEO. W. ADAMS, 14 Post St. CAMP TAYLOR RESORT OW OPEN UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. Best accommodations for families and private partles; terms, from $8 to $1% per week. Tents and cottages for rent, with or without board. Fine fishing, boating, bathing, etc.: stable at the hotel; splendid drive, connecting with Toca- loma and Bear Valley. BERTRAND & KRAUSS. City office for Tocaloma and Camp Taylor, 327 Bush street. DUNCAN'’S SPRINGS Hopland, Mendoeino County. JVEW HOTEL AND COTTAGES, PICTUR- I\ esquely situated in the mountains, 2 miles from Hopland; 3000 feet above sea level, and 250 feet above the valley: effervescent mineral baths, hot or cold; magnesia, seltzer, soda, irom, borax and sulphur springs; sure cure for kidney and liver troubles and liquor or morphine habit; plano, billiards, tennis, croquet, baseball; free bus trom Hopland Station, S. . & N. P. R. R.; $10 to $12 per week:; take 7:40 A. X, tral 0. HOWELL, Proprietor, BALDWIN'S TALLAC HOUSE, LARKE TAXOE. 'HE SUMMER RESORT OF CALIFORNTA: 20 hours from San Francisco; more than 6000 feet above sea level; accommodations first class and attractions unsurpassed. M. LAWRENCE & CO., Lessees and Managers, Tallac, Cal. JOHN DAY’S RESORT, N THE BANKS OF EEL RIVER, THE finest trout stream in_the State, 5 miles from Potter Valley, Mendocino Co.; round_trip $9 75 from 8. F.; terms $6 to $7 rr week; plenty milk, fresh butter and eggs; the hunting in this locality isthe best in_the State. For further particulars address JOHN DAY, Potter Valley. BOARDERS TAKEN DURING THE SUNMER AT RANCH IN THE COUNTRY: FINE OR- chard, bouse: modern Improvementa: home comiorts; terms moderate. Address W. 0. J., Law- rence Station, Eanta Clary County, Cal. SOLID COMFORT HOME RESORT. 11 MILES FROM NAPA: 1500 FEET ABOVE Napa valley, on Mount Veder. Mountain scenery unsurpassed. Fine climate. Positive Cure for Asthma. Elegant mountain spring water. Open July 1 to January. Rates 87 mo X g s week. From Napa via Pheenix livery stal . MRS. A. F. ALLEN, P. 0. box lsflr.’NApbule('Jib’yl. UMMIT HOTEL—THE MOST BEAUTIFUL spot in the Santa Cruz Mountains, opens for its fourth season under its present manazement June 1; the table Is well known as first-ciass: frultand cream from our own ranch. Tennis, croquet. MRS. A. N. NICHOLDS, Prop., P. 0., Wrights, Cal. EN LOMOND, SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, 2-room furnished cottage cheap. Aj at 140 Guerrero st. oy TAMALPAIS VILLA AT Salt water bathing: commodious grounds: danc- pavilion. Bus atithe grounds for the accommo- c‘t’i‘uon of ull-.?-n‘rgnu:u?: ferry. M. fig“ TH & MRS, L. C. EGGLESTON, pro- TS, GILROY HOT SPRINGS A Place Where the Invalid Can Surely Regain Health—Whero the Tourist May Regale Himself Upon Magnificent and Picturesque Scenery, ‘Where the Summer Pilgrim May Find Rest, Refreshment and Relaxation. A Mecea for the Annual Seeker After Repose and Recuperation. A Rural Retreat, Where the Adjacent Halls are Clothed in Garments of Matchless Glory. Where the Ogre Malaria Never Lifts His Ghastly Head and Where the Waters of Healing Pour Freely ¥rom Nature’s Own Fountain. KE 2:20 P. M. TRAIN FROM FOURTH nd Townsend streets, arriving at .Springs as 6:30 p. . Fare $7 15 for round trip. B~ Stage connects with train from Third and Townsend streets. ROOP & SON, Proprietors. = FISHERMEN! HE HEADQUARTERS FOR ANGLERS AND their families is at the BOCA HOTEL, BOCA, CAL. ‘The best part of the Truckee River close at hand, An excellent table and newly fitted rooms. A daily stage leaves the hotel for LAKE INDEPENDENCE, The queen of mountain lakes. fiy-fish this grand lake. trout per day. For information and rates address JAS. McDONALD, Boea, Cal. CHARMING CAPITOLA. NEW HOTEL. Furnished cottages, fine camp-grounds; surf-bathing and hot baths: salmon and trout fishing; gem of the Pa- auge railroad. Address *J. HIHN, Manager. CAL. Now s the time to Average catch, 200 A clfic resorta. Broad CAPITOLA, MOUNTAIN HOME The Recognized Family Summer Resort in Santa Cruz Mountains. EAUTIFUL SCENERY, DRIVES AND walks; unsurpassed asa health resort; large swimming-tank; table excellent: send for sou- venir. Stagesconnec Wednesdays and Saturdays at Madrone with 8:15 Townsend streets. VIC PONCELET, Proprietor, Liagas, Cal. KLAMATH OT SPRINGS Slsklyou County, Cal. About fifty mfles north of Mount Shasta, Twent: miles from the California and Oregon Rallroad Steam, sulphur and hot mud baths. Cure for rheumatism, all forms of skin diseases and stomach troubles. Hunting, fishing, scenery and climate unsurpassed. Fine stone hotel. Delightful place 10 spend the summer. For particulars address, EDSON BROS., Proprietors, Beswick, Cal. "S31bY 0330034 Board $8 to $10 Per Week. $8—ROUND TRIP TICKET—$8 ANDERSON SPRINGS. J. ANDERSON, PROPRIETOR, Lake County. THE GEYSERS. RAIIROAD RATES REDUCED From June 29th to July 4th, Good Until July 10th, for Round Trip Only 86.50. Rates at Rotel for Same Time $1.50 per Day To include Dance, Baths, etc. A. H. HILL, Proprietor. HOTEL DEL MAR. N THE SEASHORE, TWENTY MINUTES' ride from Santa Cruz; climate perfect: table unexcelled: surf bathing, ‘sailing, rowing, fishing; buses meet all trains: children, $350 to $5 per weelk: adults, $9 per week: special Tates to_ socie- ties and families. Address MANAGER HOTEL DEL MAR, Santa Cruz, Cal, or room 29, Maze building, S. F. IVY LODGE, 117 !nguel Avenue, Santa Cruz, Cal., SELECT PRIVATE BOARDING. grounds, fruiis and flowe: class accomm io! HOWARD SPRINGS, LAKE COUNTY. (AL OT AND COLD MINERAL SPRINGS OF at healing power. WIll cure constipation, ald digestion and purify the blood. Terms $8 per week. Water doctor on the premises. Write for circular and further information. LAKESIDE HOUSE, LAKE TAHOE. PLEASANT FAMILY RESORT WITH home comlonsixflm‘l ;pntlnx -r;}mflshius. leasant walks and drives. For terms address B s A (e B BMITH, Bijgn, Gal. GLENWOOD MOUNTAIN HOUSE Santa Cruz Mountains. New management. Iron, Sulphur and Magnetic Springs. $8 to $10 per week. Write for circular, Glenwood P. 0. J. P. STOCKWELL, Proprietor. THEPIXLEY,$atrally Locatedand 9 Only Fire-proof Brick MRS. E. B. PIXLEY, Prop. Hotaling Buliding, SANTA CRUZ, CAL, HOTEL BEN LOMOXD ARD COTTAGES EOPENED MAY 1: SITUATED IN THE neart of the Santa Cruz Mountains; climate pertect: good hunting and fishing; croquet: tennis End clubliouse; camper's round-tlp ticket 83. " ¥or ferms apply to J. J. C. LEONARD, Proprietor. HOTEL DE REDWOOD, IGHT IN THE HEART OF THE GREAT R Sdwoods of Santa Cruz County, First-class accommodations. Board $8 and $10 per week, Send for circular. Address MYEON S. COX, Laurel, Cal. «LAUREL DELL” HOTEL, T, AVREL DELL LAKE (FORMERLY LOWER Blue Lake): handsome new hotel nearly com- leted to meet requirements of coming season: ne bathing, boating, fishing and hunting. Address A. 3. train from Third and ‘tlonofa yous or Insom: diseases MA e ot the Pains 10 the Buck, Seminay f e, Pimple nfitness to M: Gonstipation. It stops al discharge, which if not eh H. WAMBOLD, Laurel Dell, Bertha P. O., Lake Co. “CUPIDENE"™ This great Vegetable EsTuB Envxuxzer,meprucnp. hysiclan, will quickly cure you of Federatt B0 as Lost Mambeon Nervons Debility. rains, Varicocele an i o E%“:nm" e B day et nig! revents quick- losses i to Spermatorrheea and 13 of Tm) 2 BEFORE ano AFTER By o rinacy ores SURIDENE cleduses thciver, e CUPIDENE and restoresgmall wedle oy . mfln‘ . e A cusad by Doctors is beciase nine i e e b ARG e fl'jhux.-lx {57 45.00, by mall. Send for FREE circular and Ay permanent cure, Address DAVOL €0, P. O. Box 2078, 8an Fraucisco, Cal, For Sale by BROOKS' PHARMACY, 119 Powall stroet. -