The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1895, Page 14

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1895. The Reform S out at Catalin, Under the teachers t chool boys were camping 1d of theif officer- sold led the camp. snowy tents, nals, drums and mi gulations r Flags flutte above tl ided welcome beat for re The sce: perfect, the air s came with the bri erybody busy and happy—every- body except Bobby Rodgers. i Other boys, who liked bullying, found | relief for their feelings and gained self- | tiful, the discipline and sweet that joy of it. respect at the same time by fulfilling the uties of captains capitally. Almost | had some kind of responsibility | worked to | ept with Bob Rodgers. | by was at once the pride and the | nstitution. He was a mag- | specimen—tall, muscnlar, | handsome. Bobb, Nobody could run as fast as | , lift such weights, swim such dis- | The swimming part of it| be ng of the whole s did despise people | > didn’t feel perfectly at home in the | 't even langh at the | 8 htened boys who 1 and didn’t enj | Bobby v even give a | helping hand to a boy who was afraid of the sea. He would turn a literal cold shoulder upon the fellow and swim away, sayi s under his breath that I fear wouldn’t look at all well in print. In the voung athlete’s opinion any boy who was afraid of anything ought to drown, and the sooner it happened the better. It was different when Marjorie Lansing fell over the cliff into the deep waters of a little quiet When Marjorie fell over went over after her so fast ned to him for a second that it alm that he was goin skirts before his own feet left the land. There wasn't any time for the taking of shoes and coat, ich rescuers in books ) 4 to. It was simply a glance and a plunge this time, all the think- ing came vard. Marjorie was a little stunned b > that there was not the stru mt of reach of clutch- ing, strang and legs, which Bobby knew by periences was ; one of the wor ces when you wanted to res people. The boy thre one the child, holding the head well above trong arm around water, and tried to swim throu, breakers to the smooth beach bey the A L ond. point of rocks jutted out into the sea, | and the waves broke there with terrible force. Beyond the rocks was safety, and Bobby had made the journey often enongh alone. ‘With his burden he could not accomplish it, though he tried again and again with all his strength. Many pairs of eyes were watching, strained with terror, big with hope. ‘Women were wringing their hands, run- ning up and down, calling for ropes, beg- ging somebody to do something. There ‘were men up there too—men who were not tired, men who had no heavier burdens -upon them than the duck jackets and the yachting caps they wore so jauntily. Would nobody help? Marjorie’s weight, light at first, grew to be tons—seemed like | still. | exhausted boy who held in his arms the | | quarters to see a caller who introduced | to catch the little girl's | the weight of the universe. Time grew too, and the spaces that should have been minutes grew to be ages. And no help came. At last a man lay down upon the bank and leaned over it and called a mes- sage to the boy below. It would surely be a saving word. Bobby strained his ears to hear it, longing for the sound of a helpful voice. In a tone that seemed almost a threat the man called down, *‘Don’t you dare to let her go!” Perhaps Bobby was not unused to being misunderstood. At any rate, though he closed his eyes for very weariness, the boy’s grasp of little Marjorie only tightened. Couldn’t they see he wasn’t going to leave himself without her? Didn’t they suppose he had sense enough to know that if he dared to et go for just a minute he could pull off his coat and perhaps those shoes and swim out alone in five | ¢ lay upon his back to rest, careful | of Marjorie, who was quiet and helpless Witk his brain cleared a little the boy tried again to swim past the breakers. | Cruel as fate they beat him back and tumbled him about. | At last the belated lifeboat picked up an still unconscious child. The next day Bobby, not much the worse for his adventure, was summoned to head- | | | himself as Mrs. Lansing’s man. “Mrs. | Lansing is much obliged to you for what vou done,” he went on, “and Miss Mar- jorie is gettine along first rate, and you are to have this.” “This” proved to be a five-dollar gold- piece, and when Bobby felt it in his hand | he clutched it into a fighting fist, and | ) | to do when he grows up. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN 10U GEL BiG MERICAN Boy TAKES T'm the boy! The regular 'Merican boy; And I guess I know ‘What 1 want to be ‘When I get big. Aunt Celinds and Cousin Clara ‘Want me to be a preacher, But 'd rather Drive stage Orlive on a ranch and Hunt bears, Anyhow, yon can count on me To hold my own, No matter what kind of a game The world may put up ¥or me. I'm purds with the *Merican Eagle and the Ster-spangled Banner. And 50 if I don't like Auy of the roustabont jobs, Like Governor, or Sheri®, or circus man, or nator, 11 just move into The White House And be President. Everybody asks a fellow what he’s going First they ask u whether yon go to school. Then, ithout waiting for you to answer that, they ask whether you love your teacher. Love her! vay, I thought T had better have a ith my father about that—about what sort of business I had better go into. My father has got lots of sense for an old man,and he said right away that I could have a good deal of fun looking around. That was before vacation. £o we fixed it up that I could see what I thought of the country first, and after ! school began I could take Saturdays to look around the city. The place I went tois a great big cattle range way down among the coast range {’MERICAN BOY TRYING TO MAK E A PICTURE OF THE FUN HE EXPECTS TO HAVE ON A RANCH. word. i He walked straight to the edge of the cliff, and without sv much as looking at the money he threw it as far into the water as he could. Bobby lay on his face and nursed his bitter heart. He was alone, forsaken, | despised. When he finally went back to his tent somebody was waiting. to tell poor Bobby he was wanted at headquarters | again. The boy went,and in the great assembly tent all the rank and file of that | |Tittle camping-out army were gathered. | Bobby sat down where he found a vacaut | seat, and presently the commanding offi- cer stood up and began to talk, and pretty soon Bobby was afraid it was about him. | And it was! The officer told the story of the rescue, | and the boys clapped their hands and | cheered and shouted. He told a whole lot | of other things, too; some that Bobby | had forgotten about and some that he | never knew at all. He made the boy out | a regular trump, and Bobby said after- | ward that he had just as soon listen to his | own funeral sermon as hear anybody talk | like that about him. | After awhile they made poor Bobby— | iwha was so much afraid that his knees | fairly knocked together—come up in front i and take something into his hands. It wasn’t a gold piece this time, but it was a beautiful gold watch, with some- | thing engraved inside the case about | Bobby saving drowning people, and end- | ing with “from his loving comrades.” | strode out of the tent without answering a | hills. A railroad runs close to it now, but | the ranch isu’t improved any more than it was when the King of Spain gave it, call- ing it @ “grant,”"to one of his favorite soldiers, The grant covered thirty-six miles one way and eighteen the other. How was that for a ranch, anyway? Now I am going to tell you a secret. It's the fi\ev make a ranch grow bigger ana bigeer all the time. The grant that I am talking to you about takes up nearly the whole of a nice valley and it’s pretty nearly level. are fine streams and s among those hills, toe. Say, wouldn’t that be a nice place for a fellow to go to and be a kind of king ail by himseli? You can go out and kill a deer once in a while, and if you go a little further up you can get lots of bears—just oodles of ’em, and some of them grizzlies. prings of water | You can just stay at home and kill quail and doves and mountain squirrel that taste better than anything. Y dress yourself in bearskins, you know, and you couid catch fish in the brooks and eat acorns that grow all around you. That's what the Indians used to do. ‘Whenever you come to a first-rate spring, a mineral spring that tastes like soda- water, or a spring of clear cold water, you are sure to find rocks with mortars in them. The mortars are little round holes not so bii‘ as a soup-tureen. he Indians ground them in the rocks, and I don’t see how they ever did it But anyway they made ihose mortars and they made] stone pestles to use in — e ————— S A e g THE WAY IN WEHICH 'MERICAN BOY IMAGINED THAT GAME WOULD COME TO HIM, (OLadakiad ket 4k e s hivanaldd A~ A e There | You could | TO LOOKING AROUND. them. Then they used to shell acorns and put them in those queer little mills and grind them into flour, all by hand. They call that flour beoia. They cook it into mush, and sometimes they ix_]fike it into kind of big cakes like tor- illas, I guess I'll have to stop to explain to you how I happen to know so much about what the Indians do. You see we wenton an excursion one duly to a place they call Sand Canyon. t's an awful place, Sand Canyon—the worst I ever saw. It's where just a few Indizns ive that have been driven away from the oak groves and the brooks and springs. The Indians that we saw in Sand Canyon were starving. We had a few things left from our lunch and we gave them to the little children that came down the trail to meet us, When the old squaws saw the papooses eating they went down on their knees and streiched “out their awful bony arms, jawbling to us in their crazy languages to give them something, too. There wasn’t a crumb left, and I aimost never felt so sorry about anything in all my life. I thought if T could ever get out where there was a sack of flour again I would climb all those mountains with one on my back and give it to them. There was a kind of mudhole in the bot- tom of the canyon, and all the water those peovle had they dipped up out of there. We were pretty thirsty when we came to the rancheria—that’s what they call an In- dian settlement—bat we were not thirsty enough to drink that water. It was in 2 beautiful basket-jug thoufh, that some squaw had woven out of tules, and made water-tight. My uncle wanted to buy that jue, of course. He most always wants to buy everything, and besides he knows a lady that just loves Indian baskets. Uncle Dick pulled out about a handful of dollars and offered them to the woman for the jug. She looked at the basket, and I guess she thought it looked pretty. She looked down at the mudhole, and I | suppose she wondered how they were go- ing to get any mere water up the hill with- | out that jug. Then the squaw looked at that handful of money and the tearsrolled down her cheeks. She reached out her hand just asslow, and she gave up the basket and took the money. Then she turned her back on us and went into her wikiup, and we didn't see her any more. Uncle Dick says she robably cried be- | cause her husband would take that mone, away from her as soon as he heard of it and ride twenty miles to a saloon to get drunker than he ever was before. I hope he didn't do it. These Indians had two kinds of houses —summer hovses and winter houses. Both of them were something like baskets, and I should think a high wind would blow away the whole village. Of course, the squaws made cverything. They are just about like white people aboutthat, I guess. TLe women seem to do all the work, while the men are gone to town. The summer houses were pretty. They were made of branches of trees, with the leaves left on, woven together into a roof. The roof is held up by stakes driven into the ground, and sometimes there are sidewalks made like the roof. The leaves ;:al dry, but they don’t fall off, and they stay. When you see all those big thingsup there in the mountains, the big trees, the | big rocks and the big hills, yon can’t help thinking of giants. I used to dream about Iwoople who were so tall and had such long egs they could step from the top of one mountain to the top of another just at one step. One night I dreamed that my little | sister and I got lost. I thought we walked over to the other side of a mountain, and we came to a splendid marble palace that had hundreds of rooms a mile wide and a mile high. My sister and 1 were a little bit lonesome there, and she was afraid, because she’s only a girl, you know. I took hold of her band, and we walked along together looking at the pictures of p_e[op e big enough to match the trees out- side. The house was full of splendid things, end there was a table spread asif fora | feast. We wanted to drink, my sister and | I, but the gold cups were so heavy we | could not lift them, even when we had | climbed upon the chairbacks, which made | good ladders, till we could see the tops of | the tables. We found closets filled with wonderful gowns, silks and satins and laces. My sister could hardly go away and leave these things. But she couldn’t even | wear one of the lace handkerchiefs for a shawl, because it was too big. After a while, though, we found a room that was smaller than the rest,and in there we found a lot of pretty things that | ::_msc have been dolly clothesin the giants’ ime. Phyllis put on a silk dress with pink roses all overit and a lot of lace ruffles. | The gown trailed behind her for yards and | yards, and even when I was asleep I could see that tickled my little sister most to death. Just as I was leading Phyllis down the marble stepstoa golg carriage that was waiting for us, a bund began to play and woke me up. Ever since that time I've’ thought that if I could really be just what I pleased, I'd choose to be a giant of long ago. That dream hasn’t anything to do with the secret I was going to tell you about how they make ranches grow. This is the way they do it. The man who owns all that graft—it really belongs to one old woman now—has to have a lot of hired men you know. The ranchis a cattle range, and they hire Mexican vaqueros_to take care of the stock. They haveto hire a lot of them, The vaqueros live in rough little cabins out among the hills. Nobody else can go there to take up land because they wouldn’t be allowed to cross the grant to get to their own claims. So then the owners of the grant just get their hired men to take up homestead claims in there, and to sell the claims to them for just about nothing at all. Of course the poor Mexicanos have to swear toa few lies, but they are only ‘‘greasers” anyway, and I suppose they don’t know much about what they are do- ing. They know how to ride horseback though, those Mexicanos. Beiore we came away they had the big Todeo that happens once a year. Vaqueros rode over the nills for about a week herd- ing up the cattle. They coaxed them with salt, and they called them with big halloes. I almost thought the vaqueros and the cattle understood each otber's language. The cowboys would call and call, and the cattle would answer from ever so far away. I found out that the cowboys don’t have 80 very much fun aiter all. Generally they don’t have nnithlng to eat but bacon and bread that 1 should call gancakes, and coffee. They have that for reakfast and for dinner and for supper. 1i they stay in one place long enough to cook some beans and eat them they think that is simply great. They live that way in summer and in winter and all the time. I rode on horseback just one whole day with the vaqueros, and I made up my mind that I would just as soon be a banker ora judge as to earn my living in such a ‘way as that. Thad to eat my meals standing up for three days. And I'believe if Ihad been-at home I would have stayed in bed and let my mother bring them to me on a tray. All the time that tbe vaqueros were rounding up the cattle other men were working at the corrals. They would sort out the ‘beef critters’’— that's'what they call them—and take them off to town in droves. The worst thing they did, and the thing that made me sure I never want to be a cowboy, was the branding. They would lassoo the calf—and, of course, they had to brand everything that wasn'talready marked—and then another man would throw a rope around the poor thing’s legs. Mister calf would have to lie perfectly still on his side, and generally he wouldn’t even bleat. They did the branding at night mostly, and they built big blazing fires of fat pine to make a light. When a calf couldn’t move, because a rope around his neck was fastened at the other end to the horn of a saddle that was on a horse which planted its forefeet hard and held him still—and because the rope about his feet was held by another horse that puiled in another direction—when he | lay there on his side with his eyes sticking out they branded him. A man would bring a red-hot branding iron from the fire and hold it against the cla{[i’s flank till it had burned through the skin. The man told me that he didn’t like to burn the hole too deep. He said if he did it would make such a bad sore tLat the mark would never look clear and pretty. was very glad to hear there was a reason for not letting that branding iron burn in as far as it could. ‘When the burning was over they loosed the ropes a litile and tie caif got up. Then they took a big pair of shears and slashed his ears. They cut narrow strips they called *‘shoe strings,”’ and they slashed gashes that made ‘“swallow forks.” I sat on the fence and watched them do that for hours. At first I was going to cry. I got down and started to run. It seemed to me that if only somebody would blow a police whistle, if only I could find the policeman who takes care of our block, that thing would have to stop. So it would too. And if I live to be as old as Methuselah I am never going to stay very long where there are no policeman to keep things straight and see that nobody gets hurt. If they had only killed those calves it woulan’t have been so bad. Z Everybody and everything has to die some time I suppose, and it can’t make ‘!iuc‘h an awful difference just when you o it. But everything don’t have to be tortured when it's ‘alive. My mother says I can’t louk at a beefsteak any more without get- ting pale around the gills—course she didn’t_say it just exactly that way—and she thinks my vacation in the mouutains has cured me of wanting to be a cowboy. The fact of the matter is I could never learn to do that anyway. In the first place I don’t eat bacon. And then you just ought to see those fellows ride! The actors at the circus simply are not in it with them. They’ll drop a whiplash on the ground, and lhei will just sort of slip over sideways and pic it up while their horse is going at full allop. They play all sorts of gameson orseback, and, of course, some of them have to be cruel—like theé goose-pulling, which made me wish for the policeman again. They hang a goose up in a tree with its head hanging down just low enough for a horseman to reach it. Then the riders gal!nl;y underneath and try to wring the goose’s neck as they pass. After every- thing else was over they had a barbecue. They roasted an ox whoie and then they ate the meat. Some of it was burned and some of it was raw. Ididn't want any. After that they had some speeches, and they danced on a platform, as they do every y Some of the dancers were In- dians and some were Mexicanos. The air up there in the mountains is so fine that you feel as if you could fly like an eagle if you breathed it a while. Nobody seems to enjoy it, though, not even the calves. The cowboys do all _that work for justa little money, and they spend that for whisky. I think a fellow might just as well live in town. MaRY CALKINS JOHNSON. IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SCHEME, BUT THEE OLD LADY WAS ON TO THEIR GAME. {Harper's Ro und Table.] NEWS OF THE CHURCHES, REV. LESLIE W, SPRAGUE MAY| NOT RETURN FROM THE EAST. | UNITY CLUB. | TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | TO CELEBRATE ITS ANNI- | i VERSARY( Trinity Presbyterian Church will cele- brate the thirtieth anniversary of its | founding next Sunday. It was designed to | hoid the commemorative services to-day, | but they were vostponed. Dr. Warren will call the General Asso- ciation of Congregational Churches of Cali- fornia to order for the thirty-ninth annual session on the 5th prox. Dr. Warren has | performed this office since the organiza- | tion of the aszociation. The reports on interdenominational comity and seaside resort will bring up the discussion of mat- ters of local interest by the association. Dr. W. D. Williams, Dr. C. 0. Brown and Dr. McLean will give reports of the Na- tional Couneil. Rev. A. C. Martin, formerly of S8an Juan Congregational Church, now of Haywards, was warmly commended in a series of eu- logistic resolutions adopted by the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor at San Juan. | The Congregational church of Puliman, | Wash., has called Rev. Robert Farquhar of Oroville to its pastorate. A sunrise meeting will be held at Grace Methodist Episcopal Ghurch next Sunday. | ‘Westminster Presbyterian Church has elected the following trustees for the ensuing year: W.W. Allen, J. McLean, Charles Adams, Andrew D. Glass, H. G. Eichenberg. Charies Adams was elected treasurer, Charles Geddes moderator and Henry L. Currie clerk. A unanimous call was {nnde to Dr. Minton to act as stated supply. Ev. E. B. Church will be the essayist at the Clericus to-morrow and his subject, “The Chicago Law both Principles and Unity.” On the 28th inst. the same body will listen to an_address on ‘“The True Dignity of the Priesthood,” by Rev. F. H. Charch. 5 F. A. Hihn Company has donated a site for an Episcopal church at Capitola. A building and Ladies’ Auxiliary Societyy bave been organized looking toward the erection of a church. 3 Rev. U. H. Spencer of Ontario has ac- cepted the charge of the Episcopal churches at Orange and Anaheim. St. Luke’s Mission at Hollister has re- ceived a bequest from Mr. Santa Marina that will provide for the building of a church. = Elder Coe, for a long time a prominent and faithful member of the Howard Pres- byterian Church, has been stricken by paralysis and is 3§ng in a critical condi- tion at St. Luke’s Hospital. It is probable that Rev. Leslie Sprague will not return from the East to fill hisun- expired term as pastor of the Second Unitarian Church of this City, and if he receives permission from the trustees of that church he may accept a charge in the East at once. Meanwhile the pulpit will be supplied by candidates and others. To the latter class belong Hon. John Mon- teith, who will give an address this morn- ing on “Knowledge and the People,” and Rey. E. B. Payne of the Berkeley Uni- tar church, who will preach this evening. 3 The %nity Club of the Second Unitarian Church gave & successful entertainment, social and literary, in the church parlors, on Friday evening. . Rev. Oliver C. Miller, the organizer and first stor of the English Lutleran Chnrc%‘on Geary street, has returned from the East with h:s family, and intends to begin a new churck work in this City. During his absence from San Francisco he ‘was instrumental in completing the erec- tion of a handsome church at Roanoke, a. "The fifty-second anniyersary of the Oak- | land ge No. 262, 1. O. B. B., was ap- ropriately celebrated at Covenant Hall, akland, on Tuesday evening. Dr. Voor- sanger and Joseph Rothchild were among the speakers. Miss Ray Frank will deliver a lecture at Beethoven Hall on Tuesday evening and on the three succeeding Tuesdays, The solemn rites of Simchas To observed at the Geary-street Children offictated acco honored custom. The election of officers of the congrega- tion Beth Menachim Streisand resulted in the choice of the following officers: Pres. ident, L. Baer: vice-president, 1. Korn- field; secretary, D. Lander; treasurer, J. h were s Temple, ing to the time- Simon; trustees—J. Davis, A, Sugerman, A. Shenson, 8. Axelrod, A. Atfield M. Jacobs and D. Cohen; ®cantor, Rev. Simon Goldstein;; collector, H. Chinowsky. Congregation Beth Israel will retain its old ritual prayer-book, and there will be no revision of the ritual this year. Decis- ive action wastaken in those matters at the annual meeting held last week, Offi- cers were elected as follows: Directors—S DR. SHORES' COLUMN. HIS WORD HIS BOAD, Dr. A.J. Shores, the Eminent and Successful Specialist, Enjoys the Confidence of the People Because They Have Always Found Him Honest in His Statements. He Meant What He Said When He Advertised an OQutside Limit of $3 Per Month Until Cured—Medicines Furnished Free. CONSULTATICN AND EXAMINATION FER HIE. OME DOCTORS WHO ADVERT! always confine themselves stricily truth in their announcements to the public, bolding out inducements for patronage which are very gauzy upon their face. The physician or other business man who ettempts su tices is simply digging his own grave, and can under no circumstances build up a solid and substantial business—a business which will be looked upon and acknowledged by the public as legitimate and worthy of recognition. DR. A. J. SHORES, whose fame as a specirl- istin the treatment and cure of Catarrh and Chronic Diseases extends throughout tne en- Peckerman, J. L. Franklin, Philip Fabian, J. Cahen, G. Fogel, Myerson, M. J. Franklin, S. Levy, Julius Van Vliet; sec- retary, Marcus Levy; sexton M. Feder. Rev. J. Rabinowitz was re-elected cantor for a term of three years at an increased | salary. The directors met on Tuesday evening and elected the following officers : President, 8. Peckerman; vice-president, J. L. Franklin; treasurer, S. Cahen; secre- tary, Marcus Levy; collector, M. M. Feder. The annual election of officers by the Congregation ORabai Shalome, postponed because of the death of & prominent mem- ber, will be held to-day. The officers of the First Hebrew Congre- gation for the coming year are: Julius Abrabamson, president; J. Rosenverg, vice-president; Abe Jonas, treasurer; Bernstein, secretary; trustees—D. Hirschberg, George Samuels, D. Magnes, George Mossbacher, Sol Kahn, W. Woolf. Recent appointments to Catholic charges were: Rev. A. A. Loude, to Notre Dame des Victoires; Rev. J. J. McCue, assistant at Sacred Heart; Rev. Fathers Collins and McDonnell, assistants at St. Joseph’s; Rev. C. E. O'Neil, pastor of Novato, and Rev. P. Grifiin, pastor of Dixon. Rev. J. E. O'Neill of New York, editor of ‘the Bosay Magazine, will address the students of St. Mary’s College on Friday evening. The Young Ladies’ Institute No. 7 gave asuccessful entertainment at Union-square Hall on Wednesday evening. Rev, E. P. Demsey will lecture on “Orig- inal Sin”’ at the cathedral this evening. Archbishop Riordan will administer con- firmation at old Saint Mary’s Church next Saturday at 11 o’clock A. w., Saint Beniface’s at 4 . M., and Saint Patrick’s at West Oakland the following Monday at 10 A. M. A mission was opened at Saint Joseph’s Church, Marysville, last Sunday by Rev. Fathers Hedges, Clark and Doherty. A movement for the erection of a mortu- ary chapel to the memory of Bishop Manogue has been started at Sacramento. The committee which has the matter in charge consists of: Colonel James Mec- Nassar, General T. W, Sheehan; William Gormley, secretary; Rev. Father Grace, freasurer; J. C. Gorman, assistant secre- tary; Judge J. W. Armstrong, A. Coolot, George Sermonet, Dr. McCarty, M. Cronin, Dr. Harcourt, M. Hughes, W. J. O’Brien, A. Mazzini, B. Lucey and M. Williams. There was an enthusiastic rally of the League of the Cross Cadets of St. Charles parish on Monday evening. The Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society has a new branch of twenty-five members at Lompoc. " Rev. M. P. Ryan will remain at St. Brigid’s, instead of going to Dixon, as was at one time contemplated. Congregational singing is a new feature in the services at Old St. Mary’s. En Famille, the home for girls under the auspices of the French Christian Union, is now located at 2 Torrens court. Rev. Fatbers Titus and Victor will in- augurate a mission at St. Francis Church, Sacramento, to-day. (GOL. A. ANDREWS, The Famons Diamond Palace, POSITIVELY RETIRING EBUSINESS, FROM OFFERS HIS ENTIRE STOCK OF Diamonds, Watches, Etc., —AT— ACTUAL COST. Sterling Silver, 93¢ Per Ounce. This Is an Opportunity Sel- dom Offered to the Public of San Francisco. tire West, has built his immense the foundation of HONESTY, and have not only been crowned with success, but, what is more gratif; full confidence of the pecple. always recognized DRE. SHOF of the sick, and has ever found him tru all his announcements. When DR. SHORES announced to the people of San Francisco and vieinity that he would treat sufferers from Caterrh and Chronic Dis- eases for $3 a month until_cured, and medicines free, they knew be wotld do just he promised, and none have been disappointed. Each week DR. SHOR ishes st ments from patients who are willing t 10 the benefits derived from his tre and to-day he presents that of Mr. M. who resides at 1008 Seventh sireet. ( Mr. King is & well-known ship-l owner, and has resided in C seven ¥ Mr. King sa “‘For twenty-five years | have suffered Catarrh, and have spent a small fort seeking relief. 1could not sleep at account of the mucus dropping into m and choking me; coughed incessant v petite was poor, and what litile food did o had ter: my stomach caused great distre &ins in my heed, over the eyes; fe: n the morning, and at all times felt exh. aiter the slightest exertion; eyes watery and hearing affected. After treating with DR. SHORES seven weeks 1 feel much benefited and enjoy better health than for mar Have treated with many other physic obtained only temporary relief. DR. SHORES has done more for me than all others, and I shall at every opportunity recommend treatment to others. HORES has be perfectly honest in all stetements made to me. Special Notice.—All business transacted with patients i S office is sacrealy confidential, and no statements of patients are published without the written consent of the patients themselves. Patients who for years have suffered from Catarrh, Rheumatism, Asthma, Bronchitis, Dyspepsia, Kidney, Liver and Bladder Trouble, Skin Diseases and various other obstinate and com- plicated troubles, are being speedily cured by Dr. A. J. Shores’ New Treat- ment. DON'T LOSE HOPE. Dr. A. J. Shores appreciates that many per- sons have become discouraged, many are skep- tieal, and many others feel as though they can- 1ot spare the money to be treated. Dr. 8hores bas overcome all these objections. By placing his terms at $3 a month he made it possible for all to be cured. Why pay more? Come to Dr. Shores’ parlors. He will give consultation, examination and advice free. By doing this you can be personally con- vinced of Dr. Shores’ honesty and ability to cure you. £ THREE DOLLARS A MONTH Is the only charge made by Dr. A. J. Shores for all diseases, medicines furmished free. A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT. From requests by many people in San Fran- cisco DR. A. J. SHORES hes added to his oftices a special department for the cure of private diseases of both sexes. In thisdepart- ment Dr. Shores has surrounded himself with the latest scientific appliances for the cure of these diseases. Further, to prove his hones! , sincerity and ability to cure these troubles DX. A.J. SHORES is WILLING TO WAIT FOR HIS FEE until A CURE is accomplished. W hat is more fair? DR. SHORES’ terms are within the reach of :H.so no ons need suffer on account of high ees. Dr. A. J. Shores’ Treatment for Piles is New, Painless, Safe and Certain. Cure Guaranteed. DR. A. J. SHORES CO., (INCORPORATED), Expert Specialists in the Cure of Catarrh and All Forms of Chronic Diseases. tor. Parlors—Second floor Nucleus Buflding, cor ner Thir Market streets, opposite Chron- e 9 t0124. %, 2t05and T to8 P, M.} Sundays, 10 to A. M. Take elevator. SPECIAL PICE—Patients living out of ghe AL o are unable fo cail at the San e afice, will be given advice and all Pertichiars of Dr. Shores® treatment free by | Pt dressing Dr. A, J. Shores Co., San Al by e Tte at once describing your case. CALIFORNIA O 1CES : San Franeisco—Nuclens Building, corner of d Market streets. T e e Redick Biock, corner of First and Broad: Saorament | 8% Diego—Morse-Whaley-Daton Block. 0615 K street, opposite Post-