The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1895, Page 25

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER §&, 1%95. 25 THE NEW STATE OF UThH One of the First to Be Settled, One of the Last to Be Admitted. A HISTORY FULL OF INTEREST. Great Developments Under the Guid- ance of the Mormon Leader. “What do we want with this vast, worth- area, this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and less to put these great deserts, or these s mountain ranges, inpenetrable, and covered to their very base with eternal snows ?"—Daniel Webster. Right in the midst of this ‘‘vast, worth- | farms. To what use could we ever | tion. Still they prospered. In 1849, when the discovery of gold in California stirred the Nation, the Mormons stuck to their Soon Salt Lake City became the “half-way house’’ for travelers to the mines. The would-be gold-diggers got pro- ! visions and fresh horses, while the settlers received in exchange wagons, implements | and “store goods.””” As a medium of ex- change paper bills of 50 cents and §1 were printed and gold dust from California was | coined. | For two years the | by their ecclesiastical. | 1849a convention w eople were governed organizations, but in X 2 s called to meet in Salt Lake City on the 4th of March “to | | take’ into consideration ghe propo- | sition of organizing a Tetritorial or State Government.” A memorial to Con- gress asking for a_temporary organization was framed and signed by Brigham Young and 2270 others. This convention also formed a constitution under which the Beople might govern themselves until ongress should take action. This pro- vincial State was called “Deseret” and ex- isted until Congress organized the Terri- tory of Utah on the 9th of Sentember, 1850. President Millard Fillmore appointed its officers, as follows; Governor, Brigham Young: Secretar: D. Harris; Chief Justice, Joseph Buffington; Associate Jus- tices, P. C. Brocchus and Z. Snow; Attor- | ney, 'S. M. Blair; Marshal, J. L. Haywood. For a number of years there were con- ! fi licts between the people some of the | Government officials. In 1857 Judge Drum- | mond tendered his resignation. The paper | set forth that the records, documents, etc., A STRIKING COMPARISON. s area’’ lies Utah, one of the first of the stern Territories to be settied, and one f the last to be admitted into the Union. For forty-four years she has been knocking” the door of Uncle Sam’s domicile for privilege of j ng the family circle; not until no' e. ) her a history as unique and full of interest as that of any of her elder sisters. A brief resume of her story 3 prove interesting to the family of Let us see whether even Webster forrectly judge of America’s great ities. & 24th of July sed on the nountainside east of wow stands. In the They had been traveling nd seventeen days over mountains, deserts and rem, seeking for a place ley could livein peace and wor- God in their own way. In the clear, air of the mountains lay the valley m, and a lake glistened in the Save along the watercourses en thing grew, yet, “Here is tbe where Israel shall pitch her tents,” i1 their leader. They descended into y and camped by a stream. The was Sunday and religicus_ ser- es were deliverance. t prophets had said: “O Zion, gest good tidings, get thee upinto ountains.” “Also God was to eople in the chambers of the nt: ’ and further, in the last days was t establish his house on the tops the mountai: and exalt it above the v were fulfilling those predic- had reached another Canaan. vs of these pioneers: ‘“In the of America they are now upon the ers of a new Holy Land, with 1ts Dead ts River Jordan, Mount of Olives and ake and a hundred cther features ts prototype of Asia.” Anexamination two maps will reveal this striking arison. Monday planting was attempted, buc the ground was baked and hard. plow would not penetrate 1t. Was it not useless to try to raise crops in such soil? An old trapper had declared that he would give them $1000 for the first bushel of grain they could raise,so sure was he of the utter worthlessness of the country. No rain had fallen for months, none could expected. What was to be done? th sht—no, an inspiration came to them. “We will turn the water from the creek and make it flow over the land.” They did so. The plow now turned over a beau- tiful black soil. Potatoes and corn were planted. They sprouted and grew for a time, but no rain came to water the dying fields. Would it all be useless? Again an inspiration—*Let ususe the stream again.” Tt was done; and that was the beginning of that grand system of irrigation which has opened up the vast regions of Western America, and is making an empire out of Webster's ‘deserts and shifting sands.” The settlers were active. The surround- ing region was explored, and four days after their arrival a spot for a temple was located, and Salt Lake City was planned. Fmigrant trains from the main body of | the Mormon people in Iowa followed year iter year. A full account of their suffer- s and hardships is in possession of the ording angel only. In the fall of 1847 there were in the set- tlement 423 houses, 5133 acres of cultivated 1and and 875 acres sown to winter wheat. Prospects were bright for next year’s har- vest, but in the following May vast legions of crickets appeared and invested the gar- dens and fields, sweeping the earth clean wherever they passed. All efforts to check Many that spring nad re starvation stared them in the face. see! flocks of white seagulls come from the lake and begin feasting on the crick- ets. All day they eat, vomit, and eat again, returning each day, until the dreaded insect is destroyed. The settlers look on 1n wonder snd praise God for their deliverance. Let the gull be emblazoned on the armorial ensign of our new State. Under the guidance of their leader, Brigham Young, the pioneers made settlements north and south and towns were laid out. The communities were aavised not _to scatter, but to build on townsites and have their farms sur- rounding. Thus they were protected from the Indians and enjoyed many social ad- vantages., They were also told not to take up more land than they could use, but to leave some for those who should come after. Thus small holdings were encour- aged, and the wisdom of this course is now plainly seen. For the tirst few years the settlers en- dured all the hardships incident to the developing of a new country. They were 1000 miles in apy direction from civiliza- w has he considered her | , 1847, a band of wan- | °n, three women and | held. They thanked God for | | Al ed on roots and thistles, and now | of the court had been destroyed by the Mormons, and that the judiciary was treated as a farce and themselves insulted. Drummond recommended the appointing of anew Governor, “‘supported by a suffi- cient military aid.”” President Buchanan | appointed Alfred Cummings as Governor of Utah to supersede Brigham Young, and sent an army of 2500 men with him. _ The Mormons were alarmed, remember- ing the scenes of Missouri and Illinois. The advancing troops were harassed and some of their supply trains were destroved by skirmishing bands of Mormons until the army had to go into winter quarters in the mountains of Wyoming. Knowing | that the troops would enter Utah the next spring the whole people decided to vacate their dearly earned homes, and, in case the invaders came with hostile intentions, to burn to the ground every stack, barn and habitation in the region; in fact, to | treat them as the Russians treated Napo- | leon at Moscow. The new Governor | pleaded with them not to move and gave | them his pledge that they would not be molested, but Brigham Young replied: *“We know all about it, Governor. We have on just such occasions seen’our dis- armed men hewn down in cold blood, our daughters violated, our wives ravished. We know all about it, Governor Cum- mings.” At the advance of the soldiers 30,000 settlers moved southward. Their deserted villages contained only the few guards who were to apply the torch. The new Governor had been welcomed in advance of the army, and was peace- ably installed. The records were found intact. The troops marched through the forsaken settlement and camped thirty- six miles from Salt Lake City, where they remained until they were calfed to bloodier | fields in the Civil War. The people re- turned to their homes. From that day to this there has been a steady growth. = Utah is in the direct over- land route between the two oceans. In 1869 the Union Pacific from the east and | the Central Pacific from the west joined | their lines at Ogden, thus openingthe first | iron road from the Atlantic to the Pacific. To-day Utah bas a population of 248,000 Her resources are vast and varied. She has 19,816 farms, averaging twenty-four | acres each. Of these 17,634 are unincum- | bered. It is estimated that there are | 3,500,000 acres that can be brought under | cultivation. In 1894 Utah produced 5,000,- | 000 bushels of grain and 300,000 bushels of | fruit. The value of the gold and silver | output for the same year was $6,000,000, Within the boundaries of the new State are mountains whose tops bear eternal snow; valleys, green and warm, where tropical fruits grow; deserts as barren as those of Sahara; rivers both clear and sparkling and sluggish; springs hot and LIVE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM, Never Before in Fashion’s His- tory Were Women Dressed So Gayly. BAB DESCRIBES THE TOILETS. Some of the Funny Sights to Be Seen Daily on Broad- way. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 3.—These won- derful autumn days have brought out, especially on Broadway, an influx not only of men and women bui color in a way that is marvelous. Never before in the history of fashion were women so gayly dressed. A year ago the passing crowd stared and did & little guying when it saw a bright scarlet waistcoat; nowadays she who elects to wear a gown of scarlet may do it with the certainty that it will cause no commo- tion. Frills of lace, coats of velvet, hats with one, two, three and four different col- ors upon them, with jeweled pins to fasten the veils and jeweled buttons to close the coats are here and there, and altogether lovely woman is not only a thing of beauty but of vivid tints. And yet—somehow we are never happy—my eyes rest with pleas- ure on the plain, dark cloth suit, fitted perfectly and trimmed with fur, prefera- bly sable. That’s feminine! ‘‘Preferably sable?” But there is something wrong about a woman who doesn’t like the rich- est furs, the finest laces and the daintiest linen, and the old Southern mammy who sized up a lady by her underwear wasn’t far out of the way. Here comes a woman—a_ beauty, the ideal Trilby—Blanche Walsh. If you have any doubt as to the change in fashions look at the coat she wearsand which fits her as if it were her own skin rather than that of a funny little beast. It is an Eton jacket of beautiful white ermine, with huge sleeves and flaring collar of sealskin, while the Marie Antoinette muff that accompanies it is a big one of ermine with a piping of seal around the edges, and the toque on her, curly made, is made of a piece of seal, a fan of ermine, two or three feathers and some lace, an essential French mixture. A year ago nobody saw ermine on the street; now if you are the wife of a millionaire, or a successful actress, you elect to have at least one garment ‘eitber made of it or trimmed with it. It is funny to see the English people on Broadway. They are oftenest stage folk, and the members of the three large com- panies now here all seem to choose Broad- way for their stamping ground. The women have good skins, beautiful hair, but nine times out of ten are overdressed. ‘With them silver jewelry has never grown old-fashioned, and they wear innumerable bangles of silver and chatelaines, heavy with all sorts of silver trinkets intended either for use or ornament. The men, like all Englishmen, scowl at every man who is a stranger to them, and this scowl always convinces me of the truth of the old story of the drowning man who re- fused to thank a man who had saved him because he hadn’t been introduced. Occasionally one sees Mr. Irving sailing along Broadway. 1 use the word ‘‘sail- ing’’ because it expresses, to my mind, the peculiar way he walks. Then, too, his legs are as much like sails asanything else in the world, though, to be quite hon- est, I don’t believe there is anything in this world quite like unto them. They curve where other pecple’s don’t and are straight where other people’s are crooked, and, altogether, achieve an effect that is unique. Nobody believes it would make the least bit of difference which way Irving’s body was turned—his legs would suit any position of it, for they have neither = Alpha nor Omega from the ordinary standpoint, but simply pecu- liar wrinkles of their own. And then his voice—I regard Mr. Irving asone of the great stage managers of the world, and, in some plays, he is undoubtedly a great actor, but the language he used in “Mac- beth” was the strangest I ever heard. It may be the coming English—in which case I am glad that I shall not be here when it arrives—but it is certainly not the English as spoken by any other man but Sir Henry Irving. It combines all the effects of a hot potato in the mouth with %, é 7 ; NN | cold; lakes fresh and salt—the great Salt | Lake 1s the Dead Sea of America. | Happily the religious strifes of the past | are no longer remembered, but all creeds | and parties are united in building up the new commonwealth. The forty-fifth star | in the azure field will shine with no less | brilliancy because she has passed through the fiery furnaces of trial to her present | position. NEPHI ANDERSON. | © Box Elder, Utah. A Dog That Chews Tobacco. A dog addicted to chewing tobacco is owned by John Holden, a butcher of Eighteenth and Sigel streets. The dog is an improvement upon the ayerage tobacco- chewer, in that he doesn’t spit on the floor of a trolley-car. He takes a bit of weed, and, bolding it between his forepaws, sucks all the substance out of it. He has been chewing tobacco for about three years. Tobacco is the first thing he wants in the morning, and if he does not get it home he will go out among the neighbors, { who know the dog’s habit, and whine among them until he gets what he wants. He will not touch finecut, his weakness be- | ing in the direction of plug tobacco. He | learned to chew when a puppy, his owner being in the babit of giving him tobacco | as a joke when he he sat on his knee.— Philadelphia Record. Too Literal. «] thought you had a good girl, Mrs, Bloom?”’ “I had.” «What became of her?” ’ “ told her to get up early and dust.” “Well?” : «“She got up early and dusted.”—Detroit Tribune. —————————— She Rebelled. Yabsley—Did you carry out your threat of telling Samueison what you thought of him? ‘fiudge—!\'o; the telephone egirl said she positively could not stand such language. Indianapolis Journal. 1t is said that swimming affords cure for Jameness in horses. The same muscles are exercised in swimming as in trotting, but with no injury to feet or legs. Henry Irving. the throat stopped up with wool, and of a speech born in the boots, with an original Egculiarity added. To see Irving’s **Mac- th” you want to take your Shakespeare with you, and it is one of those times when "to have messenger-boys sell books of the play would be desirable. The funniest sight on Broadway, next to Irving, is one of the great sinzers from the opera. If he is going to sing to-morrow he is bundled up to protect him from every- thing, including sunshine, and he is ac- companied by a following who fret and worry as_to whether the airs of heaven will touch him. All the great men singers have, first of all, a secretary, then a busi- ness manager, then a personal companion, then a valet and then an assistant valet, to take care of them and make life easy for them. This tribe accompanies the singer on his walk—the business manager to see that no other business manager gets hold of him; the secretary to write a note or a telegram if he should condescend to enter a public place to do this; * the companion to entertain and flatter him; the valet to see if his coat should need buttoning or unbuttoning, and the under-valet to do the actual work. Famous politicians are nowhere beside famous singers. Any man can be a Senator or a Congressman if he has money enough, but any man cannot have a voice that will sway thousands of people and make them think they know what heaven must be Jike. Just behind this contingent from the Grand Opera comes 4 woman writer, whose nprunnu_ would never suggest her mas- culine name—John Oliver Hobbes—but after you have looked at her you think of her always as Mrs. Craigie. Rathersmall, | she has a bright face, which on the street looks out from under a huge picture hnt' of black velvet faced with rose color and laden with black plumes. I always think pleasantly of her, because she says such truthful things. It took a woman to say and to realize this; ‘‘A dog can put more soul into a look than a kind friend can talk in an hour.” lsn’'t that true? And isn’t this true? “Etiquette, my dear, makes the difference between manand the brute beast.” And isn’t this true? ‘That whenever there is a wife or a husband to be ignored, there is mischief.” It seemsto me that when vou remember what people have said in their books those books must be interesting. S Following Mrs. Craigie comes a womfn whose books are known all over the world —Mrs. Amelie Barr—larze, matronly look- ing, Lshould think about 60 years old, she gives you the impression, as do so many elderly English women, of looking a little like Queen Victoria. At the same time Mrs. Barr has an expression of her own, and it is an extremely kind and sympa- thetic one. % 3 Here is an'odd-looking pair. The face of the man is dark and picturesque, and he looks the Spaniard that his name would seem to make him. It is David Belasco, the playwright, whose peculiar method of dressing suggests thet he is a Catholic priest. With bim is the star of his new and successful play—Mrs. Leslie Carter. Her figure is girlish, her face is bright and intelligent, and the only thing that makes her look different from any other John Drew. bright, pretty womsn, is her wonderful hair. In these degenerate days such hair is rare—it is a bright, Titian red, braided in two plaits that reach to the edge of her skirt. The night she made her debut I was close enough to the stage to see the tears streaming down- her face as she tried to do her part, and ever since then I have hoped and believed that she would succeed. It may have been just the womanly sympathy that she excited; it may have been that instinct that we women share with dogs, and which men scorn, but I have always felt that in that slight frame there was a brain that was deter- mined to get the better- of everything and succeed. And she has. As “Maryland,” a Southern girl, dear to my heart, she does wonderful work—such wonderful work that the theater is packed night after night, and, mercenary as that may sound, the crowding of the theater does prove a good %lnyand a good actress. Well, she has my est wishes for success, and it was good to have the tears first, for now she can laugh, and laughing last is best. I geta dignified and polite bow, which I return with all the respect that can be expressed by a small woman, from Mr. Benjamin Harrison. It is a strange face, that face of his. To ‘me it tells of much suffering, but of much strength stored up | | for special occasions. I am a rebel still, | but Iam a Repubiican, so far as Mr. Har- | rison_is concerned. "I should like to see | him in the White House again, for if we | start this third-term business we might | as well have a King at once, and if we do that we had better take him voung and | be sure of nhis breeding. Then we can | train him, and it won’t be too much trou- ! ble for him to be polite to the Nation. It | is a curious thing, but the real royalties, | the veritable Kingsand Queens do trouble themselves a great deal more than the | imitation ones, and even the women feel | that they owe something to the people, and they _pay it Fancy the | | Duchess of York refusing to have a| | photograph of her baby sold! I bave a | dear one. T'he baby is in her arms, and | | the young Duke is leaning over her and looking atit. These are the things that make people loyal. But whem our paste- board King has acute development of the head, and forgets that, belonging to the masses, he must not object to the masses looking at his women and children, he may make up his mind that the masses are not going to care very much for him or them when their loving admiration is counted of no worth. No, if we want a King we must do as those men who train the race winners. We must catch him | oung and be sure that he hasgood blood in his veins. Speaking of men who own racehorses, that slender, small, dark little man who just went by owns some I would like to have—it is Dave Gideon.. A good com- bination of adjectives may be applied to him—he is kind and lucky. Poor Georgie Drew Barrymore used to call this well- dressed, fasnionable-looking man ‘‘the star boarder of the family.” You know who it is—John Drew. And this great, big, handsome man, wearing a fur- trimmed overcoat and walking with a woman whose figure is fine, but whose face is so muffled up you can't see it, is Mel- bourne McDowell, and with him is Fanny Davenvort, his wife. There is one beauti- ful thin the kindest and most considerate of act- spend her money for them, and she is will- ing to help them. The people in her com- pany who wish to succeed are encouraged and assisted by her, and she has never been envious of another actress, or acted meanly to one. She does her work and does it well, loves and is loyal to her own people, and deserves to be happy. All the rest of the people who pass along are wonderfully alike. The society girl is | out in full force, for just now she hasa | new pose. The knowing girl is quite out of style. The girl of to-day, with her hair | turned off her face very softly, must look | innocent; must try as far as possible to get on her face the look of a baby. She longs to appear absolutely ignorant, but alas! she finds it difficult. I cross over into the square, and passing, give a look at the bavies in their perambulators. And Iam glad I am not a baby. about Miss Davenport: she is| resses to the stage folk; she is willing to | How would you like to ride in a peram- bulator when the afternoon was very warm, with a fancy, heavy rugover you, | never to have a drink of water given to | | you, and to be expecied, when you are thirsty or hungry, to be satisfied with | sour milk taken through a long black tube like a gaspipe? Any sensible being would | | kick and rage and do anything that would | call up his satanic majesty. The learned | doctors say that babies draw in with the | | milk thatthey drink the sort of tempera- | | ment they are going to have. If thatis | | so the coming man is to be dreaded. He | will be a sour, ; I'may be a bit old-fashion believe the Lord intended babies to take their nourishment out of a bottle; if he bad there would have been some sort of special bottle made for them, and it would not have been leit to the doubtful in- genuity of man to contrive. Down South among the mammies, when anybody is described as being a ‘‘bottle | baby,” "all his weaknesses of brain and heart are forgiven, because of this misfor- tune. Ionce heard an old darky excuse a young man who had forged his father's nameand married a variety actress in this way: -*You see, honey, you mustn’t jedge too harshly ob de unfortunate soul; he | never had de advantages of de rest of de family, and lackin’ de mainstay, what can | be respected from him? He were marked from de day of his birth as acreatureliable to sin and uncertainty. He were refrained from the natural fountain of youtf, an’ were iven over to dat beastiliest of drinkables, e bottle.” All the darkies about shook their heads knowingly, and agreed with Aunt Brigesy that ‘‘a chile which were raised on de bottle conld not be held re- countable.” I don’t suppose all the talk- ing in the world \Voul({) make mothers of women who are not built that way, but at least they might try to get somebody to take care of their babies who wouldn’t be- have as if the little people were without feeling and not susceptible tosuch ordinary | weaknesses as thirst, hunger and cold or heat. It istime for me to go home, for I have chatted about men, women and babies, but I must say one last thing. For some unknown reason a lady—I Blanche Walsh. shouldn’t like to think she was anything else—has been kind enough to use my name. She is said to be tall and dark, distinguished attributes that I cannot claim, as I am small and members of my family speak of me as*fair.’ In every instance this lady tells that she is just recovering from nervous prostration and that she has been under the care of a specialist. To be forcible but not gram- matical, she is not me, as I have not been under the care of any nerve doctor. Far be it from me to interfere with her get- nasty, dyspeptic creature. | ting any of the luxuries of life that she ed, but I don’t | can, honestly, and she can introduce her- I‘st!ll as the missing link or Lydia Pink- ham, but I give you my word of honor that she is nou Bas. HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE. | The Greatest Engineering Work Under- taken in the World. Scientific American. The Secretary of War recently ap- pointed a board of officers of the Corps of Engineers to ‘‘investigate and report their | conclusions as to the maximum length of span practicable for suspension bridges, and consistent with an amount of traffic probably sufficient to warrant the expense | of construction.” The leading features of the design upon which the estimates were made were as follows; A steel suspension bridge having a clear span of 3200 feet be- tween the towers and carrying six railroad tracks placed side by side. The floor of the bridge to be provided with a stiffening truss, which shall be hinged at the center and be 120 feet in depth; the bridge to be carried on sixteen cables, arranged eight on each side; each cable to consist of 6000 parallel steel wires wrapped together and having a breaking strength of 28,440 tons; | the diameter, inclusive of wrappings, be- |ing 2114 inches estimated cost of the bridgze 1s $22,186,540. From an engineering standpoinc it is not the total length of a bridge that deter- | mines its magnitude, but the length of the individnal spans. The cost and construct- ive difficulties of bridge-building increase at a rapidly increasing ratio as tue span is lengthened. The Tay bridge in Scotland is twice the length of the Forth bridge to the south of it; but the design and erec- tion of its two miles of short girders did not call for the exercise of one-fifth part of the skill and courage required in throwing the hu(ie spans of the Forth bridge across the mile of deep water at the Firth of Forth. Ina like increasing ratio will the difficulties muitiply in stretching this mammoth structure across the Hudson River. The seven wonders of the world, that ap pealed so stronely to the ancients, will be completely overshadowed on every point of comparison by this crowning feat of the nineteenth century. Ifmere bulk or mass be taken as a standard of comparison, it will be bigger and heavier than the great- est of the works of the ancients; and in the scientific knowlsdge involved in its con- | struction it will embody truths in chem- istry, mathematics and mechanics that would bewilder the Egyptian builders of the pyramids even more than its vast stretch of steel cables and interlacing gird- ers. The two masses of masonry that will have to be built on shore to resist the enor- mous pull of the sixteen cables will in their united weight and bulk rival the great pyramid of Ghizeh. The four steel towers that carry the cables will each, in all probability, overtop the lofty Washing- ton monument and will be exceeded in | height only by one structure, the Eiffel | Tower. Ethically, if we may so speak, | they will stand loftier than thelast named, inasmuch as the Eiffel Tower is merely a spectacular “freak,” whereas the four great towers of this bridge will reach their full stature as a sart of a great mechanical structure erected for a useful mechanical purpose. When loaded toits full working capacity | the bridge can carry in midair, at a height of 150 feet above the river, seventeen heavily loaded freight trains, which, if strung out in line, would be two miles in length. This would represent a total load of 26,000 tons. Moreover, it could carry this load with a large margin of safety in a tempest of wind that would endanger the stability of many of the adjacent buiidings in New York City. 1t is fortunate, judged from the estbetic point of view, that the great structure is to be built on the suspension principle in- steaa of the cantilever, as was at one time proposed. Apart from the much greater weight and cost of a cantilever bridge, there is by comparison everything to be said in favor of the light and graceful appearance of the suspended bridge. The lofty and tapering steel towers, with ‘the cables rising in_a long, sweeping curve to meet them 500 feet_in nwair, will form a picture at once majestic aud beautiful. 0. SW 737 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Opposite Examiner Office. T HAS BEEN SAID OVER AND OVER again that the poet “is born—not made,” cr, as the Latin is, “Poeta nascitur, non fit,” but really the rule applies to nearly all of the arts ana sciences, i not to the world at large. One of the most conspicuous instances that we know of is that of the eminent specialist, Dr. Sweany. Ttissafe to affirm that there are few people indeed on this slope who have not heard of this noted savant, whose whole life has been spent in the holy cause of “health for the masses.” With Dr. Sweany it is not & labor to do good—It is simply ana purely an errand of mercy. He feels that he has been particularly blest in having hed opportunities which it is the fortune of but few medical men to enjoy, but at the same time it must be re- membered that he has fully profited by them all. To enumerate the various schools of medi- cine and surgery in which he has been a well- known student, assistant or professor would be too much like a medical directory of the United States and Europe, for, truth to tell, Dr. Sweany has sought knowledge wherever it could be found, and graven on the recerds of many an eminent European hospital is the name of F. L. Sweany, M.D., as consulting physician and surgeon. But of late years Dr. Sweany has been giving to the people of this slope the benefit of all his research, and to that fact many & man can trace his perfect health. Dr. Sweany’s practice here has brought to the weak strength; to the chronic sufferer relief; to diseased women and children health; to erring men and youths hope; and to ali who have honestly sought his advice and followed 1t a perfect cnre. And the people as a whole have stood up and praised him. Thousands upon thousands have willingly testifled—not only by letter but orally—to his ability and matchless skill, and day by day he adds fresh laurels to & brow already crowned with the victor’s wreath, His patients come from all grades of society. In his reception-rooms the merchant prince sits side by side with the me- chanie, and that honest fellow often “touches elbows” with a day laborer. None are too high and none too lowly to receive the attention of this clever man, and no matter what the dis- ease may be, to each and all he brings the skill and learning of a life’s work spent in study. To the poor Dr, Sweany extends a belping hand in a noble way, for on Friday afternoons they are treated free at his offices. Of course it would be manifestly impossible to treat all the poor who might apply by letter, for the doctor has patients in almost every Btate in the Union, and indeed some in foreign countries, but the resident population has had to thank him for many a noble act—many a generous deed. Dr. Bweany is not only a wonderfully clever man; he is a deservedly respected one, t00. On that the whole slope is agreed. DOCTOR eRS FAIL < ~ C, WE ARE ALL SO HIGHLY STRUNG UP that it is not surprising to find prevalent among us nervous debility. It is often su posed_that this terrible disease—for that is what it is in its effects—is invariably the result | of indiscretions in youth and early manhood, but that is by no mesans so. It is true that these things are responsible for most of it, but there are other things which contribute their share. Anxiety and secret worry bring on a state which 1s as bad as any of those horrible conditions which come “from early follies. You cannot sleep, you fume and iret over trifles, your back is weak and you are utterly unfit to do your regular day's work. you know what that all means? "It means life to ou! Nothingless! That isa hard statement or you to believe? Don’t be foolish. More harm will come to you if you neglect these symptoms; and they are not all by a long way. To-day, for a change, look at yourself in the glass. Are your lips pale? Are your eyes slightly yellow where they should be white? Are they a little bit bloodshot? Have you got what the people who try to be funny in a theater call ‘‘the blues,”” or is your memory failing? If you are suffering from any of these things just try and remember what early fol- lies you may have been guilty of, and if you are certain that you are innocent of all you may make up your mind that you have been straining your nervous system in some other way. Perhaps in worrying over crops; per- haps about & little matter of affection, and pos- sibly about some speculation. But no matter what the cause, the result is bound to be as bad in each case, And the longer you let matters run the worse they are going to be. Do you know that? Do you know that half the eviis that humanity is heir to are directly due to that stupid practice of putting off till to-morrow what you could and should do to- deay? If you don't know this you should learn it, anda learn it thoroughly, for the penalty of not secking PROPER HELP TIn due season is far more serious than you may think, Thousands upon thousands of people have come to Dr.Sweany who had no idea as to Where they were drifting until the great specialist told them, and it is well known that he has saved many & man from the horror of a suicide’s grave by his help and advice. “A pound of prevention is worth & ton of cure” may be & very old saying, but is none the Jess true, and 1f yon see_the slightest touch of of these symptoms be warned in time and an: m‘ advice where you know that you will it, and get whny is worth untold gold— HEALTH. # WATCH THESE. Some people paynoattention to the smallills of life, but that 18 as stupid as to neglect the greater {lls. Catarrh, for-instance. That an- noying disease often leads to severe nervous derangement. In its treatment Dr. Sweany has been uniformly successful, and if you have & dry, hacking cough; if you hawk and spit in the morning; if you find a difficulty in ‘breathing; if your hearing is affected atall; if you have a dull pain in your head, or a nervous headache you should seek relief at nneoi There is infinite dangerin delay. Don’t risk it. F. L. SWEANY, M. D. 737 Market Street, S. F. OPPOSITE EXAM SWEANY—NEW TO-DAY. HE CLIMATE OF CALIFORNIA 1S PAR- ticularly prolific in producing that most an- noying of all diseases, nasal catarrh, and pat- ent remedies by the score—aye, by the hun- dreds, and even by the thousand—have been introduced for its cure. Butcompetent special- ists like Dr. Sweany know that the disease is net local—it is constitutional. If you think that you are in the slightest way afflicted with it you should at once epply for relief. It is like a snowdrift—it begins almost invisfbly, but when it has once got a good hold there is going to be quite a good deal of bother in get- ting rid of it. A hard cough is one of the first signs, and then comes constipatiou, a bad taste in the mouth in the morning, a desire to expectorate every few moments, and a_breath to which that of the coyote even is preferable. There is no disease which is more harmful in its various ways. People get to dislike to be in your company and avoid you as they do their creditors, and, worse than all, it is the certain forerunner of some of the most fatal ailments that are known to medical science. The mucus drops into the stomach and destroys the lining of that organ and impairs first and then entirely destroys digestion. Then the lungs get affected and consumption often fol- lows, and_as a fruitful source of the entire breaking down of the nervous system it has no equal. Dr. Sweany takes each case and treats it constitutionally. What suits one case does not of necessity cure another, and it is in this way that he has been able to trace to its original cause—namely, catarrh—many of the difficult and dangerous cases which his ability and skill have conquered and cured. Thesame advice may be given here as in the nervous troubles—you cannot apply for help too soon, but don’t forget that it is quite easy to be too late. If you trifle with nature too long she will resent it. TO WOMEN. Dr. Sweany’s help' and assistance has at all times proved to be of the utmost value. No matter whether they were in the very bud of oun%'wnmnnhood. whether they were blush- ng their first roses as happy or unhappy mothers, whether they were in the prime of matronly womanhood, or whether they were nearing the change of life—in each and every instance this eminent specialist’s advice has peen of untold value. ‘Painful menstruation leucorrheea, displacement of the womb, and all the distressing ailments peculiar to the weaker sex, have been made a special study of by Dr. Sweany, and in eaclr and_every case he takes peculiar interest. And he is elreclally sue- cessful in these, and indeed all diseases of women. WATCH THESE. Are you ashamed to confess if you are a young man that you have a disease of & private nature? Have you tried some patent remedy for it and failed to effect a cure? Are you neglecting and endangering your health b hoping-that time alone will effecta cure? It so stop and_consider for a moment. In Dr. Sweany you hseve & friend in whom you may confide with the utmost um{. Your little troubles will be kept as sacredly confidential as though they were the country’s secrets, and you can get aspeedy and a sure cure. But don’ waste time. F. L. SWEANY, M. D. 737 Market Street, S. F. INER OFFICE. % i K7 D AN 737 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Opposite Examiner Office. ROBABLY OF ALL THE DISEASES WHICH are most to be dreaded on account of the fearful consequences that ensue from them is syphilis. That is the hard and harsh name by which it is known, and it hasstruck terror into many a brave heart. But there was never a disease yet which baffled the skill of all the medical world for all time, and now it may be stated asan accepted fact that if any case of this nature is taken to a COMPETENT SPECIALIST in time it may be cured without the slightest shadow of a doubt. But here is where the trouble comes in. There are any number of people who will pretend that they can effect a cure, but the man who has such a disease as this should weigh the thing very carefully in his mind before accepting the advice of any of these so-called doctors. There is no danger when consulting an experienced man such as Dr. Sweany is. In all the very best hospitals of this country and Europe he nas made the study of this disease one of the prime objects of his life, and it is not too much to say that he has | thoroughly mastered it. With the utmost con- fidence a man can now go to his offices (737 Market street, just opposite “The Examiner office), and no matter how badly he may have neglected himself, no matter what form the disease may have taken, no matter how many ‘men may have said that the case was incurable, no matter now weary and wretched he feels, he may go and concult Dr. Sweany and come away on the road to recovery. If you cannot come to San Francisco you can write all about your troubles, and you may be certain that your letter will receive the same consideration as though you had come in person, and no one except Dr. Sweany himself will ever know that you have written. Your case will be thor- oughly studied and remedies will be forwardgd to you in just exactly the same way as you could have got them in this city. And this method of treating country patients has been found to be excellent in its good resalts. Bad blood, the result, possibly, of syphilis in parents or grandparents, often produces skin diseases such as eczema, blotches, scaly eruptions, swollen glands and so forth, and in each and all of these cases, as well as in all other consti- tutional troubles, the sufferer will find in Dr. Sweany a friend in need and one who will prove to be a friend indeed. His success in all ‘kidney and bladder troubles has been most marked, and impotency, varicocele, hydrocels tand scrofula are likewise special features o his practice, while instances of premature de- cay have been treated with unvarying success. It is no idle boast to say that all weaknesses of the sexual organsare morescientifically treated by Dr. Sweany than by any other physician on this coast, for that fact is fairly admicted, and he stands at the very head and front of his pro- fession, admittedly without a peer.