The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1896. % | N! familiar with the early history J‘[ and separated from that quiet one of the queer beings that inhabited that would have rivaled in interest even cess as a writer of fiction. 1d as a place where hoards of gold / r{% T[ AD Robert Louis Stevenson been ~|§ of Bay Farm Island, whicn lies just south of placid Alameda | suburb by the estuary and a waste of marsh and mud, and with the life story of it in the early days, his marvelous, pen might have related a tale of actual fact that of the mythical Treasure Island, to which he attributed his first financial suc- From its appearance it needs no great stretch of imagination to picture the buried. Viewed from Alameda long and low against the southern ernend and a fe eary sand-dunes to where the solid ground melts nto the deep k mire of the A bridge now spans the estuary, n end of which a sub- only communics L by boat, and the traflic was greater to San | Francisco than to the nearer town of Ala- | med: those times—the da tlers being of the v agricultural pursui aving tempted fortune in the gold | and failed, had taken to tilling the soil as the only alternative. Somewhere ‘on the isiand, buried deep of gold, the accumulation of a lifetime toif and privation, which, in these day when men struggle for a compete would be by many considered a fortune. Many times has it been searched for, but alwa, n, and the oldest inhabitants | a; the younger gen whom ite hist been handed e ain buried until the judgmeat d Opinions var; o the amount of coin the box contains, but the leas mate places it at $20,000, while many b lieve that §30,000 would be nearer the co rect figure. | One dark night in September, 1885, a | stalwart Portuguese, bearing on his broad | shoulders an iron-bound box that taxed | his strength to ‘ca appeared Alameda end of the island fe asked the boatman who carried across to Jand him on the island. guarded his b jealously, and when the | landing was reachied paid the ferryman’s fee, reshouldered his burden and trudged along the narrow trail that | threaded through the marsh to the firmer | ground. | A few dags vrevious to his nocturnal | trip he had purchased from an | settler, who bore the name of Pegleg W son, fora few hundred doil twenty acres of the best ern portion of the island , & tract din the west- ity it was known that he intended settling there, and the incident was soon forgotten, beinz recalled only by events. | va, for such was the man’s| name, wasted no_time after taking posses- sion of his farm, but with the diligence of his race soon had it in shape to farm, and before longz was vegetables to tk that, in those da; him handsame he was a giant in str seemed 1o be too grea money to his pockets. ably clo cisco market f high prices, brought Though not tall, 1gth and no labor long asit brought | r he was unden led his gainsin a ma; ner that most of his neighbors considered his history became known to s, and then only throngh the uese in whom Silva had vho was more garrulous than uth Silva had been a seaman in vy, but the allurements rld tempted him to desert | the life of a man-of-war’'s man and sail away in an ant ship to New York. In those d in the zenith of its prosper’ of stout barks and ship: {for the frozen north in s - athans that paid well for the catching. | The days of the steam whaler had not come as yet and the crews of the vessels | that braved the Arctic winters nsually re- turned with zood credits in the ships’ book: Within a month after landing in New York Silva ran across a_Portuguese captain who commanded a New Bedford vark and signed with him for a cruise to the Arctic. The vorage was a very prosperous one, and Silva, after depositing his earnings f fia} fi?fli E:sla@;l, | added to his hoard. © with a countryman of his, who kept a sailor’s resort in New Bedford, sailed again in search of blubber and wealth. He made several voyages in this way, and was gradually accumulating a sum lie had set his heart on saving for the purpose of returning to his childhood’s home in sunny Portugal, when an event occurred that changed the entire course of his life. The captain decided to sail to the south in | searci of sperm whales, and after encoun- tering a storm that caused damage to the ship necessitating repairs to the vessel, put into Rio Janeiro to have the work done. In the harbor was another vessel which was bound to California, and the stories which those on board tola Silva of the wonderiul land of gold so worked upon his imagimnation that he deserted the whaler, and joining the gold-seek: sailed for the El Dorado. Surviving the da reached San Francisco early in 1 with his compantons on the ship away to the diggin For some reason he &8, did not remain long, but returned to San Francisco d later crossed the bay and settled on a large tract of wild land near Clinton station. Oakland, now In tho: place was a wilderness, but enhanced in value until, in 1858, he disposed of it for $12,000. Prev whom he had r ford to get the money this e sent & relative | bed of pain moaned and talked ross here to New Bed- | buried hoard and, according to the money. During the night he dug up his box, obtained the necessary funds anda again gave it to the keeping of mother earth. After several years of single life on the island Silva took a wife, a young Port- uguese girl, the daughter 0of a neighbor, and his friends thought he would give up his previous habits and live like the rest of them, but they were mistaken. The wife proved to be as close and saving as her husband and rather assisted him in his accumnulation of wealth than proved a source of expense. Then came a time when typhoid fever found a lodgment on the island and Silva fell a victim to it. He reluctantly took to his bed and still more reluctantly bade his wife call in a man to work the farm dur- ing his illness. She found a helper in a stout, industrious Portuguese, who worked faithfully from early morning untfl the setting of the sun. In her constant attendance at her hus- band’s bedside Mrs. Silva had no oppor- of watching the man, and not being with the manner in which some of the fields were arranged he speedily arranged the fences and other landmarks to suit himself and within the space of a few weeks so altered the aspect of the farm that even its owner would hardly recognize it. In the meantime the sick man [ on his of hi b by it with the board- | cian who attended him, so worried him- i | about the fields searching, searching for bis lost treasure, crying aloud in hisan- guish of mind, but never sufficiently col- lecting his thoughts to follow the paths he had formerly taken to reach the cache. His wife had the ground in_the direction in which he had first looked when told of thechangesin thefarm carefully searched, but no trace of the box was found. Gradueally Silva’s mind became more and more clouded until it was finally deemed best to have him restrained, and he was sent to Dr. Traynor's private sanitarium in Alameda, where he aied after some years of confinement. 2 For several years following Silva’s death searches were made periodically for the hidden hoard. Men living on the island who had known of its existence dug over acres of ground and deived deep into the soil 1n their eagerness to possess the treasure, but their efforts came to naught and they finally gave up in despair. Then a medium who had heard the story of Silva’s hoard told some of her followers that the box was located in the center of a certain mathematical figure formed by the trees in the orchard. Despite the widow’s protests, they began a mad hunt for the gold, digging deep trenches among the trees and making the well-kept place look like a hastily built fortified camp. The medium again gave them directions, after they had become disgusted, saying that she must have misinterpreted the signs of the spirits and that the treasure must be buried beneath the house. Before they could be prevented the gold hunters had dug away a portion of the foundations, and only left when the thor- oughly exasperated widow hired a man with a shotgun to prevent them from un- dermining the house. Then the widow tried again to find the money and had holes drilled over acres and acres of ground, hoping that the iron point would strike the box and thus reveal its where- abouts, but allin vain, and finally despair- ing of ever recovering the treasure, she sold her farm to B. Benedict, in whose possession it still remains, and left the island. Many of the old settlers on the island— the Clevelands, McDonalds, Hamlins and Benedicts—remember Silva and his buried treasure periectly and often relate the story ot the box and its unfortunate owner when showing visitors over their fat acres and well-kept fields. Recently some mysterious persons, who are believed by the islanders to be treas- ure-hunters, have been makine inquiries “* Silva reshouldered his burden, paid the ferryman his fee and trudged along the narrow trail.” ing-house master, wh about $4000. After a lon tive returned with the cash, w These sums, w accumulations of his years of wors on the ranch, made up the contents of the great box that he took across the estuary when he made his night trip to his island farm. How much more he accumulated be- fore death called a hait on his laborsis a matter of conjecture, though it must have been considerable. 'He not only farmed his own place, but assisted his neighbors, and even helped with the loading and un- loading of the sels that came into the estuary when his services were asked. He made much more money and spent very little and his neighbors knew that he was saving it. {t became an open secret after Silva had | lived a few years on the island that his hoard was buried in the ground. He made no denial of it and only laughed when advised to pu¢ his money in the bank. “De groun’ is my bank,” he “Banks break—de groun’ never.” Silva’s only bills of any consequence were those for the shipping of his produce to n Francisco. When the accoants came i each month he scanned them carefully to see that they were correct and then asked the collector, whoever he might be, to call again the next day and get his said. self that his recovery was seriously re- tarded. Finally, however, he was able to sit up | and his wife told him of the changes' that | bad been wrought on the farm. Silva listened with staring eyes until she had finished, and then, with a wild ecry, sprang to the door and looked out toward the soutt The i that he did not re znize it and he contin- | { | | nediate landscape was <o changed | ued to stare in a vain attempt to locate the | landmarks that had formerly led him to his treasure. Suadenly he turned to his wife with a vacant laugh and said: “The earth has gzot it and she will keep it.” Tre suffering he had endured and the fear that his treasure was lost had turned Silva’s prain. Careful nursing brought him back some degree of physical strength, but his mind remained weak. Day after day he roamed about the farm shaking his head and try- ing to remember some clew by which he could trace bis gold, but though his wife and friends did everyihing to assist his memory he never sufficiently recovered | this reason to find the money. In the silent | watches of the night, when nothing but the beating of the waves on the sandy, s hores of the island broke the stillness, he | would leave his bed and wander for hours — i Ch :.;.l.ivl".‘n&rltn:\+u..§. A “With a wild cry the sick man sprang to the door and looked out toward the south.”’ rezarding the Silva farm; whether the location of the house has been changed since he died and .whether the original acres are for wsale. last visit to Bay Farm Island they prom- ised to return and negotiate for the farm, which is now worth thousands of dollars ver acre. Whether or not thev possess some long-hidden clew to the location of the box or are merecly intending to hunt for it at random no one knows, but their return is awaited with interest, not to say anxiety, by the islanders, REMINISOENCES OF CANNING. Some Peculiarities of the Great English Statesman. Some of Mr. Canning’s “fads I well re- member. For instance, he knew the French language weli, but nothing could induce him to pronounce it proverly; he pronounced all the words as if they were | Engilsh. I know not what reason he gave | for this, or whether he gave any. It was his way, and he would not alter it. He had also some queer ideas about spelling. | no Slanderers, Paul Prys or Maggots. We He was generally averse to the letter f, and I have seen notes to my father in which the word fat was spelt “phat,”” and other words in a similar manner. He as- serted that this was the correct method of spelling. ek \\'i]{;here endeavor todescribe Mr. Can- ning’s dress. I well remember how he was attired one evening in the summer time: nankeen tights, narrowed toward the ankle, and fastened there somehow; nan- keen waistcoat, blue, perhaps about a shade darker than Oxford blue; tail coat; & broad pleated cambric frill all down the shirt-front; his watch in a *‘fob,” or little vocket, in the trousers, with his chain and seals dangling. (I forget whether he bad a gold chain or the more common ribbon. T incline to think it was a ribbon. A stiff “watered”’ ribbon, generaily biue, was much worn at that period.) The morning dress had the same sort of coat, but real trousers, not drawa in at the ankle. At the period I am speaking of, about 1819 or 1820, gentlemen generally wore in the evenlng kneebrecches, black, with long black silk stockings, and very small buckets on their shoes; but very soon after that date all the young men in the evening wore trousers, leaving the other costume to their elders, and speedily the generality of the elders followed suit. Butforriding, aseven to this day in the hunting fields, shorts and topboots were common, lfiough Inever saw my father in these, great rider as he was, as ha always rode in trousers fastened under the feet with leather straps. Soon these straps became the fashion for gentle- men all day long. Gradually, very gradu- ally, the frock coat superseded the “‘swal- low-tail”” for morning wear, the blue some- times changed to brown, and the gilt bug- tors disappeared, to give place to such as are worn to this day. By the vear 1324 or 1825, I think, men’s dress was very much as it is now, except that the waist is now rather Jonger; but it was not so short in in old days as the caricaturists make it out to have been.—Temple Bar. ————— A Question of Quality. Mrs. Twickenham—Don’t you think that bgt;er pie than your mother makes, Bob- ie Bobbie (dryly)—It ought to be. Ifiirgi)'g‘wi‘«‘cl(enllam—Wbyf Bobbie—'Cause there’s a good deal ] of it.—Brooklyn Life. it ——————— The latest piece of gossip is that Cecil Rhodes will seek a seat in Parliament, At _the time of their | against all comers. SOME OF THE QUEER N - THA AMES T NEWSPAPERS TAKE, BY W. C. MORROW. A new paper’ calling itself the Hen Man is announced. This makes me wonder whether a newspaper can be a man and a man a hen. After this has been settled the next query will be why the paper is to be devoted to the interests of men who are hens instead of those who are roosters or chicks, or why, if the paper is intended merely to foster the industry of raising hens, roosters and chicks, which I take to be necessary to the business, are excluded. So long as we have newspapers that are Breeders and Sportsmen, Stockmen and Lumbermen these observations of the new paper’s name may appear to be idle satire. It is legitimate, within boundas, for a news- paper to take the name of the interest which it serves. For that matter, the new pub- lication has a far more appropriate name than those of some very old and dignified papers. We have many in this blessed country calling themselves Suns, egad! One, approaching the Creator with more m odesty, announces that it is a New Moon, which gives very little light and is not nearly so scintillating as the innum- erable Stars that, moved by their great condescension and magnanimity, have taken themselves out of Jehovah’s crown to settle upon this poor earth and send their radiance into the dark ways of men! It may be that to persons without nerves or an appreciation of the fitness of things the pompous names carried by some of the ne wspapers of this noble country give no offense, and that even the judicious, who may have been at one time grieved, have had their souls calloused by repeated sear- ings; and it may be accordingly that these foolish names no longer serve to make their wearers ridiculous. We can become accustomed to many things. The titles that are incorrectly used may be grouped thus: ' 1. Those which are bombastic or extray- agant. 2. Those in which metonymy and synec- doche (two very useful rhetorical fig- ures when properly employed) are inap- propriately nsed. 3. Those in which the title bears no rela- tion to the publication, either literally or figuratively. . 4. Those which ‘are doubled or com- pounded. 5. Those which are hackneyed. As it is more convenient to discuss these without reference to the order in which I have placed them (the list being more for suggestion than direction) I shall open the subject at random by recalling a facetious article which the .{'ew York Sun once published about ‘the title of the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Sun has a very short name, of which fact. not its name, 1t is prodigiously prond. Thbe article was an elaborate calculation showing how many columns of space the Louisville paper sacrifices annually in mentioning its own name. A sillier argument coul not be imagined. It is becoming to the dignity of any newspaper however long its nume to print it in full; to express it by initials is not only absurd and undiznitied, but confusing as well. Tt is not the length of the Courier-Journal’s title that is to be complained of, for it is better to have a long titie that 1s sensible than a short one that is silly. Tne faulv with the Louisyille paper’s title is that it is compound. Its absurdity when so regarded appears at once. Journal is a perfectly proper name for a daily paper, for it comes from the French word jour, meaning day. I am aware that there is authority for callin, papers other than dailies journals, but decline to acknowledge it. Having a proper literal name for itself in Journal it is oarbarous to couple it with a name employed in a figurative sense, for a news- paver is not literally a courier. But how- ever crude and illogical this title may be ‘it is not half 80 absurd as Sun. Compound titles have resulted from the consolidation of two papers having differ- ent names, and both names have been preserved for commercial reasons—if, on consolidation, one of the titles should be dropped, some rascally publisher mightin- vade the field with 2 paper of that name to the injury of the consolidated interest. A rational solution of such a difficulty would seem to be either legislation pre- venting such usurpation for a reasonable time, or sufficient self-confidence on the part of the consolidation to hold its own The perpetuation of a double title is a confessionf®of weakness and a proclamation of bad tafte and often of a lack of respect for the English lan- guage. Imagine, if possible, a comic paper call- ing itself a Judge! Imagine, too, another calling itself Life! A clown thatannounces himself to be either a Judge or to repre- sent the hard and bitter round of life ceases to be a clown, who must have wit, and becomes an idiot. Such titles so used are untruthful. The Suns, Moons and Stars are not the only bombastictitles thatafflict us. We have Standards, llluminators, Radiators (Hea- ven save the mark!), Leaders, Pilots, Globes (which might be a good name for a new orange or apple), Tribunes (obso- lete, as well as sententious), Statesmen, Manifestoes, Palladiums, Mentors and the like. The Police Gazette is better named than any of them. At the extreme oppo- sit: end of the line stand those papers con- tent with the meanest and most contempt- ible of all titles—Spy. Happily, we have are too pioud for that. Hackneyed names are abundant. T woods are full of Heralds (a bad name, be- cause a heruld is not only archaic, but in fendal times was a bearer of messages, not news), Newses, Couriers (bearers of orders, not news), Bulletins, Posts (meaning let- ter-borne news and excluding telegraphic), Records, Timeses, Indenendents (how?), Enterprises, Reports, Standards, Observ- ers, Registers, Advertisers (not newspa- ers, mind), Gazettes, Sentinels, Beacons, | eaders, Exaniiners (that is, receivers, not news-givers), Expresses (gescrihing papers whose matter must all be 1eceived by ex- press, or which themselves are an express), Unions, Ledgers (a ledger is solely a boo! in which_accounts are kept), Advocates, Arguses, Mirrors (which properly can pre- sent nothing original), Eras (which?), Bees (because they sting or lay up honey whlchi, Opinions, Echoes (same as Mir- rors), Mails (papers that either should not publish telegraphic news or shouid be de- livered by carriers), Budgets (that is finan- cial statemen ts made by the administra- tion of a government to the legislative body as a basis for the levying of taxes), Eagles (why not a buzzard or a tomtit here and there?), Monitors (which must have a superior order of wisdom), Statesmen (out of a job), Peoples, Enquirers, Transcripts (of what?), Reporters, Telegrams, Tele- eraphs (exclusive of other kinds of news), Recorders, ‘Witnesses, Spectators, Chroni- cles, Champions (of what?), Dailies and Weeklies (no end), Outlooks and others. It is allowable, despite some foregoing parenthetical remarks, to call a thing by the name of one of its parts and also to call a thing by the name of some other thing of related qualities; but if either name so caosen is hackneyed, it is disa- greeable and dull, and in metonymy the relation of qualities should be strict and evident. The great tronble seems to bé that the names most approl)rinte for news- apers under these two classes are very imited in number, so that a publisier has to choose between an appropriate name that is hackneyed and an originalone that is absurd. But 1t does seem that we need not £O S0 far afield for some of our titles which are both backneyed and absurd. We ought to be satisfied with committing one blunder in a single word. Take Sun, for instance. Its adoption means to say that the bearing it sheds light and that misp:'ié’fii is as brilliant as that of the sun, Yet it is clear that the light shed by the. sun is physical, while a newspaper can shed light only in a metaphorical sense, That 4These little bags contain needles, confusion, apart from its bombastic char- acter, is reducing the title to a literal ab- surdity as well as absurdity in fact. There are some unusual titles that are interesting on analysis. Take Review of Reviews. 'We cannot infer from the title whether the paper is a review that reviews reviews or is the chief of all reviews. Hence, it is obscure. Independent may be either political or religious, and hence is indefinite. Commercial cannot be any- thing but an adjective, and yet in news- paper titles it is used as a noun. A paper which calls itself Democrat or Republican, or by the name of any other wolitical party, has a smaller commercial value than one not so named, for the rea- son that if the owner wanted to sell it his probable purchaser either must belong to the party bearing that name and willing to advocate its principles, and thus be one of a class, or must belong to some other party and therefore stand in 8 position to demand a heavy discount by reason of the | necessity for changing the name. A few years ago it happened in St. Louis that two papers of opgosing political names | vassed into the hands of owners whose | politics were exactly reversed; they had | to change the names of the papers. . Some titles are simply and baldly mawk- ish, among them Golden Moments, Sun- shine, Happy Hours, Home Treasury, Household Gem, Sunnyside (more silly than mawkish), Sea Shell, Pheenix, Rays of Light, Golden Rule, Home Defender, Myrtle, Cheerful Letter, Pansy, Breeze and the like. The most extraordinary title in the country is borne by & paper in New York State. It is Radii.” It ought to have been satisfied as one radius, or if it wanted to be two, it might have called itself a diameter; thouglr what any of the elements of a circle have to co with a newspaper is the puzzling thing. A curious custom has arisen among some papers. It is their emphasizing the definite article as a part of the title when they speak of themselves. This is inde- | fensible. An altogether unnecessary in- accuracy is for papers published in the afternoon to call themselves evening papers. They are not published in th_a" evening. But why announce that it is| either an afternoon or a morning paper? | Descriptive adjectives in titles m hel made very useful, and it is an interesting fact that the besi-nained papers in this country are those devoted to technical subjects; it is because they employ adjec- tives intelligently. THE FLOKTINGCOMMITTEE Report of the Unique Labors of the Young Christian Endeavorers. Chairman Henry F. Eden Reports That Eighty-One Seamen Have Signed the Pledge. Henry F. Eden, chairman of the tloat- | ing committee of the Christian Endeavor | Society, has submitted the following report of the work of the committee for the past | year: ‘ This year has been a year of Froxres!. The | work Has beendecgening and widening. New | openings for work have been shown us and he | has enabled us to enter these open doors. The Monday night Christian Endeavor meetings, which have been held in the Mariners’ Church by various societies, have been a great blessing | to all. Several seamen have n converted | through these meetings. The Saturday even- | ing meeting on ships in the bay have been of | 1o less importance. The stirring gospel appeals, the lively songs, and tie personal work at the close of ‘each meeting by our faithful workers are already bearing fruit to the g\oxy of our master. Eighty-one seamen ave signed our C. E. pledge. Some of these have been converted in our port while others have been led into a life of more earnest work “For Christ and the Church.” Fifty-four letters have been written to absent members, while | forty-four have been received; these have bronght gladness to our hearts and inspired us with new zeal. One hundred and seven letters have been sent on deep-water ships in port. These letters are of great importance. They bring before the wmen of the sea the nature of our work, give a hearty welcomd to_our port, and an invitation to our services. Forty-three socials have been given on Thursday evenings. Here we get better acquainted with the men, and I am sure that every Endeavorer of the Golden Gate Union who has helped in these meetings has been blessed personally, and has given sunshine to many hearts, Forty.six com- ort bags have been sent on outbound ships. thread, worsted, pins, buttons, darning needles, court plaster, & marked Testament and a Chris- tian letter written by the donor, giving the ad- dress so that aletter can be sent back to the writer, which is often dome. This should be the work of our juniors. Let us remember ‘“a Httle child shall'lead them.” A large amount of reading matter has been donated by difier- ent societies. These silent messengers are now scattered over the sea, and are accom- plishing the mission to which they are sent. A Thanksgiving dinner was given, on which occasion the Holy Spirit was very evidently resent. To him be all the glory! An ndebtedness of $55 has been paid on a iano which we mnow own, and &n organ or our Saturday night boat work on the bay has been very generously do- nated by Messrs. Benj. Curtaz & Sons. Total amount donated and collected curing the year, | 2145 85; expended $139 30; balance on hand, | $7 55. In conclusion let me say that we are now paying from $12 to $15 per month for | boat hire. We need a launch of our own. Our boat committee, falthtul tn its cfforts 15 raise | g funds for this launch, still need $1000. Who will lay up treasures in heaven ? There is not a more noble work than to hold services on the incoming and outgoing ships. The devil is sparing neither time nor money to reach both officers and seamen of these ships. Shall it be said of us that “the children of this world in their generation are wiser than the children of light" 2 NEW TO-DAY. A TRUE STORY. THE MADDEST WOMAN You ever heard of was one who got hurt on e railroad. 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HRTHR, | Chinese Tea and Herb Sanitorium, No. 727 Washingion St, San Francisco, Cal. Car. Brenham Place, ahova e Office Hours: 9 to 12, 1tod and 5 to 7. Sun- day, ® A. M. to 12 M. LiPo Tai Jr., son of the famous Li Po Tai, has taken his father's business, and is, afier eleven years' study in China, fully prepared to locats and aill diseases. ISTEEVEBY BEST ONE TO EXAMINE YOUR (705,504 b them to Spectacies or Eyegisstos instruments of his own inveution, Whoss superi has not beon equaled. My s3000as dad | beendue 1o the merits of my work. Oftice 4 Hours—12 w04 » " COAL! COAL ! and found her so nearly well they | Seat! could not give her a cent. closed with a profusion of Feminine Swear Words. There’s a sharp polnt‘ha these for RAILROAD MANAGERS, BICYCLERS and EVERYBODY. Her level-headed friend had given her s bottle of Mitchell’s Hagic Lotion, ‘Which is so harmless and pleasant m‘gfe. and never fails to do good If Yon Ache or Get Hurt. Sold by druggists at. 25¢, 50c and 1.00. Scene KENICKERBOCKER COAL CO., 522 Howard Street. Near First. HEALTH RESORTS. ST, HELENA SANITARIUM (Formerly Rural Health Retreat) Is under strictly regular management; a quiet, homelike place, where trained nurses, rest cure, massage, electrical treatments, Swedish move- ments, dieting. baths, physical training, and all that is Included in modern rational medical treat- ment, with good hotel conveniences, pure water, even temperature and restful scenery may be obtained. Terms: Room, with board and regular treat- ment, $12 to $20 per week. Send for circular: St. Helens Sanitartum, St Helena, Napa County, Cal. Trains leave San Francisco, foot of Market st., 8t7 A. 3. and 4 P. ., via Vallejo Junction, reach ing St Helena at 10:45 A, 3, aud 7:08 2, M. } R 2