The herald., 1894-08-19
AN OLD MINERS ESCAPES,
He Gets Through '49 Well
Enough, But Is Caught
Later.
He Tells Stories That Are Thrilling
Of Early Days-His Eventful
DOwnfall-On the Up
Grade Again.

| SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, JUNE.-Few men are
better known around town than o'd Josiah
| Quincy, and amongst the "boys'' he is known
as Uncle JOSH" Quincy is almost the young.
est of the pioneers who were actually engaged
in gold minlug, and his record is reparded as
he is known to have driven a stage to Low
| Gulch for couple OF weeks because no one
else could be found TO undertake the job, three
| drivers and four deputy sheriffs having been
picked on" in the two preceding weeks 1t is
matter of common notoriety that he has
| '1ooked down the b,rrel' of Black Barts gun
and through cool nerve escaped with his life,
and the seal ps of four horse thieves could be at
| his belt If ne were an Indian.
Like nu N ber of other good men, Uncle
Josh did not make a fortune ON the Oomstock
but he did make competency, and invested it
pretty wisely. He said he ha d done with hard
work-that he had earned a rest and intended
to have 1t. He was going to rest easily for the
rest of his days. This was in the early '7Os.
But imam proposes and God disposes."
For years he was familiar figure in the
downtown hoes, always surrounded by a
group OF interested people, for Uncle Josh is a
good story-teller. and though he occasionally
took drink and always smoked u good cigar
he was never loose in habits, manner. or dress
About five years ago, though, a change was
noted in the sturdy examiner. He was no
longer himself. He had bsen always q bach.
elor, though there we're plenty of good girls
who would have been proud to have called him
husband, but all the Establishments OF the fair
sex were apparently wasted ON him. Still In
all the vigor Of his manhood, he all OF a sudden
began to dissiphte. First it was wine then a
return to an excess of draw poker and even
tually he seemed to lose his grip altogether
Vice heapad upon vice until 1.-THE man of iron
nerve as he was once facetiously called, was
O complete physical ard moral wreck. That
was about four years ago.
Since then, until about year ago, he wan
dered around to his old haunts, getting weaker
and shaker every day, always getting a little
hel pfgvm his friends OF old. Last summer he
disappeared altogether, and thoie who were
accustomed to meeting him gave up Uncle
Josh for dead. A week ago, however, he
turn ed up looking SO much like the man he
was before he began to dissipate that great
many people tn ought-cr said they thought-it
wa, his ghost. Yesterday, surrounded by a
score or more Of old timets, he explained his
disappearance and remarkable temperance.
The gist of the story is this:
few of his friends, mora out of charity
than anything else, went TO him about a year
ago and made him business proposition to 20
back to the mines. They had a claim and were
willing to give him an interest il he would su.
perintend the mine. He would gladly have
gone but his nerve was broken. "You can get
around sll right" said one, ''lf you only con-
sent to place yourself in hands which know
to be competent" Uncle Josh consented. His
friend-a big grain dealer-took him to the
Hudson Medical Institute, 1882 Market street,
san Fran cisco, California. His cas-, was care
fully xanined By the specialists there, and at
the close OF the exam nation the chief CON
sulting physician said: you have good
chance to do we'll again. Your constitution is
not entirely ruined Then he prescribed
their great Specific for nervous disorders and
depleted physical condtior--The Great Bud.
van, towit-and this wreck OF man, inside OF
two months, was superintending operations at
the niue. Winding up hi, story last night,
Mr. Quincy said: "That must be n wonderfully
potent drug, or combination Of them, although
they assure me- it is purely vegeta BILE, for it
actually restored me 10 life in a couple OF
months. OF couise 1 give he do.torS credit
for Unusual skill, too for whilst WAS up IN the
mines couple of friends of mine, just by
writing to the In titu!e got their diseases cor
rectly diagnosed. They never came near the
city at ALL and they are both strong and
healthy now
Continuing Mr. Quincy said that the devel-
opnent of the mine had far exceeded his most
sangune expectations, and that. as well as
being in perfect health, he was financially on
tn sun grade" again.