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not such feeble things wherewith to ex-
press the helpful, patient strength of that
cheerful quartet, but Madame, eying them
philosophically, iogs on wagging her small
head as In equine self-gratulation that she
is not sweating beside them. L is to be
questioned whether the sight has appealed
to Madame's esthetic sense.
The tender, wonderful coloring of the
morning has long since given way TO the
bright beauty of MONDAY. a glossy green
bed OF young watercress covering the sur
face of tiny wayside spring reminds us
of salad and luncheon. Down On her
knees beside the stream goes the scribbler,
and gathers supply Of the crisp, tender
dainty. We have come some twenty five
miles since our early breakfast, and Just
beyond the pleasant little town of Niles,
famous for its orchards, we turn into
beautiful canyon and make our MONDAY
camp. Madame, relieved of shafts and
harness, promptly proceeds to roll all over
the short, crisp herbage before she settles
to the discussion of her bag of barley. We
find a clean, sandy place, beside the roots
of some beautiful sycamores, whose dear
gray branches, innocent of LEAKAGE, but
beautiful against the blue sky, stretch pro-
tectingly over US.
All about us are laurels and oaks and
the blessed pussy willows are Just begin
ming to put forth buds and the tiniest of
baby leaves. Ten days hence they will he
mass of fluffy, feathery fragrance. We
are camping in the bed of dry creek and
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earliest of all our trees to send out their
dainty white invitations to the feast they
mean TO spread later, have been for
fortnight past in radiant bloom. Plums,
peaches and cherries are beginning to
deck themselves in beauty, and in the
fields and along woody highways poppies
and wild hyacinth are growing. The
trillium is spreading its beautiful leaves
and wonderful blossom, and the quaint
little pimpernel is smiling up from the
grass. Down in deep canyons the laurels
are in blossom, the waving feathers OF the
yarrow and the southern wood, with its
pungent odor, are beginning to stir in the
wind ,tand robin-run-the-hedge is spread
ing his dainty tangle everywhere. The
eucalyptus blossoms are waking up and
pushing back their pretty nightcaps, and
the whole world is full of loveliness. Put
down your paper and go out IN search
OF it.
What a sense OF freedom it gives to leave
trains and boats and journey forth, con-
sultlng no timetables, scarcely troubling
to decide what road is best where all are
full of promise and each leads to beauty
somewhere.
Madame feels the witchery of the morn
ing and shifts the fragrant air, tossing her
head contentedly as we turn the last street
corner and strike the county road. A wise
pony is Madame. She has some time since
come to realization that journey is be-
fore her, and settles down to a comforta BILE
trot that, experience has taught US, will
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
TWO VENERABLE PHYSICIANS
Although Approaching Century Mark They Still Pratce
Medicine
Medicine.

good pay. There was large amount OF
surgical work that was difficult to accom-
plish on account of the impossibility OF
getting proper appliances and instruments.
It was also a difficult matter to obtain
drugs, but the men who needed attention
in those days had hardy constitutions,
and there were few deaths from sickness.
DR.. Smith says he believes himself the
only living physician who came here in
1S49
After I arrived" said the doctor, "I
had an Office down near the water front,
but moved around all the time as the town
kept growing. For number of years I
was on Kearny street, and while there did
the best business 1 ever did while in the
City"
DR.. Smith then went on to explain that
doctors were scarce in those days and that
he was often called TO go miles in the
country to attend some wealthy person
who had been taken sick. But t was only
necessary to make out bill and it would
be paid at once. "Times have changed
since then" said the doctor.
About fifteen years ago DIR. Smith moved
out on Stevenson street near Seventh and
has lived there ever since. He had made con-
siderable money at his old practice, but
devoted himself to the poor people in the
neighborhood, and took as his pay only
what they could give. Hundreds Of them
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San Francisco can safely lay claim to
having the oldest practicing physician in
the United States, and also to one who,
although past fourscore years and FIVE, is
still in the full possession of his faculties
and attends to his patients regularly. The
older man is DIR. Floto. He is "a years of
age and has been in the State for thirty.
two years. DR.. Smith, while nine wears
younger, has had a more interesting
career, because he was one OF the first
physicians here and his life has been
closely identified with the history of San
Francisco.
Dr. F1oto is man who would not be
taken to be more than so years of age at
the most, and yet he has seen only six
years less than century of life. His eyes
are clear and bright and he talks with
vivacity. His greatest interest is his pro-
fession, which he continues to practice
daily and seems in a fair way to continue
to do so for several years to come. DR..
F!oto's memory of his early life is some.
what dim, but he says, sit is hard to re-
Der things that happened seventy
flve or eighty years ago."
II was born in 1902 in PENNSYLVANIA
somewhere" said the doctor, ''but l don t
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recall at this moment the name of the
town. Later in life 1 went to college in
Philadelphia. and practiced in several
towns in the East. For a while l lived in
New y York, and IN 1916 decided to come to
California. There was party of US, and
we got as far as New Orleans, but some
people there scared US with stories of the
cholera. We all returned to New York,
but l never got over the desire to come to
California. I don't remember the year
that | started, but do know that the dav
my ship sailed was the day that Lincoln S
body was brought to New York. Since l
have been here my life has been unevent-
full. | have had my share of patients, and
made good living.
Ever since l have been here" contin-
ued the doctor, after long pause, 81 have
occupied these same offices, and l hope
the march of improvement will not come
this way as long as | am alive. | am SO
much attached to these rooms that | be-
lieve it would kill me to move. Il makes
me feel young to be here, and it seems as
if | had just moved in yesterday"
In appearance DR.. Floto is typical ply
sician of the old school. His hair and
beard are as white as snow and always
kept trimmed close and neat. His figure
is stopped little, but be walks with a
firm step and can write a prescription
without the use of glasses. The doctor
does not consider himself too old to learn,
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
Sketched By a "CdH" artist. ]

on the bank above US is a cabin before
which play two small Indian children
They suspend activities and settle to watch
us in open-eyed surprise. So may their
ancestors have watched the advent of the
first whites in their peaceful haunts. The
little girl is, perhaps, 3 years old and she
makes pretty picture established under
a struggling bush, the first spring foliage
of which is not yet sufficiently grown to
afford her any concealment. The boy is
year or two her senior and is brave. He
sits boldly in swing hung from the
branch OF tall sycamore and surveys us
fearlessly, digging his bare toes in the
sandy soil the while. Perhaps it's this
close contact with mother earth that gives
him courage. To run barefooted through
Calltornia's radiant February weather is
Presently the lutte pair leave the swing
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and the bush and establish themselves un-
der another sycamore, on the opposite
bank, as nearly in imitation OF us as their
childish imaginatlons can devise, and we
are mutely sociable together. 1t is warm
and still in the canyon. a few juncos hit
in and out among the branches, and some
where in the distance We hear the hammer
of a woodpecker. An early butterfly is
spreading his pale-blue wings in the Feb
ruary sunshine anG across the road a
squirrel runs and pauses, curious as the
little human wildlings, to observe US. The
small creatures recognize that there is no
guile in u.s. and are in no wise disturbed
by our presence. Our luncheon eaten, we
bury the debris deep in the soft sand, THAT
the place may be none the worse for our
having rested here" the painter says.
1t is after 2 o'clock when we arise re-
freshed and prepare 10 depart. Madame,
too, is evidently the better for her rest and
steps out cheerfully, and we are soon trav-
cling the highway once more.
Is there anything more wonderful than
the springtime coloring in California
The very fences take on exquisite grays
and green's and browns that smile upon US
as we pass. The reddish brown of those
fruit trees, yet bare of leaf or blossom, is
as exquisite against the sky as the beauti-
full bloom of their fellows. We pass
orange OICidIuS ou lle HliiSlueS SolueH
with fruit and white with blossoms among
their dark-green leaves. As we journey
toward the ancient Mission of San Jose
miles upon miles of vineyard stretch Out
in every direction and a broad lagoon
smiles in the sun, rejecting the marvellous
blue of the t1eckless sky. On the descent
beyond the Mission we pass long stretches
of artichokes growing wild in rlotous pro-
fusion by the roadside. Poppies begin to
hail us as we descend into the Santa Clara
Valley, and Madame starts in with the in
tenton of making time over road fine as
silk and smooth as a floor.
We pass Warm Springs and Milpitas,
the celebrated, and presently are driving
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nences; of enchanting vistas along bend
ing roads and cool, blessed woodsy things
found IN the wild byways. 1t was along
one of these on this trip that the scribbler
found, nestled amid a mass of lichen-
starred moss, two brilliant, scarlet toad
stools, and, kneeling beside them, called
the painter to come and see. II have read
OF them," she said, incredulously. The
other bent over them. Il have seen them
in pictures" and there was a hushed won-
der in her voice, ''but have never really
known that they do grow"
All about them was wonder of maiden
hair, rock fern and delicate growing babies
of the spring, such as can only be seen.
thus. in California's February, and
dainty, silvery stream made pretty
tumult over the rocks as it dashed along,
eager to tell the lowands of the treasures
hidden away in the woods. You must
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put many mile behind us ere the heat
and the burden of the day arrive.
Our friends in the East are proba bly
soa sting their toes over their costly Goals
as we loosen our wraps little, the morn
ing air being milder than we had antici-
pated. Our luggage is snugly slowed In
the roomy phaeton. We have left behind
the memory of care, and we are two happy
women as we reflect that we are driving
on through the delicious February morn
ing with no further thought of detail in
our journey than that we are following
Madame's lead, and shall stop when her
inclination or our own or the falling shades
OF night prompt. Comfortably journeylng
in the bottom of bag are volume of
Browning and a copy OF Marcus Aurelius,
but neither sage nor poet can reveal to US
a tithe of the beauty and wisdo ON ex-
pressed in yonder plowed field sweeping
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and makes a practice of reading all the
medical journals that he thinks are worth
studying. "But business isn't what il used
to be" he says. People use too much
patent medicine" and he thirks the
health OF the country has suffered in con-
sequence.
DR.. Floto believes himself to be the old
est living practitioner in the country. If
there are any older men he don't know
who they are.
DR.. E. D. Smith is native of New York
State, and attended several of the best
medical schools in the metropolis. After
graduating he made his home in Wiscon-
sin for number of years and worked up a
good practice. But the desire to see the
country grew on him, and in 1848 he
started for California, reaching here in 40.
DR.. Smith's career in this State has been
lively and interesting one. He arrived
in the height of the gold excitement, and
from the start found plenty of work at
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

be quick to come if you would catch
a glimpse of these late-winter glorics.
Mother natures wee beginnings of things
do grow up so fast. A month hence they
will still be beautiful, but no longer the
tender, green, trustful baby things they
are now, but penciling stalks and branches
with tiny touches of color.
Our little brown neighbors in Japan
have set holidays, when all the world goes
forth to see the cherry blossoms. If we
Californians ever have real State holiday
it should come in mid February, and cele-
brate the advent of the newborn things of
woods and fields, orchard and hedgerow,
that we may go out for TO see.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
NV WINTER, by the calendar.
NM Mention wn5s5 by BY DssSx sas asove .nd
V V ice- bound shipping in the


East. Winter, by the letters
from Eastern friends, that tell of cold
and bitter weather, of chilblains and
frostbite and the high price of coal. But
what a winter day it is out here bv the
Golden Gate, with the February sunshine
spilling itself out in scripture measure,
pressed down, shaken together, running
over on the jolly green grass, the rich
brown fields, freshly plowed, the baby
leaves still playing at peek under their
blankets and the pink-and- white of the
blossoming orchards covering the hills and
valleys of this lovely State.
On such a February day, in the early
morning, we Jared forth, three of us,
leaving stable and studio and desk behind,
10 find the springtime and see mother
nature getting ready her houses of delight
for the tired city folks who will come TO
her, later. when the calendar tells them
that spring has come. 1t must be thus
that they think of it, these brothers and
sisters of ours who have not yet remem-
bered what the country looks like; whose
blood has not yet begun to tingle and
10 yearn for the breath of spring from the
hills. How many OF you, reading The
CALL this morning, know that within a
dozen miles of you the world is a mass of
fragrant, blossoming beauty? The almond,
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

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the disease and made a complete cure.
Prof Munyon may well be proud OF his
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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

The fact that there are two men in Con-
gress of the name of Perkins frequently
leads to minor complications. One is Sem
ator George G. Perkins of California, and
the other Representative George ID. Per.
kins of Iowa. Owing TO the similarity OF
their Christian napes, mail addressed to
each is constantly Ning astray.
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Albert coat and the rest OF his attire is
neat and dignified. DR.. Smith has become
a necessity to the neighborhood in which
he lives. and the prayer of hundreds whom
he will remain with them for many years
to come.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

A dog owned by a man in Addison,
Mich, walked back home a distance of
forty miles recently. It's owner gave it
away, but the dog did not like its new
home and quietly trotted back to its old
kennel.
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SEVENTY YEARS A PREACHER.

DIR. Furness was the Oldest alumnus OF
Harvard, in date of graduation, and he
was the Oldest surviving graduate OF the
Boston Latin school and Of the Harvard
Divinity school. .
He was born SO years ago. the 21st Of last
April, and entered the public Latin school
in 1872, at the same time with Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Edward q. Loring and
Alexander Young. He was graduated
from Harvard College in 1920, and fiom
the Divinity school in 1928. /.
On January ~. 1875, he was ordained
pastor of the First Unitarian Society Of
Philadelphia, then worshipping In q little
brick building at Tenth and Locust
streets. During his pastorate, the splen.
did edifce at Twenty-Second and Chest
nut streets was erected. On the Goth
anniversary of his ordination, in 1875, he
resigned. He received the degree OF doc
tor Of divinity from Har ward in 1S47, and
that of doctor of letters from Columbia
at its centennial in 1887.
During his long pastorate DR.. Furness
not only endeared himself to his congre-
CATION, but made q name outside OF the
church as man of eminent literary at
tainments and Of strong humanitarian
views. His books, issued from 1885 to
1856, have been chiefly Of a theological
character, designed to illustrate the
character and life of Christ, as lie Is esti-
mated by the believers in Unitarian doc
trines. He was a translator from the
German Of no mean merit, being n of
the earliest and best Of our German
scholars. His work includes TRANSACTIONS
from Schubert, Schenkel and Schiller.
DIR. Furpess was one of the most prom
inent of Pennsylvania anti-slavery men.
He was for 80 years previous to the war
one of the most ardent, fearless and per-
sistent adovcates OF freedom for the slave.