The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1895, Page 9

N THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1895. THE HARD LOCK OF A PIONEER DEPYTY SHERIFFS TURNED Him OUT INTO THE STREET YESTERDAY. HIS WORK IN EARLY DAYS. A MEMBER OF THE VIGILANCE CoM- MITTEE AND AT ONE TIME WEALTHY. Within a few blocks of the place on which he established a wholesale and retail store in 1849 Ferdinand Vassault was turned out of his office into the street by a deputy sheriff yesterday. He was doing business in the Montgomery block as 4 real estate agent, and being behind over eight months in his rent the Mont- gomery Black Real Estate Association took action and invoked the aid of the Sheriff. Ferdinand Vassault. tched from life by a “Call” artist.] st eleven days ago an order of court was issued, and as the Sheriff has only eleven days in which to act Mr. Vassault had to be remcved willy-nilly. As the old pioneer did not make any preparations to obey the order of the court three deputy sheriffs were sent down to carry it out. When 3 o’clock came their patience was exhausted and the old man and his belongings were bundled into the street. A few minutes later an express wagon drove up and the old-time books and newspapers, the records of many a real estate transaction in early days, several ictures of San Francisco as it appeared in 49, '50 and 51, and a number of old law- books were bundled into it and carted ertificate signed by Isaac Bluxom as gecretary and J. E. Woodworth as_ presi- dent showed that Ferdinand Vassailt had been a member of the Vigilance Commit- tee organized in 1851, and an old woodcut showed Vassault and several other promi- nent vigilantes in attendance upon the exccution of Cora. These pictures Mr. Vassault took away under his arm. Ferdinand Vassault came to San Fran- cisco early in 1849. It was his father who negotiated the sale of Louisiana on the part of France to the United States. On his way home after accomplishing his mis- sion the father died and the family emi- grated to the United States. On his arrival in San Francisco the young connection with several New York houses the firm of F. Vassault & Co. There were no roads in those days, and in order to get his goods to the outlying settlers Vassault contracted with the T'nited States to build the old Mission road. It cost him $173,000, and most of the money was sunk where the road crosses the old Mission Creek, between Seventh and Eighth streets. An attempt was made to pile the approaches, but the timbers sank out of sight as soon as a pile-driver struck | them. The ditficulty was finally over- come by means of large timbers which were laid crosswise, one on top of the other, and so forming & primitive canti- lever bridge. Vassault & Co. branched out and estab- lished an agency in Sacramento, and in the '50's the head of the house was one of the leading men in the young city. Like all the pioneers he had his ups and downs, but finally bad luck overtook him. He was secretary of the Pioneersfor several years, but a dispute over money matters caused him to resign. Latterly he has been earning a precarious living as a real estate agent, but yesterday the Sheriff cut his career short by setting him outin the street. - TOOTH WORMS. The Chinese Dentist Looks for Them When His Patients’ Teeth Ache. It would seem that in dentistry as well as in ways that are dark ‘‘the heathen Chi- nee is peculiar.” C. Robins has commu- nicated some curious essays on the subject written in English by Chinese students at the Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow. They describe in quaint language the perform- ances of the dentists, who are usually itin- | erants of the 8equah order. They appear to have three methods of treatment: First, extraction, the pa- tient's attention being distracted and his lamentations overpowered by the bea ing of a loud gong; second, the application of arsenic to kill an exposed third, the extracfion of ‘“tooth worms The latter operation, usually performed by women, is very frequently resorted to, and undoubtedly worms are produced from the tooth, as these amateur dentists adopt the same principle as the lithotomist in the story—who used always to provide against finding his diagnosis had been mistaken by taking a pebkle of suitable size in his waistcoat pocket—and themselves intro- duce these worms, which are usually con- cealed under their long fingernails. A Chinese student describes the operation thus (we give his own words): “Now let me advert to the practice of ar- resting the tooth worms. One of my rela- tives was once attacked by a severe cold, and after the cold was broken up by restor- ing activity to the skin he had a neunlflu which gave him such an intense suffering that he could neither eat nor repose, but moaned with a voice so audible and so plaintive that it senta thrill to the heart [ man started in | pulp, and | I of every one in the house. On the second daf‘ his suffering increased to a remark- abledegree; indeed, it is impossible even at this distant period to retlect, without horror, on the miseries of his toothache state. Finally he submitted to the opera- tion of a woman dentist, whose agency was to arrest tooth worms. Her general operation is as follows: A chop- stick and a silver pin are the only instrument she requires in her | normal act. She iswilling to exhibit them to any one who conceives an inclination of discerning her trickes She brings the chopstick in contact “with the diseased tooth and cautiously pokes it through with a pin in search of the odious worm. After a while she scrapes out a lump of yellow minute worms on the chopstick and immerses it in a cup of water. Each lump of from 10 to 15 worms, an d some- 200 or 300 worms are scraped if the patient makes an exact bargain at first that the fee should be defrayed according to the number of worms scraped. The gen- eral fee is 400 cash (s 2d), and only the poor may take advantage of being in Yenury to pay 200 cash.”—British Dental ournal. . MUSIC AND SNAKES. Sweet Sounds Have a Charm for Rep- tiles and Allure Them. Noises of every kind have a peculiar at- traction for water snakes, and incidentally it may be stated that water moccasins of the Dismal Swamp region are nearly or quite as deadly in their bite as the land family of moccasins. If a pistol be fired two or three times overa pond, creek or any still body of water, the reptiles will suddenly appear from every quarter, seem- ing to be evolved out of thin_air, 50 rapid | is their coming, and they swim about for | several moments in great agitation. Some- | times their numbers will swell to several | hundred, and it is believed by the natives that on such occasions they are especially dangerous. The same result is attained if any musical instrument be played along shore or in a boat, except that the reptiles are less demonstrative, remaining nearly still upon the surface or hanging around upon the bushes that overlap the water's e certain locali so great that verily no man can number them. This is especially true after heavy rains, when the swamps are overflowed and they are driven to the higher places. Removed from their regu- lar haunts they appear to be gregarious, huddling and crowding together, sluggish and indifferent to everything, as though utterly overcome by homesickness. Yet the roused and excited at the approach of man, when, seemingly in- epired of courage through numbers, they decline to get out of his path and will show fight if he attempts to molest them.—Chi- cago Tribune. ADJUTANT - GENERALSHIP. APPOINTMENT OF COLONEL SHEL- DON I. KELLOGG TO THE OFFICE CONSIDERED CERTAIN. THE RETIRED NATIONAL GUARDS- MAN TO BE HONORED BY THE GOVERNOR. tion was assured, has about closed, and the friends of Colonel Sheldon I. Kellogg of the Governor’s choice for that office. nected with the National Guard in this city and Oskland have taken an active in- | terest in Colonel Kellogg’s fight. There | were several other candidates in the field, | chief among whom were J. Chalmers Scott of tegoand Park Henshawgoi Chico. All of the gentlemen named had good backing, but from authoritative sources it | Colonel Sheldon I. Kellogg. [From a photograph.] has been ascertained that Governor Budd has selected Colonel Kellogg, and that he would formally appoint him within the | next few days, | _Colonel Shelden I. Kellogg is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was born in 1847. His father was a prominent importer of that city, where he located.in 1818, Col- onel Kellogg was educated in France and | Germany, and in the latter sixties went to New York, where he identified himself | with military affairs for several years. He served with credit for some time in the | Twenty-third Regiment, National Guard of New York. In 1874 Colonel Kellogg came to this city and for some years engaged in the gun and ammunition business. He is now con- i nected with Shreve & Co. as bookkeeper and correspondent. Since his arrival here Colonel Kellogg has served in the National Guard both as | private and officer. He was second lieu- tenant of the old First Infantry Regiment in June, 1875. In January, 1876, he was made assistant adjutant-general and since | that time he has been an officer of the Oak- | land Light Cavalry, Second Artillery Reg- | iment, Fifth Artillery Regiment. On Jan- uary 6, 1891, he was retired, after a contin- uous service of almost sixteen years in the National Guard of this Stata, Colonel Kellogg is a man of many ster- ling qualities and possesses to a high degree that firmness and executive capacity neces- sary to the complete discharge of the | duties of the office_to which he has been called, having en intimate knowledge of National Guard affairs and possessing a character that is above reproach. i o A Chicago Theaters Used!: s Churches, in the busi- triet of Chicago take in more money | on an average Sunday night than is taken in by all the amusement enterprises of any other open Sunday town in America. If this be true it may also be said that probably nowhere else are so many thea- ters converted into churches Sunday morn- ing. it 11 o’clock in the morning the stage is a sanctuary, with dim light fafling through Gothic windows and a minister in plain black =oftly reading to an orderly but rust- ling congregation. xactly ten hours from that time the same s‘nfie is hung with jeweled nonsense, flooded by caleium light and filled with capering ballet girls. here is an orthodox prejudice against holding religious services in" a pl%y ouse, but it has been overcome in Chicago. Every Sunday morning there are services at McVicker’s Theater, Hooley’s Theater, the Grand Opera-house and Central Music Hall. Sunday-schoolfis held in the Schil- ler building. “Smaller halls, such as may be rented in the Masonic Temple, Audi- torium or Athensum, are used as meet- ing-places for denominations limited in membership.—Chicago Record.c !l-‘nc multitude of snakes to be seen in | The struggle for the office of adjutant- | general of California, which has been in | progress ever since Governor Budd’s elec- | this city now assert that he will surely be | Some of the most influential men con- | THEY WILL NOT TRY T0 REDUCE WAGES. THE MANUFACTURERS WILLING TO JOIN HANDS WITH THE ‘WORKINGMEN. BOTH WILL BE BENEFITED. THE Apvisory CoMMITTEE Has MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONVENTION. The advisory committee of the Manu- facturers’ Convention, President Hugh Craig in the chair, met yesterday to pre- pare for the convention to be held in this city on the 19th inst. Secretary Barnett read letters from over one hundred manufacturers accepting the invitation to take part in the convention. He said that he had received many verbal responses to his invitation. On motion of H. T. Scottan assessment of §5 was levied on each manufacturer or firm that expressed a desire to take part in the convention to defray necessary ex- penses, and John F. Merrill was chosen treasurer of the fund. The thanks of the committee were voted to Henry J. McCoy for a tender of the use of the auditorium of the Young Men’s Christian Association. The president announced that C. J. Swift would deliver a short address on the Ostrander gun, Professor Neuman on silk | culture, W. J. Martin on meat packing, A. | B. Sanford on steam boilers, and George | | Cammings on forges. It was announced | | that the shoe manufacturers would attend | | | | in a bady. 0. Guthrie of Chicago, connected with | the constructors of the canal that is to | | connect Chicago with the Illinois River,will | | be one of the speakers. | “Let him speak,’”” said Mr. Scott, “‘so | that we can get some Chicago ideas. If | You can only get Chicago ideas into San | | Francisco you will double your population | | in a short time.” It was decided that the addresses should | be reduced to writing and limited to ten | minutes, as it was not the desire of the | committee to tire the visitors with long | speeches. Reception-rooms will be kept open in the | Grand Hotel. W. T. Y. Schenck, A. A. Watkins, L. F. Dundon, J. F. Merrill, Paunl B. Perkins, H. L. Davis and H. T. Scott were appointed a committee on resolutions. A. S. Hallidie offered the following reso- lution, which' was signed by the president ?nd secretary and telegraphed to the Legis- ature: The ad sory committee of the Manufac- turers’ Convention, to be held in this city on | the 19th inst., respectiully requests the sup- | port of the Senate and Assembly of California, | that, all things being equal, a clauce should be | inserted in every State contract that the ma. terial should be of California manufacture. A motion to strike out the words ‘‘all things being equal” was made by Mr. Scott, who said *‘San Francisco’s manufac- turers are equal to any Eastern men to fur- | nish material, and any one who thinks he is not let him go out of business. The committee will meet again at 2| o’clock to-morrow afternoon. | In view of the antagonism that has de- veloped_in labor circles to the proposed | convention, the opinions of some of the | most prominent participants in that move- | ment are herewith given touching the part | that labor is to play in the upbuilding of | the new California. by L. Davis, president of the Board of Manufacturers and Employes of Califor- nia, who signed the call for the proposed convention, said : It labor antagonizes this movement it will antagonize only its own interests, workinj whatever action may be taken will certainly effect the laboring man favorably. We haveno objections to labor unfons and wonld be willing | | to'co-operate with them if they would agree 1o abstain from boycotts and from preventing gon-union men earning & living when a strike | 0. The association, of which I am presi dent, has made no attempt to cut wages and | does not_contemplate such a thing, nor is it | contemplated by the projectors of the ap- | proaching convention. "The Board of Meanu- | facture is not connected with this movement as & body, though most of its members are taking an interest in it. There are many i dividuals not members of the Manufacturers’ Association, as it is sometimes designated, who are active in the affairs of the proposed new organization. A.S. Hallidie, president of the Cali- fornia Wire Works, said : The interests of the mannfacturer and the mecbanic_are identical. They should not quarrel. They should come fogether and adopt a policy for the general good. Iam sure there would be no objection to union men participat- ing in the convention. They might be invited to read papers, which, you know, are to be limited to ten minutes. ' Any differences might thus be made more easy of adjustment N. A. Judd of thelprinling and binding establishment of the Hicks-Judd Company said: | We desire to educate the unthinking into | patronizine home products. That is the prin- cipal object of the convention. There will be no | attempt to interfere with wages or labor unions in any way. Of course, people will buy that | which they cen obtain the cheapest, other things being equal; even union men do this, | regnrdless of whether a home industry is bein | discouraged or not. What ive shall’endeav | to do is to show the advisability of sometim, | paying even a trifie more for home-manuf; | tured goods. Every dollar kept from going | East to pay for goods that are made here is so much gained toward the permanent prosperity of our home industries. 5 | M. M. Barnett, secretary of the advisory committee of the proposed Manufacturers’ Convention, said: Labor and capital should be in harmony in | all things. 1f the labor scheduleis higher here | | than in the Esst, we cannot compete with our | rivals there. When permanent organization is | effected at the convention the labor organiza- tions will certainly be consulted in devising | | means to secure the desired ends of the people | interested, They must be taken into consider- | ation, for it remains, in this connection, largely th the unions to solye the problem of the uu- | employed. A"l‘ McCoughlin of the National Brewery said: If the labor leaders—and I don’t say union laboring men—will not be so ready to en- courage strikes and boycotts, they can materi- ally aid the industrial progress of the State. These evils make capital timid and prevent it | investment in enterprises which create work for the real laboring man. | Walter Macarthur, editor of the Coast Seamen’s Journal, delegate to the Labor Council, said: At the present time I have not the slightest idea how united labor will stand with regard to the forthcoming convention of manufac- turers and employers. The trades unions have not &s yet been invited to send any delegates to the convention. However, we shall probably elect delegates at the next meeting of the | Labor Council. They will be given proper | eredentials and sent to demand admission to the floor of the convention as regular members of that body. If they are rejected—well, then ‘we will have to set our wits to work and adopt such measures as the case may demand. We shall consider that the movement is a total failure so far as encouraging and fosterini home industries are concerned. How on elrlg can manufacturing be discussed without taking labor into full and free consideration? Again, how ean labor be discussed if it is not rep sented ? The sum and substance of the whole matter is, that home industries cannot be en- cournged or set on a basis of success if labor is at enmity with those whose capital is invested in the home industries. Lebor is not only the great producer but also the greatest consume: If labor has little or nothing with which to buy home products home industries will naturally wither and die. That proposition has been proved in the past. The Federeted Trades and the trades unions are heartily in favor of the proposed conven- tion, provided that the movement is not made & one-sided affair wholly inimical to labor's | interests, as was the case with the facturers’ and Employers’ Association. As set forth in the expressed purposes of that body it was rimarily organized to regulate "trades unions and resist their demands—in other words, to suppress them. If that is the purpose of the coming convention then the trades unions will upfiuosa its actions to the bitter end. It will be a hard fight and I suppose a long one. The Manufac- turers’ and Employers’ Association, headed by Mr. Davis, set out to suppress labor unions, Well, in this they nearly succeeded. Most of the labor unions were practically broken up. The typographieal unions and the Sailors’ Union were about the only ones that remained intact. But the manufacturers and employers were in no way benefited by this state of ai- fairs. On the contrary, all classes of industry and investment suffered. Four years #£go, for example, most of the ci- gars used on thit coest Were made here by union labor, e same may be said of various kinds of ironwork. The result was that the trade was driven to the far East. This is fact that the leading spirits in the Manufac: turers’ Association Know and cannot_truth fully deny. Consumers cannot pay Calitornia prices for goods unless they gei Californi wages. If the convention declares against the trades unions of course the trades unions will be forced to retaliate. It isonly by both sides, labor and capital, coming together that any lasting good can be done. A. C. Schwatka, president of Typograph- ical Union No. 21, when askedabout the attitude of the trades unions to the forth- coming convention, said: The trades unions are not taking a stand i he manufecturers or other employers | &8 a elass, but against the man who has sumed or has been given the leadership of the | movement. Mr. Davis is known o all labor organizations as an enemy of labor. He has at ali times worked against the interests of labor unions and has done all in his power to break them down. He asserts one thing and means another whenever labor and he are concerned together. His promises and ;-ledges 10 labor in the past have been ignored as if they bad never been made at all. HOw can the trades unions think of securing any consideration from him, or any movement that he is at the head of ? Trades-union men cannot muster up | enthusiasm for a cause that is led by their known enemy. = On general principles the Federated Trades would be in favor of the convention, provided that labor unions were allowed full representa- | tion and rights of expression in the conven- tion. But without that labor will have to stand off by itself and fight for itself. We, as representatives of union iabor, would like to see the whole peminsula of San Fran- cisco_covered with manufactories, but we de- mand that union wages shall be paid all the way through. William Zahn, secretary of the Brewery- workers’ Union and a member of the Labor Council, said: I don’t see what good the Manufacturers’ Convention can do us, or anybody else, if the representatives of 1abor are not permitted to be heard. The trades unions have not been invited to send any delegates thus far. We know very well what it all meansand what the purpose is. Mr. Davis tried long ago to break up the labor unions but he didn’t quite succeed. The Manufacturers’ Association hurt itself more then it hurt us. Four years ago trades unions agitated home production and home consumption, but the Manufacturers’ Association broke it'all up. For instance, four years ago there was scarcely any Eastern beer | imported to San Francisco. Now all kinds of beers, porters and ales are brought here from St. Louls and Milwaukee. 1 believe that ful 20 per cent of the beer consumed in this city | at the present time comes from the East. If | the Manufacturers’ Convention fights us we | shall fight back. ON THE OLD PAN STSTEN, THE FIRST SIMPLE METHODS OF | MINING INCORPORATED IN | A MACHINE. AN INVENTION THAT 1s LOOKED Uron WiTH FAVOR By MinING EXPERTS. 3 Henry Rives the assayer at 318 | Pine street, has invented a machine for the concentration of ores that is regarded by | mining engineers and experts as a valua- | ble improvement. It is in fact an im- | proved concentrator, and mining men who | have seen it in operation at the metallur- gical works are enthusiasticin their praise The machine is nothing more than the | Jdncorporation.of .the,old panning method | of mining, which was the best method and | which has never been improved upon, | | town. WILL CONTINUE THE HEAT WAR. THE WESTERN MEAT COMPANY WILL NoT ABANDON THE * STRUGGLE. CHEAP CHOPS AND STEAKS. THE BuTcHERs LoSE MONEY, BUT THE CITIZEN PROFITS THEREBY. G. F. Swift and Nelson Morris, the big pork and beef packers of Chicago and Kan- sas City, arrived from the East yesterday, and spent a busy day at the offices of the ‘Western Meat Company, in which cor- poration they, together with Phil Armour, are largely interested, and of which Mr. Bwift is president. For some time past it has been whis- pered on the street that the representatives of the great Eastern slaughter-house men, who erected the million-dollar plant at Baden, had become heartily sick of the venture, and the arrival here of two of the principals was sufficient to set the tongues of gossip to wagging harder than ever. Rumor had it that their mission here was to arrange for closing out the business and winding up the affairs of the corporation at the annual meeting of the stockholders next Monday afternoon, and much specu- lation was indulged in as to what was to be done with the immense plant down the bay. The attempt of Armour and his asso- ciates to secure a share of the fresh meat trade of this coast has notbeen a profitable one. On coming here he announced that he did not aim to control the trade, but only to receive a fair share of it, but word went forth that the ultimate object was to fraeze out the smaller men, and at once a Butchers’ Board of Trade, colloquially known as the Butchers’ Union, sprang into existence to fight the new comers. The war has lasted two years now, and the re- sult has been that while both sides lost | money the citizen of San Francisco paid from five to ten cents a pound less for his porterhouse than the same cut could be purchased for in the East. In the struggle the retail butchers stood by the local wholesalers, and their insinuations about “frozen meat”” had a disastrous effect upon the sales of the new concern. The Kastern men deny, however, that they intend to abandon the fight. Mr. Swift, when questioned concerning the matter, was disposed to ridicnle it. “If we are going out of business here,”” he said, ‘“‘this is the first I have known of it.” Manager L. R. Hough of the Western Meat Company said: You may quote me as positively denying the truth of that rumor. We are in business here to stay, and though our trade is not just what we might wish, it is better than it has been. The increase is due to the superior quality of our goods, and it would have been Inrger ex- cept that we do business on a cash is, while any amount of credit is obtainable in Butcher- It is knqwn that none of our meats are “frozen,” and we care for them o that in our establishment the rats do not run to and iro over them as they do in Butchertoiwn. A similar inclination to continue the fight was noted among the stockholders of the corporation. James McCullcugh, the manager of the San Francisco agency for Armour’s supplies, said: There is no disposition among the stock- holders to abandon the fight. This eity is at least fifty years behind the age in the matter of hnndlins its fresh meats, and the enterprise wid succeed. The fight against us made by the local wholesale butchers is directly in line with the unfortunate disposition manifested [Sketched by a THE CONCENTRATOR INVENTED BY HENRY R. ELLIS “Call” artist.] and is constructed on the simplest philo- sophical principles applicable to the con- centration of ores. “The belt upon which the pulp is con- veyed from the battery or other pulveriz- ing devices,”” said Mr. Ellis, “‘is a travel- ing or moving one, as used on many other concentrators, but differs radically from all others in that it is filled with small batea or pan-like depr , and when the machineisin operation a rotary or circu- lar motion is imparted to the traveling belt, and to each oneof many bateas so that the motion and the result produced is precisely like that imparted to the batea or miners’ pan by the most skillful hand. “If during ‘the operation any of the heavier metal-bearing portions of the pulp or concentrates escave from one of the bateas it will surely be caught up by some of the many hundreds of the others and be fvrlectly separated from the gangue or ighter portions before it reaches the lower end of the traveling belt and be deposited clean in the receptacle attached to the ma- chine for that purpose. “The concentrator works very rapidly, and from practical working tests it is esti- mated that the four-foot belt machine will handle fifteen to twenty tons of ordinary pulp in twenty-four hours, and that the six-foot belt machine will handle about double that quantity of like pulp in twen- | four hours. ‘It has been demonstrated that all the gold and amalgam which may escape from amalgamating plates of the mill will be caught from the belt of the machine and deposited with the sulphurets. The values saved, as shown by various tests upon ores difficult to concentrate, were upward of 90 per cent.” Mr. Ellis is a graduate of the mining de- partment of the University of California. — THE RAILROAD'S NEW TENANT. The Offices at Fourth and Townsend | Filled With Damaged Coffee. The Southern Pacific Company has found a tenant for the big brick building av Fourth and Townsend which was va- cated when the executive offices of the company were moved uptown. It is now a coffee warehouse—not for the finest Mocha or choice Java—but for moldy, damnged Central American coffee that will probably ultimately form an adjunct to the “sinkers” served at the cafes along the water front. On the last voyage up of the City of Sydney it was found that several hundred ‘sacks of coffee on board were | damaged, and the consignees refused to accept it and took its value instead from the Pacific Mail Company. The Mail Company now has the coffee | on its hands and is drying it out on the floors of the old offices -of its good friend. the Southern Pacific Company. Most of the offices in the lower floorare covered with the bea: B — A Temporary Ferry Service. . Persons living in Benicia and that vieinity will no longer be compelled 10 zo around by Suisun when coming to this city, as they have been compelled to do since the big transfer steamer broke down. A private party has placed a little boat 1n service between Benicia and Port Costa, and this will greatly facilitate travel between the two sections, by San Franciscans toward new-comers in other lines, which is in my opinion a chiei reason why the growth and development of the city has been so retarded. 1 experienced the same hostility when [ came here ten years ago (o establish this agency. In the present instance the fight amounts practically to a boycott. The wholesalers own the retail men, because they are even now carrying them and have cen for some time. The Butchertown contin- gent is actuated, of course, by the desire to control the meat trade of this eity, as it has in the past. E\'ery(hlngsossibla is said against refrigerated meats, 2nd so bitter has been the struggle thet an intelligent friend of mine told me recently that when entering a store where those goods were sold he felt as if visiting a pawnshop or some other equally questionable place. But we shall keep up the battle to the end. Henry Miller, of the firm of Miller & Lux, occupies an unenviable position in the present difficulty. He owns stock in the new enterprise, but must sell the meat from his Butchertown slaughter-house to the Butchers’ Union. Then he has to supply sinews of war to both parties, and must quit loser whichever wins. He had, however, no idea that the new company would give up the fight. FOOD OF GENIUS. Fish Does Not Help to Build Up Brain DMatter. It is extremely improbable that genius derives any peculiarly appropriate nutri- ment from a fish diet and it is certain that genius gives no thought to the subject. Mr. Carlyle and Lord Tennyson smoked pipes —Dbecause they were men enough to smoke pipes—but we do not suppose that cigar- ettes would have made a decadent of Mr. Carlyle or an “impressionist’’ of Sir Joshua Reynolds. The style and character of Dr. Johnson remained the same, whether he drank lemonade and tea or port and punch. Old Satchells boldly avers that brandy makes the poet, but his poetry would have had the same complexion had he regaled his muse with whisky. Oun champagne and ortolans Burns would have written neither better nor worse than on collops and toddy. In another field of excellence it is likely that to smoke a pipe and drink a glass of beer would not add or subtract a couple of strokes from Taylor’s usnal round on the links. Itis not because of his great appe- tite for beef that Sir Andrew Aguecheek fell below a lofty intellectual standard. We do not know whether Shakespeare had any favorite dish.” About Thackeray’s and Johnson’s favor- ite dishes we know a great deal, but are | psychologically none the wiser. Apprecia- tion of cochkyleeky does not account for the statesmanlike qualities or defects of James VI. Whatever Mr. Gladstone'’s favorite food may be it is probably none of the rough-and-ready dainties celebrated by Homer, and it is not to be thought that he takes grated cheese in his claret, like Nestor. In short, food and genius have nothing to do with each other, and the most popular novelists are not to be distinguished at dinner-time from mere critice,—Saturday Review, 00R SCHOOLTEAGHERS Are They Overworked And Underpaid? A GOOD TIME TO PAUSE. See That You Do Right With Your- self in Order That You May Be Happy, Strong and Vigorous. The life of a schoolieacher is not all “sun- shine” and “fine spring bonnets.” Tt is true their hours of labor are short, but itis also true that those short hours of labor are unremitting; they are constant; they are ceaseless, A builder chooses the heaviest steel struc- tural iron to bear the greatest weight of the warehouse he is erecting, for the reason that he knows this great weight will be on this steel constantly. If you will read seven hours and close your eyes for five minutes after each hour’s reading, you will notice little or no fatigue irom the reading; but if you will read four hours con- tinuously without closing your eyes, they will be blood-shot, bleary, and if you are not in good condition the head will ache. Thus it is that the schoolteacher’s task is wearisome, because her nerves are constantly on the “qui vive.” She must control the mind of each and every child in the schoolroom, for one rebellious boy or girl would break the discipline of the entire school. ‘What is of greater proof that the school- teacher of California is worked hard enough comes from the fact that so many hundreds of them have been compelled to use the Great Home Remedy—*“JOY’S VEGETABLE SARS. PARILLA.” In the spring testimonials come from these teachers from every little town and hamlet, and when the testimonials are coming in we know that ¢“Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla,” like a good missionary, has been out in the highways and the byways, rendering good for the evil of our civilization. The Indians use little or no medicine, be- cause they are not cabined or housed, or con- stricted or “punished” (if you will) dail But when the Indians do use medicine they use no mineral drugs. Their remedies are entirely vegetable, and in this way they show & wisdom which we may well emulate. 1f your stomach is filled with gases, if your stomach refuses the food you eat, if your stom- ach is sour, if your stomach pains you, if your stomach becomes hard 8s a rock, you need a gentle stimulating herb remedy, and therefore you need “The Great Home Remedy, JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA.” 1f your liver is torpid, if your liver refuses to act, blueness sets in and yon bgcome melan- choly, you becows morose, you become nerv- ous, you become constrained to fight, and everything seems to go wrong. You become constrained to do that which you should not. Regulate your liver with Joy’s Vegetable Sarsa- parilla and you will be “happy with the world.” It very often happens that a small blemish destroys the value of a dirmond. It very often happeus that & careless move in business de- stroys the huge enterprise. It very often hap- pens that & derangement of the Kidneys leads to greater troubles by inattention. When your kidneys are not working see that you use “JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSAPA- RILLA.” It is the great Kidney, Liver and Stomach regulator of California. Californians are always happy, joyous and bounteous as compared with their Eastern friends, and for the good reason that the sun shines and warms them sufficiently to go out and walk about and recreate themselves. Now, when the stomach, liver and kidneys are not in good working condition everything goes wrong, and therefore you cannot be successinl. Put this great piece of God’s mechanism in good order. You can do this by the use of “Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilia.” There is a reason for everything. There is a reason for the “shining of the sun,” there is a reason for the “growing of the grass,” there is a reason for the “building of a church,” and there is aleo areason 10r the use of “Joy’s Vegetable Sarsavarilla” The sun warms you, the grass feeds you, the church ennobles you and *“Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla” “keeps yomwin health.” The people in the State of California, from its “Golden Gate” to the “Sierras,” praise “JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA,” and no one will say a single word egainst the ‘“Home Remedv.” unless he has a cheap, nasty, im- perfect substitute which he desires to paim off on you. Testimonials are coming in every day to the ‘Edwin W. Joy Compsany, 269 Stevenson street, San Franeisco, and these testimonials all tell “a tale of joy.” If your druggist is ‘“up to date” he has Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla behind his counter. Ii he has not, write to the company for it. If you wish to_add your mite to the praises of our “Great Home Remedy,” JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA,” send us your testimonial. I have tried several remedies which are ad- vertised as specially for the liver and could never get any reliel. I was recommended to try a bottle of Joy's Sarsaperilla just as a test, and while taking the first bottle I became con- vinced of its merits, for I could feel it working a change in me. I have taken five bottles, and now my troubles have left me. Everything is working full and regular. In fact, it has cleansed, purified and braced me up generally. Ifeellike a new man. You are at perfect lib- erty to use this as you see fit, or you can refer whom you please to E CHARLES LEE (with Beamish), Third and Market sts., City. REFUSE THE SU ITUTE. I write to admit that notwithstanding my misgivings your Vegetable Sarsaparilla did all that you promised. I had tried so many pre- scriptions to no purpose that I had come to believe that nothing would relieve my dyspep- sia and headaches, but I have not had a return of elther trouble since I commenced taking your medicine. I believe I am permanently cured, but will, out of an abundance of pre- caution, continue to take it regularly for a while yét. You have my permission to make this public, for I think that a remedy that will cure_dyspépsia and prevent sick headache hould be generally known. Respeetfully, MES. M. FOWLER, 527 Eltls st., City. “JOY'S FOR THE JADED.” T have had for years spells of indigestion and dyspepsia, and have tried nealy everything, na) 1fook oneof the sarsaparillas.” It did me, and caused pimples to break ont on my face. Thig, I was told, was the result of the potath contained in it. Hearing that Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla did not contain mineral and acted differently, I got some. The pimples disappeared simost {mmediately, and have not had any since. 1 have not had a symptom of my old_disease, nor do I think it will return. MRS. C. B. STEWART, 400 Hayes st., City. y not hel, GOOD HEALTH FOR ALL MANKIND IN JOY’S VEGETABLE SAR- SAPARILLA. To show you my gratitude and for the benefit of others I'make it my duty to inform you that your Joy’s Vegeiable Sarsaparilla has done me more good than anything I have ever used, and I have tried ne_ulz everything. I used to rest but little at nights, tossed from side to side, and after meals was troubled with indigestion, and my headaches nearly drove me ntic. Your = medicine has wrought magic, and I feel like a different person, and all my troubles are gone. MRS. SALINA LOPEZ, 2119 Seventh street, St. Louis, Mo. 1 take great pleasure in recommending your Sarsaparilla. hm only taken one bottle so far, but I feel like a new man. I suffered from eadache and bloating of the stomach, caused, I presume from indigestion. I shall continue it for a while, and I heartily recommend it to my friends, Itisa credit to you W. M. ENGLISH, 1016 Market street, city. SEE THAT YOU GET THE “HOME REMEDY.” Your Sarsaparilla has done me much good. About a T 2”0 I began to feel v iserable and my skin was turning ve yellow 1 was all achies and pains. Iwent to the doctor and he told me my liver was out of order and gave dicine, which did me no good. eighbors came in and advised me ¥ Vegetable Sarsaparilla. Idid, and wirhi good effect. 1 feel like & new being now, and _with every or know the good_ it has done me. M RGE DELRIDGE, Butte City, Mont. GREAT REFUSE A SUBSTITUTE. I had been troubled for a long time with liver and kidney troubles, and had tried man remedies with little or no ef , but your Cali- fornia Remedy acted like magic with me, and with the firs ttle I was relieved from a case of the W sick headache that one ever has Inow take the opportunity to write you the fact, and also that I think ur remedy will effectually cure such disorders. It gives me pleasure to send you this_testimonial, and you may refer people to me who may need confim mation of these facts. Yours truly, M. B! PRICE, an Francisco, Cal. MR: 16 Prospect place, Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla being recom- mended to me for general debility, I com- menced taking it. It alla; and made me sleep more soundly been my habit. It has been of me, and I am still taking it oceasio of 0ld catarrh now under my observa also nearly bed to its corree ] fluences. Your Vegetable Sarsaparilla fulfills all that has been said of it. MRS. J. 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