The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO JALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1835 [T WAS LEWI§ GERSTLEY IDEA, HE WAS THE ONE WHO Sug- GESTED THE DONATION OF THE STOCK. NG DIGGI UP OLD LETTERS, HER DAY IN THE WASSER- MAN-SLOSS CASE PasSes UNEVENTFULLY. For another day the Wasserman-Sloss case dragged along under the spectacled eves of Judge Troutt, and but little was drawn from the witnesses except a mass of statistics regarding the stock of the cor- poration, who owned each share and how be came into possession. It was not told Wwho received the stock which was donated for the purposes of legislation, and but one of the influential people of Washington who received the stock was mentioned. This was Stephen J. Field. He owned 200 shares of the stock. but soon after he came into possession he was notified of an assessment of $6 a share which had been levied upon it. He had no use for the stock after that, and instead of paying his Lewis Gerstle. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] $1200 he sold the stock. Within the next r this same stock paid dividends amounting to over $200,000, but Field got none of it. Max Wasserman was on the stand all the morning reading letters he had re- ceived from various members of the Alaska Commercial Company, and also his an- rs to someof them. In these letters name of Lewis Gerstle fignred very prominently, and it became evident that -the hand which worked on the side the scheme to secure the It was, in fact, according to my, Mr. Gerstle's idea for the ant” members of the concern to d 1e stock to be used in legislation. e time these letters were written 1 was in Paris, and Gerstle was 1 and they refer to appointments hich were made by the two men to talk proposition of securing the new ind the sacrifices which were to be made the “‘dormant” members. More rs ted after the transaction, were so submitted as showing that Gerstle re from Wasserman the 1000 shares which he held, at a price to be agreed npon. Wasserman refused to 11, and in his refusal he wrote that he n 400 shares already to help se- Judge Troutt preparing to order evi- dence stricken out. [Sketched in court yesterday by a “‘Call” artist.] cure the new leases, and that having failed he would hold on to what was left. The plaintiff’s side of the case considers this material, 3s tending to show that Wasserman then believed he had trans- ferred his stock not as a sale, but for a certain definite purpose, and also that he believed they had been used for that pur- pose. In the afternoon Leon Sloss was on the stand with the company’s books, telling about the assets of the company and trac- ing up the ownership of its stock. By his testimony it appears that at the time Wasserman is said to have sold his stock the company had available assets worth over $900,000, besides its vessels, its stores and a surplus reaching to the millions. This evidence was submitted to show that aman who held stock in such a company would not sell it for $20 a share below par unless. he had some good reason for doing s0. Drinking Habits. The Scotch and Irish, within about a century, have become a whisky-drinking neople, but it cannot be said that they are {esa sober than the English. On the fair days in the south of Ireland there is much drunkenness, though, perhaps, of less nois character than in the north of England. The drunken man is guarded by a sober friend, or a wife or sister, and the brawls which follow are not more numerous or murderous than in London, A village of a thousand inhabitants may, it is true, have forty public-houses, but drunkenness depends more on the quality of liquor than on the number of places where it can be bought. The evil is quite / “! enjoyed the attorne; | refusing to w as great in the 1&\'?«3)‘ island as it is in Ire- land, and as terrible a scourge on the edu- cated classes as it is on the lpemnuxv. The drinking at wakes is still a scandal, but they are conducted with much more decency than of old.—Blackwood’s Maga- zine. Ben Franklin’s Religion. The well-known eccentricities of Benja- min Franklin’s morals have given rise to all sorts of reports and conjectures as to his real belief. In the collection of auto- graphs belonging to J. Henry Rogers, which will be sold in this city next month, is a letter written by Franklin to his sister, Mrs. Mecom, dated October 19, 1789, which indicates the writer's firm belief in the goodness of God. It is one of the last let- ters written by the philosopher, and this extract will show the state of his mind at the time: ““Asto my Health, it continues as usual, sometimes better, sometimes worse, & with respect to the Happiness hereafter, which you mention, I have no Doubts about it, confiding as I do in the Goodness of that Being who thro’ so long a Life has conducted me with so many instances of it.”—Philadelphia Record. MONTEITH FLAGS KNIGHT. THE OLD CHARGE OF INSANITY AROUSES THE LAWYER'S WRATH. FEDERAL OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF BEING TOOLS OF THE SOUTH- ERN PACIFIC. The case of the Government against Cassidy and Mayne, the railroad strikers, charged with obstructing the United States mail during the recent strike, as- sumed a sensational aspect yesterday in the United States District Court, when the attorneys engaged in it nearly came to blow District Attorney Knight said that the defendants’ counsel, Montieth, was insane. “1f youdare make that charge again I'll have you arrested for criminal libel,” shouted Montieth. Knight said he would prove it at the afternoon session, but Judge Morrow inter- fered and the matter was dropped. Mon- tieth said it was a despicable trick to influ- ence the jury. In his argument for the defense Attorney Monteith treated Knight and United States #Marshal Barry Baldwin to a piece of his mind, givi them and President Cleve- land a merciless scorching. E. V. Debs in court at the time and v's able argnment. Mr. Monteith sai I have come here simply to appeal to your reason and your inteiligence, in the same way that we would talk together about matters of great moment in which we are all mutually Interested. You must remember that this is the twen- tieth week since this case began, and that it is the longest criminal case in the history of litigation. The case illustrates with awful force the re- appearance ofa conflict that the history of our race has shown to be present at almost every stage in the growth of civilization. Thatwhile at times it Las been more or less suppressed, still it has only been put down to Teturn again and often with renewed force. We assert that all the facts from that which we all know that these men were only outon a | strike—that it was not a conspiracy, simply & | strike. The fact it was a strike and a strike only is part of the current history of the country, and yet the prosecution seek to dis- | tort it"into & conspiracy having an entirely | different purpose and an unlawful object. Mr. Knight made a startling admission— that any woman or child old enough to know what was right or wrong would be deemed a conspirator, if found acting with these alleged to be leader: They have taken the iround in this case that men would have no right at all to combine to- gether for their mutual protection. It is true that they protested that they did not think it WIQNE 16 €0 upon a strike. It might have been & conspiracy, but it is their duty so to prove beyond all reasonable doubt. He reviewed the history of the strike at Sacramento, and held there was no reason for calling out the militia, and that the rail- road strikers had committed nocrime in as- serting their rights, continuing asfollows: All the A. R. U. managers had done was simply to exercise that personal liberty that is the glorious heritage of every freeman, and if the great corporations of the country in'such & casecan use courts and juries as a means to oppress their workingmen, then, sir, where the boasted liberty of this republic? On cross-examination Mr. Baldwin admits that the afternoon before he went to Sacra- mento, accidentally, he says, he met J. A. Fillmore on the street. Then, that evening, he again—accidentally, of course—met Fillmore and Garter at the Palace Hotel—met acci- dentally just as the milk maiden, in going down to pasture to milk her cows, in place of going the direct path, strolled around the cross-roads grocery at the corner where a young swain happened to be—accidentally, of course—just as Brother Baldwin met 3fr. Fillmore, and, parodoxically speaking, “acci- dentally done on purpose.” The next day Baldwin and Knight rode with Fillmore to S: mento. There is something about that trip that draws & smile to Don Quixote and his faithful Sancho. Only which was Sancho and who the Don? That you can decide better than I. There fs an analogy there also with the famous battle with the windmills. But had either but the good plain sense of the Don, and after it was all over he would have advised against this case, for he would have said asdid the Don on one momentous occasion, “Don’t stir it.” Baldwin and Knight wont to Sacramento un- der the claim that they were acting officially, went by arrangement with the railroad officials on a special train, and while there remained in close touch with them. s On his arrival there Baldwin at once assumed the railroad was right and the strikers were wrong. Together with Knight he went to see them, told them they were violating the laws by what they were doing. They were simply rk. Knight coolly advised them that they were violating the law, pompously told them of the opinion of the Atforney-Gen- eral as to what constituted a mail train, stated the rallroad company would only move treins with Pullmans. Had he known the laws he was sworn to en- force he would have told them Olney’s famous opinion did not apply on the Pacific Coast. It did not apply to land-grant railroads. Thesc railronds were under perpetual contract to ‘““transport the mails,”” while the other rail- Toeds by law were compelled to “carry the mml-xhn such trains as the Postmaster desig- nated.” But this he did not do; neither did Baldwin. They knew the railroad company wanted to force the running of Pullmans, and would not do otherwise, and in place of acting in the in- terest of the Government they acted for the railroad—did that which would best serve the railroad. Mr. Baldwin testified that when he got to Sacramento he accepted the hospitality of the Southern Pacific, he used Sonthern Pacific de his Headquarters at the Southern epot, and was in constant consultation Southern Pacific attorneys and offi- Mr. Knight admits that he siept in the depot, that he dictated Mr. Baldwin's requisi- tion 1o a Southern Pacific stenographer, had it | written on a Southern Pacific typewriter, and nru~r| consultations with the Southern Pacific people Believing the District Attorney to be a sworn minister of justice we thought we had the right to be prosecuted by one who could fulfill the | 1oeacure of the law in that respect. This Mr. Kuizht could not do #nd has not done, his sneers, his innuendoes and the constant stream of vit:peration he has heaped upon the heads of thes and oiher defendants during the rof- | Tess of this case, have shown him to be entire s unfit to perform the duties of his office, an we Dbelleve that it is your duty to look with suspicion upon his every set in this case. The villainous, false and malicious attack he made upon myself during the prog- ress of ihis case, though' a mautter of indiffer- ence to me personaily, In that it would perhaps effect the Dnterest of these defendants whom it inno wise concerns—this was the meanest act in all his mad career. . Coming to the trestle wreck on July 11 the speaker unraveled from the threads of evidence a chain of circumstances that pointed to the railroad company as the real perpetrator of that fearful casualty, He ca}?ed the climax by showing “that on the of the wreck “Mr. Knight, in company with Southern Pacific detectives, had taken a statement from the boy Sher- burn in writing in the possession of Knight. * The argument will be .continued this morning. Many prominent citizens and officials recom- mend Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. THIS CITY WAS A WASTE OF SAND. INTERESTING EARLY-DAY REMI- NISCENCES OF BENJAMIN F. STEVENS. HIS THREE YEARS' VOYAGE. THE OLD WARSHIP CONSTITUTION Bore HIM TO THE GOLDEN GATE. Benjamin F. Stevens of Boston, Mass., president of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, is in the city on busi- ness and for the benefit of his health. He spoke entertainingly yesterday of his first visit to California. “In 1846, when I wasa lad of 19,” he said, “I was attached to the old United States ship Constitution. From 48 to '46 the Constitution was commanded by Cap- tain John Percival—otherwise known as ‘Mad Jack’ Percival, from his terrible tem- per. However, he had indomitable cour- age and great professional ability. As sailing master under Commodore Lewis rrington, he carried the United States sloop Peacock into action with the British ship Epervier, which was captured with- youth when I beheld the wonderful city of the Golden Gate in blank from an open boat. These thoughts cause my 71 years to set more lightly on me.” SUFFERED FROM HIS THREAT. When He Wanted Candy and Peanuts They Were Not to Be Had. Just as Mr. Stuffer was starting for the railroad station with his wife and children to take a very long journey Mrs, Stuffer suddenly exclaimed. “‘See here, John. We can never go away without some fresh broken candies. No one ever went on a railroad journey who didn’t have a lot along.” “And I,” put in Miss Delia Stuffer, aged 7, “insist on some peanuts and cough- drops.” “That’s all right,”” said Stuffer. “We can buy all_those things on the train. There are about ten men who spend their time marching through the cars selling fresh broken candies and coughdrops. Whatever else happens to the traveler he's never nllm\;ed to run short of those commodi- ties.” But when they boarded the train the army of peanut venders, cough-drop deal- ers and the fresh broken candy merchants were nowhere to be seen. Ordinarily the traveler was pelted with these goods until he had to buy and eat some in self-defense. On this occasion, however, not a single peddler was in sight. “Outrageous,” said Stuffer to the con- ductor. “Do you mean to say that the company has ceased to Srovide its patrons | with fresh broken candies and recently | roasted peanuts? What has becoma of the fellows who chucked apples and oranges on your lap and funny magazines and things? Is this concern run by rail- road men, or what?” “‘Mr. Stuffer,” replied the conductor, “the last {ime you traveled on this road you kicked because the trainboy biffed you BENJAMIN F. [From a p STEVENS. hotograph.] out the loss of a man on the American vessel. “To Captain Percival was assigned the duty of circumnavigating the globe. “In December, 1845, the Constitution was homeward bound and touched at Hono- lulu. Here Captain Percival found dis- patches from Commodore John D. Sloat, commanding him to proceed to the Pacific Coast to ioin the squadron. “Upon the arrival hereof the Consti- tution, a quarterboat was sentinto the har- bor, under command of Lieutenant James Alden, who subsequently rose to the rank of admiral. 1 was in the quarterboat, and, after skirting the shores of the bay. we returned to tEe vessel. Nothing but such a visual experience as I had, when I looked across the peninsula that day.can give even a faint idea of the scene of desolation presented to the eye. Not a hut, nota tree, or shrub, not a living being in sight. Nothing but sand, sand, sand everywhere. “After satisfying ourselves that the squadron was not here we set sail for the bay of Montere{‘. and there also our search was in vain. Finally, in January, '46, we found the fleet of thirteen vessels, with the frigate Savannah as flagship of Commo- dore Sloat, at Mazatlan. There the Con- stitution remained till May of that year, awaiting war with Mexico, which came in the shape of the battle of El Molino del Rey—the King’s Mill. “In the harbor of Mazatlan there was a British fifty-gun ship, the America, com- manded by Lord George Gordon, brother of the Harl of Aberdeen, at that time Prime Minister of Engldnd. During a dinner at Mazatlan, at which there were present many United States and British naval officers, I heard Lord George make a very injudicious remark. Becoming heated with wine he said: ‘If Great Britain and the United States go to war I wish nothing better than to be placed midway between the Savannah and Constitution.” As these two ships carried, together, one hundred guns, against his fifty, the remark was a specimen of brag of the tallest kind. Lord George had evidently forgotten that Com- modore Charles Stewart, or ‘Old Iron- sides,’ had placed himself, in the Constitu- tion, between the two British sloops-of-war, of superior armament, the Cyane and Levant, and had captured them both. “The America was mnot originally a British ship, but was Yankee born, having been built at Portsmouth, N. H., and given as a present to France to replace the gift oi a line-of-battle ship which that nation had presented to the American colonies. Inone of the Peninsular naval battles the America was taken from the French by the British and razeed into a tifty-gun ship. “I believe the America when sent to France was in command of that celebrated naval hero, John Paui Jones. “During our three years’ journey we met with but two steam vessels of any kind—one a Dutch man-of-war off the island Tristan d’Acunha, in the South At- Jantic, and the other a British sloop-of- war attached to the squadron commanded by Lord Cochrane, off the coast of Manila, in the East Indies. This was in ’45, when it was thought there might be trouble be- tween Great Britain and the United States over the 54 deg. 40" min. boundary, but which was settled by the so-called Ash- burton treaty. “The Constitution during this trip had the same armament as when she cap- tured the Guerriere, Java, Cyane and Le- vant. She had on board & Swedish marine, Andrew Peterson, who shot Captain Lam- bert of the Java through the shoulder, from which wound he died. | “The binnacle in use on the Constitution was taken from the Java and gave rise to a sto; wh;?; on a visit to the old ship, remarke that he was glad to see that her binnncl;/ was of Enghish manufacture. ‘Yes,' sail the officer of the deck, ‘we imported that in the Java.' *‘Proceeding homeward around Cape Horn the Constitution stopped at Rio Janeiro for supplies and then continued as convoy to sixteen coffee vessels, whose communders feared Mexican privateers, to Boston, which was reached September 27, 1846, after a three years’ trip around the globe. That was the last voyage of circum- navigation undertaken by a United States wooden war-vessel. I obiain a wonderful amount of satisfaction from ruminating at d moments on that hazy day in my to the effect that a son of John Bull, | { in the eye with an apple which he wished | to dispose of, and made your nose bleed with a packet of cough drops which he shied at you with' 1ittle" 60 miuich force, You said you'd sue the company for dam- ages for assault and battery. The com- pnntmgot scared at your threats and had the boys taken off,” The traveler burst into a torrent of in- vective. “Blame the bloated corpora- tions!” he yelled. *“That’s the sort of bal- lad and waltz that we shall get from them until the day comes when the Government will be in complete control of all the trans- portation interests.” Then he went back to Mrs. Stuffer, in the rearof the car, and began some heated remarks about a_millennium or something i which it was understood he had sighted on | the starboard offing.—New York Herald. e s Sy Furnishing the Bedroom. It is well to remember that in times of illness your bedroom is either your prison ©Or your pleasaunce. Cheerfulness and absolute comfort are the requirements here. The room should not be incum- bered with much furniture; it is far better whenever possible to have the furniture fitted and fixed. Recesses such as fre- quently occur right and left of the chim ney breast should be fitted as wardrobes their simply painted panel doors add much to the agpeamnce of the room. Pictures are of doubtful advantage in a bedroom. There is just now a happy reaction in favor of the so-called chintz papers of bold flower patterns. They give a delightfully cheerful look to a room, and witg them pictures are quite out of place. Papers with cold, gray grounds should be avoided. They are always dull and cheerless. It is agood plan and a ¢lean and wholesome one to paint the margins of the floors for about eighteen inches from the walls. Paint is better than stain; it is easier to renew when worn, and can be applied to any old floor where stain would make a bad job. It also offers a variety of color- ing that helps in the decoration of a room. With a painted margin less carpet is wanted, the carpet need not be elahorately “‘planned” to fit recesses and projections, and, being of rectangular shape, it can be | changed end for end when one part gets a little worn. The modern brass bedstead is surely an ugly object, with its hard, un- sympathetic glitter. How much better to | have bedsteads of hard wood well designed, or with head and foot paneled and painted. Surely, taking into consideration the greater attention now paid to matters of cleanliness and sanitation, the old dangers that led to the disuse of wooden beds need scarcely be feared.—The National Review. ————— The Large Flying-Squirrel. The large red flyin%—sqllirrel 1s interest- ing, but not beautiful. It is wholly noc- turnal and, like most nocturnal animals, is extremely surly and spiteful if disturbed in the daytime. It is aslarge as a cat, with a face like a rabbit’s. Tts coloring is extremely brilliant for a mammal and in general appearance it resembles some curi- ous monster in a Chinese painting. The furisrich and deep chestnut on its back, light chestnut below, its head white and its eye a dull pale gray. The wide parachute membrane between its legs is covered with fur, and its tail is long, thickly furred, and round. This squirrel does not *“fly,” in the proper sense of the word, but in the forests its parachute membrane answers its purpose almost equally as well as wings. It runs with a wonderful agility up the trunk of the tree, and to the end of a branch, and then takes | a flying leap, with its limbs extended to the ntmost, and the wide flesh membrane stretched. ; | _ This “aerial slide” carries it forward and | downward to a horizontal distance of per- haps forty or fifty yards, and it is noticed that, as in the case of birds when making use of their powers of descent with fixed pinions, the squirrel throws itself unward, and ascends slightly at the close of the “flight” perching on'the bough it aims at with all the lightness of a pigeon descend- ing from a tower to some point upon the roof below.—The Spectator. ————— An Eastern Rajah Had & ruby which lighted his palace a¢ night. More precious than gems are beautiful teeth, which light up the faée when displayed by a smile. Use SOZODONT and your teeth will be brilliant as ewels, your breath sweet as the Toses of Cashmere, MINIC WAR IN THE ART ASSOCTATION, SECRETARY MARTIN DEFINITELY CONTRADICTS J. A STANTON. THERE WAS NO PRIVATE DEAL CURRENT OPINION AMONG THE ARTISTS INDORSES THE LATE ELECTION. There is wrath in art circles. The Art Association, whose directors were elected the other day, is discussing with no small amount of energy certain statements touch- ing the association management attributed to John A. Stanton. The assertion that the Art Association was a close corporation was the principal source of dissatisfaction. Mr. Stanton said, according to the printed story, that he had made an application to the secre- tary of the association asking that he might be permitted to make a nomination. The nomination Mr. Stanton desirea to make was that of John Stafford for mem- bership to the board of directors. Mr. Stafford was not nominated. Asa matter of fact, the nominating committee had be- fore it eleven names. Mr. Stanton was one. The nominating committee con- sisted of: Alexander G. Hawes, ex-presi- dent of the Art Association; G. W. Beaver and Russell J. Wilson. On the list of can- didates the committee found Mr. Stanton’s name. It was considered, among the others, but after reference to the by-laws and constitution of the association it was discovered that no employe of the associa- tion could be elected as a director, and i stead of Mr. Stanton’s name that of Wil- liam Keit!: was substituted. Secretary 'lartin, when seen yesterday, said: “‘It 1s diiiicult for me to believe that any application was made to me by Mr. Stanton for the nomination of any candi- date of his choice. I can only say that I absolutely fail to remember any such ap- plication, and if any such application had been made, I believe I would remember it “Isita fact that due notification was not given of the election?” Mr. Martin was asked. ““Well, 1 have only this to say,” replied he, “that the constitution requires that the notification shall be goswd in a prominent place, or duly published in a daily paper 1o less than three times within the month preceding the election. I paid the Ex- aminer $5 25, and here is the receipt, for the due publication of the notice of the election of directors of the Art Association. That satisfies one end of it, and it was not necessary that any further notification should be made, but in addition to that the notice that you see there was posted. Is not that a Prominentplflce, in the secre- tary’s office?” And Mr. Martin pointed to a notice dated February 26, 1895, caliing upon the members of the Art Association to attend the election of directors. Two _other artists, instructors and of reputable position, were in the secretary’s room when he made this statement to the reporter for the CaLyr, and they promptly drew out of their pockets the tickets which had been forwarded to them, three days before the election, by the secretary of the association. There are but two changes in the board. Jose}»h B. Crockett takes the place of E. 8. Pillsbury and Henry J. Crocker takes William Babcock’s place. The fight seems to be the result of some- ‘what careless talk on the part of Mr. Stan- ton. When seen Mr. Stanton said that so far as his criticism of the election is concerned, it was made under a misunder- standing. 3 (Iifdiscuss the matter of the election of the board of directors, but I did not say that the gentlemen who composed the board are no more fitted ‘to conduct an art institute in this city than I am to run a bank.’ Such an assertion would be fool- ish, because I know better. Whatever criticism 1 made of the election of the board of directors was neither given nor meant for publication.” Then Mr. Stan- ton went out for a seil on the bay. Chris Jorgenson, who is one of the elec- toral board, was seen at his studio and said: “I cannot understand how any such statement as has been attzibuted to Mr. Stanton could have been made. If there had been any desire on the partof any members of the Art Association to run an opposition ticket to that which was elected, there was certainly plenty of time, and cer- tainiy due notice’ was given, because the advertisement of the election was not only printed in the Examiner, but the notifica- tion was Pnsmd up on the mirror in the secretary’s room of the Mark Hopkins In- stitute of Art, and there is no chance that I can understand which would permit any one to fail to know in advance, not only when the election was to be held, but just exactly who were the candidates.” T. F. Latimer, who is also on the elec- toral board of the association, said: “If there had been any strong desire on the part of the members of the Art Association to elect Mr. Stafford, there was plenty of time for such a desire to have been made evident. Personally, I should have liked to have seen Mr. Staffoid elected a mem- ber of the board of directors. “So far as James D. Phelan is concerned, and the assertion that the board of direc- tors keep the institute out of debt, the windows cleaned and the steps hosed off, T have nothing to say, except thatif gentle- men like Mr. Phelan.did not interest themselves in the Art Association, it is very doubtful if any of the complaining artists would do so. It is more than likely that Mr. Phelan considers his re-election as a director something of a nuisance, be- cause that election makes a demand upen his time which only a public-minded man would meet with pleasure. There could have been no lack of notification, nor could there have been any close politics in the action of the electoral board. Everything was open and aboveboard, and all the legal notices were given Amedee Joullin said: *“I am not sur- prised because it is just that sort of action which has unfortunately heretofore char- acterized a certain clique in the Art Asso- ciation. It is manifestly impossible that an employe of an association could be upon the board of directors. Mr. Stanton was a czndidate for election. The nomi- nating committee found that it was impos- sible_according to the constitution to pre- sent Mr. Stanton’s name. As a matter of fact Mr. Stanton’s name was taken off the original list and Mr. Keith’s name was substituted. The election was harmonious and there wasno definite objection made so far as I can learn. It is a very funny thing that Mr. Stanton should object to the result of an election which he did not even take the trouble to attend. If he had feared that any of his friends had not not been properly represented he should have himself made some personal effort. ‘The outside discussion of the action taken by the Art Association is silly. Anybody can talk, but why do not some of the objectors work?" {here were many other expressions of a more or less critical nature from the artists of the city over the statement that the Art Association was being run by an ‘‘everlast- ing board of directors.” The addition of Henry J. Crocker and E. 8. Pillsbury to the board was generally considered beneficial so far as the interests of the association were concerned. It was gen- erally denied that any dinners or suppers or anything of that nature had in any way ever affected the election of any director of the association. Infact Mr. Joullin seemed to voice the general sentiment when he | said, ““Ii this board of directors keeps the windows clean and the sidewalks hosed off they are doing much more than is apt to be done by those members of the associa- tion who are doing all the kicking."” HEALTH CARRIERS. “Sing, ye birds ! For “All the earth is gay. 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JOY CO. to say that JOY’S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA is a great, good blood medicine, which can be taken in Winter or Summer, in Spring or Fall, and it will be sure to cleanse the blood of all its impurities, to drive away through the proper channels the various humors and germs which result from the clogging of the bowels, from the inactivity of the liver, from the overworking of the kidneys, and from a foul stomach. When Your Druggist Offers a Substitute, Give Him a Joyful Face—«SMILE AT HIM”—But Be Sure You Take Away the Great Home Remedy, Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. Ep. JoY CoMPANY—Gentlemen: For a torpid | liver and foul stomach Joy’s Vegetable Sarsapa- rilla ean’t be equaled. T make room for it in my medicine chest. It acts nice in children as well as the aged. Respectful (Signed) MRS, ours, LORENCE ROMATINE, San Jose, al. 014 ladies feel fine, young ladies look fine, after Using Joy’s Vegetable Sarsa- parilla. DYSPEPSIA. . E. W. Joy CompaNY—Gentlemen: I have taken | your Vegetable Sarsaporilla and can say I have | never seen anything equal to it. [ have suffered | ten years with dyspepsia, not being able to eat any- thing but milk and brown bread. Life was nothing but misery for me. 3 Now I have a good appetite, eat anything I wish and feel no disagreeable effects from it. L iwish I could tell all dyspeptics and urge them to try your Vegetable Sarsaparilla. 3 (Signed) MR. JOHN TIMOTHY, Forbestown, Cal. If you want to get a spring medicine without a blotch, an old sarsaparilla trademark, a big patch of red pimples, take Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. KIDNEY. E. W. JoY CoMpANY—Gentlemen: T have suf- fercd from kidney tronble for two or three years. I would have to get up in the night to void my urine from ten to fifteen times. My sleep was disturbed, and I became very thin and nervous. No appetite: bowels constipated. I have taken tw gained fifteen pounds. Sleep well. Have to get up | about three times during night, und am very much | better in every respect. Will continue to take your | Vegetable Sarsaparilla, for I believe it will entirely Signet MR. EDWARD W. FRENCH, S Stockton, Cal. ) g -4 & Hl B. JOY'S FOR THE JADED. JOY’S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA. CATARRH. E. W. Jox CoMpaNY—Gentlemen: I have fust completed the second bottle of your Vegetable Sarsaparilla. 1 have had catarrh for years, which affected my eyes, hearing and stomach. Frequently swould have dull headache for days at & time. Since taking your remedy I have felt no disagreeable symptom. Trusting you wiil publish this as T want any one suffering from any of the above symptoms to be benefited. Kindly send me two more bottles by return express. (Signed) 3 DERICK DE RICHMOND, Seattle, Wash. Every mail brings a new batch of testi- monials for Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla, NERVOUS PROSTRATION. E. W. Joy CompANY—Gentlemen: T have suf- fered from a nervous prostration from financial losses. Can say Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla has cured me. My liver, stomach and bowels have been very inactive, but since taking your remedy 1 am entirely well. All business men ‘and women should use it. Please publish. (Slgned) MRE. WM. HENRY JO Butte, Mont. Backache, Dizziness, Tiredness give way to Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. E. W. JoY CoMPANY—Sirs: T have been a suf- ferer from a lorrible blood disease for the past five years. Have suffered untold misery, both bodily and mentally. Have used your Vegetable Sarsa: parilla continually, and have derived wonderful benefits from it. 1 had ruined my stomach by taking mercury and potash until I became a chronic dyspeptic, unable toretain the least solid on my stomach. At the writing can eat anything and digest it thoronghly without any_inconvenience. When I commenced taking your Vegetable Sarsaparilla I weighed 125 pounds, now 1 weigh 160 pounds, feel well, eat well and believe I am well, but will continue taking the remedy right along. You may publish this, as I want all sufferers to be benefited by my experience. (Signed) MR. THOS. Q. BROWN. Mayfield, Cal. Pure Blood, Pure Breath, Health, Sweat Glands or Pore Is made With the Use of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. NERVOUS SHOCK. E. W. JoY CoMPANY—Gentlemen: This is the first time I have attempted to write for three years. Have been 50 nervous and wealk thatt I have lain in bed for most of the time. A friend who had taken your Sarsaparilla sent me two bottles. The second one is most gone and I have gained twenty pounds, and surely foel a new woman. I was pale, thin, o ambition. Had given up,as T had tried so many remedies and doctors, but found no benefit. 1f you care to pub- lish this you have my consent. (Signed) MRS. A. C. TILLMAN, Alameda, Cal Headaches, Biliousness and Torpid Liver disappear when you take Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilia. The wonderful effects of the Vegetable Sarsaparilla, is indeed give it to your darling boy or girl great végetable Laxative, Joy’s pleasing. You can with safety . You can be sure to assist the old folk by using the «Home Remedy,” Joy’s Vegetable Sarsapa- rilla. I have tried several remedies which are adver- tised as specially for the liver and could never get any relief. I was recommended to try a bottle of Joy's Sarsaparilla just as a test, and while taking the first boitle 1 became convinced of its merits, for I could feel it working & change in me. 1 have taken five bottles and now my troubles have. left me. Eversthing is working full and regular. In fact, it has cleansed, purified and braced me up generally. I feel like 8 Dew man. You are at per- fect liberiy to use this as you see fi, or you can | efer whom you please Lo N O AR ThE (with Beamish), Third and Market sts., City. REFUSE THE SUBSTITUTE. I write to 2amit that notwithstanding my mis- givings your Vegetable Sarsaparilia did all that You promised. T had tried s0 many prescriptions 10 0 purpose that I had come to befleve thas noth- ing would relieve my dyspepsia and headachies, but I have noi had @ return of eicher trouble since I commenced taking your medicine. I believe I am permanently cured, but will, out of an abundance of caution, continue to take ‘it regularly for a while vet. You have my permission to make this public, for 1 think that a remedy that will cure dyspepsia and prevent u|ckm)‘1l('ldl('lml should be generally known. Respects Vs MK M. FOWLER, 827 Elis st., Clty. «JOY’S TOR THE JADED." I have had for vears speils of indigestion and dyspepsia, and Lave tried nearly everything. 1-':;.1& 1100k one of the sarsaparilias. it did not help me and caused pimples to break outon my face. 'This I was told was the result of the potasi contained in it. Hearing that Joy’s Vegetable Sar- saparilla did not contain mineral and scted dif- ferently, I got some. The pimples disappearcd al- Tost hamediately, and T have not b any since. I have not had a symptom of my old disease, nor do I think it will return, MRS. C. B. STEWART, 400 Hayes street, City. Good Health for All Mankind in Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. To show you my gratitude and for the benefit of others, 1 make it my duty to inform vou that your Joy’s Vegetable Sarssparilia has done me more than anyth! 1 have ever used, and I have tried nearly everytaing. I used to resc but little at nights, tossed from side to side, and after meals was troubled with indigestion, and my headaches nearly drove me fra wrought magic, and I 2nd ail my troubles are gon MR MRS, 2119 Seventh Your medicine hag like a different persom, ALINA LOPEZ, eet, St. Louis, Mo. I take great pleasure in recommending your Sar- saparilla. I have only taken one bottle so far, but I feel like & new man. I suffered from headaches and bloating of the stomach, caused, I presume, from_indigestion. I shall continue to use it for a while, and I heartily recommend'it to my friends. It is & credit to you. W. M. ENGLISH, 1016 Market street, City. SEE THAT YOU. GET THE GREAT “HOME REMEDY.” Your Sarsaparilla has done me much good About & year ago I began t0 feel very miserable and my skin was turning very yellow. I was all aches and pains. I went to the doctor and he told me nry liver was out of order and gave me some | medicine, which did me no good. One of my neigh- bors came in and advised me to try Joy’s Vegetal Sursaparilla. I did, and with good eftect. I feel like a néw being now and yish every one to know the good it has done me. iEORGE DELRIDGE, Butte City, Mont. REFUSE A SUBSTITUTE. £X 1 had been troubled for'a long time with liver and Kkidney troubles, and had tried many remedies with little or no eftect, but your Californian Remedy acted like magic with mé, and with the first bottie 1 was relieved from a case of the worst sick head- ache that one ever has. I now take the opportunity to write you the fact and also that I think your remedy Wwill effectually cure such disorders. It gives me pleasure to send you this testimonial, and you may refer people {6 me who may need cou- firmation of these facts. Yours truly, $ MRS. M. B. PRICE, 16 Prospect place, San Francisco, Cal. Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla being recommended to me for zeneral debility, I commenced taking it. It allayed th nervousness and made me sleep more soundly than bad been my habit. It has been of great benefit to e and I am still taking it ocea- sionally. A case of old catarrh now under my ob- servation has also nearly succumbed 1o its cor- rective influences. Your Vegeicble Sarsaparilla fulfills all that has been said of it MRS, J. BARRON, 142 Seventh street, City. Bring Back the Blush of Health with Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla, DON'T BE SUBSTITUTED.