The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1897, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 18 189 SHALLEST ENGINE N THE WORLD Forty and Oue-Half Inches Long, but a Regular Racer. IT GENERATES ITS OWN STEAM. Made in This OCity by a Western Sugar Refinery Machinist. DEATS KANE'S FAMOUS PRODUCTION. It Was Wanted for the World's Fair but Was Not Quite Com- pleted Then. The smallest locomotive railwav engine in the world. That's right, and we've got it right here in San Francisco, too, de- spite the im ot the East thatitis ahead of the Golden West in this particular. T. H. Kane of Milwaukee the man who has proclaimel to the country through the medium of the public press that he is the maker of the little machine, but Gus- hier of 10 Kansas street has con- sumed nearly e t s not half so large, and that, more- over, is as perfect in detail and faithful to iginal in material as an engine could y be. Schierisa machinist in s the West- bt years in making one, | hand-made mechanism in existence to- | day. Not onlp does it show the work of a master hand, but it required just eight years’ time in which to complete it. Schier 1s yet a young man, and says that wien he first came 10 this country the idea flashed into his mind to make a miniature locomotive as soon as he had seen one of the American variety in action. He be- lieves that American engines are made more with an eye to form than they are in Germany, an.i doesn’tknow but what they &re more efficient, too. | _The engine is called the “Gus Schier No. 1,” which title would signify that the maker {utends to make another, but he says that he does not care to underllker 20 stupendous a task a s-cond time. As a rough estimate of the cost of the engine n the two items of time and material he places the figure at §2000. Manv attempts were made at the iime the World’s Fair was held in Chicago to secure it te place on exhibition there, but Schier would not vermit this, although a guaranty of $800 | in cash that it sbould not be injured in any varticular was deposited, for the rea- n tha: the man took such a pride in his | production that he did not want the world to gaze on itin its u:®nished state. Schier bas also made two brotherhood three-cylinder encines of one-inch bore eylinder, height 614 inc' es and flywheel 6 | inches in diameier. Despite their small size they can be steamed up to two-horse | power each. He has also patented a pro- cess by which gasoline is made to run an | electric generator withont the agency of fire, the mechanism being euch that at | every two revolutions of the fiywheel the stream of gas is made to explode and vro- | duce the pressure necessary by the aid of | the electricity. His own house is thus { lighted. | |RICH STRIKE IN THE REWARD. Ore Woith Many Haudred Dollars Found at Five Hundred Feet. According to reports in Nevada County and severat specimens of ore placed on exiibition at the State Board cf Irade ana at the State Mining Rurean there has been a very rich strike in the Reward mine, about one wmile from Nevada City. According to the mining record this mine | was opened about five or six vears agoand | shafts sunk several hundred feet. All along the prospects were promising, but on the 200 and 300 levels the owners were sure that :hey hadagood min . Thesink- ing continued until the 400 level reached, a week or so ago. Last Sunday reports, tae miners s rich, the ore assayi nc it particularly 0 per ton. The chute from which this ore was taken is | between twelve and teen inches in thickness and it is increasing in thickness as the men continue to sink. Colonel Samuei W. Backus, the secretary, arrived from the mine yesterday with the ore, whnich he placed on exhibition. The prop- erty is owned by a numb-r of capitalists who say that they do not care 1o part with any of their interests in the mine. wus | morning, according to the | ADVIGE FROM ALASKA MINERS Don't Go Hunting for Gold Unless You Can En- dure ‘Hardships. Not All Sunshine in the Land Where Fortunes Have Been Made. How Olaims in the Klondyke District Are Located, Secured and Worked. The excitement over the large gold dis- coveries in Alaska has in no way de- creased, and the miners who came down on the Excelsior are besieged by pros- pective emigrants to the north, | | 13 | GUSTAVE SCHIER The Smallest Locomotive in Existence and Its Inventor. ern Sugar Refinery. Heis a German by birtn and has lived in this country for twelve yea For eight vears he labored in the Atlas Iron Works, and for the last as held his presant position. ring the most of this time he has given four hours every day to the construction of this buby engine, which is a marvel of skill and is praised by the leading ma- chinists and engineers as being simply perfect in iis construc ion and one of the most wonderful examples of what can be sccomplished by ingenuity and patience on earth, ?, Kane's engine generates its own steam and stpplies its boiler with water, using coal or wood in so doing. Thoueh hardiy baif so large, Schier’s engine operates in the same wa. The iarger Eastern engine has thirty- | one flue inches Tong, ? inside di ter, and 3 diameter. The fi 6 inches long and dizmeter of the cyiind -16 of an inch 4 iuches wide, inches deep. The ches, with a three-inch stroke. The driving-wheels are 7% inches in d eter, the truck wheels 3} inches, and tke tender wheels 314 inches. The capacity of the water tank is three galions. The entire length of the engine and tender from tip to tip is 6 feet 8 inches, and it is buiit to a scale of an inchrand 2 half in every detail. The boiler is tested at 125 pounds pressure, | and it tcok just three years to build the machine, With these figures compare those of the engine built by Schier, and its superiority in point of diminutiveness, yet keep perfection of detail, is easily seen. The boiler is 334 inches in diameter and 14 inches in length, made of 1-16 inch copper, riveted. It Las tifteen tubes. 5-16 of an inch in diameter on the inside and 3¢ of an inch on the outside. ItisB8Y incues long. 'The copper of the boiler nas an astestos covering with an air covering of lussia steel, the same as the regulation | envine possesses. The firebox is 314 inches long, 214 inches wide and 334 incnes deep. The voileris tested to 150 pounds pressure. This tes was made in the presence of two loco- motive engineers, August Klein of the Western Sugar Refinery and William Builey of the Union Iron Works. Two pumps supply the boiler with water, one being on each side. They can be made to work one at a time or both together, Tlere are three gauge-cocks, a gauge- glass and a throttle-valve connected with cylinders are of l-inch bore and have a llg-inch stroke. There are four driving- wheels 3 3-16 inches in diameter, four truckwheels 13{ inches in diameter and eight tender-wuecls of thesame diam- eter as the truckwheels. Kach tender- wheel has an autowatic brake. The connecting-rods, valve connections and framework are of the best Stubs steel. Theengine is reversible and runs in either direction with equal ease. is 4034 inches. Itis 7 inches wice and 12 inches in height to the tip of the whistle, The scale on which 1t was built is three- fourths of an inch to the foot. The total weight of the engine is461{ pounds when it contains no fuel and tne tank, which has a capacity of half a gal- lon, contains no water. There are over 2500 pieces in the completed engine, not counting the rivets of the boiler or the tank. Expert locomotive engineers declare 1hat this is the most remarkabie piece of 1 inch outside | The length of | the engine and tbe tender from tip to tip | | WANTED HIS FURLOUGH THEN. | A Request That Made Hii. Comrades | Laugh in the Presence of Danger. | | Jobn W. North of Neosho, Mo., re- | | porter for the St. Louis Court of A peals, | | says he is one of the few surviving private soldiers of the Civil War. *Itis strange,’ | he said, “the great number of private | soldiers who were killed outright in the | cenfl ¢1, died of their weunds or sickness afterward, or have left the country. But | strange as is this feature of the sirife, it is nothing in comvarison with the large number of officers who yet survive and live to tell of the conflict. And yet, in my experience during tbe war, most of | the officers took equal chances with the | men.” Judg> North belonged to a Wisconsin regiment during the warand served to the end, barring such time as he was laid up with wounds. He tells some pretty good war stories, all of which lack tue heroic tinge so often met with. During the war | he only asked for a furlough on one occa- sion, and then it was denied him. It | seems he was a warm personal friend of | the colonel commanding his regiment, | and the latter had repeatedly informeua him afrer he had rerved a long time that be would grant him a ten days' furlough | at any time reqnested. Shortly before | | Sherman commenced his march to the sea | a sharp battle took place between the di- vision to which Judge North belonged and a heavy Confederate force. Prior to the battle every soldier knew | [ that the fight would be a desperate one | and that many would lose their lives. In | | following orders Judge North’s regiment | formed the front line of the edvance. The | situation thes: men were piaced in was | extremely perilous, and every soldier | could see the danger for himsell, and few | enter:ained hopesof escaping alive. While | the regimeni was momentarily exp -cting orders to advance on the Confederate | stronghold the colonel passed along the | line. A« he approached Judge North the | latter saluted him and called out so all tnose near could hear him: “‘Colonel, have you not repeatedly told | me that I could procura a ten days’ fur- | | lough at any time I applied to you for the | same?” % | The colonel, who was as vale as a ghost | himself, and probably as badly scared as | Judge North, ‘reviied rather hesitatingly that such was a fact. | ““Ihen,” said Judge North, “I want a | ten days’ furlough right now, and want | it worse than I ever wanted anytbing in | my hfe.’” | The ridiculousness of such a request | | | under the disiressing circamstances did not fail to cause a smile to spread among the men who were facing deatb.—Chicago Recora. | —————— Dockery Got His Kind. Colone! Joe Johnston, who has been a postoffice inspector for long years, is an | | old chum ot Dockery of Missouri. The other day after dinner at Willara’s the two stepped to the cigar stand to get what | is indispensable to every true Missourian. | *Let’s have some of the kind of cizars | Dockery always smokes,” said Colonel | Jonnston, ‘*‘Here, Dockery, take one and put two or three in your pocket,” added | the colonel, with much exhibition of con- | scious liberality. Dockery availed himself of the treat, but without great enthus:asm, “Now,” said the colonel to the man cf cigars, and beaming with comforiable Innumerable questions are asked of them as to the country, the cost of getting there and of subsisting after reaching the fields and of the probabilitv of making a strike if one should go up tkere. The miners are willing to answer all such inquiries, but will advise no one directly to go into the country, as there is a great probability that a number who would go to Alaska now would not be as successful as those who have returned, and they do not wish to be the means of sending any one out to failure. While there is undoubtedly plenty of gold in the country and there may be just as rich strikes made in other places as have been mude in the Klondyke diggings, thereare apy number of miners already in the country who have made no monev. Angus Galbraith, though he has made his stake there, says he would advise no one to_gn up into thecountry. Heisa man of 70 years of age, and hus been in Alaska three years, and when asked if the work was hard said he had been able t0 stand it, but that it was no place for an old man. “The winters,” he said yesterday, ‘“‘are very cold, the mercury zoilig down us low as 75 degrees below zero. Tue coldest weather last winter was in Jaunuary and February. Miners have to use the preat- est care not to work themselves into & perspiration, as the moisture would freeze and result i frostbite. *In the summer it gets quite warm and some vegetables are raised, though, as the miners are so busy bunting for gold, little time is given to putting in gardens. When this party left it was 93 degrees in the shade. Mosquito 8 are so numerous that gloves have to be worn while working. “Before the discovery of gold in the Kiondyke district, mining was done on Forty-mile, Davis, Poker, Miller, Napo- leon and Canon creeks, and considerable gold was found, but nothing like in the new diggings. Tne largest amount taken out of the old district by one man was $30,000. This was done by a man named Milter, who Lad been working for wages but went out prospecting for himself dur- ing a season when there was no water. Having no success, he came back and found his job given to another maun. He went back to Miller Creek, staked outa rather unpromising claim and in two years took out his fortune. *‘The discovery of the Klondyke dig- gings was made by 2 man named George Cormic,” continued Mr. Gaibraith. “He isa man whko had a great hold on the Indians and they had told him that they knew where there was gol¢. Last August they took him about balf way up ihe Bonanza, where he found pay dirt and staked out a claim. As soon as the re- port spread that there was gold on the Bonanza the miners flocked in and ina short time the city of Dawson had about 3000 inhabitants. The mining district is about filteen miles {rom the city. Itisin the bed of the Bonanza and is about twenty miles in length. There is also gold alone the El Dorado, which empties into the Bonanza, About all of the good ground along these creeks has been taken. Word was received just before the miners started down that some prospectors on Dominion and Henderson creeks had found good payine dirt.” ‘The mining process is very simple. The digeing is all done n the winter, when the creeks are low, as the biggest portion of the gold is found in the beds of the streams. As the ground is frozen it has to be “‘burned” or thawed ont by means of large fires. When it becomes sufficiently soft a shaft issunk and the process of taking ont feeling, *‘give me some good cigars for myself,” —Pittsburg Dispatch, the gravel begins. The shafts vary in depth Irom six feet up to eighteen or twenty. The gravel taken ont is dumped into a pile and leit till spring, when siuice-boxes are made and the dirt washed out. When the creeks thaw in the spring the miners work day and night at their sluicing ia order to get as much of their aump washed out as possible before the creeks get low. In the crevices running across the creek are fonud a great deal of gold, and from these come the big pans of which so much has been sait. These crevices are splits in the bedrock, and uct as basins to catch the gold washed out by the creek. Up to this time all the work has been placer mining, and few, if any, investiza- tions have been made as to the quartz de- posits. The returned miners say that there is not the slightest doubt of toe ex- istence of rich quariz ledges, and it is ex- rected that they will now be looked into and plans made to work them by the gold- hunters whom the anncuncement of the late discoveries has started § or the fields. The claims on the Bonanza are num- bered from the point of discovery both up and down the creek. These claims are 500 feet lonz and extend from ‘“‘mountain to mountan.’”” When a miner stakes a claim 1t cos:s him $15 to record it and §100 each succedinz year. He is obliged to work the claim for three months in each year. 1f it is feft idle it can be jnmpsd. The location of claims is not restricte to Americans, but is open to all national.- ties, The scarcity of food is the worst feature of the life at the mines. Supplies are re- ceived but once a year and there is very little in the country in the way of food. Ca ribou and moose are killed sometimes and give a litule fresh meat to relieve the monotony of bacon. Canned fruaitisthe principal diet. The reluctance of the miners to encour- age emigration to the Kiondyke isnot from the fact that they want tne gold for themselves and fear to have the country overran with people, but comes from the fear that the sudden influx o. popuiation without an adequate supply of fooa will cause a famine and a great ( of suffer- inv will ensue. One of the gentlemen from Dawson said: “It isno use fora man to go into Alaska and expect to shovel up a carload of gold right away. He will have to hunt days and days for a claim in the first place; then after he has found a paying claim there are months of labor and hard- ship before Lie can get ont enough eold to make bim a rich man. Itis not all sun- shine there, even if we do have davlight a zood part of the year. You will find that man has to earn his living by the sweat of his brow even in Alaska,” e e GOLD FEVER IN BERKELEY. Fervent Interest Created by the Fabulous Tales From Alaska. BERKELEY, CAv, July 17.—The Alas- ka gold fever has struck the university town, The tales of fabulous wealth to be found ORGANTZING THE BUTCHERS John H. Schofield Working Amongst the Local Dealers, He Is General Organizer of the Butchers’ Protective Association, Their Purpose Is to Keep Track of Undesirable Oustomers and to Protect Retailers. There is every prospect at present that a branch of the National Butchers’ Pro- tective Association will be organized in this City within a few days. John H. Schofield, the general organizer of the association, has been working hard among the retail dealers for this purpose, but has experienced much difficulty, as most of them are members of the Butchers’ Board of Trade. The National Association is the result of the amalgamation of the Eastern and Western butchers at Wheeling, West Va., in June, 1894, and is both a secret and benevolent organzation. Its objects are the mutual protection and benefit of its members, by keeping a list of undesirable customers and reventing the wholesaler from selling at retail. The members are not re~tricted to purchasing from otber members, but are fiee to buy wherever they get the best sati:faction. The association has at times had diffi- culties with the packers formin: what is | known as the Big Four combination, con- sisting of Armonr & Co., Swift & Co.. Nel- son, Morris & Co., G. H. Hammond & Co., Cudahey Packing Company and Schwarzs- child, Snlzerberger & Co., but an amica- ble compromise has been made. These companies formerly charged the retail dealers 15 cents drayage for each hun- dredweigut of meat, but through the un- | tiring efforts of the associa:ion they have in the Kiondyke district have attracted | finally agreed to remir the fee. the attention of many young men of the town, among whom are numerous univer sity students. The formation of explor- ing parties to go to the far north in quest of their fortunes is common talk. The stories of untold wealth along and beyond the Yukon have come so suddenly and 30 little time has passed since their arrival that the plans of the various parties con- templating the periious journey have not had time to mature. The steamer Walla Walla, which leaves port next Tuesday morning, will, how- ever, have on board T. H. Gilbert Jr, of 2027 College way, one of the best-known young men in Berkeley, who is headed for the gold fields. He will go directly to the Treadwell mine, where he will join his brother Kirk, who in 1803 was a student at the university and one of the best 100t- Lall players on the’varsily gridiron. He will probably remain at the Treadwell mine until spring, when both will leave for the Kionayke districts. During the wint-r months, the young man says, he can earn $70 a month and board at the Treadwell. A letter received from Kirk to-day, by Lis father, asserts that there is a great d mand for men at the Ireadwell and neig| boring mines, because of the rush to the richer fields farther north. Following is an extract of the letter received to-day from the ex-footbail-player. who has been in Alaska for a year: The Yukon fever has stricken the country 115,000 throughout the country, and ‘They have also agreed not to sell to ho- tels, restaurants or toarding-houses. ‘The only concern with which they have any difficulties at present is the Armour Company of Kansas City, who refuse to close their wholesale market at that place. ‘I'be organization has a membership of is rapidly growing. On his way here Mr. Schofiela bas organized local branches in Pueblo, Cripple Creek, Salt Lake and Leadville un.er most auspicious circum- siances, He has not as yet been able to organize a branch in this State, as his stay here must necessarily be very brief, but everywhere he has gone he has re- ceived great encouragement. The National officers are: President, James Franklin of Buffalo, N.Y.; vice- presidents—Horace L. Miles of Spring- field, M nd William J. Wulff of Den- ver, Co! secrelary, Frank Smouffer of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; treasurer, William J. Wallace of Meriden, Conn. The trustees ars Jos. Simmous ot Brook- lyn, N. Y.; Nick Law of Burlington, Iowa, and Samuel Ochsenfein of Wlheeling, W. Va. The eleventh annual convention will be held at Springheld, Mass., August 10, at which the questions ot admitting journey- men butchersto membership and the es- tablishment of a central ‘abattoir in the ‘West to supply the Western States will be fully discussed. Mr. Schofield expressed himself as be- JOHN H, SCHOFIELD, General Organizer of the National Butchers’ Protective Association. badly. Even the business men are leaving. The storics are fabulous. yet true, as they are verified by the many different ones who know aud by private letters to persons with friends in there. The pay sireak on the Kiondyke averages {rom 6 to §7 to the pan. Ope man took out $00,000 in forty-five feet of the creek. There sre scveral miles of the creek prospected thoroughly and it does not show a single miss. Wages for common labor- ers are $15 a day. It is through the news of his brother Kirk's success and his stories of the bright vrospects in store that T. H. Gilbert Jr. will hasten to join nim. Books for the University. OAKLAND, CAL., July 17.—The will of the late Professor George Ricbardson has been filed and Public Administrator Knight appointed administrator of the estate, Hi- real estaie at Highland Park goes to the Univereity of Cal:fornia. Tne income is to be used as_annual prizes for the best translation of Engtish phrasesinto Latin, the prize to be known as the Richardson Latin translation prize. All of his books siored in Berkeley are t0 go 1o the school. ing delighted with California’s climate and particularly with the clean appear- ance of this city, which he says he would make his permanent residence if circum- s ances would permit. May Move the Hall. BERKELEY, CaL, July 17.—The re- moval of the town hall from the present site to one more centrally located isa proposition which is uow atracting the attention of the Town Board. The build- ing is at present at the coruer of Univer- sity avenue and Sacramento stre-t, mid- way between the two endsof the town, and commonly considered convenient to neither. Itis proposed to have the entire building moved 10 the east end, intact, rather than build a new one, as has been under consideration for some time. Strenuons opposition to the removal is anticipated from the people at the west end, but the east end members of the board are greatly in the majority. - The crater of Mauna Loa,in the Sand- wich Islands, the largest volcano in the world, is twenty miles in diameter. Some- times the stream of lava flowing from it is fisty miles long, NEW We never San Francisc now doing. ally making Another week has gone and still the sun shines on guaranteeing shoe in the E é o 1500 pairs of Ladies’ Fine French Kid, Cloth-top Lace Shoes, hand- turned soles, latest style pointed toe, patent leather tips, all widths, at $2.50 per pair, regular price $4.00. Monday we will fill our bargain tables with Men’s Finest Quality been $5.00, $6.co and $7.co. If you want bargains in Men’s Tan Shoes call early ; these won’t last long. This week we will put on sale our entire stock of Ladies’ $2.00 Tan Ox- fords and close them out at $1.00 per pair. oot oonans Ladi=s’ Fine Paris Kid Lace Shoes, latest stvle coin toe, patent leather tips, $1.50 per pair. 0000000 ®) § E E E E E Write for Illustrated Catalogue. @) C§ Q009V0000999 [0O0000CCICO000 o the purchasing public of sale of everything and in every possible way. B e o e s PV, Tan Shoes at $1.50 per pair ; have | NOLAN BROS. PHEL AN BUILDING, 812-814 Market St., San Francisco. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE—MAIN 5527. TO-DAY, did better by o than we are We are actu- a clearance A good appreciated. thing is Crowds that every store is new ({still come trooping in! our astounding car-§aNd UP to date and thegin.(tr‘) v :nndz..r:: nival of low shoe{greatest bargain at the{y.i on everybody prices. price ever offered. In{promptly. o wB. mayeiDedlly every: casel thesed .ovsup NO BRANCH}Shoes are worth two or SHOW B : WINDOWS &G STORES. three times what we are} ror gach ®o Our only store s TEEK’S g0 e aaasking WL o is .ln.the helan SPECIAL Building. And your money back BARGAINS! if you are not suited This week we will close out about 1400 pairs of Ladies’ Fine Paris Kid Button, pointed and square toes, pa- { tent leather tips, at $1.25 per pair. o of 99 % This week we will close out 3:, o9 Laird, Schober & Co.’s Children’s and Misses’ Tan Goat Foxed Cloth- | top Lace and Button Shoes, latest | style coin toe and tip, spring heels. 014 o4,y Sizes 8 to 1 regular $2.00, clos- ing-out price $1.00. Sizes 11 to 2, regular $2.50, clos- ing-out price $1.25. Our Own Make Ladies’ Finest Quality Paris Kid Button, cloth or kid tops ; square, pointed and coin toes, patent leather tips, all widths. Regular $2.50 quality this week 81.75. E Mail Orders Promptly Filled. PAY OF CONGRESSMEN. Dificult for Senators tn Live on the Government Money They Receive. Can a Senator or member of Congress live in Washington on his salary? The answer to the question depends upon the man to whom it is addressed. Senator Elkins of West Virginia, who lives in a palace on K street, where the furnishings of the bathroom alone would cost almost a year's salary, would say that the $5000 which the Government pays a Senator is but a drop in the bucket. So would Senator McMillan, whose income from his great lumber, manufacturing and railroad interests is to his salary as the top of Pikes Peak is to the Nabraikn prairie. There are other Senators, like Hale and Wetmore, whose establishments could not be run on their salaries for three months in the year. In fact there are very few Senators to whom the salary is really an important and a vital factor of their position. % It costs more for a Serator tolive in Washington than for a Representative. His social position is more pronounced, and if be is married and is housekeeping the demands of society upon him are very great. Sometimes a Senator will go toa hotel to save money. Hotel life iz also chosen for other reasons. Senator Hanna went to a hotel because he hoped that Congress wonld be through by April or May, and because a house would be un- necessary if something should drop in Ohio next fall. Senator Platt of New York lives at a_hotel because his wife is not weli enough to undertake the duties of housekeeving, and Senator Platt of Connecticut iikes a hotel because--but as he has lived in a hotel all his life, one would have to go too far back forany genuine information on the question. Ovinions differ as to whether it1s cheaper 10 live in a hotel than to keep house. It all depends upon the hotel. Some of the Senators live within their salarics and save money. They shun so- ciety, and ride in cars instead of carriages, und neither give nor attend dinners. These, however, are the exceptions. A Senator cannot, as a general rals, live on the salary which the Gov:ram:nt pays him.—Washington Post. EEmREsT P It is estimated that 3000 marriages are daily performed throughout the world. NEW TO-DAY. 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Now, when I say free I mean absolutely without cost, because I want every weakensd man to get the beaefit of my experience. Tam nota philantnropist, nor do I poseas an enthusiast, but there are thousands of men suffering the mental tortures of weakened manhood who would be cured at onca could they but get such a remedy as the one that cured me. Do not try to study out how I can afford to p-r the few postage-stamps necessery to mail the information, but sead for it ana learn that there are a few things on earih that, although they cost nothing 1o get, are worth a fortune to some men and mean a life- time of happiness to mostof us. Write to Thomas Slater, box 2283, Kalamasoo, Mich., and the information will be mailed in & plaia | sealed envelope,