The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-02-13
MARX TWAIN.

-S9e AAOAo bAdu one NeoSe1 IL mas never Il
lost a passengers life at all ;itsships are
never insured great merchantile firms
do not insure their goods sent over in
Cunard ships; it is rather safer to be in
their vessels than ON shore. Old
fashioned is the word. When
thing is established by the Cunarders
It is there for good and all, almost.
Before adopting a new thing the chiefs
cogitate, and cogitate and cogitate
then they lay it before their purveyor,
their head merchant, their head builder,
their head engines and all the captains
in the service, and they 90 off and
cogitate about year then if the new
wrinkle is approved it is adopted and
put into the regulations, In the old
days, near forty years ago, when this
was an ocean line of sailing vessels,
corpses were not permitted by the
company to take passage, or 90 as
freight, either-sailor superstition, you
know. Very well to this day they
won't carry corpses. Forty years ago
they always had stewed prunes and rice
for dinner on duff" days well, to
this present time, whenever duff day
comes around, you will always have
your regular steWed prunes and rice in
a Cunarder. If you don't get any thing
else, you can always depend on that
and depend on it with your money up,
too, if you are that sort OF q person.
1t takes them about ten or fifteen
years to manufacture a Captain but
when they have got him manufactured
to suit at last they have full confidence
in him. The only order they give
captain is this, brief aid to the point
Your ship is loaded, take her; speed
is nothing follow your own road,
deliver her safe, bring her back safe
safety is all that is required"
The noted Cnnard Company is oom-
posed simply of two or three grand
children who have stepped into the
shoes of two or three children who
stepped into the shoes of couple of
old Scotch fathers for Burns and
MacIvor were the Cunard Company
when it was born it was Burns and
MacIvor when the originators had
passed sway; it is Burns and MaeIvor
Etill in the third generation-never has
been out of the two families. Burns
was a Glasgow merchant, MacIvor was
an old sea-dog who sailed a ship for him
in early times. That vessels earnings
were cast into a sinking fund with the
money they built another ship, and
then another, and thus the old original
packet line from Glasgow to Halifax
was established. At that time the mails
were slowly and extensively carried in
English Government vessels. Burns &
MacIvor and Judge Halliburton (''Sam
Slick'') fell to considering n scheme of
getting the job of carrying these mails
in private bottoms In order to manage
the thing they needed to be quiet about
It, and also they needed faster vessels.
Halliburton had q relative who was not
a shining success in practical life, but
had an inventive head name. Cunard
ne took his old jacl1-lInife and shingie
and sat down and whitfield out this
enormous Royal Mail Line OF vessels
that we cnll the Cunarders-a great
navy, it is--doing business in every
ocean owning forty-fve steamships of
vast cost; conducting it's affairs with
the rigid method and system of
national navy, promoting by merit,
priority in routine, and for conspicuous
service; using a company uniform
retiring superanumated and disabled
men and officers on permanent pensions,
and numbering its servants by hundreds
and thousands. In its OWE private
establishment in Liverpool it. keeps
1000 men under pay. That is what
Sam Cunard whitfield out. That is to
cay, he whitfield out little model for
fast vessel it was satisfactory; he was
instructed to go and get the mail con
tract, simply under his own name he
did it, and the company became COM
monty known as the Cunard Company
then the Company tried steam, and
made it work; they prospered, and
fought out Halliburton, and also Gun
ards little interest they removed
Cunard 60 England and made him their
London agent; he grew very rich and
unspeakably respectable, and when he
died he died not as poor, dreaming
provincial whittier of experimental
models, but as the great Sir Samuel
Cunard, K @. B., or G.. w. X, or
something like that, for the Sovereign
had Knighted him.
Well, tho Cunard Company is a great
institution, and has got more money
than you and both put together and
yet mono of the family ever write
editorials or deliver lectures. The
Company have built school-houses and
they educate the children of their en-
ployes they are going to build dwcll-
ings for their shoremen that shall be
cheap and clean and comfortable when
one of their men dies, subscription list
goes about in his ship or in whatever
arm of the service his name is booked,
and whatever sum is raised the Cunard
Company add Just similar sum, and it
all goes to the mans heirs Their
system Of pensions
But have never been offered cant
for all this; am not even acquainted
with member Of the Cunnrd Company.
I think will wait awhile before I go
OMIT cramps my hand towrite so much
on a stretch But it is all right. any
way. So many thousand of Americans
have travelled in those steamers that
they will like 20 read about that Com
pany
Sabbath Day Suggestions.
It is dangerous for the feeble brain Of
man to wade far into the doings of the
Most High. whom, although to know
be life, and Joy 10 make mention of hi:
name, yet our soundest knowledge is "a
l-r.,.u thnA va L-r,n,.. hin, not "a inln.1