The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-31


Nor will he fail to find, who wisely seeks,
Revealed upon the velvet breasts OF flowers,
The future Of the wOman-child he names;
Her years enmapped with all their days anC
hours.
know not; have done no gracious thing
To earn the need of joy vOuchsafed to me,
Lives better, nobler far than mine, each day
Pass by me. shrouded deep in misery.
MADISON, Wis, Oct, q, 1885.
OUR LETTER FROM BRoADBRlM.
The American Jnstitute-POlltical Mud.
slinging-Pro~pect for Good Season Of
Opera-stocks Going Up-Can y Dead
Man Testify7
NEW YORK, Oct. "a, 1885.
One of the oldest educational institutions
in the city is tho American Institute, which
is now holding it's annual fair at the great
building on Fifty-ninth street and Third
avenue. This vast structure in the past
few years has been used for all sorts of pur-
poses-religious revivals. walking matches,
running matches, skating carnivals and
political gatherings innumerable. On con-
secutive nights its walls have echoed with
shouts for Grover Cleveland, and hosannas
for the Plumed knight. : But its legitimate
use is for an industrial exhibition, aud once
year its sets aside its motley, and comes
down to solid work. No other institution
antedates it in continual annual exhibition.
When was a little boy, can recollect
with what eager expectation l looked for
ward to the opening of the American In
stitute Exhibitor in the fall. It used then
to be held in Castle Garden, and all the
young fellows and their sreethearts made
the walls of the old fort q trysting place,
and many tale of love has slf of the Expo- /
in willing ears, while looksople espe-e wa
tors of the beautiful bay, a.ure aching on
its waves the playful beams OF the October
moon. But all that romance has faded into
the long ago; and the sRhing lovers of
those days are grandfatters and grand
mothers now-with painsin their bones,
and rheumatism and lunbago, and neu-
ralgia, and all the ills that make the lives
of old people so uncomfortable. But while
generation after generation comes and
goes, the American InstitIte still remains
and with each renewing year it seems
SuzkasBcyz zauta4s 1f1ssr.
marvellous still. THERE'S Charles Wagner
Hull, the superintendent, looking younger
than he did quarter of century ago; and
John Chambers, the SECRETARY, not whit
the worse for his long years of service,
back, bright and clear half-hundred
years.
The exhibit this year lilly sustains its
old time reputation, if ineed, it does not
surpass any exhibition tht has preceded it.
Engines of every class arthere, from the
gigantic Titan, which could drive an
ocean steamer, to the dinty little motor
which a lady attaches toher sewing ma
chine. Scattered over tb vast floor is
multitude of things, beautiful and useful,
which it would take ninth to describe:
Georgeous furniture, ric hangings, splen-
did specimens of potter elegant cutlery,
luxurious cases of presees, ingenious ap-
pliances for simplifyingnd ensuring ex-
cellence in cookery; andhe thousand and
one appliances that add the happiness of
life. While all these thXs interested me
very much, am free toonfess there was
a small exhibit which hi for me greater
attraction than anythinI saw in that vast |
exhibition. 1t was the splay of the Yale |
Fountain Pen Compa1 of l49 William |
street, New York. Th pen is mightier
than the sword, says Rislieu, but the old
Cardinal spoke of a graoose quill. The
old time scrivener wenbout with a bot
tie of ink hanging fronts buttonhole. In
due time the goose qniRas superseded by
steel, and while the perdvanced the ink
bottle remained statiary. Then came
the era of gold pens, nn every accom-
plished bookeeper anscrivener walked
about with a gold pen his pocket-but
if he wanted to use it, had to hunt for an
ink bottle or his fine g pen was of no
use. Then came thinvention Of. the
Yale Fountain Pen. of the greatest
boons ever conferredn poor wretches,
who like myself are coelled to write for
a living-no one can ,preciate it more
than the editor whose ids are black with
ink, and whose manupts are foul with
blots, which always oc on the most par
ticular words.
| Behind the table ahis exhibit sat a
| modest little lady intly engaged in
writing; there was no Usual flourish about
her, but how deftly.d cunningly she
used that magic littlend, as she covered
sheet after sheet Withholding for an ink
bottle. "Where is " ink, I inquired?
"Right here SIR" sheasantly answered;
''enough to write for hole day." and she
instantly took the pemrt. It was a mar
vel of simplicity andrength, and then +,
the little lady gave OF those wonderful s
hourishes which vhenshed proved to be I
pair of turtle dovoooing, and pre- =
sented it to Broadbriwith one of her
most bewitching smi!and as wandered
down the main aisbntemplating the a
magnifcence before i could not help i
wondering as locke my turtle doves i
if the dainty little esentative of the q
Yale Fountain Pen Cneant one for her
self and the other fol? Perhaps!
As election day coaches the fight
wakes hot, and the ais on the leading
candidates become scandalous and
offensive. Il must hr foreigner just
arriving in our counto know why the 4
American people inDly pick up such a