The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-08-12
SOMETHING ABOUT SEWALL.
THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL NOMT.
NEE is A HUMORIST.
1t Is of Peculiar Down East Kind, and Is
Pointed. Some of His Original
Sayings.

sayings
Up in Maine when the people hear
anything particularly quaint and dryly
laughable they know Arthur Sewall
must have said it.
Only Arthur Sewall could have origi-
mated some of the witticisms now current
In Maine. And they are ever so much
tunnier because he bas a slow. calm way
OF talking, manner that is the vely wit
Of silence
As humorist he belongs to a type
found ouly in Maine. He originated the
prevailing sarcasm in the state concern
ing inferior ships. He was shown new
type OF vessel and remarked:
The weeks wash must be pretty bio
when they need that"
his rather celebrated piece Of satire
concerning the way to build a ship arose
from symposium of ship builders on
the best method of putting a boat to-
gether. The remark was made in Bos-
ton at committee meeting about three
years ago.
In order to build ship" said Mr..
Sewall, 'you should first get 5000 miles
away from your materials"
That was a hit at McKinley's tariff
the ship building industry to Britain.
When The ship carpenters in New Eng
land presented a memorial to him in
acknowledgment of his services as the
father of their trade in this country he
observed:
"You are giving me credit that be-
longs to the Atlantic ocean,"
There were loud laughs and cries of
'Nop'
"The trouble is" pursu Il Mr.. Sewall,
"that our politicians are preiudiced
against the Atlantic ocean, They won't
let the American flag be. seen on it,
Mr.. Sewall resembles Abraham Lin
coin in being able to tell story that
bears upon any subject in hand. Some
of his most etfectiYe anecdotes are OF his
boyhood days
'When l was boy said he on one
occasion, not in the exact words that
follow, TO be sure, but to that effect,
when l was boy / wanted to be like
Robin Hood l thought it must be very
nice to be at the head of a robber band.
doing what you please and leyying trib-
ute on the people. 50 | resolved that
when l got to be man I'd be Robin
Hood Now that / am man | find
SO many others in the business that
there's no room for me. That's what
comes of being under protective tar
if"
Concerning the American plutocracy
Arthur SeWall said, two years ago, in
some imprompUu remarks to the board
of trade at Bath, Me
"The rich man finds it easier to 90
through the eye of a needle than to en-
ter the kingdom of heaven, and he has
determined to make up for it by making
his paradise out of this United States of
America"
This may seem to be reflection upon
Arthur Sewall himself, since he is popu-
larly credited with being a millionaire
while his friends say he is really not
worth more than 100000.
When the Dirigo was turned out from
his ship yard Mr.. Sewall said
I'm PROUD Of that name Names
motto. When Shakespeare asked
What's in a name?' he had no idea of
the possibilities of advertising
81 often wonder, said Mr.. Sewall to
the Bath Young Mems Democratic club,
when he announced his silver views in
June, 1895, ''f the people know what
great deal more Of it than most coun
tries, but we never make any use of it,
I was invited to JOIN in a scheme to
bring a fortune in gold and silver up
from the bottom of the Atlantic, but the
fortunes which we ought to get out Of
that ocean are all on the surface.
"The people of this nation are called
the salt of the earth. Why don't they
mingle with the salt of the sea? The
other day | heard a man poking fun at
the people of Kentucky because they did
not know what water is good for. Why,
right here we don't seem to know that
water is good for ships.
"There never was a nation that ever
amounted to anything by neglectDg the
sea. The greatness of Athens was due
to her ships. The strength Of England
is in her ships And the glory Of our
republic will be in our ships, too
Mr.. SewalPs home in Bath contains
one room called his cabin. 1t is filled
with models of ships. The candidate
spends hours there. He is very expert
at modelling ships of all kinds, and one
huge model, entirely the work of his own
hands, is of tire r anoke, the largest
wooden sailing vessel afoat.
When it was first announced that
young Sew all had become republican
his father endured a great deal of chat.
ing. His invariable retort was:
"Boys will be boys"
A little daug liter of Mr.. Lewis Dayton,
an old and much respected citizen OF