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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1897-11-10

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Itellen nDgen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

1 it cannot sink. 1t is bound to float, and
you cannot put it on wrong. once launch
ed, and you are bound to use it right. In
life-belt you may make mistake and
| put 1t on below your center of gravity
and in many persons this falls above the
waist line, and in that case you float feet
Up and are drowned. Thirteen unlucky
persons persisted this way last year be-
cause, in their excitement, they forgot to
buckle the belt under the arms. They
fastened it, instead, around the waist,
where II slipped down to the hips and
brought the feet up above the water and
the head underneath. Edward Cottelyou,
one of the volunteer life avers of an
Atlantic coast station, struggled with a
drowning man an hour in the water to
undo the life-preserver. The unfortunate
had it on below the waist line and was
floating feet up. AS fast as Cottelyou
would right him and try to unfasten the
belt, the struggling man would fight him
or. At length he became Unconscious
from swallowing salt water, and Cottel-
you raised the belt to his arm-pits and
lowed him inshore still unconscious.
The life buoy has four large air com
partments each one covered with cork
and made absolutely non-sinkable. Ris-
ing above these there is q seat upon
which the person sits as on a bicycle
saddle. As soon as he Is seated the buoy
begins to float along. sail overhead
carries 1t rapidly
This sail is kept set, but In the hands
Of any one who understands Watching
1t can be turned and shifted. raised or
lowered, until the right direction Is OBJ
tanned. In the hands OF an inexperienced
person the buoy would sail rapidly in
one direction, bringing the person either
to land or In sight of a ship in a short
time.
Mariners say that in case Of being
adrift upon the sea without chart or
compass there Is nothing as good as
persistent sailing In one direction. The
course Is bound to cross that OF some
ocean steamer. while " a drifting course
is taken "A man may by some misfortune
miss every ocean craft upon the sea for
days.
Once seated IN the bicycle seat. a per-
son Is bound 20 be saved. Even II there
Is no knowledge Of the bicycle he can
sail superbly on But u ne understands
the art OF pedalllng-and the man who
does not is scarce nowadays-he can
carry himself rapidly through the water
The motion OF the pedals operates the
wheel at the rear Of the machine. and
that propels the bicycle onward. A
lantern up IN front Of the sail lights the
water and renders tho llfc-buoy an Cd
Iect that can be spied far on
This apparatus. while 10 looks very COM
picated, Is most simple. II can be taken
apart into seventeen piecos. But ordln-
arily the whole Is Left In one piece. folded
'ogether like a camp stool The pedals
and handles fold and the blades Of the
screws come together thus making the
buoy one that can be stored In small
space.
The question Of life-savlng 81 one that
is occupying more and more OF the at
tention Of the United states authorities
When the life-eaving service Was or
ganized IN 1917 ocean travel was small
compared with the present day There
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

on the st. Lawrence they cat out Of
doors all summer. and for several years
Senator Hin has taken his meals In the
air from June to September. His favor
tie stopping place Is very pretty resort
by the sea where the proprietor has
rugged up piazza for guests who want
20 eat IN the open Here Senator HUI
sits long and happily az his meals, puff
nng In the air and getting as much In
this way as he gets In food. His windows
are right over the sea, his cottage stand
ing with It's foundation half submerged.
The menu for tho out-of-door repast Is
very little like the indoor one, except In
the matter Of courses. A diet almost veg
etarian Us served, with very little red
meat" the meat being fish and fowl. All
sorts OF aea food and every bird that flies
are served. The object Is 10 give easily
digested food. such as they give at the Eu-
ropean health resorts.
The change for the better Is noticed
most in the morning. The appetite then
h most preearlous and needs stlmulants.
Next to the "eye-opcner" OF the topper.
nothing gives this stimulant like fresh air
blowing upon the face. and particularly
upon the eyes. which are the handspring
OF tho nervous center OF the body.
When the young Kaiser Wilhelm wanted
wife the old Emperor William sent his
pet Chancellor Bismarck 10 pick out an
eligible princess. The wary old prince
iourneyed for months. and finally select
ed Augusta OF schlcswig- Holstein. when
asked why he did So he said he chose her
for her good temper and because she had
an appetite for her breakfast A long
time Afterwards Il was told the prince that
the family had seated their distinguished
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

in celuloid shirt fronts a o'clock one
afternoon. / got into the town of D tired
to death and hot and hungry. But 1 drank
some tea and ate a bunch of radishes
while I freshened myself up in the station.
Then l set out for the store of G.. q call
him G. because he turned out to be such a
Good thing.
HE was closing up the store and was
not g ad to see me. 'Celluloid fiddesticks,
said he when had got off my little speech
about my shirt bosoms. DO you suppose
any self-respecting woman is going to
wear such make-shift as that?'
Yes, l do said l, I am one. and
I've got one on. And what is more
have ridden 800 miles since my breakfast
to-day, on a road where they burn blum
nous coal, with that shirt front on. And
YOU can look at it now
Well, it does look as fresh as a daisy
said he, and if youll come in, I'll get
one for my wife, anyway, SO she can
look decent when we go travelling this
summer. ] sold him 100 dozen before
let go Of him.
THE brightest little drummer on the
coast" said she, lis Kate Todd. She
introduces shell novelties. and confines
her route to the Atlantic and Pacific
cities, except one tour a year, when she
takes in all the interior places. She is
bright because she Is so clever.
4fpW We Bol 10 tell you what Il
mean. Well, Kate Todd can sell shells
when the rest of us would have to eat
them to fill up on We would starve
where she lives like a Mikado. She is
clever.
Kate Todd Is a woman drummer who
makes her customers call on her. When
she gets in a town she goes 10 the best
hotel and calls for a blue room. She
gets one a pale sea color If she can. Then
-. /.
room with novelties. When she gets
through she has the sweetest little sylvan
retreat YOU ever saw. There are shells
banked in the Fireplace, shells on the
manteI. shell clocks ticking here and
there, shell vases holding up sea grasses.
shell shades for electric lights. and shell
taoes-a most bewilderng array OF the
pink and blue sea things al Of pearl
and all gllstcning like cut glass.
ION the queerest shell book she sends
out her invitations, naming the hour for
the buyers TO call. and when they go away
Rates room Is stripped OF the shells. The
buyers have begged her for the vases TO
take homeland, Of course. they have pur-
chased a supply Tor the store. That is tho
way she works
MARY Zlttcl Is another clever drum
mer. She takes up the prosy things She
Is out now With a cr!ss-cross wash-board
that can be let out or shortened up war
ranied TO NJ any tubs and any arms. never
wears out, and takes the Dirt out with
ono rub. She rolls up her sleeves and
washes. right In the store. and hegs for
the dirtiest towels. once IN a while. when
they give her one stained with shoe black
ing or ink, she slips I'm "A little acid. be-
cause no mortal hands could rub out such
spots 49, that. She is 80 energetic that she
has averaged q thousand boards day
since moving time began. When she gets
through with wnsh-hoards. she will tnke
up magic mop and then dishpan that
washes and ringcs tho dishes She sells
good things, too, Mary does. And the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16
WOMAN VINO SELLS MINES.
Some of the Characteristics of New
Woman of San Francisco.
From the New York Journal.

From the New York Journal
A most interesting personality is Mrs.
NJ. L. Ludlngton, who incarnates all the
characteristics of the newest womanhood
and yet is a perfect lady. She is young, a
widow and as good a business man as
there is in the state. 1t Is as a mining
promoter that her identity has become not
able. She has engineered several big
schemes with a dexterity which her male
competitors have good reason to envy
Maybe her success Is due to the fact that
she does not attempt impossibilities, and
is contented to achieve honestly what she
essays. Moreover, l have It from the lips
of very eminent capitalist that no ex-
pert ever stated a proposition more con-
cisely or more lucidly than does Mrs. Luz
dngton in offering the refusal of a prop
erty.
Something about the career Of this lady
may not be uninteresting. II seems she Is
OF German ancestry. was born in Illinois
and brought to California while baby,
learned thrift and self-reliance by the loss
Of her mother and was married as q young
girl TO a wealthy business man named
LudingtOn, who moved 10 Mexico TO pros
ecute certain deal IN mining lands. He
died suddenly. leaving his widow TO extri-
cate his affairs "a best she could In fac
ing the situation she displayed a degree
Of grit and energy which would have done
credit 20 q veteran, for she learned'the in
heritance laws OF the southern republic
and returned TO California with a substan-
tial sum. This experience developed In
her a love Of business, and seeing an open-
ing Ia mining promotion, she engaged her
capital and her time In that line OF eyer
ton. II Is her policy 10 visit districts In
which there are mines whose owners have
refused TO negotiate with the ordinary
promoter.
IN frank and serious way she engages
the attention and confidence Of her clients
and rarely falls TO come away without a
bond on the desired property obtained on
better terms and longer time than any Of
her male rivals could achieve once being
possessed Of "a property, she has no hesl-
tatiOn h spending money 10 exhibit It's re-
sources. She hires The best expert service.
runs shafts ana obtains every possible fact
before submitting the property 70 an In
weston. Her reports are models OF their
kind. Quite recently she sold the Crystal
line group Of mines 90 5 Webber Parker
for $4,000 though this is but one Of
many transactions and after the deal he
congratulated her on her thoroughly BUSH
nefs-llke manner Of statement other
WISE In q business parlcy this lady e. rare
~ 81 a loss. being fluent. fertile ana con-
else. and she can readily maintain herself
IN argument with The best equipped mem.
bers Of the Steiner sex.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

smartest manufacturer in the world
couldn't fool her into starting out with
anything that wouldn't wear.
do l know any other women drum
mers? Yes, l know a Kittie Murphy. the
cunningest little ribbon drummer YOU ever
saw. She wears her goods around her
neck and shows her customers how pretty
a satin striped ribbon can look with a
velvet skin and Irish blue eyes. And I
know a girl who is beginning to sell horses.
Describes their points and gets an order
for the horse. If satisfactory on his ar
rival here. She is doing we'll.
rs my work the easiest of all? No.
I don't think it is. because there is so
much uncertainty about a novelty. But,
if you really feel interested in women
drummers and want to help me along.
please go in the next shop you see and
ask for a hustle. 1t will pick up my
branch of trade amazingly
Constance Merrifield
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

force of habit, talking up my hustle sam
pies to a sedate lawyer"
Are there many in your business?" 1
asked.
DO you mean in the drumming bust
ness? No. not as many as you would sup
pose from the money there is in it. Last
year there were only forty successful wo-
men drummers. Twice that number start
ed out but either got sickor grew tired of
the work. 1t is hard. You travel all
night and talk all day, but you can do it
if you know how to spare yourself 1 can
drum from May till May, from the Port
lands of Maine and Oregon to the lakes and
the gulf without stopping off a day except
TO sell goods, but you see know what to
eat and what to let alone on the road. and
1 understand how to drop asleep on a train
and wake up fresh and ready to talk with
out waiting for nights sleep to refresh
me-
why the biggest sale I ever made was
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16
BICYCLE FOR LIFE-SAvING.
WHEEL-LIKE APPARATUS or RUB-
BIER AND CORK WORKED
BY PEDALS

New York. May lit used to be that
bicycling on the ocean was an idea belong
/ ing to cranks-a curious delusion of con-
firmed cads on casters who thought moth
ing too good or too bad, too hard or too
easy, for bicyclsts.
But now you see models of boats. run
by leg power, so plentiful that you have
ceased to wonder, and only notice them
for some peculiar newness that may be
about them. The idea of balancing your
self and doing the work of locomotion with
that you are always ready to know some
thing more that you can do in this way
The very newest bicycle feat has been
accomplished by a Canadian Frenchman
Edouard de Rigne of Toronto. He has in
vented a bicycle life-saving apparatus
which he has patented. and is finishing to
present to the United States life-saving
stations along the coast. There are $50 of
these picketed along the Atlantic and the
Pacific and the Great Lakes. No country
has the same amount of coast work that
the United States has and no country is
consequently more in need of aid for the
already overworked life-savers. Last year
they either rescued. or assisted 1860 per-
Cons.
The bicycle invention is called a life
buoy il is destined to save life when the
ship goes down. 1t is to be carried on
board ocean steamers and on ferry boats
in place of the life-saving belts now in
use and it is to be sent to the life-savng
stations to be stored away in some handy
place where the life-corps can get hold of
it at the signal of distress.
The virtues of the life-buoy are that
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16
THE BRIGHTEST LITTLE
DRUMMER ON The COAST.
Can Travel All Night Talk All Day, and Sci
Shell Novelties.
a Gir
co EN- by Drum
Women Make az Comme ia Trayem

New York, May Al beg pardon! Can
I interest you in bustles? Excuse me, l
thought this was a typewriting office"
The speaker, a tall, dark young woman,
blushed a lovely pink and beat hasty re-
treat from the law Office into which she
had inadvertently stepped.
''Will you tell me about the bustles?" I
asked following her out into the hall and
bidding as hasty a good-by to the lawyers
IS she had done. And why you are sell
ing them, and how you came to be here, in
an office building-with bustles."
well, yes" laughed she. IF you will
come where can talk to you. There is a
nice little lunch-room across The way,
where women drummers always stop.
Now" said she, when we had crossed
the street to the little lunch-room and she
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

senger steamers plying between the sea
ports of the countries, and. though acci-
dents were more numerous, fewer lives
We're imperilled when the accident did
occur. The lifeboats were adequate to
hold all the passengers. But in these
days, when hundreds of cabin passen-
gers can be booked on an Outgoin-
steamer, it is impossible to supply ha
the number of reseuing boats needec
if such a calamity as an ocean disastei
should occur. For these steamships IN,
bicycle lfe-buoy is of the utmost value
But its principal use is for the life-sav.
ers of the coast who do heroic work
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

bad deposited her funny looking sachel
lnder the table, ''to answer the first Of
n four questions, 1 am selling the bustles
because it is my business to do so. am
woman drummer. ! am doing what we
'all hustling up trade, so that when 1 come
through again next week l can sell my
wares.
I am drummer" went on she, laugh
ing at my wondering face, who intro
ouces novelties. Every year some manu-
lecturer gets out something new 'on a
Spec and am the one that brings them
before the public. 1 am the advance
egent. so to speak. of the drummer"
Tell me about it," said l. as mystihed
as a newspaper woman ever allows herself
B to be-
Well" said my drummer friend, q
Will give you an example. Suppose a man
ufacturer has patented new shoe fasten-
err lie wants to get it on the market
he sends his drummers TO the dealer The
dealer says. We have no call for new
shoe fastener And he refuses to buy it,
And the manufacturer must either place
uis own agent in The store to talk it up to
"
the ilfst year. TO avoid doing this he
sends me out as his advance agent.
=. JUST now l am travelling for a firm
.ndt rs making bustles. The tendency
- puSueWard, but women are not buying
theIh yet They do not ask for them and
uea'ers viii not purchase anything that
ls MOI called for. Here comes the work of
III. Scoville."
At Al this she whipped out a neat slip Of
cardboard with:
MISS MINNIE scoVILLE. (:
pn.,, For Whalebone & Co. {:
'''''''''''s.s ..sss.... .................
y create a demand for busties. When
you saw me / was on my rounds In the
building In one hand 7 had list OF
~ me offices where more women were
enpioyed than men. As soon as got in
sIue an office button-holed the first wo-
n'n ana proceeded 10 show her samples
=. "esues. There are six little ones in
- - o't' and OF course wear one.
-. 'nt women my hustle and allow
..'In TO punch me on the back crump.e
Np' twist me around and DO pretty
huch aa they nloase su
non ] shake myself out and show
,L,'n now admirably my skirt hangs with
c" 'us ne 90 support 90. They ask where
e.n we buy such a hustle. and / saw al tho
stores Of A, 10. G.. ana D-menfloninp ner-
'@'hlA mat buy Of me.
ma. week latei 4 call there and offer them
5s "'aueA. or course they have had or
- Tor thcm-gix girls Inquired for bus
oe ~ one day-and they order 800 or $3.50
N'' according 10 the size OF tho stock
tney curry.
g., ieii is the way ! create demand
.'5 "uatles Queer, isn't ~" said she.
o@5 u the queercst thing about lt rs the
''iil's one has ont selling them. Take
your cafe, Tor Instance. I must have -ot
w. "'ois mixed and if YOU hadn't been
''e d should have found myself. from
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

guest In the opening-alr dining room OF the
palace Soudenburg on account OF the
shabbiness OF the inner dining han. And
that accounted for the appetite OF the Wig
win a "Ifoch!' from the chancellor.
All the -Four Hundred are rigging up
dining rooms In the open air. and II IL
likely that by the time the summer re-
sorts open the people who make them ana
their gaieties. will be able to digest the
summer dalnties. all the way from mineral
water In the morning TO rareblt at
night. Harry Germain
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

--Ingratitude. what" demanded the
dime museum proprietor. SIS all this row
about?"
The Zulu Chieftaln fastened TO explain.
ITS the glass-eater. sor' he volunteers
ed. HE hez tn dyspepsy He SEE tn
hash amt up to m mark"
The dime museum proprietor shifted an
grily And that" he said. lis al / get
for buying him genuine stained-glass win
dows. New York Press.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

every day in the year, and who last year
saved $1l,0O0,OOO worth Of property from
passenger and merchant steamships.
They Wall ride the lfe-buoy out to the
wreck. and come back riding the ma
chine with the rescued firmly tied to one
of the cork pillows that is warranted TO
float in any sea. Clarence S. Russell.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

An Inquiry Answered. -"what Is the
argument of this play?' asked the old
the first act.
THE argument" repeated the manager
There isn't any worth speaking Of just
now. That usually happens on salary
day. "-Washington Star.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

"A Scottish railway company has en-
gagged a hrst-clesa speaker 70 give fre8
illustrated lectures In cities and towns.
descriptive Of the beautiful summer rs-
sorts Ia Scotland
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-05

not what to do now. The disgrace, of
course, falls keenly upon my family,
but 1 do not care, for l am not guilty.
I owe lots Of money to hundreds of
others besides Mr. Robson.
In the fourteen years 1 have been
in business in this city L have done a
business of fifteen million dollars. Yes.
sir, 1 did that right down there in my
little shop. l have been successful and
unsuccessful during that period, but
when fortune went against me, 1 was
always able to recuperate and pay my
creditors During my business exper-
fence, until last year, my credit was
almost unlimited 1 have con4batted
without success the panic of the last
four years, while heavily interested in
pioneer railroad work. The securities
I held fell and greatly deprecated dur
ing the hard times. Four of the rail-
roads I was connected with failed to
bring returns, and here I am now"
At first Shipherd stubbornly refused
to permit anybody to go on his bond.
He said he was ready and willing to
go to Jail Finally, however, he con-
cluded to accept bail and his bond was
signed by two of his friends.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-05
Steps Taken to Keep Yellow
Fever Out of the State
No Death at New Orleans.
7 NOlANA IS
D ALARMED.

calfe, of Natchez, has gone to take
charge of the cases of yellow fever at
Nitta Youma A letter from Mr..
Bloum stated that the local physician
declined to treat the case, that Miss
Thompson, one of the sick, was sink
ing, and that Operator Smith, the depot
agent, was sick, and that there are two
suspicious cases. The state board Of
health ordered Dr. Metcalfe to the
scene Bloum's message also reported
two suspicious cases, negroes, at Nitta
Youma Five nurses were sent to Ed
wards today Excitement here is over
and the town is free from suspicious
cases.
The city council held conference to-
night with the local members of the
legislature, and it was resolved to ask
the governor to place $4,000 at the dis
posal of the state board of health to
aid in the fever fight. The legislators
present pledged to sign a memorial
areeing to vote for the appropriation
when the legislature meets in May and
to obtain enough signatures to guar
antee passage and justify the COVER
nor's advance action.
The Italian immigrant ship will not
come near the city. The immigrants
will be placed on a steamboat at the
mouth of the river and taken to the
plantations up the river.