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Gilpin observer., 1905-01-26

Thirty two School of Mines boys, ac-
companied by Prof. Young, arrived in
the city from Golden last Friday morn
ing for the purpose of inspecting some
of the mines of the locality and also the
Rocky Mountain Concentrator at Black
Hawk. The afternoon OF Friday was
spent by the boys at the Cook mine. In
the evening at the Tellerhouse, where
the students were quartered dance was
rendered the visitors together with a
few local guests. About fifty couples in
all we're present. The Antlers orchestra
discoursed some very pleasing music.
The young men returned to Golden Sun.
day morning. About thirty more Of the
students from the school at Golden are
expected TO arrive tomorrow morning on
the same mission and it is very likely
that dance will be given at the Teller
house as is customary when the class
visits Central City.
Gilpin observer., 1905-01-26

Albert Nancarrow, the contractor, was
a passenger to Victor Wednesday morn.
ing.
A. Ontis went to Victor this morning
where he will remain few days on a
visit to bis daughter, Mrs. Herrick Nc
Leod.
Mrs. Will McKibbin went to Denver
Wednesday morning where she will re-
main week visiting.
j. L. Cotton went to Denver this morn.
ing on business.
II. L. Martin who had been in the city
since Monday looking after mining inter-
ests, returned to Denver this morning.
Miss Cary Nolan returned Saturday
from Idaho Springs where she had spent
week visiting with lady friend.
Mrs. Voll. mother Of Leo voll who is
ailing with an affiiction Of the ear in
Denver, went to that city Sunday morn
ing to see her son. The young man has
been removed from the hospital to q
private residence and is doing nicely.
He is expected to return fully recovered
in the course Of week. Mrs. voll re.
turned home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Frank Mayhem, accompanied by
Miss:May MayhewI Of Nevadavlile, were
passengers to Denver Sunday morning.
The latter returned Sunday evening but
the former remained until last night.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10
DISMAL SWAMP" NO MORE
Great Virginia Morass Is Gradually
Coming Under Profitable
Cultivation.

The famous Dismal Swamp in Vir
giIia is coming into profitable eultiva-
ton, states the New York World. The
first company to promote Dismal
Swamp was organized in Colonial
days. George Washington was one Of
the promoters and the largest stock
holder. His company owned two
thirds of the 100000 acres of the
swamp and built a canal to float the
timber from its property.
Little has been done from that time
until recently, except by lumbermen.
In the days before the war the swamp
was a popular refuge for runaway
slaves. 1t is situated in the south
eastern corner of Virginia and it. ex-
tends from a few miles from Norfolk
At its highest points it is only Is OF
20 feet above tideWater. It's streams
are so pure that their water is sought
by vessels going on long voyages.
It was long thought that the swamp
was malarious and that white men
could not live there the year round
This notion has been disproved by
the truck farmers seeking cheaper
land, who are clearing up the swamp
and turning it into prosperous truck
gardens.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10
EYES ONLY REPRODUCED.
Revival in England Of Curious Cen.
tury-old Fashion in Por-
traits.

A curious old fashion of a century
ago has lately been revived in connec-
ton with miniature painting, which
has itself undergone a revival of late
years.
Instead of having the complete face
painted, fashionable faddists are sim
ply having the eye alone reproduced,
Life size. skillfu11y painted, there is
far more individuality about the eye
than might be supposed. This is es-
peeially the case where a small por-
ton of the face surrounding the eye is
included.
It is curious to note that the right
eye is the one generally chosen, for,
If physiognomists are to be believed,
the left eye is the finer of the two. 1t
is, however, stated by those who have
inspected some Of the miniatures, that
the identity Of the owners of the vari.
Gus eyes is clearly diseernible by those
acquainted with the originals, so tina:
the pictures are really portraits in
sense.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10

Farley never forget mans name
If he passed scrutiny and got his de-
seription on his little red book that he
kept in a safe IN his Office in Pittsbnrg.
Those names we're fund that he drew
upon for the railway and street trans
portation chiefs when they needed
strfke-breakers. But Curry has no
list. He would not be bothered with
a book. He will take the leadership
of the biggest and most nondeseript
tIrong of nonunion men, black or
white-and black preferred-that any
employment agency ever hustled into
day coaches for a long train ride
Is he man? Can he drive team
and fght??o Those are the only que
ries Curry puts to his recruits after
they are turned over to him. He will
talk of the rich merchants Of st. Louis
putting rifles on their shoulders, shut
ting themselves up in their Washing
ton street barracks and fighting the
mobs of unionists. He will say that
their hands trembled when their fin
gers pulled the triggers that sent mes
sengers of death to rioters. But his
siekly smile follows his conclusion:
They broke the strike"
@It's what guns were made for-to
shoot. shot at men lots of times.
They had me tingling with pain when
| did it and, may it please the court
ha! .ha! hal think my aim was bad
very bad-worse than that of q
woman. You see it's better to hit a
striker than a lad playing a block
away and you can afford to shoot into
the ground once in awhile"
Farley, the Silent.
If Curry is studying to simulate Far
ley he is poor student. Farley never
talked that much to anybody. The
skill of Farley, who had 5000 employees
rushed up the East river to the Inter
borough power house on the steamer
G. II. Northam, ready after midnight
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10
SLANG FREQUENTLY VIVID.
University Professor Sees Value in
Expressions That Are Conn
monty Tabooed.

"Slang is of two kinds said Presi-
dent Rush sRhees, of the university,
DEPRESSING from the subject of remarks
he was making to the men students.
There are those slang expressions
which are vivid figures of speech and
which by reason of their aptness ap-
peal to all and readily pass into good
idiom and current usage. And then
there are those phrases which are the
result Of Intellectual Incidence and
are in no way actually descriptive.
81 do not know, said DR.. Rhees to
q reporter of the Rochester Democrat,
'just how the phrase to get left is
regarded to-day. Years ago, I know,
it was slang. If man miscalculates
in some venture to-day a person Of
culture might say without reproach, I
believe, that he got left. How long it
will take this expression to be accept
ed in literature, or whether it ever
will be SO accepted, am not prepared
to say.
s'Some of the expressions we hear
to-day seem to have a quality about
them lnat may result IN Lnelf having
a permanent place in the language
The expression It's up to you is a
vivid presentation of an idea that we
desire frequently to convey. To mako
good is another phrase that expresses
forcibly an idea that in ordinary
speech requires at least half a dozen
words to present. l can't say like it.
but neither can I say that it will not
finally be accepted as good English
idiom To win out is another phrase
of the same character. do not regard
it as justified. To win it seems to
me, does the work, and yet the fact
that to win out expresses the ulti-
mate success of an effort may cause it
to live"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10
WEARS THE SOCIETY YOKE
Season Of Fourteen Weeks Full of Din
ners and Parties Planned by
New York Bride.

A bride of the New York season
ricn, powerful and Beautiful-kept a
record of her engagements for this
season, which probably tailed with the
engagements of Others 1t covered a
period of Il weeks, says Ainslee's
Magazine. The summary was this:
Dinners, So
Operas, Is.
Balls and dances, Is.
Late suppers, go
Theaters, IS.
Afternoon teas, 65.
Luncheons, formal ones, IS.
She decided not to lunch formally
after the first Is affairs were over, as
she found herself unable. to stand the
gayety at noon When she would have
to take part in it in the evening.
This covers her winter season in
New York. She gets six weeks of out
door informal life at Aiken, S. c.
goes to London for the opening of the
season there. during which time she
will exactly repeat the New York ex-
perienee. She will spend July motor
ing through France and Italy and re-
turn to Paris during the latter part
Of August, where she puts herself in
the hands of the dres 5makers for eight
weeks, varied by dinners at the smart
restaurants and weekend house par
ties at French chateaux.
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FARLEY, THE KING OF A NOTED TRIO.
Behind This Leader Stands Frank Curry.
Buster Ready and Their Forces Ready
to Crush Unionisn at Call
Of the Employers.
Character Study of Curry, Who Is Conducting Battle
Of Chicago Business Men Teamsters-New
Occupation Born of Industrial Strife.

that might have been reaped by Far
ley are left to Frank Curry to reap.
/ He began his harvest by getting ar
rested and having his eyes blackened
! by the f.caress of a pair Of brass
knuckles." Fretting over the orders
Of a physician that he remain in a
| darkened room, the strike-breaker
| showed his Impotence to his few call
ers 1--WE only got a einder in my
eye said Curry But it don't make
me want to duck these poor colored fel-
lows | have to break this strike with"
| You study this man and see how
far short of Farley his capacity for
executive ability falls. Homestead S
iron works cooled the mold in which
/ Farlcy's spirit was shaped and then
the mold fell into the Allegheny river.
Curry had his fighting spirit case
hardened in struggle Of less impor-
tance-he seems to have some molten
material IN the interior that needs
the reverses Of conflict to harden.
Defes Death for Gain.
It's money-on1y money that Curry
is working for. He nonchalant1y tells
you that. IF the strike lasts so days. y
said Curry, as he dropped some medi-
cine into his inf1amed eye from the
blade of a Notwithstanding to use the
little rubber syringe that his doctor
has left for him-+'I1l slip out Of the
city $4,000 richer than was when
came in.D
But haven't you any animosity-
isn't there some of that hatred that
the correspondents have written about
that impels you to fight unions?" Curry
was asked.
Look here,' was the quick reply.
Put down in your note book these
few things, and when I'm a back mum
Der study them
A man who would not take chance
against a mob for money is not a per
son to look for the future.
Capitalists play golf, count their
coupons, lean on bright young men to
pilot their great enterprises and write
essays for their club parties on the
{ - S'f5Lti d41Lo41 Iy diitly hey neGQ
Drawn. brains and grit to help them
in their troubles.
Must Please Men Of Wealth.
''The young man who has a few
ounces of brains, carload of grit and
enough Drawn to not know he has a
stomach needs that capitalists money.
He can't win, taking it from the rich
mamie must please him to get it.
please the capitalist by showing
him that law and order will spread
out before you if you fight disorder and
lawlessness and you will get more
from the rich man than a bookkeeper
could earn in so times your period
of work
Fat Checks salve Wounds.
mo physical pain you can get in
a riot lasts long. The nica cnenL, that
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10

resort in North Carolina this greatest
Of geniuses the labor troubles OF the
country has produced is coughing.
The harsh frameraclSing cough that
he has means that there is a great
strike going on in his anatomy that
even his indomitable courage cannot
..break. It will break him. And
when this is done q black wagon will
traverse the streets of Pittsburg to a
hillside where men who wear even
the ubiquitous union button will IN
cover their heads and mutter: well,
he had the nerve.
Curry Man of Nerve.
When the planet Is webbing In its
orbit the satellite must endeavor to
keep up the equilibrium. Tbs honors
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10

CHARACTERISED interests have put
the stamp of approval upon one com
paratively new industry in the United
States-strike breaking. There's spe-
cies Of freemasonry that obtains in this
Ishmaelite class, but thirty-third de-
gree honors only have been conferred
upon three nlen-the Big Three of the
Industrial strife world. James Farley,
by reason of his long experience, easily
leads this trio in the public eye. Not to
have heard OF "Farley's Own is to ar
que yourself ignorant of great labor
troubles. Frank Curry. the pugnacious,
audacious, shrewd and witha1 fearless
bundle of nerves and muscle who is de-
flying unionism in the vortex Of Chi
cagos riotous Transfers strike, has
pushed himself into second place. The
third Of this group of men who pour out
organized capitals wealth to pour into
strikes the units of fighters who move
freight, turn wheels and push COM
merce on her way, is well known on the
Pacific Buster" Ready.
These are the superiors in the modern
uses to crush defiant unionism. They
are not particular, are these. generals,
as to the makeup of their brigades of
Workmen, but they demand one thing
from every man they lead-eourage.
NO time for streal1s of yellow, be they
fnthe black man or in the white man. is
the statement you will hear from the
FiI IL,
for the first duty.
Farley the Mysterious.
"Farley's here-ne will have 1900
negroes at his back and Chicago'a
business will be resumed, - was the
message that went through the room
where were gathered the chiefs Of the
transfers joint council. The name
Farley was one to conjure with on the
streets. A people who had no knowl-
edge of Farley except what was gained
from the press wondered If Farley
Wore a coat of mail, slept with his
head on a Winchester and had a body
guard Of cowboys.
Yes, Farley was there. We saw him
we who were watching for 4he man
whom the mllll0nalfe merchants eX-
pected to help them out of their stag
nation. But the Farley who came into
strike-ridden Chicago unannouneed,
ineognito and almost dragging himself
into his hotel room was not the in
trepid Farley who had put his horny
fist into the hand of the executive
head Of New York's Interborough and
promised with the grasp OF friendship
70 break the strike of $500 employees
inside Of 40 hours.
Leader Broken in Health.
Farley did not lead a body of rifle
men in the Employers leaning COM
pany caravan guard. He did not get
into any Of the riots with the strike
sympathizers. Instead he slipped out
OF the city as quietly as he had come
ina sick man. Down in a health
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10
Back at Work Again.

Buffalo, N. Y, May 22nd.-[ special)--
Crippled by Kidney Disease till he could
not stand on his feet for the hours re-
CURED at his trade, F. R. Mclean, 80
East Ferry ST., this city, had to quit
work entirely. Now he's back at work
again and he does not hesitate to give
the credit to Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Yes" Mr.. Mclean says, I was too
bad, / had TO quit. could not stand on
my. feet for the necessary hours. It was
Kidney Disease I had, ind friend adj
yised me to try Doddss Kidney Pills. ]
did 90 and after using six boxes am COM
pletely cured and am working as steadily
as before was sick. recommend Dodd' $
Pills to anyone afflicted with Kidney
trouble"
There is no form of Kidney Disease
Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure. They
always cure Bright's Disease, the most
advanced and deadly stage of Kidney
Disease.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10

comes at the end of your work will
make you forget few bruises and
scars.
And this from a man whose eye was
bandaged, whose head was swollen
from club wounds and whose body bore
bruises from the brick shower he had
detled. Look fer the cynic's smile
when he concludes his epigrammatie
talk and you wisI be disappointed.
Curry has a new science-he will mas
ter it and have a bank account that
viii take him far from the madding
crowd, as Il were. Some day he may
have sheep ranch and extend an in
Vitation to some old and broken for
ner labor chief to come and be his
herder.
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well dinner when his work is over!
No. The forces of the executive COM
mittee OF the Employers association
that were instrumental il en1isting
Curry for the perilous work speak
with the chechbook to such an en-
ploye. They regard him as a soldier
OF fortune Curry will pass on TO
some other center where organized
capital decides to declare it's indie.
labor--where a dormant citizens assoc
citation or an employers association
arises to present a slogan: open
shop city Or fight to the finish" and
again the will O. wisp of money wiIa
dance before strikebrealier Curry's
eyes. He will do the work asked OF
him. Given enough Industrial strife
problems to solve and Curry viii
swing around circuit that will end
only with his period of usefulness.
There was grave talk Of putting the
national guard in the streets of Chi
cago when Curry was busiest directing
his men. My boys IN a saloon2'
aueried Curry in his telephone. TEL
them to steer clear of the saloon
That's what makes it possible for
strike-breallers to work, lots OF times
the saloon (" Then settling back for
another chat the wounded leader dis
cussed troops aad their bearing on q
strike.
Troops and the Strike.
when you find the union men are
just plain law haters-not high-class
men-you learn that they do not fear
the police as much as they should
And ( guess the blueeoats do not want
to get the union men down on them
was arrested for picking up a brick
that a union sympathizer hurled at me.
while the latter was not caught
While two policemen held me thug
used his brass knuclIes on me. That's
not fair II militia were on guard law
tessness would cease and we strike
breakers would have chance to put
through the teams as directed
Then the presence of troops would
not make your own leadership futile?"
Curry was asked.
Troops might have to fire few vol
leys and then the peaceful stage would
begin. short time Of this and
would fit"
Out in the street a rich man drove
his automobile up to the department
store. Fifty policemen were guarding
a caravan Of wagons manned with the
negroes who blindly obeyed the orders
Of Strikebreaker Curry. A man who
was fixing the cement sidewalk drew
near to the automobiles.
They do be sagin' that this Curry,
the trike-breaker, will have Farley |
wid him tomorrow, mister. I'd hats
to be a teamster in the procession"
MY good fellow, a strike-breaker
can sleep ten hours a night, like you
do, perhaps, was the reply Of the
man in the auto-one CT tbs merchant
princes whose word in the Employers,
association was law.
And the wonder is that d strike
breaker Of prominence can find a room
d which he feels secure enough te
1rop into slumber
EG. WEsTLAKR
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10

ing It. Plenty OF good polfce-a chief
who knows the department will do as
it is fold-union men who have a rev.
erenee for the law that Chicago team
sters do not possess ',-s>--.d he said to
the millionaire leaders who conferred
with him: Its a einch.
In that strike Curry coined an ex-
preston that only one man heard.
It was: Negroes have blood.
nerves and a desire to work. I'll
fight to put them at par with the
same stocks of the white men" And
it was Curry who saw in his throngs
of big, loose ointed, silent, powerful,
though not altogether Clearly, =colored
recruits from st. Louis and the south
force that could break the warfare
that International President G. P.
Shea, Of the Transfers brotherhood
had precipitated in Chicago.
How Curry Deded Strikers.
The first thing that Curry did when
put in command in Chicago was to
march 300 colored strike breakers
through crowded streets to teach
them the lay of tha land" It was only
picnic for Curry. The marchers
were tired and footsore. Not SO with
Curry. A call went out: I'VE have
lost q wagon Who will find it? 1t
has federal Injunction p1acard on it.
but that means some one will lead
the mob to make kindling-wood of it,
IT'S a cinch,, came the familiar re-
mark Of Curry. Step out here, you
fellows. Follow me-
Policemen never lodged the show
ers Of missiles that were directed at
Curry and his band. Time for a grim
joke even by Curry. They are nor
trying to curry favor but curry Curry
said the strike-breaker. He found the
wagon.
yr.a1Lz.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10
Time to Cut Weeds.

she-When should young widow dis
card her weeds?
He-oh, | don't know. but suppose
abe should cut them just as soon as she
wants to raise a second crop Of orange
blossoms Baltimore Herald.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-06-10
seIfsa crifcing

Hell don't see what makes women such
awful gossips. Now, man prides HIM
self on being good listener
She-That's Just it A woman likes to
fatter his vanity and how could he listen
if she didn't ta1k?-Detroit Free Press.
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to man New York's cars that the
Amalgamated Association Of Street
and Electric Railway Employees had
deserted, never was menaeed by gar
rulity. Union men, richer than other
workmen, naughty because they had
powerful and rich unions behind them
and ignorant OF the true strength Of
Farley as a strike breaker. scoffed
when the Northam left her Jersey City
anchorage.
Her decks are Deserted they said
This man Farley has a bakers dozen
OF ours in the -hold' Farley never
spoke except il low tone to lieu
tenant of "Farley's Own" He had
made trips to the principal cities Of
the country, selected his men and had
brought them to New York,s portals.
A few hours later he put them in
charge of the cars and one day later
had the unions suing for peace. There
was scarcely an interview with Far
lev in Manhattan paper that was
bona lde. Capital spent no time in
foolish praise of the man who gave
whose ultimatums to the company i'm
posed impossible conditions. 1t paid
him and fled his name for future use,
Curry Once a Motornan.
Curry learned the use Of the motor
mans controller handle He could
stop a trolley car at a street crossing
SO that passenger could alight at
the same spot every time He knew
also the way to use the Westinghouse
air brake. He could mend blown
out fuse" He could climb onto q car
roof and cut a live wire or fix a twist
ed trolley. In short he was Of the
world OF front enders''-motor men.
We watched him guide car through
a mob, dodge missiles and defy the
stockyards thugs in the City railway
strike Ell take a car through to tbe
terminal and back if there is only
platform left" said Curry.
Strikers visited bis home and plead-
ed with his wife to teach him fear
She knew that he was fearless even
to the death struggle. She also knew
that his goal was the dollar sign- I
that he had no specific fight with I
unions Mrs. Curry realized that the
current Of his ambition could not be
grounded and pleaded with her callers
for justice for her spouse. Franks |
got the nerFe-he has a right to work I
for his living and If he gets the re-
porters 10 call him hero, a bruise on
his head will hurt just the same, she
is reported to have said.
Brains vs.. Drawn,
Considerable brute strength was an
asset used by Curry in the street car
strike. Farley used his brains more
and directed brute strength along lines
Of least resistance. The strategy of
the Pittsburg Office went into effect
wherever Farley strung his live
wires without a hitch Curry. after
al. was strike-breaker who needed
4 general manager on a. superintendent
to help plan for the trips.
Then there was the ice wagon driy-
ers' strike in st. Louis. Farley did not
aspire to breaking that. Maybe he
was not asked to help. But Curry
oobbed up. He gave his opinion of
he situation three hours after view