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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29

A SAILOR ON SEA PICTURES

I'll take a sailor along with me the
next time I buy a marine painting"
said a millionaire. Il bought two ma
rines last month, and yesterday my
old friend, Capt. salthorse, had at a
look at them.
'SaIthorse said:
In this first picture we've got a
trading schooner in charge of a tug
towing away from a rockbound coast
through a fearful tumble of sea. The
schooner's main topnast is gone. and
all sails are lowered except her stay
sail, which is kept hoisted, though she
is towing head on to the gale. Why
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29

Hawkins thereupon ignored me for
a period Of three minutes. Then lis
temper returned and he began a dis
course on the virtues of his motor.
It was long and involved and utterly
unintelligible, I think, to anyone save
Hawkins. It lasted until we had passed
the Battery and were in the shadow OF
Governors Island.
Then it seemed time for me to re-
mark.
We're going to turn back pretty
soon, aren't we, Hawkins? p
Turn back? What for?''
wen, ii were going up the Hudson
we can't run much farther in this di-
rection.
Hang the Hudson!" smiled the IN
ventor Wen go down around Sandy
Hook eat our lunch, and be back IL
the city at two, sharp. Why, Griggs
this is no scow. What speed do you
suppose this motor can deyelop?'
4 give it up
sOne hundred knots an hour!"
"Indeed?"
"Confound it! You don't believe it
do your snapped Hawkins, who must
have read my thoughts. Well, she
can make it easy. I'll just start her IL
to show you.
Argument with Hawkins is futile.
saved my breath on the chance OF find
ing better use for it later on.
Hawkins unlocked his little door
fshed around in the machinery, anG
fastened the door again with a calm
smile.
simultaneously, the launch seemed Il
leap from the water in its anxiety tt
get ahead. For . few seconds it quiv.
cred from end to end. Then it settled
down at a gait that actually made me
gasp.
am not positive that we made 10t
knots to the hour, but l do know that
| never Travelled IN an express trair
that fastened as did that poor launch
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4 NURRICAN" CITY

told in Chesta' of the american who
discovered a national origin in the
guide books mention Of one Of the
Mercian kings who extended his rule
50 far from the midland counties. The
traveller read the words American,
and pronounced it as the English be-
lieye We all do. MY dear he said
to his wife, this town was settled
BY the Murricans. w. D. HoWells,
III Harper's Magazine,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29
THE ALmosT-PERPETuAL MOTOR

alton has delayed their universal adop-
ton. They cost a tribe less than che
dollar apiece to manufacture AID
set.
But they stay where they are put,
and knew that if the launeh's wood
work was held together by them, it
wasn't likely to come apart much be-
fore Judgment day.
Real nice mess, isn't it, Hawkins ?"
said.
sIt-might be worse"
Far worse I agreed. We might
be wallowing helpIessly around in
those heaying pillows, or a gale might
be firing itself all out in the effort te
swamp us. But, as it is, we are mere
" careering gai1y over the suIlit
waves at an unearthly speed. In day
or two. Hawkins, we shall sight
the French coast, barring accidents, &C
ashore, and
by Jove, Griggs!" exclaimed the in.
ventor. lighting up on the instant
do you know, hadn't thought Of
that. Just let me see. yes, my 10Y
at this rate we shall be in the Bay q
Biseay Monday night or Tuesday
morning at the latest. Think Of 1t
Griggs! Think of the fame! Thinl
of"
I couldn't bear to think of it any
longer. I knew that if l though
about it. for another ten seconds
should hurl Hawkins into the sea ant
go to my own watery grave with muir
der on my hands.
The bow of the launch being nj
furthest possible point from its owner
/ gathered up my overeoat, cigars, ant
a sandwich, and erouched there, keep
ing out of the terrific wind as muei
as possible, watching for a possible
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29

that hoisted staysai1? All hands, ]
suppose, are drunk.
sc In that second picture continued
Capt. salthorse, the principal boat,
an 1s-footer, is racing, yet has no flag
flying. That's as incorrect as it would
be for you to go to dinner party
minus a shirt. The crew Of this boat
are getting in the spinnaker, and, If
they lower away, both spianaker and
boom viii be in the water, for they
have neglected to let the boom go
forward. But I know what the trou-
BILE is with them. They. too, are
drunk"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29

when the Hawkins A. P. motor began
to push it through the water.
An account OF our trip down the
Narrows and into the lower bay would
be interesting, but extraneous. Haw-
kins sat erect beside his Internal ma
chine, looking like cav alryman in the
charge | squatted in the cabin and
watched things flash past.
The main point is that we reached
the open water without smashing any
thing or smashing into anything
Well, | think we may as well swing
around" said Hawkins, glancing at his
watch Its wonderful, the control
have over the launch now Every bit
OF the steering gear is located In that
steel dome, along with the motor,
Griggs. Nothing at all exposed but this
little wheel.
You observed, probably. that I set
it few moments ago, so that the wind
wouldn't blow US about, and haven't
touched it since. Now note how we
shall turn back
f1dNhilS SidSp0d LIS i4tl1e WHEEL
pulled up his chest, and gave a ire
mendous twist.
And the wheel snapped off in Haw-
kins' hands.
"Why-why-why-" he suffered
in amazement.
YES, now you've done it" l raped
out, savagely. How the dickens are
we to get back? ''
There, Griggs, there said Haw-
kins, don't be 50 childishly impatient
shall simply unlock this case again
and control the steering gear from the
inside. Certainly even you must be
able to understand that
The calm superiority of his tone vas
maddening.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29

In 1885 the seven states Of Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Texas had only
Sill, 000, 600 capital invested in manu-
featuring; to-day they have $4,000
900 50 invested. an increase Of $780,
100000
These seven states, with Mississippi
added, increased the value Of their
farm property s1.347 100000 n 1880
over 1880 and sT06,e0o. 600 in 1900 over
1890. Or By $2,055, 100000 in 1900 over
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29

The American who means to stop
In Chester for the day, which may SO
probably and pleasantly extend itself
to i week, cannot do better than n
struet himself more particularly IN
the history of which / find myself 50
ignorant, for all my show Of learn
ing. would have him distrust THIS
act at every point, and correct II
from better authorities. Especially
/ should have him mistust q story
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29

1888 All kinds of crops are raised
cotton. fruit, poultry, hogs, live stock,
hominy. etc. The southern poultry
brings s25, 900, 900 a year and the eggs
sell for fully s20,ooo,000 year The
butter production OF the south is 200,
ooo, coo pounds a year, and the total
annual value Of the animal product is
$3.50 900. Coo The annual value Of the
total farm product Of these eight
states IS nearly s905. 00o. 600.
Other southern states are doing
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29
Never I-or1eaanae.

In the course of conversation an ae-
euaintanee remarked to the farmers
wife: Il should think it would ba
lonesome for you here SO far from the
village TO which the reply came.
Lonesome? Gosh, M. Why. on
clear day We can see the mountains.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29

well. Twelve billion dollars will not
cover the entire south's increase in
only a score of years in farm values,
bank deposits. products OF factories
and farm products
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29
One Great Trouble.

One reason why so many of US fail
to cast our anchors to Windward is
that we cant remember whether it
is the windWard or the 1eeward side
that the wind comes from.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29

Joannis Cariolanus. the young man
lust out of college who had gone down
to New York with his fathers lead
ing travelling salesman and had been
for week in the hives of metropoli-
tan commerce, sat in the smoker of
the Limited bound for Chicago. He
was in the midst OF a party of travel
ing men. His fathers leading sales
man, Watkins. was one OF them. He
did not then realize that ne sat amons
the men who actually build the bust
nesses-the men on the road.
ut is all right" began an old
timer, "for these people who make
the goods or job them, to settle back
on their dignity little, but it isn't
! all of them who know just how de-
| pendent they are upon their men on
| the road 1t is only when a cracker
jack man leaves a firm and the head
of the house puts out a dub in his
stead that he finds out how mucH
he is at the mercy Of his statesmen
There is one old firm in the hat
business in this country that have abb
/
Nobody else does make, or, it seems,
can make, anything as good as they
/ do. For nearly a quarter Of century
| they did their business through few
| jobbing houses, by mail. and with
couple Of old fogy statesmen. The
mana cement changed and young blood
put young blood out on the road.
4
many fold since that time. Yes, sir,
it is all very well to make good stuff,
but a concern to prosper must have
/ statesmen, not dummies"
Must Have the Goods.
i you bet your life.'' said the cloth
ing man, but at the same time a
man on the road owes it to himself
to have a good, strong line. know
was fool enough to work five years
Of my life for one house that either
didn't or couldn't turn out good stuff
They were as nice people as there are
on earth, but I finally had to quit
them and get bang-up line for my
trade My customers demanded it OF
me. When / walked into the Office
and told my people that I was going
to quit them they said to me:
Haven't we treated you right in every
, way, paid you handsome salary fol-
) what you have done, and haven't We
been obliging with your trader Yes
you have; am willing to grant vol
| that, and I'm very sorry that I fee
compelled to leave you; but I canno
: continue to sell my customers per
) sonality and treatment. All of tina
I helps a great deal, but what the.
!, want is clothing"
t 'sSure, sure!" spoke up the Boston
: favoring extract man. THE old-tIm
DAYS when you could walk into
, mans store with a rattle for his bah,
/ in your pocket and sell him five time
. as much of your stuff as he reall.
needed. if you cared to do SO, are past
] and the days Of the old-time travel
8 ing man are over. All Of this work
good for the concern that is maxim
reputable stuff Why, it used to b
SO that firm simply couldn't let
good man go, no matter what he die
ANY of you ever know Patsy Bryan
who used to travel out in Colorado2'
who. that's ever been out Wesi
; doesn't know Patsy2" exclaimed tn
. oId-timer.
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Salesman with a Record.


well, Patsy, you know" continued
the extract man, used to be high
roller. His salary was six thousand a
year, and he spent it, every cent. Why,
that fellow would bet a thousand dol
lars on the turn Of a card or quit bust
ness for a week to go to the horse
races. He did exactly as he pleased.
He was always behind with his firm,
and if he would blow five hundred in
a night the next morning, to square
himself. he would make a sight draft
on his firm for that amount. He was
nearly a years salary behind. Still,
he did the business.
FINALLY, one day, Patsy, after hav-
ing received his monthly warning for
many years, got q letter from one of
the partners in his firm. The letter
read something like this: Friend Pat
sy:: You have been with Us Tor long
time end your services have been deep
" appreciated. You have been good
man. faithful and honorable, but real
w we cannot stand any longer this way
YOU have of continuing in debt with
MS and vet drawing on US for $3.50, $500
and 81 900 whenever you feel like it on
one day and repeat the same perform
ance again the next Here | have be-
fore me a draft for $500 dated the 18th
inst. and here is another dated the
27th for s7e0 more. Now, in view of
This and of it's having continued so
long, feel that should ask You to
resign. This cannot do, but one
thing is sure-efther you or I must
leave the firm. Very truly yours,
-"
"Well, what did he have to say to
shat?s asked the clothing man.
SAY? Patsy was always ready with
m answer. He merely wrote back, My
dear sir and friend: have received
Four letter and am very sorry to learn
rom it that you are going to quit. You
Jay that one of US must go. To be sure
It must be you; I owe the house too
much. Wishing yon success in what
ever you may undertake. believe me,
sincerely your friend, Patsy. I"
what was the denouenlent Of this
spisode?" inquired Joannis Cariolanus.
1.-THE long and short of it was Patsy
stayed with the house until they re-
tired from business. He owed them a
few thousand dollars; they not only
squared his account but handed him q
good-sized check On top Of this.
well, that fellow was the most pop
aIar man that ever struck Colorado
He went up into Montana after he left
there One day while he was passing
through Colorado on the Rio Grande
one oil his old customers saw him a
The station and persuaded the superin.
tendeI.t of the road to hold the trair
for half an hour 50 that his old friends
in salida could come down and SET
him He got together 4 few members
If the brass band and down the stree
hey marched behind q eernet, bass
aorn a2d d drum.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29

Gopyright, iaaa, by Joseph .. Bowles.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-06-16

ilized world pension their civil SER
wants. The full working out of the
merit system in civil service can never
be accomplished, believe, until we
recognize the principal of civil PEN
sion for superannuated government
employees. There is no other impor-
tant nation which has not recognized
that principle
I'm an inquiry reaching nearly 1000
corporations replies show that 10 have
adopted some plan for retiring and
providing for employees during old age
Without single exception these cor
porations which have adopted such
plan expressed the opinion, after hav-
ing had an opportunity to note its eff
fects. that 1t was a wise business prac-
tice. AS rule those American cor
porations which have adopted the old
age pensions system have treated the
matter in. the light OF deferred wages,
the corporation bearing the entire ex-
pense of the pension requirements.
IF l were to attempt to summarize
the reasons why institutions in the
United States are beginning to adopt
old age pension schemes l would say
that they embrace such considerations
as these: The pension attaches the
employee to the service and thus de-
creases the liability to strike. 1t makes
more certain a continuance of efficient
men in the lines of work with which
they are perfectly familiar. or quite
as much Importance is the fact that
pension system enables employers to
dispense with the elderly and inefi-
Client and thus give constant encour-
agement to good effort on the part of
younger men hoping for promotion. It
operates especially as an incentive to
hold men between the ages OF 40 and
80 when they have acquired the ex-
erience and skill which makes them
especially valuable and prevents their
being tempted away by slightly in
creased wages for a temporary period
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-06-16
USE TONS OF PRINT PAPER.

Immense Quantities of Materials Re-
CURED I'm Government Work.
One of the largest items of expense In
connection with the government print
Ing office is the trainloads Of paper re-
quired yearly to keep pace with the
growing demands for information re-
gardlng the operations OF the govern
ment, says the Washington Star. Over
100000 was spent last year for this
material. The printing for both houses
Of Congress consumes a large portion of
the total amount required by the office.
About twenty carloads of "a by 30 su.
per-calendered paper are required each
year for the printing of hills, and a
large quantity Of ordinary book paper
Is used In the printing Of the documents,
reports and other work Of that charac-
ter coming from the capital. The paper
used for the large Record presses is
purchased In 4S-inch rolls of $50 pound.
each. Some idea of the large amount of
paper required TO print this official pub.
LEGATION is gained from the statement
that two years ago, during the first two
months of the last Congress, twelve car
loads Of these huge rolls were required
There is little liability for paper OF
an inferior quality being worked Off on
the government printing office, the pa'
per warehouse being prepared to thor
oughly test each shipment TO compel
Uniformity with the standard establish
ID for the various grades. A delirs-te
mechanism indicates tie thickness Of
the sheet, a novel paper tester automatl-
cally records the tensile strength and
an acid test indicates the presence Of
ground wood which has not been prop
erly treated with chemicals. The stand
ards are established by the samples sub.
mitted by the bidders, and subsequent
deliveries must conform to this sched-
ule.
The use Of paper at Uncle Sans big
print shop also involves the question
Of printing inks. The daily require
ments are said TO be between 4n0 and
500 pounds. During the winter season
the Congressional Record consumes an
average Of 10 to so pounds per night.
The inkroom contains the proper ma
terlals for the finest cuts or the most
hurried and cheap work. Especially de-
sirable is the different qualities Of ink
for the different character OF the work
In hand and the quality OF the paper
used
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-06-16

active life of the institution as though
she had worked in the world Of finance
for many years. From the beginning
Of her financial career she showed
much enthusiasm and acumen. Every
day she spent several hours In her Of
fee, consulted the directors on invest
ments. and even ventured to suggest
many avenues for profitable use Of the
funds.
The other officers ceased to regard
her as woman; they accepted her on
u basis of masculine ability; they re-
garded her as one OF themselves. Con-
soquently, when the president Of the
bank died, in 1908. the directors unani-
mously elected Mrs. Davidson to the
office. In her higher position she
showed even greater activity and sa-
gacfty. She assumed undisputed con-
troll OF the institution. Other banking
men In the State, when they heard Of
her, smiled later they said she was a
very bright woman. They came to have
much respect for her financial shrewd-
ness and cleverness.
This institution with a woman at its
head is located In the village center,
near the old gaol, with the ancient
courthouse and old Congregational
church for other neighbors. 1t is
housed In neat, comfortable $4,000
buildlng-a building as up to date as
any small bank building In New Eng
land. Mrs. Davidson is very proud of
the attractive quarters OF the York
County National Bank.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-06-16

Fifteen miles below the head OF the
passes Of the Mississippi, and not far
from where Southwest Pass loses it.
self in the Gulf OF Mexico, little
stream no wider than a village street
curves away from the main pass"
Along both sides are tiny landings,
and back of each there is a cottage.
The cottages are now neglected and
forlorn, but once they were palm-shad-
ed, rose-guarded and lovely. There, In
the days when Southwest Pass was
the principal mouth OF the Mississippi.
dwelt the pilots who carried ships
across the bar.
"Old Pilot-town" is hidden from the
traveller on the pass by dense cane
brake, and strangers seldom enter II
from Its bayou. One who did came
down the river in sklff, and turned
into "Old Pilot-town Bayou" at noon
for dinner. He found n ready meal
at the first cottage, where dwelt an
old woman. widow Of one OF the old
time pilots. AS the meal progressed,
one by one interested neighbors
dropped in to see the stranger, till a
dozen were braced against the walls.
How many people live here now,
Mrs. By asked the visitor. Il thought
the bayou was rather deserted"
Mrs. b. looked round the room and
took account of stock.
You can count them for yourself"
she said. They're all here"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-06-16
WOMAN CONTROLS A BANK.

York, Me-, L. the proud claimant
Of the only woman bank president
in New England. Mrs. Elizabeth Bur-
leigh Davidson She Is the head Of
the York County National Bank. The
bank was organized In February, 1898,
with James T. Davidson president and
w. NJ Walker vice president AIRS.
Davidson at that time was very much
interested in her home duties. And
these home duties were as arduous as
the duties Of the head Of the bank, for
in The Davidson family there were six
lively children. In 1901 Mr.. Davidson
died. Vice President Walker was elect
ed as his successor and Mrs. Davidson.
to the ceneral surprise OF Maine peo-
pie, was made vice president OF the
institution.
Mrs. Davidson was very well In
formed on the business Of the bank.
Besides, =, Is possessed OF bright
and alert pHid. She stepped into the
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-06-16
ONCE UPON A TIME.

First Railroad Train Isn't So old
as Youngsters Sometimes Think.
Did you go to the st. Louis fair? II
road exhibit you missed a wonderfully
interesting part OF the show" You
missed seeing what may be called the
evolution or deN elopment Of that Won
derful invention, the railroad engine.
The trouble is that the boys and girls
Of to-day are so accustomed to the
railroad that they think little OF all
that 1t represents. Some OF them may
be like little girl | happen to know,
who once said:
why, papa, didn't we always have
railrondsr
Just ask your grandparents about
that. | have an idea that some OF
them will tell you that they were men
and women long before they ever saw
railroad engine. A man but forty
five years old told me the other day
that he walked ten miles with some
other boys when he was ten years old
to see a railroad train.
1t has not been so very many years
since the most intelligent men and
women laughed and even jeered at the
mere idea OF people riding at the rate
OF fifteen or twenty miles an hour.
When George Stephenson first began
to talk about inventing an engine to
be run on lines Of wooden or iron
track, the people looked upon him as
a dreamer, visionary who might not
be quite right in his head"
But this George Stephenson, OF Wy
lam, near Newcastle, In England, was
not to be put down by sneers nor
Jeers, and he had the audaclty to de-
clare that he could invent an engine
that would run at the terrific rate Of
twenty-five miles an hour, whereupon
one Of the most noted periodicals OF
the day said that he ought to be put
In a straitjacket."
Stephenson went TO work and built
a queer-looking little railroad engine
called the Rocket" In 1929. and that
was the beginning of one of the most
useful and wonderful things In the
world-the modern railway system
ST. Nicholas