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dles can be made to enter and leave the water in an approximately vertical pc sition. and practically the whole of the power can be used to good effect. Now. in this Fitch showed his engineering good sense: and 1t was not until over half century later that the featherins paddle was introduced,
 Tn this type the floats are hinged at the outer ends of radials arms from a shaft, and by means of an eccentric to which each float Is also attached they are made to enter and leave the water in an approximately perpendicu- lar position. a condition which John Fitch secured by his clumsy put enect- i've recIprocating paddle arrangement
 That 1t was eff1cient Is shown by. the fact that he attained on measured mile, as testified to. by several witt nesses of high standing in the commu- nifty, a speed of eight miles an hour,
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carrying steamboat is still an open one. Therefore we suggest. in view of the fact that. during three months of the summer and autumn of the year 1790 John Fitch was operating & pas senger-service steamboat on the Della ware. which sailed according to fixed schedules and was advertised in the daily papers of that day. it is incumb- ent on the city of Philadelphia to do justice to the memory of its too long neglected citizen.
 The story of his life. and his heroic struggle to design a successful steam boat. as written by his own hand, re- poses at present in the Philadelphia Library, to whose care 1t was com mitted by Fitch shortly before his tragic death. This unique autoblogra- phy consists of five old clphering books. dog-eared and thumb-worn. whose 500 pages, covered with the characteristic
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And home (no chiidren,. as Fought.
 He went on sometime an sed if 1t eff 1t hadn't i'been fur that wine ne wouldn't. be euinberin the Eropn' ~ s .Then one ov,my brsthren,euk fl to hart about simmons an ris rite up an. burst out with: q Let me no longer finger here
 Elf I can't git some simmon peer i, an. sot rite down. Then one of your brethren tuk the fiore with weepin' eyes an. let hisseif loose with:ss s.1 love the south. it's mems. its vim But most oy all. them sorghum skim < mins." SY sgg f i, Then good Msthedis' brother what's got notable skippernong vine. ! tux the fore. (they wus all doin' like, school children on c Friday evenin' speakin' their piecssJ an after he got the dust outen his mouth he biubbered out:
 The melloncollick days is come. !. When can't make some wine at home"
 Then the feller with the papur said thare wus music in the air about suchin' houses fur Ticker an how It's agwine to be wus of the amendment Is voted in an that throwed the fat In the fire.. Namergodi man. one ole veteran started right off to git his ole army muskit. an sed, If it's cum to that He hang my harp on the wtlier tree an on to the wars again. II thort 1t wus my time to talk some. an tole the crowd that I'm not keepin' house at these presents. but ef ary high sheriff or cunstabIe comes to search it. there's a-goin' to be holes in his hide too numerous to menshun. tole 'em we used to have search war rants fur stolen goods. an they wus good things fur the niggers. but sence the niggers can't vote, they is no use for surch warrahts for us ingiorious Angle Saxons, an we ain't agwine to have .em of Conner an weakley an that feiler rum St. Lawrence way up there in Ohio. do want lem. sed. feiaer dimmicrats.s enuff is enuf. an too much makes a dog sick, Ricolieck
 Ander Jefferson an Tom Jackson an all them bully ole dfmmicrats what's
 had their day an. stepped of. an down with Conner. -ss Hits Conner this and Conner that. :. But Corners as ded as drownded rat.
 and sot down amid great applaws.
 Namergod: man. mity nigh everybody in this part ov the moral vinyard Is tooth am toe-nail agins thats amend- ment--have you got any flat terbacker? | I'm slap out. like Joe Taylor used to be3''saetS @laf f3t as W'f 2se #
 Fortunately, \, had some, which the l Iiberally divided with me. leaving mo
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Injun like. was mad because they didn'e git tharet fust. an they scoofed acrooa the country an got to the Postal an biazed away witb. XII the fstted. caif. Peary has nailed it. That's tho way.it happsnsd an it an mingie him hcs ainst but one. an that Is ole Brother Perry Cook. rho ole Baptises Is ahead but they shore come mighty nigh gettin mixed up with the heethin. Es soon e they gie through hifalutin over him up there in New York we are lookin' fur hirn to come straight home an bring that pole with him so we can sec it Nam- erEod, man. what ef Bro. Cook should come walktn' up some day with fhAt pole on his shoulder am it should turn out to be e simmon pole, jest as the Guvner an that Filler Bull -}elier am that pore wayfaring weakley feIIef from St. Lawrence up thare in Ohfcs has put thare foot down on sfmmon beer.
 Elf carmikiii an Fifier Bull
 Don't want at nary Jug to pull
 NSs Msy dIsk ss sns ssss sSs is ns they
 ontweii they grow both lean 1sn' eans
 On their first love, them sifmmins.
 Let Weekly hay the katnip tea.
 An sirrup every day,
 Elf he's agih.. .blackberries.
 An skfppernongs an sorghum
 An other things that grow at homo
 Frum peaches onto cherries.
 What good St. Lawruns wants h tin.
 trhe way he loves it is . sim,
 The kline we call Expenditures"
 He thinks thare is no better thinEs
 An rimes it with Itself and sings
 "oh. Lord. them good spondulucs.
 The Guvner he likes penshun munneys
 But Bankhead ain't bit oneasy
 While eatin' homo made big brons
 On that thare pore rich farm of his-
 sen,
 "wrhy. namergod. man. don't b1eeve President Brine will eyer put hts foot in tAilerbammer agin. ef he can't git 2 some simmon beer to wash down them possum an. taters what he loves SO we'll Brine's bin President ever sense ,, the war. haint he? know I've been a hearfn' ov him ever sense you an . Rob an them was stainpedin the state. Is Rob Twin. yit? Name-god. he must ov saved up a power ov mun- 2 ny when he wus Guvner. though new CT hearn ov his chousin' the ole sol- deers outen enny ov thairn.
 "waal. Squire. this Is my road. I'll have to leave you now. I'm shore glad Keep up that thare assmy remedy an be shore to write to the paypurs an tell 'em that wus ole Brother Perry Cook (jist one ov him, thare cant be two) whats foun' that pole. an Is fetchin ov 1t home. The proof ov the { poodin is the chawin' ov the bag. Good bye"
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and that he. ran his boat regularly between Philadelphia and Trenton and way points at an average speed of sew en miles an hour. This, be 1t remem- bered was from two to three miles better than the best speed of tine Cler- mont some twenty years later.
 The ultimate failure of John Fitch due to lack of influential backing and to a combination of unfortunate ac- cidents During the winter following his successful season of 1790 he was engaged in the construction of a larger and more powerful vessel, called the Perseverance, which. unfortunately, was torn adrift and wrecked during a heavy. storm on the Delaware River.
 Fitch understood full well the value ana significance of his work, and he also realized that if he failed it was not because of any inherent facilities in his plans, but merely for lack of in-
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the Lords sake to sit him loryer what don't sell zouf" ~s
 told him. that while it is possible there are lawyess iike the ones smorg whom he had fA1isn, Ifke the man who was ayeidsd by priest and Leyfte, still they are very rare ana only do such thinss as bs complained of when the family necessity required its told him rwould get him one soovs suspi- cion.
 And, I tried and tried. and got him .. dosen or more. but he found the "trail ofa the serpent was over
 Thsn I. with sail my virtue, fen under his suspicton and he told it in the neigh borhood---'10amergod he's just
 like the balance ov'em-he's sold out too. sss while, was resting under this un- kind suspicion, he undertook again. by himself to try the journey in which he was soing to need the services of the samaritan ., Under iike circumstances history will repeat Itself. and my old lite- gants this time felt that history was trying to beat itself He fell into the hands of patient shyster. who tencouraging hope to sping eternal In the human breast, and, like the, flsh- erman. who plays with the hooked fsh. got q whole years pension (ex-
 cept that witheld by our successfui administration)xfro y from the old man be- fore 'sellfng ouc 0t There are times when We have to
 go to those whom I've hastily dis- trusted. and he came to me again. To meyer weary in well doing is l the thing try to fnpress upon my brethren and friends and. to be con- sistent. have, sometimes. to take my own medicine--and. that Is, often . pretty bitter pill"
 However. I got him anothtr Tor yer" sss
 Since then I hadn't seen him tin on
 the occasion of which write. He Is wearing the eighty mark
 but Is erect, though without the
 spring of youth In his movements.
 His beard Is long. tastily unxempt.
 and would be white but for pride hair or beard only deceives one man. | The old man. like the vain milk
 maid. has his schoioe of coiors and
 choose amber. for his beard. like |
 good pany others. He was once a Missionary Baptist, {"
 but has got out of Babylon" and has
 his feet washed at least once a year. | He used to keep horses and was a I great horse swapper. but in an un- guarded, moment he swindled a young
 fellow in the neighborhood, out of a
 mare and colt, and since that he has
 walked-although he has saddle. T He was walking on this occasion when overlook him in the road
 He seemed to be in no hurry and un.
 der the spell of a Drown study" ana
 didn't notice the approach of my horse
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
Philadelphia NoU Claims to
 HaUe Had First Steamboat

we have always associated the name of Fitch with the development of the steamboat, 1t was not until We began to make a more thorough search of the history of the early inventors that we realize how important a part John Fitch had played in that period, how meritorious was hls work and how practical the degree of success which he attained.
 It has been freely admitted that the present festival cornmemorates merely the inauguration or successful steam boat navigation on the Hudson River. and that the question as to who pro- duced the first practical passenger
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Scientific American.
 The widespread interest In the early history of the steamboat, which has been aroused by the present s2lendid tribute to the work of Robert Fulton on the Hudson River. has served to bring into public notice several too long neglected inventors prominent among whom is John Fitch. With the exception of a small craft which he tried on the old Collect pond In this city, Nthe whole of the experimental work of this worthy man was done in .Philadelphia and on the Delaware Riv- CT.
 We are free to confess that. although
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fiuence and the necessary financial sup- port. Pitifully prophetic is the follow Ing sentence from the diary Of this disappointed inventor. who evidently foresaw at that time his early death.
 The remains of Fitch lie in an un- marked grave. The scene of his labora is today barren of monumIat or me- morial to bear tribute to hls remarks able work.
 g We commend these facts to the con- sideration of the citizens of Philadei- phia and those towns along the Dell aware River which were the scene of his early labors and triumphant but short-lived success. in the hope that they may see their way to honor the memory and perpetuate the work of Fitch by some such services and per- manent memorials as have marked the present Hudson Fulton celebration.
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Periodically. visit the Lords Country" That is the best country. in all the world to me. I know the lands are not As fertile as in some other localities. think the sun is as regular there a anywhere, and. maybe no brighter. Same way with fhe moon and the starr. Really. whom come to think why this 10 the best country of all. nnd 1t is the people. If they are better than the people do not know. 1t is because they can't among them: and. whom we didn't agree ''haa it out with thsm.- They have forgiven me for being right and all my other faults, and how can help putting them above any other people in any other part of the counfry7
 It Is the ~Lorrs Country ana I love to 60 there and. I think they are giad that go.
 often think of the last time I win go--pale and voiceiess. when cheery greetings will not mark my arrivai.
 It was there I, years ago, was af- fiicted with asthma and thought. many times 1t was stGood-bye, John but happily meeting with sn old friend. was almost miraculously healed However, about this time found . doctor in Chicago. who. I thought was the main factor of relief but some doubt was cast upon that sup- position. d In that distinguished Christian Scientist promised me rs- lief by taking the matter to the Lord,
 Oftentimes. when horse 10 sick ana the nefghbors come. each with different and sovereign remedy. the poor beast never knows, as he has taken them all, which remedy took him across the river to rest under the shade of the trees" guesa 1t la that way when we have more than pne doctor.
 It may be that the Christian scien- tist took my case. in "the nick of time" feel sure there was no .pison'' In her remedies I like osteopathy- ton--no "pison" there.
 But. 1t may be that the remedy sug- gesfed by my old friend and neighbor "did the work" for never took 1t.
 am thinking of his infallibie re- medy now. for saw the old man on . recent visit to the Lords Country"
 He has had troubles of his own," in . lawsuit which. even before get. ting on the docket is a tiresome ana yexatious as "Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce.' He has found some dfnerce between Justice and iaw.--that. what is justly his. is hard to set by the law.
 His righteo IS soul has been vexed and harrassed by 'Ioryers." Indeed, he has almost concluded that "loryers' are out, after the stun" He had vari. ous experiences with them before Il occurred to him his 'ioryer'' was get ting his pension money and fees, an, then selling out to the other side When this view dawned upon him. h, sought me out and enlisted me. .'fol
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

1 hours dressing. Even in her night dress she runs to the looking glass to see whether the little pimple that broke out on her forehead yesterday has disappeared. Then she spends half an hour looking through her stock of clothes. And what an effort 1t Is to decide whether she wishes to appear today in green, yellow. red. or blue. Then comes the matter of her coif- fure. First she tries one way. then another. Now she curls one part of it. smsars jasmine over 1t, ,seatters powder over 1t. But it isn't becoming that way. She takes it all down, and begins all over. This does not suc- ceed either. But she does not tire of doing the same thing three or four times. In an hour and half her. hair Is fixed. Then she looks exactly like a milier,s maid, who, has been standA ing for. half a day where the dust was thiekest. :. When she shakes out her clothes the floor gets whiter than the street after 1t has showed all night. If she wishes to put small black plaster on her face 1t takes her half an hour to decide on the spot. When 1t comes to her dress, the maid is in terror. To turn about thirty times before two adjoining mirrors Is 0 slight matter, and in this process now the tailor. now the seamstress. now another. is wished to the devil. Finally comes the Jewelry. And when you think that everything must now be satisfactory she stiil finds so much to improve, and to change. that she, goes away in the greatest displeasure,, and has to hurry. in order not to- en- ter church in the middle of the ser mon,"
 Mans Vanity Then.
 But men seem to have progressed farther in the matter of being slaves nR Gn ntins, Knr tha cnnnfer- nicfura Of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
Mans Vanity TheI

But men seem to have progressed farther in the matter of being slaves of fashion, for the counter-picture of mans vanity has. at least, In great
, 1909-05-08

moral sense of the Masses that they may re-
alise their responsibility in this respect. We
are aware that the malicious persons who set
fire are only a small fraction of the labour.
ing class, but the evil is spreading and it is
liable to have u very baneful influence on the
rising generation Of the community. We
have o strong claim on our religious teachers
Cor their energetic assistance in this matter
Since publishing our editorial Of the 9th we
have had considerable satisfaction in BEING
told that the subject Of orderly behavior on
plantations, and the condemnation of iucon-
diarism i'll particular, was the topic of aA
address by a preacher to q country congre-
cation on the 4th instant.
There was q slight rise in the price offered
for produce locally a fortnight ago, and the
figures have been maintained up to the pres
ent time, viz, $50 per 100 tbI for muscova-
do sugar, 1920 for crystals, IS cents per
gallon for syrup and 16 cents for molasses
The chief factor influencing the market
seems to have been the dlsappoiutmen 81
the Cuban yield during the latter part Of
March. 1t is new feared that the latter
estimate of the crop of that island was too
high, and that eventually the output may
turn out nearer to the earlier calculations,
which may be q difference of lot, 900 OF
100000 tons, Although SOM Of the sugar
is likely to find It's way to the American
market thiss season, yet, rs any deficiency in
the American supply will be made up from
the Dutch East Indies or from Europe, the
prices paid by America must influence the
price Of sugar in Canada and elsewhere
since lmpOrtatlOns to those countries will be
lessened by just the amount of foreign
sugar that is purchased by America.
1t is expected that what is called the
Payne Tariff will be soon made law in tue
United States, by which 10000 tons Of the
sugar of the Philippine Islands will be adj
mitted into America free Of duty. What
with this impetus given to sugar production
in these new colonies Of the Republic and
with the rapidly increasing importations
from Porto Rico, it will be seen THAT within
a year or two, American will not buy o ton
of sugar from any foreign country. There
is, therefore, every relsp IN why the friends of
the West Indies should use all means in
their power to effect the proposed reciprocj-
ty between the Dominion Of Canada and
the West India Colonies. The amount of
produce exported to date is 428 tons Of
sugar and II, 300 puncheons Of molasses, az
against 1925 tons and 15,099 puncheons at
the corresponding date Of last year.
, 1909-05-08
REPORT

barbados agricultural Reporter, II APriD
During the past two weeks the hill districts
of the middle parishes have been f"youred
with frequent showers, which have given
quite as much moisture as is good for asri-
cultural purposes at this time. There has
been rain on II days out Of the first 10 OF
, 1909-05-08

ter Cup resulted as follows Saa to Strato
first, All Black second, Tiraillerie third.
In the international Match for small bore
ranges the British team scored 1853 Of o
possible 10 900, and the American IA, 179.
A Calcutta despatch states that in connec.
bion with the anarchist conspiracy Of 1908
two prisoners have been sentenced to death,
ten to transportation ior life and six to trans
portatiOn fOY shorter terms. The Public Pro-
Becutor, Mr.. Biwas, was shot dead in open
court in February.
Parls dispatches report that NJ. Clemeu-
ceau, pleading illness, did not receive the
delegates of the postal employees, who mad
designed to present IN uItimatum for fulfil
ments Of the promises by which the strike
was recently settled, including the dismissal
of the under secretary NJ. Simyan, and the
delegates forthwith formed u p. I. T. (pos-
tai telegraph and to'ephone) Employees Asso-
citation, designed to place functIonaTies upon
the same footing us a trades union, including
the right to strike against the state, rs the
Government has declared FIAT the law of
1884 regarding the formation of trades
unions does not include functionaries. Their
action is defence and a possible coup d etat,
as it transforms employees into masters, in
stead Of servants,o of the state. The functional
Yles are cooperating with tno trades unions,
whose revolutionary motives are avowed, and
it is even suggested that the royalists nMd
other reactionaries are fomenting the agita-
ton The Government continues discipline
ing the functionaries and prosecuting the
trades unionists, some OF whom have received
sentences Of imprisonment for soditious con
duct.
A Rome telegram reports Int Mr.
Wright's pupil, Lieutenant Calderera Of the
navy, fell while flying, and was severely
injured. 1t is uncertain Whether the motor
failed or no suffered from IA sudden vertigo
incapacitating him. Having a presontiment
he refused to take any passengers, as had
been arranged.
st. Petersburg adyices state that the
Gear has received NJ. Stolypin, who demand
cd his Majesty approval Of o bill Great
ing a general naval staff, Its import
anco lies not in this specific bill but
in the construction of the constitutions
whether the Doumn possesses the power to
attach general Legislation to votes OF sup
plies. The issue raised lies between the
entire Cabinet and the reactionaries, includ-
ing the officials DESTROYS of sitting i~nyosti-
cations Of maladministr0tiOn and the navy
question is lost in the larger question Of
support Of the representative institution and
q responsible ministry.
A Pekin telegram states the United States
Government is taking the init alive towards
calculating China's desire to increase Gus
toms duties to twenty five per cent. the Box
er settlement, which allowed an increase TO
oue-eighth, being found inadequate.
, 1909-05-08

New York. May 7th
Flour. BlenloJ CIcnrs per bnrreD CPS
Me,l, hlndniod, per barrel 3.75-
New Seasons Pork
Heavy Mess Pork, $185-19
u,, tCrystaI4 pc, 100 lbs 366-
o"6"i' Mu4coyudo S93tost 1OOtbs. 3. SO
Mola4ses EnE. Ields. Per gal. no qnotntiop,
Liverpool Cotlo , mid,niu4 Upland. 5 3-5
Exchange, New York&London,G go days sight
4.864
Exchange NewYork and london, 81 ght 4.874
London, May 9TH
Dem. Crystals 14s. 6d-15s, 81
Muscovndo, I floating terms, in
ou6"I bond, los. 3d-IOs. Cd
German beet 88.f o. b. los. AID
Jnyn Sugar $500 GibrnItar or Chtrn | fcH
orders, tloating terms. l1s.43d.
Demeraru Rum, Is 6d.--1s. 73d.
Cocoon, Trinidad, good middling Red,
pr cwt SIS. nominal.
Coktou, modiu4l Fine ;. Lat LlverpooLnominal
L.. Id.
Bank Of England Rate Of discount q.
ConsOls soy
Three per cent. Rentes in Paris 97,30