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THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD.
extra session of legislature proceedings
bo worked
It will Stipulate that the labor of
the farm convicts shall be directly
entirely to the support of the system,
In the raising of supplies for the whole
number of convicts and in the making
of clothes and equipment for their
u ? e >l " lt ^'Ing the purpose and policy
IN THE HOUSE. diseased—such as cannot
Vr \1. xander of D.eKnlb presented on the road:-
, Vii, house an amendment to the
!? 0 l,l„ r convict lease bill:
T ],i^ amendment is to be written
(,in ill constitution of the state to
1 mu' any lapse by the legislature
,1,. business of convict leasing
l" nf e it is wiped out. „ ..
-plie amendment, also looks to the of the law to use the farm simple
cons'rimtion by the state of a sys- for a basis from which to work the
L, of improved public highways, con- oonvicts on the public ronds’’
neclitn; every county site in the slate It will authorize the commitment of
rp,, cover the expense, sections 3 and female misdemeanor convicts to the
rf article 7 of the constitution are state farm, in the discretion of the
- b( , amended so as to provide a spe- trial Judge.
rial of not more than 6 cents on it will keep the races separate at
, spin. The limit of such bond Is- work and at leisure
.tie is Placed at an amount that could i it will give the labor of the felonv
h, pniil off. principal and Interest by convicts free to the counties on their
the proceeds from this tax In thirty j public roads, providing, however, that,
vpars .nil material for constructionn work
• A m ove to institute proceedings of shall he purchased bv the counties
impeachment against the members of „ w)ll 10( . 0Knlzt , t H ree 80urces of
)h( , ,„ison commission was made In
the
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an ,i mi ' rr“ an annual income tax of half a mill
rc.-nl'"ions looking to this end Mr., on t t 1(! dollar; and a specific tax of
,'n,"rotolntlor, provided fop the <2 for lhe oole of“mh
* 'hoie" Sr.'The 0, ,„^ S'™ ,Sr
0 1 'Regarding the tnx on “Imitation
ic pi i on commission was mane in revenue for support of the system—
io bouse of representatives Thurs-1 the lease money under present con-
;| V . "hen Mr. Crawford of Bartow lra etB. until those contracts expire
a,i Mi 'ackRon of Jones Intiodurnid an annual Income tnx of half a'mill
to prefer
l,„ |N the prison commission.
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prnl Jitdlciar;
RAILROAD COMMISSION
Makes Many Important Rulings
of Interest to Shippers.
WILL FIGHT HIGH RATES
Permission i. Declined the Georgia Rail
road to Increase Passenger Rate
1-4 Cent a Mile.
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n ' ^ «tiu1 provisiona comiiur info
dJ h S| Ixued „„ or.
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he excessive rates which the rail
poa J are 8eekln * Permanently to im
mlsfion^wm *t he part of " ,0 com-
1 , be learned with much
«,aT l a ^L° n ,.„ b / J he ahippers of the
Vnnmiittpp was called 'l 0 *' however, be taken as legalizing *he result of un action nn ♦ »,« .
Friday morning session of the jj)f„ a l a !f*t!!l a JLL™?l l _ "T 10 , 1 ' 8 or „ 0,he1 ' I °L.! hat _..! ,od r’’ sorae Hme ago. >a '
vi pritlav mornine session oi me , . . .. , * ... wwu., , auiue lime nun that
opiuied with a bill and a reso- ” to * ,cat,nR beverage, and shall not | ‘hey would be left to make the flu
, irccted at the state pr’son n a "y way affect the provision of the "Ingle-handed.. Now that they aretn
£ tr The bill was introduc- ^ Proh biting the sale of such." have the support of the slatelength
-* Under the prison board, and to be! and encouragement will tin i„„, ,
their cause. ni lo
es T n P r Cr n Sed / a L es “PP'y class
Mississippi I) rlvo" d F fr ° m 0,1,0 nlld
,>,i Representative White of Screv- , , , ~ ------
' ,i a fter seeking to abolish the elected bv that board, It provides for
, ' ,p commission, provides for the , a superintendent of penitentiaries at
i-M'diment of a hoard of control $4.**0n or annum; n state road commls-
nf the' Georgia penitentiarv. It was 8,nn er at $2,500 per annum; a clerk
ref.M r<*,l at the request of its author, at $1.800; a secretary of pardons at
f, iiic committee on general Judicl- *1-500, sucli superintendents of farms
as are necessary at $1,200; for war-
' ■ill, convict bill of Representative dens at $ 100 per month; guards at
HnltliT of Jackson, which passed the $50 and physicians and road superin-
lioiiat the regular session of the tendents at a maximum compensation
central assembly, was again adopted j of $100.
in somewhat amended form by that H will require nil officers and em-
both Thursday afternoon iby a vote ployes to take an oath of office* and
r,f 'io to 58. j give bond, and will prohibit any of
ylic Holder bill provides that upon ,hem receiving other pay than that
tti ■ i xpiratton of the present lease Riven them by the state. Physicians
m item on March 31. 1909, the founda- aro excepted in the regular practice
ti< n of a fund shall be begun which <,( tk eir profession.
w m he used for working all the fel- •' will provide a system of parole
Oiiv and misdemeanor convicts of the i for felony convicts, on permit of the
state on the public roads. Counties ,)oard approved by (he governor; pa-
municipalities will have the <priv-1 joled convicts to be at any time lia
ble to re-arrest on order of any mem
ber of the board.
STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Amos E. Fuller of Gainesville has
gathered three crops of beans from
the sume vines this summer and
shoots were putting out on the vines
again when lie plowed them up a few
days ago. Each time the vines were
full of beans. .
There may be other “Peachtree
streets," but there seems to be only
one recognized the world round by
ilege of using them for this purpose,
H .-inning April 1, 1909, the remainder
to he leased out to Individuals until
December 31, 1911. After the latter
date no convicts whatever shall be
leased to private parties.
IN THE SENATE.
One bill and three substitutes were
presented in the senate regarding a
reformation in the present convict
l nise system and the prison commis
sion Thursday. After adopting the
report of the penitentiary committee,
ihe senate heard the Felder bill for
its third reading. When it was put j the postofflee authorities, and that one
on its passage, Senators Royd, Brock is in Atlanta, Ga. Another proof of
and Born each introduced a substl- this assertion was evidenced when a
tute. ! letter mailed on a dare from Karls-
A conference of senators draughted j bad, Bavaria, German empire, Eu-
what was read in the senate Friday rope, addressed simply to the name
morning ns substitute bill No. 1 for „f the young lady, "Peachtree street,
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the Felder bill, providing for the dis
position to be made of the state’s con
victs.
llefore the bill had come up for its
first, reading, the signatures of twen
ty-three members of the upper house
hud been affixed to it, insuring their
support and its passage through the
senate. Their stand was unanimous
except regarding the provision for
abolishment of the prison commis
sion. Some of the signers of the bill
uved Ihe right to object to that
pai
U. S. A.," arrived oil lime and was
delivered promptly in Atlanta.
Colonel W. A. Harris, the colonel
of the second Georgia regiment, na
tional guard of Georgia, has commis
sioned Captain W. H. Beck to enlist
musicians for a band to he located in
Griffin. The government will furnish
all Ihe Instruments, music, uniforms
and rent for quarters when the band
Is formed.
President M. M. Parks of the Geor-
t of'the “substitute If "they desired I 8la Normal Institute finds it neces-
to do so
The bill is one of the most compre-
h-'iisive that has yet been offered in
solution of the question that is troub
ling the state, one of Its most inter-
c iing features being the levying of
an Income tax.
If it is finally enacted it will abolish
the prison commission on October 1,
19*8.
It will create a prison board, con
sisting of the governor, the attorney
general and the commissioner of agri-
' ulture, giving to that board the same
powers and authority now vested In
the prison commission, except in so
far as those powers are inconsistent
with the substitute.
will put the felony convicts on
sary to notify the public that all va
canclos were tilled by July 31 and
that over 300 applications had to be
turned down on account of lack of
room, lt Is impossible to admit more
students to the dormitories or from
private boarding houses, as there is
no more room in the recitation halls
than for the number already accept
ed. The college doors are closed to
all who have not been already accept
ed.
The Wayne County Farmers’ Union
has accepted the proposition of the
Jesup Warehouse and Storage compa
ny, in regard to locating the Union’s
cotton warehouse at this place. The
Jesup company will furnish a bulding
built of concrete, free, for five years.
tli - public roads after April 1, 1909. | giving the Union the privilege of buy-
will give the prison board direct
supervision over misdemeanor con
victs.
I4» will prohibit the working of any
convicts for private parties, specify
ing iliat misdemeanor convicts shall
I’" worked in the counties where they
n " sentenced.
lng the building any time during this
period.
The primary in Franklin county re
sulted as follows: For representative,
Chandler 9r2, Strange 920; ordinary,
McCay 1,054, Nelms 859; clerk, Mc
Daniel 1,089, Little 835; sheriff, Can-
I ady 773, Wanslet 1,142; road com-
ii will provide for the improvement'missioner, McFarlan 1,275, Jordan
of the state farm, and for the pur- $148; tax collector, Brown 1,079, West-
•base and equipment of such other moreland 824; treasurer, Smith 968,
farms as may be needed. Thomas 938. Among the incumbents
it will require that convicts on those in the race not one was re-elected,
farms shall be females or boys under Rain prevent a full vote Horn being
Li years of age, or aged, infirm or polled.
— ■— The recent annual reunion of Bike
Cotton is coming into market county veterans held at Bluff Springs
throughout Georgia very rapidly now. camp ground was in many ways the
Reports from the country are to the most successful that has been held
pf feot that cotton Is opening very by the survivors of company 421. An
fast and that it will soon all be on unusually large number were in at-
’he market. There are a large num- tendance, and the weather during their
her of complaints from farmers, who stay was almost perfect. L. M. Park,
• sa Y the crop is off from a third to brother of State Treasurer Park, was
a Half on account of the dry weather, j present, and added largely to the suc-
R"as, sugar cane and potatoes are re- cess of the meeting,
l orted to ibe doing well. The Lois cotton mills at Douglas
Following an energetic campaign, ville will begin operations about Oc-
: hl f p een on foot for several | 1 Thi^js “J
},! ! “ ks . R has been announced at start wit h 70,000 spindles, and
'»ay cross that plans considered very . . be inc reased at a very
il nnrl n ....... n Intmo r*r\t. LIIIO * ‘ .
r*- ■•"OCM.O AZZ’Ti-C! ,:z
«ay of estimating what additional ex-
sh pners e o 8 f e ‘ ncre f 8es I* 1 " "l>on the
snipp eis 0 f Georgia, but hv some It
annuaBy" PUt h,Rh a8 *1.000,000
The railroad commission has declln
cd the petition of the Georgia Rail
load company for permission to in
^ a80,la [ ate of Ranger fare from
1 ,4 ,0 2 1-2 cents per mile. The de
that° n the' a f, 0,1 upon ,he ground
. 1. . h f., eaat ' Was not warranted
by the facts presented in evidence to
support the petition.
,a8toa El of Ihe road’s having lost
loney, it was slated before the com
mission that its earnings for the first
six months of 1908 showed a substan
tial Increase over those of the same
six months of 1907. though the latter
year had prior to this time been Ihe
banner year in its history.
The commission also directed the
enlial of Georgia Railway* company
f°, bperate its Griffin passenger train
which now runs daily between Grif
fin and Bremen on 'its Chattanooga
division, between Griffin and Cedar-
town for a period of six months on
trial, at the end of which time (he
commission will decide whether It
will require a continuance of the
new schedule or not.
This change was made to accommo
date the people living along this line
between Bremen and Cedartown who
now have only one train a day each
way, while those on all other portions
of the line have a double dally serv
ice. It was contended that this in
convenienced many citizens and they
asked that the change he ordered. The
Central contends that it would lose
money through the new schedule.
WILL ERECT MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN.
Women Appointed as Collectors by
Officials of W. C. T. U.
Columbus, Ga. Active work Is to
bw begun at once toward raising the
funds for the memorial prohibition
fountain 'to be erected on the state
c^pitol grounds in Atlanta projected
Uy the Georgia Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union at the last state
convention in October at Columbus.
The fountain is to be of permanent
material, marble or bronze, and is to
contain the name of every member of
the legislature who voted for Geor
gia’s prohibition law as a memorial
of their loyalty to the welfare and
happiness of the people of Georgia
and an expression of gratitude and ad
miration.
Collectors have been appointed, one
for eacli congressional district, as fol
lows: First district, Miss liaddio Da
vis, 118 Oglethorpe street, West, Sa
vannah; second district, Mrs. Lee
Hall, Newton; third district, Miss
Maud Allen, Abbeville; fourth district,
Mrs. W. Gowdin, Cotton, P. O. Box
271, Columibus; fifth district, Mrs. M.
L. McLendon, 139 Washington street,
Atlanta; sixth district, Mrs. J. L.
Kennedy, Barnesville; seventh dis
trict, Mrs, C. K. Henderson, Cedar-
town; eighth district, Mrs. G. B. Sto
vall. Madison; ninth district, Mrs. J.
C. Bennett, Jefferson; tenth district,
Mrs. J. C. Martin, Thomson; eleventh
district, Mrs. Augusta Deen, Way-
cross. 1
12-YI'Ah-OLU TRAIN-WRECKER.
good are under way for a large cot-
Lmi factory to be located at Waycross.
1 ids is an industry that Waycross
lla s often tried to land, but for vari-
Ul| s reasons never has.
Tlie secretary of state has Issued a
charter to the Coweta, Franklin and
'1 roup Railroad company, which will
Luild a line 50 mile3 long beginning
at a point either on the Central of
Georgia or the Atlanta and West. Point
1,1 Coweta county and running through
•be counties of Coweta, Hetyd and
' roup to a connection with the At
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic. The
county of Heard at present has no
railroad. The capital stock will be
$300,000 and the principal office will
Lo at Franklin, the county seat of
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early date. A great many new people
are coming In who are to be connect
ed with the new mill and who will
add materially to the town.
Washington is making rapid strides
in the matter or public improvements.
Besides the item of some $15,000 in
buildings that are going up in the
city, it is now pretty certain that the
(own will issue bonds for paving cer
tain business sections of the city that
are greatly in need of better streets.
The question of paving the entire
business section of the city has been
agitated for some time. This agita
tion has been gaining strength, with
the result that the needs of certain
sections have been pointed out as be-
ins so urgent that all opposition to
paving these sections has given down.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
James Keir Hurdle, socialist mem
ber of the house of common, has ar
rived at Montreal, Canada,. The ob
ject of Mr. Hurdle's tour is to try
nad amalgamate the American and
Canadian trades unionists and social
ists into one political organization
like the British labor party.
Official tests of gas meters in New
York city sbow that defective me
ters give the gas companies the ben
efit of the doubt, that is, where there
is one that is too slow there are two
that are too fast.
Dr. James F. Rymer, a native of
Croydon, will soon gain the distinc
tion-of being tlie first fully qualified
English physician to carry on profes
sional work within tlie Artie circle.
A few days ago Dr. Rymer left Ed
monton, Alborn, on a lonely Journey
of one thousand eight hundred miles
along the Athalmsca and Mackenzie
rivers. His destination Is Fort Good
Hope, which is about one hundred
miles within the Arlic circle. He does
not propose to return to ctviltallon
for at least three years. Dr. Rymer's
patients will be Indians and Eskimos.
Declaring that he had received a
message from heaven in a vision that
the city of New York would be visited
by. a terijble disaster and the city's
buildings would tuniLle to the ground
unless lt repented, Rev. Milton Sparks
has announced to Ills congregation at
Chester, Pa., that he will immediate
ly go to that city to try and save the
wicked who make their home In the
metropolis.
Boston electrical engineering ex
perts have issued 11 warning against
the placing of llugstaffs on skyscrap
ers and other tall structures. They
dednro that the danger from light
ning is great niuk tiiat all Ilagstaffa
must be removed from the high build
ings. if not there will be a catastro-
pho In the near future which will be
appalling. They also insist on all
high smokestacks and chimneys be
ing equipped with “spiders,” a new
form of lightning conductor.
Mrs. Mee Stone, wife of a wealthy
young business man of WythovIRe,
Tenn., who has been missing for ten
days, and who, it iB feared, lias been
the victim of foul play, has become
violently insane. Not a trace has
been heard from the young man.
With one of his own razors W. C.
Coulee, a St. Louis barber, commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat.
Coulee had been despondent for some
time, owing to the falling off of his
business, which he ascribed to the
use of safety razors by former cus
tomers.
The return of Cardinal Gibbons
from abroad will be a social epoch
with tho Catholic circles of Baltimore
and the south. Ho is expected Octo
ber 10. Governor Crothors lias an
nounced that he intended to assemble
his staff -and hold a public reception.
The mayor of the city will allso car
ry out a suitable recotplon for the
prelate.
Veteinn printers of the United
States will bo benefited by the old-ngo
pensions to he paid by the Interna
tional Typographical union. Tlie pen
sion of $4 a week for in inters more
than 60 years old who have been
members of the union for twenty
years or longer has become effective,
and the first money will be paid out
of the pension fund.
As a result of a collision with a
sailboat as she was leaving London
the steamer Etruria, Cttnard line, wan
unable to leave on her trip to New
York. The sailboat was sunk and one
of the crew drowned. A panic was
averted by the calmness of the crew
aboard tho Immense liner.
After a world wide chase over three
continents, Bela Walder, said to be
a nobleman from Austria-Hungary,
accused of forgeries to the amoftnt
of $50,000, was arrested in Chicago
and thrown into the county Jail.
Washington.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sousa, the mother
of John Philip Sousa, the bandmaster,
died at her home In Washington. She
was the widow of Antonio Sousa, who
was connected with the United States
marine band for years.
Reccids of the treasury department
show that the port of New York dur
ing the fiscal year of 1907-1908 has a
larger balance of trade in its favor
than ever before. For the entire
United States the balance is $666,457,-
103, which exceeds by $2,000,000 tho
largest year before, which was 1900-
1901.
David E. Thompson, American am
bassador to Mexico, was run down
by a bicyclist in the City of Mexico
and suffered a fracture of one arm
and contusions of the face. An X-ray
examination was made to ascertain if
he had suffered any other injurios.
His condition was not considered to
be serious.
President Roosevelt received a ca
blegram from the governor general
of Australia thanking the American
government for sending the .battleship
fleet to their coutnry.
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Admits Putting Bolt on Track to
Wreck Train. ,
Buford, Ga.—With slight realization
of the enormity of his crime, Lewis
Cooksie, the 12-year-old lad who
wrecked northbound Southern train
No. 38, and thereby caused the death
of Engineer Beil Dewberry of Atlanta,
and his negro fireman, is now locked
in the county jail awaiting trial in the
superior court on the charge of mur
der. Immediately following his arrest
the little boy confessed to having
placed Uie bolt on the track which de
railed the big flyer.
In the artlessness of his childhood
^te recounted how he had been influ
enced by two older youths, whose
names he would not furnish, to place
the holt and await the wreck which
was sure to follow.
BOY COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Life
Fourteen-Year-Old Lad Ends
/ With Shotgun.
Odessadaie, Ga.—Harold Stillman,
14 years of age, who lived one mile
from Odessadaie, shot himself to
death.
A shotgun was used to accomplish
death, which was instantaneous. The
entire load entered his heart.
The boy is well thought of here, and
his mother, a widow, has tlie deep
sympathy of all. The boy had been
ill for some time, which probably ac
counts for bis strange act.
The United States navy dgparment
has adopted the policy which was
suggested by ihe chief constructor
of the navy of Installing .at the prin
cipal navy yards modern facilities for
handling heavy weights. The first
step in this direction h^s been taken
by inviting bids for the construction
rf a one hundred-ton derrick, which
will be established at the Puget
Sound navy yard. n,
The Poituguese chamber of depu
ties has approved the extradition
treaty between the United States and
Portugal. The treaty provides tor ex
tradition for twenty-one specific of
fenses. It excepts political offenders,
but specifies that the authors of at
tempts against rulers shall not be
considered as such.
John R. Early, a leper, is held pris
oner in a tent at an isolated spot in
the outskirts of Washington. Early
was discovered to he suffering from
the disease while living at a salvation
army lodging house. The health de
partmeut officers have written to the
authorities of North Carolina to ob
tain permission to remove the leper
to Lynn, N. C., his home. The pub
lic health and marine hospital service
are co-operating with the local author
ities. If the North Carolina authori
ties refuse to take care of Early he
probably will be sent to the leper col
ony In Louisiana.
A brain that isn't used is like a
watch that doesn’t run. Every lobe
of tlie brain should he used, like every
wheel of a watch, when you sell your
man.
The fellow Who sells the least goods
is the one who worries most about
competition.
Control yourself! Remember what
Huxley says: “A man so trained In
youth that Ills body Is the ready serv
ant of his will, and does with equal
case and pleasure all the work that ns
a mechanism it Is capable of, whose In
tellect is a clear, cold, logic-engine,
with all its parts of equal strength and
in smooth winking order, ready like a
steam engine to be turned to any kind
of work, and spin tlie gossumets as
well as fdrgw ihe anchors oi the mind. ’
The only man who never made a
mistake is the one who never made a
success. The horse in a treadmill nev
er gets in a smash-up, hut neither does
he get anywhere. Every path to pre
eminence is blazed with errors, ns the
wagon road across the plains is lined
with skeletons of those who failed by
the way, and our road Is clearer for the
passage of the pioneers who learned
the best path through experience on
the worst ones. A stupid error, a care
less error, a repeateu error should re
ceive 110 end of self-condemnation and
a hearty amen to the assaults of others.
Courtesy—not mero politeness, hut
that habit of mind which causes a man
to put himself in the other fellow's
place and give his ideas and feelings
consideration—Is an attribute well
worthy of cultivation by a young bus
iness ntan.
In this nge when the old fushloned
deference to-AUtr elders Is replaced by
the eiigouragod, self-assertion of the
young people for whom we live, we are
more simple and direct In our thought
and speech and manners more clearly
show forth the man. It Is therefore
atl the more necessary that the ntan
should have social qualities worthy of
exhibition and that he should culti
vate a kindness and sincerity of
thought that will find fitting expression
In a straightforward, frank and manly
gearing. Listen to a woman talking of
her shopping and you will find that the
service given in the different stores
is in her eyes of equal importance with
the quality and the price of the goods.
It Is the linen clerk who knows the
latest wrinkles in nnpery who gets her
trade. The dry goods clerk who assists
her In little economies, sells her all
she buys In this line and the Jewelry
salesman who gave her a private view
of a rare piece of jewelry und discussed
chains with her when he knew she did
not care to buy, will be given the order
when she wants to buy a tea set or a
clock.
To prove that this Is so, think over
the stores where you do your trading
nnd analyze the reasons for buying
there and you will find you are Influ
enced by much the same motives. And
that the personal element cuts a large
figure In your purchase.
Enthusiasm of the right kind goes
hand In hand with salesmanship, and
the kind that will make a salesman
investigate in every way possible tho
merits of the article he is selling, is
the best. If you know and are con
vinced that lt is good, then lt Is much
easier for you to convince the other
man of the same fact. Do you know
that words and figures alone do not
sell your goods? Your manner nnd the
impression you make on the buyer
have much to do with it. Anyone can
sell a ntan who wants to buy, if lie has
the price and the goods that man
wants. It takes salesmanship and en
thusiasm to sell the buyer who has not
thought of buying until he is convinced
that he ought to.
The point, to keep in view is this:
The ntan who can turn the circum
stances around hint to the very best
advantage is the one who will out
distance the others. Once tills lesson
has been studied and learned’the most
important step has been made. Per
haps this can be best accomplished
where opportunities are fewest, but no
matter what the conditions, certain it
is that Uie valuable asset, self-discip
line, will inevitably count, without
which no fortune can be made.
Opportunities come to each and every
one of us and sometimes with great
frequency. Tlie successful clerk or
business ntan is the one who at a
glance recognizes them as such and
without hesitation takes; advantage of
them. This is practically- the defini
tion of the much used term, “luck, ’
and the very ones who complain of
“having no luck” ate simply those
who lack knowledge of their business
chances and the energy and ambition
to make the most of their opening.
Good openings are constantly before
every salesman did he but know it.
The ones with eager energy, fixed pur
pose and unremitting watchfulness are
those who will surely advance. In any
place a man can show his individual
ity and his most strenuous exertions
for his future interests, and as long as
he deals fairly with his neighbor-work
er he will forge aheau faster than he
1 nows. The best evidence possible
that a clerk can have of his ability to
do better somewhere else is to be a suc
cess where he is.
The clerk of today can be, and a
great many are, simply an automaton
or, on the other hand, he may be a
live, brainy person, who is gatheiing
in information at every turn and im
proving his usefulness by absorbing his
every chance to show the material of
which he is made.
It is clear in tlie minds of the latter
class that if they would be better sales
men at the end of the day than they
were in Uie morning, they must ever
be studying. With the former many
feel that they have been forced behind
tlie counter by severe circumstances,
and that they will take it easy until
something turns up. The lack of am
bition thus shown is deplorable and is
n great stumbling block in the path of
success. The feeling that lie is out
of place and that nothing will enable
him to advance in his present occupa
tion is success-killing to any man.
The clerk of now is the proprietor of
the future, and a lack of self-confidence
or healthy ambition, should speedily
he attended to. No sttcu example as an
older association who has been in a
shop for untold years without passing
a certain mark should be followed. No
such feeling' should be tolerated that
this fate Is just ns apt to be yours ns
not, for such contemplation will often
result in a listlessness which will do
more to bring you to that stage than
anything else.
At the outset, get the idea firmly In
your head that your name Is to adorn
some shop door and then keep that
shop door before you us a goal. If a
clerk will do this, he will consequent
ly bend every effort to attain the de
sired end, and before long the confi
dence In his ability to accomplish ft
will bring to pass the looked for re
sult as surely as tomorrow comes.—
From the American Jeweler.
CRUISE TO LONELY ISLANDS.
British War Sloop’s Vain ^uest For
Shipwrecked Men.
From a cruise lasting nearly five
months, during which many ports ot
South America were visited and an
unsuccessful search was made for
the survivors of the lost British ship
Sllberhorn, the British sloop of war
Shearwater has returned to Esquimau,
says the Victoria (B. C.) correspon
dent of the New York Sun. She had
all sorts of pets on board, there being a
goat front Robinson Crusoe’s Island,
over a score of parrots, ranging from
a huge macaw to a tiny paroquet, and
all sorts of queer dogs and cats und
monkeys.
The Shearwater was ordered to Iqul-
que in January last, when owing to a
strike of the nitrate workers it was
thought necessary to send a vessel to
protect British Interests, H. M. S. Sap
pho being sent from the West Indies
and the Shearwater front Esquimau.
The outbreak In Iqulque was put down
before the Shearwater arrived, the
troops firing into the assembled rioters
with Maxims and the streets being
make u shambles, about five hundred
being killed by the fire of the ma
chine guns.
At Iqulque the warship was ordered
south to make a search of Masafuera
and Juan Fernandez Islands, about 450
miles off the Chilean coast and sup
posed to bo uninhabited where it was
thought castuways from thg missing
ship Sllberhorn might be found.
The Sllberhorn, welt kno^t In Vic
toria, left Newcastle in the spring of
last year for Plsagua with coal and was
never heard of again. The German
bark Anny brought a belated report to
Pena Blanca, which months afterward
drifted to Valparaiso and thence to
Lloyds many wfeeks later, that lt had
sighted a burning ship with the letters
“ool” showing on the sterm, this be
ing believed to have been the last three
letters of the name or the Sllberhorn’s
home port. Capt. Gibson, overlooker
for C. E. DeWolff & Co., owners of
the Sllberhorn, and others have dis
credited this report, stating that tho
burning hull sighted was probably tho
TUlle E. Starbuck, and It was believed
the Silberhorn sank In a storm.
The Admiralty determined upon a
search, however, and to Juan Fernan
dez and Masafuera theShearwater went.
Juan Fernandez was reached after a
stormy passage. A cruise was made
around the Island and a short stay
while the officers shot pigeons. Here
n jet black mountain goat was captured
by one of the bluejackets. He didn’t
capture its pedigree, but he is con
vinced that its forefathers followed
Robinson Ctusoe and Friday about the
island. The goat named Nancy, has
been adopted as mascot in chief of the
Shearwater.
Masafuera, a barren and desolate
mass of rock jutting steep front the
sea, was circumnavigated, but no
traces of the Sllberhorn were seen, nor
had the natives heard of any wreck
or wreckage being found. There are
eighteen residents on this island, liv
ing at a small cove on the northeast
side. They are engaged in canning
lobsters. The Chilean government in
tends to establish a penal settlement
on Masafuera and tin huts will be
erected.
During the cruise the Shearwater’s
officers aud crew were entertained by.
the Britishers at many- ports. At Aca
pulco the graves of dead bluejackets
were restored, new crosses being put
at the heads of the mounds.
The Shearwater visited Callao on
March 11, and there fell In with the
United States torpedo flotilla. At Iqui-
que an extraordinary species of duck
allied to the extinct dodo of Mauritius
exists and the officers view with one
another in trying to oDtaln specimens.
They live on the plains a considerable
distance from water and are occasion
ally, so the residents say, to be found in
the coves around the coast. Only one
was captured. It has been forwarded
to the British Museum.
The Shearwater since leaving on
rer long «ruise has become the flagship
of (he Esquimau station.
The old country Englishman never
fulls to unbar his door at 12 o’clock
K<$y Year’s eve to let the old year out
and the new year in.