The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-09-24
AS i WAS SAYING.

|
Deacon White was never really dea-
con at all, but merely member of Henry
| Ward beechers church. That great pull
PIT orator once considerably offended Mr..
| White by strong sermon on stock gam
bling, but Mr.. White after some years
! after Beecher's death, in fact-delivered a
| lecture ON stock investments i'm the Ply
| mouth lecture room in which he deprecated
the popular view of the subject, and GER
tainly the " Deacon's attitude in the mat
ter OF bulling corn was not wholly unli ke
that debated by Kansas farmers-who
wouldn't like 10 be compared TO Mr.. White
! : Mr.. Whites Congressional career was not
! particularly happy. His canvass was man
/ aged by AL Daggett, an astute but not
! TOO scrupulous political agent, aud he
/ barely squeezed into his seat by few hun
! dred plurality in normally very strong
| Republican district. Once in Congress the
| newspaper correspondents singled him out
/ Tor attack as presumable representative
! at Washington from Wall street, and pes
tered him so that lac made a reply on the
floor OF the House-a very good one, too,
| Tor Mr.. White was and Is a very effective
speaker.
John Row, young colored man from
North Lake, y. C., is in the city lecturng
IN his unique way (He is uneducatedD.
lie tells thrilling story Of his encounter
with large rattle snake in the Dismal
! swamp Were he was making shingles.
While walking through the high grass he
trod on the snake which without the
usual ominous warning, buried its fangs
IN his right leg. He grasped the snake by
the throat and held it with all the energy
or despair, when uncoiling itself from his
| leg and standing on its tail, it sprang at
his head He avoided the spring and shot
the rattler through the head, killing il in
lfsu a. :
inches in length, nearly 10 inches in cir
cumterence, and had seventeen rattles.
The rattler has been stuffed and was yes
terday ON exhibition at Providence y. NJ.
c. A. rooms. Mr. Row lost his leg which
was amputated below the knee.
Providence is n city where people be-
lleNe In living. i was a bit hurried at the
Office the other day and sent out to "A
restaurant 10 ha~ a hot lunch brought in.
Tie proprietor said he couldn't do IL, and
seemed 10 regard the request as n very
strange one. In New York il is very
common custom. Here business men take
time TO eat their meals like Christians.
It's sensible plan. II saves lives, and is
therefore economical in the long run, as
well as peasanter. Our customs are more
like London and Paris than New York.
#s
On recent visit TO New York wan
dered into place after place TO sit down
and eat a meal in comfort. Everywhere
this was on Nassau street-were restau-
rants, so-called, with men standing up at
little stalls like horses or perched on high
stools. / ate a rather modest lunch on one
and three men in succession sat on the
stool at my left before ! had finished /
was glad to get back to Providence.
"Can you give me the correct timer" /
said 20 an acquaintance, yesterday.
"Fifty-nlne and half minutes past
three" he replied after consulting his
watch.
-Four O'Clock" l commented.
Yes, If that's the way you reckon
time" said he with a smile of quiet super
iority, . count the seconds"
And ali at once my respect for the man
tremendously. increased though IL was
great enough before. The man who counts
the seconds has a big advantage ovey the
careless chaps like me.
Talk about being behind t!me A man
dropped into the News Office yesterday and
wanted to sell the publishers a press: fat
bed type press at that. Even the ofiiceboy
looked greved. IL was the worst blow the
ollie has yet received.
I've had a notion sometimes-perhaps IL
is altogether fanciful-that Providence
women do not walk as well, that is as
freely and gracefully, in the morning as
they do later in the day. The way in
which / have permitted myself To account
for this is probably even more fanciful
The foot is a little larger, so wise people
say, on rising than it is after its days
work is done. Now women i'm general
not Providence women especially, have the
reputation Of buying their shoes only Just
large enough to fit the feet at their small
est, so il is possible, at least to my. imagi-
nation, that there is little limping and
halting on Westminster street when they
are first put on.
The new Hayes truck for Hook and Lad
der Company is a beauty, but it is TO be
hoped there won't be any occasion for the
men to use il.