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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-02
Binghampton
Shrunken /"

Flannel Suits, for Misses and
Children. These handsome
Suits are remarkable for the
beauty and novelty of COM
bination in make up. and are
as pretty as they are useful.
We control them.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-02

He Never Answers Incenvenient Questions.
Senator Hill will be panied TO learn
that Congressman Harter has been sharp
ening mp his interrogation points.-
Washington Post
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-02

The baseball umpire and the book
agent say to the Gar of Russia:
s'Shake, old boy. We know how it is
ourselves"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-02

THE chicken counters are still figuring
out the nomination of Cleveland on the
first ballot.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-02

BY the way, this is rent day. Have
you thought of that?
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Il. ". LADD co.
May Openings

Made OF the desirable Storm
Serge, in white, cream, blue
and tan shades. With the in
expensive and pretty adjust
able Silk Vests which we
are showing in a great va
riety of pretty designs, these
Suits are incomparably at
tractive, as they are a quite
essential feature of a summer
outfit.
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GLOVES.

Ten to 20 per cent. off on every
thing. including my latest importation.
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WILT CAN We DO ABOUT IT2

Drunkenness is great trespass UPON
others rights as we'll as great sin in itself.
No man has more right to turn himself loose
drunk in the streets or public places, or In
his own household, than he has to turn q
filthy swine loose in these places; and if either
should enjoy that privilege, the swine should
have the preference. But what shall we do?
What shall the poor wife do and the chill
dren, whose husband and father defiles the
home with his drunken presence? What shall
We all do vino loathe and hate this curse Of
our land and Of all lands?
One thing we can do which we do not
enough-we can protest; cry out against this
sin, rebuke the drinker, and not coddle him.
tits vile sin to get drunk; worse than
beastly sin, for no beast (but mani will get
drunk. Let Us Put that sin in this light, and
hold it there before anybody. whether our
neighbor or nearest of kin. This is one kind
OF temperance work we all can do, and
which we too little do. Let us not pity the
drinker so much as to cover his Sin, lest we
become thereby partakers with him Of his
sin.
We laugh at the sight of a young man
drunk. Let US rather weep, it is a case Of
ruin, Of death. We should protest. cry out
against the sin. Our silence is consent, an&'
the devil laughs while the ruin goes on. Lot
lived in the midst of sin He seems not to
have cried against il; kept himself free, Per.
haps, but dweit at ease in the midst ot} sur
rounding corruptions. He escaped with his
bare life. Noah also lived among the wicked,
but he lifted up his voice; he preached, he
protested, he rebuked. Thus he kept the
evils apart from his life an, Noah and his
house were saved.-Sacrei Heart Review.
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Forecasting ThunderstOrms.

Uncle Rusk and the force Of assistants
which he has to assist him in the weather
trade are trying new departure in their
business. 1t is nothing more nor less
than an experiment IN forecasting thun'
derstorms. 1t is thought that if thun-
derstorm can be successfully forecasted
sufficient length of time ahead of its oc-
currcnce, it will be of great benefit to
the farmers. The plan is to have the
observer of station near which storm
is passing, note its force, velocity, etc.,
and telegraph to other stations the data
thus gathered. They will communicate
with correspondents in the route OF the
storm, and they will put bulletins for the
benefit of the farmers of that vicinity.
The thunderstorm is considered by the
department as a very annoying circum-
stance to the farmer, especially IN harvest
time, when it comes up unawares and
catches him with large meadow newly
mown before the hay has been raked or
cooked or stored away.-St Louis he-
public.
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DRINK WASTE AMONG WORKERS.

The Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Commis-
sioner OF Labor, recently transmitted to the
President his annual report, which contains
much valuable information collated by the
Labor Bureau. Among other things the
sum expended by the families Of working
men for various purposes are conrasted
with the families Of workingmen In other
countries. The comparisons on intoxicating
LIQUORS are az follows. For the families en-
gagged in the cotton industry in the United
States, so far as considered, the average ex-
penditure is given as $15.93 In the q nited
States: in France, sl5.OS; in Germany,
$11.41, and in Great Britain $19.47. In the
woollen industry in the United States.
s5494; in Belgium, $45 90; in Great Britain,
1924. The food expenditure by the families
Of cotton workers in the United States was
on the average. S2S106; in France, 5164H;
In Germany, $l42.22, and in Great Britain.
$246.50. The average cost Of books and
newspapers for families engaged in the cct.
ton industry in the United States was $5.35;
France, 3.79; Germany. 81 .4S, and in Great
Britain, 1886. The total average e1pendt
ture for families for every purpose in the
United States, $6l0.6l: France, $333.70;
Germany, s2s2.5s; Great Britain, $502.13;
Switzerland, S346.6s. As a general state
ment it will be seen that the expenditures
for intoxicating liquors in the United States
are relatively less, and for books, food, news
papers, etc., relatively more than among the
cottor-worKers OF the other countries. But
the drink wests among these workers ls
large in each country mentioned. .-Natlonai
Temperance Advocate.
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The Suez Canal gets $3.50 as toll on
every ship that passes through the canal,
and this tonnage, should we ever reach
it, would pay the canal $50, 900, 900 a
year. We expect the canal to cost, all
told, just about 800, 900, ,o00. and
we think that it will pay big interest
on this investment. The Suez Canal
stock is now in the neighborhood of
$500 per share. 1t cost about the same
as ours will cost, and it has for years
been paying net revenue of more than
$12, 900, 900. 1t is not big enough to
accommodate the trade, and they are
now widening its locks. They are talk.
ing also of building another canal along
side the old one, and the shipping in
creases right along"
"How long will it take ship to pass
through your canal2"
"It will take only four hours more
than it does for ship to pass through
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Nor will there. What one knows, both

Nor will there. What one knows, both
will swear"
Il am glad you perceive where justice
lies in this matter, Grizzle. Somebody
| should hang for your son. When Martin
| Lee is hanged. Daniel Meade may sleep
| easier"
This was another of his speeches with
double meaning that terrified and an
gered Grizzle. She shot fero3 look at
him, and answered sullenly:
Il am not travelling at Your gait always,
Giles Ellis. 1t may be you are mistaken
about Martin Lee. Once for all-1ll say
this-neither I nor Daniel Meade will say
aught of Martin Lee till see my way
clearer than see it now. No breath OF
Martin Lee shall escape our lips till see
where your interest 1iea.
ur1zzle aleaoe's suspicious were FUZZY
aroused, and, unless they were allayed,
all Giles labor would be lost.
Its true. have reason. It is not
that want Martin hanged. There you
wrong me-"
1T would be pity to wrong SO good a
man"
4 would lower the pride of Dorothea
and her daughter
"Ah! Now I understand"
Il will confde in you. All Salem will
know soon Martin Lee has been here and
committed a terrible crime. Twas he
who cut the throats. of Winslow's horse
and sheep"
Grizzle Meade held up her hands.
-'Tis monstrous!"
AYE, is it. And it will be proven with
out doubt he did it. There was one saw
him do it.
-Monstrous! 'Tis past belief said
Grizzle Meade.
Now, 'tis bad enough to kill mans
sheep and horse-'tis worse to kill your
son. Twill be marvel if he escapes the
hangman."
Aye, will it. We must see that he
does not" said Grizzle, with sudden
resolution. Trust me to make it q
straight path to the scaffold. If anything
I can say, or anything Daniel Meade may
swear, will do it, it's as good as done.
And I thank you, Giles Ellis, for your
confidence. And when you have Janet
Lee to wife, be sure / will he among the
first to wish you joy and long years."
She shot glance at him then that dis
concerted him. All this time he had
deluded himself-had thought he was
twisting her round his finger, and bend
ing her, through her fears, to his will,
until in moments time his real purpose
was laid bare, and Grizzle Meade sat
looking at him composedly.
Now that we understand each other,
have glass of wine before you go3"
He was going to refuse bluntly, but
craft came to his aid, and he accepted the
offer. AS he slipped his wine, he mustered
q smile.
Prepare yourself for news. I will
mako the first move. A good day to you,
Mistress Meade"
And Grizzle Meade was alone. She
looked after him wrathfully.
1T will go hard with me if cannot
hold him az fast as he holds me-"
Ito BE CONTINUED
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.


There were 363, 935 public school teachers
and 204, 9l3 liquor dealers in the United
States last year.
Temperance reform has been made plank
In the platform of the Woman's Liberal
League of England, and LAZY Henry
Somerset is member of its Central Com
mittee.
At Sprague, Washington tths head
quarters of the Idaho Division OF the North
ern Pacific Railway, the white.ribboners
are planning to start free readin2-room
for the railroad employees, there being no
public library or reading room In the
town.
The citizens Of Fairmont, Ind, one day
lately loaded the contents OF newly opened
saloon on drays, put the would-be saloon
keeper on top Of his goods and had the
whole lot hauled down to the railroad
station. There has not been saloon there
in the history Of the place.
Among those persons selected with care
for physical souudness and soSriety the death
rate is more profoundly affected by the use
Of intoxicating drinks than from any other
cause apart from heredity," is the statement
of the President OF one OF the Oldest LIE IN
surance companies in England.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Unions OF Florida have r:cslVed Sltt OF
land at Lake Helen, one OF the prettiest aud
healthiesr towns i'll middle Florida, where
they will Luild State headquarters and hold
winter encampments. Tney have decided
to call their assembly grounds Somerset
Park.
Mrs Ellen C. Johnson. Warden of the
Woman's Reformatory Prison at Sher-
burne, Ma s., says: 'Of tue women who
are incarcerated in this prison ninety seven
out of hundred are here either from
habitual drunkenness or for crimes COM
mitted under the influence of strong
drink"
How do you come to sell your red wine
cheaper than your white wlneE asked
customer Of the new waiter at Broadway
restaurant. Just look at that color. DO
you suppose We get that for nothing? Do
YOU think chemicals and logwood and such
don't cost money! replied the waiter -
Texas Siftings.
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The Dying Hawaiian Race.

One of the saddest spectacles in Ha.
waii is the rapid decay of the native race.
Disease and death have made heavy in.
roads among them. More even than the
samoans and Tahitians they seem to ab-
sorb all the vices of the white race.
The Chinese have introduced the vice of
opium-smoking. and they also bring in
large quantities of rice brandy, which
the native Hawaiian loves next to "old
square fuse," as they call gin.
The Hawaiian families are steadily de-
creasing in size, and every census sees
shrinkage in the already small number of
the doomed race. The census of 1884
gave 45,232 Hawaiian and half-castes;
that of 1890 1854, loss of 557S in
six years. The Chinese now number
1929, the Japanese 1924 and the
Portuguese 91O0. Or this large num-
ber Of Chinese only 200 are women.
Hence we find John Chinaman selecting
wives from the native girls, who are only
too glad to marry Chinese because they
are better treated than by men of their
own race. They are indulgent husbands
and they love to see their women finely
dressed, but when they return to China
these is no record of any Chinamau tax
ing his Hawaiian wife. The women are
left behind, and seldom is any provision
made for the support of themselves and
their children. The japanese mix little
with the Hawaiians.
One peculiar thing which is worthy
the attention of the student of ethuologY
is that the mixture of the Chinese and
Hawaiians makes better race, physic-
ally and mentally, than either of the
originals. Some of the brightest young
men in Hawaii have Chinese fathers and
Kunaka mothers. These half.castes are
remarkably shrewd in business, while
they have the agreeable manners OF the
Hawaiians. The Portuguese are thrifty,
but they are poor race. They are now
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Nice Story About the Sewing Machine.

Here is nice little story concerning
the invention of the sewing machine, the
truth of which is vouched for by the
Pittsburg Dispatch. Away back in the
busy years before the war, there was q
Pittsburg theatrical singer named Muir
ply, a man with a remarkably sweet voice
and decided aptness for Irish comedy and
Isish melodies. He made a name for
himself which has greatly benefited a
subsequent generation of Murphys of
hlstrionic and musical tendencies. He
left the stage for time to enter business
life here in picture store. One day
there entered unto him lanky man OF
marked appearance and striking attire,
accompanied by woman in purple vel
vet dress, to which clung several children
of various sizes. The man introduced
himself as being strolling actor, out OF
work, hard up and seeking help from ono
whcm be had heard of as being connected
with the stage. Mr.. Murphy was warm
hearted man, and promptly secured
lodgings and food for the visitors, and
afterward aided them in giving readings
and dramatic entertainments. The actor
incidentally announced to Murphy that
his name was Singer. He showed great
fondness for mechanics and after earning
some little money by his entertainments,
he fitted up workshop and began to
dabble in various experiments. Finally
he rugged up machine which would cut
out circular pieces of wood. This ma
chine was finally fixed up with movable
table, which allowed letters with curved
surfaces to be cut out at will. Singer
used this machine to make tall, wooden
sign letters, which were gilded and fast
ened on painted board. The first sign
of this kind made was bought by Paul
son, the halter. Other merchants fol-
lowed suit and Singer was busy for quite
awhile turning out signs. From this
machine came the first idea of the sew
ing machine. Singer worked at it some
while in Pittsburg, but finally left for
New York, where his work was per-
fected. Afterward, as a reward for his
kindness, Murphy was offered the agency
for the Singer machine for the entire
west, but Murphy said he did not care
for mercantile ventures, and he declined
an opportunity to make many millions OF
dollars.
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England, as we now do. The japanese
are now using great deal of our cotton,
and they are increasing their consunp.
ton OF the American article every year.
The Koreans dress almost altogether in
cottons, and they like good article.
The Americans make better cotton than
they can get from India or elsewhere,
and there is no reason why we should
not be supplying the material for the
clothes of the hundreds of millions OF
the far east. The japanese are using
great deal of raw cotton, and if this
canal were built now there would be no
trouble in the south about market for
its cotton.
"The building of the canal" Senator
Miller went on, twill be death to the
sailing ships of the world. The great
est part of our commerce will then be
carried by steam. We will have coal
ing station at Nicaragua, and all tDe
ships of the world going from the east
to the west will pass through this high
way. 1t will make IN immense differ
ence in California and the Pacific slope
and it will quadruple the population OF
that part of our country ten years afterit
is completed. If we get the canal COM
pletcd by 1s97we ought to have more
than 8, 100000 tons going through the
canal the next year. The csnal will also
be of immense advantage to US in mill
tary way, and it will enforce the Mon
roe doctrine better than our navy. BY
the Suez Canal Great Britain got 36OO
miles nearer her Indian possessions, and
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of its practicability. Iasked him what
they were dong at the present time.
He replied:
"We are getting along very we'll and
we have now 500 men at work. We
began at the canal only about four years
ago and we have already spent some
thing like $5 ,000,0 900 upon it. We have
excavated about mile of the canal, we
have built more than twelve miles OF
railroad and we have surveyed the whole
route and we know just what we can do.
To show you that We are doing things
thoroughly, it cost US about $500, 600 to
make this survey and you can have little
idea of the difficulty of the undertaking.
Our engineers had to make their way
through tropical forest where the vege.
tation was often so dense that they could
not see fifty feet in front of them. Part
of the way was through marshes and
swamps where the men had to founder
along up to the waist in the mud, and
they had to cut their way through with
axes a great part of the route. They
had to test the depths of the streams foot
by foot through the rivers, and to 60
over the great lake of Nicaragua and
sound it. We have now, however, an
exact map of the whole territory, and
We will push the canal from now on"
"Giye me some idea of the country
through which the canal goes and of
Lake Nicaragua, Senator" I said.
sThe canal" said Senator Miller,
"crosses Central America in the lower
part Of Nicaragua. Nicaragua is the
largest of the Central American States,
and the country all told is not quite as
large as the State of New York and it
has not as many people as the city of St.
Louis. It is republic and the people
are like those of the South American re-
publics. They have very good coun-
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the Suez Canal" said Senator Miller. "a
boat can 60 through our canal from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, distance of 170
miles, in twenty-eight hours, and it takes
one twenty-four hours to 60 through the
Suez Canal. About 100000 passengers
go through the Suez Canal in year, and
the canal gets big revenue from these.
Of course my figures as to the tonnage
which might pass through our canal re-
present an amount much greater than we
will have for years, but supposing we
only had 5000, 900 tons at the start,
this would pay big dividends, and We
Will eventually no doubt have ten, fifteen
and more million tons per year. As to
the locks, that at Sault Ste. Marie takes
through greater tonnage every year
than that ct the suez Canal, and these
locks are perfectly practicable things.
Our ships will 60 into the
harbor at Greytown and they will sail
nine miles along the canal to the arst
lock, which will lift them up thirty -ane
feet, and along this level they sail mile
and a quarter, where they are raised
thirty feet more, and sail now on level
of sixty.one feet above the sea. After
q few more miles there is third lock,
which raises them forty-fve feet higher,
and they are now 106 feet above the
harbor Of Greytown and are os the same
level as the Sal Juan River aud the big
lake of Nicaragua. They can now sail
right along up this river into the lake
and across it distance of over hun.
dred and thirty miles to the western side
of the Like, and they are now only seven
teen miles from the Pacific Ocean. They
here go into our canal, and by similar
locks to those on the east drop down to
the sea level. There are three locks on
the west side, aud, Of course, we can
raise ships from the Pacific to the level
of the lake in the same way as we do
those to the level of the lake from the
Atlantic. The whole affair Is very
simple to anyone who understands the
methed by which boats 60 through
canal by means of locks.
"How soon do you expect to have the
canal done, Senator Miller2" I asked.
ut ought to be finished in about six
years." was the reply. Sand If we make
the right financial arrangements it may
be done before that"
"Please give me some idea of the ef.
feet it will have upon shipping"
SIT will make America one of the
greatest commercial nations of tie world,
and We will at once jump to the front as
to our merchant marine. It is almost
impossible to give you on idea of the
changes it will make. It will save our
ships 10000 miles in going from New
York to San Francisco, and it will bring
US 5000 miles nearer the Sandwich Isl.
ands. When that canal is completed
New York will be nearly 1000 miles
nearer Callao, and we will be able to put
our cotton into the ports Of China and
Japan by shipping it direct from New
Orleans instead of having it 90 away
around by the Suez. Tue canal will
then be one Of the great routes to Aus.
tralia and China, and we will deal direct
with these countries instead OF through
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An Important Observatory.

On Fire Island, forty miles or so from
New York, is located the observatory
from the top of which ocean steamers
are sighted, and their arrival telegraphed
to the metropolis. BY this means the
approach Of an Atlantic liner is known In
New York about six hours before she
has made fast to her dock.
The observatoryis awooden structure
about forty feet high and lies back from
tho beach about 200 feet. It is an ex-
tremely lonesome place in winter, aud Is
occupied the year round by Peter Kee-
gan and his family. Mr.. Keegan is an
expert at his business, aud can often
recognize steamer long distance ott
by her smoke or other little details, suca
as smokestacks, lifeboats, cabins, etc.
As soon as he has identified a vessel ne
telegraphs the fact of her approach to
New York. When steamers are oppo.
site Fire Island at night they send up