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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

1t is ungenerous to rejoice over the
misfortunes of others. The News, for
one, will not do this. We do not, there
fore, print the following extract from
the London Neus because Of any wish
TO gloat over the decline of Britain's
prosperity, but for another and deeper
purpose:
The export trade of Great Britain is on
the decline. The last returns show de-
crease of IL per cent. Since the Mckin-
ley bill was passed four cen firms have
transferred their operations To the United
States-fOur manufacturers or plush,
four of lace curtains, one OF linen, one OF
cotton, one OF machinery aud three OF
woolen goods.
We are sorry to see Great Britain's
prosperity menaced as such decline in
its vast export trade must menace it;
but the cause of her woes is also the
cause Of our prosperity-the maligned
Mckinley bill. 1t is this which is
bringing the fourteen big factories
across the water. II is this-Protection
with Reciprocity-which is making the
country prosperous.
Turn now to another picture-tnat
which Commissioner Peck of New York
draws of the workingmen in the build
ing trades in New York. From Mr..
Peck's figures it appears that higher
wages are in these trades paid for shorter
hours than before the passage of the
Mckinley bill. From the full tables
published by the Recorder we summar-
ize the following table:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

The action of the Board Of Aldermen
in concurring with the Common Coun-
Gil ordinances giving the Union Railroad
Company permission to use the trolley
on the Pawtucket ard Elmwood routes
settles the question of rapid and clean
street car service in this city, and set
ties it right.
The fight for progress and growth
and enlightenment has been won.
1t has all along been merely ques-
ton of allowing the public and the
members of the City Council time to
convince themselves that the raid
against the trolley was based upon mis-
represent alton so gross and so conscious
as 10 amount to absolute and unrelieved
Justification. Good sense and the truth
were bound to prevail at last, as the
action Of the aldermen yesterday and
this morning is conclusive evidence.
Whatever honest opposition to the
trolley there has ever been wholly dis
appeared long ago, and the filibuster-
ing against it during the past year has
been inspired by desire to block the
course of progress which can only be
characterized as malicious and senseless.
No claims have been made on behalf
Of the trolley except such as had been
demonstrated by experience to be well
founded. We have not the slightest
doubt but the introduction Of electric
street cars will prove great benefit to
the city, and will result in the building
up Of other suburbs, as Washington
Park. Edgewood and Pawtuxet have
been built up during this season.
While we are fully cognizant of the
benefit the trolley is expected to be to
the corporation that owns the street
railways it is undeniable that the
benefit to the city and all its citizens
will be incomparably greater. Under
the American idea Of municipal govern
ment it is impossible to secure great
improvements and progressive reforms
like this for the citizens without the in
tervention, and consequent profit, of in
dividuals or corporations. But what
ever the street railway company's prof
its. they will be through additional
economy of operation and not by any
form of additional tax uponits patrons.
The people aaa the City Council are
to be congratulated upon the prospect
opened to the city by this progressive
action.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07
A GOOD jon WELL DONE.

The obliteration of the Dalton gang"
In Kansas the other day, although ac-
complished by the sacrifice of the lives
of several estimable Kansas citizens,
was yet an event worthy Of more than
passing interest and value.
Six Of these men rode into into Kan
sas town and proceeded TO rob the two
banks there. Some of the citizens gath
cred in the public square to protest, and
did go TO such purpose that five Of the
gang were killed. -. One man has the
honor of having killed three Of the ban.
dts.
The effete East learns of this brave
stand against robbers made by the citi-
gems OF n Western town with unalloyed
pleasure.
We have become used to reading Of
towns terrified by couple Of cowboys,
stage coaches held up by single high
waymen and trains robbed by two OF
three ruffians, while more or less
numerous company looked quakingly
on.
We were losing faith in the West.
We had begun TO look upon the banks
and stage coaches and railway trains MS
more productive Of wealth than the
mines and ranches and timber and cor.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07
THE CONVENTIONS.

The work of the Republican State and
Congressional Conventions yesterday
was well done. The electors chosen
by the State convention are men of pro-
bity and ability. Custom has deprived
the Office Of Presidential elector Of much
of the importance IL once bore. but
Messrs. Lorillard. Rocker, Wilbour and
Haskell are men who would have done
honor to the electoral Office at any time,
and who honor IL now.
For congressman AIessrs. Bull and
Capron are admirable nominees for two
reasons: They are popular men who
number their friend Y the thousand: I:
they will get votes. More imporlan'
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07
THE POET LAUREATE.

The death Of Tennyson raises the
question of the succession to the rather
vague and meaningless Office, or honors,
Of poet laureate of England.
The Office itself is one scarcely under
stood or appreciated in America, as
nothing connected with the semi official
functions of the English government is
more foreign to our ideas and tastes.
The title of poet laureate has come to
be popularity understood to belong to the
first poet in Great Britain, but it has
not always been bestowed in accordance
with this conception.
The poet laureate is an officer Of the
Queens household. in the department of
the lord chamberlain. The Queens
household Is made up of three principal
executive and ceremonial divisions, viz:
The department of the Lord Steward of
the Household, the department of the
Lord Chamberlain of the Household and
the department of the Master of the
Horse. These departments are familiar
ly known as "below stairs" "above
stairs" and "out of DOORS" The office
of poet laureate belongs to the "above
stairs" department, which in
cludes the care of the royal bed
chamber, privy chamber, pres
ence chamber. the wardrobe. the
housekeeper' S room, the guardroom, the
metropolitan theatres and the chapels
royal. The lord chamberlain waits
upon royalty to its carriage, arranges
state ceremonies, announces persons
who approach the throne at royal draw
ingrooms, etc. There Is an army of
palace attendants and tilted funkeys
under his charge, and along down
almost to the end of the list-classed
with the clerk Of the closet, the groom
of the robes, the pages Of the bacbstairs,
of the chamber and of the presence
comes the Office of poet laureate.
The first poet laureate, in the sense
the term is now used, was Spenser, to
whom Queen Elizabeth granted a pen.
sion of ESQ in 1891. The first TO receive
the Office 10y formal letters-patent was
Ben Jonson-" Rare Ben Jonson who
got at first salary of 100 marks, raised
by Charles /. to fi00 and tierce of
canary wine. This allowance of wine
was commuted TO e27, and remained
thus to Tennyson's time.
After Jonson came Davenant, Dryden.
Shadwell, Tate, Rowe, Eusden, Colley
Cibber. Whitehead. Warton, Pye,
Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson. Ten
nyson was appointed in 1850, and had
held the Office forty-two years.
WHO will follow Tennyson can
scarcely be predicted. Having Queen
Victoria's tastes and inclinations in
mind il is easy TO suspect that 1t may
not be the poet most deserving of the
honor. II regard is had to literary
merit alone IL would be likely to fall to
the 10. of Algcraon Charles Swint nrne,
or possibly " William Morris. The
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

than this, they are able men, who will
represent their state In u creditable
manner. Both have ample legislative
experience. Both are wholesome, manly
men, such as the plain people'of this
land have always preferred for impor-
tant legislative posts. Not the slightest
stain of Mugwumpery attaches to the
skirts of either. They are Republicans.
No one has much doubt Of the elec-
ton of these six gentlemen. Let's all
turn to and make it as nearly unanimous
as possible.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

AS I was passing by the Tobey Street
Children's Ho re the other day, an ur-
chin OF about six came running through
the gate, and asked me to give him cent.
What would you do with one IL gave
It TO you 7" asked l.
BUY some bananas" said he.
"But you could only get one for cent. /"
And / wondered IL he could get even that.
Just then two more urchius came
through the gate, and knowing that IL 1
gave No. Ia cent l would have to be
equally generous with Nos. 2 and 3. told
the first urchin so.
"But IL I got banana" demonstrated
urchin No. i, II could give each OF the
others piece"
Oyerpowered by such logic I divided
the munificent sum of three cents among
the urchins, and they went on their way
rejoicing.
The boy whose picture was printed In
the article about the spelling book yes
terday. thought 1t was a very nice pic.
ture. His mother said, There's "A good
deal Of sense in that article.
Afterward heard the other boy recit
ipp his geography lesson, in the course OF
which he remarked that the river bot
toms in Iowa were lined with deciduous
trees.
"Do you know what 'deciduous
means = tShcu-
~ think it means all kinds OF trees"
No, / am not going to write another
scold about the geography. It's a great
Improvement ON the old timers. aud the
big New England maps are IA capital
idea. But I doubt whether it is a square
thing TO teach PROVIDENCE children that
our water aud sewer systems are the best
in the country at n time when attention
is called TO their imperfections.
"wheu I was boy" the man said, rs
he lay on the lounge and putfed his cigar
~ used to live In the same town wit
Wayne MacVeagh. The Mac Veaghs had n
monkey which used to climb up the side
of the mouse AND"
Great Scott man hold on" said,
"This Is going to be great story for the
emo. IL isn't" snid the man. for tha =
ali there Is to IL. MscNcagh was only n
country lawyer In those days and prac-
tls .d law In the Chester county courts
lie lived on High strees in Westchester
i'm n house next door TO Father Johns
Church and oppositc the Green Tree Inn
No. don't remember him much | was
only Md. Twas the monkey caught
me-"
A friend OF mine went 20 the CITY
clerks office day or two ago, and one of
the clerks said Tn MIN: 1T is wonder you
don't bring some of hose cigars
around here" The gentleman vas some-
What surprised and asked what it
meant wien he was shown n newspaper
which said he was the proud father OF a
new ten-pound hoy. lie was nonpussed
but recovering himself said lac guessed
he would 20 home aud see about il rs he
hadn't been home since early in the morn
ing. On arriving mt the house his wife
was as much surprised n lie, but the
explanation was finally found In the fact
that the family living with the m In the
house was the -pOssessor Of the ten
FOUNDER The paper had simply made n
mistake In the tenement
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

Here is the whole thing in a nutshell.
The wages of e,3i2 have been raised, of
II decreased. The hours of II, ,342 have
been shortened, and in not one single
instance is an increase reported.
But what has the tariff to do with the
building trades? you ask. A great
deal Who is to build the mills for the
fourteen firms who have come here
from Great Britain? And houses for
their workmen? Aud stores where
groceries and meat are to be sold them
Aud the school houses where their chill
dren are taught? And the churches
where they go on Sunday?
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

If there are any little forlorn electric
inventions wandering about that Mr..
Edison's company has not got it will be
Just as well for them to emulate Brer
Rabbit for the present. "Brer Rabbit
he lay low and amt sayin muffin"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

AS cholera preventive German sol
diers are allowed three-fourths of cent
a day for liquor. 1t is needless to re-
mark that there are no rattlesnakes in
the barracks of the German army.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

THE New York World wanted to use
its western fund" to equip and
send out special car through the West
with World advertising posters on the
side and World orators howliug from
the platform. 1t would have been a
characteristic cheat but Harrity wouldn't
have H.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

THE Democrats are rastling" with
each other from Point Judith to the
Massachusetts line. They won't get
ready to present solid front to the
enemy" until about sundown on Nov. 8.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

The Recorder also publishes this table
showing the number whose hours of
labor have been reduced, usually by a
full hour per day:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

THE Democrats don't think as highly
of George Ticknor Curtis as they did,
bnt they are making an awful fuss about
the Waning MacVeagh.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

PROBABLY the report that Mr.. Sullivan
wishes again to meet Mr.. Corbett in the
padded ring does injustice to the ex-
champions intellect.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

Mr.. EDWARD PARKER DEACON, Of sa-
lacious memory, has gone to Grasse in
hopes of there being made grass-wid-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

PROVIDENCE OPERA HoUsE-Joseph jefferson
KEITH's OPERA HOUSE" McKenna's F1irta-
tion."
WESTMINSTER RTHEATRE-sefton and watson's
Vaudeville Company.
LoTHRoP's MUSEUM The soggarth"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

BUDArEsTH is the model city of East
ern Europe. but cholera has fastened
upon il. Clean up the city of PRovI-
DrNCFi
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

9BuLL and Capron are two mighty
hard men to beat.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

formers poems have excited sharp criti-
csm for their bold Republican senti-
ments and their somewhat pronounced
disregard for what used to be consid.
cred literary chastity. When h pub
lished Poems and Ballads" in 1865, a
storm Of protest assailed the poems,
though at this day they are not objected
to. Swinburne recently wrote poem
which was thought to advise the Mill
lists to murder the Gar, and which
caused the question to be asked IN the
House of Commons whether the writer
was to be prosecuted for melting to
murder.
William Morris is poet of far mar
rover scope than Swinburne, but
sweeter. He is wealthy and rank So
cialist, and will probably be allowed to
shun the company of the pages OF the
backstairs in the lord chamberlain's
department.. Lewis Morris is said to
be likely to be the Queens favorite for
the vacant post of honor. But little is
known Of him except that he is rich
lawyer who has written a couple of vol
umes of verse. Though little has been
said of him during the years of Tenny-
sons decadence, yet it is evident that
Austin Dobson possesses strong claims
for consideration--in many essential po-
etic particulars stronger claims than
any. Alfred Austin is also a hope
full candidate, and several others will
doubtless come forward before the
Queen is graciously pleased to appoint
a successor to Tennvson.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

Now then, we've got the platform
and the candidates and the thing to d.
is to whirl in and elect 'em.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

The watchword of the Western Dem
ocrats is fusion. Here il is confusion.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

Mr.. SPEAKER CAPRoN has fairly
earned his congressional spurs.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

EDITOR SANBoRN has not quilted 1t all
these years for nothing. He wrote that
platform in true editorial fashion.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

THERE are "signs of mild winter"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

1T was Bull political market yester
day.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

Mr. MacVeayh's conversion Is another
indication that the Republican party Is
on the Wayne. Boston Herald.
The Herald probably means that the
Republican party is onto Wayne.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

Total number who secured reduction OF
L0nLs ll
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-07

1t did not take Mr.. Dana long to make
up his mind whether he would remain al
home and vote for Cleveland or go to
Europe and take chances with the chol
era-New York Commercial Advertiser
II may not have taken him long tc
make up his mind, but it was made uT
long ago.
The Dickinson press., 1892-04-30
A Warning-Don't Use Big Words,

In promulgating esoteric cogitations
or articulating superficial sentiment
talities and philosophical or psychic
logical observations, beware of plati-
tudinous ponderosity: Let your state
ments possess a clarified conciseness,
compacted comprehensibleness. coal
escent consistency and a concentrated
cogency. Eschew all conglomera-
lions of liatulent garrulity, jejune
babblements and asinine affections.
In trying to impress upon others the
superiority of the Wisconsin Central
Lines, and why you and so many 9TH
ers ne this ~thoroughfare from st.
Paul and Minneapolis and Duluth and
Ashland to Milwaukee, Chicago and
| points east and south, it is not neces-
sary to use jawbrakers. Let your eN-
temporaneous descantings and UNI
premeditated expatiations have intel
Eligibility and %veracious vivacity,
without rhodomontade or thrasonical
bombast. Seduiously avoid all poly
| syllabie prqf4niity. psittaceous vacui-
ty, ventriloqual yerJQs.ty and yandilo'
quent y~apidity. shun double entendres,
prprient jocosity and pestiferous pro-
family. ~obssurent az apparent. In
other words, talk plainly. naturally,
sensibly, and truthfully say the Wis.
|'consin Central Lines is the route. and
J that ends II.
The Dickinson press., 1892-04-30
SOUTH HEART NOTES.

Thos. Ryan was up this week Tor
beef.
The South Heart is way up again,
since the recent rains.
Geo. Clark went to Dickinson Tues
day, to attend the stock meeting.
Miss Nellie Palmer spent Saturday
and Sunday with her brother i'll Dick
inson.
r. j. Turner's press and crew are
here waiting for better weather to
press hay.
AT the republican primaries last
Saturday, IL motion was carried to call
a meeting for tonight, April Both,
with a view to organizing republic
can league.
Most of our settlers, having large
stock interests, will do little farming
this year, but even the work Oil the
small acreage that will be put in i:
considerably retarded on account O
rain and wind all the week.
"It's an i'll wind that blows nothing
good" So it is with the recent rains
though hard on stock, they were bene
fetal to the growth of grass, and hav
done thousands Of dollars worth o
god in putting out the cxtensiv
prairie fires all around.
The Dickinson press., 1892-04-30
NEW ENGLAND CITY NOTES.,

Prairie fires burnt over IL large e%-
tent of territory south and east OF the
city last Saturday. Several head OF
cattle in Frank Heffron's herd were
severely burned, of which two dled
and II was shot to end it's misery.
G. r.. Pendergast lost six head of
cattle from blackleg last week.
The cold storm the first OF the week
caused cattle to drift badly and stock
men have been kept busy gathering
them together again.
Big Rainy has again donned ms
winter mantle of snow, while await
ing for the spring time.
The late storm caused the death OF
many lambs, in this vicinity. What
the loss will he cannot be decided a,
the present time, rs III returns from
| sheep men have been received.
Will Kirby spent several days il
Dickinson this week.
The Dickinson press., 1892-04-30
Death of Mrs. Brown.

Died, in Hinckley, ILL.,, on April lst,
ut 10 O'Clock NJ, after Il lingering,
painful illness of two months, the last
seven weeks of which time she was
confined to her bed-Mrs. W. IL.
Brown, nee Tina T.. Lee, aged p
years. Mrs. Brown was born on
Grand Traverse Bay. Michigan, re-
moved with her parents to North
Dakota in 1883, where she lived till
her marriage with MI. Brown in July
last; i'll September last she came to
Hinckley, which has been her home
since. During her residence here she
made many warm friends. being a III.
dy possessed of numerous attractive
qualities, friends who attested the
strength of their affection by doing
everything possible to alleviate hel
suffering. Three weeks ago her sister
Miss bertha Lee arrived from Glad,
stone, North Dakota, and four CT five
days before her death, came her father
and mother. All that love coult
prompt was done but the angel o:
death said peace be still. The funera
service occurred on Saturday after
noon at the Baptist Church.-Hinck
ley, (lll.) Review.
O%verhalls, jumpers and hats a
Scotie,d's.
The Dickinson press., 1892-04-30
A Trip in California.

-Four months %journeyings in Cali
fornia, spent principally i'm the cities
of San Francisco, Los Angelas. San
Diego, Fresno, MERGED City, Modesto,
Crescent City and vicinity. | find the
larger part of California to he COM
posed of broken mountains and desert,
still ut the same time, it has some of
the most beautiful valleys in the
world. principally among them may
be mentioned the San Gabriel valley
in Los Angeles county, where is found
Lucky l5aldwin's Ranch of $4,000
acres of the finest land in the world,
the Italy of America and the Ell Ca
hon valley in San Diego county. These
two valleys are in Soutller!l California
and arc noted for their orange and
lemon groves. also for producing the
finest of peaches, pr,lnes. apricots,
figs, palm dates, pears aud english
soft sllelled walnuts. Land i'm these
two valleys is selling for sums ranging
from $3.50 to $1,000 per acre. Then
come the great valleys of central Cali.
%fornia, the San Joaquin and the Sacre-
mento. The former embracing thou
sands af square miles of land and pro-
ducing principally wheat and harley
and the raisin grape, where it IL he
irrigated. This land is valued at from
$25 to $50 per acre and us to moisture
and certainty of crop it compares well
with the land west of the Missouri
river in North Dakota, except the lat
ter is much more fertile and has il
the soil less sand and will produce
more grain per acre under favorable
auspices, While the Sacramento val
ley is the most extensive one in tht
state and produces all the grains AM
fruits, even the orange tree grows Oh
some of its foot hills. The land i
} valued from $50 to $3.50 per acre
The northern part of the state j
principally mountainous and has few
valleys. Great forests, of $4,000 t
100000 feet of lumber in Il tree
which are from Is to 90 feet in di
. ameter, so or 100 feet from til
ground. LAUNDERING, dairying an
stock raising are the principal occup;
G tions of the people of this part Of til
f state. In short, California is Il goo
e place for those who have plenty
money but no place for the laborin
man. THos. EVANS.
The Dickinson press., 1892-04-30

WE sec by the News of Glen
dive that D. ]. l.. Austin has sue
cecded in getting into the good
graces of some of the church poo
pie there. This man has been de
nounccd by the official paper OF
the Baptist denomination of this
state, and he was not in the pos
session of satisfactory credentials
while in Dickinson to prove him
self a worthy brother. He claimed
here that there was just n ma
living who could rcctify this mis-
take as he called it, and il
that man could be found, he, Aus.
tin, would be all right. We Woulo
advise this sclf-appoincd apostle
of the "truth" to rc-tracc, locate
his residence and take a fresh
start.