The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-17

the poor devils who live IN the silver
states" said a gentleman In the Maria
gansett lobby last night "Why out there
the destitution Is absolute. In Denver
magnificent business blocks. palaiial resi-
dences and row after row OF houses stand
vacant. Thousands hav, not earne
dollar IA months. In te
mlning regions it is even worse
IL has been n slow process this march
downward. Buildings which were ersc-
ted thirty years azo and more on the Com
stock for mining pprpo.es, at great ex-
pense, have been lately torn down and
their machinery sold for old junk.
Salaries of surerentendents then ranged
from $4,000 To $4,000 year. In late
years there hss been great 70 luct.on OF
salaries consequent upon tho small re-
ductun ~ orr $, ard leading super n
Dde who mas been cut down from 500
10 SOD "a month thinks himself lucky TO
10 be paid that, and today most OF the
mirers and superintendents as we'll
re wondering how they crn get away
10 some place where there Is
work. Just before + icft Colorado it was
rlp,rted that Governor Waite wa, going
TO call the legislature together in special
session To SEQ what could le done to aid
the miner. Free soup houses have been
whoa year ago evan were receiving hand
some salaries. to-day apply for bread aad
free soup at the hands Of the charitable.
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Austrian gold decorated glass is the
latest importation for tableware. The
glass IL white and very light, being
blown. not cut glass apd the gold is ap-
piled with brush in delicate arabesquts
and flower sprays. For snail pieces. such
as liqueur and wine x assesand tumblers
which. by the way, are beginning to
crawl back into popular favor,
there Is nothing pre;tier unless 1t
be the new Roman green glass
The coloring OF this / cannot de-
scribe, for the color-nanes in our vocabu-
larry WOULD serve only as approximations.
Perhaps the Japanese have term for 1t
pure. cool emerald lone like the deep
waters of the sea. The white glass Is de-
velopod in the prettiest little cups and
ssucers for Roman punch Both are deco.
rated with fine god bands, radiating di-
agonaiIy from central point, and coin
Gliding with tiny hutings in the glass.
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Last evening Miss Maud Vaughn Boyn.
ton II this city gave amus Gale and whiss
party at her home, 9S Sutton street. Miss
sister assisted in receiving.
Lewis Ne comb Of this ci y and Geo. A
Carmichael visited ShannocI this week.
Mis-. George Curtis OF Middleton Is
visiting friends in this city for a few
days.
Mr. Harry Perry has returned TO his
home in this city. after visiting friends
in Mddletown.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Grosvenor of
Newport are visiting In this citg.
Mrs. Charlts y. Phillips aud her three
children are visiting relatives il this city.
Mrs. William Nichols aud daughter OF
Summit have returned home from
weeks visit in this city
Rowland b. Palmer Of this city visited
IN Liberty this week.
Rv. Mr.. Chappell OF this city will oc-
cupy the Baptisg pulpit at Ljnsd ne for u
sh rt time.
did you eyer hear the romance OF
Speaker Crsp's marriage" ssket a gentle
man OF the Looking Glass the other day.
i was very Interesting and az nearly as /
can will repeat it, Speaker Crisp WAS
poor young lawyer about the close OF the
war, trying TO make both ends meet while
pouring over Blackstone In the little vii
lase Of Ellavlle, Ga. But it was pretty
bard work; the only brightness in life
was the smile OF Clara Burton. whose
parents opposed he match. But people
cant i've on smiles, and the bare room Of
the poor fellow offered no hopes for the
future, but a few pieces OF shabby furn-
iure ana few dog-eared books
OF course, poverty didn't affect their
courtshp. In fact, the lower the money
got in the slender purse the higher rose
the mercury in loves thermometer Then
suddenly young Crisp fs!l i'll, so I'll that
his physician dtspa red-of his life. On
hearing this Clara Immediately DECLARED
that IL he were In need of her nursing
she would move the marriag, ccrem ony
be perior utd 40 that she could take her
plsc, of watching at his bedside
G isp was jGst about rs blue in spirits
d i'll in bo ty as a po IT, voung hopelessly
in love fellow ran we'll be, and his des pair
seriously retarded any Improvement. but
when the doctor returned with Clara's
message he fe't inspired by such proof Of
aft ctioa. and declared that he intended TO
get well. mNr,y her in spite OF bis poverty
and make for her a name OF which she
should one day be proud. And no has kept
his word faithfully. Unfortunately for the
devoted wife, she was 500 after her mar
riage attacked with rheumatic gout,
VIII ch has ever since kept her In i'll
health. Yet Iere was no Southern home
more beautifully kept than that OF Mrs.
Crisp. Her chief Amusement is writing
to absent frIeuds and reading the pipers,
while much OF her pleasure consis sin col
lectiag and pasting in scrap book ali
the papers ssy of her husband. Mrs. Crisp
has had seven children, only four
OF whom are now living. The eldes
daughter is married, ths Oldest bo
Chsrl,s Crisp, js., is clerk to his father,
while the two youngest, Frederick aud
B rtaa, are yet in their early teens. The
cbildren's love clusters about their in
vail mother. while she returns to them
aud their father the fullness OF the deep
aft, elton that enst trincs all her family ~
her heart. Ard waile hor delicate health
will prevent her taking part Ia the soc al