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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
A SARCASTIC BEGGAR.
He Sends Home . Parting Shot on the
MsEnanimity OF the Clerk.

He Sends Home . Parting Shot on the
Msgnanimity OF the Clerk.
He was beggar with the old worn
clothes, unwashed face, unkept hair and
unbrushed shoes. He waded up to the
counter Of the Lindell late last night
and told between his sobs. tears, groans
and sighs how his stomach yearned for
a sandwich. The clerk went to the
safe, threw open its massive doors, and
from its inner receptacles drew forth
new and shining five-cent piece, which
he laid kindly and gently into the quiv-
ering and blackened beggar's hand.
''Now, my poor friend, what do you
propose to do with that money!" seri-
ously inquired the serious clerk.
The beggar looked down at his soiled
and tattered garments. Hescanned his
benefactor curiously for n moment,
and then in a tremulous tone said:
Young man, you see me as am,
wearing the habiliments of an outcast.
Yet L am honest, and i will give you a
truthful answer. / shall first go and
buy me good supper, then l will take
a bath and cocktail, and mayhap after
that adorn this handsome form with q
new suit of clothes. II there is any OF
il left after that shall, upon my word.
deposit it in the bank. am exceeding
ly obliged. Good day."-St Louis Re-
public.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
A PERPLEXING SUBJECT.
The Weather Prophet Writing His Hsmf1,
on tho Weather.

The Weather Prophet Writing His Hsmfly
on the Weather.
He was writing q homily on the
weather, and began 1t in this way:
There are indications that we are
about to have an oldfashioned winter
with plenty of sleighing and toboggan-
ing. 1t looks as II skating would begin
at once and be as popular as ever. The
cold wave is coming"
At this juncture he stopped writing
long enough to look out of the Office
window, when he discovered that it
was raining. He tore up the sentence
he had elaborated and began again:
at is apparent to the most casual OBJ
server that we are about to have a
green Christmas, to be followed, prob
ably, by the dreaded fat churckyard'
so often predicted. The mild site of
the weather"
At this moment a blast Of wind rat
tied the easement and swept with an
eerie cry down the street. 1t took sew
eral signs and distractions in its course,
and gave the weather prophet q chill.
He began anew:
1.-THE remarkably boisterous winds Of
the present season have perhaps never
before been equaled in this region.
Mariners dread them as they would an
epidemic, and doctors say that all kinds
of pulmonary diseases follow in their
train. Such weather is"
Lifting his eyes at that moment he
saw flakes of snow in the air and tore
up what he had previously written, to
say:
"As there are about fifteen different
kinds and assortments of weather on
hand, we feel justified in Offering to
our patrons the usual compound of cold
and heat, wind, snow and slush, with
the accustomed authority Of the goose
bone and hedgehog as our predictions
of the kind of weather we are likely to
enjoy this winter. ."-Detroit Free Press.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
Cannot Fulfil Its Obligations.

WORCESTER, Mass, Feb. PA bill in
equity praying that an injunction be is
sued against the Non-Secret Endowment
Order OF this city, and that receiver be
appointed to wind up the affairs Of the
corporation, was filed in the Superior
Court here yesterday by William II.
Gates, q lawyer, and certificate holder in
Commonwealth Assembly No. 40, OF this
city. The grounds alleged in the bill are
that the order has ceased to grow and
cannot fulfil It's obligations unless it calls
frequent assessments during the last three
months OF its existence, requiring its
members to pay more than they will re-
ceive. II 10 one of the short term orders,
Offering to give $500 to its certificate hold
hanaAta
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
GIVE us PURER MUSIC.
Father Graf to Follow the Old
Roman School.
MUSIC IN CATHOLIC CHURCHES.
When Ribald Airs and Words Were
sung mt Mass-The Rigid Training OF
Priests and Choirs I'm song-The
~stabat Mater" Huge Joke.

Music, as everybody knows, plays an
important part In the services of the
Roman Catholic church, but laymen,
and especially Protestant laymen. do
not realize how great feature II is and
how much study and hard work 1t i'm
wolves for members of the priesthood
and minor attaches of the church.
Every priest must be singer, and
every organist In a Catholic church
must be able to catch the correct pitch
from the priests intonations. This Of
itself, without speaking of the work of
the choirs, shows that immense study
must be made of music In order that
the priest may chant the mass correct
ly and the organist respond in the same
key.
There is at least one famous school
for the study Of ecclesiastical music. 1t
was established centuries ago at Rome
and Is still In existence. 1t Is known
as the Goudimel school and some of the
worlds greatest musicians have been
among its pupils. The object Of the
school, as / understand 1t, is TO preserve
church music in its religious purity and
to train priests and singers so that their
work may be perfect. There Is move
meut ON foot in America for the estab-
lishment of a similar school here. The
head and front of this movement is
Rev. Joseph Graf, who was formerly
stationed at Baltimore. He Is now in
New York actively engaged in starting
the school, and the first public move
will be In the form of what Is called
''Golden Episcopal Jubilee" in celebra-
ton of the fftieth anniversary of the
present pope's entrance into the priest
hood. The distinguishing feature of this
celebration, which is TO take place on
February 20, will be the rendering OF
church music by the best performers
that can be found in New York. The
event will take place in Music hall,
Fifty-seventh street and Seventh ave-
nue.. At that time there will be pro-
duced for the first time in this country
some compositions by Palestrina, com.
poser who was born in 1914. In musical
history he figures as the savior of church
music. But before touching upon his very
important relations TO musical art IL
should be said that Father Graf is him.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
Anna Dickinson Wants ID amages.

NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-Miss Anna @.
Dickinson has commenced four actions
for libel against four morning newspapers
Of this city. The articles claimed as libel
lous were pu blished about the time that
Miss Dickinson claimed she was wrong
fully incarcerated in the insane asylum at
Danville, Pa, in 1891, and the parts she
claims as libellous are those wherein she
is is described as a raving maniac and the
strange things stated to have been done
by her as showing her to have been in
sane. Miss Dickinson denies that she did
the acts as alleged. In each case dam
ages are laid at $4,000.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
TOOK THE BUCKET WITH HIM.

Pats Complaint Against the Man Who
Had Been Taken without . Character.
The captain Of q large steamer was
once filling up his crew for long voy'
age when a seaman came up and said:
'I want to sail with you, SIR"
"All right, my man." replied the cap
tain. where have you sailed before?"
"P. and O., sir, to Australia"
"What countrymanP"
Gan Oirishman," was the ready re-
sponse.
"Well, you must get character"
The discharge was obtained, and as
the Irishmsu was presenting it another
seaman came up and said he wanted TO
Join.
What line were you on before?" asked
the captain.
"Cunard, SIR"
"What countryman?" -
English, your honor" @s-"'
"All right. Go forward"
Shortly after, as the two were swill-
ing the decks in heavy sea, the Eng
lishman was swept overheard, bucket
and all. Unmoved, Paddy finished his
lob and then went to the captains
cabin.
"Come in.- responded the officer TO
his rap. "What's up now?"
"Do you remember Bill Smith, the
Englishman and Cunarder2" queried
Pat
Certainly, my man."
'You took him widout character?"
81 believe so; what of that?"
swell, he's gone overheard wild your
bucket. Chicago News.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
Bailey waggoner Chosen.

TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 22.-The Republi-
can members OF the House and Senate in
caucus last night decided upon Bailey
Waggoner as the contestant for the seat
OF John Martin in the United States Sem
ate. Word was received that all the
Democratic members OF the legislature,
except O'Brien, would vote for Wagon
or. The caucus adjourned until today,
when the selection OF Waggoner will be
formally ratified. This action was taken
because no Democrats were present.
Waggoner's election will not occur until
after the Supreme Court renders its de-
cision in the Gum habeas corpus case,
which was begun yesterday.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22

companied quartette, and that quartette
Rossini stole bodily, note for note, from
q composition by Haydn.
IL is Father drafs purpose To en-
courage composers to-day TO return to
the classic ecclesiastical style of Pales-
trina, or, II not TO go SO far as that. TO
preserve the dignity of music designed
Tor the church. In the school he win
establish there viii DO taught the
theory and practice Of the Gregorian
chant. the history of church music, ec-
clesiastical laws concerning liturgical
music, all the departments which lie
within the theory of composition, as
well as organ playing, chorus training
and choir directing, and critical study
of the best works OF ancient and modern
composers, particularly of masterpieces
of the Palestrina style. The jubi-
lee already referred 10 will serve
to encourage composers and di-
rectors 10 work In Father Grafs
direction. In the performance of
the music there will be a chorus of
five hundred picked voices. the Sym
phony orchestra of New York and
several SOlOlSt8 WIN afr ldluOuS All OVtf
the country as singers The soprano,
for instance, will be Nine. Fursch-
Madi. There will be three conductors,
among them Father Graf, and the
Others Walter Damrosch and Bruno
Oscar Klein. Some of the compositions
of Palestrina which viii be produced
have never been sung before except by
the papal choir in the Sixtine chapel at
Rome. That choir Is probably the
finest in the world, and for centuries il
has kept its repertory of sacred music
altogether to itself. On at least two
occasions in musical history musicians
have listened to the choir and noted the
songs that were rendered and after
wards published them One of these
thefts, If such a harsh word may be
used, was made by Mendelssohn- On
this occasion, of course, the perform.
ance has the full sanction Of the highes,
church authorities.
The result of Father Crafts move
ment will, IL is hoped, be the elevation
of church music Throughout the country
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
TELESCOPED THE CABOOSE.

Miraculous Escape OF n Section Hand on
the New London Northern.
NORWICH, Conn.,, Feb. 22.-Ths south
ward bound freight on the New London
Northern railroad telescoped its caboose
on a siding at the Union station at 2.3o
yesterday afternoon. An Italian section
hand was in the caboose when it went
tearing through box car, and stood on
end. He stepped on to the roof OF the
crushed freight car with dinner pail and
lantern In hand, cool and unharmed.
wrecking train came from New Lon
don to take care Of the wreck, and as 1t
was moving from the main line to reach q
siding, so the passenger train south could
pass, the derrick collided with the Main
street bridge, tearing out the timbers and
bursting the water main. The derrick
was ruined, but no one was hurt.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
CARS TOSSED In THE AIR.
Bed Wreck ON the West Shore Road
Three Killed.

Iuroe Ahieos
PALMYRA, N. ", Feb. 22.-Train No. 8
on the West Shore road coming west was
derailed q mile east Of Palmyra and
thrown down an embankment about Is
feet high yesterday. There were i've
coaches, q baggage car and the train was q
double header. Engineer Pearsal was
badly hurt. One of the engines and the
coaches were badly smashed.
Fred Mentle, the fireman on engine 46,
was thrown down the embankment with
his engine and badly bruised on the head.
The engineer OF this locomotive was
caught under the engine and one of his
legs was broken and his back bruised.
Frederick Holdemheim. German, had his
arm cut of end was badly injured In other
parts Of the body. The injured were
removed to the Powers Hotel in Palmyra.
Three men were killed. Their names have
not vet been ascertained.
The remains of one OF the killed were
taken to Newark. Coroner Chase and
four doctors were summoned to care for
the injured.s A great many injured pas
sengers were taken to farm houses, but
their names have not yet been secured.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
Butted His Opponent

BuFFAJo. ". ", Feb. 22.-Ed Buchanan
OF Boston, and p. j. Griffin OF Philadel-
phia, fought here last night, under the
auspices OF the Crescent Athletic Club for
a purse Of sa0o and a bet OF 1900. In the
third round Griffin butted his opponent
on the side OF the head and Knocked him
out. Both men were injured. The referee
gave the fight TO the insensible man, Blu
ehsnan.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
A $4,000 Suit.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, Feb. 22.-Dr. Har.
Ian p. Cole of this city was yesterday
made defendant with Doctors c. III. and
F. w. Pulford OF Seymour, in q suit for
5000 for malpractice. The action Is
brought by Horace Holbrook OF Seymour,
who alleges that the surgeons improperly
set his broken leg. DR.. Cole was called in
consultation by the brothers Pulford.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
r.,,.,ered Mail stolen In $. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. 22.-Monday night,
while the mail was being transferred from
a st. Louis & San Francisco railroad train
70 the mail car on the st. Louis, Keokuk
a Northwestern railroad at the depot, n
pouch containing the registered mail was
ripped open and the contents stolen. The
value OF the stolen property IL unknown,
but probably will amount to several thou
sand dollars. There Is no clue to the
thieves
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 22.-At Spring
Vile, Ala, % miles from Birmingham, q
mob took Richard Mays, alias Dock
Moore, from the Jail early yesterday
morning and lynched him. The culprit
was a negro, about 10 years OF age, and
the offense for which he was hanged was
an attempt to assault white woman
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22

NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-One hundred and
fifty graduates OF Harvard College attend
ed the 9th annual dinner OF the Harvard
Club of New York city at Delmonico's
last night. President Eliot presided.
speeches were made by President Eliot,
Edward King, j. II. Van Amringe, Frank
ID. Millet and Chauncey M. Depew.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
VIII Manufacture Hospital Supplies.

NORWICH, Conn, Feb. 22.-New York
parties have bought the Versailles wool
en- mill property in the town OF Sprague,
and will establish plant for making hos
pital supplies. They will spend sloo,oO
has voted to abate taxes on improvements
for term of three years.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22

"Yes," said Tomlinson, with sudden
interest in the conversation, my little
boy is just five years old. lie is one of
the oldest little fellows. The other day
his moth"
But the last OF the group of auditors
could by this time be seen scampering
around the next street corner a block
away.-Chicago News Record.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
RELEASED on $4,000 Bail.

PrrrsBuRo, Pa, Feb. 22.-Hugh o'Don-
nell, Jack Clifford and Hugh Ross, lead
ers OF the Homestead strike, charged with
riot, conspiracy and treason, were re-
leased yesterday on s10, 900 bail each. The
accused have been In jail for three months.
They left for Homestead ut once.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
Killed the Chief Of Police.

LEEcHBURo, Pa, Feb. 2.-Late last
evening four masked men boldly attempt
ed to rob the City Bank here. They were
discovered and one robber was arrested.
The other three escaped after a desperate
fight with officers, during which one of
the robbers shot and killed VIM. Schaefer,
chief of police. A posse Is in pursuit OF
the fugitiyes.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
A Husbands Diary.

Wife addressing her husband, who is
busy writing at his desk )-What are you
writing there, hubby, dear?
81 am working away at my memoirs"
"Ahi but you have not forgotten to
mention your little wifey, have your
"Oh, dear, no! have represented you
as the sun of my life, and am just now
giving description of those days on
which you have made it particularly hot
for me."-Humoristicho Blatter.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
Saved n Steamers Crew.

LONDON, Feb. 22.-The steamer Italia,
from New York, put into Gothenburg
Feb. II, after being four weeks caught
fast in the ice. She reports having saved
the crew OF the tank steamer Christine,
which was crushed in the ice near Kullen.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
Found Dead in the Harbor.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Feb. 22.-Captain
Patrick II. Masterson OF the steamer Eta
Msy and one of the best known seafaring
men along thesound disappeared last Sat-.
urday and yesterday his dead body was
found I'm the harbor. He was at one time
commander OF General Grants yacht.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
Killed by the Cars.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Feb. 2.-Rudolph
Burr OF Long Hill, while going across the
track at stepney yesterday afternoon, was
struck by the cars and killed. The body
was thrown q number Of feet. go
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
Additional Batch Of Correspondence Sent
to the Senate.

Additional Batch OF correspondence sent
to the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. a. Mr.. Neuman,
who represents the deposed Queen Of Ha-
waiia, called at the state department and
had q conference with Secretary Foster,
yesterday afternoon.
/ A statement OF the conference will be
sent to the President for transmission to
the Senate.
An additional batch OF correspondence
relating to Hawaii was sent to the Senate
In the afternoon under executive seal.
Messrs. Castle and Wilder, members OF
the Hawaiian annexation commission, left
Washington last evening for San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Thurston expects to leave to-
morrow.
Mr.. Carter will remain several days
longer.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
An Ignorant Stranger.

stranger-Where is the courthouse9
Boy-'Bout six blocks west from here.
Stranger-But IL don't know which
way Is west.
Boy-W'y JUS stan with your face to
tn north, an then y'r right hand'll
point east an y'r left hand west. Thort
everybod knew tLat.-Good News.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
Several Hind. of Dreams.

Mrs Plume-Don't you think my new
bonnet is perfect dream?
Plume-Yes; and mighty bad one
Puck,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-25
ENTICED FROM HER HOME.
A South dakota Girl Who Could Not Re
sist an Offer of SEQ a Week.

A farmer living near Aberdeen,
S. D., was in the city recently looking
for a runaway daughter, says the
Sioux City Journal Of the 10th. He
stated that he learned from a letter
that he found in his daughters trunk
that she had gone to accept an offer
of s25 a week to go on the stage in a
Chicago tbeater, the letter telling
her not to let her folks know any
thing about where she was going,
and in a few weeks she could give
them a most agreeable surprise. He
judged from the tone of the letter
that it was the elimination Of a cor
respondence with several girls in that
vicinity, and Investigation developed
that one other girl had received let
tiers, but had been too sharp tn accept
the bait. The letter that he found
was mailed from Sioux City, and he
came here, hoping to find his
daughter before she got away, as she
left home Saturday to spend the
night and Sunday with a neighbor a
couple of miles away. He learned,
however, that she did not go to the
neighbours at all, but came to Sioux
City Saturday. The name signed to
the letter was James Dewey and APP
pointed a meeting in the union depot,
she TO know Dewey by a white rose
bud in his buttonhole. The farmer,
who asked that his name be sup
pressed, as he hoped to find his
daughter before disgrace overlook
her, hired a constable to show him
about the city. They learned that a
couple answering the description of
his daughter and Dewey with the
whitebud took a morning train for
Chicago and the farmer followed on
an evening train, having wired the
police there to intercept them at the
depot.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-25
state sunday school Convention.

The above convention meets in the
city of WATERFOWL, June 13 and 10.
A program par-excellence is in hand
and il will doubtless be carried out.
Among the speakers will be DR.. A. G.
Foster, of Boston, f. G. Ensign, Esq,
of Chicago, and many OF the best
workers in the state; indeed we ex'
pect to hold a convention worthy OF
Columbian year.
Reduced rates will be had on al
railways. Delegates must get ticket
agents to give them receipts wher
purchasing o~ne-fare tickets at juno
tions.
Each Sunday school in the state Il
entitled to two delegates. We trust
that each county will send strong
delegations TO report and pledge thu
amount for state werk. Let all dele
gates send their names TO G. j. Spen
Ger, Waterfowl, s. d., sc as facilitate
entertainment arrangement.
GEO. X. g. FISHER, Sec.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-25
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS.


Recently at Minnewaukan, Benson
county, a wild goose was shot which
contained a set Of false teeth in its
crop. How It secured them is a mys.
terry.
The body Of Orlando Giles, a well
to do Grand Army ranchman, was
found on the prairie seven miles from
Dickinson, riddled with bullets. A
quarrel is suspected.
In the district court Postmaster
Wood, Of Menoken, who smashed a
ballot box two years ago, withdrew
his plea Of not guilty and pleaded
guilty. On account of extenuating
circumstances ne was fined only $i5.
Gov. Shortridge, Attorney-G General
Standish and Public Examiner Pea.
body are preparing to begin proceed.
ings against the old beard Of trustees
OF the Agricultural College before the
public examiner, with a view TO their
removal by the governor.
The residents around Spiritwood
lake, a pleasure resort in the north.
eastern part OF Stutsman county,
believe that it is the intention of the
500 railroad to build a branch from
the main line to the lake in the near
future. 1t is reported that an option
on certain valuable property at the
lake has been secured.
The residence of Alfred Dickey,
state manager Of the Worlds Fail
Board, was burglarized a few nights
ago. The room Of II. p. Smart was
entered and three suits of clothes anc
a small sum of money taken. The
Dickey family are in Chicago, anC
the extent Of their loss will be un
known until they return. From the
hardware store of VIM. X. Lein z
stock Of azors and knives were
taken.
The North Dakota Medical Asso
citation, which will hold its annua.
meeting in jamestown on the 25tf
inst, promises to be largely attended
1t is to be held by the allopathic
school. The assembly hall OF the
North Dakota hospital Of the insane
has been rendered the association by
the superintendent and trustees o.
the institution. The different ward:
Of the institution will be thrown
open for inspection and the study q
abundant clinical material TO be hat
there.