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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25

the day was discharged 100 pounds. Every
year / had attacks OF nervous prostration :;
shortness of breath and loss of appetite were
not the least Of my misfortunes. Itrled num-
berless things. Nothing did me any good
While employed in Boston was compelled
to resign my position on account Of i'll health.
consulted several eminent physicians and
took their medicines. No use-I grew worse
day after day. They told me could not live.
/ could not walk alone in the street without
falling clinging To railings. At times
would shake and twitch. Had spells of fall
ing down in the office and on the street. In
the house / had TO lie down or drop down.
Several times believed was at deaths door.
1 had been commander of three different
G.. A. r. posts, and my comrades advised me
TO try DIR. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve
remedy. l bought bottle and when had
taken two-thirds of IL began 10 improve l
kept on taking il, improving all the time
now weigh 100 pounds and feel like my old
self again.
You can put IL in your paper that attribute
my good health TO nothing but DIR. Greene's
Nervura blood and nerve remedy. am per-
fectly satisfied that IL saved my life. am 60
years of age, but, as you can see for yourself
/ am as active as a man of 40 and can do a
good days work as people here well know.
My friends in Boston, New York and other
places are surprised at my recovery. Indeed.
am surprised myself 10 be so well. / advise
everybody afflicted to buy and try DIR.
Greene's Neryura blood and nerve remedy at
at once"
At this season of the year when everybody
needs and is using a spring medicine we ad-
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II is by ali odds the best spring medicine ever
discovered, and Immediately invigorates the
blood. strengthens the nerves and restores to
a healthy action of all the organs.
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ly vegetable. 1t sells at 81 per bottle. Physi-
clans recommend IL TO their patients, as IL is
not patent medicine. II is the discovery of
that eminent specialist, DIR. Greene, who can
be consulted personally or by letter. at 81 Tenn
pie place, Boston, Mass. at all times.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25

Business 1rsnsscted at Yesterdays sss-
sion Of Massachusetts Law Makers
BEACON HILL, Feb. 25.-short sessions
were the rule in both branches, yesterday.
In the senate.
The COMMITTEES on harbors reported
bill for ths construction OF bridge over
the east branch OF the Westport river.
The petition OF the trustees Of the state
almshouse at Tewksbury for authority to
erect substantially fireproof buildings in
place OF the present wooden structures,
was admitted, after Mr.. Sawyer had ex-
planned how the Dover, N. H., horror had
aroused public sentiment for such legisla-
tion.
The committee on taxation rejected the
leave to withdraw on the petition OF
George III. Stevens and others for an
amendment Of the laws relating to the
sale OF real estate for non-payment Of
taxes.
On motion of Mr.. Lawton OF Middlesex,
who said that parties in Lowell and Law
renee wished to remonstrate the Senate
bill to regulate deposits In trust compa-
MES was recommitted.
On motion OF Mr.. Buckley OF Hampden,
the Senate bill as to examination OF reser-
voirs, reservoir drains and mill dams was
pub ONtT untu
Mr.. Monk OF Plymouth asked that the
report against having the vote on the Ii
cense question taken by counties be as
signed for Tuesday when he would
offer Senate bill No. 80 as a substitute.
In the House.
The banking committee reported q bill
that every safe deposit. loan and trust
company hereafter incorporated under
state law, and every such company here
tofore incorporated, shall begin business
respectively within two years of its incor-
poratfon orJof the passage Of this act, or
its charter shall become void.
There was referred to the committee on
rules for report on their suspension, the
petition presented by Mr.. Derbyshire OF
that the city may appoint an agent for the
sale OF liquor for medicinal, chemical and
mechanical purposes, and that in such
case no druggists license shall be grant
ed.
The liquor law committee reported
unanimously leave to withdraw on the pc
tition OF the Massachusetts, Total Absti
nence Society that no saloon be licensed
with 400 feet OF q church.
Ought not to pass was reported by the
labor committee on the bill to prevent
counties, cities and towns from employ
ing non residents.
There was referred to the committee on
rules, on the question of admission, the
bill Of Mr.. Hathaway OF Brockton to
authorize the city to lay out a street
through the Thayer burial ground.
The committee on terms reported bill
to permit Randolph to raise $500 by tax
alton to pay certain bounties; leave to
withdraw on the petition to annex part of
Msshpee to Barnstable.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
THE BUSINESS WORLD.
The Past Week Has Been a Most Excit-
ing One in Speculative Circles.

The Past Week Has Been a Most Excit-
ing One in Speculative Circles.
NEW YORK, Feb. 25-R. G. Dun & Co. Is
weekly review OF trade says: The collapse
Of the coal combination formed year ago
by the Reading railway and sharp depres-
sion in sugar stocks and the few railway
stocks, have made the week one of unusual
excitement in speculative circles.
But while 50 100000 of gold has gone
abroad this week, and half million more
is expected to go today, there is no in
crease of apprehension about the none
tary future and the business world pays
little attention to the action or inaction
of Congress, though the increasing proba-
bilities OF an extra session are regarded
with some interest.
The volume of trade has not been dim
inished except by severe storms and the
holiday on Wednesday, and the activity
OF the great industries is unchecked. .
At Boston, dry goods are active, shoe
shops are busy with prices firm, and coal
retails at lower figures, while trade in
groceries Is good. Iron is still the weak
est OF the great industries, and pig not of
the best brand Is q shade weaker than a
week ago.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days
as reported TO r. G.. Dun 4 Company, the
mercantile agency by telegraph, number
for the United States 1913 and for Canada
"a, or total of go, as compared with
totals of 233 last week and 266 the week
previous to the last. For the correspond
ing week OF last year the figures were 270.
representing 236 failures in the United
States and "a in the Dominion OF Canada.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
Death of President Allan Marvel.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.--President Allan Man
vel OF the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road, who died in California yesterday, was
a resident OF Chicago and had offices here.
hr. Marvel, while widely known among
railroad men, first became prominent
before the people of the country when, a
few years ago, be was chosen president of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road.
This was at time when the business OF
the road was In q very unstable condi-
tion. In six months President Marvel
made himself master of the situation and
knew the road intimately from Chicago
to the Pacific coast, including all its con-
solidated lines, and in year he had its
credit established on solid foundation.
His success in this undertaking made him
one of the most prominent railroad men
in the country and 1t was TO his thorough h
training that he owed his success. He
was born in Alexander, Genessee county,
n. " in 1897.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
A Mangled Body on the Pilot.

HARTFORD, Conn, Feb. 25.-When the
$50 express reached here last evening, a
dead and mangled body was found caught
between the snow plow and the pilot OF
the engine. 1t was the body of a young
woman poorly clad in cheap cloak and a
black woollen dress The woman is sup
posed to have been struck by the engine
at Berlin, and brought from there to
Hartford on the pilot. She is supposed to
be Alice Avery, who lived between Berlin
and New Britain. She was 30 years old.
The body now lies in the morgue here.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
COL. SILLOWAYE SPEAKS.
What a Colonel Of Gen. McClel-
lan's Staff Says.
He Saved President Lincoln From
Capture.
He Was the Preserver, Also, of JOhr
Jacob AstOr.

Col. William A. ii. sillowaye is 90 years
old. He resides at Bellows Falls. VT, and is
connected with the Bellows Fall Times. He
has something Of the most vital interest TO
say to his fellow soldiers Of the q. A. r.. and
TO his fellow men the world over.
In "Rife Shots and Bullet Shells" " there can
be found sketch of Col. sillowaye wherein
it is shown that he indirectly saved the Union,
when. in 1863. he prevented the capture of
Lincoln by the Confederates. He also saved
John Jacob Astor from "A similar fate in 1862,
In tho Peninsuiar campaign. Col. Sillowaye
served four years and eight months in the
army and navy during the war, and from
April. 1861. 10 February, 1863, he served his
country without pay or reward OF any kind.
He knew all the Union generals, and Secre-
tary stanton and Mr.. Welles. He was lieu
tenant-colonel on Gen. McClellan's staff in
1862. Col. Sillowaye is a practical printer. en-
gineer and linguist- He has set up works in
Greek, French, Spanish, Latin and Hebrew.
He was employed during five years at Ok
ford, Eng, on Homan's Greek bible, and there,
in 1859. the degree of LII. ID. was conferred
upon him. His first wife was daughter Of
Sir William Blackie and niece OF Sir Richard
Houghton. His present wife is a relative of
Hon. William NJ Evarts,and avery gifted lady.
Col. Sillowaye is "A very modest man. and
only consented to talk to the writer after 1t
was shown that it would be criminal for him
TO keep his knowledge TO himself while others
suffered.
So here is his story as IL fell from his lips.
He saw IL written out, and he endorsed every
word OF it.
"on the 10Th of April, 1851, enlisted in the
army of the North. l weighed l62 pounds.
After serving four years and eight months in
the army and navy and suffering from wounds
and rheumatism l was discharged. L weighed
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
To the Friends of Home Rule.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.- The National
Federation of America yesterday issued an
address to the friends Of homo rule in
America, earnestly endorsing the appeal
made by the Irish National party in the
British Parliament, asking financial aid
to enable them to secure the final victory
for home rule in Ireland. The address is
signed by DR.. Thomas Adds Emmett,
president; Eugene Kelly, treasurer Ito
whom contributions may be sent); John
Byrne, chairman board OF trustees, and
James s. Coleman, secretary.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
Judge Gre.h,m at Lnkewoed.

New YORK, Feb. 25.-Judge Gresham
yesterday called on ex-Secrotary OF State
Foster at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. They
remained In conference about an hour.
Afterwards Mr.. Foster denied that the
Bering Sea question had been touched
upon and said the meeting was OF pure
ly friendly nature. Judge Gresham said
he would go TO Lakewood in the evening
where he expected to meet Mr.. Cleveland
aud some Of the members Of the new Cab
met.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
Cashing Reading Coupons.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.-The receivers
II the Reading yesterday announced that,
pending receipt of orders from the court,
he payment OF interest upon the prefer
ence bonds would be discontinued. Early
in the day Treasurer Church had been
cashing all first and second preference
bond coupons that were presented. No
third preference coupons were cashed, as
these were involved in the action taken
by ex-senator Platt. Comparatively few
first and second preference coupons are
now outstanding.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25

LAKEWOOD, ". j., Feb. 25.-Col. John
+. Dickinson, secretary OF the Worlds
Columbian commission and Bradley T..
smalley, member OF the national commits
sion, called on Mr.. Cleveland yesterday
and arranged for the presentation OF an
elaborately engraved invitation TO open
the Worlds Fair on Nav 1st. Mr. Cleve-
land appointed March Cat y. m. a. the
time when he would receive the commit
zee which Will make the presentation.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
DISSATISFIED SHOE CUTTERS.
Executive Board Of Haverhill knights
Withdraw the Price List Submitted.

HAvERHILL, Mass, Feb. 25.-The exec
utive board OF l.. A. w. 1895, X. OF L.,
comprising many of the shoe cutters OF
this city, has voted to withdraw the price
list submitted about q week ago to several
manufacturers in this city, and ask that
the matter be su admitted to the board Of
conciliation. II Is douAsful II all the
manufacturers will coincide from what
could be learned yesterday.
The latest proposition coming from the
manufacturers (but said to meet the ia
vorable consideration of many OF the en-
ployes) is the doing away with day wag ges
for cutting and q return to the old style
OF piece work. 1t is also proposed to
grade the workmen into three classes, ac-
cording to skill. This the workmen claim
will be acceptable to them, providing the
manufacturers will live strictly to the
spirit of the classification and not ask
third grade men to do first grade work.
Some of the men claim that they can
make more money by piece work.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
The Strike nj an End.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-The strike OF tbs
switch tenders OF the Chicago and West
ern Indiana is practically over. The COM
pany is putting in new men, and the men
in other branches OF the service will not
90 out. Everything will be running az
before the strike within few days.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
The Export Of Gold.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. - Advices re-
ceived at the treasury show that the ex-
port of gold at New York for today will
reach only $4,000. This with the fact
thatthe government has increased its gold
holding by s1430lO, leads to the belief
among treasury Officials that the tide has
changed. With the gold exported today
subtrscted from the free gold held In the
treasury net balance will be left OF more
than s3,500,0OO.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
Mcdonald Science Building.

MONTREAL, Feb. 25.-The new McDon-
aid science building OF the McGill Uni
versity, was opened yesterday by Cover
nor General Lord Stanley. The building
is gift to the university from w. 9. Mo-
Donald, a wealthy Montreal merchant.
The structure cost $500 700.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
Frank Periey Wants n Divorce.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-Frank c. Perley, ad-
vance agent for Madame Modjeska, yes
terday made application for a divorce
from his wife, whose stage name is Ida
Glenn, and who Is now playing at the
Boston Museum in Boston. Perley testi-
fed that his wife had admitted to him
that Earl Sterling, now playing with Sol
Smith Russell, was the father OF one OF
her children. A decree will be granted
without doubt.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
A City Charter Hranted.

GREAT FALLS, n. H., Feb. 25.-Thls
community is now city, charter hav-
ing been granted by the legislature
Thursday, and approved by the governor
yesterday. The charter provides for five
wards, mayor, five aldermen, fifteen
common councilmen and a school board
OF nine. The first city election comes
March II. 1t is incorporated as the City
OF Somersworth.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25

ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. 25.-Redwine, the
defaulting cashier OF the Gate City Ma
tional Bank, who absconded with some
10000, was caught yesterday i'm the sub
urbs OF this city. He refused TO talk, and
had no money with him
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
No, IN Con,ro, OF IN. New England.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Prcsident Clark
said yesterday that the New York, New
Haven q Hartford road was not in con-
troll OF the New England, has no interest
In Il, and does not want any.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
John ID. washburn. Elected President.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-The Amherst COL
lege Alumni Association held it's annual
dinner last night at Delmonico's. Toasts
were responded to by Gen. o. o. Howard,
Prof Edward A. Grosvenor, Prof. Francis
". Stoddard, Prof. Wyman +. Hewitt,
Starr J. Murphy and John Sabine Smith.
After the dinner John ID. Washburne was
elected president of the association. s711tcx
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-25
Mackay's Condition Unchanged.

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. s5.-The condi-
'on OF Mr.. Mackay, the millionaire who
'as shot yesterday, remains unchanged
odar. He Is conscious. and his recovery
= expected 10y his physicians Rippi, his
.ssiiiant, is still alive. Ills death Is but
matter Of a few hours
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-06-14
Exasperating Days.

Aren't there some times in your life
when everything seems to go wrong no
matter how hard you try to have them
60 right? Those are the trying days
when you want to blame all the trouble
on the way you got out of bed in the
morning or on other people instead of
looking the matter squarely in the face
and saying, 'It's one of my exasperating
days, and If l can only keep my temper
until night comes tomorrow will be diff
ferent."
The trouble is when we feel ruffled
ourselves we somehow impart the feel
ing to others, and nine times out of ten
we either get into a quarrel or do some
ugly, horrid little thing that we wouldn't I
think of on other occasions. If you can,
ON these hateful days, manage to think
twice before you speak once it will save
lot of worry on the morrow. In fact,
that is a good rule to go by at all times,
for of all the unruly, mischief making
members the tongue is the most prom
inent.-Philadelphia Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-06-14

There is q certain GOODNESS almost to
be called positive want of cordiality
between snakes and human beings.
More, the snake is never n social favor
ite among the animals called lower. No
body makes an intimate friend of a
snake. Popular natural history books
are filed and running over with anec-
dotes of varying elegance and mendac-
ity, setting forth extraordinary affec-
ton and cooperation between cat and
a mouse. horse and hen, pig and q
cockroach, n camel and lobster, q COW
and wheelbarrow and so on, but there
is never a snake in one of these quaint
alliances. Snakes do not do that sort of
thing, and the anecdoto designers imag,
ination has not yet risen to the feat of
compelling them, although the stimulus
Of competition may soon cause it.
The case most nearly approaching one
of friendship between man and snake
known to me is the case Of Tyrrell, the
zoo snakekeeper, and his 'laidly worms. "
But then the friendship is mostly on
Tyrrells side, and, moreover, Tyrrell is
rather more than human, as any one
will admit who sees him hang boa con
stiictors around his neck. OF course
one often hears of boys making pets of
common English snakes, but boy is
not human creature at all. He is a
kind Of harpy.-Arthur Morrison in
Strand Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-06-14
He Was n Nobleman by Nature.

Don't tell me now that men are callous
and selfish when the woman is an old
one, for won't believe it.
We were hurrying to catch the ele.
waited train when poor old Irish woman
stopped, and directly in the way of all
other would be passengers endeavored
to readjust a strap that had slipped from
the package she was carrying.
Her hands were cold, and she seemed
unable to loosen the buckle, when good
looking man came up and seeing her diff
ficulty laid his own packages down on
the platform while he asked:
Cant you manage it? Here, let me
do it for YOU"
OF course "time and tide" and ele.
waited trains wait for no man, and we
rolled away from the station just as he
had completed his self imposed task.
We saw him pick up his bundles and
walk toward the waiting room to gel
warm-for the wind was cold--neveI
seeming to regret the train he had missed
for doing kindness for "some ones
motherw
found myself hoping that his wife, il
he had one, would not scold him for com
ing home late.
Oh, the world is full of charity if we
only stop and look for it!-New York
Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-06-14
In British Honduras.

British Honduras is a crown colony,
and of its 10000 population there are
about 300 whites, mainly English. There
is an American colony of about 20people
at Toledo engaged in sugar growing and
rum making. They are mainly from
Kentucky, and it is prosperous colony.
The country is healthful for tropical
country, and there has not been case of
yellow fever in several years The prin-
cipal product is mahogany, and it will
be years before the forests are exhausted.
Great quantities of logwood are also
shipped to Europe. We ship only ba-
nanas and plantains to the United States,
shipping last year 72S, 900 punches of ba-
nanas to New Orleans. The great prob
lem with us is labor, and we import ma
tives from the West Indies.
We need immigration, and Sir Alfred
Maloney, the governor, is a very pro-
gressive man and is doing much to bring
us to the notice of the world. We have
no railroads beyond a tramway drawn
by mules, penetrating the plantations
for about six miles. There is not tele-
graph instrument or line in the province
and only a short telephone line between
government buildings. We have no
money of our own, but use the silver of
surrounding republics, which is so de-
preciated that IS in American money is
equal to $500 of the money in use.--1n-
terview in Washington Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-06-14
MUSIC WITH MEALS.
One Respect In which Oklahoma Hotel

One Respect In which Oklahoma Hotel
Keepers Are Up TO Date.
The hotels of Oklahoma mp TO last fall
were few and far between. Having tried
several with little satisfaction. party
of hungry "tenderfeet" WIS directed by
q commercial traveller to little place
on corner. The commercial man said
il did not look inviting but II was clean.
That was an inducement the party had
not hoard OF IN that eoction md II
turned in for supper. The dining room
was one in which the family lived. \
folding bed stood in one corner. An old
time bureau was opposite. a box stove
was in the way. and about 1t were
several old fashioned rockers. \ few
family pictures hung from the wall
with the old, old motto, invoking the
blessing of the powers celestial ON the
household. The party asked for supper
and was told to be seated until the meal
was prepared Two girls, delicate and
with much weariness in their faces
spread the table. When the meal was
brought on, they simply said. Supper is
ready" and disappeared
The party gathered about the meal,
and it was agreeably disappointing
While it was being devoured-that is the
best word to use, even at this distance
from the table--the two girls came into
the room, accompanied by their mother,
O woman whose hair was white and
whose face was a study. There must
have been time when she was beauti-
full. They came in as if they had been
billed for the occasion. They went to
one corner Of the room, and then the
party discovered that there was one Of
those old time melodeons in an out of the
way place. The mother took her place
at the keys, and as the mournful melo-
dies responded to her touch the daugh-
tiers sang, Nearer My God to Thee"
"Nellie Gray" and then "Lorena."
Think of "Lorena" on n melodeon in
Oklahomal The party having finished
supper, one Of them paid the bill, and
then the music ceased. 1t was a ques-
tion which no one of that party was ever
able to agree upon, or they had not up
to last accounts. Was the music of that
b night for tho purpose Of entertainment
or to forestall the possibility of dupli-
eating any of the orders? - Chicago
Tribune