The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-07-07


any more, and his height and Rirtn
may not be increased, but he has ac-
quired the official city hall air and bear
ing which cannot be mistaken. lie mas
drunk rather deeply OF the waters OF
Of the great army of office-holders aid
the greater army of ofiice-seekers. He
has welded the gavel AT the
meetings OF the aldermen. In many
ways ne has tasted the sweets OF
mayor is better looking man than ne
was His head is carried rather higher,
his eye Is brighter, his glance Is more
direct, his salutation has more the ar OF
the man who Is not only man OF ana,rs
but man Of considerable affairs. The
occupation Of the mayoralty. chair has
done much for Mr. Potter, AS it Is bound
to do much for every bright man VINO ls
lucky enough Go be called by his fellow
citizens to occupy 1t.
By the new law of 1888 the crime of
sending scurrilous or slanderous matter
through the mails Is visife by heavy
penalties. Under the operation of this
law it is not necessary that the charges
be proved true. The III re fact OF sending
slanderous matter through the mail on
postal card is sufficient to convict and
takes no cognizance whatever OF the
truth of the charges. The late grand
fury of the United States court was
called upon to hear such case, and
found true bill. It being sufficiently
SHOWN that scurrillous matter was
mailed on a card by the defendant.
Another arrest OF similar nature has
been made since the grand jury convened
and the prisoner will await the action or
the grand jury at the next term The
by the highest authorities. The corrupt
uses to which the mails were put pre-
vious to lis passage transformed the
service into a veritable Mother Grundv,
through whose mouth every aRgrieved
citizen might ventilate his real or fancied
wrongs; and the government WAS COM
PEELED TO put stop to 1t by the enact
ment Of stringent penalties.
I I +
Between 400 and 500 members of the
Stewart street Baptist church Sunday
school, accompanied by the pastor, Edwin
Bromley, aud the superintendent, Il. NJ.
Shaw, went to Newport this morning on
the steamer Day Star and returned upon
the AS p. IN. boat.
Caspar w. whitney, who writes the
strictlv hiRh-class and high-toued "Am,-
feur Sport" department in Harper's
Weekly, is pleased to recognize this week
the exceedingly good work OF the Brown
baseball team. He is rev ewing the sea-
sons work and says: Browns steady
aud effective play not only lowered
blue from scoring. and had they played
Cornell and Pennsylvania would doubt
less rank with the leaders," This critic
includes Sexton in class of pitchers "far
above the average" He ranks Tenny
best work. Weeks stands at the
head Of his list OF men who have played
first base well. Jones gets good word
ior work on second base. Magill he
classes among the best third basemen.
game" Steere he calls one of the -four
short-stops who has shown exceptional
ability" George gets good word for
his center field playing. George, of
Brown. has done remarkable work this
year and some OF his catches OF long
young player. and will undoubtedly
make his mark before he leaves college"
Thus IL will be seen that seven OF the
Brown club have this season played ball
we'll enough to merit mention bv Mr..
-Gaspar w. Whitney and get their names
printed on the immaculate pages of
Harp,r's Weekly.
The crop OF fiedgling barristers will
materialise we'll this year. The commit
tee to examine applicants was appointed
Tuesday and consists OF three members.
The present membership Of the Rhod
Island bar Is nearly 300.
Did you ever notice |, or course you
have. Excuse me for asking you.
/ !
'How can you newspaper men afford
to run some of the schemes you dor
For instance, how IN the world can you
afford to make such an offer as you do
Offering s. 90 work for twenty coupons
aud So 90? Now, / fiatty myself that /
know the value OF anything In the book
line, and how you can do such
thing beats me-" said a
yesterday, He continued. al am not the
man that knows all about how to run a
newspaper SO won't try to explain it.
Iknow the book is just what 1t claims to
be--ln fact everybody knows what Shspp's
Photographs OF the World are--and /
know what they cost at wholesale. How
you can afford to do 1T don't pretend to
know. Who does know or pretends to
know the workings Of a newspaper mans
minds To US OF the lay mind you are
curiosity. We think we know
you. only we don't. you know.
to infringe upon our business of book
sell ng and in the same manner as you
are handling this book of pho tographs.
/ am going out OF the business. Pm not
going to stack up against the newspaper
profession"
Did you ever play policy-Noi Well
you have heard OF the game OF course
We'll did you ever notice to what an ex-
tent this game Is played here In this old
purtanical town. IL you haven't, Just
keep your ears open as you walk along
the streets, and as you ride In the horse
cars. You will hear something like
this. i've struck it," Did your How
muchp' p'-Ohi not yeti mean I've got a
pup,har that ia sure To win Cot IL frop,
a freight car. 1t was lucky car-been
in collision and not smashed-sure to
win, 4l324 ~" Let me into it, will your"
Mop. going to play it alone" Any little
trivial thing that may happen that
can be twisted into number is
seizod upon as "sure' winner
The fire alarm, the number of n car, of n
house, of anything, the number of times
a woman asks a question or chews gum,
ali these are drawn upon for lucky mum
bers. / almost forgot to me-tion the
lucky dream. These players are always
having lucky dreams, in which they