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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10
NEAR THIRD PLACE.
THE BETHANY HOME PRESSING
THE SALESUEN HARD.
The Order Is Unchanged I'm the Contest
for the Cash Prize OF $500 offered by
the " News"

Friends OF the Rhode Island Bethany
Home sent in coupons enough this morn.
ilg to leave it but forty-six behind the
Providence Salesmen's Association.
Coupons credited to the other organi-
zations leave the standing unchanged.
This may be like the race between the
hare and tortoise. The Elmwood Coun-
ell and Bristol Naval Reserve have a
slight lead over the others, but although
they are frequently credited with good
sized bundles the total cast for them
q IS not increase in proportion to the
total cast for organizations lower on the
Perhaps the leaders are waiting with a
big number OF coupons ready TO cast at
any time. There is suspicion that
other organizations also have been
boarding coupons.
The question Is again asked about the
number credited each contestant and
again the answer is given that the book
In which the record is kept is open to any
one who desires TO see it.
These letters were received:
To the Editor Of the Nei0s
| send you this day one package containing
$50 coupons, which please place 10 the credit
OF the X. l. Bethany Home.
Wexford, r. l.. Feb Q, 1893.
To the Editor Of the NetUs
Enclosed please find twelve coupons for the
Hopeton Bicycle Club, which | hope may
place them nearer the top of the list.
J. A. w.
To the Editors of the Neipe
Please find enclosed nine coupons for the
Bristol Naval Reserve, aud oblige
SULLIVAN.
Bristol, Feb. s. 1893.
To the Editor Of the NctCs
Twenty-Five coupons for the Elmwood
Club.
To the Editor Of the Ncips;
Please place the enclosed coupons 10 the
credit of the Naval Reserve of Bristol, and
oblige, SULLIVAN, %.
Bristol. II. l., Feb. ..
To tho Editor Of the Notos
Here are sixty coupons for the Rhode Island
Bethany Home.
To the Editor of the Nci0s
Here we are again. This time with sixty
coupons, with .~se TO follow, Keep the ball
a rolling and keep Elmwood Council, o. Il.
A. NJ, in the lead.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL COUNCIL, No. %, O. L..
A, NJ, WILLIMANTIC, CONN.
Willimantic, Conn, Feb, :.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10
SHEETS AND PILLOWCASES.
They Play an Important Part in n Dance
at Mt, Pleasant.

They Play an Important Part in n Dance
at Mt. Pleasant.
a sheet and pillowcase party WAS given
by the Y. n. c. Club of Mt. Pleasant,
last night at O ID Fellows Hall, Academy
avenue. There were seventeen numbers
on the dance program, and at the sixth
came the unmasking. The floor director
was L. +. O'Reilly. Jr., and he was aided
by T. L. Catlow. Joseph Catlow aud j.
c. Niven. The committee in charge of
the party consisted of F. B. Richards and
Pearly Lyon. Baker Brothers Orchesl ra
furnished the music.
Among those present were Miss Jessie
Allen, Miss liardman, Miss May HoIlo-
way, Miss Flora Proven. the Misses Bor-
den. Miss Like, Miss Dunham, Miss Is
tele Burton of Baltimore, Miss Lillian
Burton, Miss HeDden, Miss Ida Cross,
Miss Allardice. Mr. and Mrs. William
Niven, Mr.. and Mrs. George Cross, Mr..
Rosentwist, James Proven, George
Hunter, Arthur Borvel, Robert Altar.
Dice, Elliott Allardice, Robert Cogge-
shall Henry Arnold, Nathan Brown aud
Walter Niven.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10

Ice Harvested-A Strike at Berkeley
The Riverside Grade Crossing-Other
Matters.
The East Providence Ice Company has
harvested 5000 tons of ice at Walpole,
Mass.
Twenty spinners, together with the
dofIers aud backboys at the Berkeley
mill, have gone on strike because OF the
discharge OF William Burke, "A spinn er,
who complained to Overseer Matteson
about the manner in which the betting is
repaired. The spinners claim that be
cause of continual breakdowns they can
not make as much since the per cent
increase in wages as before. Mr. Burke
said that he lost from seven TO eight
hours a week because of the betting
breaking and he was told that III he pre-
ferred loafing he could have idle time.
This caused the strike.
The Old Colony Railroad has issued
orders for the gate and crossing tender at
Riverside TO remain at his post until
after the arrival of the late trains. This
keeps the station agent on duty from $50
A. VI. TO about midnight every day in the
week except Sunday.
The people OF jamestown are much
pleased at the prospects of communica-
tion by telephone with Newport, which
was recommended in the report OF Super
intendent White at the meeting OF the
Providence Telephone Company.
The Westerly Town Council is TO again
reconsider the matter OF the chief OF
police. who Is at present under suspen-
sion. For this purpose meeting OF the
council will probably be held Saturday
evening.
Andrew J. Kirwin, George Martin,
George Brown. T.. f.. Bosworth and
George Scott arc all mentioned to fiji the
vacancy OH the Newport board Of fire
wards.
A complimentary banquet was ten
dered to the Hon. Patrick Reddy OF san
Francisco at St. James Hotel, Woon-
socket, last night.
While harvesting ice on Posnegansett
lake, Mr.. Joseph Hoxsie OF Lakewood
lost team of valuable horses. They
broke through the ice at the upper end
OF the pound aud were quickly drowned
They were valued at fi0y.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10

the devoted husband provides food for
the entire family, reducing himself by
starvation meanwhile 20 such a degree
that a sudden lowering of the tempera-
ture Is sufficient TO cause his untimely
death.
The nests Of that peculiar swallow,
salanganes, which inhabits the coast Of
China and the neighboring islands, are
affixed by thousands to the inaccessible
cliffs and dark caverns; and the gather
ing of them furnishes profitable em-
ployment to large numbers of the in
habitants. These edible nests ara com.
posed Of glutinous material resemb-
ling isinglass, which is formed OF GER
tain seaweeds partly digested, and af-
terward disgorged mixed with the di-
gestive fluids of the stomach.
Among aquatic birds the dsbchick or
grebe, (which breeds throughout the
whole range of the western continent
from the British provinces 20 Chilli con-
structs the most curious nest, Matching
as 10 does its young upon q regular
raft. Constructing its nest OF weeds.
moss, grass and other vegetable matter,
often mixed with mud, the female
floats TRANQUILITY upon the surface, the
strange craft rising and falling with
the ripples or waited by the light
breezes that blow over It's secluded re-
treat Though probably at first an
chored 10 some plant rising from be-
low, being often found in that position,
II frequently happens that they become
detached and 'if any intruder happens
to discover her, IL anything threatens
her safety, the wild bird plunges ono Of
Der feet into the water and makes nss
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10

especially deserving % notice on ac-
count of their great size or popularity
of construction.
First, in regard W size, may
be mentioned the nest Of the
mound building megapodius, q bird
of Australia, which in color and
size resembles tho partridge. A
nest of this bird measured by the orni-
biologist Gould was fourteen feet high
and had a circumference of one hun
dred and fifty feet Compared TO the
size of the bird the dimensions of such
a mountain are almost prodigious, and
we ask how, with its beak and claws only
for pickaxe and entire means of trans
port, IL contrives TO get together such
mass of materials"
The immense structure is constructed
by first getting together a thick bed of
leaves, branches and plants, the bird
being guided in making this collection
by wonderful chemical instinct, se-
lecting only such matter as will in fer
menting by the heat thus generated
hatch the eggs without tendency To
cause their decay. After having gath
cred sufficient vegetable matter, the
megspod.us heaps up earth and stones
above IL and I'm such a manner as TO
form IAN enormous crater-like tumulus,
concave In the middle, the place where
alone the materials first collected re-
main uncovered"
The bird. having completed It's hercu-
lean task, deposits its eggs usually
eight in number, and about the size Of
swan's) in the center of the nest in the
v~9Atation laft pnaavexsd- Tbey ere
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10

mand oles and delicate feet, then with
its bill for needle sews the leaves to-
gether; and within the compartment 80
formed weaves delicate nest which Is
thus concealed from the observation of
its enemies.
Though far less ingenious, the nest of
the korwe is too curious not TO deserve
mention. The female having entered
her breeding place, the cavity of some
tree, the male plasters up the entrance,
leaving only narrow slit exactly
suited TO the form of his beak. through
which to feed his mate. The female
lines the nest with her own feathers,
and remains by her young after hatch
ing until they arc fully fiedged. Dur
ing this time from two to three months
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10

Matched. To purloin the egg from this
singular receptacle it is necessary TO en-
gage in a regular battle, not only with
ths female, but also her devoted mate.
who at the first alarm rushes To the
spot and fights so furiously that success
for the aggressor can only be secured
when the noble bird sinks dead or dis
ablod.
Wonderful, indeed, is the instinct with
which wise nature has endowed her
creatures; and 10 the observing mind its
development is everywhere present in
forms as curious and remarkable az
those just described
G. II. PENpEIL-
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% %bwothss month by of hso8 nd ty
h ppoa mue OFT nyed o


of it as paddle, with which she trans
ports her dwelling to distance"
Another peculiar nest, which is not
a nest at all, is that of the Patagolian
penguin, which lives amid the waves,
rocks and ice of the frigid Antarctic
zone. Like the marsupialia among MAN.
mails, which conceal their young in
a ventral sack, the female penguin car
ries her solitary egg in pouch formed
by fold in the skin of the abdomen,
and there holds it so firmly that as she
leaps, and sometimes falls, from rock to
rock, the egg remains unharmed until
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10

Time has proved the impractibility Of
nearly all Of the so called Endowment
Orders and Bond Companies. Con-
ceived regardless Of the principles OF
Finance and nourished by the hard
ceived people, they have met their fate,
and to-day there are none so poor as
TO do them reverence" But the Endow-
ment Orders have not lived in vain.
Hundreds have been taught the neces-
sity and value of good Life Insurance.
Savings Banks are chartered for the
express purpose of providing means
for the accumulation of small savings
and the formation of habits Of economy
and thrift.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10
STRANGE BIRDS NESTS.
How Nature Endows Some Of tho
Humblest of Her Creatures
Half Hour with . Naturalist Who Hss
Made Bird Life u study - Quaint
Homes Built by Festh-
cred Architects.
Especial Correspondence.l

The graceful pendant nest of the oriole,
the dainty chalice of the humming
bird, the mere excavation of sand as
made by the ostrich, or the innumera-
BILE and varied forms of nests con-
structed by the hosts of the feathered
tribes, each and all present Il remarka-
BILE adaptation to the individual require
ments of the builder. But there are cer-
tain extraordinary forms which lave
been described by travellers that are
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10
Operate Concert I'm Chicago.

A grand operate concert is to be given
at the Chicago Auditorium, Wednesday
evening, February 1, in which Lillian
Nordica, Emil Fischer, Sofia Scalchi,
Italo Gampanini. Sig. Bologna and
Helen Dudley Campbell will appeE as
sisted by an orchestra'of fifty musicians.
The third act of Faust" with scenery
and costumes will constitute part of the
programme.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10

The Columbia Mutual Life Assurance
Company OF Providence is the only as
surance company chartered in the state
that confines its business strictly to Life
Assurance. IL was originated by men
who have had practical training in the
Assurance field and know the REAL
WANTS OF the people. Ii was started
for the benefit OF the laboring class of
people, giving them equal privileges
with the capitalist. Its plans combine
Life Assurance and Invest ent. In fact.
its policies are equal TO a Savings Bank
Book, as money can always be obtained
upon them after three annual payments
have been made. This Company issues
its policies on the monthly payment
plan, which places them within the
reach of every working person.
1t issues POLICIES TO WOMEN at
the SAME PRICE as MEN.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10

nests on both sides at about two inches
distance from each other"
The nest of the tailor bird, less re.
marksble in reference 10 size, is in one
respect more remarkable than that
made by any other member OF the
festhered race. The bird selecting
plant with two large leaves gathers
cotton or similar material and spinning
Vt into a threaA by uesgs Of its slender
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10

Life Insurance Companies are char
tered TO protect the family and depend
ent ones. This Rhode Island Company,
the Columbia Mutual Life. was organized
by some of the best known and most con-
servative business men of the State, and
combines both Life Assurance and in
vestment.
IL is an institution that everybody may
safely patronize, and as the NEWS is
6esirous of doing the greatest good 10 its
readers, IL has arranged With the Com
pany for a limited number OF policies Tor
800 each and will give one without
charge for medical examination, to every
insurable person (who applies to the
Office OF the Company. Room PA Butler
Exchange), upon presentation OF the
COUPON on the first page ii the same is
applied for Immediately.
To accommodate everybody the Office
will be open from 9 A. VI. until 1870 L. NJ.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10

penter aud Miss Lizzie Greene. The
floor was in charge Josiah Hill. assist
ed by Albert Winsor. Edward Shuttel-
worth and James McCord
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-10
STATE NEWS.

Ice Harvested-A Strike at Berkeley
The Riverside Grade Crossing-Other
Matters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-06-17

least cnee a dag. Suppose, again, VOC
wish to know if any friends Of yours rom
columbus are at the fair. The clerk will
hand you the Columbus list, all written
cut on a lar. . card. and in q moment you
may ascertain who are in town from your
city, when they came, how long they are
TO remain, and where they are staying.
People who are making their arrange
nients to come to the fair should if possible
leave all small children At home. Children
OF six or seven years or younger are able to
derive but little benefit from the exposi-
ton. and il is some expense and more
bother to bring them along. But all other
children should have q chance to see the
great fair. 1t is better than a school. The
managers of the enterprise were wise To
reduce the admission fee for children nm
der twelve years of age to Is cents. AL.
ready the attendance Of children numbers
four TO six thousand daily, and as soon as
the schools are closed tens OF thousands of
boys and girls will visit the grounds every
day. In the end the exposition will profs
hnancially by this concession to the small
people of the land. 1t will be Remembered
the management Of the Centennial expo
sition did not do this until very late in the
year, and they not only lost money by
their delay but deprived many thousands
Of children OF the benefit to be derived
from frequent visits to the great eiuca-
tional show.
There has been q great deal of talk in
the newspapers about small attendance Mt
the fair, but the Chicago exposition is one
OF the greatest successes in this respect the
world has ever seen. The present attend
anee Is about eighty or ninety thousand
per day, and frequently the totals run
much above this. The attendance for
May was million in round numbers, or
an average of 5000 per day, whereas the
average at the Philadelphia exposition
during the same month was less than go.
CO. During the month of June the total
number of admissions at Philadelphia was
only 1W,"o, or less than q 900 per day,
while the Chicago attendance for this
month is likely to average seventy OF
eighty thousand per day. 1t is an odd fact
that at the Centennial the attendance dur.
ing July was less than in June, while here
the managers expect to have during July
an average of at least 15O,000. That will
be the first of the great vacation months,
and perfect flood of people will then be
pouring into Chicago. The vacation sea-
son was not such n general institution in
1876 rs it is now, and this had much to do
with the small attendance at the Philadel.
phia fair during July and August.
All the signs are that the Chicago fair is
to be the most successful ever held in
point of attendance as it certainly is the
greatest of fairs in all other respects.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-06-17

II remember the story about the quarfe
between my sister. Ii was told u,e By Mr.
Jennings the morning the Story was pub
lished. l never bad any such conversa
tion With my sistef ~ was reported.
There was never any trouble or quarrel
in the matron's room between ~ while che
was there or anything that could conssrus
into aquarrel.
Lizzie never put mp her finger and saii
anything about giviving in. There was no
conversation about you Mr.. Jenningsl
telling her (Lizziel all.
On cross examination she testifled that
her fathers gifs Of the house to their step
mother caused the trouble between Lizzie
and her stepmother, but their relations had
been entirely cordial for two or three years
before the murder. although Lizzie had
ceased to call Mrs. Borden ''mcther."
In the afternoon she sAid that Lime wore
the Bedford cord dress after the paint got
on it, till ii became too dirty: that both the
sisters had rubber cloaks, that she knew
note,ng about the handleless hatchet
Mrs. Bowen testified that the defendant
had no blood on her person or clothing
when she called just after the murders.
Mrs. Raymond, dressmaker, described
the making Of the Bedford cord dress,
which was light blue, with dark figure. aud
said she afterwards saw il covered with
paint on the front and side, and that Lizzie
cut up the wrapper.
Government called Marshal lilliar,i.
Miss Annie NJ, White and Officer MullAy
il rebuttal, and the quarrel scene Was
shown up from the mxrshal's standpoint.
Miss Emma's evidence in regard to the
family relations was given different color
ing, and Rubinsky's evidence WAS shown in
q somewhat different light
Evidence on both sides having been con-
cluded and the counsel who are to pre-
sent the evidence ina condensed form TO
jury, Messrs. Robinson for the defense
and Knowl,on for the government, desiring
some time to make preparations, an adj
journment until Monday was ordered.
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DOCTORS IN SESSION.
They Close with Appointments Of Officials for
the Ensuing Year.

PORTLAND, June l6.-The closing meet
ing of the Maine Medical Association was
held Friday morning. The board of CEN
sors reported, fixing the place and date of
the next annual meeting at Portland, on the
second Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
of June, 1894.
Appointments were made as follows
Orator, DIR. II. II. Smith of Machias
visitors to the Maine insane hospital, Drs.
C. A. Ring Of Portland, W. L. Goodale of
Saco, C.. d. Hill Of Bethel visitors to the
Portland school for medical instruction,
Drs. NJ. C. Wedgwood of Lewiston, G.
NJ. Elliott of Brunswick; Medical
School of Maine two years., DR..
A. X. 7. Meserve, Portland; necrologist,
nr. Alfred King. Portland; delegates to
the American Medical Association. Drs. C..
W. Foster of Deering; II. Z. Merrill of
Portland to New Hampshire, Drs. j. ID.
Holt of Berlin, N. H.: J. II. Neal of San
ford Vermont, Drs. J. B. oNeil of Port
land G. II. Shedd of North Conway; Mass
achusetts, Drs. J. w. Bowers of Portland,
j. X. Phillips of Bangor; Rhode Island.
prs. T.. NJ. Fuller of Bath b. B. Foster of
Portland Connecticut, Drs. Z. Warren OF
Portland, S. J. Bass of Biddeford; New
York, Drs. +. II. Gerrish of Portland, NJ.
C.. Wedgewoo of Lewiston: New Bruins
wick, Drs. W. +. Baxter of Bangor, a. ID.
SAWYER of Fort Fairfield.
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TROOPS ORDERED OUT.
Trouble Feared with Striking Poles
at Towawanda, N. Y.
Price Paid Tor Handling Lsmbss Inc causs--
Situation 10 Serious.

TosAwANpA, N. Y, June 1G.--Not =
stroke Of work WAS done at the lumber
docks here today and serious trouble 10 mo-
mentarily expected.
An excited crowd Of fully 800 persons,
mostly striking Poles, and union lumber
showers. thronged the entrance 10 the
bridge leading to Little island. The situa-
ton was 80 threatening that the sheriff or
dered the 25th separate compa ~ to bs In
readiness for action.
About half of the Poles went on the
island this afternoon, intending TO 20 TO
work, but were threatened by the others
and gave up to their comrades. All de-
manded their pay. Deputies are guarding
the entrance to the bridge and will let no
striker over.
The strikers are uneasy and show signs
Of fight. A meeting was held this morning
attended by 800 Poles. the proceedings be-
ing secret. Squads Of police and strikers
patrollcd the sire cts today. An outbreak
seems certain.
The main cause OF the strike seemed 10
hinge on the price paid the Poles for
unloading lumber the laborers claiming they
were not paid as much ~ they could get In
Buffalo, by cents thousand. They also
claimed that they were promised work by the
hour instead Of by the thousand feet.
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BOWDOIN PRIZES.
Fortunate Students Whose
Work Paid them Well.
Freshmen Usher in Sophmore Year
with Banquet at Portland.
osswnisS Accident at eiddeised- Psissains
Case at SAGE Fssp.

BKrSswIex, June ls.-(Special. This
week has been entirely taken up with e1.
sminaiions at Bowdoin, and much interest
has eentered in the announcement Of the
various prizes.
The mathematical prize of $500 to the
sophomore whose rank has been the best in
this branch for two years is awarded to
Harlan T. Small This is the best prize Of
the course. The Pray English prize, $50,
is won by A. S. Haggeu, 9s. of Newcastle.
The Sewsli Greek prize, SIS, is won by
IL. W. Thayer, %. Of Limington. The
Sewall Latin prize, s25, is won by Louis {.
Hatch '95, of Bangor. Gorham II. Wood
95, of Bangor. received honorable
mention in the competition for both Greek
and Latin prizes.
The Brown extemporaneons prizes of
$50 and $40 were awarded to c. W. Pea
body, % of Portland and G. s. Chaplin 30,
of Auburndale, Mass. The English com
position prizes for the seniors amounting To
$50, were awarded to C.. w. Peabody,
Portland; B. +. Barker, Bath; II. c. Fab
yam. Portland, and C.. II. Howard, South
Paris.
The prizes to the juniors for excellence
in defamation will be awarded next Mon
day evening The Goodwin commence
ment prize and the Goodwin freshman
French prize will be announced next week.