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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23


as THE Beauty Show"
have received many inquiries from my
readers concerning the cost Of n visit ~
the MIDWAY p'aissrce Many people are
surprised 81 read in She papers that 20 SEQ
al these attractl0lB Gusts abC.t si2, and
oa tbink Ii an imposition upon tuc pub
llC that slch thipgs should b, permitted.
They 90 MOI understand the situation. X
Is trVC tie cost ~ Scging ali tlcse side
shows is - iGast si2, but there II no ros-
son why vteitOr who feels he cannot sf-
ferd 40 Should pisit nov or All ~ them. A
good part c. toe show, . glimpse of the in
serus,i0nsI spectacle, may he had by sim
ply walking through The piaisanoe which
costs nothing beyond Tho 30 cents admiS-
sion 70 the exposition Itself.
The Midway plaisauce IS simply y Sec
ton Of the exposition sci apart for the oc.
cupanoy Of these sideshows or special
amusemsnts. There Is no more reason
Why one Should spend his st2 10 sec The n
all than theie IL :, good ressou why h.
should - - ali the ipRumcrnblc places OF
amusement ia Chicago itself, or why h.
should guy al Of the articles displayed Tor
sale. Tho only way in which these novel
lies could be assembled here from all parts
the earth Ms by permitting them to
,hsr rye sn admission fee; and the maLaEe
nent Ok the exposition did well 10 provide
. place for them, for many V~isitors are
abs - pay the price ot entering their
gases and are glad OF the opportunity 81
doing Sd. For those who do MOI wish or
caaaot afford to enter there is enough 10
lss, heaven knows, without the sidcshows.
While IL costs something like s12 to en-
ter al Of these attractions, few visitor
will cars to make the grand rounds. 4
judicious selection viii enable one 70 see
the best Of them at an expense OF three of
four dollars. This MAJ be done at the
luncheon horu, rs many cfthe VILLAGES aud
enclosures have their CAFES aud r~eat.arants
whsrs the prices are rcasonatl. and where
sne may sit Tor halt hour o. lcnger and
rest. Besides, tie price, ~ S6mission 10
these sideshows are being gradually re-
iueed. The osterprisirs Foreigners who
came here expecting 10 FAD tho Americans
a race OF millionsirss or sysnlthiiits are
already discovering thar srrCr Il - true
the Americans will sptad more money for
travel and amusement thsr any other peo-
pie in the world, bu, ssyy are quick to de-
tect imposture and they readily resent inn
position. Many o. Rnr sbowmen from
over the sea have alre fdY cGt their prices
in two in the middle. ard ethers will find
st. TO their advantage 20 follow suit. The
restaurant keepers ia the exposition
proper, and the hotel keepers without the
gate. and in Chicago itself, arc discover
Ing the same thing. The truth Is, as /
said In an earlier letter. that all business
here will have to be governed by the laws
Of supply and demand. There is keen COM
petition in smusement., in restaurants,
In hotels and in furnished rooms. There
sre accommodations fortwice or thrice the
nm Der OF people who hsve made their
appearance here, and all prices and
charges are gradually coming down o. a
common sense, popular level.
RoBEnT uHAvFs
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23

win cell you . cup and saucer, or a box on
vase In spite OF yourself. There are real
Japanese flowers In the garden, and a
japanese gardener 10 attend them. Al
the lagoon edge Is n landing where the
gondolas touch to put OF or take on pas
sengers, { 5 giving us Venice and Yoko-
hama In one picture. Ii In really q very
pretty scene: and all the Japs are SO
polite, SO deferential, 40 communicative.
you say to yourself you will surely visit
thsm again.
The tea garden was put here by the Cen
trail Tea association ofrJapan. In their
programme they say its purpose Is to lad
vertise thoroughly and impress upon the
minds Of the worlds nations the genuine
tea by indicating to you how the genuine
Japan tea 10 prepared from the original
tea tree; how it should be cooked; how it
may be served; how many different ways
II may be drunk: how the ceremonies were
carried down from the ancients: what
utensils for cooking tea, and what decora-
lions OF the house, both interior and ex-
terror, are essential for welcoming the tea
guests; besides the information of the
japanese architecture, old. historical
curios and her imperial plumula of malt"
And 10 must be confessed the Japanese
know their business.
OF all the international novelties at the
exposition TO which an admission fee is
CHARGED this is about the most delightful.
While the japanese refresh the eye with
pretty things and the inner man with
their glorious tea the continental Euro
peans and the Africans and Arabians seem
10 think the western world wants nothing
but beer apd dancing, Along the Midway
plaisance, the special section of exposition
sideshows, one may drink beer as il is
served In all countries and see dancing
supposed to be typical Of all peoples. With
few exceptions all the beer is brewed right
here In Chicago, and the dancing is rather
commonplace. II one is seeking the sem
s~ational in the dancing line ! advise him
to look for IL in the Midway plaisance.
Still, all these foreign novelties are inter-
esting, and IL one has the money to spare,
and the time ~ well, he will not be sorry
for having visited them. The Irish village,
which is as neat and characteristic as the
japanese tea house, the German t~yrolese
and Javanese villages and the street in
Cairo are easily worth going TO see; and so
Is the exhibit Of the International Dress
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23
BIRDS ON THE DEFENSIVE.
Their Traits OF seIf-PreserystIon Are De-
yeloped IN Native WtIds.

The attitudes that some large birds
place themselves IN would protect them
In comparatively open places, says a
seea it, one would barely give t4c rap
To, IS credit Tor th.s, bat thcy prGct.c, It
C. p-rfcctioa Tins GLASS - bir. la
bC.r my faso.itc stuG' from boyEopC
aHd | shall never e. atic to finish Tie
stacy, for something IrCsa--autinu
ally coming before ne. The eagle, for
one, places himself in strange positions,
n mere bundlcd-up bunch of feathers to
look ut. A.friend of mine, who recent
~ visited Achill island. the island OF.
the eagle, was on the cliffs with his
wife and some other friends when "a
lady saw i'm "A cleft of the rocks close TO
her what she thought was a splendid
;nft OF feathers that bad been blown
there by the wind ON STOPPING to
puck them up, out from the cleft dashed
u magnificent eagle, leaving behind him
"a tuft of feathers as "A memento
Vigilant "a the bird is, he is frequently
walked over. After gorging he gets
drowsy; indeed, il is only under these
circumstances that such a thing could
take place. Falcons, hawks--the
larger species-eaH
feathers and look very slim If they
think il necessary To do so. As 20 the
owls, they can hump up into any posi-
ton they think most suitable It is
rselcSg - look for t'c ,elf-pros ing
traits IN any 90 thc ipmily AHpt ia
y.,l u..,N .r.11..sa go So. ia. a..Is ...
20 nctusiomed 10 see large num- beers OK
peop Messing or standing lu front ST
ihcr ~ they treat Tho vt-'- natter
sit ect ipdifT greece I''y know
has eertain iile 'h. 'ri SIN re-
pro. ,'tem, and hat Che" thor
Wis .ctly ssie. rheu tsqtpres
O ~ state have bt.. tteir
eIu, es Like the bl, o. uuofh of
4 rot ot,'" avs l
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23

curtains and on the bed, for the alliga-
tors have free access To all parts of the
room and explore the floor at will. -
But they seem to know by instinct
hat there is some stranger present and
show a great rcstlessness. which INC
Philip Aays they are not disposed 10
when he is alone, lifting their ugly
heads to peer about them it'll their
sleepy, heavy liddcd eyes. fer in spite
If assertions of naturaliets IL the con
trary the alligator has erelils, They
then SHARE the old man ne I o. John
H., cakes apG baket pot. Toe. g lring
down the latter as IL t.oy yer, lies,
This sght finished, Nae thiiir pro-
3aces uu 81 Sadie ~ hi j ne plays
slch s|ncieut airs a. so y Muss
and Pop Goes the Is l. 20 - i'o
the cteateres listen NJ q cid Dt
light, tuIhlng them .es @,
~Walla,Viu1 ln the n lbs n q
cole mirl DO, NJ cgEwlin -
musiciuA a quaint and .t,n
sight ne - IL himsel wit Ia.
killed.. black face intent or the 81.
wields, his Zoo AWAY keep g.
tlc strain.
But those gaycr aigs oTh&u sa
Jnc' PHILIP terms his # de 60 size u-cg
sambensrt.r1s . "Oi1 Hundred Cr1
the long dfarvn hyiuns - ,i'fc gart,
when The 'pators drop visihiy, drop
ping their bonds To tho ioor ard clos
log thu, q eyes as IL overcome ~ mel
aDc-p'v,
One AZ tHe soaly, SLIM monsters Is
III ,h, Asbit oi hastily leaving the hut
on the beginning of these dolefui
tunes, as IL tie dislikeG them o. found
them too touching. unc' htlip's
dusky brothers say thst the ola Bsn
was a snake cbarmer in his native
country and that he employs the same
magic In tanning the alligators.
From this singular character Is
learned a curious fact about these
animals. When death appropelrcs
Them from old age or q wound they
turn on the rest OF che aliipators aud
attack them with the grentest fiery, as
IL TO provoke them 60 anger also, aud
until the others, becoming cnragcd.
attack them in turn aud kin them.
In this way no carcass OF al alligator
is eve found, AMI they avoid a linger-
ing death. w
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23

gale on as usual and chained his head
as low as possible. Then he double
hoppled the animal, or chained his feet,
gave him an extra amount of bran
mash and hay TO put him in a good hui
NOR. and went To work on him with q
small, fne-toothed saw.
Tip felt the grating OF the steel and
became nervous. He tugged at his
chains as if he would rip every link
apart. AS this proved futile he backed
around against the wall and shook the
whole building. Snyder only laughed.
Tip heard the chuckle and waXed
wroth. He trunpeted, snorted. reared
and plunged, struck sideways at the
little man beside him, but soon found
that he was powerless as a baby. IL
took snyder just an hour 10 get
through the job.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23
ALL|GAIORS Ills Fa,EI9g.
Curious Story That Comes All the Way
from Florida.
AGED DARKEY AND HIS FIDDLE
sooth the Savage Breasts Of Aliigators-
They Wait Patiently while Uncle
Philip Eats and Then Fall On and De
your What Remains.

Near the town of Hunta Rassa, Fla,
lives a singular character called'Unc'
Philip, who claims to be a native Afri-
can, and who speaks a lingo of his
own made up Of English, French and
Soudanese. lie is said to be over one
hundred years old and Is very bald and
wrinkled, says the Times of Philadel.
phia. He lives in a mud hut on the
banks of the Galoosahatchee and has
always about him five or six immense
ailigators. How he has managed 20
tame these ferocious creatures Is his
secret, but that he has done SO is evi.
dent. n
They come and go from the river to
the cabin at will, their friend allow
ing no n 10 MODESTO on harm his Singh.
lar pets. When the weather permits
inc Philip goes TO the river, and after
catching a basketful of fish will as
scmble the gators about him, eating
his own share uncooked, and throwing
the heads and tails and the smaller fish
to the patiently waiting saurians.
Sometimes one holder than the rest
will venture TO approach and playfully
snatch some coveted morsel from the
old mans hand, when he Furnishes the
theft by a blow on the ugly fiat head,
and the creature will give an d sort
of whine, much as a child partly in
fun would receive a cuff on the ear.
The meal completed as far as Unc'
Philip is concerned, the alligators fall
on the scraps and fight and tussle over
them until nothing, not even the bones,
remain Of the days catch. In bad
weather inc Philip sits by the fire in
his hut, leaving the door aiar for his
strange guests. II there is anyone in
sight the creatures mo be induced
70 enter, so hat Ia order to obtain 2
glimpse OF this curious friendship il is
necessary 10 bride Unc' Philip. who
will no. look at . Zee under a dollar.
This preliminary gone through with,
the visitor is hidden behind the bed
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23

q % - -aHf 1 LAtpaea 1Aeht'' H N.rPAN@N
in. UOa..s.
Wall utptls 10 lttla e g &u-
ne u t-p - -4--
-u lac Been long -'face thab
e- -. ,,,so teo ,.r. -o g. Chs
Ia. 'N.k that , psrr
G "a the west
q Ign from italian poe
tsr they we're used
aE.s uanner JUST
G stl,eg material
ntmeiy: 10 fil tQaues
structural lines; 81 D
lection could hc wsdf 9r
tbo esptr&ry the 3D. ~.
within the noapz essay
Householder 20 an 2
witt ~aC-ccable tTao.fg $50. aa W
color.
Tho c-rnicc, fyie1e %
Intact; cQigns we've
moldiur or piaster ,'r '
mate might feel tlnt BE- -
bulls raoal and not go o. Ht
gradually ue. wal
pcared; paper crgst ae
ccpt wiraqw ag4 .'
into the very angles
IL Is nothing uuc0U7U.H- o ap t.
inn a saloon of con, 'craH'c prea
and proportions y Cad tua%ahs clt
ly covered with paper from hoor
ceiling. save a narrow skirling hoard .1
protect The plnsterfrom The houre~aii PEI
BROOM and a cornice reduced r. Z
ueagcr molding.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23

Three dishe' rlsis FROM corn starch and
corn flour plsred on . small side table ne
tract = large number ~ people around Che
kitchen platform in he Wousn's build
ing. Mrs. Rorer shows low 20 make hlaDc
manss with corn starch and water iuto
which ,hs white Of Eggs is stirred. A corn
bread with rice 4. also made. Dhe rice IS
added 20 give lighter estur Women
are not the only interested listeners. Oss
gentleman said: Give me the recipe slow.
ly, so We can take them" Other lessons
denlopstrate how to make corn waffes.
Pluntets srd snotser stesm PUDDING sre
also made
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23

Italy has had no aal enftcu. Tor
neither tho "GaritsiA Hym1 nat the
Royal March" ca ity Jay claim %
this title. German does not pcasess =
national song in the true n Of "a
word Kovener's ''Sword Song is IA
nous because OF the romantic circtun.
stances under which il was composed;
while the "Wecht am Rhcin' owes It's
popularity 10 its applicability during
the Franco-German war. Some, how
ever. consider I'll ell dir i'm Sie%gerkrauz,"
which il pone other than the air God
Save the Queen, !" rs the national anthem
Of the fstherlsnd Spain is not more
fortunate than Italy or Germany. She
has many pretty songs, but none Of
them IN be said 10 breathe . purc'y
natioual failing.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23

70 Is thc petty voxationA
psrplex and annoy Secretary lu.
Big thiugs disturb him but 40
Whle ne vas speaker IL becs no uec
sary FOR him TO appoint two clc-attr
boyE. sud the worry tntTfieu OF IIm i
his endeavor to select abe SIS @s' HC
out ot atty applicant ufss hi.r roro
then any other event n b. whole ~ n
Of ohace. 81 wish that slesa.ot Hnri1
sink" he amid N day, sftC t'niug
the gauntlet Of q Dozen besOochnlg
mothers. 81 never could understand
lbs need OF ~ slevstor II .hc house.
NnJ -ev.s
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-23

Largest and Most yaried stock T..
lbc City.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-30
Teachers Institute of Brown County

A teachers institute for Brown County
will be held at Turner Hall in New Ulm
beginning Monday, Sept. 4th. at 2 p. M.
and will continue during the week.
Prof. W. W. Pendergast and Mrs. c.
X. Jacques, both well and favorably
known throughout the stae as educators
of high attainments and as successful in
stitute educators, will be the instructors.
No program has been prepared as yet,
but the work will be of such nature
that all those attending will be we'll re-
paid for the time spent.
An institute will be beneficial only to
those who attend with the sole purpose
of receiving instruction and applying
themselves with diligence to the work
under discussion.
It is necessary that all be present dur
ing the whole week and come with the
intention of improving in scholarship
and methods of teaching.
Teachers cannot with safety absent
themselves. All DESTROYS of attending,
are requested to give notice without de-
lay. ALBERT STEINHAUsER,
Go. Supt. of Schools.
Dated Aug. 81, 1898.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-30

what he can to delay them al By killing
time. He is doing what he can to5post--
pone the carrying out of the presidents
repeal policy, he opposes Hill and Pfeffer
in their raid on the banks, and he IS not
giving aid to any other measure. His
idea seems to be that he can make friends
Of the enemies Of all the bills by oppos-
ing each bill,and at the same time refrain
ing from showing his hand and danger
ously committing himself, as VOORHEES,
| is dong.
Senator Hill Of New York, has Meth.
er the financial committee nor the steer
ing committee with which to work out
his ends, but at the same time seems to
be dong some effective work on the side.
His latest venture was to ally himself
with Populist Pfeffer Of Kansas, in a raid
on the banks. The New York Tammany
saint let's on as though he were a bosom
friend of the Kansas farmer, the Color
ado miner, the Southern planter, and the
city laborer, and he wants it strictly un-
derstood that he 1snot bought by Grover
Cleyeland's federal patronage. His meth
cd is entirely different from that of eth
er VOORHEES, or German as regards the
expression of his views. He neither
openly proclaims himself in favor of all
monetary schemes, as does VOORHEES,, nor
does he keep as mum as the MARYLAND
oyster. He talks freely, often, exhaus-
lively, laboriously and at awful length;
but-he never gives anything away. Last
winter he made one of the longest fnan-
cial speeches ever made on the floor OF
congress, but no one to this day knows
what the speech meant. He has MADE
scores of campaign speeches, written
numerous political messages and address,
es, and he always dragsx in the money
question; but he has never yet disclosed
his position. His financial speeches arc
like the lnky clond of the devil fish
designed to cover up his trail. Conse-
quently, he accomplished the same result
as VOORHEES, but without committing him
self, and at the same time avoids the
taunt made at German, that he does not
dare express his views. He expresses his
views early and often, but no man is any
| the wiser aftelward or dare differ with
him.
Each of these three manipulators is
posing to receive Cleveland's presiden-
tial mantle. But the American people,
whomever they may choose, ARE not like
ly to elect as the opponents of American
principles of craftsmanship, pettifogging
straddlers, who have no convictions and
no courage with which to express the
fact.-Minneapolis Tribune.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-30
Rice As a CONSIDER.

Rice solves the problem. We congra-
tulate our ingenious and versatile con-
temporary, 1.-THE New York World," on
it's discovery. Last fall our contempo-
rary, was very much excited over the
very dreadful way everything was going
under Republican administration. Two
or three times week it danced up and
down in peck measure in the most
excited way, saying in double leads under
scare heads to the laboring men - who
were clamoring for it at all the newstands
and reading it with eyes wide open and
ears fapping-that at the rate things
were then going the laboring man would
presently be taxed away out into the no.
where, and there wouldn't be enough of
him left to pay for the beer of a walk
ing delegate. The laboring man read it
and believed it. That is to say accord
ing to our contemporary's theory of
causes, it was what "The World''
told the laboring man was the
matter that made laboring m,n rise up
in great numbers and with considerable
emphasis do what he did last November.
He said he could not and would not
stand it. He had been grooming
under tyranny. The tyranny started
thjrty-tVo years ago, when party came
into power whose single thought was
that every man born of woman was en-
titled to sell his own labor at his
own price. The party grew
in power and in tyranny, and with it
grew each year the price that every man
put upon his own labor. And last year
ssThe World'' made the disclosure to all
the laboring men who read it that
through all these years they had been
deceived; that though they were earning
three, five and eight dollars where they
had been earning one before, they had
been all the time taxed beyond endurance
And ..The World" said to the laborine
men: "Rise up and turn this party out
free yourselves from this dreadful burden
of taxation"
They rose up. They turned the part!
out. Great numbers Of people said Hi
hiv' Some people gave very costly din
ners, and addressed to themselves quit
eloquent congratulations, while the "a
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-30
Wednesday, August 80, 1919.
A Clever SWindler.

"a The postotfice department has a the
tolls one W. Dunbar, a man who has
been sending out gorgeous circulars OF
a book he was about to publish, called
"America Ilustrated-'' He operated
from Washington, and it was his plan to
send out a circular containing a portrait
of some we'll known man with prospec-
tus of what the publication would be-,
and asked the man to whom the CIRCULAR
was sent to send photograph in order
that the group of that particular state
might be completed. His charges were
.$l6.75 to each MAN for making the cop
per plate cut which was to be inserted
in the publication, with biographical
sketch free of charge. The offer seemed
tempting, and it caught hundreds of peo-
pie. Among those in Minnesota who
sent the money and their photographs
are the following: J. W. Nash, Minnie
apolis; John w. Owens, St. Paul; W. b..
Tanner, Duluth; F. II. Welcome, Granite
Falls: Hudson Wilson, Faribault; John
H. Meagher, Mankato; Joseph A. Eek
stein. New Ulm; N. B. Fulmcr, Winona;
C. F. Haynes, Blue Earth City; Stephen
Jewett, Farlbault; S. Cal L1stor. st. Paul :;
John Ludwig, Winona.
The above list is only few OF the
names who were caught by the clever
scheme. All men Of prominence, and
who had made any reputation in public
life, received circular, and hundreds Of
them all over the State Of Minnesota,
besides these names, were induced to
send their photographs and are credited
on Dunbar's books as having paid him
$16.75 for the publication. The post
office department has received complaints
from all over the United States of the
operations of this man, but it is doubt
full even now if they can make any case
against him, because he never Claimed
that the publication would be issued at
any particular time, and may put in the
plea that he yet Intends to get out the
work, and thus get free of the charge of
swindling. The list Of men whom he
has secured includes members of the le-
gislature for several years back, mayors
of towns for FIVE OF six years back, pres
idents of banks and heads of big business
concern. The letter which he sent to
these men was very ably written, and it
was a scheme which seemed entirely
practicable, and the fact that he inclosed
in his circular pictures of governors and
prominent business men who had APP
parently already subscribed for the work
and paid for the engraving induced
many others to follow the example, Dun
bar has made himself rich, but the post
office officials say that he cannot get out
his publication in hundred years.