The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-04
LOOKING CLASS.

men who are tenn mporarliy clio hed with
little authority. / witnessed an incident
recently that made my blood
rise furiously 10 my face ami Tor
moment forgetting my age though
should like To give the fellow good
thrashin9. A ticket t,ker Mt n
Ger ain place was engaged In his
occupation when N gentleman carry
ing a little b. by in his arms came
hurrying through tue gate. He had
pass in his hand and a. usual sh wed IL TO
the CO leci or of tickets. The latter grabbed
him by the arm. and said in loud.
Insulting tone Hold on, don't you 90 so
fast, / want To sge that Il ket."
The gentleman stopped, handed him the
ticket. and the big bit OF brutality
lookei at it and gave 1t back with
lot of cheap and unnecessary advice.
TIE air with which he did 1t.
the unnece ssarily loul tone and insulting
inference demons rated his absolute
unfitness to occupy any position OF such
anature. IL would hsve done me good
to have punched him. but IL his
hide Is not AZ thick as an
ell plants he must have felt cheap, when
the gentleman p litely inquired II he was
perfectly satisfied The ticket taker knew
neitheg the mau nor his name aud after
his inspection be could not have been
bit " iser than before he made his loud
mouthed outcry.
Labor Day-well, it was labor day for
us and not because we complied with the
request of His Excelency. Governor
Brown, either. Newspapers are averse To
taking holidays on Mondays. and so the
papers of Providence print as usual
today. 1t is a good deal harder to work
when every body else Is out for holiday
than It is wien other people are working
too. don't know WHY this is so. unless
the old saying is true that MISERY loves
company"
A friend OF mine says he has no
doub that fall is here. Lust week he
lad occasion one morning to wear
his heavy winter storm coat down
to his Office. IL was his last
years. coat. to be sure, but it had been
very care ully taken care OF aud was
good enough for at least another winters
wear. He hungit u in a closet and
forgot IL. Saturday he thought he
uld take it home. as he
contemplated a trip to Newport and
thought IL oul be very com 'ortable t.
wear back at nj sht. He looked for it
hut the plac, that knew it will
know IL no more forever. IL
WAS gone. Some one ne ded 1t
more than he did and picked it, He is
now CO. ing down street without
any overcoat TO accustom himself To the
cold SO that his fall overcoat
ill run him into December.
He wishes he was moro like
Hannibal III ,mlin, who never wore an
overcoat i . his life. / remember seeing
the aged vice president one cold winters
day in his nome city. Bangor. walking
briskly along. his prince A lbert buttoned
up closely around his throat n d mis- face
glowing with color from his brisk walk,
although he was then AN old man. There
Is this difference, Hannibal Hanlin went
wit out from choice, nv friend because
he can not help himself.
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The Looking Glass was asked recently
to relate briefly the history of coinage in
the United States. / was re iding the
Forum for Septemb r when / happened
To look into the Glass and saw reflected
there John Bach McMas er's article, from
which took the following extract that
yes very good answer To the request:
20 he present year completes the ce utury
si ce the IN mt was fairly establisn ned and
began the work OF making coin. A
ItNleW VI tudb CCbbuIy udkts CleaT
to us that the first gre & currency uues-
ii N with which the country had to
deal was whether there should be na-
tional coinage, or a legalizing aud rat
ing of the debased foreign coin OF pre-rev-
olutionary dats. The chartering OF the
banks of the United States aud rise
of state banks settled this ques-
tion and gave the country pa
per currency bas ed on foreign coin.
The winding up of the second United
States bank and beginning of gold min
ing brought up in 1884 the secoud great
currency question, which was, shall the
money of the country be hard or soft,
metallic or papera The gold In act
of 1884 was the attempt to settle th 8,
and brought on the first bimetallic dis
cussion ever held in congress. The at
tempt was a failure. A false ratio aud
the unexpected discovery Of gold in Cali.
fornia demonetized silver, aud the frac-
,ionai silver coin act of 1885 marked the
second effort to preserve aud remonetizs
silver. Once more the effort proved vain,
and the acts of 1873, 1878 and 1890 fol-
lowed.
Little Ethel was taken to church yes-
terday for the first time. She was told
before she went that she must keep very
still. must not wiRgle around, nor whisper
and on no account was size to laugh.
She promised to b have and with pri de-
alloyed with many misg givipgs. however,
mama dressed her In her best. and hand
In hand they stanted. True
to her pledges, she kept as quiet a. little
mouse. sitting demurely on the
redscushionei seat. but her bright eyes
roamed restlessly arou nd the room.
Church was over aud mama congratu-
lated herself upon the successful
ordeal which had been passed. "You
didn't laugh, honey ?" asked grandma
when the little one came back. "Didn't
see nuffin' to laugh at"responded the little
oe erly. "What did you So, dear7"
"Wby, the man who did all the work sat
down aid another man went round and
got ali the money"