The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-21
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have on the desk In front OF me Q copy
OF he evening edition Of the New fork
Herald, dated Nov. 1, 1847. The veteran
bank Waterman, Mr.. William Kobinson'
kindly loaned it to me. 1t Is quite Q curl
osity in its way. II III -
column folio not half as iaIge
as The News. The circulation at .us'
time was 40, 900. There il not . line OF as
play advertising and the paper Is SET IA
solid nonpariel and agate type. Inc ieaa-
ing editorial in the copy i refer TO Is
entitled the "Post Office Department-its
Head or Tail" Christy's Ministries was =
feature OF the amusements OF the Gay anu ha
Mr.. Barney Williams was playing the
principal Irish character In the "GisseIie
at the Chatham Theater on the Bowery.
i will pick out some moro interesting pils
at my leisure.
Part of a revised summer seaside novel;;
Edith Kenilworth attired in her wnite
duck suit was on the beach at Narrhgan.
sett Pier. She called her bathing SUIT
duck; 1t was 80 appropriate. she was Nv
this time taking a sun bath, and as she
clawed the sugar of the beach she thougnt
of Reginald LeClair who was approaching
Glow slim he looks in tights and stripes,
she murmured. "He looks so unlike my
broad shouldered Romeo. Can II DO tnat
1t HAS nIunh VI w III WV
in the sunlit- reflected water glare!" "A
second look from outthose luminous orps
and Edith was convinced 1T was not hegi,
nald after all, but simply a frame stanu
for a miniature camera, and as the tnougns
flashed through what little mind she mao
that possibly someone was going TO take
her picture she slowly turned her heau 80
she wouldn't know it.
The hot wave which arrived per schedule
time served to drive the people who could
afford IL out of town, to the country or
the scashore, anywhere but home or where
in their Imagination they are cooler ana
stand a chance OF becoming tanned, SO
that when they return in September
people will know that they have been
out of town."
Now between you and / there Is q good
deal of humbug attached to this gong
out Of town to seek comfort. Nine times
out of ten you can get more comfort OUT
of a hammock in your back yard, or with
the garden hose in front OF the house,
helping to MAKE the grass grow and the
water bill grow, and SO on and so forth,
than you can in most OF this gong out
of town business. i am speaking now
Of those people who reside In Provldence
and vicinity. OF course IL you can go out
of town right, and wish TO note the diner
ence between inconvenience and conven-
fences that's another thing; but III, as q
gentleman suggested yesterday, you have
got to dock your horses tail, so to speak,
In order to make people think you are
rich, it is better to stay at home, tack up
some screen cloth over the windows ana
use a palm leaf fan to keep the hies out OF
the butter.
Did you ever visit some farm In the
summer time where they take q few
boarders under the regular price OF the
village or sea side hotel, and have the
COWS look at you in the morning, and go
out and take a look around the barn, peep
into the hog pen-and then walk away
with a far-a-way look until dinner time
After dinner you know you
take q nap on a feather bed
up in the attic where some OF last
years dried apples hang from the rafters
and there Is a musty board smell 10 make
you realize how old the house is. Then In
the evening you hear the crickets, and
after you retire the critics wonder how
long you are going to stay and IL your
week commenced tho day you arrived or
the day after. During the day q couple
of freight trains go by perhaps, and the
regular passenger cars stop for the cows
| to cross the track and to let some other
boarders off whom you are glad to see,
in as much as misery likes company.
II you go out of town right, why, well
and good. If it is going to be an effort,
IL it sets you to reckoning how much 1t
will cost, better stay at home. Don't
bother relatives. Better board with
strangers than to visit relatives, no mat
ter IL they did come and see you last
winter and stay q week and you had to
| take them to the theater and pay their
fare back after they received q bogus teie-
gram which you got your friend
to send them that they must return i'm
mediately. Keep away. 1t Is always
best.
Pullman pays the Government 1880
per annum for the privilege Of selling
liquor on 800 OF his palace cars. 1T cost
the Government several years income to
| protect Mr.. Pullman's interests recently.
His cars go over 125, 900 miles OF railroad
in this country. BY the way the Govern
ment had a good deal of confidence in
General Miles, who is one OF the best all
round-fighters, looked at from a military
point Of view, that lives today.
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Negotiations are being made for a rum
ming meeting this fall at Nara gansett
Park. A liberal offer has been made for it
but as yet has not been accepted.
1 was reading my obituary the other
day which was printed in the paper /
started with a cash capital of $35. The
aforesaid obituary, / aHf+iHfermed, was
printed because the reporter who fur
nished the copy had been told that a rival
paper, THE NEWS ut that time, l believe,
had received due notice Of the demise Of
the writer and was to do the proper
thing and give q member of
the craft a good send off. /
never fostered any luminosity
against the paper which printed the al
legged fact OF my death, but since my re-
turn from the West 1 have observed how
easy the error could have been made.
That obituary notice was over two years
ago, and incidentally it was the means Of
changing my mode Of life completely. 1t
is funny how some things happen. l am
informed hat there Is q standing order in
the office now never to mention my name,
dead or alive, SO that in future 40 mis-
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