The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-14
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Mans sacrifice.
The married man who stays at home All
summer and plods and plans 10 lure 'h0
nimble penny that his wife and chiioren
NAV enjoy themselves at the seaside or tne
mountains should be given some consiu
Grafton. His wife locks up the silver anu
the china because she Is quite sure he
will be robped while she Is gone
and she leaves him the kitchen utensils
and crockery, while he looks out ior niin-
self Then he becomes disgusted ana goes
to boarding house and finally ne draws
the line when his wife sends him letter
inclosing a piece of cloth which she wants
him to try and match. That is the straw
which breaks the camers back OF ms
patience and he sits down and pens the
following note.
My DEAR wIFE--Come home. | shall sell
out the household effects II you are not mere
inside OF three days. have suffered In shehce
and got my own meals until had the dyspep-
sia, but since you seem inclined To overflow
my cup of misery by making mo do the
errands for you and your friends IL Is time 10
chop, Your discomforted husband,
GEORGE.
"They will never come again." sighed
the man in front of the postoffice. "Ihe
days of prosperity will never gladden. the
heart in this day and generation again.
There are no new worlds TO conquer. The
scum of Europe can come to our shores at
SO a head and the Hungarians and ltal-
ians usurp the places OF other more de-
serving workmen and much better citi-
zens. They come here with their Social
istic and Anarchistic ideas and
the result is mob voting and mob legis-
lation by mob representatives OF mob
voters. / tell you my boy" continued
our friend, "you'll never live to see re-
turn OF such times as we once had. The
goose that laid the golden egg has been
throttled. Conditions have changed. We
laugh at Johnny Bull, but we should take
a lesson from him in diplomacy. He
observes free trade and protection to-
gether, and caters to a market OF 400 00OO,-
600 people. What does he care for our
paltry 10000, 600?
81 Tdon't blame the Republicans for advo-
eating protection. They should take ad-
vantage Of it as long as they can, for the
way the country is filling up with cheap
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morning to its position before the ma
tions of the world and then it will be too
late. You hear me. Pm talking
what know and it doesn't come through
my hat. Ask any of the retailers on
Westminster street what quality and
price Of goods they are obliged to sell now
as compared with what they sold
when things were prosperous and
they will tell you story that
will surprise you. You may smile with
your smile of doubt, but you can take my
old hat for football and my cane for a
billiard cue IL what am saying isn't
the truth and the whole truth" and the
old man looked as wise as ON owl as he
started up Weybosset street.
was looking over q catalogue OF the
Schofield Commercial College of 1866 the
other day. noticed my name there and
it took me back to the time attended that
institution down in the Mcneil block
the year before and then when the college
was moved to the Howard building occu-
pying the spacious Howard Hall and other
large rooms on the first floor. III remem-
Der right Jerome Kennedy used to sit at
was 2S years ago. Mr.. A. q. Schofield was
the principal then as now and Mr.. Abbott
who is still with him one of the chief tu-
tors. gentleman named Rogers was the
teacher OF penmanship. He is dead now,
believe. The Schofield Commercial Col
lege is one OF the oldest and best of the
kind in Providence. 1t is 4S years since it
was founded and today IL you have a boy
whom you wish tn give a sound business
education without any fads or senseless
side issues, why Schofeld's College
Is the place to send him. Why? Well I'll
tell you why. Each student is taught
individually. He /, not handicapped by
classes and his education is not dealt out
to him In chunks like stale bread for him
to gnaw on. The scholar is taught book
keeping, penmanship, shorthand and
typewriting, the common English
branches or those of the higher. The
school term opens Sept. A, and it is money
well invested to obtain the pra ctical in
struction which this college makes a
speciality OF giving. Out of town readers
should send for catalogue.
Suicides increasing.
Since the article OF Colonel Ingersoll
recommending as a panacea for life's ills
and troubles the exit of the suicide, il has
been noted that there has been an increase
In the number OF suicides. II, accord
Ing to Ingersoll, the proper thing to do is
to SEEK the ''sleep in the clasp of cold
clay" he so fiippantly writes about, why
does he not with equal fairness extend his
argument by recommending in the case of
the insane, idiots and inmates of the
almshouses where in one instance they
do not know enough to commit sui
eide, and in the other they are an
expense TO the people, that some one be
deputized by law to step in and do the
killing for them. The fact is, Ingersoll
does not really believe it himself but finds
enough followers who do not think for
themselves TO pretend to believe in the
human egotism of which he is the &c.
knowledged leading exponent, and he
thrives on the notoriety thus obtained.
From lngersoll's standpoint, OF course,
tbera IA No raon, for ar0u,nant