The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-09
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.


Only there aud in realms above.
Castles OF air you can build 60 the clouds,
Your planning there's nothing can stem.
Naught from your friends but good wishes
Ifthere is nothing In il for them
TIM ESDl
A year ago, besides other newspaper
work, i was editing The Arkansaw
| Traveller, and after filling he page devoted
TO editorial, which was set in long primer,
started in to write appropriate lines to
go beneath the illustrations, together
with ons few MI mn inn paragraphs; There ere
work. IL you wrote anything for
this weeks issue, and il didn't
| go in until four weeks from now,
| II was all the same. Finally the owner OF
the paper came TO me and said, "Corbett,
| your work is all right, but the fact Of the
matter Is, II We pay you we cannot pay
the printers" Knowing that printers are
a class Of people who must be paid even il
| the man who furnishes "copy" has to take
chances with life sustaining provender,
vacated the chair which Opie Read had
formerly occupied, and the presumption
is the "comps" were happy for the time
being.
The Arkansaw Traveller was the first OF
suggested the idea OF catering to the
public grin. Ii was nearly fifty years of
age, and at one time had over 10000 paid
subscribers.
Did you ever think how different things
are now from what they used to be?
Take, for instance, the matter of buy
ing goods on the instalment plan.
lt started in on furniture. Now ii has
o N aan nf mi In,
house and lot. i couldn't help thinking
of This as my eye caught the reading of
sign on the corner of Westminster and
Dean streets. Ii was TO this effect: You
could buy watch as cheap on the credit
system as you could by having the ready
cash. For the payment OF 81 a week you
could obtain any priced watch in
the store. wanted to know
how 1t was done, SO | stepped
into the place and struck up converse
ton with the proprietor, MIR. Il. Hosmer.
He was formerly with his brother, a Lead
ing leweler OF Chicago, at the corner OF
Twenty second street and Wabash avenue
OF that fieet-footed city. How do you
do 1t? Do you do 1t? How is it done?
Three queries in one were answered by
the gentleman giving me a little circular
which explained everything.
Since adopting this method Mr.. Hosmer
has disposed OF over 100 watches. Many
young man would be without the neces-
sary convenience of a watch were il not |
io- this accommodating system. You get |
just what you pay for. You pick out your |
watch and 1t is billed to You, No. 70,S65 |
Tor instance. When you pay your dollar |
or more each week as agreed, you obtain
the Identical watch and none other. You
get 1t Just as cheap as IL you had the cash
to plank down.
just make minute OF this when you get
time, or get time in the shape of watch,
m ho fs,ttt It l. 4 |
and no one should be without a watch
with these inducements offered for OBJ
tanning one. Ladies as well as gentlemen
haze This priYilege,- not alone ON
but diamonds, rings and other
jewelry.
j noticed one thing on the circular
which gave II particular tone of fair
ness. 1t read: Everything warranted
Just as represented or money refunded"
A man without money is q bird with
)ut wings.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
All men may be born free, but they are
equal.
Rum kills $4,000 people a year, but
.iny mosquito attracts more attention
han this CHASTITY fact.
A man may be happy in rags, but he
doesn't look 1t.
1t is always best to keep on the sunny
lde OF the barn.
1t doesn't take much rope for some
people to hang themselves.
Have you been over to Blackstone Hall
'et between the hours of 10 and IL in the
morning? DIR. Henion is still mystifying
he people by his wonderful cures. / was
vas seated noticed going up on the plat
orm an old colored "Aunty" who for ,
many Sundays was q partaker of sand
riches and coffee at Sunday Breakfast
1ission.
knew she carried cane and she had
old me she was suffering from rheuma-
Ism besides being very poor. Every Sun 4
ay morning and evening she would come !
the mission and spreading a little
Thite handkerchief in her lap, say as she q
'as handed her food, "Thank you sir,
Iod bless you" OF course l became in 9
crested right away. Now let's see
hat the doctor can do, / murmured.
few minutes before q man in the :
all said to me: "lsn't 1t funny how
LEMON humbugs these poor people?" OF n
ourse the man did not know what he
as talking about so ] made him no q
nswer. / was watching the doctor and
Aunty." The doctor will not know these n
'cts until he reads this column, but il u
Ill doubtless please him to know that n
is labor is thus recognized. He not only c
ad "Aunty" walking at brisk s
ait about the hall but he restored her
caring, she being quite deaf. : = =
OF course, j couldn't help taking notice IL
this particular case and as the good old n
olored lady went down the steps from n
ie platform, leaving her cane behind II
er, looked at the man who had been SO II
lick to brand the doctor humbug. :,
Christ said "Feed the hungry" not
Feed the worthy hungry" p
Praying Sunday, and preying the other y
X Gays Is what hurts. :.
Many man Is kept away from church u
. account of long faces. Ii
The religion which a theater, q race p
ack or barroom cannot give q stand OF
not genuine. pi
The church Is the bulwark of society.
Many man thinks more OF dollar -
IAN he does of his soul. :,
"A person who swears wants to hear
lmself talk. N
Here Is some blankety blank verse which s
capped my thought tank the other day as
was contemplating the growth in the 81
lumber OF lunch wagons to be noted Of
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