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The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

'if you know who I love you will
have seen for some time that she not
only does not even dream OF this
tempest in my soul, but she would
never imagine that one so low would
dare TO lit his eyes TO her."
What? Was he going mads Wny
did he talk OF descending? Ana the
girl profoundly troubled. asked him
quickly: ''She, Who"
"Your cousin. the Countess of
coGrse."
"Do you love her9 Her" And
Amelia could say no more. She felt
chill like ice through her veins
ringing in her ears; she saw sparks
shadows before her eyes-then moth
ing.
When she came to herself she was
upon her bed, with the beautiful
Countess bending little uneasily
over her.
'Oh, what was the matter9" asked
the Countess; have you quarreled
this evening""
with whom" said Amelia, not
yet quite herself.
with Mario, with your impas-
sionate Mario, who. ] hope, will de-
eide to ask me for your hand"
"Ah." exclaimed the poor girl,
"Mario loves only you"
"Me" replied the Countess, with
a naughty mien. What q stupid
man" And she went TO the mirror
to arrange the corsage of the scarlet
gown that set of the marble white
ness OF her perfect shoulders.
Amelia buried ner face in the pill
low, and drenched IL with scaldin
tears
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
THE MAN IN THE GLASS.

lis snly an average man that i see.
Nor handsome nor wealthy nor smart,
Yet somehow feel. ss look In his eye.
would miss him il e'er ne should part.
les, he act ally knows
But will never disclosel
The secrets way down in my heart.
The man In the glass never gossips Of me
In nv neignbor's inquisitive ar
Ny good reputation he IL reyer betrny,
never have reason TO fear,
Though faults he can see.
Known 10 him and 10 me,
Whish 10 other folks never Ippear.
The man in the glass never answers me back
when his follies fain would correct,
But tss ~. poor feii0" LOOKS so ashamed OF him
That blush for him, too. ] expect.
tor we both feel 70 blame,
And o mutual shame
Seems the errors OF both 10 connect.
The man in the glass will be faithful to me
As long as I'm honest and true;
But once TO abuse him and win his contempt
Would be the worst thing could dc.
For INV best friend he'll be.
Or my worst enemy.
And he ii stick 20 me all my life through
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
Outside Influences.

A famous physician who believed
heartily in fresh air, simple diet, and
a cheerful miud as remedial agents.
once visited a patient whose bed
room walls we're covered with La, er
OF mo I depressing color and pattc n.
THAT paper" said the physician,
decisivcly, "is quite enough 10 serd
a healthy man melancholy mad; It's
effects upon an invalid, who Is COM
PEELED To lie still and gaze upon IL all
day. must be awful. You'll have u
move the patient into "A more cheer
fully y-papered room"
But this Is the best OF them all. "
was tie remonstrance.
Then" said the great doctor,
'you must buy a bright cretOnne or
something, and hide these dreadful
walls" And cretonne was purchased
accordingly, much TO the patients
benefit
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
with One's Whole Strength

We are not sent into this world 10
do anything into which we cannot
put our hearts We have certain
work TO do for our bread, and that is
TO be done strenuously; other work
To do for our delight, and that Is TO
be done heartily; neither is TO be done
by halves or shifts, but with will;
and what Is not worth this effort IL
not 10 he done at all. Perhaps all
that VIC have TO do Is meaut for moth
ing more than an exercise OF the
heart and OF the will. and Is useless
In itself; but at all events. the little
use IL has may well be spared II IL is
not worth putting our hands and our
strength TO- --Ruskin.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
That Gentleman.

The man had telegraphed for a
berth in the sleeper 10 meet him at
a station along the line. and when
he got IL he was I'm bad humor be-
cause IL wasn't in the best place in
The car. The conductor EXPLAINED
that he ought TO be glad TO get what
he did, as the berth could have been
sold TO "A dozen people at double the
price, etc, etc, and, at last the gen.
tleman accepted the situation and
agreed To sleep In it. Two minutes
after he got In there was hullabal-
loo again.
Here" he yelled, there's no screen
TO this window. can't sleep with.
out screen and / won't It's a
shame and an utrage. I'll report
you TO head Iuarters and see IL this
thing can't he done right"
The porter was trying TO set mat
ters straight, when a thin, squeaky,
little voice came from the curtains
across the aisle.
Porter, porter" IL s1ueaked so
everybody could hear. ''if that gen
tleman owns the road he can have
my screen" and that gentleman"
subs ded. free Press
PEOPLE you owe always tel; about
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

is again becoming fashionable
20 wear patches 1f put on neatly,
the patches speak volumes Of praise
for some one.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

As soon a. man makes a little
money, IL 10 discovered thai his wife
is qualified by birth and education TO
shine ia the best society.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
A Hot Meal.

Walter Mansfield, the Board Of
Trade attorney, is a most enthusiast
tic sportsman and an expert with
either rod or gun, but he will never
permit his enthusiasm TO stint his
stomach. II at the moment he had
his gun on a living quail dinner bell
should ring he would drop his gun
and go TO dinner.
When Mansfield goes out on one OF
his trips he always locates place
where he can get good meal, and
so times his sport that he will reach
IL at the dinner hour. A few days
ago he went up on the Big Sulphur
creek for days fishing, and, as he
started out at daybreak, he saw a
little wayside shanty, In front OF
which stood horse trough and a
sign, Hot Meals at All Hours" The
trough did douole service as a drink
ing place for tired and dusty horses
and a lavatory for the guests of the
"hotel."
That's just the place, said Walter
to himself. 'l'll fish up stream and
then down again, so that I'll reach
here at noon"
He carried out his programme,
went to the "hotel," where he rubbed
soft soap around his neck and washed
it of in the horse trough, and then
seated himself at the wooden table.
An old Missourian sat smoking In one
corner and never budged or paid the
slightest attention to Mansfield, who
was nibbing at cracker he found on
the table.
"Well, where is my dinner" in
quired the hungry sportsman.
Thar" and the rancher aimed the
stem of his pipe at the table.
why, your sign says, Hot Meals
at All Hours"
Thar she Is. Crackers an pepper
sauce. San Francisco Post
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
ELECTRICITY.

In the household. numerous are
the uses to which ingenuity has
adapted electricity. There are
houses in which every room is illu-
minated by lamp which lights IL
self automatically whenever the
door is opened, and which shuts itself
of whenever the door is closed from
the outside. Lights in the barn can
be controlled from a house. There
are electric lamps VIII ch at will can be
operated either at full candle power
or at much reduced power Electric
power is being used for operating ele-
vators In residences. Other appli-
ances OF the power in residences are
the operation OF dumb walters, ven-
tilating fans, ice cream freezers, and
SO on. The adaptation OF electricity
TO heating Is making rapid progress,
but at present it can be used more
economically than coal only when
it is generated from water power.
Thus far the heating OF large spaces
by electricity Is an expensive luxury
Electric cooking is economical, and
OF course, much preferred TO any
other method. All sorts. OF electric
cooking utensils are now in the
market. these devices and arrange
ments are generally known. but thus
far scarcely any residences have them
all. When they are generally intro.
duced they Will make domestic labor
lighter and more lleasant, and will
do away with, even In isolated and
rural quarters, much dru gerry that
now falls uGon the housewife.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

PEOPLE you owe always tel; about
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Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-06

etors of disorderly houses; in some cases
exacting the last dollar from unfortu-
nate women, and even going so far as to
punish and persecute those who desired
to abandon their evil ways, and thereby
diminish the official revenue from crime.
Nor did the hideous alliance stop short
with the federation of shame for money.
Bunco steerers, who are simply a most
dangerous class of highwaymen, have
been allowed to waylay strangers in this
great commercial metropolis, the police
9hqri- +Na ~, -Aor &c +hn victims md
frightening them into silence. The deal
ers in pretended counterfeit money have
been PERMITTED to carry on their traffic
undisturbed, the police evidently having
some arrangement with the "backers"
of the criminals, one of whom care
fully absented himself from the State to
escape giving testimony. Even the
Tammany bench is implicated in the
amazing record of turpitude, and Tam
many police justice, alleged in the evil
dence to have been the partner of bun
co robber, has failed to come forward
and stand examination. Another Tam
many magnate on the civil bench did at
tempt to answer the charges against
him, and only succeeded in getting
deeper into the mire of disgrace.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-06
NEWS AND NOTES.

The gubernatorial campaign of 1896
is opening early. The Rutland Herald
has mentioned" ex-Gov. Fletcher in
that connection, and now the esteemed
Morrisville News and Citizen ventures
the assertion that "Col. Woodbury's sue
cessor i'll 1896 will be farmer and sol
der combined and Josiah Grout will be
his name" Both of these gentlemen are
friends of ours, and each would make an
excellent governor; but would it not be
better to finish up the present guberna-
torial campaign before beginning an
other? The old saying about the early
bird and the worm is not quoted approx
ingly in politics so much as formerly;
for it is now recognized that while the
bird according to the adage does well to
be early, the worm would do better to be
later.
Governor Mckinley and his friends
are more than pleased at the vote of the
delegates to the convention of the Re-
publican League clubs at Denver, last
week. There were personal statements
of presidential preferences from 1853 of
the 900 delegates present. OF this num-
Der 5S7 favored Mckinley, 142 were for
Reed, % for Harrison and the balance
divided among Allison, Alger, Cameron
and Lincoln. 1t was a noteworthy fact
that the Indiana delegates refused to
man to go on record. The Republicans
in the Buckeye state are now more afraid
of Levi P. Morton of New York than
they are of Reed of Maine, for should
Morton be elected governor of the EN-
pire state this fall, he would at once
loom up as very formidable candidate
for president.
Senator Proctor has shaved off his
whiskers. They were whiskers of which
any man might have been proud-being
thick and we'll trimmed and becoming,
and only slightly tinged with gray
They added touch of kindliness to the
kindly face of the senator and by hiding
the smile upon his lips emphasized the
happy twinkle of his eyes. But now
his whiskers have gone. 1t is hard to
tell whom he most resembles in his
smooth-shaYen condition. Very much,
however, like William M. Evarts, except
that there is rounded fulness to his
cheeks such as Mr. Evarts never enjoyed,
at least in his later years. One thing,
however, is very certain, he does not
look in the least like Redfield Proctor,
of Observation-Disclosures Post.
-Four men who hurrahed for Jeffer-
son Davis in Valparaiso, ILL.,, during the
Memorial Day ceremonies, have been
fined S11.30 each.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-06
A sheep-KiIIing Administration.

A Vermont correspondent of the Troy
Times, writes: Through the towns of
Shoreham, Orwell, Bridport, Addison
and Cornwall, where sheep have at
times been sold for hundreds and some
for thousands of dollars, the descend
ants of these same hocks, bred in the
purple have been sold within eight
months for less money than focks of
chickens of the same number. Many
closed out their flocks of sheep last fall
at fifty cents each, while their chickens
brought them more than that. Mr..
Peck, who lives just west of Bridport
village, sold his sheep at thirty cents a
head, and they were a fair lot. Ex-Gov.
Stewart said that this administration
was killing the sheep industry of the
State as fast as it could. Walter Brown,
who has three sheep ranches in Utah,
and purchased his sheep in Vermont,
writes to a relative that he has just sold
out his wool at five cents a pound, while
Columbus Smith, who has returned
from Colorado and New Mexico, says he
saw wool selling for six cents. The
farmers are beginning to feel the hard
times. At the Cream Hill farm of $50
acres, the manager says they are work
ing only one-fourth of the farm and let
ting the remainder go. Many farmers
are not hiring any help, but doing what
they can themselves"
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-06
TACTICS THAT DO NOT PAY.

The farmer who burns down his barn
in order to get rid of the rats that have
made home there accomplishes his OBJ
ject, but at most costly sacrifice. He
is not at all the sort of model by which
the leaders of organizations of any kind
should take pattern.
To put the business men of the coun-
try and their thousands of employees to
inconvenience and loss is the poorest
possible way to gain sympathy for any
cause, however just. To enhance the
price of living by creating scarcity of
food supply is line of tactics that is by
no means calculated 20 win converts to a
crusade, however laudable the principles
which its advocates may champion.
There are multitudes of workingmen
throughout the county, men with fami-
lies dependent upon them, to whom the
slightest increase in the cost of living is
very serious matter. Yet it is upon
men like these in all our large cities that
the heaviest burdens of suffering must
fall if an embargo should be laid on
transportation of food from the West to
the East
Merely because local controversy be-
tween capital and labor in little ILL
nois city remains unsettled, how can it
possibly pay" to entail inconvenience,
suffering and loss upon the American
public?-BOston Globe.
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rrrrno on rrr MALE CALLER.
The Few Minutes Wait Before the Expect
ed Ono Descends TO Receive Him.

There are few moments SO trying to the
personal dignity of a man as when sitting
below awaiting the descent of the expected
one. Such Is the proud spirit of man that,
although in the easiest chair in the most
luxurious room Of the house. he has still
the uneasy sense of one left by the footman
TO cool his heels in the hall These pre-
lilAli44,.1y 10 lnlAuUCs--Wn4Un 4 A..s.l4 49,
sumes is the usual length of time-are suf-
fioient to throw out Of gear the most COM
posed nerves, for, although a man may
not have any definite intent in his mind
In paying a visit, the mere act Of waiting
and the sense of the preparation going on
up stairs seems to give hitherto unsus-
pected Importance to his presence in the
house, and he feels himself getting fidgety
and uncertain.
A man who has undergone these expert
ences wants to know why women do not
have books and papers in their drawing
rooms to engage their visitors in waiting
He has so much suffered in being left to
prey upon himself at such times that he
AYERS he never goes now to call on girl
without book in his pocket Moreover
he feels that the girl herself loses an OPP
portunity in not having books-favorites
or SO assumed-lying about casually for
her visitors to see. In this manner she
might acquaint them with the tastes or
ideas that she may have or prefers to have
thought that she has. A couple of genera
lions ago no parlor would be thought COM
plete without a copy of ''Lalla Rool1h, " to
be thumbed in anxious moments by young
men in strapped trousers and low shoes.
A generations ago men in peg tops beguiled
themselves with blue and gold editions Of
Lucille" The young man of today, it
appears, is left to himself among cushions,
faience statuettes and contemporaneous
little figures in particolored French bronze,
until he feels indeed like bull in china
shop.-San Francisco Argonaut.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-06
He Mover Did So Any More.

Constant companionship with q type
writing machine has asoothing and elevat-
ing influence on q man. No hard drinker,
for instance, can use a typewriter. His
nerves must be in good order, or he will
strike the wrong letter and mangle up his
copy. 1 know case Of, this kind which
led to the reformation Of a man. He was
typewriter and stenographer for firm on
Oxford street. He was a good, all round
man, but he would go on the spree occa-
sionally. This the head Of the firm did
not like, SO he thought he would teach
him q lesson. The stenographer was o
methodical man, and he went on his jam
boree at stated times in the year. When
he returned on one occasion, his employer
had the machine all fixed for him. He had
had the letters changed SO that when you
struck "H," for instance, it would print
"X," and 30 on. The stenographer came
back, feeling rather shaky anyhow, and
when he wrote off his first letter the result
was simply appalling. He thought he had
'em and began to tremble. His master
kindly sent him down to Brighton to brace
up. The cure was complete. He never
touched typewriter again as long as he
Nved.-Idler.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-06
the POLICE INVESTIGATION.

Police blackmail is nothing new, saws
the New York Press. 1t is not peculiar
to New York or to the age in which we
live. But while the federation of crime
for revenue has probably been practised
from time immemorial, it remained for
the New York police, under the control
of Tammany, to oranize a system of
blackmail complete and comprehend
sive, embracing in its ramifications all
classes of citizens, from merchants on
Broadway to the keepers of disorderly
houses, the pushcart peddler, bootblack
and peanut vender. The revenue thus
derived must have amounted to millions
of dollars annually, and there is no rea-
son to believe that it went largely into
the treasury of the Tammany organiza-
ten. This elaborate system of extor-
ton, with its enormous income, could
not have been carried on by the police
for the sole benefit of the members of
the uniformed force who were engaged
in the abominable traffic. Others must
have received large share of the pro-
ceeds, and it is fair to presume that the
chief benefciaries belong to the Ring
which for years past has had its heel on
the neck of decent citizenship.
The methods of extortion revealed by
the testimony before the Lexow Com
mittee were as impudent as they were
lawless. The police, according to the
evidence, have virtually been the propri-
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TOURNAMENT NOTES.

All indications point to one of the
largest tournaments eyer held by the
Association.
The Ever Ready Hose Company of St.
Adams, has purchased new uniforms
from G. P. Twigg, the clothier.. The
uniforms are complete, with double
breasted coats of indigo blue, trousers
TO match with red stripes on the legs,
and regulation firemen's caps 1t is a
handsome uniform and in them the COM
pany cannoG Iall 10 make a gOOu appear
ance at the tournament at Bennington
Messenger.
The General Schuyler Engine Com
pany of Schuylerville, N. Y, has re-
ceived an invitation to attend the Yer
mont State Firemen's Convention at
Bennington, and will probably accept.
A subscription paper is being circula-
ted for the purpose of raising funds to
defray the expenses of the firemen of
Middlebury, who are to take the old
hand engine down to the firemen's tour
nament.
The Baxter Hose Company of Rut-
land, has entered to contest in the hose
races. .b#
Union Hose company No. l of Salem
will attend the freman's tournament at
Bennington, July 10, and will take its
engine. This engine, which has been
overhauled and placed in excellent con-
dition, was formerly old No. of Troy,
NY. During it's thirty years use in
Salem it has had wonderful record.
Out of sixteen musters which has attend
ed it has won eleven first prizes, two
second prizes and one third prize. The
company will wear its new uniforms for
the first time at Bennington.
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To Suit All Tastes.

There was q loud voiced Cheap Jack at
a country market recently. "Spelling
books, ladies and gentlemen" he shouted,
for little crowd had gathered. "This is
the book for every one, the book for every
where the book, the bookP' He tossed
it up and caught it as it fell. Then he
went ON, THE book for everybody, seer
Encyclopedia of so pages. Recipes for ev-
cry dish that was ever cooked. All the
new dishes that never were cooked. For
mula for the toothache Agreeable stories
for old women. A treatise for young
women on the art of getting husbands.
How to cure bunions without amputation.
How to plant cabbages when the moon in
not full How to breed rabbits How to
interpret dreams How to tell fortunes.
How to get divorce. How to reckon up
the interest on mortgage. The book for
everybodyP'
After all this palaver no one bought q
single copy. The Cheap Jack looked over
the crowd with disgust that could not be
disguised
Ladies and gentlemen" he remarked,
at forgot to mention that in this incom-
parable book there is blank page-for
those who cannot readp'-London Tit
Pita
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-06
Those Secret Conferences.

If the truth were known concerning
these secret conferences and their in
fuence upon tariff legislation, wave of
unexampled popular indignation would
sweep the Democratic party from power
at the very first opportunity. The
measure so framed, showing on its face
the handiwork of compromisers and
time-servers, containing minimum of
tariff reform and maximum of job
berry, will soon make its appearance in
the House. Will that body have the
courage to stand UP against the seduc-
tive influences to which the Senate
yielded, or has the way already been
creased for a prompt surrender?-
Washington News.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-06
CORRESPONDENCE.
Fun Versus Patriotism.

Mr. Editor: What is fun? According
to Webster it may be joy or gladness,
but it may be so at the expense and COM
fort of another. Possibly to those who
disregard the rights of others and break
the laws of God and man even, there
may be fun such as only the selfish can
enjoy. Patriotism is love of ones coun-
try, devotion TO the public safety and
welfare, love of fellow countryman,
etc. Now, if Webster is good authority,
as we believe, then. when an inoffensive,
unprotected woman discovers large
company, between two and three o'clock
in the morning, of noisy young men at
work removing the marble stepping
stone from her front door, but dares not
demonstrate for fear of what these same
young men may say or do, would these
same patriotic young men be likely to
make sacrifices or fight to protect the
homes such as a mother only can make
for her children and even her boys? If
refined unoffending woman is to be sub
ject to such annoyances and dlscomforts
as was allowed on the night of our
glorious Fourth, we shall be obliged to
fight our own battles and ask protection
from beyond our own town and state
Young men, ask yourselves whether
what you are doing is leading you up
ward, or where your own mother can
follow you and retain her own self re-
spect.
ONE Who APPROVES OF Fun WHICH
DOES No HARM,