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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-15
HAwEs COURT HILARITY.
How They Monkeyed With MerrI-
ment and Got Themselves Disliked.


ment and Got Themselves Disliked.
For the sake OF contrast and to pity
some one for being too poor instead OF
being too rich your messenger came down
over the hill and went up to Hawes
Court. It's probably the last Hawes
Court Christmas we'll ever have, as
that rookery Is to be pulled down and
wiped out to make room for the new
State house park, but the last one was
lively. wouldn't call it jolly or
merry, but in the language OF the
central station police Just lively. And
very lively at that for the occupants know
when II Is a holiday just as well as the rest
81 US and they believe in celebrating.
A year ago the principal Christmas eve
party was held in that woman's room on
the second floor just at the head Of the
outside staircase but the last time she
went TO bed with her pipe in her mouth,
and the fremen were called out
two chairs got broken in the confusion,
- this time there was not enough seating
capacity and the tenants who had been
round long enough to become social all
crowded into Big Anner's room on the
ground floor, inside, facing the crap
grounds.
IL was only IL o'clock when ! got there,
ehero 60 all hadn't arrived that
we're expected. Each one brought
his or her own pail, except in the case of
married couples when the family growler
Vns sufficient, and each one of those In
|olvlduai and syndicate pals had been
4oshed with holiday enthusiasm until
- had become matter OF supreme indn-
{oeenoe 10 the company whether II was
ohe Fourth OF July or Christmas.
Whether = fight or dance would fol-
)oW depended altogetheT on whether the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-15
THE CHINEE MAN.
He Shortens Work and Warns or
Evil Spirits.

He Shortens Work and Warns or
Evil Spirits.
You may not know it, Mr.. Statue, but
even the Cinnamon stiffen up little for
Christmas. 1t hasn't any religious sig
nificance for them and they don't ex-
change gifts, but they attach importance
to the day on account Of some astronom-
ical reasons. The sun changes or the
days grow longer or something else hap
pens that plesses the portion of the ORR
entail gods who don't happen to favor the
order OF things departed from. At any
rate the Chinsmen over here do
little differently on December 20. They
shorten the hours OF labor for-the day, eat
more and congregste earlier in the even
ing In each others back rooms. also no.
ticed that on Christmas eve slips OF yellow
paper we're pasted on :Ns hus@rv doors
which are supposed to keep out a certain
tribe OF evil spirits that make things nsS-
erable for people for the year TO come II
they can find door unprotected and get
~.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-15

The statue of Thomas A. Doyle, from Its
exaggerated altitude on Cathedral square,
was looking down upon the city in con-
templative mood, when Ubiquity came
skipping along, and taking of his winged
hat, the better to cool his brow, sat down
upon the edge of the lower block OF stone
which, 1t will be remembered, had
been poked under the pedestal the
better to elevate the latter out OF harms
way from rude humanity aud truck teams.
"Well," remarked Ubiquity, as he
smoothed the wings OF his cap, "Pve done
the town, your honor"
"It's pretty good town. yet, believe"
remarked the bronze Mayor.
" Yes," assented Ubiquity, ga pretty
good town. To be sure, everybody in 1t
isn't happy, even on this Christmas night.
and some are cold and hungry In the only
places they can call home. There's
tolerable lot of vice and crime floating
about, and not a little misery. But take
It all in all its pretty good sort OF a
town. Most every body is disposed to be
decent and, II for this occasion only, Is
bound to be happy. Christmas cheer Is
ample and 1t is not con6ned to spots.
There's some OF IL most everywhere"
sand is your report ready?" inquired
the bronze Mayor.
"All ready, your honof," responded
Ubiquity. "I've jotted down something
about good many things and IL you
don't mind I'll tell you about it,"
The bronze statue allowed that Mayors
were accustomed to be bored with re-
ports and then he gave ear.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-15
Alb STREET BE-JOYFUL.
Merriment and Song Prevailed From
Gray Heads to Pickaninnies.

Merriment and Song Prevailed From
Gray Heads to Pickaninnies.
1t was pretty late when got away from
the Messer street home and as the rum
ming of all-night cars to Cranston and
Olneyville Is something new since my last
years trip around town, knew nothing
about it so started to walk down street.
It's just as well, for got a report that
otherwise we would have missed. For
the sake of a short cut j was going through
Il street when In one of those tumb bled
down houses, suggestive OF chimney fires
without damage, heard someone sing
ing:
And those who hardly all the year.
Had bread TO eat or rags To wear,
VIII have both clothes and Christmas fare,
Aud all the day be merry.
IL was sung in such pleased, tickled-
to-deatb tone of voice that i couldn't
resist the temptation to go in, although
the place was not on my list.
There were ten people in there-all of
one family, although the youngest looked
almost like a White baby, and so its age
and color made IL even more OF favorite
than babies usually are. AT any rate 1t
was the only one in the family
that got nine presents. All the rest gave
it something separately, while thesothers
only got combination gifts. Mostof the
children were sbed in the other room and
their stockings had been washed and
hung up behind the stove to
dry and be filled. The mother
takes in washing (she USED to
to scrub floors at City Hall when you were
Mayor,) aud the father drives coal wagon
and as he has not been drunk for two
years the stocking hanging really
amounted TO something for the wearers.
There was hsrmonica or mouth calliope
I'm each pair of half hose and a blonde
doll for each long pair, while i'm wash
tub, decorated with evergreen, there was
one banjo, a sled, pair OF rubber boots and
nice cut OF purple dress goods. The
cloth was no surprise 20 the mother OF the
coal teamster's eight little children, as
she had bought that herself, but with the
money that her man had promised her on
the day after he quit drinking, two years
ago. IL was mis- present, even N she did
pick Il out, and she told him so. His re-
ward was a new dinner pail with a coffee
cup top, and SIX cigars TO smoke Sun
days.
y il was merry Christmas eve in that y
street house and before left the ex-scrub
woman sang
-Nobody knows The troubles hab.
No one but Jesus
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-15

back and let his feet dance Jig to 1t on
what was left of the foot boarn.
They had two things planned for the
next day-one to eat roast )rk and the
other for the whole family, from the old
man down TO the baby with almost
straight hair, to go TO that brick nesting
house of the colored people on Pearl
street. They did both; and then had sort
of praise meeting OF their own at home
with instrumental music by banjo and
mouth harp.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-15
THE DUTCH At wANsKUCK.
Itwas a Pleasant Scene Through the
Frosted Window Pane. .

To visit the Dutch colony out in Vans
kuck on Christmas Eve is just like read-
ing the old English and German holiday
stories.
Those people out there in Ward 3, who
work in the mills days and 60 TO
singing societies or talk social
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-15

in such a lively tune that one OF the
piekanninies In the other room laid on his
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-15

Remember. In our Boys De-
partment you get Horton Bros.
Best cabinet Pictures for your
Boy with any suit, overcoat or
Ulster, bought for $3.50 cash and
over. Great bargains this week
in Boys Clothing.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12
Why Is 1t f!

That Hercules Gas and Gasoline
Engines are held by the public in SO
much higher estimation than ethe
engines? The parties using these en-
gines, and their name is legion, ar
the ones who can best answer this
question. They we'll the ease with
which these engines are started and
the very little care they require to
keep them running month after month
without spark battery, which is ad-
mitted to be unreliable. The simple
ignition tubes ofthe Hercules Engines
are far better. If you want seconde
hand engines of other makes at cheap
rates we can supply you. We have
a number taken in trade and cannot
take any more until these are realized
on. PALMER & REY TYPE FOUNDRY,
405-407 Sansome Street, San Fra ncisco
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

The report on mineral resources
of the United States for 1898
shows an aggregate valuation of
$609, ,586, ,0S3, of which 1858, ,6O4, :
2l7 represents the non-metaiic
product and $249,9Sl, 1866 the me-
talic product, with an unspeciied
product Of 81, 100000. This is the
smallest for any year since 1889,
and is an aggregate decline of over
$75,000,000 from the previous
y ear.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

When Tom Hendricks was gov.
ernor Of Indiana o railroad strike
occurred and the corporation mag
mates rushed to the capital and
applied to the Governor for troops.
He told them to 90 and pay their
men fair wages and they would not
need any troops,
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

Senator Allen has introduced a
resolution for the appointment of a
committee to consider the advisa-
bility of government ownership Of
railroads and telegraph lines.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

You've had twenty-five years.
experience as a farmeri Well, it's
pretty hard work, isn't it I"
81 thought it was till I came to
town to run grocery store. ]
was in the grocery business six
months. I'm back on the farm
agin. FaEmin' amt work. It's
rsstin'."- Siftings.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12
When Can You Go.
". ". Wright, Prop.

The Santa Fe Route will sell from
Deming or FL Paso round-trip tickets
good until October 31st to the follow
ing prices, Chicago $6S.60, St Louis
S61.10, Kansas City $52.95, Milwaukee
$72.10 and St Paul $76.45. Call or
address agents named below.
C.CARPENTER, C.H. MoREHoUsE,
Trav. Pass Agt DF & PA
Ell Paso Ell PasO.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12
a Few Facts.
Here ares few solid facts.

llere area few soild facts;
The poet Tenuyson GOULD take a
worthless sheet of paper, and by
writing poem on it make it worth
$4,000. That's genius.
Vanderbilt can write few words
en- q sheet of paper and make it
worth $4,000, 900. That's capital !.
The United States can take an
ounce and quarter of gold and
stamp upon it an "eagle bird" and
make it worth $50. That's money.
The mechanic can take material
worth So and make it into watch
worth 500. That's skill.
The merchant can take an article
worth 75 cents and sell it for ST.,
That's business.
A lady can purchase a bonnet
for Sass, but she prefers one thai
costs $50. That's foolishness.
The ditch digger works ten hours
. day and shovels three or four
tons of earth for SO. That's labor.
The editor of this paper can
write a check for $50, 100000 but
it wouldn't be worth dime. That's
too bad.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

"If the strikers have just griev-
ance perhaps the Government had
as we'll think it over before attempt
ing to suppress them. We are
Taught in the Fourth of July ora
tions that the Government was not
organized to perpetuate tyrany and
oppression, but to guarantee liber-
ty,e
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12
BE Economical.

Spend every dollar judiciously and
to the best advantage. Be considerate
Study every question of economy on
all sides. Do not jump at conclusi ons
but investigate. IF you want power
for pumping, saving or printing, send
for catalogue of the Hercules Gas
Engines. Palmer and Rey Type
Foundry, 405-407 Sansome Street,
San Francisco.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

"Oh |! oh O mother it's so
eold-so cold and wet too"
"But it will make you clean, my
son. Doesn't my little boy wish
to be clean p
"Not-not-not if I have to be
wet and cold. Id-Pd rather be
warm and dirty than cold and
clean"
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

A man named Coxey, living in
Manyunk, Pennsylvania, has ap-
piled to the legislature to have his
name changed to Smith.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

The exports of breadstuffs from
the United States during the ten
months ended April 80, 1894,
amounted to $l43,256,1l6, as
against $l63, ,l3O,25O during the
corresponding months the previous
year.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

There is more power in the in
fucnce of boy than there is in all
the steam in locomotive boiler.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

The man who looks through
prejudice is always ready to swear
that there is something green in
sunlight.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12
aDid you win, Cyrus T. asked hi

aDid you win, Cyrus :" asked his
wife.
"Did I wini" said the village
lawyer exultantly, as he threw him
self on the lounge and wiped his
heated brow. "Well, I should
rather think I did. I beat him
twenty-seven games of checkers
out of thirty, and
"Yes !; but I mean did you win
the case before Squire Ford =
"Oh, 7 forgot all about that
easel"
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12
ARCTIC ICE !!
A, G.. AUSTIN

Is in the field for the summer ready
to supply his old customers and all
new ones of the Sonthside with ice,
the home product and best quality
ct lowest rates.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

Child, at Washington-Who are
All, those men lounging around out
side the capitoli
Parent-They are United States
senators, my child.
"Are there any more senator's
beside them p
Il "Only one"
"Where is he r.
"He is inside making a speech. /"
Texas Siftings.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12

"Papa." said Miss Blooblood.
ayou remember you forbade Mr..
Trivett to call upon me because he
worked for a living"
Eyes, I remember"
swell, papa. that objection is
removed. May he call :"
"What has happened Has some
one left him q fortune 2"
.No, papa. He can't find any
work to do.
Mesa free press., 1894-07-12
ELECTRIC BELTFREE.

To introduce it and obtain agents
the undersigned firm will give away a
few of their $500 German Electric
Belts invented by Prof. Van der Weyde
Pres of the New York Electrical So
ciety u. s. Pat. 7,647) a positive
cure for Nervous Debility, Rheuma>
tism, Loss of Power, etc. Address at
once Electric Agency, p. O. Box 1874
New York N. Y.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-09

suspension bridge should be considered ,nsufn-
cient for the present loads, Il would he nothing
against the system, but merely would show that
the Niagara bridge had to share the fate OF hun
dreds and hundreds Of bridges OF ali kinda.
which we're built for light loads and became in
dequa for heavy loads. The Erie road has
Tepinced two bridges over the Passaic River.
between here and Paterson, in the past two
years, and ] remember that these bridges were
put up only eighteen years AGO,
To conclude these arguments. I beg TO saw
Ihat am prepared to prove all OF my state
ments before any committee OF experts by ac-
been endorsed by the reports Of the two boards
~ investigating engineers. while the statements
OF the bridge company detrimental TO the sus.
pension. plans stand alone and improved. Let
the engineer OF that bridge company come for
ward with calculations and lot him prCye The
assertions OF the company by figures. Without
them the public will wisely pay nc attention to
such Statements"
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THE GRIZZLIES OF IDAHO.
A Tacit Agreement with Men In the Early
Days Not to Modest Each Other.

Speaking OF grizzly bears, ;" said Judge Henry
/. Warren of Albuquerque, I'VE didn't look on
these animals as particularly dangerous in
Idaho when / was the United States District
Attorney OF that Territory. II a man attacked
one at close quarters he sometimes got killed,
but at a little distance not much more attention
was paid TO bears than II they had been so many
hogs or cattle. Between human beings and the
bears there seemed to be at that time "a tacit
agreement to let one another alone.
lone of my hardest horseback trips led me
through a wild region where ! often saw bears.
AT one pc int the trail crossed an open valley,
dotted with scattering big trees and clumps OF
underbrush, and on the further side wound up
a steep mountain side through thick oak and
pine woods. Coming down into that valley one
day | saw, a little way off on my right, five
bears, two very large ones and three smaller
ones, constituting possibly a family party. They
were running about here and there nosing the
ground. turning over stones and knocking to
pieces rotten logs, hunting for mice and gruhs.
They apparently paid no attention 10 me as
rode past. a hundred and fifty yards away. My
horse looked a little wild and fdFetled some at
the sight of them, but l kept him IN the trail
without difficulty.
AT another time a bear gave me considerable
OF a scare. | had crossed Ibis same VALLEY and
was just beginning To ascend the wooded heights
beyond Il. | had dismountcd. and was leading
my horse up the steep hillside when "A hear
broke out OF the bushes "A little behind me and
came for me GuTiOusly, showing her teeth and
growing. / stood still, expecting 10 lc torn 10
pieces the next moment, from The determined
way in which she came-it WIS a sbg-brRr -htt
she stopped just short OF sei2ing me ard tuf' ed
To dash IN the same way at my horst. and o. 1 At
/ dropped the bride and male Up the O. /
as fast as ] could go. My horse, instv d
of turning back 10 run for life In the clear uI'l
ground Of the valley. when she charged ~ h. g..
made a detouF up the hill and came hack on t.a
trail behind me. Til bear, looking mighty " =
with her frothing mouth and brtstling Lau,
kept up her demonstrations. directing thtit
principally at my horse. You know how a hartr
when thoroughly frightened. will seek the con-
pany and protection OF humanity, aud 50, do al
] could 70 drive hIm away. my beast all the time
kept right behind me, with his nose at ms
shoulder, trembling with fear. but refusing to
leave me. as the bear kept making dashes at "
out OF the bushes. sometimes from one side and
sometimes from the other.
didn't know then what | have learned from
was running u blum ON US ana did not mean 50
dOubtedly had cubs concealed close By In the
male bear 70 drive away intruder,, Probably Il
i had stood my ground she would have tackled
me, aud IN that cast II would have been all up
With me. She followed us a hundred Yards or 30
and then seeming. satisfied that she had got as
watched ~ cat Of sLShL"
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II T SEAL.

OF the miniature recently exhibited at Tiff
fany's it is related that Prince Labanoff, Rus
sian Ambassador in Paris. a noted collector OF
historic relics, and particularly of those pertain
IL, and offered to William Seton OF Cragdon,
westchester, N. Y, $4,000 for It. Although
Mr.. Seton was at that time in financial embar-
m owing to the failure OF u company in
which he was a heavy stakeholder. he would not
sell the picture.
No price would pay for that miniature,
Prince said he TO the Russian. Il will, how
ever, give TO you the next best thing to it,"
lie had made n fac-simile OF the most beauti-
full work manship, which he presented To Prince
Labanoff. The miniature Mgr. Seton regards ms
the most valuable relic in lis collection. An
other miniature, and one far more beautiful. is
that of the priests grandfather. William Seton,
done by MalbOne in l1O6. IL Is the face OF n
man about 20 years old, and is said to be one OF
scription OF the face the reader may turn 10 that
part OF "The House Of the Seven Cable" where
Hawthorne describes the miniature OF Clifford
Pyncheon. This was written after n visit Of
HawthOrne's to the Seton house, where NAL
bone work was shown to him. He admired the
fashion clifford Pyncheon after II.
" Now here Is the oldest heirloom i have"
said Mgr. seton, handing TO the reporter a small
dagger. THAT was worn at the hip OF Sir
Alexander seton, and in 1884 u was new and
studded with silver. The silver studs have
dropped out long ago, but on the end you will
sec the thumb-push in the form Of the crescent
symbol OF the Setons. II any warrior. in those
days had picked II up on the field of battle he
would have known at once from that thumb
Those unpleasant LOOKING stains on the blade,
which Is OF native iron, are alleged to be blood.
You see the blade isn't very long, about five
inches should think. but 1t Is fairly sharp yet"
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CITY
The Busiest Quarters In the Daytime Ire
the LoueIiest at Night.

IL Is by very force of contrast that the quiet
est places In New York at mig ut are those which
are noisest by day-to wit, the great ship
ping and warehouse quarters. From the foot
of Forty-second street on the east, clear
around the island to the New York Central
Railroad slips at the foot of Sixtieth street on
the west, there is during the day the rush OF
traffic. the CHATTER OF buggies. the rumble Of
trucks, the classic apostrophes of the truck
men, the building up and demolition of pyra-
mids of merchandise on the wharves. and the
quick-moving streams OF men loading and un-
loading craft from here. there, and everywhere.
But at night all this great belt Of activity Is
quiet and deserted, save in an occasional spot
where there is an extra rush on some piece OF
work. The streets are filled with empty trucks
and carts. There is the Grant glimmer of Ian
terms and the faint sound OF horses feeding in
unsupported stables; the shadowy figures OF
Waterman move slowly about, she ship lanterns
rise and fall with the tide, and square patches of
light mark the ships companionways and the
scuttle holes OF the canal boats. Across the
street the restaurants and saloons are open and
sometimes noisy, but along the waterside IL is as
quiet az the river itself.
The contrast is even greater In the great busl-
ness blocks along Greenwich street on the one
side and those AUDITING on Water street on the
East River. those wonderful sections of the city
where the products or tie world are not only
dealt in. but actually handled where offices are
grimy and the warehouse bursting with riches.
During the daylight hours there Is no cease to
the movement ere-nOt the movement OF people,
but the movement of goods. Ii Is not the pres
tissimO movement either that one sees over on
the great thOroughfares of travel, hut the omen,
largo movement of CargOes on wheels drawn by
ponderous beasts OF burden. II Is tile extent not
the rapidity of the business that is bewildeTing.
1t Is as though all the world hau
turned merchant and was trading here. And
then, when the dusk comes ON, a strange loneli-
ness comes down ON everything, The roaring
trucks 20 of and their absence alone changes
the whole character of the locality. Great iron
doors are banged to; specks of light show where
the shipping clerks are laying out their plans
Tor next mornings first job; the narrow streets
take on unaccustOmed airs of quiet and are seen
to be even narrower and dirtieT than they we're
thought TO be when filled from house to house
with moving loads OF clean packages; and when
the last clerk locks the last door and securities
though the very spirit OF loneliness had taken
possession OF the place.
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MGR. SETON'S HELRLOOMS.
RELICS THAT GITE THE HISTORY DE-
a NOBLE sCOTCH FIMILT.

An Original Miniature OF Mary Stuart, Tor
whieh $4,000 was R~enused-ReIics %
Courtier and wnrrior-The Seal Used
on Major Andres win American Carlos.
In a small tin lock box in Mgr. Robert Seton's
home In Pavonia avenue, Jersey CITY, Is a col
lection OF relics which all the wealth of New
York could not buy. They are the Seton family
relics, and, dating from 1894, they represent
history in two Of the great nations of the world.
They belong TO William Seton, the eldest Of the
family. who is now in Europe. and are now in
charge Of his brother Robert. Besides these
relics there are many other curiosities, pictures,
and books and brio a-brac belonging TO Mgr.
Seton. and Of particular personal and bistori-
cal interest to the Seton family.