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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-27
TEA TABLE TALK.

Among the improvements going on in
the city just at this time, none are so no.
ticeable as those over in the vicinity OF
the Cove lands preparatory TO building
the new depot. On the other side of the
river the mark of progress is noted. At
the corner of South Water and Planet
streets, the foundation is being laid for
the new building next to that already oc-
cupied by the Oakdale Manufacturing Co.,
which, when finished, will add greatly to
their facilities.
Norcross Brot hers, the famous builders,
have charge of the excavating and erec-
tion of the new building referred to. A
talk with Mr.. Pickering, the foreman,
elected some interesting facts. AS resi-
dent manager Hemingway will testify
what hard and seemingly impenetrable
spots have been selected for building pur-
poses, it has seemed To be the decree of
fate for Norcross Brothers to obtain
them.
For instance: The Industrial Trust
Company Building cellar was for long
time a problem as to when terra tirma
would be properly struck suitable for
foundation stones, but the Oakdale exca-
vation, now about finished, was the most
impregnable of all. "After digging down
10 feet" said Foreman Pickering "we ran
against net work Of logs. From space
Is feet square we took out 36 logs from Is
TO % feet" Many years ago they doubt
less formed portion of he water front.
II required a depth OF from Is to 20 feet
before a good bed of gravel was reached.
One of the distractions met with was q
1H ton boulder OF granite.
An old iron key was found 10 feet below
the street level, which might have be-
longed to some portion OF the Gaspee,
which is SAID to have sailed from this spot.
The building, which will be erected as
soon as the foundation is completed, will
be six stories high, 50.4 front on South
Water street, and 7S.105-i6 on Planet
street. 1t will have a granite front as high
as the first story, and pressed brick and
granite window silis he remaining height.
Owing TO the extraordinary hindrances and
obstructions encountered the building will
not be in readiness for occupancy,a month
or six weeks later than intended, possibly
by the first Of June. 1t is safe to assert
that having successfully surmounted
the obstacles referred TO, the Nor
cross Brothers can safely state
that there is nothing in the way of
excavating but that they can make sue
cumb to their facilities, ingenuity and
mbined knowledge of knowing just how
to accomplish difficult and seemingly i'm
possible undertakings.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-27
The sympathetic mother.

The sympathetic mother.
couldn't help noting this fact as OBJ
served the mother of little boy crying
because his teeth ached and several of
them had to be pulled. She evidently
didn't know that DIR. Tillinghast, where
she happened to be at the time, would put
a lotion on the gums which would deaden
the pain, and that the lad would know
very little about the manner in which his
aching molars were extracted. That is
what happened at 29O Westminster street,
yesterday.
A chapter torn from "'Twill Be-"
twill be twenty odd years since Edith
Kenllworth noted her first birthday. Now
she was tall of form, superbly developed,
with a wealth Of chestnut brown hair
which shone with electric brightness as
the ligh from the chandelier cast its re-
fulgent rays upon her. She was about to
go into the drawing room across the hall
when her father came in and taking his
accustomed seat in a luxuriously uphol-
stored chair, motioncd TO Edith to be
seated by his side.
$50 you are determined, Edith, to at
tend the Bachelors ball and by your pres
ence give assent to the right of those
scions of aristocracy who ignore the mar
ried state to cut a pigeon wing in q swal-
low tail coat at the Trocadero?
"Now listen, my child. / have no incli-
nation 10 chide you, or to in any way mar
your happiness. but II you Will believe
me, / attended q bachelors ball years ago.
IL was there j met your mother.
IL was the last bachelors ball
ever attended. What happened to me
cannot OF course happen TO you, but IL you
persist in your desire TO attend the ball
you may become infatuated by the dash
ing beau bachelors and in an uuguarded
moment consent TO request to call at
your home, and the sequel may be that
your hand will be sought in marriage"
All the time her father was so earnestly
talking, Edith was making up her mind
TO reply, so persistently and conclusively
that there should be no chance for de-
NAL OF her request, that he gave his con-
sent TO attend the novel festivity, where
fair women and brave mon were To dance
the hours away, where feast and song
would minglc with the clink OF glass
filled 20 the brim with froth and sparkle
OF ancient vintage, rich and rare.
Edith took her fathers hand, and look
4 g. 4.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-27

An old iron key was found 10 feet below
the street level, which might have be-
longed to some portion OF the Gaspee,
which is SAID to have sailed from this spot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
PACIFIC INFLUENCE
That Sent Thurston to the Senate
in Nebraska
AND WANTS TO SEND HORTON

There from Kansas?-SO the GOssips
in Certain Circles in Topeka AIlege.
A Topeka man who keeps his eyes IN
the political situation, says it looks very
much as though a systematic effort is
being made to get attorneys of the Gould
railroad system into the United States
senate.
lie calls attention to the fact that Ne
braska has just sent John II. Thurston,
the Gould system attorney to the senate
and that Kansas is now to receive the at
tention of the same raiiroadmanage ment
in effort to send ex-Chief Justice Albert
II. Horton, now a member of the law
firm of Horton, Waggener & Orr to the
senate.
Judge Horton has said he is not can
didate, but his law partner. the Missouri
Pacific solicitor for Kansas, Bale P. Wag-
gener, says Judge Horton ought to be
elected.
Bale Waggsner not only says Judge
Horton ought TO be elected and is enti-
tied to the Office. but the announcement
comes from Atchison that Mr.. Waggener
is to be candidate for the legislature in
the Atchison city district with the avowed
object of supporting Judge Horton for
the United States senate.
If Bale Waggener could be elected a
mem ber of the legislature he would be
in a position to better aid in the election
of Judge Horton or any man his road
might select, than in any possible capac-
ity outside of the body which elects the
senator
The election of Bale Waggener to the
legislature would mean the turning down
of Repu blican majority of over 1000
votes in the oily of AtchisoD.
Captain John Ssaton the present mem
Der from Atchison says that Mr.. Wag-
gener could not hope to be elected TO
the legislature as Democratic candi-
date and he is a Democrat Captain
Seaton said: "No matter who the Repub-
lican nominee may be in the city of
Atchison he will be elected in party
fight. The city of Atchison will be rep
resented in the legislature by Rspubli-
can that is certain"
In support oil the theory that Judge
Horton is to be a railroad candidate for
the senate another man prominent in
state politics makes the suggestion that
in the last senatorial election the railroad
interests were all for J. r. Burton and
that as Burton went down it can not be
expected that the railroads will be for
him again. This gentleman suggests that
railroad managers usually show some
sagacity in their political maueuvers
and they can't be expected to attach
| Themselves 10 a sinking ship
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
VIC MURDOCIl's JOKE.
Idols VIII Re Made of the Clay Deposi
Found at Wichita.

0OunO at ~ lcnlEas
discovery of valuable clay has re-
Gently been made at Wichita. The
Wichita Eagle says: @. c. Daisy was
and mining. and finally drifted into
discourse of how he had seen heather
Chinese make their idols out of this very
kind of clay in San Francisco. He went
on to tell about a party of capitalists he
had engaged for the purpose of making
idols for worship in India and Africa.
He said that the company had secured
letters of patent from Lord Salisbury
and Queen Victoria for furnishing craven
images out of certain kind of clay,
but that the chemists had been unable
to find pure Hallovsite Klai, until one
of the men who had been at the we'll
the day before discovered the clay on his
boots. The clay was taken to q drug
store and soaked in alcohol over night,
and when examined by a microscope in
the morning was found to be just the
article they had been looking for for
three years, and that the company had
already spent thousands of dollars IN
their search.
When the men found the clay they
telegraphed for a special train for the
east. and had instructed him to secure
clay leases on all the land he could Sc
cure, and that he had twenty men out
now getting leases on land for the sole
purpose of manufacturing idols for the
heathens.
He said he was sorry to have to go
into the business and before he would
embark in the business he had secured u
written contract with the company that
90 per cent of the profits should be given
to the missionary society for the purpose
of converting the world to christianity
$50 you see, gentlemen, there should
be no opposition to the company for
while we will undermine the county for
the purpose of making idols, you see
after we have made sale we will put a
missionary on the track of the idol until
he has not only destroyed the idol but
has got the heathen to en- brace religion"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
Struck with an Iron Bar.

A warrant has been issued in Justice
GUYS court for the arrest of Robert North
who lives on J. B. Kassebaum's farm near
Valencia. Mt kassebsum went GU: to
his farm yesterday TO serve writ Of
electment on North. He met North In
the road about a half a mile from the
house aud started to read the document
to him when North assaulted him with
an iron bar. Kassebaum was knocked
down ia the road and had bad cut on
the back of his head. He came to To-
peka and swore out warrant charging
North with assault with intent to kill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
MYSTIC BROTHERHOOD.
John Hoeusheidt to Organize a SCcrs
Resubmissioa Society Here.

John Hoenscheidt of Wichita, the or
new resubmission organization, will at
tempt to make an organization in To-
peka-
Christian States, who is one of the most
prominent German citizens in the city,
is opposed to the organization of q
branch in Topeka. "If any thin g
of the kind is done here" said he, "it
should not como from the Germans, for
the Americans would not support It, Il
must be started among the Americans
to be success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
Miss Viets Resigns.

Miss Amelia Viets has resigned her
position as stenographer in the state
auditors office, and will be married early
in January, at her home in Girard, to Mr..
c. r. Bernhard of Fowler, Colo. Miss
Nellie King, the present bond clerk in
the flee, will succeed Miss Vets as sten-
ographer, and l. II. Cole of Girard. a
brother of the auditor, will be made bond
clerk. These changes will be made Mon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
Inspecting Electric wiring.

About thirty tire insurance agents are
here attending MIR. H. Clarkson's school
of instruction in electric wiring which is
being conducted by Mr.. G. f. Bottom
the Kansas City expert. Last night an
open meeting was held at the court
house and Mr.. Bottom delivered an ad-
dress. The insurance men inspected th Q
electric wiring in the new court house,
the Santa Fe hospital, the Copeland,
Hamilton hall, the two opera houses and
several other business houses and Office
buildings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
Fudge Hazen ordered New Trial.

In a suit tried yesterday in the district
court, wherein the Gsisel Manufacturing
company of ST. Louis was suing W. c.
Glenn & Co. of Leavenworth and E. C.
Glenn of Topeka for $117 for merchan-
disc tbs jury returned a verdict against
the defendants, although E c. Glenn,
proprietor of the Fair" not only did not
order the goods. but even failed to re-
ceive any benefit therefroIn. Judge Ha-
zen Immediately set the verdict aside and
ordered z new trial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30

Are you looking for dinner set for
every day use? We have an A Meakin's
semi porcelain set of 103 pieces for
So 90 or 112 piece set of another facto-
ry for $500. Drop in and see these sets.
FARNswoRTH 6 AsHBY,
SOB Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30

If the woman this story concerns
should rise up in her might some day and
Stay the man it concerns and any jury
should pronounce her guilty of a CRIME
for so doing the public would be justified
in mobbing that jury and draping twelve
telegraph poles with it.
The man and woman are married, very
fortunately fer some other woman, and
have seen the time when they had more
money and fewer children.
He was a preacher once but he got
over it. 1t was too much trouble, and
now he isn't anything-just nothing,
When he went into voluntary liquida-
ton from the ministry his only assets
were Prince,AIbert suit and = silk hat.
These he saved.
Since then his wife has been support
ing the family.
Very recently she has had hard time
to do 1t. The last child-fifth-is but a
very few weeks old, and as a result of
her indisposition the family treasury is
largely depleted. In fact there has not
been enough to eat there lately.
1t became apparent that William
would Lave to soil his hands or GO
hungry.
William had no more idea where to
look for work than a rabbit. It was the
nrst time he had had occasion to do such
thing and he was unable to find the
address.
Among the few acquainted with the
family history and general condition of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
ROhbeI

Ola nice head of hair just through neg
ligence. When your hair begins to fall
out, don't neglect it, but get bottle of
Begg's Hair Remover, which will stop
its falling out, and if turning gray, will
restore its natural color. For sale by ell
druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
SURPRISED TIE PASTOR.
Rev. ". p. Banks Visited by the Members
of His Church.

A pleasant surprise was given Rev.
". p Banks, Lastor of the Third Baptist
church by tho members and friends of
the church last Wednesday evening.
Those present were Aesdames NJ. Mason,
Nj. Luscoe. T. Mason, A. Wilev, A.
Roundtree. B. Smith, A. Essex, S. Dunn.
R McLain, ]. Payne, j. Ewing. 5. Hud-
ley, C. Malleny, b. Brown, Z. Brown !;
Msssrs. S. Mason, II. Maliey, NJ. Mason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30

When your druggist asks you why? You
can be SO easily cured. Three doses of
Beggs' Cherry Cough Syrup will relieve
you at once. We guarantee every bottle
and no monkey work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30

Chamber sets are cheaper now than
ever. A good serviceabls set for $22
and from that price up. Have you seen
them7 FARNswoRTH &~AsHBY,
500 Kansas ave,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30

Evangelist Boles will lecture on ''Blood
will tell" at the Third Christian church
corner of Third and Lake streets, Sun
day December /. at 8 p. N.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
John Dewitt miller,

will please and instruct Come and b ear
him next Monday eve, at Wsshburn col
lege.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30

Try as on collars. We can make
them look like new. Peerless Steam
112 and ia W. Sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30

Smooth as silk is the way our collars
feel now. Peerless Steam Laundry, 1I2
and ia W. 9th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30

Soft Soft! Soft feel the wooIens wash
ed BY the Peerless, 112 and ia west 9Th
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30

If you want ALL the news subscribe
for the JOURNAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30

AK yeur dealer fer Burghart's ci gaEs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
SKETCHES ABOUT TOPEKA.

D.
This mans name is not Hofmaster.
That's the reason he will figure as Ho8-
master in this story.
Hotfmaster is an employs of local
packing house. He knows all about
hogs of the four-leggsd sori, and like all
men who ara thoroughly interested in
their business be doesn't know q great
deal else.
The man who knows great deal more
than his business is generally the man
who knows no business that he can
make a business of.
Not SO with Hoffmastsr. He knows
all about pig sticking and hams, and
would never make shining success as
a member of the Stedman club
Hofmaster has just been very sick.
He was so very sick in fact that three
or four undertakers had begun to give his
children candy and send bouquets to his
wife
Hofmaster did not know this. Other
wise he would have got we'll quicker.
The doctors had prepared their bills
for presentation to the estate and given
him up 10 die.
OF course Mrs. Hoffmaster followed
the usual custom and sent for preacher.
Hoffmaster had rather seen brewer.
The good mantle preacher-did a
little praying, since Hofmaster was too
sick to object and then asked the dying
N s2Swhst=chRbter in the bible he would
like to have read to him
Hoffmaster knew the bible only by
proxy but he recognized chance to kill
a little time while he was waiting for
time to kill him and the one subject up
permost in his mind asserted Itself.
'Ish dere anything in it about hooks"
he demanded
This was the first time the preacher
had ever been called on to read an essay
on hogs from the bible, but he was a
kind man and thought he would humor
a dying brother.
So he turned to the fifth chapter of
Mark and read the story of how Christ
drove the devils from the afflicted men
who came to him and how the devils
entered drove of swine and in conse-
quencs the swine rushed into the sea
and were drowned.
The minister threw in q few object
lessons by the way for the good of Hotf-
masters soul, and after fifteen or twenty
minutes of this sort of thing, he said:
And now what lesson do we gather
from this, brether?"
HofmasteE's eyes were wide open and
blazing.
We'll, 1 know dis much" he said. 'ff
dem was mine hooks l sue i'm for dam
ages mighty quvick. 1 tell you vat"
Aud then he closed his eyes and went
TO sleep.
Hoffmaster is at work again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
SDarkIing wiz.

and lots of fun, next Monday eve, at
Washburn college.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-01
WHEN CUBA'S FREE.

When the patriots capture Cuba, free
dom's friends will hold jubilee and
troubadours of Yuba win touch their
light guitars;
Yet profoundcr exultation will prevail
with annexation to our Yankee fed
Grafton, beneath the stars and barsl
When this radiant southern Phyllis,
blooming queen of the Antilles, shall
be ours, the fact will thrill us with
tremor of delight;
Though upon that distant river. placid
flowing Guadalquiver, they'll expe-
riencc shiver of different nature
quite.
After such happy crisis, there will come
q drop in prices of molasses, rum and
spices from Maine to Mexico;
And fragrant flor Cubana may be pur.
chased in Savannah quite as well as
at Havana. and equally as low.
Sugar shipped at Santiago by the cargo
for Chicago will proceed without en-
barge of tariffs low or high,
While the mild Italiana "sella ferca Yam
kee mana de beautiful banana" even
more than tree for n'!'
But nvnunt, reflections sordd! They're
as naught, be it recorded, to the
graver thoughts afforded by this war
for liberty;
Fairost Cuba. may thy sadness turn TO
lasting forms of gladness. through
relief from Spanish madness and
soulless tyranny
Land of temperatures equation, OF lux
Irlant vegetation, of oppression and
taxation. fight on! thy cause Is just!
TIL Castillian aggressors, like their Moor
ish predecessors meet the fate due
all transgressors and are humbled In
the dust.
George Moss In New York Sun.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-01

dent than to return to the White
house as chief executive. The
Importance of this office is growing
in direct proportion to the demon
strated unfitness of it's present occu-
pant. AS Secretary Gresham's successor,
General Harrison could exert an up
lifting influence upon our foreign policy
not to be exerted by any other living
American. He possesses the expe-
rience, the learning and the wholesome
patriotism to make of our now inverte-
brate state department a model of log
ical firmness and enlightened sagacity.
In that capacity he could, out of his
experience both assist the president in
questions of domestic administration,
and win the high honor, happily sup
plementing that already won by him,
of giving to his solicitous countrymen
really American policy in foreign
affairs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-01
Civil Service Reform,

During the first week of his term as
mayor of Chicago, Mr.. George B. Swift
was, as he half-humorously confesses
In public speech, occupied for twelve
hours n day with nobody but office
seekers. Upon an average. COO visitors
called daily to see him privately in be-
half either of themselves or Of some
friendly aspirant for appointment to
municipal position. In that whole
week Mr. Swift found only fifteen min
utes' time for a conference with the
head of the department of public
works, who represents the most impor-
tant subdivision of the city government.
Finally his patience gave out, and he
issued public notice that he would
henceforth reserve at least half his time
for the consideration of more momen-
tous public affairs than the naming of
policemen, cuspldors cleaners and dog
constables.
a civil service law will soon go into
effect in Chicago, and under it's pro-
visions the mayor will have more leis-
ure for the consideration of really
important municipal problems. No
candidate can be selected for any SUBJ
sidiary position in the city government
without first giving clear proof of fit
ness for such position; and the deter
minaton of this fitness will hinge not
upon what ticket he votes or what
pull he wields, but upon what quail
ity of honest labor he can do for the
public which pays him his salary. Only
in the selection of chiefs of depart
ments will the mayor have any voice;
and he is permitted to have a voice in
such appointments only for the reason
that they are advisory positions, in
which it is desirable that he and they
should be in thorough accord.
1t is a curious fact that the Ameri-
can people, so intensely practical in
most of their affairs, should so long
have failed to perceive the great eco
nomic advantage of employing skilled
labor in their public offices, instead of
the raw labor dumped in those Offices
at every new turn of the partisan
weather vane. 1t is an interesting
chapter in the history of delusions that
for upward of a century the most bust
ness-like nation on earth, in private af-
fairs, should, with reference to it's pub
lie offices, permit "pull'' to displace fit
ness, and sit complacent under a sys-
tenn which spurned trained regulars in
behalf of crude volunteers. But indi-
cations are not wanting that in our
large cities, at least, there is likely soon
to be an awakening; an awakening
which will give the chief executive of q
city like Chicago with nearly as many
persons to govern and almost as large
problems to solve as We're to be found
in the entire United States at the time
of Washington's first Inauguration,
more than fifteen minutes
per week respite from the clamors of
place hunters and the opportunities of
illiterate ward heelers and party
hacks.