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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04

A Strange Ceremony Practiced at the Ma
tional Festival Zach Year.

The following is an account of tho
strange ceremony practiccd at the Mala-
gasy national festival every year, as related
by nearly all the travellers that have visited
the land of the Hoyas. The " Eandroana," Z"
or royal bath, was first instituted by King
Batambo and is held annually, by royal
proclamation, from the ed OF November to
the 10th of January During this time no
business Is allowed to proceed The people
of the kingdom meet the queen In the sill
YER palace on the first day of the festival,
and "a red cock is then brought by the head
priest or sacrificcr of the court. Its neck is
wrung, and the blood being caught in &.
banana leaf Is carried TO the sovereign, who
touches with it her forehead, neck, stom.
ach armpit finger nails and toe nails, the
rest of the assembly following the exam
Pile.
Next day the people assemble again fur
thc royal bath in tho great palace. This
the queen takes in enc of tho sacred cor
ners of tho hall, in n silver bath, being
screened from view by "lambag" held by
her attendants.
Amid the firing Of cannon and the joy
Gus shouts of her humble subjects her ma
jcsty tfcn passes along the balcony, and
from "a horn in her hand sprinklcs the
crowd with the wsScr she has just been
using for her ablutions exclaiming at the
same timo, "Masina, ahoW Il am puri-
ilcd). This sprinkling is said to typify the
abundance of rain during the coming year.
To bo absent from the Ceremony would
bc To incur tho royal displcasurc. Every
wife, also, must he with her husband at
that time or il is considered that sho is N
good as divorced. The new year is then
supposed 10 have begun, and fer several
weeks there is a great deal of visiting ana
fcasting.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04

In England severe cold generally kills u
good many people I'm certain parts OF
North America cold still more severe puts
new life into them. 10 requires no aggu-
mcntation Co show that there must be- a
definite reason for this The chicf reason
is that English cold is mostly damp, while
in North America IL Is mostly dry. There
is the greatest difference I'm the world be-
tween dry air and damp air. Tho former
Is usually air pure aud Simple possessing
n full quantity of Oxygen and often charged
highly with ozone. The latter consists of
air mixed with the Napor of water When
the former air, fully oXygunatcd J.,
brcathcd. 10 stimulates more powerfully
than champagne. The latter. less oxygen.
atcd and charged with ,apor uf water. not
only does not stimulate, but dvDrcsses. 49,
Public upipioD.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
A HUNDRED THOUSAND.

The Number OF Persons Who Attended
the Bicycle Races.
MAIDEN, Mass, May 4.-Over 100000
persons are watching the Linscott
road race here this afternoon, the
greatest crowd that ever congregated
to see New England's biggest long
distance bicycle rsce. Early this
forenoon the cycle enthusiasts be-
gan to assemble along the %
miles OF the course. aud at l p. m,
every position OF vantage was
occupied. Wheelmen from every section
of New England are present, and 1t is es-
timated that over 5000 wheels are gath
cred here and distributed along the
course
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
satetv In rhunder.,orms.

Professor Arthur SchuStcr, in the course
OF lecture on atmospheric electricity az
the Royal institution. London, mentioned
as a remarkable fact thata thunder cloud
could not cruss river Most Of us knew
of the dagger 81 standing under trees In q
thunderstorm, but science took us ftIuhrr
and proved thut oak trees were more dan
gcrOus than beech trees, owing. probably,
Co the large amount of oil contained In ~,
latter. 10 was also q safe plan to get wet.
but the wetting ought to De- thorough: fu.
= traveller who took the prcrautiun To haN
dry feet on receiving % lightning shocl
had ,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
Wilde Can BE Liberated.

LONDON, May 4.-oscar Wilde will be
liberated on Monday or when bail is
found, the court before which
his counsel appeared having re-
fused 70 accept his personal
bond In sl2,5oo in two sureties, s6250.
Counsel asked that one surety OF sl2, 500
be accepted instesd of two sureties in
t6250 each.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
HE WILL HANG.
Everything Arranged for the ESeeu-
tion of Buchanan Wednesday.

ALBANY, n. ", May 4.-Distriet Attor-
ney Fellows sent an official record and
statement to Governor Morton showing
that all necessary steps had
been taken to clear away any
and all real or technical obstacles TO the
execution OF DIR. Buchanan on Wednes'
day next.
There can be no moro orders, applica-
tions or petitions to the United States
courts or any court can in any way act as
a stay to the final execution OF the death
penalty.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
PRECISELY The SAME.
A Decree That Must Be Entered In
Five States.

Strout & Coolidge OF Boston filed de-
cree in the United states District Court
here this afternoon in the consolidated
cause, in equity, OF Theodore r. Wood
and william T. Hart, Frederick j. Kings
bury and Eustache G. Fitz vs. the New
York q New England Railroad
Company. The decree is pre-
cisely the same as that entered
at New York recently for the payment or
foreclosure OF the s5,0DO,OO0 mortgage.
DEGREES mus, b. entered IN I've states.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04

SAID GUILTY.
Clause A. BIixt Admitted He
Killed Catherine Cling.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, May 4.-Clause
A. Blixt today pleaded guilty to the muir
der OF Catherine Cling. He was sentenced
to the penitentiary for life.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04

A cloth for the head or face was fcrr.c.
~ called "a coycrchief, just a. one ior the
hard was CALLED haudker"biak
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
.N e s..
A. @ AZ 3LA
Elk
Entertainments Today.

PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE -spielkart-
enfest.
KFITH's OPERA HoUsE-"The Dazzler"
TRoWBRfDGE's STAR THEArER-"T The In
speotor"
WESTMINSTER THEATER-white Crook Com
pany.
LOTHROP's PAwTUCKET OPERA HOUSE
Miss Katherine Rober in "FanohOn"
ART CLUB-Loan Exhibition Of Portraits.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04

Somebody stole a dollars worth OF pig
cons from Richard Montgomery, l67 Put
nam street, last night.
There were so deaths this week, five
from scarlet fever, two from diDhtheria,
one from typhoid fever, one from measles
and one from whooping cough.
Jimmy" Carlin, who has driven the
United States mail wagon for over IL
years, will sever his connection with the
Federal Government this evening.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04
SJMMER RESORTS.
TIE SAFE FELL.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, May Awhile q
safe weig ming ton was being hosted 70
the third story in the Budham b'ocr to.
day 1t fell aud cut IN all the wires of the
Postal Telegraph Company, entering the
main Office snd paralysed business! fee
seversl hours.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-04

LoR FINE JOB PRINTING CALL Ar
j The NEWS odlse, ,gSsoaih Water 81
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
CURIOUS.

That old song, "a Life on the Ocean
Wave, twas the work of Epes Sargent,
an American poet, the idea being sug-
geSted to him during a walk on the
Battery in New York one day, when
the wind was blowing in from the sea.
1t was set to music by Henry Russell.
1t is curious thing that no great
work ever was written on the ocean.
Why is it? Is there connection be-
tween the higher operations Of the
mind and the earth-currents of mag
netism? You ascend into high alti-
tudes and the vital forces shrink.
Man lives between everlasting cold,
ten miles above him; and sea of
molten matter ten miled below him.
And genius comes in "spurts' or
"burs u.s." The men of ITO had but a
little over three million people, and
yet they produced a galaxy of great
men, which we, with seventy millions,
cannot parallel:-Washington, Jeffer-
son, Patrick Henry. Franklin, Adams,
etc. Who can we name beside these?
Quay and John Sherman, and Cleve-
land, and Brice, and Cush Davis and a
vast breed Of little corruptionists.
Then look at our development of
poets and philosophers:-Longfellow
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
NE MS FOR BOOK BUYERS.

We have furnished a great number
of sets OF Chambers Encyclopedias as
per advertise ment in another column,
to our subscribers, and everywhere
they have given excellent satisfaction:
but in several instances parties have
written US to enquire whether there
was any chance to get them in cloth
binding, so that they would be in a
more durable shape. We accordingly
wrote to the publishers and they
write us that they will furnish sets,
to subscribers for THE REPRESENTA- :
TIVE, in cloth for 1915 per set of
twelve volumes, containing all the
matter Of the 80 volumes, in paper, de-
scribed in our advertiseme Mt. Or for
$500 we will furnish a better edition,
on good paper, in IL volumes, SUBJ
stantially bound. In each case 81
would have to be paid extra, as per
advertisement, for one years sub
scription to THE REPRESENTATIVE;
and the books would have to be sent
by express, the consignee paying the
express charges.
This is grand opportunity to OBJ
tain for small sum a splendid En-
cyclop3dia that can be used in the
family for the next half century.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
THAT'S THE WAY To DO II.

Granite Fails, Sept. 8.-The business
men of Granite held a meeting last
evening and decided to go into the
wheat buying business at once. They
are bound to offer better prices. A
fiat house will be built.
Now let the business men of every
grain market in the state meet, or
tianize and go to buying wheat. 1t is
their own interest to do so. Every
dollar stolen from the farmers by the
elevators is dollar less of trade for
the stOres;-it is dollar taken out of
the county never to return, in any
shape. II the local merchants get rich
they build fine houses, develop the
cities and help create permanent
market for the farmers productions.
Moreover if the business men
unite to fight the battle of the farm
ers there will grow up good feeling
between the interdependent purs is
which every man will be glad to be-
hold. AS it has been in the past the
Rings have robbed the farmers and
the business men have Knocked and
ridiculed the farmers for every effort
they made to defend themselves. This
was the action not only of shallow
fools, but of colossal knaves:-knaues
that sustained knorery from ,chich they got
no profit.
We hope better and more sensible
era is at hand. A good many OF the
m prollontS u 81;
and the light is gradually spreading,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVEN-
TION

"Cush' Davis makes speech to the
Minnesota Bar Association In favor of
the pending proposition for a state
convention, to amend the constitu-
ton; and the lawyers all say amen.
Why is this? When and where did
the people ask to be taxed 100000 or
5000, ZOO to revise the constitution?
And what is it for? To insert few
cunning clauses in that ms trument to
deprive the people Of some more of
their constitutional rights, and in
crease the power of the corporations.
That is all there is to 1T. The next
generation is to be more pOwerless
than this; and the next will fall still
deeper into the pit; and SO we will go
until Caesars Column" is built. God
help the people-for darkness is upon
the face of the deep. "Cush" used to
lecture about "Modern Feudalism,"
and the railroad barons. Now he is
working to bind the people hand and
foot, and he hopes to have his pay in
the presidency. May the Lord protect
the innocent and unsuspecting people.
and the generations yet unborn.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
CUTTING 1T FAT.

President Stickney's potatoes are
down to eight cents bushel. 1t costs
five cents a bushel to dig them and
two cents to haul them, and the farm
er gets one cent buShel for plough
ing, seed, planting, cultivating, taxes,
and interest on money invested or
money borrowed. This makes farming
as profitable as national bank stock or
railroad securities!
In starch factory in this vicinity
one Of the hands was dismissed, and
in his rage let out the secret of the
charnel house. He said the scales
were doctored SO as to give false
weights to the potatoe raiser: and the
ScampS were arrested.
Think of that! Cheating IN aceights on
potatoes at eight cents q bushelW
We heard of dying pickpocket who
purloined the minister's purse while
he kneeled beside him to pray for
him. Cheating on the weight of po-
tatoeS at eight cents bushel is some
thing in the same line. The instinct
must be deeply seated to prevail at
such time.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
DEATH AND LIFE,

No man should fear death any more
than he fears life. One is as natural
and necessary as the other. We did
not select the hour of our coming nor
will we the time of our departure. We
did~not step from nothing into being
nor will we from being into nothing.
The call-bOy summons US upon the
stage to play. that part which the
great DramatiSt has assigned US; and
when we have spoken our peace we
disappear. =
BY the measure of the geologic peri
DDS the individual life is but an cleo
trio f1ash-a dot of light-in a continu-
Gus message reaching from everlasting
to everlasting.
Only one thing is certain-God. And
continuity is part of God; and hence
Immortality is necessary because we
are an output of God, and that which
is of God cannot terminate.
We suffer coming into this world,
and we suffer going out of it-but the
child remembers not it's pangs,-nor
will the dead
Teach your children to face death
as they face life-with fearless, but
reverent spirit; remembering the ire
Nervousness of the Divine Force and
the absolute littleness of everything
else,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
CAMPAIGN WORK.

L. D. Eos ter Of st. Cloud, the able
Peoples Party advocate and noted A.
R. U. of that city, has recently re-
ceived an appointment as lecturer and
organizer of Peoples Party local
leagues, for the Sixth congressional
district Of Minnesota. His credentials
are signed by President, J. M. Bowler
and Secretary L. NJ. Aver of the State
League. Mr.. Foster is prepared to
supply reform books In quantities for
club circulation and distribution. He
desires Peoples Party men through
out the Sixth district to write him
for appointments where he can make
talks and establish Peoples Party
clubs. The establishment Of club cir
culating Libraries Is one of the best
possible methods OF educating the
people along the line of reform prin.
ciples. We hope Peoples Party men
will take advantage and secure Mr..
Foster to organize clubs and be pre-
pared to get supplies Of reform litera-
ture from him. Mr.. Foster is an able
and Jealous reform worker and our
Sixth district friends should cooper
ate with him in this preparatory work
of the great campaign of 1896.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
DEPRECATED MONEY
AND DEPRECATED PRODUCTS

AMI DEfREClA IED PROD UCTS.
The goldite newspapers constantly
refer to the necessity, in order for
pros perity and sound financial condi-
tiOnS, Of assuring all mankind that
obligations will not be paid in de-
preciated money. We are heartily
tired OF hearing Of deprecated money,
and we call upon all newspapers that
are not tied to the golden calf to come
out and ring the changes on depre-
cated farm products. The farmer
pays his debts and buys his supplies
with deprecated wheat, deprecated
oats, deprecated barley, deprecated
rye, deprecated potatoes, deprecated
butter, deprecated cheese, depreci-
ated eggs, deprecated beef. depreci-
ciated mutton, deprecated pork, de-
preciated horses, deprecated every
thing that he produces. and he thinks
the time is fully ripe when money
should be deprecated in order that
the fruits of his labor may be appre-
ciated.-MoOrhead News.
Very we'll put,-and true every word
of it.
AS gold goes up products 60 down.
1t is a game of See-Saw.
We don't ask to trust oats, corn,
wheat, cotton, etc., up into the skies,
we simply ask to re-establsh the wa
ter-level of the ante-lS73 period.
Isn't that fair? Isn't it reasonable?
And the right wrongs no man.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
INTERNATIONAL BI1METALLLSN

International bimetallsm has re-
ceived a severe blow in England by no
less man than Mr. Balfour. who has
always been considered a champion of
the cause of bime tallsm He was
asked Thursday in the house of com
mons by Sir John Long what. he would
do to promote an international cur
tency conference. Nothing" ans
wered Mr.. Balfour. He was himself,
he added, in favor of an interna tional
agreement, but he could not pledge
his colleagues, nor did he believe a
conference would now do any good.
There is no greater humbug than
this international liberty?" Why
don't we have international liberty?"
Why did our forefathers act so precipi-
lately. on July 4th, 1776, in issuing a
Declaration of Independence without
the consent OF England, Germany.
Russia and the rest of them?
Europe is a land Of oppression. This
country was settled by fugitives from
European tyranny. They preferred to
face the ocean, the wilderness, the
savage and death than endure the
cruelties of their native lands. We
want nothing to do with those govern
ments. Their continued existence is
crime against civilization and a re-
proach to mans intelligence and Gods
Justice. If they had their way There
would not be a free community on this
American continent in twenty four
hours. It would be blessing to. the
Western hemisphere If the devil flew
away with the whole gang of kings,
mobiles, tinsel crowns and debauched
rascalities. They pollute fine air. And
now they have got America down on
her knees asking-"What shall we do
to be saved?'
+ Shame! Shame! America for the
Americans-native and adopted-that
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
THOMAS TWOSTARS.

The American Indian still lacks
education in the matter of the guam
t1ty OF whiSkey man can safely car
ry. Thomas Two-StarS has just died
of too large cargo of fire-water in
South Dakota.
And Thomas is now floating around
among thousand stars asking the
way to the nearest GROCERY. Well We
can't blame the Lord for making such
fellows as Thomas, for he is wiping
them of the face of the earth with
startling rapidity.
And the chaps who support the two
old parties will go the same way.
They represent the next grade of in
telligence above Thomas Two-Stars.
Lack of brains eliminates a people;
and how can you expect men to endure
who believe in the contraction Of the
currency? 1t isn't possible. Idiocy is
necessarily short-lived.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
THE MEAT RING.

Senator PETER spoke as follows the
other day at acounty fair:
Why is it that the railroads are
permitted to discriminate against you,
or against anybody? 1t is because
they have friends at court" He
showed how dependent people are on
the railroads for their food supply,
and described the immense packing
houses OF the ArmOurs, with ground
moor covering an area of A acres, and
showed their method with the aid Of
railroads and secret rebates to crush
out competitors. Their agent goes to
local butcher and says: 1--WE want
you to change and work for US i n this
place and sell our meats. The butcher
says he is we'll satisfied and does not
want to change, but the Armour man
says. I'VE want the change and you
must Change and become our agent, or
we viii open up another shop here
ana run you out"
Nobody can doubt the truth of this
and yet we cannot recall where either
or the two old parties has ever made
the slightest practical effort to break
up this great wrong. Do you know of
any, good reader? We would not do
an injustice even to the devil; and it
may be that the old parties have made
some effort to right this wrong and we
do not recall it. Certainly there has
been nothing in their national plat
forms, and this grievance is national
in it's scope.
If a political party is not to defend
and protect the people what excuse
has it for existing? Can anyone tell
us: This Armour villainy invades our
homes, our dining rooms,-our tables
our dishes-our stomachs,-our very
means of life. When has Reed or Nc
Kinley, or Cleveland, or Carlisle had
anything to say on the subject? Do
you remember? Don't all speak at
once.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
OUR POSITION.

Mr.. DOnnelly in commenting upon
an adverse criticism of the views of
the editor-in-chief of this paper upon
the silver question irrelevently re-
marked that the Populists should
have nothing to do with Prohibition.
His remark, whether designed or not,
conveys the idea that we are a politi-
cal Probitionist. Mr.. Donnelly knows
that there is no one who more per-
sistenly opposes Prohibition as po-
litical method than the editor of this
paper. He knows that the theory Of
state ownership and operation at cost
Of the liquor traffic which has COM
pletely disorganized the Prohibition
forces, was first gitated in this office,
and first published in this paper. He
knows, and condemned at the time,
the action of the Prohibitionists for
placing a candidate for State Senator
In the field against us, who was NOM
mated by the Populists and who had
fought the saloon and the liquor
traffic from boyhood to the present.
Yet with this knowledge he goes
US the stencil OF "the corpse OF Pro-
hibition. as he Enthusiastically called
that party in his current criticism.
Down in Nininger Mr.. Donnelly toys
with a cipher, and we suppose he
should be excused, If, after hobnob-
bling with Bacon and dining with the
gods. he becomes irresponsible when
castigating ordinary mortals. The
Prog ressive Age.
If we have done our honored friend,
Prof. Dobbyn, any injustice we are
sorry for it; but we supposed from his
utterances, that he sympathized with
the purpose of the Staten Island Con-
ference. which is to unite the Popu-
lists and the Prohibitionists in one
party.
We would be glad to hear from the
Professor on this point.
For ourself we do not wish to be
understood as fighting Prohibition or
sympathizing with the saloons: we
will be glad to see the Temperance
folk keep up their fight as separate
party. The point we tried to make
clear is that it would injure the Pro
hibitionists to be tied to the Populists
and injure the Populists to be tied to
the Prohibitionists.