The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-06

They don't cost anything, but some
people deal In them grudgingly. Many
times they have been the means OF light
ening the load some poor wayfarer Is
carrying. The man who does business
and looks pleasant has the larger list OF
customers. Barrett, the evangelist, was
brought to his senses and turned from
train robber and burglar by kind words.
The story of how he come TO turn right
about face has not been told In public.
Barrett is a man who Is averse TO referring
TO himsel or his old life, but he seems so
naturally adapted for his present calling
ii is hard work to believe he was ever so
deep in crime as he was. Someone ac-
quainted with the facts was telling me
how IL happened in regard to Barrett,
and ii may be of interest TO those OF the
"Tea Table" TO know.
Disguised as boy tramp, dressed in
the shabbiest of clothing, he one day
called at the house of a certain wealthy
lady. He told pitiful tale, half truth
and half falsehood, of how he was alone
and destitute in the world, how his par
ents had abused and deserted him, and
that he was Obliged 20 rely upon the
charity OF those like the lady in order TO
get along in the world. As matter OF
|. fact he had assumed the guise OF the
tramp in order TO obtain the plans OF the
interior, as he intended at the most op-
perfume time possible to break in and
rob.
The kind word OF the good lady was
spoken. She pitied the young man in
distress and tears filled her eyes as her
heart went out in sympathy for the appar-
ent son OF misfortune. Added 10 the
kind word, she gave Barrett S1O, and he
went away with a mind filled with
thoughts which had never bothered him
before. Although he had planned to rob
the house, try as best he could he lacked
| the courage to put his plans into execu-
| tion, and the robbery was not attempted.
Later he visited the lady in question,
| told her frankly his intention when he
| first called, of the effect the kind words,
| words which he had never before heard
| spoken even from a mothers lips, had
had upon him, and of his resolve TO turn
| over new leaf. NY informant further
| said that the lady in question who be-
came deeply interestsS in Barrett's well
| fare furnished the necessary means for
| him TO take a course of study under Mr.
| Moody at Northfleld, where he has been
| the past year, and that he was an apt
scholar is abundantly proven by the able
and fearless manner in which he ex-
pounds the gospel in the tent at the
corner Of Broad and Public streets.
Kind words are spoken to the patrons
who visit Crescent Park by the attaches
as Manager Boyden knows that in cater
ing TO the public il will not do TO give
them anything but the best kind of food,
and the best kind of entertainments.
| This he does, and he doen't spare the ey-
| pense doing it,
There is a rumor TO the effect that the
| Providence Watch Company, capital stock
OF $500, 600, is among the possibilities OF
new industries of this city.
Mr.. Sam Saulson, manager OF the Misfi'
Clothing Parlors of this city and Paw
| tucket, is the new proprietor of the Paw
tucket Opera House, and popular William
Chase is the manager.
Mr.. Saulson will give his whole atten.
tion to the interests of the Misfit Clothing
| Parlors of the two cities just the same,
and by his up-to-date methods attract
| buyers who realize the fact that IL there
is anything in the clothing line to bs
| obtained at the low-water mark price, /,
is sure TO find place on the counter,
of the Misfit Clothing Parlors, 1893 West
minister street.
II IL so easy to find fault with what II
put on the "Tea Table. - Well, yor
know how it is. What you like the othe
fellow wouldn't give a rap for. Som,
people like lobster and milk. Then ther,
are others who won't eat current cake IN
summer because the currents suggest
| flies. OLD VET.
Boy Charged with Arson.
PORTLAND, Me-, Aug. 6--John J. Rear
don, aged years. was in court yesterday