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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-30
FRANKLIN SOCIETY.

At its regular meeting last evening the
Franklin Society listened to q lecture on
"The Pre-giacial Blackstone River by
Mr.. ID: w. Hoyt, principal OF the High
School
The first point was the consideration OF
ponds as to their method of formation,
or reason for existence. The sea coast
ponds were directly the work of the sea
by heaping up barriers of sand aud
stones, thus st aightening the coast line
and making lakes, or ponds, OF former
indentations or bays. But the ponds or
lakes Of inland regions are believed to be
parts OF pre-glacial water ways. As the
channels of rivers are serpcntine In their
course they, in time make short C uts, thus
leaving ox-bow shaped water covered
places along their flow. So that in many
cases the ponds OF historic times, or
pre-glacial periods, are the ox-bow turns
OF pro-giaciai rivers.
The history of the Black stone Canal
was given in connection with the general
subject, and particularly as affecting
the evidences connected with the pre-
glacial Blackstone River. (The canal
was chartered in 1923, company was
organized in 1925 ana the canal was first
used in 1921 The original flow of
Scott's pond was into the Moshassuck
river, but through the building of the
canal, and it's after abandonment, its
How il now into the Blackstone.
Through the )nfuence OF the glacial
period the original course OF the Black
stone was directed from the Moshsssuck
valley to its present course through Val
ley Falls and Pawtucket. Always
where fails occur in a river that is evil
deuce OF new or pro-glacial course. The
many successful artesisn wells at Sayies,
and the Silver Spring Bleacheries are
evidences OF the old course of the Black
stone as they are only driven down TO
the gravel and boulder strata.
Remarks were made, following the lec-
ture, by the president, Scott A. Smith,
Mr. Fretwell and Mr.. l.. w. Russell.
Next lecture, Nov. IL, by Professor
Hans Schneider, rhythm in Life and
Music.o
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RIVERSIDE.

Burnside Council. American Mechanics.
gave an entertainment in Winchester Hall last
evening, reading and singing being the prin-'
cipal fea ures, the readings by Walter Briggs
of harrington being especially pleasing A
member Of tho council rendered a patriotic
alphabet, which was well received He sprung
some local hits, which touched some of our
prominent citizens rathner too hard Tho
council will hold social November l3
An entertainment was given in the parish
house of 81 Mary's Church last evening under
the auspices of the Young Peoples Literary
Society A four-act comedy farce, entitled,
Chow Charlie Won Wife. was given first
The second part of the entertainment was
"Pocahontas." a drama in one act Harry b
Jordan as CAPTAIN John Smith was received
with rounds Of applause supper was
served after the entertainment
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A Splendid Chance.

Everybody who is weak, delicate or
sickly wants TO get well. DR.. Greene, of
81 Temple Place, Boston, Mass, makes a
speciality Of treating patients through
latter correspondence. The wisest thing
all suffering people can do is to writo
the doctor, stating just how they feel,
mentioning every symptom OF which
they complain, and he will answer the
letter, explaining each symptom auo des-
cribing the case SO thoroughly that
patients understand their complaint as
we'll as though they had talked with the
Doctor. He makes his explanations SO
clear that they cannot help but under
stand just what ails them, and he tells
exactly what to do to get well. 1t saves
journey to the city and doctor fees, and
costs nothing. DR.. Greene is the
most successful specialist in curing ner-
vous and chronic diseases. He Is the dis
co verer of that wonderful medicine. DIR.
Greene's Nervura blood and nerve rem
edy. Thousands are being cured through
his perfect system of letter correspon-
dence. 1t has been proved successful.
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ward with little despairing shake of
her head. She was foreigner, picked
up starving and she could bring nothing
to the housekeeping.
Amoraq jumped from the BENCH where
she sat and began to sweep things into
the girls lap-stone lamps, iron skin
scrapers, tin kettles, deerskins EN- broid-
cred with musk-ox teeth and real canvas
needles such as sailors use-the fif est
dowry that has ever been given on tho
far edge Of the Arctic circle, and the girl
from the north bowed her head down to
the very floor.
"Aiso these said Kotuko, laughing
and singing of the dogs, who thrust
their cold muzzles into tho girls face.
"Ah, " said the angekok, with an import
ant cough, a. though he had been think
ing it ali over. "As soon as Kotuko left
the village went to the singing house
and sang magic; I sang all the long
nights and called upon the spirits OF
the reindeer. My singing made the gale
blow that broke the Ice and drew the
two dogs towards Kotuko when the ice
would have crushed his bones. My song
drew the seal in behind the broken Ice. Ny
body lay still in the qusggi, but my spirit
ran about on the ice and guided Kotpko
and the dogs In all the things they did.
/ did it,"
Everyb body was very full and sleepy. so
no one contradicted; and the angekok
helped himself to yet another lump OF
boiled meat and lay down TO sleep with
the Others, in the warm, wcll-heated,
oil-smslling house.
Now Kotuko, Who drew very well In
the Inuit way, scratched pictures OF all
these adventures on a long, fat piece OF
ivory with q hole at one end. When he
and the girl went north to E!lesmere
land in the year OF the wonderful open
winter he left the picture-story with
Kadlu, who lost IL in the shingle when
his dog-sleigh broke down one summer
on the beach of Lake Netelling at Mixes
iring. and there a lake Inuit found II
next spring and sold IL TO man at Imi-
gen, who Was interpreter on Cumberland
sound whaler. and he sold il to Hans o.
sen, who was sailor on board bic steam
or that took tourists to the North Cape
in Norway. When the tourists reason
was over the steamer ran between Lon
don and Australia, stopping a. Ceylon. and
there Olsen sold the ivory TO an Angai.se
;eweler who sold imitation eats co
sapphircs. 7 iSpbd Il under some rub
o sh in his house az Colombo, and with
Hans help I translated IL from one end to
the other.
(TpE END.l
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cry, and thought a wolf was coming
after them (as 1 had been told there had
been one seen up that way). ran one
way and Jimmie after me, and Belle the
other way with Mamie after her. i had
been running for "A long time when Belle
called me and said that they had stepped
in hornets nest; so i knocked the
hornets of of Jimmie and Belle knocked
them off of Mamie. When we got to
Mrs. Cooper's she rubbed some alcohol on
the stings. And when EVE got the
dishes done we went out, and l said let's
GO q get some apples first. After we
got some apples we went 10 the swing
and each one had turn, but Jimmie
and Mamie swang together. Then we
played hide and seek little while. Evie
got mad will her brother and she wanted
her hat and he wouldn't let her get II, so
she said: "l'll go bareheaded and tell
mamma, too"
After we played hide and seek little
VIII ie we went TO Evie's Aun. Narcy's
and asked her for pears and she said we
cou have all there was on the ground,
so we picked them up, and went to
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RVDXARA RIpLING

10 foretell the course OF the rushing ice.
For instance, In addition to the foe and
the pack ice, the gale and the currents
were bringing dowr true bergs, sailing
mountains OF ice, snapped off by the frost
from the Greenland side OF the water or
the north shore of Melville bay.
They pounded in solemnly from the
offing, tile waves breaking white around
them, aud advanced on the foe like an
old-time fleet under full sail. But berg
that seemed ready TO carry the world be-
fore II would ground helplessly i'm deep
water, reel over and wsilow in lather
OF foam and mud and flying frozen
spray, while much smaller and lower
berg would rip and ride into the fiat ice,
fiinging tons Of ice on either side and
cutting a track a mile long before II was
topped. The bergs were perhaps the
most terrible things TO watch, because
there was no saying how or where their
towers and pinnsclos would foil after the
shock OF collision. Some fell like swords
shearing a raw-edged canal through the
foe and others falling on hard ice.
could not break through Il. but splinter
ed into shower Ct blocks weighing
circled among the hummocks. Others
again rose up bodily out OF the water
when they shoaled. twisted as though in
pain ana fell sciidly on their sides, while
the sea thrashed over their shoulders
This trampling; and crowding ana bend
ing and bucSiing and arching OF the ice
into every possible shape was going on
80 far as the eye could reach all along
the north line OF The foe. From where
; otuko snd the girl were the confusion
locked no more than an uneasy, ripping
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NEWPORT NE VS..
Trouble Brewing in the Naval
Reserves.
Special to The News

NEWPORT, Oct. 80. 1T Is now under
stood that Lieutenant Hugh l. Will
oughby of the Newport Naval Reserves
has reconsidered his intention OF resign
ing and means TO fight the case. Today
one of the petty officers of the company
resigned, rather than be dishonoraply
discharged.
ner's mate, took party OF men shooting
on Sunday without Lieutenant Will
oughby's permission, who hearing OF the
matter acted as already stated. This per-
son is the man who was to have been
given a commission by the company. IL
is rumorsd that more people are TO be
tested similarly N the company
The chief OF police yesterday received
word from the authorities in New York
that a man had been killed in that city
on whose person was found q letter ad-
dressed to charlie Gartner, Newport.
Upon invest igation IL was found he re-
sided on Bellevue avenue and that his
mother was housekeeper at the Psnsy
Cottage. She left for New York yester-
day.
The fire department will ask the City
Council for a private telephone service,
and ask for the service OF the Providence
Telephone Company. There has been
much complaint about the local service
and then the change would be saving
TO the city OF half what they now pay.
l.. A. Hunt OF Little Compton was
yesterday bound over 10 the grand jury
by the District Court for maintaining q
nuisance and selling liquor without q
license.
Congressman Bull is to be rendered q
dinner tonight at the Hartmann House,
by Gunner Char co Morgan, u. 5. N.
There will be II guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Wadsworth Ritchie
nee Tooke, are the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Victor Sorchan.
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meat) weak voices answered. and when
he called the call of the village, name by
name, very distinctly, there were no gaps
in ii.
An hour later the lamps blazed in Ka-
dlu's house, snow water was melting, the
pots were beginning to simmer and the
snow was drifting from the roof as
Amoraq made ready meal for all the
village, and the boy baby in the hood
chewed at strip of rich nutty blubber
and the hunters slowly and mothodically
filled themselves to the very brim with
seal-meat. Kotuko and the girl told their
tale. The two dogs sat between them,
and whenever their names came in they
cooked an ear apiece and looked most
thoroughly ashamed of themselves. A
dog who has once gone mad the Inuit
say is safe against all attacks.
$50 the tornaq did not forget us, !"
said Kotuko. "The storm blew; the ice
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the LA. .TILLINGHAST CO.
CATERERS,
SIS Westminster St.. Providence IL
SIXTH DISTRICT COURT.

John Olson was charged with stealing I've
pairs of rubber boots and three pairs Of rum
ber shoes from some unknown persons The
goods were probably taken from freight car
OF the New England Railroad The boots were
made by the Wales Goodyear Rubber Com
pany. and the shoes by the Connecticut Rub
ber Company, and the police would like TO
have them identified lie pleaded not guilty
and was held until Tuesday for trial
Flora Willis was charged with stealing $40
worth OF clothing from Maggie Cunningham
at her home on George street. She pleaded
not guilty, and was hold until Friday for
trial
Annie Daily, n well-dressed and quite re.
spectacle looking person. was sent TO the
State farm for six months for being conn on
drunkard
Michael Donnelly and Charles Rogers were
each held in the sum OF $1,000 for trial Tues.
day They We're charged with taking from
the person of Lewis Clapp watch. chain
and charm On the evening OF September n.
Mr. Clapp. who resides at Worcester, Asss.
reported 10 the police that hoA had been
knocked down. injured and robbed OF his
watch, chain and charm on Davis Park end
since that time the detectives have had IN
eye on the two men that were srraigned this
morning, and they are IN possession OF a
number of facts, which will undoubtedly
convict the men One fact is the men had
in their possession a watch and u cham that
were taken from Mr. Ciapp that evening, aud
they have been identified by number OF
persons, who saw them in the vicinity OF
Davis Park st the time of the assault Mr.
Clapp will como to the city today and identify
the men Both pleaded not guilty
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said liked II, but liked the country
better. and she said that she did.
Evie left us at the end OF the woods,
and Name and Belle left us little further
down.
asked Jimmie IL no would carry some
OF my apples ana he said he would. So
put some in his pockets. When we got
most home Jimmie said he wouldn't car
ry the apples any longer, so he threw
them down In the middle of the yoad.
And carried them In my dress the rest
OF the way.
When we got home my aunt asked Jim
mie IL he was stung bad and Jimmie said
eyes" And said how did you know
he got stung and she said that Mrs.
Cooper told her.
After i eat my supper and wiped the
dishes / went to bed. And i thought
what nice time had up to Evie Coop
r,s
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BRISTOL.
Grand Demonstration by the Citizsns
In Honor of Victory.

In hOnor OF VICTORY.
grand demonstration was held last even.
ing Old Bristol was ablaze in honor OF the
victories achieved by the Naval Reserve Tor
pedo Company's team in competing for badges
ana trophies on Tuesday xt the state rifle
range In Providence At 1880 the Bristol Train
OF Artillery, under command of Colonel Daniel
Stevens, with music. marched TO the hall Of
the Naval Reserves upon High street, where
they were received by the broom brigade
consisting OF the Reserves and many friends
The march was made to the depot amid n
blaze of red and gre hre. Roman candles and
rockets The citizens in general showed the
same feeling along the entire route AT every
corner of the streets. bon.hres, consisting OF
barrels saturated with kerosene. were burn
ing Never since the 1ilden campaign has
there been such an outburst OF enthusiasm
witnessed as teeh- place last -speaiag-On thn
arrival of the o'clock train from Provi-
dence, the team was escorted to hacks. which
were waiting TO take them to their headQ aar-
ters upon High street, whore a general ova-
tion was given them, and a fine spread served
The march through the principal streets
was an event long to be remembered The
streets were thronged with people. each ty-
ing to excel the other in making the affair a
success 1t il now proposed by the commit
tees OF the different military organizations to
have general banquet to take place the hrst
Of the coming month
The MEMBERS OF the Bristol Commandery,
Order OF the Golden Cross. held their first
meeting last evening in their new hea quar-
ters in knights of Pythias Hall in the Drury
block Past Commander j p Burlinganie Of
Lakewood was present, and addressed tho
meeting, rs did also Grand Commander A 8
Rounds and several other members OF the
Bristol Commandery Readings were given by
Henry ii Tiliey, Rounds and Miss Clara
Lindsey Instrumental and vocal music was
INDUCED in and fine collation. served twas
voted to hold public meeting OF the COM
mandery the second Monday in November
Mr. Benjamin M simmons is at his home
ufon Bristol Neck sick with pneumonia
Express messenger Nichols, in the employ
OF Earle a. Prev Company, who was seri-
ously injured upon the Boston road in a coli
lision, Is at the present time considered out
of danger and fast recovering
Messrs Waldron and Brownell are laying
pipes at the corner of High and state streets
TO connect the Waliy school building with the
sewer upon State street
Registered voters are very tardy in placing
their names upon the list. there being only
about Is who have complied with tho law as vet
The building committee at their meeting On
Monday evening received a number Of bids
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crawling movement under the horizon,
hut Ii came toward them each moment,
and they could hear far away to the land
ward a heavy booming, as 1t might have
been the boom OF artillery through Q fog.
That showed that the foe was being jam
med against the iron cliffs OF Bylot's
island, the island to the southwark be-
hind them.
"This has never been before" said
kotuko, staring stupidity. "This is not
the time. How can the foe break now7"
Follow that" the girl cried, point
ing to the thing, half limping, hall run
ming, distractedly before them. They fol-
lowed tugging at the hand sleigh, while
ne rer and nearer came the roaring
march OF the Ice. At last the fields
around them cracked and started in eysry
direction and the cracks opened and
snapped like the teeth of wolves. But
where the thing rested, on mound OF
old and scattered ice blocks some fifty
feet high, there was no motion. Kotuko
leaped forward wildly, dragged the girl
after him and crswled to the bottom OF
the mound. The talking OF the ice grew
louder and louder round them, but the
mound stayed fast, and a. he girl looked AT
him he threw his right elbow upward and
outward, making the Inuit sigu for land
In the shape OF an island. And land II
was that the eight-legged limpIng tn ng
had led them to-some granite-tipped,
sand-beached iglet of the coast, shod and
sheathed and masked with ice so that no
man could have told il from the foe.
but al the bottom solid earth and not
shifting drifting ice. The smashing
and rebound of the foes, a. they ground
ed and spiintered, marked the borders
OF it. and friendly shoal ran out to the
northwnrd and turned aside the rush OF
the heaviest ice exactly as a plow,hsre
turns over loan. There was danger. of
course, that some heavily-s squeezed ice
field might shoot up the beach and
plane of the top Of the islet bodily, bot
that did not trouble Kotuko and the Qirl
when they made their snow house and
began TO eat, and heard the ice crack and
hammer and skid along the beach. The
thing had disappeared. and Kotuko was
talking excitedly about bis knoMlod9e OF
and power over spirits as he crouched
over the amp. In the middle of MS
wild say'n the irl began TO laugh and
rock herself backward and forward.
BEHIND her shoulder. crawling into
the hu crawl bv crawl, there were two
heads-oue yellow ana one black k-thst
belonged 20 two Of the most sorrowful
and ashamed dogs that you ever saw.
Kotuko, the dog, was one and the black
leader Was the other. Both were now
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well clothed. "They have found food, {"
he said with a grin. 'I do not think
we shall 60 to Sedna so soon. My tornaq
sent these. The sickness has left them. "
AS soon as they had greeted Kotuko these
two who had been forced to sleep and eat
and hunt together for the past few
months, flew at each others throat and
house empty dogs do not fight" !"
Kotuko said. "Tbey have found the seal.
Let us sleep. We shall find food"
When they walked there was open water
on the north beach OF the island and all
the loosened ice had been driven land
ward The first sound OF the surf is one
OF the most delight that the Inuit can
hear for il means that spring is on the
road. Kotuko and the girl took hands
and smiled, for the clear, iull roar or the
surge among the Ice reminded them OF
salmon and reindeer time and the smell
of blossoming ground willows. Even as
they looked the sea began TO skim over
between the floating cakes OF ice, so in
tense was the cold, but on the boriz on
there was vast red glare that was the
light OF the sunken sun. Ii was more
like bearing him yawn in his sleep than
seeing him rise, and the glare only lasted
for an hour or two, but IL marked the
turn of the year. Nothing, they felt,
could alter that.
hOtukO lOunu the uORs ngntlng over
fresh killed seal who was following the
fish that a gale always disturbs. He was
the first of scme twenty or thirty seal
that landed on the island in the course
of a day, and, till the sea froze hard, here
were hundreds OF keen black heads re-
joiciDg in the shallow free water aud
floating about with the floating ice.
IL was good to eat seal-liver again; to
fiji the lamps recklessly with blubber and
watch the flame blaze three feet i'm the
air. but az soon as the new sea ice bore,
Kotuko and the girl loaded the hand
sleigh and made the two dogs pull as
they had never pulled before In their
lives, for they feared what might have
happened in their village. The weather
OF course was as pitiIess a. usual, but II
Is easier To draw n sleigh loaded with
good food than to hunt starving. They
left Ave and twenty seal carcasses buried
in the ice Of the beach already for use
and hurried back TO their people. The
dogs showed them the way as soon ss
Kotuko told them what was expected. and
though there was No sign of n landmark.
IN two davs they we're rising tongue out
Keulu bou q. Only three dogs
answered them; the Others had been sat
en-; and the houses were ell dark. But
when Kotuko shouted: "ojsl" lboilsd
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superb AIelba.

The position OF Mslba as one OF the
great artists of the day will create gene
raj interest in the concert by herself and
company which is to take place at Infan-
try Hall, Tuesday evening, Nov. 8. A
series of interesting concert selections by
Melba and the members of her company,
Scalcbi, Bauermeister, D'Aubigne and
Campsnari will be- followed by Melba as
Lucia in the "mad scene" in "Lucia di
Lammermoor, one of the most brilliant
examples OF the slnee art ever given to
the public, and az Marguerite in the third
net OF Gounod's immortal opera with
scenery and costumes wit the unexcep-
tionable cast afforded by her company.
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CHAPTER Nv.

CHAPTER Nv.
On the top OF hummock sat or crouch
Cd the eight-lsgged thing that they had
seen three days beforehand 1t howled
horribly.
"Let us follow" said the girl. at
may know some way that does not lead to
Sedna," but she reeled from weakness
o. she took the pulling rope. The thing
moved OF slowly and ciumsily across the
rigdes, heading always toward the west
ward end the land, and they followed
while the growing thunder ut the edge
OF the foe rolled nearer and nearer.
The foes lip was split and cracked in
every direction for three or four miles
Inland and great pans Of 10-foot thick ice,
from few yards to twenty acres square.
were joitiDg and ducking and surging
into another and into the vet unbroken
Zoe a. the heavy swell took and shook
and sDoute6 between them. The batter
ingram Ice was. so TO speak, the first
army that the sea was hinging against
the hoe. The incessant crash and Jar Of
these cakes almost drowned the ripping
sound Of sheets OF pack ice being driven
bodily under the foe ~ cards arc hasti-
~ pushed under the tsbecloth. Where
the water was shallow these sheets would
be piled one atop OF another till the bot
tom-most touched mud fifty feet down
and the discolorcd sea banked peh nd
the muddy zee til the increasing pressure
drove all forward again. The many shai.
lows and sandbsnks ou the north cas-
coast Of Bylot's Island made II impossible