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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-21

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.
County OF Providence, ss.;
l. Charles IL Sheldon, Cashier OF the above
named Bank do solemny swear that the above
statement IA true to the best of my knowledge and
belief CHARLES III. SHELDON, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this 18th day
Of December 1895.
EDwARD p. SHELDON, Notary Public.
Correct-Attest;
BYRON +. POTTER, Directors.
CHAS III. WARREN,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-21
Hood s
SarsaparilIa

Is the Only True Blood Purifier promi-
nently in the public eye today.
Prepared by G. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. 81.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-21
REPORT.

REPORT.
SlF the condition OF the MERCHANTS MA.
" TIoNAL BANK, AT Providsnce, in the State
OF Rhode Island, at the close OF business, De-
cember Is, 1896:
REsouRCKs
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-21

D.s, act harmonlously with
Hoods Pills Hoods Sarsaparilia. 26c.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-21
B1NK ST4TEME ENTs.
REPORT.

REPORT.
OF the condition Of the NATIONAL EX-
~ CHANGE BANK, at Providence. in the state
of Rhode Island. at the close Of business. De-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-21
REPORT

OF the condition OF the AMERICAN NATIONAL
~ BANK, at Providence. in the State of Rhode
Island at the close Of business December is 1895:
RESOURCES.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-21
REPORT

REPORT
<NF the condition OF the NATIONAL BANK OF
~ COMMERCE.. at Providence, in the State OF
Rhode Island. at the close OF business, December
is, 1898;
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-21
EAST PROVIDENCE.

Total sales. 2sT. 800. Market closed steady.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-21
REPORT

OF the condition of the MANUFACTURERS
" MATT NAL BANK, at Providence, in the
State of Rhode Island, at the close OF business,
Dee IS, 1898.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
The Baltimore Weekly Sun.

The WEEKLY sun PUBLISHES ALL
THE NEWS Of each week, giving complete
accounts of all events OF interest throughout
the world. AS an AGRICULTURAL paper
THE WEEKLY sun is unsurpassed. 1t Is
edited by writer's OF practical experience.
who know what farming means and what
farmers want in an agricultural journal. 1t
contains regular reports of the work OF the
agricultural experiment stations throughout
the country, of the proceedings of farmers
clubs and Institutes, and the discussion oil
new methods and ideas in agriculture Its
market reports, poultry department and vet
erinary column are particularly valuable to
country readers. Every issue contains sto-
ries poems, household and puzzle columns
a variety of interesting and instructive Sc
lected matter and other features, which make
it welcome visitor in city and country
homes alike.
One dollar year. Inducements TO getters-
up OF clubs for the Weekly sun. Both the
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Payments invariably in advance. Address
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Publishers and Proprielors,
Baltimore, Md.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
Not Without His Fathers Permission.

Richard Vaux, Of Philadelphia, ex-
member Of Congress, has never been
TO a theatre in his life to see a theat-
ricaI + performance. An interesting IN
cident is given of his boyhood days
over three-score years ago. HIS Ia
tLer, highly respected and promi'
nent Friend, resided on Arch street,
and believed it was best for his chill
dren to be trained within the rules Of
the good old Quaker habits. AT that
period Ned Forrest was the brilliant
young American tragedian and had
captivated all the boys Of Philadel-
pbia in his character Of the Roman
gladiator and big Indian Metamora'
Young Vaux naturally desired to see
the great actor play, but shrank from
going without his fathers consent, 50
one day he ventured to ask his father
for a half-dollar to get ticket The
old gentleman kindly replied in Quak-
er accent:
Richard, don't begrudge the
money, but thee knows / don't ap-
prove of playhouses and wish thee to
promise me not to 60 to theatre
without my permission.
The promise was given and MS Ia
ther died suddenly soon after without
giving the permission. Richard Vau'
has conscientiously refrained iioH
going to the theatre ever since--Ph'S
adelphia Times.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
Russian Pickpockets.

One day at the dinner-table of
Grand Duke, the French Ambassador
extolled the dexterity of his fellow
countrymen, as exemplifed, among
other things, in the cleverness OF the
Paris pickpockets
Il should not wonder if the st.
Petersburg pickpOckets could give
them a start, replied the Grand Duke.
And seeing an incredulous smile play
round the features of the Ambassador,
he added "Will you bet that, before
we rise from the table, your watch or
some other valuable will not be taken
from your person2'
The Ambassador accepted the wager
for the fun of the thing, and the Grand
Duke telephoned to the chief consta-
bic asking him TO send at once the
cleverest pickpOcket he could lay hls
hands on. The latter was to receive
the full value Of every article he man
aged to annex and be allowed TO 80
unpuuished.
The man came and was put into
livery and told TO wait at table with
the other servants. The Grand Duke
told him to give him a sign as soon as
he had accomplished the trick. But
he had to wait a long time, toc the
Ambassador, whose watch was the ar
ticle to be experimental upon, always
kept on the alert, and even held hls
hand TO his fob when conversing with
the most distinguished guests at the
table. At last the Grand Duke re-
ceived the preconcerted signal. lie
at once requested the Ambassador to
tell him the time. The latter trium-
phantly put his hand to his pocket ana
drew forth a potato, instead OF hls
watch. There was a general burst OF
laughter, in which the Ambassador
himself joined, though with wry face,
for he was unmistakably annoyed. To
conceal his feelings he would take
pinch Of snuiF-his snuf-box was gone.
Then he missed the seal ring from his
finger, and lastly the gold toothpick
which he always carried about with
him in little case. Amid the hilarity
of the guests the sham lackey was re-
quested to restore the articles, but the
Grand Dukes merriment was changed
into alarm and surprise when the th'of
produced two watches, two rings, two
snuf-boxes, etc. His Imperial High
ness made the discovery that he him.
self had been robbed at the same time
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
Death After All Not so Grim.

Familiarity with death is apt to
alter ones earlier conceptions Of 1t.
Two IDEAS are generally accepted
which experience shows to be false.
One is that the dying usually fear
death and the other, that the act OF
dying is accompanied by pain. 1t IL
well known to all physicians that when
death is near its terrors do not seem to
be felt by the patient. Unless the I'M
aqnation is stimulated by the fright
ful portrayal Of the "pangs Of death,
or Of the sufIerings which some believe
the soul must endure after dissolution,
il il rare, indeed, that the last days or
hours of life are passed in dread.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has recorded
his protest against the custom Of tell
ing person who does not actually ask
10 know that he cannot recover. AS
that loving observer Of mankind as
serts; 70 must everyone who knows
whereof he speaks assert that people
almost always come to understand that
recovery is impossible; it is rarely need
ful 70 tell anyone that this is the case.
When nature gives the warning death
appears to be as little feared az sleep.
Most sick persons are very, very tired:
sleep-long, quiet sleeps what they
want. / have seen many people DIE.
! have never seen one who seemed to
fear death except when il was or
seemed TO be rather far away. Even
those who are constantly haunted
while strong and we'll with dread Of
the end Of life forgot their fear when
that end is at hand.
AS for the act Of dying-the final
passage from life to death-it is abb
solutely without evidence that the Oft
repeated assertions Of its painfulness
are made. Most people are uncon-
seious for some hours before they die
and in the rare cases where conscious
ness is retained unimpaired until few
minutes before the end the last sensa-
ton must be Of perfect calm and rest
! It Is worse than cruel to add to the
natural dread Of death which oppresse'
the majority Of us while in good health
the dread Of dying.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
SHEPHERDs1OWN W. VA THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1895.
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.

Over the hills and far away!
A little boy steals from his morning play,
And under the blossoming apple tree
He lies and he dreams Of things 10 be:
OF battles fought and victories won,
OF wrongs o'erthrown and OF great deeds
done,
or the valor that he shall prove some day
Over the hills and far away
over the hills and far away!
over the hills and far away
It's oh for the toll the livelong day
But II mattereth not to the soul af1ame
With the love for riches and power and
fame!
On Oh man! while the sun is high!
On TO the certain joys that lie
Yonder where blazeth the noon OF day,
over the hills and far away
Over the hills and far away
Over the hills and far away,
An old man fingers at close ofday,
Now, that his journ ey is almost done,
His battles fought and victories won.
The old.time honesty and truth,
The trustfulness and the friends OF youth,
Home and mother-where are they?
Over the hills and far away
over the hills and far away!
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
The Largest Magnet in the World.

Willetts Point is a government
station commanded by Lieutenant-Col-
onel R. W. King, and here it is that
engineering officers oft the United States
Army get their polishing of. Electri-
city has so much TO do to-day with
the protection of land approaches by
means of torpedoes, and an enemy $
ships are to be blown to atoms by the
help ofsubmarine boats, that electricity
may be said to be always on tap at
Willetts Point.
Colonel King having handy large
cannon weighing $4,000 pounds, and
a quantity of old torpedo wire took
fourteen miles of the wire, coiled 1t
around one of his guns, and passed
electricity through the wire by means
of a powerful dynamo. At once an
immense magnetic force was developed.
You may have seen little horseshoe
magnet, and how several steel pens
NAV be made to hang from 1t. This
big magnet does the same thing with
five cannon balls which represent a
down-pull of 1926 pounds. They hang
together, one over the other, by an
area of surface which can be, theoretlc-
ally, but a point At first, for con-
venience sake, in lifting heavy weights
an iron pulley with a quarter-inch
chain was used, but when the gun was
magnetic the chain and pulley were OF
no use. The chain became as rigid as
if it had been bar of solid steel and
riveted to the gun.
saw man stand at distance OF
some three feet from the gun, and put
ting an iron spike against his breast
the spike would stand out straight, as
if he were a magnet. Then he covered
his chest with iron spikes like a porcu-
pine.
A heavy piece of railroad iron,
weighing fully fifty pounds, when
pushed into the muzzle of the cannon,
was showed out certain distance and
then drawn back by the magnetic
force. The soldiers who work the
magnet derive some amusement from
the gun. When they see a green man,
they say to him, BILLY, Just hand us
that crowbar leaning aginst the gun. y
Billy, anxious to help, tries to take
the crowbar, and finds that he cannot
bulge it, pull, haul or strain all he
may. It requires the efforts of two
men, with sudden jerk, to pull away
from the gun an iron bar weighing
about twenty-five pounds.
This gun was mounted on great
iron carriage fully twenty feet long.
The whole carriage was magnetic.
Big nails would stick to it anywhere.
I made long pendants of nails. 1t was
curious to see railroad spikes lift them
selves up on a wooden platform, as II
they were live things making ready to
spring at the gun.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
HONEST IN MOTIVE.
FEARLESS IN EXPRESSION.

HONEST IN MOTIVE.
FEARLESS IN EXPRESSION.
SOUND IN PRINCIPLE.
UNSWERVING IN ITS ALLEGIANCE TO
RIGHT THEORIES AND
RIGHT PRACTICES.
THE sun PUBLISHES ALL THE NEWS
ALL THE TIME, but 1t does not allow It's
columns to be degraded by unclean, immor
al or purely sensational matter.
Editorially THE SUN is the consistent and
unchanging champion and defender OF popu-
lar rights and interests against political ma
chimes and monopolies of every cha racter
Independent in all things, extreme in none.
1t is for good laws, good government and
good order.
BY mail Fifty Cents month, Six Dollars
a year.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
NEW VOL. 30--NO. IL.
The Question.

When on his bed he quiet lies
With pulseless heart and sighiless eyes
His kindred ask. with anxious mind.
what treasures has he left behind"
But angels open wide the book
And for the dead mans record look;
And ask. as now they scan il DER.
What treasures has he sent beforey
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03

Hayrick-"Hain't you a'goin' ter
send your boy ter college,"
Treetop-"Yep. but not yit; he's
Just at the age where nobody cap teach
him nothin."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03

At the Scaffold.-Minister Is there
any service l can perform for you, my
unfortunate friend?
Culprit: I reckon not, sir-
Minister: Have you no message :
no last word that | may take to your
wife?
Culprit l amt that unklnd, mis-
ter. If my wife knew Id had the
last word it would make her miserable
for the balance Of her days.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03

CPECS and EYE GLASSES.--A large STOCK
- of fine Spectacles for sale cheap and guar
anteed to give satisfaction or no sale. AT
MCMURRAN'S.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
DON'T FORGET
THE
LITTLE STORE
Around the Corner.

4 nice assortment Of Table and stand
Covers Chenille. Raw SILK and Linen;
Stamped Table Ceutcrs and Tray Covers,
Hrust'ched alc Drawn Worked Centers
aai Tray Covers DOylIes stamped and cotton
!or kindergarten, cents each; Christnlds
Presents for teachers from scholars and for
scholars uom teachers at lowest prices;
H.oye and Handkerchief boxes, Collar ana
I"n boxes, Gents Travelling Cases, ,eIiuIolu
Frames. Match safes, Baskets with Perfume,
I'm1unr.ues. Paper racks. Fancy baskets
With Perfume. Lunch Baskets, Waste Bas-
Arls, Fancy Work Baskets, Tree Baskets, Ih-
IaAi Baskets. knitting Baskets. BOOKS @ rom
.cehi TO SluU, Games, Scrap Books, Albums
ornaments for Christmas Trees, Paints cray
ons, kaleldoscopes. surplus Ranks, Hot Air
Iols, Rubber Rattles Whistles. Many other
s.!ls NNeiu and pretty things. Can ana lOofN
"' 'hem before you buy your presents.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
BANG BANG d!
WANTED, WANTED.
Fat Hogs, Fat Hogs.

| ~ saesopI for Hogs--will pay highest
n,arit - Of price. ANY one having Hogs for sale
will find IL 10 their interest TO write me at
Molers. w. Va. u T. AA4i-n''
Sept. 20, lS9i-lm
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
IS. FLEMING, Notary Public.

uyuI,take Acknowledgements OF Deeds
w Power of Attorney, Affidavits. DEPOSIT
lions, ana attend to ali b usi inessconnected
with the Office.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03

ITELVET SKIN-Soap and Face Powder,
Y Bloom of Ninon and other fine Toilet
Powders. At MCMURRAN'S. >.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03

Jinks-"I understand that you were
pretty well off before you were mar
RED"
Blinks-"Yes; but didn't know it. " !.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03

Teacher-Who was it that sup
ported the world on his shoulders?
Bright Pupil-It was Atlas, ma am.
Teacher-And who. supported At
las2
Bright Pupil-The books don't say
but guess his wife supported him.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
SMOKE.

have a full line of Smoking and Chewing
bag of Tobacco & Pipe for cents.
Call at GIBS0N'S
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
THE SUN
BALTIMORE, MD.
1895
1895

THE PAPER OF THE PEOPLE.
FOR THE PEOPLE and WITH THE PEOPLE
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1895-06-28

- Grproba. 8eIger zines Ras
ritdteucabtnets, bic poybunosnen 5ols.
tertnItrpmente trtIGrevO: rSn oieien
Stod, msine !SerrI4aftens lpuroen sur
3eit oes WitselaltsH SdptiIhe @eiber
ctngeIperrt. - ii6rigens iebr prattiiA;
i'd babe meine alte ou4 I4on mai
brin gebabt!"
- 8opftoa. sic: Nd 9ott!
SIMMER oas langtpejtige @ntleicen bob
Dem s6sater! Sd bin I6oR gong fopfa
los" - Gr: Pa, bas miro ia Seinen
SiRtsrma;m i'm sbcater re4t treaen!'
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1895-06-28

Gdroelt BON Tbibisbtu en0 lltbtrruibuRdsH, briast
sns Stblptobi Der 9gttfpt SiHotmtr aHb melib
cub stns S~tTIObuaS. Die toll, Roni,B Htmmi siHt
Gafts gssbts ab.
The Portland daily press., 1895-04-03
NEW PUBLICATIONS i.

Corrected Impressions. Essays on Vic
torian Writers by George Saintsbury.
In his few lines of Preface, the author
calls these appropriations Critical Notes,
which better than the word essay de-
scri bes their character. Very racy, sug-
gestive and stimulating criticism it is,
of rarely outspoken and discriminating
quality. -Four of the Papers here pub
lished appeared in the New York Critic.
The writers talked of are Thackeray,
Tennyson, Carlyle, Swinburne, Ma
caulay, Browning, Dickens, Matthew
Arnold. Charlotte Bronte, George Elliot,
Anthony Trollope, William Morris and
Ruskin. Mr.. Saintsbury has fine
equipment for his task. Learning, wide
reading and culture, a quiet humor and
literary brilliancy of his own. He has
opinions worth the giving, and he knows
the art OF expression. He is undogmatic
and never offends by an optrusive cock
sureness of statement. That is to say
wherever you agree with him, he has
great charm. Where you differ, you
sometimes vince tr1fie at a tour de
force which greatly delighted you when
it was employed after your fancy, or
when his side of the question was yours.
Individually, while here and there some
portions of his analysis have ruffled the
smoothly preened feathers of our views on
authora and their works, there is but one
entire impression which warred desper-
ately with our ideas, and that was of
George Eliot, to whom we think he does
scant justice.
Mr.. Saintsbury calls his little volume
Corrected Impressions" but, while they
bear the marks Of after thinking, and
profit by the effects of ripe judgment, be
has seldom had occasion TO alter his ear
lier views in any essentials. Occasion
ally to modify or to expand gives him his
title. His resumes are quite wonderfully
inclusive. Here is one on Morris, $50,
when ! see in the work of certain writer's,
whom it is unnecessary to name, and
whom [ do not allude to otherwise than
for the sake of honor, the falling back
OH strained expression, on flashes OF
poetical epigram and conuudrum, or
scrambles after the grand style and
fun blings after the marmoreal, | turn
with relief once more to the lam bent easy
light. the misty lunar atmosphere shot
with faint auroral colours, the low and
magical music, the ever VARYING PIANO
The Portland daily press., 1895-04-03

The recent rise in silver has been a
matter of much speculation. This is the
explanation furnished by member of
the firm of Handy & Hartman, the larg-
est dealers in silver bullion in New York !
"There are a number of bullish factors
which account for the increase in the
price. The first one, and perhaps the
most influential, is the peace negotiations
between China and Japan, the idea be-
ing that with peace restored commercial
relations will be opened up again, Great
ing an increased demand for silver for
commercial pur oses. and also, possibly,
for government loan purposes. Another
factor is the bimetallic talk in Europe.
That factor is, of course. largely senti-
mental one. A third factor is the fact
that the actual supply offsilver at present
is not sufficient to meet the commercial
demand. Then also the Eastern ex-
changes. the exchanges in India, China
and Japan, have been favorable for a
higher price for remittances. Conse-
quently silver has gone up on its merits,
but as usual the spectators are little
ahead of the market.n
The Portland daily press., 1895-04-03
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The Portland daily press., 1895-04-03

The Maine legislature had the good
sense when the big interest which the
Western farm mortgages offered was
tempting savings banks in the East to
invest their deposits in them, to forbid
any such investments on the part of such
institutions in Maine, not because all
such investments were bad. but because
from the difficulty of investigating them
carefully the good would not be likely
to be separated from the bad. The wis
dom of this policy is strikiugly shown
now by what is happening III New Hamp-
shire. The savings institutions of that
State loaded themselves down heavily
with these mortgages, and now that
many of these securities nave failed tc
meet their interest they find themselves
unable TO respond to the demands Of
their depositors. who have taken alarm,
and the result is that four banks have
practically suspended. with the prospect
that their deposits will have to be scaled
down. Probably the losses to the de-
pastors will not be very severe, if they