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Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-05

been granted a patent on a machine for
preparing loose cotton In the form OF
| silver.
The new arrival this morning In John
Jolly's household will not increase his
millinery bill. Boy.
f. f. Radikin, of the firm OF Radikin
Cooney, has returned from very pleasant
trip to New York, Philadelphia and Wash
ington.
The Philip and Andrew Brotherhood OF
the Pawtucket Congregational Church
met with the pastor, Alexander McGregor,
last evening.
Pensions have been granted to Rhode
Islanders as follows: Reissue, William NJ
Horton, Central Falls; Andrew j. Sails
bury, Pawtucket.
The wreaths OF smiles on William +.
Hurley's face today ere brighter and
broader than usual. The word "boy"
goes with every cigar.
The Filametus Society connected with
Eureka Temple, Rathbone Sisters, met
with Mrs. Amanda jerks OF Rand street,
Central Falls, this afternoon.
Last evening the members OF Collyer
Castle, Knights of the Mystic Chain, J. A.
Mckay, Senior Knight Commander, PAID
a traternal visit to Providence Castle.
Tomorrow morning at st. Mary's Church
a high mass OF requiem will be celebrated
for the repose OF The soul of the mother
OF Sister Leo of the Orphan Asylum,
Providence.
Miss Lille McCanp, an efficient young
sales lady of he rit bon department at the
New Idea store, is visiting relatives In
New York. She is accompanied by her
sister Alice.
Last evening Miss Collins, missionary
among amoug the Indians OF North
Dakota, lectured before the Kings
Daughters of the Pawtucket Congrega.
tional Church.
Miss Helen Smith OF this city has &C.
c.pted position as boookkeeper, stenog-
rspher and typewriter for well known
firm OF Attleboro. She was pupil OF st.
Joseph's Academy and graduate of st.
Mary's class OF '93 of Schotieid's CONNER
cial College '9i. Her many friends wish
her unbounded success.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-05
TERSE TRlBUNfITES


We care not for Spanish armadas--
For gunboats to left and to right
We're tired of prattle.
We're in for u BATTLE
For sabers to fash and for rifles to rattle
Then hurrah and hurrah for fghti
We care not for threatening pillows
That leap to the heavens SO bright.
We're tired of playing
OF constant delaying.
We long for the cannon In thunder tones
braying-
Then hurrah and hurrah for fight
There are captains and corporals and majors
Who are idle by day and by night
Their uniforms dusty,
Their swords getting rusty
Who are ready TO marshal their forces so
trusty,
Then hurrah and hurrah for firht'
The Kings Daughters Union will hold a
social this evening.
William A. Robertson Of 6S Mulberry
street is critically i'll.
The creditors OF Charles ID. Nichols will
meet again tomorrow afternoon.
This evening the Y. Nj. G. A. and New
Bedford basket ball teams will meet.
Mayor Waters of Newport is still very
sick man, and his chances for recovery are
very light.
This evening the debate between the
Pawtucket and Central Falls High schools
will take place.
The insurance on the Lee block, leased
by Radikin & Cooney, has been adjusted
satisfactorily to all concerned.
Rev. Father Gillian OF st. Mary's preached
instructively on tie Lenten devotions in
Providence Wednesday evening.
The Woodbine Base Ball Club will soon
organize for the season. The famous Stars
will be heard from unuer a new name.
An entertainment was given at the
Central Avenue Mission Chapel last even
ing for he benefit of the building fund.
This morning at st. Mary's Church a
months nj ind mass was celebrated for the
repose Of the soul OF Mrs. Bernard keenan,.
The veteran firemen will hold their
regular meeting this evening. Busint ss OF
importance Is TO come before he meeting.
William ii. Goldsmith OF this city has
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-05
TELEPHONE 4II7-s.


ALMANAC ron FRIDAY. APRIL 9.
sur RIsEs...... 5 0I Moon SErs.... 8 pam
fgs gsenm sn1s, or DAYis s. s. FULL SEA sss assM
Forecast for New England: Fair;
warmer, winds shifting to tosoutheast; prob
ably rain Saturday.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-05
@. G. Peck a. Co.
SATURDAYS SPECIALS,

200 rolls OF Grape Tissue at 25c roll.
Every shade n tissue paper novelties for
Easter, ior jewelry. "hfna. glars and books.
Boys Express Wagons and carts l0c. t0c.
75c, 81 to 1915.
Everyth ng In enamel ware at lowest
prices. q. Z. PECK co.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-05
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more. We have made annual preparation
for by opening beautiful line of white veis white
wreaths white dresses white gloves white ties white slip
pers and white blouses.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
ODE AND OTHERWISE.

A CIRCUS performance was in prog.
ress at Eagle, Wis, when a violent rain.
storm deluged the earth. The circus
manager thought the tent would be
blown down and drove out the audience.
SOME Of the Philadelphia organ
grinders employ nice little colored girls
to accompany them Oh their street
tours, and the children amuse the spec
tators by giving skirt dances.
THOMAS G.. F. DOLBY, Of Elgin, Ill,
Is in business there, and keeps a gen.
eral store, with the aid Of seventeen
partners. The style OF his firm is IDOL.
by & Seventeen Sons" He is the father
Of twenty-one children.
Mr.. ". I. SMITH, a White Plains IN.
" business man, did not take q single
holiday for ten years. But the other
week he was induced to stop work for
one day and enjoy himself at the sea-
shore. He went in bathing and was
drowned.
A VETERINARY surgeon in Van Buren,
Me-, was called q few days ago to find
the reason and remedy for an odd hard
bunch ON a horses shoulder. He lanced
the swelling and found in the center Of
it q silver dime. The corner grocery
clubs are now busy with the question:
How did 1t get there?
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
Automatic

Having seen that every form of indi.
rect taxation is unjust to the poor, and
that every form of so-called direct tax
alton thus far examined is unjust to
the honest we can not be surprised at
the unanimity with which it has hith-
erto been declared that there is no
scientific or natural method of taxa
ton.
Nevertheless, in every civilized coun.
try, a species OF taxation exists which
automatically collects from every citi.
zen an amount almost exactly proper.
toned to the fair and full market value
Of the benefits which he derives from
the government under which he lives,
and the society which surrounds him.
All over the world men pay to q
superior authority a tribute, proper
tionate with wonderful exactness to
the social advantages they enjoy. The
Just amount Of this tribute is deter.
mined by the competition Of all his
nsighbors, who calculate to q dollar
Just how much the privilege is worth
to them and who will gladly take his
place and pay in his stead.
Ground rent, therefore, is the tribute
which natural law 1evics upon every
occupant of land, as the market price
on all the social as well as natural ad.
vantages pertaining to land include,
necessarily, his just share OF the cos.
Of rovernment.-"NAtural Taxation"
by Thomas G. Shearman.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
THROAT PARALYSIS.


EFTom the 6sariss-Hsratd, sdgtndU, Meh.)
IL was publicly talked all over Glare Ceun-
~, Mich; for some time before the Courier.
Herald sent a reporter to Dover to fully in.
vestlgate the Coulter matter. He finally went,
and we publish to-day his fun report. The
Coulters are prominent people, thoug- Mrs.
=. In response to the question whether she
objected to being interviewed, said: Ger
tainly not" Her story follows:
About l4years ago we decided to tae up
u abode In Dover and everything vent
along smoothly for several years, bu{ness
progressed and being of a saving tempera-
ment we accumulated quite an amount.
Our family increased as the years rolled by
and we now nave 5 children living, the old
est Is, youngest 8, but sickness made it's
way into our household, and doctors bills
flooded Upon us, until we have nothing left
but our home, and these sweet children.
Everything else went to satisfy the claims
of physicians.
"About 3 years ago I had a miserable
feeling at the back of my ears, my right
hand became paralyzed and the paralysis ex-
tended to my arm and throat, and would at
feet my head and eyes, sometimes for days
l would lose my sight, my face was de-
formed, ~lifeless, as it were, my nose was
oraWn 10 one size ana l presented a pitt
able appearance and never expecting to re-
gain my natural facial expressions. lem
the best physicians that could be
procured. ~expendine thousands of dollars
,iaf A. IT,. 49, ~ ~ y oSal 10
ioi' Az ias', Chey stated niy case was DE-
yono the reach OF medical skill, n 1t would
be but a short tim unGil the end would
come. This certainly was not very encour.
aging to me, but I never gave up hone. In
connection with receiving the attendance of
7 have tried every medic;na
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
WHEELS AND RIDERS,

Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON says
that women are riding to suffrage on
q bicycle"
CHAPERoNs who can ride bicycles are
In great demand In all of the large cit
les of the country.
DocToRs have declared that the heart
Of Zimmerman, the famous bicycle
rider, is fully two inches longer than
the average size Of hearts.
W. D. BACHELOR, Of Cornell college,
Iowa, has gone on a trip, with two
companions, through Europe, Egypt
and Palestine on wheels. They expect
to pay expenses by corresponding with
papers, the three having a list Of forty
seven.
c. f. PARD1GoN was the first man
seen on a bicycle in Richmond, Va. He
visited his old home in Paris about 1871,
and brought a very tall wheel back
with him. A conservative estimate of
wheels in actual use In Richmond
would be two thousand.
REV. MR. FAIRBANKS, an American
missionary In India, attributes a large
part Of his success to the use of a
bicycle. Not only is he enabled to
cover q more extensive territory with
1t. but the natural curiosity Of the ma
tives brings large crowds to see "a horse
that needs neither grass nor grain"
IF women bicyclers will have the
saddle directly over the pedals and so
high that when the pedal is down the
foot must be bent to reach 1t, they will
make a much more graceful appear
ance. This will, Of course. make
mounting somewhat more difficult, but
the Objectionable knee action will be
less obtrusive.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31

soss increased taxation ~ ,;o,.,
peers and cigars. A new ;ss,,s ~ 9 lno'
tnr suggested by Dr.. Bluthardt. 4 re-.
.arh 10 the protective tariff would ha
e resort OF A. H. Revsll. sufac;ent
income from the present, sources -;
esenue Is expected by W: I. Bake
an additional tax Of one dollar a bar.
rel on beer Lyman G. Gage points ont
would bring $50, 600. 900. which wou1d
&c Satisfactory, but Mr.. Gage does not
&c any necessity for immediate action
as mere is plenty of surplus money in
'ne treasury. FIJI. Winston finds the
country in the same condition IN wb;nh
:. was before the law was enacted and
anticipates a return to tariff to ra;sa
money A return to the internal
revenue receipts and custom -house ia
sae only alternative, in the Judgment
xaf.5A. I. Ewing.
AS to the tariff, Of necessity tb.ra
Gan oe NO alteration in the present law
unt1i after the presidential election.
Even IN the belief of those who favor
an increase in customs reyenue there
rs not the slightest ground for con-
slderlng the situation of the govern
ment alarming, or in fact, a subject of
concern at all.
Inc suggestion of a stamp tax on
paper representing wealth will IN.
aoubtedly commend itself universally
to the people. That would be the
nearest approximation to a genuine in.
come tax. Such an impost would lie
exclusively upon wealth, while in each
individual case it would be so slight as
scarcely to be felt. A stamp tax on
monetary paper would also be inexpen.
slve for the government, easily col.
lecteo and fruitful to a high degree
Chicago Times-Herald
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
THE STAGE.

". 6. GILBERT is coming to New York
soon to superintend the production Of
His Excellency."
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL and Mr..
Forbes Robertson will open the Lyceum
season in London next September with
"Romeo and Juliet"
SARAH BERNHARDr has been fined 81
in a Paris police court for employing
two children under 10 after Q o'clock at
night at the Renaissance theater.
LONDON Is about to . the earl Of
Rosslyn On the stage as q professional
actor. The first earl Of Rosslyn
earned the title by being lord high
chancellor under William Pitt.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
,NAuoieLE STREET MUSICIANS
Mi. Howe1ls Thinks They Earn Their Money
Evan If Not Hard.

sSSA wv
MIR. Howells Thinks They Earn Their Money
Even II Not Heard.
It may be doubted whether a ballad
ist who is not making himself heard is
earning his money; but, on the other
hand, it may be asked if he is not less
~regrettable for that reason. A great
many good people do not earn their
money, and yet by universal con.
sent they seem to have a right to it.
We cannot oblige the poor to earn
their money any more than the rich,
without attacking the principle on
which society is based, and CHASING
ourselves with its enemies. If people
get money out of other people we
ought not to ask how they get it.,
whether it be much Or little; and l, at
any rate, will not scan too closely the
honesty of the inaudible balladist of
the avenu Neither will I question
the gains of those silentious minstrels
who grind small, mute organs At the
corners of the pavement, with a little
tin cup beside them TO receive tribute.
They are usually old, old women, and
I suppose Italians; but they seem not
to be very distinctly anything. How
they can sit upon the cold stone all dav
long without taking their death, passes
me to say; and l am inclined to think
they do really>earn their money, if not
as minstrels, then as monuments of hui.
man endurance The average Amer
lean grandmother would sneeze in five
seconds, under the same conditions,
and be laid up for the rest of the win
ter. But these hardy aliens remain
unaffected by cold or wet, light or
dark.
One night l came upon one sleeping
on her curbstone-such a small, dull
wad of outworn womanhood!-her gray
old head bent upon her knees, and her
withered arms wound in her thin shawl.
1t was very CHILLY that night, with a
sharp wind sweeping the street that
the street department had neglected;
but this poor old thing slept on, while
l stood by her, trying to imagine her
short and simple annals: a dim, far-of
childhood in some peasant hut, a girl
hood with its tender dreams, a mother
hood with its cares, a grandmother
hood with It's palns-the whole round
of woman's life, with want through
all, wound into this last result of house
less age at my feet. How much of
human life to 70 more-if in
deed, one ought not to say how little
comes to SO much! l sighed, as people
of feeling used to do in the eighteenth
century, and dropped a dime into the
tin cup. The sound startled the bel
dam, and l hope that before she woke
and looked up at me she had time to
dream riches and luxury for the rest of
her life. bella musical" Isaid, with
a fine irony, and she smiled and
shrugged, and began to feel for the
handle of her organ, as if she were
willing to begin giving me my moneys
worth on the spot. If we did not see
such sights every day, how impossible
they would seem!-W. d. Howells, in
Century.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
Discuss It Anyhow.

At a recent meeting OF the Carthage
grange the Ainsworth local option tax
bill was discussed. In the report OF tho
meeting we find the following:
1.-THE proposed measure was discuss
ed at some length, and earnest words
were spoken. but none In favor OF tho
bill. and . resolution was unanimously
adopted instructing the secretary to
write the promoters OF the bill that
Carthage grange was strongly opposed
to its enactment into a law. Although
the bill was defeated at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature, it is one OF thoss
schemes that will come up in one form
or another as long as special interests
have purposes to accomplish by legisla-
ton, and it is good policy to discuss it
in the grange until its pernicious tes-
lures are thoroughly understood"
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
THEY SEE A SNAKE IN iT.
Corporation Bill for rax-Dodg,ne.

Corporation Bill for Tax-Dods,ng.
ALBANY.-In the assembly Mr.. Gerst
called up Senator Persons bill to
amend the stock corporation law, but
there was SO much opposition that it
went over to Monday night.
Isn't this the BILL" called out MI.
Ainsworth, ito permit stock corpora
tions to dodge the a~ssessors?"
Mr.. Gerst said it permitted stock corr
porations, on the vote OF g majority Of
stockholders, to change the location Of
their plant.
Mr.. Ainsworth-I know a big cor.
poration doing business on Lake Erie,
involving millions Of dollars, which
has its office in a little village on the
Hudson river.
Mr.. Burns-I know a big steamboat
company doing business in this state,
whose Office is in New Jersey.-N. Y.
World.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
RICH LAND OWNERS MUST PAY.
A Proposed Change in the Method of As.
sessmont Uptown.

"A Change in the Method of As.
Uptown.
A bill has already passed the assem-
bly, taxing the farm gardens in upp
New York as city lots. The farms
lie north of One Hundred and Fifty
fifth street. There are 20, 900 acres un-
improved and lying idle, or used for
market gardens at present. The own
ers are waiting for the rise in real es-
tate values. This property has been
assessed as farm lands at an average of
about $500 an acre. The property is
worth much more, and the bill pro-
vides that hereafter it shall be taxed
at its full value.
1t is said that the bill will only at
feet the 5000 acres of unoccupied land
in the Twelfth ward, north of One
Hundred and Fifty-ffth street, but
even at this the total assessment of
that ward will be increased from a.
600, 600 to SIS. 0OO, OOO.
One effect of the change will be
practically to stop market gardening
in the upper end of Manhattan
island, as no gardener could af-
ford to pay the rents. There
are Tx city lots in an acre,
and the average assessment ON a city
lot in that part of the city is $500, SO
that the bill will increase the assess
ment on such property from $500 to
ss,e25 an acre. The largest land owners
there are the James Gordon Bennett
estate, Catharine L. Beekman estate,
Charles O'Connor estate, Mary E. Warl,
G. P. Grinnell, w. A. Wheeler, w. F.
Buckley, Columbia college, Susan
Ward, Andrew F. Higgins, R. T. Con-
nelly, ]. M. and J. H. Dykeman, N.
Chesebrough and Sheppard Knapp
N. Y. World. It would seem to us that
SO far from stopping market gardening,
the increased assessment will tend to
increase it. If the contention of tho
owners is correct hat it will not pay
to improve the property at this time,
any increase of tax will make them
more anxious to get some rent from it,
eve il only rented for market gardens
-(E1i+orl
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
IN LONDON TOWN..

TIE flower trade Of London is esti-
mated to amount to s25, 900 a day.
In Southwark, London, an old hos
telry, 1.-THE Crossed Keys" is about to
be torn down. which belonged to John
Harvard In 1887, before he emigrated
to America.
IT is claimed that, owing to the good
work done by the Improved Industrial
Dwelling company, of London, the
death rate Of that city has been re-
dnced from forty 10 only eleven In .
hQpssnd
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
Romano Salad.

The Romano is a species of lettuce
which appears with the spring. 1t is
different in shape, however, as the
leaves are long, narrow and intercept
ed with little veins, which run trans
versely. 1t is not quite as tender as
lettuce, but it is, perhaps, sweeter in
taste. Cut the ribs off and select the
white part Of the leaves, cutting them
into pieces two or three inches long.
They will thus be more easy to mix
with the dressing, and it will also be
less awkward to eat them. The ro-
maine, than any other salad, can
dispense with being mashed. The
center, at least, which is very COM
pact, grows free from dirt. If it is
found necessary to wash it, however,
the water should be well drained out.
Chevil. chfves and taragon should bs
added ifliked. Dress with oil, vinegar,
salt and pepper st. Louis Republic
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
T. p. OR n. q.

WHICH originated the Land Vain. To-,
Inc idea which Henry Georp. ha,
caiied the Single Tax is fast gror;na
IN favor, It commends itself n .be
earnest political economist as beinp
'ne 1aarest and easiest collected tax.
IL Is surprising that the idea laid dor.
MANI Q SO many years. In ITS Ar.
1nur oConnor, an Irish exile, wrote a
WORK on taxation in France. O'Conno,
advocated a tax on land values onlv
argued very much the same as ala
the californian, Henry George, over a
century later.
During the rule of the Directory in
france the question of a single tax on
and values was discussed.
+ In 1875 Thomas Paine wrote a bro
chure entitled ''Agrarian Justice Or
posed to Agrarian Law and Agrariau
Monopoly"
From the work we quote:
The first principle of civilization
ought TO have been, ought still to be,
ina the condition of every person born
into the world after a state of ciyiliza-
ton commences ought not to be worse
tina II he had been born before that
period. But the fact is that the condi-
ton OF the millions in Europe is far
worse than if they had been born be-
fore civilization began.
ut is a position not to be controvert-
ed that the earth in its natural uncul-
tlvated state was and ever would have
continued to be the common property
OF the human race. But the earth in
its natural state is capable of support
ing but a small number of inhabitants
compared with what it is capable of
doing in a cultivated state, and as it is
impossible to separate the improve,
ment made by cultivation from tho
earth itself upon which that improve
ment is made the idea of landed prop
erty from that inseparable con-
nection. But it is nevertheless true
that it is the value Of the improvement
only and not the earth itself that is in
dividual property. Every proprietor,
therefore, of cultivated land owes to
community a ground rent (for l
know no better term to express the
idea by), for land which he holds.
"~Cultivation is, at least, one of the
greatest natural improvements ever
made by human invention. 1t has Civ
en- to created earth a ten-fQld value.
But the landed monopoly that began
with it has produced the greatest evil.
It has dispossessed more than half the
nhabitants of every nation of their
natural inheritance without providing
for them, rs ought to have been done
an naturalization for that loss, and
has thereby created q species of power
ty and wickedness that did not exist
before"
So wrote Thomas Paine one hun
bred years ago.
The thanks Of the world are due
George for reviving the idea and
clothing it with such fashionable garb
that it has become quite fashionable.
The single tax is being discussed BY
governments everywhere, and in some
countries has been partially adopted
Fireside.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-31
lax REFORM STUDIES
.DirED BY BOLTON HALL.
An Open Field

-" open Field.
my one has an impression th,,
viii nut to these Studies"
W. o be published unless thsv aeho
'ne EDITORS ideas he is mistaken e'no
will " on any aspect of taxat;o,
deoan always be welcome, if thew ars
~ well written, within reason
that units and to the point, excent
'''ae we do not discuss the tariff. p'
,n+an owners especially should \.
nrested as the principal benefit ~
any Improvement or social .dnas "
sEes 70 them in the increase of VIVA
1o 1 ~ 10 n Address this Office. or
~ LOCK street, Buffalo, N. Y. VI