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Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-09-05
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PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. 5.-Tom Winder,
the Warsaw Qnd.) bicyclist and news
paper man, who is riding across the coun.
krv on a wager, arrived here last night.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-09-05
FIVE MEN DEAD.
a Sixth Narrowly Escaped the Same Fate In .
Providence Gashouse.

PROVIDENCE, Sept. 5.-By the bursting
of gas main at the works of the Provi
dence Gas company yesterday afternoon
five men were suffocated and sixth
narrowly escaped death. The dead are
james Cotton, James Riley, Charles Nc.
Manus, Lawrence Burns and John Nc
Nance
The accident was most peculiar one.
For several days leaking gas has been de-
tected In the holder, and yesterday the
company sent six men under foreman to
find and repair the leak, which proved to
come from defective valve connecting the
four-inch main which supplies the West
field street holder with gas from the main
holder on Globe street. The unfortunate
men had just returned from dinner at
O'Clock, and going down the wooden stairs
which leads from the entrance of the
holder to the cellar below, began to work
on the broken valve.
They disconnected 1t. and tied big
cloth bag about the large main extending
in from the street, when, for some reason
or other, the bag gave way, and an i'm
mense volume of gas rushed out. In much
less time than it takes to tell it, all were
overcome, and before they could reach the
Aoou. VI 1he sbttrS, WlUnln rev 1eet or
them, they dropped dead, with the excep-
tion of one, who managed to creep up
stairs, where the fresh air enabled him to
recover sufficiently to reach the street
Immediately after IL became known that
the men were unable to get out, willing
hands attempted to 60 to the rescue, but
nothing could be done while the escaping
gas rushed up the cellar stairs. Foreman
Allen did all he could, but there was no
cutoff In the street, and he knew not
which way to turn. The police were
quickly on the spot and roped off West
neld street. and Medical Examiner Palmer
stood IN the doorway to prevent anybody
from going down the stairs.
Soon after 3 o'clock the gas company
sent gang of men to dig up the street In
front OF the terrible grave. to get at the
main shut-oh farther along, 1t being
understood that no other means of shut
ang Oh the gas could be attained, and
even then IL meant two hours work,
Foreman Allen took hand in the excava-
tion, and was overcome before the digging
bad proceeded far. He was taken to the
Rhode Island hospital
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-09-05
NEW STORE.

ground anal honed. Scissors sharpened
Dealers In Few and second hand furniture.
q DORdH HALL
sic MAIN STREET. Jus em
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-09
Poor Man Standing Up For His Rights.

Poor Man Standing Up For His Rights.
OF COURSE there was time-and not
so very long agO-when men we're ty-
rants and pit women under. Nova
days the only thing denied them in
polite circles is to Whisk around by
themselves after dark, and plenty Of
them do that The law is giving them,
with both hands, almost everything
they ask for nearly as rapidly as exist
ing inequalities are pointed out, and
the right of suffrage is withheld from
them only because the majority of
women are still averse to exercising it,
Man, the tyrant and highwayman,
has thrown up his arms and is allowing
woman to pick his pockets He is not
willing to have her bore a hole in his
upper lip and drag him behind her
with rope, but he is disposed to con-
sent to any reasonable legislative
changes which she desires to have made,
short of those which would involve mas
culine Disagreement Or depreciation.
SCribner'S
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-09
HE KNEW OLD ABE.

Senator Sherman's EuIogy of Lincoln Dur
ing His Campaign For Reelection.
Senator Sherman Of Ohio in a speech
at Sandusky, DUNG the campaign for
Lincoln sre-election, in the fall of 1854,
drew this rough but accurate outline Of
the lamented Presidents character:
Il know Old Abe, and I tell you
there is not, at this hour, a more patri-
otto or a truer man living than that
man, Abraham Lincoln. Some say he is
all imbecile, but he not only held his
own in his debates with Douglas, whose
power is admitted, and whom consid-
er the ablest intellect in the United
States senate, but got little the better
Of him. He has been deliberate and
slow, but when he puts his foot down
it is with the determination and GER
tainty with which our generals take
their steps: and, like them, when he
tskes a city he never gives up. This
firm old man is noble and kind hearted.
He is a child of the people. Go to him
with a story of woe, and he will weep
like child. This man, so condemned,
works more hours than any other presl-
dent that ever occupied the chair. His
solicitude for the public welfare is new
er ceasing. I differed from him at first
myself, but at last felt and believed
that he was right, and shall vote for
this brave, true, patriotic, kind hearted
man. All his faults ard mistakes you
have seen. All his virtues you can new
er know. His patience in labor is won
derful He works far harder than any
man in Erie county. At the head of this
great nation-lool1 at it! He has all the
bills to sign passed by congress No one
can be appointed to any office without
his approval No one can be punished
without the Judgment receives his sig
nature, and nc one pardoned without
his hand. This man-aIways right, al
ways just-we propose to re-elect now
to the presidency. '-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-09
WHEN JENNY RODE 70 MILL WITH NE.

When Jenny rode to mill with me,
The daisies barred their bosoms,
The spring winds rJlmpled every tree
And stirred a storm of blossoms.
The squirrels scampered from the hedge,
The COWS were in the clover,
The lilies trimmed the rivers edge
And dusky doves flew over.
The white road seemed to welcome us,
BY shaken dewdrops dented,
The groves with song were tremulous,
BY lonely violets scented.
The mad wind seemed to envy all
The curls beneath her bonnet,
And let the dew dashed blossoms fall
In twinkling showers on it.
How well the way old Milton knew
In all the springtime weather,
His back was broad enough for two,
And so--we rode togetherl
He loitered in the light and song,
He knew the spell that bound me,
And that'the way was never long
While Jenny'S arms were round mel
The rose had then no cruel thorn
To mar the moments blisses,
The miller took his toll in corn,
And / took mine in kisses.
But time has left us far apart,
Yet, though the years are many,
The dear old road runs round the heart
That frames the face of Jenny,
And would give the world to see
The daisies milk white bosoms
Where Jenny rode to mill with me
Amid a storm of blossoms.
F. L. Stanton in Chicago Times-Herald.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-09

Investigate. They looked around, then
into each other s faces, and both fear and
wonderment were expressed in their
startled chances.
"Mandy," said the old man at last
Twelve gone and got into the wrong
housed"
"I b'leeve it, " answered Mandy fee
bly,, "but then whereabouts is ours?"
"Let's look at the outside" And the
"girls, " who were watching at their
own windows, saw a glimmering light
dancing like an ignis fatuus before the
old house and could discern the unwont-
ed spectacle Of their father and mother
inspecting tie outside of their home by
candle light. It struck them as very
funny.
Meanwhile the truth had revealed
itself in part to the old people, and hold
ing aloft the f1aring wax candle they
took all inventory of the new furniture,
from the carpet on the floor to the
paintings on the walls. It was we'll the
conspirators were not there to hear
them. Tt might have given them shock.
Given the pianny's gone" said Man
dy, wringing her hands, "the dear old
pianny where Ann Maria learned to
play Hang Up the Baby's Stockin'
afore she was 10 years old I couldn It
have b'leeved it, and my hit and miss
carpet that I made with my own hands
and ther red tahlecloth, the cheerfulest
thing You could see it for a mile
when the door was open and we was
lighted Upland my picters Of the chill
dren taken every year Of their lives
it's worse than robbery. don't doubt
they meant we'll, but it's broke my
heart -
II near broke my back tryin to set
in one of them new tangled cheers, "
said the old man, spurning the smart
chair with his foot. Il do wonder, Man
dy, if they left US anything to set on?"
"They've left the CLOCK, said Man
dy. 81 IN thankful for that! I declare,
father, it seems like an old friend, :"
and holding father hand she stood long
before the venerable timepiece, regard
ing it with loving eyes.
Tt was near daylight when the two
old people had seen the last Of their new
possessions, and arranged them to their
entire satisfaction. The fancy candle
had burned down to q mound Of green
and yellow wax and been replaced by
a straight, uncomprOmising tallow,
homemade, that shed a serene light on
two old faces that looked very tired,
but wore a conscious expression of peace
and triumph. And even in their dreams
they smiled.
"To think of itl'' said Ann Maria,
when she tells the story. AFTER all
our planning and contriving, when we
went over the next day to see how they
were enjoying their new surroundings,
they had put back every article of the
old stuff we moved, rag carpet, photo
graphs and all, and packed the new
things up i'll the attic. They wouldn t
have new chair, nor a tablecloth, nor
anything. Said the things weren't COM
Portable. Talk about Ephraim being
Joined to idols--father and mother could
give him pointers out Of their expert
ence," and she sighed over the degen-
eracy Of age Mrs. M. L. Rayne in De-
troit Free Press.
The Story Told of Mannis Reatherton.
nE
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-09
A CRUEL KINDNESS.

The town had grown up to them and
almost crowded itself into their front
door, but they still lived on in the same
old fashioned methods of the past half
century, clinging to the chairs and ia
bles they had when they were married,
even retaining the little squeaky piano
that had been Ann Maria's before she
married rich foreigner and changed to
Anita Marie. The cradle she was rocked
in when baby, manufactured out of a
barrel by her adOring father and covered
skillfully with rose colored chintz, had
been sent up to the attic, for it offended
her fine sense Of aesthetics when she
came home to visit. The rag carpet in
the living room was the work of leisure
hours and bad been in service twenty
odd years, and the old man himself used
to say lovingly while he regarded it
with admiring eyes, "You II never make
another carpet like that mother!' It
was like the last painting of a great art
list to him.
And now the old people had taken an
outing that was to last a whole week,
the result of conspiracy in which Ann
Maria was chief mover, aided and abet-
ted by her sisters. who were married and
settled in the same town and whom she
was visiting.
While the old couple were gone, the
.conspirators possessed themselves of the
key of the homestead, entered it stealth
lily and began what they considered a
work of reform, which also was expect
ed to be a delightful surprise to those
most interested.
"We'll get that dreary old piano out
of the way frst," said its former own
er, who had one now that cost thou
sand dollars, "and the old rag carpet
it gives me chill to see it-and all
those dreadful framed photographs and
chromos-I have a few oil paintings
that I brought down with me on pur-
pose to replace them-and that red table
cloth-Sophie do you remember when
we used to learn our lessons on that
flaming thing? 1t looks as awfully red
as ever, doesn't it?"
eyes, answered Sophie, with dis
tinct sigh. 81 wonder if we are as hap
Ply now as we were then, or if our con-
ditions depend so much on surround
ings-fne furniture, for instance?''
"Pshaw!' said Ann Maria with en-
phasis. "We must move with the world
or be run over. Here, take those old pea
cock feathers and stow them away some
where. Isuppose it wouldn't do to burn
them? I once thought the eyes in those
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-09
The Story Told of Mannis Reatherton.

Mannis Heatherton, a 90-year-old
citizon Ct Greenup, Ky, was once car
ried off by panther and was little the
worse for it Els father lived on Grassy
creek SO years ago. One evening, while
he was absent on a hunt, huge pan
Their bounded into the yard, and, catch
ing Mannis, then 4 years old, in it's
teeth, disappeared in the forest. When
Mr.. Heatherton came home an hour
later, his wife, who had just recovered
from the faint into which she had fall
en- when the beast seized her child told
him what had happened, and, following
the brute, he found it lying asleep on
sunny hillside with the babe under it's
paw and shot it dead, rescuing his son,
who was but slightly injured, New
Orleans Picayune,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-09
Popular Beliefs.
Scribner's

The conversation turned upon the
fatal number, Friday, salt splitting and
other superstitions.
"It is not we'll to make too much fun
Of such Matters" gravely remarked
Brichanteau. "For instance, had an
old uncle who, at the age of n, COM
mitted the imprudence of making one
of dinner party of 1872
N"And he died the next day?'' LIE
Rib inquired.
"No, but exactly Is years after
ward. -
A shudder ran through the audience.
Paris Gaulois.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-09

genuine and fad now in the best soci-
ETY., and the older the better.''
So they tore up and tore down, and
ina few hours really modern air per-
vaded every nook and corner. A pretty
new carpet-not too gay, but with a
pleasing assortment of colors-took the
place Of the despised rag carpet. New
chairs, handsome rug, an upholstered
easy chair for "father" and a modern
rocker for "mother" supplanted the
long used furniture of the past, and the
faded old photographs were removed to
make room for smart paintings in con-
sistent style with the new order of
things. A white marseilles Counterpart
replaced the old log cabin quilt, every
square Of which had been as an open
book for mother" to read. Other inno-
vations were made throughout, and
then the conspirators paused to look on
their handiwork and take breath.
''That's the first work I've done in
20 years." said Ann Maria, wiping her
flushed face with real lace handker
chief, "but I'd just like to see the dear
old couple when they open the door,
"I'm afraid they'll object to having
the piano out of sight" said one Of the
sisters, "but they're sure to like every
thing else. Mother would never let me
touch chair, even to straighten it out,
SO knew the only way was to take her
by surprise. Old folks get cranky about
things they have had long time. 1t
isn't good for them to make idols out
of old furniture. -
II should say not" added Ann
Maria. "Besides it isn't the fashion
now, as it was few years ago. was
really afraid people would think we
didn't appreciate our old folks to let
them live on among that old rubbish. "
The last finishing touches being ac-
cOmplished, the sisters went to their re-
spective homes, and at nightfall the
that had sheltered them for 40 years.
the dearest spot on earth to them-home!
1t had been planned by their knowing
children that they we're to enter the
house alone to intensity the surprise in
store for them and enjoy each others
delight over the occasion without wit
nesseS.
But they, not knowing this, felt
with the constituencies of age a little
hurt and chung closer together as they
entered the dark and silent dwelling,
every step of which was like hallowed
ground to their tired feet.
II most wonder the girls amt left
light Albumin for us. First time they
forgot" said the old man as he STUN
bled over chair.
"You know, father, Ann Maria's
visitin them. It makes difference, -
said the mother in gentle, apologize
tones, that were her wont when defend
ing Fthe children. :"
"Seems right good to be home again.
Let's set an rest spell afore we light
up" suggested the old man, dropping
into handy chair.
But his form had scarcely touched it
before he Strengthened himself out of it
and said testify:
cit don't seem nat'ral. It most broke
my back to set in that cheer Mandy,
there's something wrong!'
Mandy had been feeling along the
shelf for the candle that year in and
year out stood there like a tallow senti-
mel, and had never failed her in the
darkest night. She found it, but not in
it's old place. It had been moved hairs
breadth to the left and felt queer to her
touch
Gimme a match, Eben. I want to
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-09
He Was Out.

"Did you say was out?" asked the
player.
"You bet I did, - replied the umpire.
"Well, I amt out. "
eyes. you are, =" was the serene re-
joinder. "You are out just $25.
And then the game went on. Wash
ingtop Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-23
IMPROVING PASTURES.

Now there are just two important
points to this matter-frst, to make
more grass grow, and, secondly, not
to cat it all up-t that is, leave all the
roots of the grass and little of the
top on the ground when You take the
stock off the pasture. To accomplish
the first point | have never tried any
method that pleased me better than
sowing buckwheat and seeding down
at the same.
l have to-day July 81 just sowed
about eight acres with buckwheat and
seeded same with timothy and clover
so you see l practice my own teach
ing. My ground was plowed in the
fall and again in spring after corn
planting, and by repeated harrowings
was kept mellow and free from weeds,
and is now, in spite of the severe
drought, moist, and in good condition
to make seed grow.
The grass seed sowed at this time of
year must be covered to make sue
cess. SOW bucllwheat and harrow
once, and then SOW grass see d and har-
row again. [ have always got good
catch of grass in this way.
If soil is very poor, it would be best
TO use little manure, but it needs
only rs thin II coat as can be spread
on the ground. But if soil is moder-
otely fertile, the thorough tillage of
this system will make a success with
out any manure.
Some will raise an objection to my
choice of grass, and would say to
such that l only let any of my pasture
ground that can be plowed lie in
grass two or three years. - Cultivator
and Country Gentleman.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-23

An observing farmer, while in con
versntion with the editor Mt a recent
poultry show, remarked that it was
due to the efforts of his ten year-old
son that the egg basket was kept heap
ing full by his chickens last summer
and all fall. "Tho little fellow" re-
marked the farmer, "always paid
great attention to everything he
could read or hear about the keeping
of chickens, and one of the things
which impressed him strongly was the
oit-repeated injunction to keep the
hens at work if you want eggs. Well,
the boy had charge of feeding the
chickens, and he would get heaping
measure of grain md go down to the
barnyard and call his pets. They
would come on the run from all di-
rections, and then the fun began. The
lad would throw couple of handfuls
OF grain first in one direction and
then another, scattering it over n
space fully fifty feet square, and much
OF it into the grass. The way the hens
would sail around after the grain
would remind you of n small riot, and
after they got through feeding the
bNrnyard would look as if some one
had been over it with IL small plow.
We had plenty of eggs to use and sell,
even through moulting time. Tho
boy has since rjgged up n hencry in
one corner of the barn and keeps his
hens hustling about in hay, chaif and
clover up to tho knees hunting for
their grain, and we get more eggs
than any three neighbors combined. 4"
= Farm, Stock and Home.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-23


lllle ana the paVemehts III good condi-
tioh people residing ON Grand bouie-
Nard may frequently see an unusually
prettN' dashing young lady riding
Wheei, generally at nigh speed, along
the driveway. II now and then the
puSgieS get 100 thlck to SUIT her com
TORT Shc springs from hef wheel ana
oasies aslue TO the walk with all the
grace ana aSlll'N oil lhe pest OF them,
She mas worn an aftlliclal leg from the
thlSh uoWh Tor nearly three years.
hiellipef ol the llfh that furnished 1t Is
ready at any time to wager $1,000 that
no person can PICK tlle young lady out
III party OF young ladies' walking or
rlaihS "heels' Inc other case is that
oil the son Oh retired banker living on
the Nor'h Slde. n number OF years ago
the young man lost Doth hands and both
leet py having them frozen. Artificial
SUBSTITUTES with marvellous capacity ior
actloH were procured Tor hlm-though
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-23

bow may be swung freely or set at any
nngle. To accomplish the latter small
button is pressed after the limb has
been fieXed, when it will remain in that
position until released. Movements of
the fingers are effected by pad on the
inside of the arm. BY pressing the arm
against the side this pad is forced close
to the arm, thus by connecting of
springs operating the fingers of the
hand. The hand is manufactured so it
will close by springs and be opened by
the pad, or vice versa. For business
men who wish an appliance for holding
papers or documents an apparatus is
constructed that is worked by the pad
mechanism or system of attachments.
Such an arm can be fitted to those hay
ing three inches or more of stump, and
provided it retain a healthy degree OF
force and rigidity it will enable the
wearer to raise his hand to his mouth or
forehead, and to take his hat off his
head. These arms are made very stout,
and can do service in carrying heavy
vaises, baskets bundles. etc. together
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-23

with holding the lines in driving. The
hands are constructed with or without
wrist movement, as desired. owing TO
the class of work that will be required
of them
The fact that person can write with
an artificial hand and arm furnishes
subject for thought that has been dwelt
upon by the wisest, most thoughtful of
men with only the result of utter battle,
ment. The fingers of an artificial hand
are capable Of but two general motions
or actions-namely: that of closing upon
the pen and of releasing ii. Not at all
are the artificial fingers capable of a
single one of the many delicate and of
ten almost impcrceptible movements
performed by the natural fingers hand,
and wrist every time Il word however
short, is written. Any trick connection,
whatever between the three or four
inches of stub of arm and the-after
all-clumsy a imitation of the human
arm, hand and fingers, is totally i'm
possible. And vet that man writes
the moment he takes up the pen in the
artificial fingers. This matter has now
become so common among the craft as
to attract no more attention.
The railroads of the country furnish
10000 customers every year fer artif-
cial limb makers, while the other mu-
tilating agenCies--sa wmllls, other mills,
mines, factories, the Fourth of July,
etc.-bring the number up to something
frightful to everybody except possibly,
those engaged in this artificial bust
ness.
Two of the supremely triumphant in
stances of artificial limb furnishing are
in Chicago. Whenever the weather is