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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-10
BRISTOL.
photographic Review Of Principal Events
In Town.

The annual ball OF the Robert Emmett Liter
airy Association VIII be held in Armory Hall.
upon State street. Thursday evening, Feb
| ruary 10.
Mr.. henry ii. Bosworth leaves here this
morning for the Rhode Island Hospital for
surgical treatment.
There is no doubt that the men who CON-
mitted the postoflce robbery came hore in a
| wagon at 2;30 in the morning, and returned
again at $3.50, as a number of persons upon the
main road heard the wagon when it passed both
ways. and noticed the time by their clocks. =.
Rumors were current upon the street:that
rowhoat had capsized in Mount hope Bay.
ana two young men haa been drowned. such
was not the case, and there were 1--WE young
men in IL when last seen who pulled ashore
on the east side or the cove, anu lett the boat
for an hour, and when they returned the tide
had set the boat adrift across the other side.
with everything in 1t belonging TO the young
men.
AT a meeting of Rabbit Post, G. A. r.. held
on Friday evening. a committee was APP
pointed, consisting of Herbert Il. Bennett,
stephen W. Church. George H.. Peck. Albert
q. Luther. John DouRherty. Thomas +. Usher.
Giles ,. Congdon, William ii. Mccain, Charles
A. Barbour and william A. Waldron, 10 confer
with the school committee regarding the ek-
eToises on Wednesday. This committee meets
today, and ono or two will be assigned TO
visit each school to perfect the order OF
exercises.
1he wedding cards of Mr.. Hezekiah W.
Church and Miss battle PAUL are out. The
| m viii take place Thursday. January
20, at the residence of the bride's parents
upon Franklin street.
Tho school committee ere arranging to have
pictures of oil the principals upon the wells
OF she committee room.
notwithstanding the storm on Sunday,
quite a number of visitors were in town,
among whom We're Misses Katie and Louise
smith OF Pawtucset. guests Of Miss Bertha
Horton, Mr.. James Southwick Hurley French
and Pardon Grey of Providence. and Mr..
! Charles j. Maccomber of Fall River.
The adjourned Council meeting this after
noon promise TO be prolongoi. a nearing
from all heads of departments is expected.
John Mally, the contractor. has the con-
tract TO build the two dwelling houses and the
store for Torrance McCarty upon Wood street.
Major James II. DeWolf Camp, NO. 3, will
observe Union Defenders day with IA fine pro-
gram, arranged IA suggested 10y Chaplain-in-
Chief Coles circular.
Burnside Social Club will open their fair in
the Castle Hall of Burnside Lodge Friday
evening next.
Mrs. Mary Pease. who lives upon Hone
street. In the north part of the town, fell
upon the icy walk in the rear Of her house on
Friday anG received many severe bruises.
she is unable to walk, and is un1er medical
treatment.
AZ Mr.. Harvey walling was returning home
on sunday morning his horse became fright
ened at the approaching train and broke both
shafts OF his buggy. The horse was injured.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-10
Little Maid-o'-Dreams.

Little Maid-o'. Dreams, with your
Eerie eyes SO clear and pure
Gazing whore we ain would see
Into far futurity-
Tell us what you there behold.
In your visions manifold
What IL on beyond our sight
Bidding. till the morrow's light,
Taircr han we see today,
As our dull eyes only may'
Little Maid Dreams. with face
Like as in some woodland place
Lifts n lily. chasto and white,
From the shadow 90 the light,
Toll US 10y your subtler glance
What strange soTccry cnchants
You as nowhere, yet afar
AS the realms of moon and starr
Have you magic lamp and ring
And gonii for ~vassalingf
Little Maid-o'Drcams. confess
You're divine end nothing less
For with mortal palms We fear,
Yet must pet you, dreaming here.
Ycarning, too, lift the tips
OF Your fingers 60 our lips;
Fearful still you may rebel,
High and heavily ~ornclcl
Th.y. though AL unmcct kiss,
Pardon this-and this--and thisi
L,ttlc Maid-o'Drcnms we call
Truce and favor, knowing all
All Jour magic Is, in truth,
PURE foresight and faith OF youth.
You're a child. yet even 50
You're n sage in embryo
President poct-artist-grcat
As your dreams anticipate
Trusting God and man, you 10
just rs heaven inspires YOU to-.
Nhitcomb Riley In Ladies' Home Jour
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-10
RIVERPOINT.

The stockholders of the r. V. Park Associa-
tion meet in the supper room at Tboruton's
Opera House this evening. and IL Is expected
that officers for the coming year viii be
elected.
Narragansett Lodge. X. OF p, meets in
Flannagan's Hall this evening.
James ~Hallingford is confined TO the house
by illness.
IRE hand engine was placed in its new
quarters at Pioneer Hall Saturday afternoon.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-10

Q. an OLD and WELL TRIED REMEDY. and ior
over TiFrY YEARS has been used by mriio1 %
mothers Tor their CHILDREN while CUTTING
1EErH with ioricc. success 10 soothes tho child.
s~oitens the sums. reduces innammatilr alEys all
pain, cures Wind collie. is very pieasnnt to The taste.
aad IL the hest remedy Tor 81 rftmt ~olt ~ "a d.
lists a. every prrrof the wotil PRICE rs Ne
Y.FlVE CENTS LOlrLG De sure and ak
Tor MRS. wiz LOWS SOOTHING sYbUp AHt
nsais,pe N use duriA- ~ lsefhias s.s,od.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-10
PAWTUXET VALLEY.


The trouble among tho firemen is not yet
settled, and much speculation is being caused
as to the ultimate result. The lights have not
b~eea!put back in the nre station. and the fire.
men are still indignant. Some OF tho men are
about disgusted with the way in which they
have been used. and say that IL there is not a
change in the management of affairs they
will resign from the department. Assistant
Engineer Haddock was seen this morning by
a NEws reporter, but had little TO say in re-
gard TO the matter, except that he thought
that the board of engineers were right IN the
position which thew had taken. Ho also said
audited, but he did not know whether ii had
been paid or not. The whole matter is evil
deutly a fight between the firemen and the
engineers, and IL Is hoped that il VIII not re-
suit in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the depart
ment.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-10

BILE. We cure IL without operations or pain. The
Jouth ~ Is to the aRed man Of 20, who have lived
in hopeless dispair foE months or years, have been
raised from their ssok-cloth and ashes and nave
become happy husbands and fathers.
JUNIORS, external or internal. cured by a new
process of absorption, No operations or pain.
We have cured thousands OF cases in both men and
women. Physicians had pronounced them ireura-
bic. No experiments and no failures. Worst
cases solicited. so years experience. Free pri-
vatc confidential consultations and examinations
ladies or gentlemen, from . a IN to p. N. SIM
days 10 to q o'clock.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-29
OONTRAsTED REPORTS.

The reports of the great disaster at st.
Louis afforded another illustration of the
superiority of the United Press as news
gatherer over the rival Associated Press,
The dispatches of the United Press were
displayed on the bulletin boards of THE
CALL fully an hour earlier than our con-
temporaries showed those of the Asso-
ciated Press, and moreover those of THE
CALL were much more full and complete.
Promptness of service and fullness of
report were not, however, the only points
of superiority in the United Press service.
Its reports were accurate, while those of
the Associated Press were full Of sensa-
tional misstatements and errors of fact.
They announced among other fakes that
several towns had been wiped out of ex-
istence, that the steamer Great Republic
with about 1000 passengers had been sunk
and that cigarette factory had been
destroyed, overwhelming 200 girls in the
ruins. The damage done was bad
enough without all of these rumored
horrors piled on top of it, as was seen in
accurate reports sent by the United Press
to THE CALL, and the incident is an eyi-
dence of the value to the community Of
having at least one morning paper whose
news can be relied on.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-29
OUR sToRM-swEPT NBIGHBoRs.

This is no time 10 attempt to trace from
effect to cause in search OF purpose nor to
speculate on sucn operation of natural law
as changes with blunt abruptness air cur
rents that bear TO man peace and health
and Joy into merciless life-destroying
agencies. It is enough to know that
storm-swept communities of our klnsmen
in st. Louis and elsewhere in the East are
crying out in their distress for sympathy,
and in streams as broad and as deep as
human affection sympathy goes out to
them from the heart of every Californian
TO these victims of angry winds and waves
and flames.
May has been q month OF dire disaster,
and many are the neighbour oods, urban
ana suburban, that have been forced to
submit to the fury OF unbridled storm,
and death and wreck and ruin have
re:gned supreme-not because a power
higher than they decreed that it so be, nor
that the vengeance Of nature was invited.
The mysteries of nature are in the realm
of the unknown and no man by searching
shall find them out. The purposes of the
Eternal Mind are ali for good and what
ever is is.
The rushing of the mighty winds that
sweep away the handiwork of man and the
gentle atmosphere that fans the infants
cheek are one, as the fury of the rushing
torrent and the mildness of the moss-en-
circled spring are, and so also are the
breeze that bears away the sweet perfume
of the orange blossom and the mad-riding
tornado one. They are all manifestations
of one supreme force and they all work to-
gether for good.
1t has been said that but for those things
which crush and destroy and kill there
would be no human sympathy; that trib-
ulation is the cord which binds man to
man in good will, and that a sense
of the need of tn help of our
fellows is the seed Of the tree of
righteousness which in turn bears the
fruit that is called the Golden Rule. But
we do know that in the economy of ma
ture's ultimate purpose our neighbors be-
yond the mountains lie bound in the
gloom of bereavement. Let us without
the asking extend to them our deepest
sympathy and our best wishes-and our
strong arm, too, with ready help if they
need it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-29
HYP0CRITIOAL REFORM.

The full text of CIeVeland's recent civil
service order shows it to be much stronger
and more sweeping than was supposed
from the digest sent by telegraph. 1t will
affect nearly the whole Federal brigade in
this City and go far to confirm in office the
whole horde of Democrats whom Cleve-
land has been gathering into his camp
during the past three years.
Never has a greater bunko game been
played under the garh OF hypocrisy in the
whole course of politics than this. For
three years Cleveland mas been President
of the United States, and be is now ap-
preaching the close of his term of Office,
with no chance of ever having another.
He made no move to extend the civil-sery-
ice rules when such extension would have
put any restrictions on his use of patron
age to advance his interests or those of his
friends. On the contrary be used the in
huence of patronage to an extent unheard
of before. 1t has been one of the great
scandals of his administration that he SO
used it to carry through Congress the re-
peal of the silver purchase act. This
patronage broker now becomes all at once
civil service reformer. His henchmen
are safely in Office, and with a smirk of
hypocrisy he assumes now TO play the
role of one who wishes to free our politics
of the 'spoils" system.
Such an order coming at such time
from such man has of course moved the
people to derision and disgrst. There is
not an intelligent man IN the country who
has been deceived by it. The motive of
Cleveland has, in fact, been too plain for
any one to make a mistake. He has
turned the whole civil service of the coun-
try into a bureau for the propagation
of Clevelandism ana the gold standard.
He has his bosses and his gangs
at this time trying to capture the Demo
cratic State conventions for the gold ring,
and yet he has the impudence to pose as a
reformer. Such civil service regulation as
this proposes can hardly be esteemed any
thing else than offensive partisanship"
itself, and should be treated as such. The
duty of the people is to turn the fools out.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-29

woolen goods is at least indirectly inter-
ested in it.
But If we turn to the statistics we shall
find that when Grover Cleveland was in
augurated, on March 4, 1893, there were
nearly s,000,0 coo sheep scattered over the
United States, representing $l26,000,000,
and that on December 81, 1895, there were
about 42, 600, 600, valued at only $66, 600, 600.
In two years, therefore, the sheep industry
was compelled to sustain a loss of over
5000, 600 head of sheep and loss in sheep
value of over S60,0O0,000 besides the loss
which the depreciation in wool value
obliged. In this connection it is timely
to mention the surprising as we'll as
alarming fact that the depreciation in
livestock value in the whole country in the
years 1893, 1894 and 1895 amounted to the
almost fabulous sum of 1864, 900, 600. How
much other industries have lost since
March, 1893, no one can tell, but to say
that Cleveland has been and is still most
destructive cyclone in the channels, high
ways and by-paths of the commerce and
industries of this country would not be
putting it whit too strong.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-29
CHANG AND CLEVEL AND.

In one respect there is great similarity
between Ii Hung Chang and Grover Cleve-
land. When en- route to Moscow Chang
left his coffin in London. When Chang
goes off on long journey he takes his
coffin with him, because, no doubt, it
would be "handy to have in the house." as
Mrs. Toodles would say. There is a good
deal of politics mixed up in Changes Jour
neyings, and political as physical death is
likely to occur at almost any time.
CIeveland's political coffin is under con-
struction and will be escorted to Chicago by
Boies and Bland in July. Unlike Chang.
however, who has had no intima ton that
he will need his coffin in the near future.
Cleveland knows exactly the day on which
he will need his box.
But in any event Cleveland will have the
advantage of Chang. He will have the
satisfaction of seeing his party similarly
cared for. He knows, too, that the estate
of the Democratic party will be divided
up-the real valuable belongings going to
the Republican party and the pinchbeck
jewelry and Pittsburg diamonds going to
Boies and Bland, who will probably sell
them to the Populists
How things do sometimes come out even
and balance themselves. This is the
Democratic party's centennial, and now
that human slavery in the United States
is done gone," and the brains and the
Drawn OF the country are advocating pro-
tection to our industries, political coffins
should be in demand.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-29
SOCIETY AND CRIME.

A study of the criminal statistics of Eu-
rope led Buckle to assert that the law of
crime was as regular in its operations as
any other II the domain of sociology. A
given environment produces in a given
race of people a number Of crimes every
year that fiuctuates hardly more than the
death rate. It seems evident from this
that crime is not the freak of irresponsible
individuals so much as the outcome of
social conditions. Where it occurs fire.
quently there is something wrong in the
community as whole as well as in the
criminal class.
1t is time for the people Of California to
give serious consideration to this philo-
sophie view of crime. There has been
enough of horror of recent occurrence in
this State and particularly in this City to
force the subject upon the attention of
even the most Indifferent. Murder after
murder has occurred with an appalling
frequency. 1t has fallen upon the limo.
cent under the most diverse circumstances
and in the extremes of social conditions.
One day the victim is the degraded in
mate of brothel and another day she is a
woman of gentle breeding and high char
acter. One day murder sinks through
the Sums of the City and on another it
RACES through the orchards of smiling
valleys.
What is the cause of this fearful record
of frequent crime? Are we to attribute it
to the madness of men raging with a
homicidal mania-a thing that can be
checked only by the interposition of
heaven-or are We to regard it as the dire
nF afn in cnoio
organism which we can cure ourselves if
We are resolute to do it2
There can be no question IN the minds
of serious men that much of the crime
that occurs in this State is the direct re-
suit of evils which as community we
deliberately tolerate. The processes of
our criminal law are slow, and are by no
means certain in their results. Juries
with us are too often swayed by sentiment
rather than by justice. A thousand tech
nicalities of precedent and practice check
the execution of law. and Justice, with the
best intentions in the world to draw her
sword for the protection of the innocent,
finds her hands bound by such endless
bands of red tape that she is as powerless
as if under hypnotic spell.
With such calendars of crime as are now
before them the law officers of the State
should need no urging to enter upon the
work of vindicating justice with an ex-
alted ardor. District Attorneys and
Judges should set aside civil business and
press criminal cases to an immediate hear
ing. The law must be swift if it would be
terrible. 1t should not be vIndictive, but
it should be free from false sentiment 1t
should "allow no guilty man 10 escape. :"
1t should hold every murderer responsible
for his crime and summon him to imme-
date trial. There may be some insanity
in every wanton criminal, but there is
more in community that allows crime to
go unwhipt of jus tice.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-29

yellow gold held as q reserve for the "redemp-
tlon" OF greenbacks which nobody wanted re-
deemed Tor twenty years, had been bought
with greenbacks or promises to pay in coin,
the only difference in fact being that green
backs called ''bonds" bore interest and the
other greenbaeks bore no interest. Yes, there
was another dIfference-the greenbaek
"bonds'' were nearly all of high denomina-
tons-$500. $1,000 $40, ,000-and did not cir
culate as money. In other respects both
bonds aud greenbacks are just the same.
They rest on the same basis or security-that
is, the promise and faith OF the Nation, backed
by the taxing power of Congress, which ex-
tends TO every dollars worth of property and
even TO the toll of seventy millions of people
in these United States. Hence the greenbaeks
were just as good as the bonds, and even bet
ter. for they were prior lien or first mortgage
on all OF Uncle Sans property and were,
moreover. due and payable before single
bond was issued.
Not 10 make this letter too long, let us call it
first installment on the bond question, while
the reader ruminates little on the figures
given in the clipping above quoted from an or
thodoX newspaper which seems to be getting
'onto" Sherman's little joker of the gold re-
serve. JOSEPH AsBURY JOHNSON.
IL Essex street, San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-29
SOME IMPORTANT FACTS.

Undoubtedly it is of great Importance to
the Western wool-producing States that
silver be remonetized, but they should not
lose sight of the Importance of restoring
their sheep industry to the position it oc-
cupied prior to the substitution OF the Will
son act for the tariff law of 1890. There
are so many large and commanding indus
tries in the United States that it is hard
for the public to keep sufficiently in touch
with them all to note the injuries that are
inflicted upon those that are removed be-
yond the more prominent highways of OBJ
servation, SO to speak; but it is true, never
theless, that the havoc Cleveland's free
trade policy has wrought among those
outlying sources Of National wealth has
not only been great, but il has, silently it
may be, woven threads of inherent weak
ness all through the entire industrial fab
ric of the country.
When President Harrison vacated the
White House to make room for Grover
Cleveland, the sheep industry of Montana,
Idaho, Washington, Utah and Oregon was
valued at $13,000,0 goo, and before the ex-
piration OF the following twelve months it
had decreased to less than $7,000,0O0. To
this loss of nearly half in sheep value
must be added $3,000000 as represent
ing the depreciation in the value of
wooi, making the grand total of the
losses forced upon the wool industry
of the five States mentioned mount
up to the enormous sum of SIC, ,0O0, 900 in
single year. 1t will be seen, hence, that
those five wooI-producing States have
quite as much interest in the tariff ques-
ton as they have in the question of the
reconciliation of silver, and what is true
of them is equally true of the entire coun-
try between the Mississippi River and the
Pacific Ocean. The sheep INDUSTRY is nec-
essarily an isolated one, but it is none the
less important, and every person who uses
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-29
HUMoR OF THE HOUR.

Bobby-say. mamma, was the baby sent down
from heaven?
Mamma--Why yes.
Bobby-Um. They likes to have Il quiet nm
there, don't they?-Truth.
Miss Fright-Now, then, / want you to make
this picture of me just as pretty and stylish as
you know how.
Photographer (absentmindedly)- Certainly.
madam. Did you bring q veil?-somervilie
Journal.
When Jonah settled in the whale,
The latter did berate
His taking in, because he found
He'd not assimilate;
And as he bolted for the shore
Thus did his whaleship spout
although he doesn't digest yet
I'd better lay him out"
-Yonkers Gazette
Boy-Ain't sister and you going for ramble
this afternoon7
Suitor-We are, sonny; but why do you ask !:
Boy-Because sisters had the corn doctor
here all the morning.-The Waterbury.
Cunliffe-Did Roarer ever realize any OF his
political ambitions?
Bookey-No, poor fellow; he never got any
higher than the position of favorite SON.
Philadelphia North American.