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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-10
PROVIDENCE WINS AT roRoxro.

At Toronto this morning the game re-
suIiod In a victory for the Providspco grays.
The score was Providence, o; Toronto. q
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-10
ESTIMATED Can LOTS

Cattle, 1900
Sheep, $4,000.
Heavy shipping hogs, s2.65a3. Is.
Sept. wheat. 56as; calls. 90.
Corn, Sept puts, 27ia; calls, 2s.
Sept. Curb Wheat, 81.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-10
PROVIDENCE STOCK EXCHANGE.

'Ex.Div per cent Ex-cIv. per cent
'EI-div. y per cent
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
MESSAGE OF rHs pEoPLs.



Hist We, Bryan Did you here it? How il
rolled from sea to sea
Did you hear the thunderous answer of q
people great and free?
Did you hear the word they We spokeu-have
you felt that shoulder-blow?
To your vile Reputation, have you heard
their mighty NO2
Hist We, Tiilnian! Have YOU noticed how
the people of this land
Have arisen in their honor to strike. down
your pirate hand?
Have you seen upon their banner there is
blazoned, fair to see,
Their renewal Of allegiance unto Truth and
Purity?
Hist We, Altgeld Can you read it 1? Can you
read the message through?
IT'S u message that the people in their might
intend for you-
How they'll tolerate no Anarch in this land
that they have won;
How they'll strange every effort quite as
soon as It's begun
Have you heard it, o misguided2 If you
have not, il were well
That you learned from those who've done SO
what the people have to tell;
We've country, and we've made il, and
we're going to keep 1t clean,
And We'll throttle any Serpent who would
make it base and mean
-Harper's Weekly,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24

how to love and MS you can love- What |
have looked for in vain in other men |
shall perchance not find in you but | can
always believe that it is In you. The looks
and caresses of love, which have always
lied to me, you will allow me to explain
at my pleasure without adding to them
any, deceitful words. | will be able to in
terpret your reveries and to turn
your silence into eloquent speech. ! will
attribute to your actions such motives as
l may desire. When you look at me ten
derby will believe that your soul is hold
ing communication with mine; when you
look at the sky | will believe that your
intellect is speeding back to the eternal
center from which it emanated.
let us remain, then, as we are. Do
not learn my tongue; have no desire 10
find in your language the words which
would tell you of my doubts and fears
! desire to remain in ignorance of what
you are doing with your life and of what
part you are playing in the wGld of men
would be willing even not to know your
name-nay, hide from me your very soul
so that l may always be able to believe
it is beautiful"
| 1t is said that on the back of this letter
George Sand wrote the words: 'ro tn,
stupid Pagello." The wonder is, wer,
these words written in pleasantly or il
contempt? Did the gifted woman merel,
mean to jest with her big-shoudered love-
or had she learned too late that ali her fin,
frenzy was being wasted on n man who
instead of proving himself the Apollo o
her dreams, had at last shown himself /,
| be of very ordinary clay?
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24

One-ttfh oil the NhOle African Continent
Is Desert.
The desert area of A frica is estimated
by Mr.. RRenstein at over 9, $50, 600
square miles, of which all but small
fraction is contained in the tracr of
land popularity known as the Sahara,
says McClure's. Except for some
school children who know better, aud
school teachers who are instrumental
for their doing so, the miscoEception of
the Sahara, which is widespread, would
be practically universal. The average
man pictures the Sahara as vast sea
of sand, for the most part below sea
level, across which the camel speeda
before the poison blast of the simeon
from oasis to oasis. Schemes for food
ing the Sahara have come before tho
public occasionally, and we have read
accounts of the vast inland sea which
might be formed, rivaling the Meditcr-
ranean in size, giving a southern sea
coast to Morocco and Algeria and ad
uniting steamers directly to the
wealthy States of the Soudan.
The Sahara as known to the
geographer corresponds ba.ily with this
conception; for, in fact, there is no
risk OF tho "ship of the desert" lever
heing supplanted by the ships of the
sea- Few parts are below sea level and
they are small and scattered. In the
| interior the desert is plain, high
above sea level, covered with vast dunes
of red sand in many parts; in Others
it is an elevated plateau with lofty
mountain ranges of bare rocks inter
serted by stony valleys. 1t il arid,
save whore Il spring bubbles up and
| gives rise to small oasis of grass and
palm trees The Sahara proper is un-
| known, except for few trade routes
regularly traversed by Arabs and
occasionally by adventurous Europeans.
| These utilize the OASIS as resting
places, stepping. stones, as it were. and
| keep up communication between the
wealthy Mohammedan States round
Lake Chad in the south and Tripoli
| Tunis, Algiers or Morocco on the Medi.
terranean. Between the Trade routes
all IL blank of sand or barren rock.
| Exploration il only possible when
water IA we'll an food can he carried.
and this condition has practically
stopped all attempts at discovery for the
present on account of the great EXPENSE
and the purely scientific nature of the
possible return. A railway running
from tho French possessions on the
Mediterranean across the desert t
Timbuctoo, the scarcely known trad,
centre near Niger. is talked of
Such line may be constructed il
the future, but the difficulties ar,
enormous, much %raater than thos,
overcome by the Russians in the trans
Caspian limo through the deserts of cen
| tral Asia,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
SLAVES TO COCAINE.
A Dangerous and Horrible Poison II Used
Habituaily.


A Dangerous and Horrible Poison II Used
Hab,tuaiiy.
1t is remarkable fact that those
who yield most blindly to the influence
Of drugs are usually persons Of
brilliant intellect and delicate mental
poise, for whom n grosser stimulent
would have little attraction, says the
New York journal. A sad case in
point is that OF young ply stefan in
Cleveland, o., who returned recently
from Europe, where he had been taking
hospital course under q famous
London surgeon, only to die within a
month pitiful wreck.
While in London an unfortunate
love affair so depressed the young mans
spirits that he had recourse to a
stimulent to enable him to pursue his
work with concentrated effort. He
chose cocaine and finished his course
with distinguished SUCCESS, sailing for
h9me shortly afterward slave in body
and soul to the deadly habit. The
talents and ability of the victim and
the prominence of his family give an
unusual interest to this instance,
though there is not city in the land
that has not it's parallel.
Since the beginning of time man
kind has sought surcease of pain in
natures remedies and whom found the
balm has not infrequsnty proved
bane to the life of the beneficiary.
More than 1900 years ago the Chinese
employed Indian hemp to produce in
sensibility, or at least Indifference, to
suffering.
The Greeks and Romans used man.
dragora as sedative, and In the
thirteenth century it was combined
with the 'essence of the poppy"
Since the beginning of the present
century number of anesthetics OF
varying degrees of usefulness has been
discovered and introduced into their
own departments OF medical practice;
chief among them and regarded as the
greatest blessing of all is chloroform.
Cocaine, an alkaloid of cocoa leaves,
was discovered in 1853. but remained
in comparative obscurity until 1884.
In minute doses, whether taken in
| ternally or used as spray on mucous
surfaces. it's effect is wonderfully ex-
| hilarating, producing for a time the
fresh and buoyant sensations of youth
and perfect health, that have APP
| parently no unpleasant reaction; and
| therein lies the explanation OF the
| subtle and irresistible power it quickly
acquires over its victims. carrying
them to the very brink of destruction
before they have dreamed of danger.
Being a cumulative poison, the first
warning symptom does not appear
until the fatal chains are rivetod that
| shall drag them, horror stricken and
| powerless OF resistance, over the precI
pice TO complete mental, moral and
physi cal ruin.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
DE BEDDIN' DAP.
Fred II. Yuple.


Pick de banjo, honey-put in dem ting-a-
lings--
Keep yo' fingers goin' cross de homemade
strings;
For de darkies will be singin';
So keep de banjo ringin'
Like notes de little southern bluebird sings.
Pick de banjo, honey--put in dem ting-a.
lings-
Beat dem feet SO lively. TO- OATS de day dat
brings
Pack de reckoleckshuns dear
So make de music clear
Like notes de little southern hluebird sings.
Pick de banjo, honey, fo' de weddin' day am
comm, KS
In de golden summer time. when all de bees
am hummin'
So pick dem good and fast ars
Fo' dat weddn'. may be de last
Dat I'll cher hear dem lubly strings tum'
min.
So pick de banjo, honey-put in dem ting.a
lings--
When de darkies am a-dancin', den finger
on dem strings.
DE Mobile Buck" an "Watermelon
.. Sweet
Dey'll hoe EN- down wild lively feet
To de notes like de little southern bluebird
sings.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
CHRiSTMAS LULLABY.



Sleep, baby, sleep!
The eastern skies
Are calm and bright;
And over all the world,
The Star Of bethlehem
Is shedding It's pure light
o little one!
O little one!
Let all thy sobbings cease,
For the little babe who comes to be
The King of all mems destiny,
Is named the Prince of Peace!
Is named the Prince Of Peace
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Sleep. baby, sleep!
For man. and beast. is glad:
Thy gentle King by angel hands
Was in manger laid.
That all the patient kline might see
lie scorned not even their degree
But unto burdened beasts, us men,
He came their loads to ease,
This little Prince of Peace!
This little Prince of Peacel
Let all thy sobbings cease, my babe,
Let all thy sobbings cease
For 10! thy King. my little-babe,
Is named the Prince of Peace!
Is named the Prince of Peace
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
They Ate Up the Church.

Bishop Williams of Marquette was
recently invited to serve bis alma
mater, Cornell University, as uni
versiiy preacher. He did SO, coming
straight from the synod of the
CanaGian church at Winnipeg and
bringing this story with him "There
was missionary bishop there" said
Bishop Williams, who had been 81 K
weeks in coming, most of the way by
canoe. He rose and began by saying
that he would speak for himself and
Tor brother bishop. who, unfor
tunately, could not be present. lie
was sorry to say that his brothers.
diocese had gone to the dogs. A
general gloom followed these words
lie went on TO say that the bishop had
found so many inquiries after religion
among the Esquimaux north of Hud,
son bay that he had to buila a church.
As there was no wood he used whales
ribs for rafters, covering them with
tanned walrus hide, and 80 made q
church to hold so persons. All went
merry as marriage bell for a time,
until-the dogs grew famished and ate
the church. Troy Times.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
snE sra RqsD MN.
But &c Was Only by the Exercise of Good
Generuiship IN tho Case.

But .t Was Only by the Exercise of Good
Generuiship IN tho Case.
Washington Star.
There was a look about the woman's
eye which indicated that she had
asked her husband for the last time
to do what she wantoo. 1t was not an
angry look; it was merely an expression
which showed that ordinary means had
failed and she must try finesse. Her
husband, who was sitting on the step,
looked over the top of his paper MS she
passed him to go to the front gate.
Pm going after that loaf OF bread
you spoke sof IN few minutes now, =
he said, apologetically.
Pm not going to make any more
requests" she answered. But he did
not hear her. His face was again
buried in his newspaper.
Presently she came rushing up the
walk and exclaimed:
Zone of the neighbors saw patrol
wagon 60 up the street at gallop and
turn the corner toward the grocery.
There must have been fight or some
thing"
Without word he grabbed his hat
in an instant and was going down the
street at rate which made two baby
carriages turn out for fear of col
lision. As his wife gRzed after him she
saw him going around the corner 40
fast that the centrifugal force threw
him over on one side.
In five or ten minutes he came back.
He handed her bundle and reached
for his paper, saying:
Here's that bread. As long as l
was ST. near the grocery l thought l
would get it and stop your fretting
about it. But l didn't see any dis
turbances. -
"Are you talking about the patrol
wagon and the crowdY'' she inquired,
innocently.
"Of course, / am"
why. that all happened day before
yesterday. But I'm ever SO glad you
got the bread, dear"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
sAVED BY 1 DRISH.
The BOY Was Found Safe with His Bottle
OF Water.

of Water.
A child of years of age had deyel.
oped a bad habit of rising in the night
to drink from the water bottle and had
been forbidden in vain, says London
It'd Bits. On the night Of recent
storm, his parents being away, his
aunt tucked him safely in bed.
Now, KY" she sal |, remember
l can tell il you go to the water bottle. I"
"Oh, no, aunty," he smiled, slyly,
"how can your"
81 can tell" she said, with conyic-
tion.
but how?' said Dick, skeptically.
can" she repeated; land since
you won't promise, you naughty boy,
| shall empty the BOTTLE" And she
did SO, to the young reprohate's con-
sternation.
In the middle of the night tn, gable
of the house was blown down and
crashed like thunder through the reil-
ing of Master Disks room. As his
aunt and the servants rushed in tor
rible sight met their gaze. The bed
was almost hidden by masses OF bricks
and masonry, the two iron feet at the
head being driven completely through
the floor. With shrek his aunt fell
on he. knees. "Oh, Dicky, poor
Dickyp she cried. He's been
killed."
The words had hardly left her lipt
when there came light, pattering ster
from the bath room and as they turned
there stood Dlcky, his teeth chatterina
with cold, candle in one hand and 1
full water bottle in the other. For
moment he surveyed the bed with it
ton or two OF debris and then shook hi
head with sorrowful admission.
| feth, aunty," he declared, "yoi
thed you could tell if l did,"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
rnE .B4nrrsrse INSTINCT.
A Case in which 1t Was strongly Developed
and Persistent.


There was q wistful expression On his
face as he strolled up to the box office
OF the theatre, says the Detroit Free
Press. He stroked his beard with an
assumption of nonchalance and said to
the young man who was solling tickets
BE ye goin' ter bev anythin' goin'
on here ter!nightY"
"Yes, cir" was the answer "We
have performance here every night "
Crowded housesY"
"Oh, guess we can find place for
you il you want to go in. "
pensive. Most any place 'ud do fur
me. +"
1--WE can sell you seat for % cents. F."
"Thar's rock bottom prices, is ir?"
1--WE can't give any discount on
that. "
"Wal, | dunno. Would We sorter do
mo pus'nal favor?"
1t was dull day and the man in the
box office was little lonely, and to
keep the conversation going he an
swered:
Yes, il you don't ask me TO pass
you into the SHOW for nothing"
wouldn't make no sech request es
amusement, or go wethout But would
you take five two cent stamps in part
payment"
''fes. We can use them. "
An | got dime with a hole in 1t.
Would We ies OF soon let that go in full
eight centsy That's discount of twc
cents GU account Of the hole.
The ticket seller was thoroughly
amused by this time, and he answered
" Yes. Let's have it,"
'That'll make is cents. | reckon
you'll want seven cents more"
Pm afraid / will. "
oval, here's the IS cents. I'll CONT
around tonight an set down anywhere
ye put me an when 70 think I've seer
Is cents wuth, yo kin send one o. yel
hired mel around an notify me. III
git right up an go out an there won
be any disturbance whatsomeyer.
1--WE can't do anything like that
You'll have to buy ticket for tn,
whole show or not go in at all. "
wal, there's only one thing l xii
offer We. ie can take yer choice. III
give We this here jack knife that pait
a quarter fur less'n year ago, an
which only hez one blade out o. tn
three broke. Err I'll give ye this 10
cent piece of chewiu' terbacker wbicl
l WAS goin' ter take home az a presen
ter the hired man"
I'll don't SEQ how We can do any
thing like that, :" ..
at 'ud he great accommodation. !"
GAN right" said the an,iable tickle
SELLER Hand over the jack knife.
And he threw him out ticket.
II know ye amt rnnnin' no jun
shop" the applicant said, as he passe
over the cutlery, ''an' I'm niue
Obliged ter ye fur maxim this eXcer
tion. l hated ter 60 way wethou
seein' theayter- show, but of l wus to
hev paid zeal money out an out | don
think Mehitahel would ever forgive m
J fur it. But the postage stamps u
Likely hev got lost before got chanc
ter use 'em an couldn't pass tn
dime an I've got another jack knife
So OF long ez jes' traded in fur it,
kin enjoy the actin with clear Gou
} science an go home an tell Mehitah'
all about it,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
caRIsrMAs "DoNrS."


Some Suggestions Every One should he
sure TO Follow.
Washington Times.
Don't give presents after you have com
planned for weeks to all your friends about
the nuisance of the custom. Christmas
can be celebrated other ways, and giving
gifts ungraciously is one of the most
graceless things in the world. If you will
give them and still hate TO, keep your hate
secret.
Don't take the tone that you are ''ciit
mp" il some one for whom you have moth
ing gives you II present. The thing is not
supposed to be a matter of bargaining;
preserve II decent semblance of a Christ
mas spirit, and repay the obligation, not
by Il tardy responding gift, but in some
other way ut some other time if you want
to.
Don't give any one bric-a-brac or pict-
ures unless you are morally sure you know
his taste. Presents that must he dis
played are apt to be a great strain on the
affections; no matter how the receiver
may hate them he must father them and
deface his rooms with them or insult the
giver. Now, Il book. for instance, even il
the receiver don't like it and don't want
it, can he tucked away among other books
and forgotten; but an ugly vase we have
always with us-at least till we can
plausibly meet with nm accident and smash
it. Don't write your name or anybody
elsc's on cards if You send them; no one
can keep lot of such truck, and it is often
highly convenient just to send it on its
| travels to carry Christmas greeting to
other people; and why not?
Don't give presents in the wrappings
| they were sent from the shop in; it is like
| throwing bone To n dog; less expensive
presents and little fancy paper and rib
bon and few sprays of holly and mistle-
toe administered with taste will be a deal
more satisfactory and Christmasy.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
CHKIsTMAs IN MnRRIB ENGLAND.


Heap on no more wood 1.-THE wind is chill
But let it whistle as il will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
And well our Christian sires of old
Loved when the year its course had roil'd,
And brought blitne Christmas back again,
With all his hospitable train.
Gave honor to the holy night;
On Christmas eve the bells We're rung:
ON Christmas eve the mass WIS suing;
That only night i'll all the year.
All haii'd with uncontrolled delight,
And general voice, the happy night,
That to the cottage. as the crown.
Brought udings of Salvation down.
Twas Christmas told the meiriest tale,
A Christmas gambul oft could cheer
The poor mans heart through half tho year.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
CHRISTMAS D.iY.


Oh Blessed Day, which gives the eternal
lie
To self and sense, and all the brute within
Oh come to Ills amid this war of life
To hall and hovel. come to all who toll
In senate shop or study; ami 10 those
world.
lll-warned, and sorely tempted, ever face
Natures brute powers, and men unnamed
to brutes-
Come to them, blest and blessing, Christ
mas Day;
Tell them once more the tale of Bethlehem-
The smelling shepherds and the babe Di-
vine;
And keep them men indeed, fair Christmas
Day.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24

IIc had made mash.
There was NJ mistake about it.
She was the only woman in the room
and even casual observer. had there
been ono present, which thcre was not,
would have declared her beautiful
one.
There was queenly air about her
and it rendered the man in his shirt
sleeves still more homogeneous than
otherwise.
She had HI expression of amusement
on her face,
But he had made mash.
And she? Was she in love with him?
The man felt tolerably suro about
it, anyway.
She was bis wife.
George" she was saying, when
you have put away that 'Bartender's
Guide and drank that sour mash you
seem SO proud Of would suggest your
dressing for dinner.'
1t seemed TO be quite an appetizer.
New York World.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24

The frocks of babies from l to 9
years old come an inch or two above
the shoe-top-enoneh to avoid any risk
of the tots stumbling and falling over
its skirts. At 3 years Of age they are
now shortened to the jauntieHt propor
tions, and come barely to the knee. Al
years skirts fall just below the knee,
and from then on they are gradually
heightened, until at IA they tall flush
with the shoetop, while at lG they are
carried down to the ankle. -EIarper's
Bazaar,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
a cnange h the calenaar snseesten.


1t is suggested that on January Let,
1900, new division OF the year into l3
months be instituted. If such divi.
sion were made the first II months
would have 2S days, or four wecka
each, and the new month 20 days, to
make 1865. and 30 in leap years After
fsw days there would he no nnod to
refer to calendars, as the same day of
the week would have the same date
through the year. If January lst were
say Monday, every Monday would he tho
lst, 18th, 18th, and 22d; every Tuesday,
the I'd, 9th, 10th and 2,d, and SO On
through the year. The changes of II o
moon would be on about the same daten
through the year, and many calcubi-
tions, ike interest, dates of maturing
notes, Easter and many other import
ant dates would be siu,plitied. Although
the present generation would have to
figure new dates for birthdays aud all
legal holidays except New Year would
be on different dates, yot the gain
would be more than the loss, as that
would lie permanent and the ojectiuns
trifiing, Scientific American.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
No Choice,

Young Man-"Ah! How do, Dick?
Is your SISTER at homer"
Little Dick" Which sister? The
homely one what's goin' to have all
pa money, because she's likely to be
an old maid, or the pretty one what
amt goin' to have anything?"
Young Man =" I'm = er-hoth of
them. Woonsocket Reporter.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24

1t seems as if there should bo some
way to prevent Needless youngsters
from taking upon themselves the re-
snonsibilities of matrimony before they
can really realize what they are. From
Maryland We learn that William Hass,
aged rs, has become the third husband
of Mrs. Ella Sperow. aged 81, who is
his fourth vito. Chicago Post.