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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-14
Endorsed by Authorities.

Various interstate commissioners have
strongly confirmed these views:
Judge Cooley said: How distinctly 1t
is seen here that 10 is utterly impossible
TO Judge of railroad competition and its
effects. its usefulness and its mischiefs, by
comparing it with competition as we en-
counter it III other lines OF business.
Honorable Martin A. Knapp said: De
privcd Of special and exclusive rates, an
advantage far more odious aud powerful
than exemption from taxation, those trusts
are shorn Of their strength and divested
of their supremacy
Judge Patterson, who introduced the
pooling bill Of 1895, said: This pref
Crential system throughout the country
is gradually destroying the small and on
riching the large shippers.
Ihe great English commission OF 1882
said: "While committees and commits
sions carefully chosen have tor the
past thirty years clung to ono form If
competition or another, it has nevertheless
become more and more evident that COM
petition must fail to 40 for the railways
what it does for ordinary trade. "
It also said: " Reliance upon compett-
tiOu between railways To regulate rates
and maintain them upon fair basis and
TO prevent unjust Determinations will
have to be abandoned as IL failure. "
Hons A. e.. Thurman, T.. Is. Wash
purne and Il. NJ Cooley said, in their
Joint report of 1882: 1T is state of
things that. like a war between nations,
from it's very dcstructiveness cannot be u
normal condition, but must speedily ter
inmate I'm peace or disaster. They tur-
thcr said: Tho mere statement OF these
results Is sufficient To show that this is
not what In ether business is known and
designated rs competition.
A distinguished United States Senator
said in 1881: Competition Of railroad
transportation differs from every other
kind uf competition In the world.
IL is not comI ctition in trade. The rail
road buys nothing of the producer; it
sells nothing ~ the consumer; 1t simply
carries; IL distributes.
The thiof of statistics Of the United
states said: Success awaited upon In
trigue and false representations. The
freight agents deceived the merchants
and tho merchants deceived tho freight
agents.
senator Cullom's committee said; "If
competition is 10 have full sway, rs 10
does now, tho constant changes it would
ncccssitatc would render IL impossible TO
maintain fixed rates y
10 further said that "ccmpetition does
not prevent personal discrimination, for
the evil h most conspicuous when and
where competition is most active. "
Judge, aftCrward senator, Howe, said
Competition (Incaning improper com
petition) has done more to monopolize
trade or secure exclusive advantages In
IL than has been done by contract "
The Interstate Commerce Commission
said In It's first annual report: Excess
sivc and unreasonable competition Is a
public injury"
Why the Interstate Commerce act has
largely failed To meet ana correct these
conditions will be considered next.
GEORGE *. BLANCHARD
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The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Hannah Brewer. the old post"orl-
an OF Bitton, England, has been on
duty GO years, during which time she
has walked quarter Of million miles.
--Ex-Secretary Herbert has gone in
TO the business of pressing claims
against the navy department He says
in n circular letter 10 claimants that
he is "in position 10 prosecute claims
md get prompt action"
Maj. Ginter. the Richmond tobacco
king. has resigned his position as di-
rector of the American Tobacco com
pany and will soon retire from active
business. worth $1,000 900. When he
laid down his musbct at Appomuttox
be did not have dollar.
Mrs Thomas A Edison l. very
beautiful woman. She looks like AT
Italian, with soft brunette coIuriug and
a superb complexion. She knows very
little of her husbands scientific work,
bat dcvo'es much time to reading de-
tectiye novels with him form Of liter
ature Of which he is very fond
One OF the most costly crowns In
the world is that OF the atug Of PortI-
gal. The jewels which "rna~"n' It are
valued at Ss,5OO.0O0 Qur.u Njcroria's
crown is valued ar SI-0|..r1. In lis
state clothes, including rh" crown, the
sultan OF Johorc wears diamonds wortI
Sl2.00O.OgO.
-Fnnlcin Anna Sirr,run5. o grand
niece Of the great conlu0~rr. Shuhcrt,
who is student in tire dramaffr de.
partmcut Of the Vienna conservatory,
recently appeared tH thai city a> Fran
cisca in "Nunn Won BurAclm" and
Viola in AS You Like It." It was her
first public performance
Judge Advocate samuel T. Sbaylor
OF Jacksonville Fla whiI" sitting on a
wharf during Nh" rourt- martial recess.
found In the hem NJ his trousers a s7j
dinmoHd ring. lie had purchased the
trousers wear H'o Of Capt. Letter, Of
Sanford Fla but had not had occa sior
to use them buf1r.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
NAMES OF DISHES.

The sandwich is called for the earl of
Sandwich.
Mulligatawney is from an East In
dian word meaning pepper water.
Waffle is from wafel, q word Of leu.
tonic origin, meaning honeycomb.
Hominy is from auhuminea. the
North American Indian word for
parched corn.
Gooseberry fool is corruption from
gooseberry foule. milled or pressed
gooseberries.
Forcemeat is corruption of farce
meat from the French farce. stufllng.
|. G.. meat for stufling.
Blanc-mange means literally white
food. hence chocolate blanc-mange is
something Of misnomer
Succotash is a dish borrowed from the
Narragansett Indians and called by
them m'sick-quatash.
Gumbo is simply okra soup. gumbo
being the name by which okra is often
known in the south. Chicken gnmbo is
soup Of okra and chicken.
Macaroni is taken from Greek deri.
vation. which means '.the blessed dead. y
in allusion to the ancien, custom of eat
ing it at feasts for the dead.
Sally Lunn was pastry cook. who
Mt the close Of the eighteenth century
used to cry the teabread which bears
her name about the streets Of Bath
England.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
DEATH MYTHS.
Some of the GhostIy Terrors In Store
for the Soul.


Among the myths OF the most bar
hHrons races we find definite ideas as &c
the destination of the soul after deatt
and Of the perils which surround it be
fore it can reach that happy land the
abode of deceased ancestors. who have
attained to it by the same p-rilous road
Vt the meeting of the British assOcil-
tion at oxford Gs94J. Prof. Iylot
brought forward four Of these after
death Perils IN very interesting paper.
entitled, The Diffusion Of Mythical Be
.lefs az Evidence IN the History Of Cul
ture," in which he showed the existence
of belief in these same perils in coun.
tries as widely separated a., Japan, Mex
leo. Persia and Europe and threw upon
screen representations almost ideU-
tical from Mexican, Japanese Buddhist
and old German pictures, drawing from
the similarity of the scenes depicted the
Inference that there must have been
some sort of intercourse between these
countries in the rcmot" past. The four
SCENES brought forward represented:
% The crossing Of stream by II
dangerous bridge; W the passage Of
the soul between two mountains IS hich
clash together; t3J the climbing up
mountain set with sharp knives ~
the dangers from wind carrying
knives with IT,
Three of these ghostly fcrror- may
be- found in the myths OF many other
countries besides those named by Prof.
Tylor. the two first being the most
widely distributed. The perilous cross
ing Of a river after death was belief
umoUg Egyptians. Greeks and Romans
but they provided boat and Il ferry.
man for the convenience of the souls
who were required to pay for the a.
rommoiation with an obolus placed i1
the mouth by pinus relatives. This fee
is not unknown iu less classical couu.
tries, being found, believe, in Peru and
Japan, India and Fiji, while the boa,
is often replaced by much mora
dangerous mode of transit. this being
usually a hair bridge or one so sharp as
To resemble The blade Of a knife. The
prrilous bridge of the dead is found in
the legends Of the Esquimuu, among the
Nhamans OF Siberia and in Australia,
in each case accompanied by the second
VI IL ' lbI 0 bALEtlH- illF 'lhSlllll-
rocks under somewhat varying forms,
hut always, as think, making link
with the medieval representations OF
"Thr jaw, Of Death" Among the Es-
uuimuuN, the anEakos, or sorcercr, who
would visit Sedna, the goddess who lives
underground or in the depths OF the
ocean, presiding over one of the cour-
tries 10 ~ hiCh souls 20 a after death must
first pass the arsssut Cthc dwellings of
the happy dead and then cross an abyss
in which a wheel as slippery as ice is
constantly turning round. Arriving at
the house OF SrdHa, he finds it guarded
by terrible ANIMALS, sometimes de-
scribcd as seals and sometimes IL dogs;
and when within the house passage he
has to cross an abyss by means Of
bridge as narrow as knife edge.-An'
tiQuary.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
HER LIfELrKe STATUE.
siEnali.ed Her Departure from the
World OF Artists.

Before her marriage she had been a IA
nous sculptress She mad made several por-
traits OF well-linown men, and everyone pre-
dicted for her a still more brilliant future,
when she suddenly set all predictions at
naught by marrying wealthy man who dis,
approved of her keeping up her professional
work She was very quiet under TINS re-
striction, but was supposed to rebel inward
ly. Therefore when, at a dinner party one
evening, she asked her old friend Cen
Bashar, to come and see her on the follow.
ing evening and inspect her last piece Of
work, which she thought the best and most
lifeIike she had ever executed, he sup
posed he was to use his influence to prevail
upon the husband to permit her to resume
her place among the working fraternity of
artists.
Il am sure you will like it, general, she
said, with winning smile 1T fairly lives
and breathes. | confess l am in love with
1t myself"
On the appointed evening the general,
with some misgivings over the delicacy OF
the task intrusted to him, presented him
self. Instead OF inviting him to the studio,
his hostess, TO his surprise, offered to bring
her last bit to him.
"Oh, it's statuette, is it," he asked.
We'll, yes, you might call it so," she an
swered, as she went out OF the room. In a
few minutes she returned, bearing in her
arms-a baby!-Chicaso Times Herald.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
IT HAS BEEN SAID.

That food, drink and tobacco cost
the people Of New York city 81 ,Ooo. 900
and over per day.
That nothing will clear and beautify
poor complexion sooner than the ent-
ing Of onions. in some form.
That long, narrow envelopes are TAX
ing the place Of the square ones for
weddings and other Invitations.
That monograIns are smaller and are
inclosed in ring not larger than a
ten-cent piece, and frequently backed
with blue or green enamel
That striking novelties in writing pa
per are plaided, blocked and brocaded
in elaborate fashion, and that pale tints
are also fashionable, blue. grny, pink
and cream.
That the point of the new aesthetic
soup spoon is supposed to have orig
mated with the idea of preparing an
instrument that could be successfully
run head on" between the wingssof o
mustnche.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
Lamp. Burninp for 900 Y-nrs.

Why does not some one reinvent the
perpetual lamp of the ancicnts? 1t
would be n fine thing for n number of
uses. particularly for churches, bank
vaults, bed chamber, etc. Though there
are some doubts about them, the stories
are too numerous and too well authen-
ticated to be altogether legendary.
When the tomb of Pallas, son of Evan
der, was opened, in the twelfth century,
it is said II lighted lamp, which must
have been burning 1000 years, hung
above his head, In 1850 marble
s"pulcher of the Roman period was
discovered on an island near Naples.
On opening tia burning lamp was found
which is thought to have been lighted
before the Christian era. About the
same time n somewhat similar lamp was
found near Pndau. st. Augustine men
tions lamp burning in the temple of
Venus that could not be extinguished.
and Ludyivicus another that had been
burning for 1850 years. 1t is believed
that the perpetuity of these lamps was
owing to the consummate tenacity of
the unctuous matter with which the
flame was united, being SO proper
toned to the strength of the fire that
like the radical heat and natural mois-
ture in animals, neither of them could
conquer nor destroy the other.-Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
Some Iat<resting Facfs ReEafdins
the Outpst Of Cresc mt Ricx clcs. =

This article il intended to convey con-
ception of the enormous amount of raw ma
terial consumed during a season in supply
ing the demand for one OF the most popular
bicycles made. The Western Wheel Works,
Chicago, makers of the Crescent wheel, have
the largest, and without doubt the most
complete, bicycle factory in the world, and
can turn out, when running to fullest ca
pacity, 725 finished Crescents in twelve
hours, or complete up 10 date" bicycle
per minute.
They used during 1895 $50 miles Of tub
ing, or enough to nearly reach from Chi
cago 10 St Paul if placed in a straight line.
The spokes were made in their own fac
tory. and required $50 miles Of wire. Or
enough to reach from Chicago to Lineoln,
Neb.; 80 miles of brass rod was re1uired
for spoke nipples. If the spokes, spoke nip
line they would reach from Chicago to the
Rocky Mountains at Denver Tie eranJ<s.
if placed end to end, would cover distance
OF % miles. They used IS miles OF steel for
crank axles, wheel axles and pedal axles,
and 10 miles OF steel for scat posts If the
Creseents in '96 tere placed one upon the
other they would make a pile Il, 800 feet
high, 5000 feet higher than Pixies Peak
and about the height OF Mount Elias in
Alaska, whose summit has never yet been
reached by man. 1t required 80 ,0S4 square
feet OF sheet steel to make the Crescent
hollow tooth sprockets, and 2l,sT6 square
feet for the steel stampings OF the head and
| seat post clamps. or in all enough fiat steel
to cover an area of /; acres. There were
used 10 miles of cork grips, l0a miles of
| finished hubs, and 28 miles Of steel wire TO
| pin frames together before brazing The
finished chains, end to end, would reach
10 miles, and the different pieces of which
| they are composed would reach 237i miles,
or in all 307l miles, the distance from Chi
cago to Cincinnati. The bearings OF 1895
Crescents required 1898, 800 steel balls,
which, if placed in a straight line, side by
side, would reach a distance OF 45i miles.
To lace the chain and dress guards on the
ladies Crescents manufactured in 1926 re-
quired 434, $50 yards of cord, or 2I6l miles,
enough to allow small boy to stand on
the top of the Auditorium tower in Chicago
and fly his kite where the people in Des
Moines, Iowa, could see it. To supply
| Crescents sold in 1896 required l,606, ,7l2
bolts, and l,4SS.U75 nuts, having an aggre-
| gate weight OF % tons. The total weight
| of the complete bicycles was 2,3S2, ,S42
pounds, or l,l9l tons. To crate these bi.
cycles required l,235, ,740 square feet OF lum.
ber made up in pieces; 72,7ls,66S separate
| and distinct pieces entered into the con-
| struction of '96 Crescents, and if all were
placed in straight line, end to end, they
would reach from New York to some dis
| tance in the Pacific ocean west of San Fran.
cisco.-Crescent Bulletin, July l, 1897.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
Nervousness and Insomnia.
A Prominent Farmer of Kansas
Finds u Cure.
From the Capital, St. John. Kansas.

From the Capital. St John. Kansas.
Hearing that j. Ii. Detwiler, prosperous
farmer who resides about three miles east OF
st. John, Kansas, had been using DR.. Will
lLams Pink Pills with marvellous beneficial
results, a reporter OF the Kansas City Star
the matter. We found Mr. Detwiler tall,
and apparently well preserved man OF
seventy years. Upon our interrogating him
concerning his use OF Pink Pills he gave US
the following, and with his entire consent to
rs publication;
with extreme nervousness. AT hrst 1t did
not prevent me from attending to my farm
duties About three years ago, however, l
began to grow rapidly worse, then my
nights became sleepless, and ] could not
sleep two hours in an entire night. ] be-
came terribly affected too with Indigestion.
j became alarmed at my condition, and con-
suited physician. One doctor told me the
trouble was insomnia, and | took his medi-
cine Tor that, but without relief. another
told me it was nervous prostration, but his
medicine had no more effect than the same
amount Of water. Finally, seeing Dr. Viii
Hams Pink Pills advertised and noticing
particularly the testimony of a person who
bad been cured by them OF very similar
disease to mine, determined TO try them
! called upon our local druggist, Mr.. j.
Stivers and procured a supply. ] began
taking them, and in very short time lay
nervousness was less severe. After | had
given them a thorough trial, found myself
entirely cured. can now lie down at night
and go to sleep without the slightest trouble.
Furthermore the cure has been permanent,
and can recommend Pink Pills to all who
are afflicted as | was, for their equal cannot
be found
DR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are now given to the public as an unfailing
blood builder and nerve rcstorer, curing all
forms of weakness arising from watery
condition OF the blood or shattered nerves.
The pills are sold by all dealers, OF will be
sent post paid on receipt Of price. so cents a
box. or six boxes for So 80 (they are never
sold in bulk or by TIE 100, by addressing DIR.
Williams' Medicine Co. Schenectady, y. Y.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
ON THE FARM.

An estimate Of the loss Of the soluble
portions Of manure that is exposed to
rains and the direct rays Of the sun, II
it could be made. would show that one
half of its value is lost by Icechiug. fire
fangiug etc,
In dry season there is no fertilizer
which produces better results with po-
tatocs than wood ashes. notwithstand-
Ing the fact that ashes seem to dry
themselves. EqIully good results will
follow when they are sprInkleu on the
strawberry bed.
The mistake OF keeping and using
crossbreed males aids materially In de-
generating the hogs on many farms.
The boar should be Il thoroughbred. or
there will be no uniformity in the olr-
spring. There is little pleasure in rails.
Ing mougrels,
1t is Cluimrd that the use of eusilagc
enables the dnirymnu to keep twice as
many cows as when no eusiIuge Is used.
There is no crop SO easily grown md at
so small an outlay for labor as eusilage
corn. and it not only provides large
addition TO the bulky foods, but enables
the dairyman to give succulent food in
winter. thus keeping the animals in
good condition.
Navy beans can be grown protitably,
and they bring as good prices as any
other crop. The heaviest yields are
secured when they ure carefully cult.
waited and grown on ground that has
been well munured the previous year.
The harvesting of the crop is the crit
ical work with them, as they are liable
TO damage il exposed to rains after har-
yesting them, but there is machinery
now in use which lessons the labor
and makes them as sure as any other
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
Do YOU KNOW 2


That youth is prone to lie uugrnteful,
aud age forgetful.
That young persons nrc not apt to
make n very exact adjustment Of means
ind ends.
That he who shows his hand too much
rarely succeeds in pluckiug the plums
from the pie OF life.
That muscular aud nervous cvhaus-
ton can readily occur. as the fascina-
ton OF this form of exercise leads pco
Pile TO ovcrw ork.
That rapid boiling or baking will
tougher the tcndcrcst meat, while slow
and careful cooking will render the
COS rsest parts tender.
That mixture of equal parts Of vase
line and olive oil is quicl, remedy for
skin burn, either from March winds OF
August sunshine.
That head stains on wall paper may
be blotted out by an application Of 4
mixture OF the soft parts OF moldinG
clay and water applied at night, and
brushed off with n whisk broom in The
morning.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02
POPULAR SCIENCE.

7. According to the experiments of NJ.
5eguy and NJ. Quenisset the X-rsys
cause dangerous palpitations of the
heart. The experiments were made on
medical students and upon themselves
and II. Scguy and NJ. Quenisset de-
scribe the palpitations as violent and
npendurable unless the rays were in
tercepted by metallic plate.
Alaska, our remarkable outlying ter
ritory, is almost MS large in urea as the
entire United States east of the Missis.
sippi. 1t is rich in mineral wealth.
and has already yielded many times its
cost in the precious and other metals.
Every year its value TO the United
States is Increasing. and yet it is en-
tirely isolated from the rest of our ter
ritory-just as Cuba would pe were we
to acquire il.
alcohol" said NJ. Martindnle- in a
paper read recently before the Phar-
maceutical society, lis not a germi-
eide. When present to the extent of
30 per cent. by volume of absolute alco-
hol, it has an inhibitory effect on the
termination of most of the micro-or-
ganisms occurring in aqueous solu-
tions of vegetables and animal sub
stances; but the germs propagate
readily as it evaporates."
Naturalists consider it wonderful
fact that the Bermuda islands have
only seven native species of land birds,
while no less than 1873 species pay visits
to the islands. Many of these visitors
are birds which pass the summer in the
United States. and utilize the Bermuda
islands as n convenient winter resort.
thus initiating some OF their human
compatriots. Even some American
bats follow the example Of the birds by
wintering in the Bermudas.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-02

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