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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06
DEATH NOTICES.

COMERFORD--ln East Providence, on the 9TH
inst, Rosanna, daughter of Michael and
Mary A. Comertord, aged years.
months and IL days.
gDWARDS-In this city on the 5th inst,
Ann, widow of Thomas Edwards.
Funeral from her late residence. . Matthew
street, ON Friday, the 9TH inst, at go a. IN.
Relatives ana friends are invited TO attend.
FARNUM-In this city, the 4th inst, Charles
IA. Farnum aged 81 years
Funeral from his late residence, No.. 35
Vernon street. Friday, 9Th inst, at O'clock
p. m. Relatives and friends invited to at
tend. Burial private.
FITZGERALD-In Pawtucket II. /, on the
JTn inst, Mary f., daughter of Thomas
and Mary +. Fitzgerald, aged II years, b
Funeral from parents residence, IA Clyde
street, Thursday, the 9th inst, at a. m.
Rslatives and friends are invited TO attend.
No carriages.
GREENE-In Fall River, % inst, George
Greene, of this city, aged 16 years.
Funeral from his late residence, Angel
place, Providence Friday, 9TH inst, at
o'clock. Rel.tives and friends are invited to
attend Burial private.
HUGHEs-In this city. on the ith inst,
Eliza Blanche, daughter OF William Ii.
and Eliza Blanche Hughes.
Funeral from the residence Of Mrs. John
Dyer, lSl Benefit street, on Friday, the 'th
inst at o'clock KSistlyes S!dy and friends are
the family.
JONES--in this city, 5th inst, WIlfred Os
good, son of Walter and Carrie A. Jones.
in the 9Th year of his age.
Funeral private.
MITCHELL-At Terrace, Utah, 29th ult.,
Frederick W., ooly son of the late William
y. and Elizabeth Mitchell, aged ~ years,
formerly of this city.
MOAN-In this city, lth inst, Michael
Moan, aged "a years.
Funeral from his late residence, l55 Grove
street Thursday, 9th inst at $ 30 "A. m. Rel
atiyos and friends are invited TO attend
PAYTON-In this city, 4ih inst, Ellen Pay
ton, aged 63 years.
THAYER-In Paw tuclIet 4th inst, Ellis
Thayor, aged G6 years.
Funeral from ms late residence, - Brook
street Friday, 9Th inst, at - o'clock. Rela-
tiyes and friends are invited TO attend
Worcester napers please coDy
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06
New York's Suburban Places.

In the May Century Mrs. Schuyler
Van Rensselaer, writes an article on Prof.
Charles = Sargent's home at Brookline,
Mass, under the title of "A Suburban
Country Place" Mrs. Van Rensselaer,
says: There have been times when the
word suburban" rang pleasantly in the
ears of the citizen of New York. such
must have been the times, long ago, when
Greenwich village and Chelsea village
were the summer resorts OF local mag
mates, and when Harlem village (legend
atlirms IT'D was "A health resort SO placidly
outrageous, Dutch, and small that people
who could not sleep in town were sent out
here, assured of "A week of unbroken slum-
Der. And such again, were the nearer
times when all the isle was still suburban
north OF Washington square, covered with
farms, and dotted with country mansions
that were often set in forost-like domain !.
a1d often fronted on the l. st rtle Nor
or the Harlem river.
Claremont at the end of Riverside
Drive, near the tomb of General Grant,
suggests in "A rather humble way what
these mansions were, and in very mag
nificent way what their outlooks were
Others linger desecrated, here and there
closely pressed by new-laid brick and
stone. And away at the extreme tip of
Manhattan there are still few quiet,
shady places which may call themselves
suburban in the old and honorable sense.
But everywhere else around the outskirts
of Manhattan the term has gained an un.
attractive. hybrid meaning. To speak IL
with pleasure, New Workers must apply
il TO those remoter regions which can be
reached only by "A railway journey of
considerable length. And then il Is in
correctly applied, for real suburban
place is rural in aspect, but urban in
convenience-private, green, and peaceful
in itself yet close in touch with the true
self of the town.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06

IF men were compo'lol to wear skirts
for period 1 think they would insist
more than they now do that their fellow
mon should stcr tho nasty habit or spit
ting In public, - writes Edward w. BOX
In the May Ladies Home Journal.
There Is no praciic" Of man which Is
more distressing TO women than this dis
gusting habit. Womon constantly COM
plain OF It, especially in our larger cities,
whore sometimes the sidewalks arc
scarcely fit for them TO walk upon. Ihey
revolt at the practice, and they are rlght
I'm so doing. Yet year in and year out
the habit not only continues, but IN
crcases, and the protection OF cleanliness,
to which every woman walking upon our
streets has a perfect right, Is denied her.
In New York city the board OF health has
taken the matter up on the grounds OF
public health, and the police department.
ls lending its cooperation III the ENFORCE
ment of an ordinance directed against the
evil. No action taken in New York for
years il SO highly to be commended, ana
the ordinances should quickly extend To
other cities and be put into force. Ii is
an undertaking which public opinion
VIII sustain In whatever part OF the
country it is attempted. Every commun-
lty should be urged to try the experiment..
The time is ripe when every decent
man should take some steps To 500 10 IL
American habits should be entirely
stopped. New York city has started the
reform. Let the boards of health OF
few of our other large cities take up the
question, and tho reform, which appeals
to every clean minded man and woman,
will soon spread. IL is work In every
way calling for the attention and action
Of boards of health and all bodies and
citizns interested in the health of COM
munities. The splitting habit Is an abso-
smaller communities need not wait for
the larger cities The decent men OF the
smallest community can come together,
awaken interest in the matter and see
that prohibitive ordinance Is passed.
And il the men are slow in seeing their
duty 1t is TO be devoutly hoped that the
women will take the question in hand
and see To it that this disgusting habit
receives that necessary public attention
which it has lacked in the past. F"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06

The action of senator Foraker of Ohio
in introducing a modified form of the
Patterson bill amending the Interstate
| Commerce law so that freedom OF con-
| tract between railways to maintain just
and reasonable rates will u legalizcd, is
I.highly commended by the business in
terests throughout tho country. The pos
sibilities of remedial legislation before the
| full effects of the disastrous Supreme
Court decision are felt will propably pre-
vent further decline I'm values and tend
10 hold matters stationar~~until the at
titude of Congress is better understood.
1t is regarded very generally in com
mercial and business circles that the only
course is for the railroads, the shippers.
the railway employees, the public, and all
interested in the welfare of tho country,
10 at once appeal for remedial legislation,
such as proposed by senator Foraker. 1t
is critical time, and Legislators cannot
refuse 20 give il attention. The. .introduc-
tion of this bill by the Ohio Senator
opens up the subject 60 the whole cOun-
try in debate. The leading journals of the
United States are almost unanimously Of
the belief that 10 Congress the people
must appeal for relief There can be no
stability, no return of prosperity, until
some measure has been enacted that will
give to these great interests the power
TO agree not To increase rates but TO main
tain rates that are just ana reasonable
alike TO these properties and to the ship
pers. That these rates may DC subject
60 reviow or revision by the United States
government through It's Interstate Com
mcrce Commission is immatcrial.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06
CONSTABLE'S SALE.

BY virtue Of an alias cNsca'iou, No. 1890,
issued from the District Court OF the sixth
Judicial District holden az Proyidence. in
the county of Providence. state of Rhode
Island dated February p \. -. isgI, geturn'
able To said Court OF tie ph day OF l,ay, A.
II. iSg1, wherein .ipsse I. Miucr of Provi-
dence IL plsiniId aud Christine j. Burgess,
also Of said Providence. l. Gefenaan', will be-
sol at Public Auction ~ FRIDAY, the sth
day of MAY, l6g1, no H. o'clor. IDcu, IN room
No. 9, ut 10 COLLEGE street, II sa. Providence,
all The chit, titte ana interest thc said Chris.
tine j. Burgess hau NJ tho tiuV ~ th" levy
of the alias ,xeoution IN sid sntf, to Wit:
February ~, ls.I1, AZ q o'ciock md ~ minutes
d. m. in ana 10 the following described real
estate. viz: A certain lot of land with all
the buildings and lm proyemep's thereon situ.
ated on the northeriy SIDE ut Pine street IN
SAID city of Providence, and lad ont and des-
ignaied n lot NUN heT'rl lt2 or Il plat entitled
the Timothy Nig1n iaHd situated IN the
southwcsterly part of tle city IF PrcytGUuCG,-
by NJ. u lockwood. 1872: ccy.cd by Schu.
bath and Harris, Jp,y, is5'; witch plat Is re-.
corded in the larc rc,p'd. 90 ssid city of
Providence, n pia; byob Fat psgc H., ard
also ON plat card 81. beng IA. sam. estate
conveyed ~ Christine J burgess by deed from
James n. Fuller. or record IA tno Oi,ice OF the
Recorder ~ Deeds 10 said Pr0vh.enco. in
Levied ON the ~ Gav % Schraary. lsg'. at
o'clock and - minutes y. m, and will be
sold 20 satisfy said execution II suii' cicrt
ANDREW MCKENZIE,
m6-stthv Constable
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06
Drummond and tho Professional Re
ligiOnists.

We're one asked to select Drummond' s
nnest achievement, he might safely men
tlon the cleansing of student life at Edin-
burgh University. When he was an
arts student life in all the faculties but
especially the medical, was reckless,
coarse, boisterous and no one was doing
anything TO raise its tone. The only visi
ole sign OF religion in my remembrance
was prayer meeting attended by dozen
ihen-one OF whom was canting rascal
ana countenance from professor
would have given shock To the univer-
sity. twenty years afterward 800 men,
largely medicals, met every Sunday even
ing for worship and conference under
Drummond' presidency, and every even
ing the meeting was addressed by tutors
and fellows and other dignitarios. There
was new breath in academic life-men
were now reyerent, earnest, clean living,
and clean thinking, ard the reformer
who wrought this change was Drum
mond. This land, and for that matter
the United states, has hardly town
where men are not doing good work for
God and man today who have owed their
lives TO the Evangel and influence of
Henry Drummond.
When one saw the unique and priceless
work which he did, IL was inexplicable
and very provoking that the religious
world should have cast this man. of all
Others, out, and have lifted up its voice
against him. Had religion SO many men
of beautiful and winning life SO many
thinkers of wide range and genuine cul-
ture, so many speakers who can move
young men by hundreds toward the King
dom of God, that she could afford or have
the heart to withdraw her confidence
from Drummond? Was there ever such
madness and irony before Heaven as good
people liftirg up their testimony and
writing articles against this most gracious
disciple OF the Master, because they did
not agree with him about certain things
he said or some theory he did not teach,
while the world lay around them in un-
belief and selflshness, and sorrow and
painy What can be done, " an eminent
evangelist once did me the honor TO ask.
'to heal the breach between the religious
world and Drummondg" And / dared TO
reply that, in my poor judgment the first
step ought TO be for the religious world
TO repent of its sins and make amends to
Drummond for it's bitterness. The evan
gelist Indicated that SO far as he knew
his world, 1t was very unlikely to do any
such becoming deed, and l did not myself
remember any instance of repentanc
on the part of the Pharisees
Never did my friend say one unkind
word of the world which condemned him,
but IL may be allowed TO another To say
that If anyone wises To indict the pro-
fessional religonists of our time for
bigotry and stupidity, painful and IN
answerable proof lies ready To his hand
in the fact that the finest evangelist of
the day was treated as "a Samaritan. -
From Henry Drummond, " by the Rev.
John Watson, ID. ID. Clan Maclarenl, in
North American Review for May.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.
The Constitutional Commission.
PUBLIC MEETING.
THE CITY OF PROvIDENCE.

The Commission will meet at the State
House, Providence, on TUESDAY, MAY IL,
1857, at O'Clock u. m, at which time the ex-
tension of the suffrage to women will be dis
cussed.
All persons are invited to be present, and to
suggest in writing such changes in the pres
ent Constitution as they may desire.
Individuals will be heard in regard to such
suggested changes, their speeches 70 bc linn
tied 10 fifteen tl5) minutes. Those who are
unable to be present are invited 10 send sug-
gested changes in writing, referring TO the
article and section OF the present Constitution
to which the suggested changes apply, to the
clerk.
THOMAS DURFEE, Chairman.
ARCHIBALD G. MATrESON, Clerk.
providence. April l5 1897. mt, l0-2t
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06
The Beggars of Italy.

bicycling Through the Doomitcs' in the
May Century is an account of Colonel George
Il. Warnings European trip last summer. Con
cernipg mendicancy in Italy, Colonel Waring
writes: Perhaps there IL no better index 20
the good or bad condition of the working pco-
pie of a country than is afforded by the num-
ber Of beggars one meets on the roads. The
poles set up at the border OF Austria, with
their spiral stripes of yellow and black do not
mark the line between it and Italy much
more clearly than does the advent of the beg
gar the moment the line is crossed. In Aus
trian Tyrol there are virtually no begE ars.
ON the Italian side, even well-dressed people
in the fields will leave their work TO beg cop
pers from the passing traveller. One day, i'm
the upper Innthal, couple OF bright-look
ing, rosy. y.faced children ran after US, asking
for kreutzers "Mawknix" upbraided them
for such shameful act, and they skunk
away. He spoke of this with much ndigna-
ton to a neighbor, who said their whole
family were away in the fields at work, or
they would not have dared 10 beg, and that
he would see that they were well spanked
when their mother came home at night.
Nuns and n few favored cripples sometimes
ask aims at the doors Of the churches i'm the
larger towns and the poor box" is always
found inside; but the peasantry and the
churches take care of their own poor, so that
the vice Of beggary Is unknown among them.
In Italy, on the other hand, il is obvious that
special conditions of deformity are artificially
produced. Both legs broken and badly reset
in childhood constitute good source of in
come for life; and anything that appeals to
sympathy is made the occasion for cultivating
"A very mistaken and mischievous charity.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06
Old and New Harvard.

There was an old Harvard and there is
n new, and the line of separation Is 81 re-
cent that graduate of less than 20 years
standing can remember when 1t began to
appear. II came with the elective system,
and has developed year by year as that
system has developed, and as students
names have multiplied in the Harvard
catalogue. Twenty years ago there were
still classes and class-fecling az Harvard.
Most of tho studies of Freshmen year
and nearly half of the Sophomore studies
were prescribed. There were then about
200 students in "a class.
Nowadays Harvard class has come to
bo a much larger and looscr aggregation
of individuals, and the facilities Tor
knitting il together have almost disap-
pcared.
Between four and five hundred men
now enter college together Only a single
study, English, IL prescribed TO all Of
them All the rest they select. each man
choosing what best suits his taste, incli-
nations ard purposes Most of the cleo
tive courses arc open 60 students of
several classes and To graduate students
and when a Freshman has sorted ont the
studies ne proposes To pursue, ne finds
himself in the lecture or recitation room
with AN unclassiiicd body of learners
most uf them no doubt freshmen like
himself. but very likely with plenty of
Suphnmorcs too, and possibly with other
uppcr-class men and graduate students
compulsory prayers have passed out of
existence. and he rarely or never secs his
own class all together M one time
Indeed. there Is not "a lecture room i'm
Harvard College that VIII seat all the
members of the present Freshman class at
once lie rarely ever secs group Of men
together In any class room of whom he
can bc sure thnt all of them are his class
mates From Undergraduate Life at
Harvard, - lay Edward - Martin, In the
May SCribncr's
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06

Speculation Is at an end. The ho,os of
family and friends must be abandoned
The worst fears are realized. The damnablo
indecencies of the dirtiest newspaper IN
New England, the Providence Telegram
have boon directed over a grave All that
Is mortal of Treasurer Howland has been
lying these many days at the bottom Of the
river, few steps from his home and the
scene Of his earthly successes and failures.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06
TO SEARCH FOR AN ISLAND.
Schooner to Start In Quest of One In
the Pacific.

San Francisco, Cal, May 6.-The
Oceanic Phoshate Company has chartered
the schooner Louisa ID. which will tomor
row start in search of an island reputed
to be rich in guano and located on some
maps as southeast of the Hawaiian
Islands in latitude III degrees N, longi-
tude 137 degrees west. For years sailors
have tried in vain 10 locate the island, and
last year the projectors OF the present
search sent the schooner Moonlight to dis
cover the treasure, but the captain lost
his bearings. The island is named simply
New Island. The schooner is equipped
with provisions and gear TO last eight
months
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06


Trinity Church in New York Is cele-
brating its 20Oth anniversary this week
with meetings services and ceremonies
every day. The history of old Trinity
is closely linked with the growth
Of religion. charity and education
in the metropolis aud all New Yor k
shares i'm the celebration now going on.
The first church cdiflce was destroyed by
fire In l776, this hoing the enlarged struc-
ture from the original editice put mp in
1896 A second building occupying the
same site was finished in l77S The pres
ent Trinity Church, as familiar TO Amer
leans as Bunker Hill or the Capitol at
Washington, was completed in 1916 In
Trinity's famous graveyard JIG the bodies
of Lawrence of the Chesapeake of "Don {
Give Up the Ship renown, Alexander
Hamilton, Phil Koarnoy, the hero Of
Chantilly, and the perhaps fictitious
Charlotte Temple lriuity's princcly
estate, that makes il the richest church
corporation in the United States is based
on the Old Queens Farm grant of l705, a
big tract on the lower west side of the
city. The church has given literally of
her land holdings oonspicuously to
Columbia College. The total property to-
day of all sorts is estimated at between
fifteen and twenty millions, yielding an
annual revenue of S500 Goa with which
no end of good is done
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06

The free trade Journal would give its
sanction To the Republican tariff bill IL
only coarse wool were on the free list
of the burdens Of any taxation but it Is
To be said also that quite likely the
Republican party will proceed with its
tariff plans without the Journals sane
tion since the latter has up to this time
not been asked for.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06

Harpers for May opens with Gross
Country Riding IN America by Caspar
Whitney, illustrated by G. Dana Gibson
and others. "A Few Native Orchids and
Their Insect Sponsors" Is study of
cross-fertillzation, written and illustrated
by the late William Hamilton Gibson.
white Mans Black Man." the seventh
of poultney Bigelow's series entitled
"White Mans Africa, Is "A study of the
African negro as laborer The illustra-
tions are by Il. Cation Woodville. Two
Undescribed Portraits of Shakspere. -
by .Ionn Corbn. introduces what Is prob
ably the only life portrait of Shakspere
in existence The engravings are by IL.
Barnett Woodburn. Geological Progress
OF the Century" is the fourth of the
series Of illustrated articles by Henry
smith Williams, Nj. d., treating tho con
trbution Of the nineteenth century to
science English Country House Life
gives familiar view of the most charac
tcristic phase of upper-class life in Eng
land.
1.-THE Hundred Years Campaign, by
Professor +. y. Thorpe, Is a study of the
development Of our political parties. In
the eighth instalment of The Martian"
the mystical implication of the planet
Mars is fully developed. The short stories
are "Thc Captured Dream" an idyl of
domestic life by Octave 1hanet, illus
tratod by w. l.. Smedley; Tho Educa-
tion of Bob by Rebecca Harding Davis;
1.-THE Lion Tanner by Henry Gallup
Paine; and "A Guardian Angel" by
Harriet prescott Spoiford, illustrated by
W. L. Smedley. In the Editors Study"
Charles Dudley Warner discusses the
American newspaper. The opening
story of the Editors Drawer" Is The
Upset at Johnnycakc HILL" by James
Buckham
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06

At least one museum freak has been
proved bona fde marvel The X.ray
sho ws that the chap who is known as the
"human ostrich" actually swallowed
what he put into his mouth for the test
20 wit: thirty-two six-ounce tacks
one half-insh copper rivet, one % calibre
cartridge, seven threcpenny nails, one
one-inch screw, the head halves Of two
tenponny nails, two one-inoh fragments
of a hack saw. one two-inch screw. one
thumb screw and one No. 8 screw.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06

America has its castles as well as
European countries, and those on the
Hudson river have as interesting n story
i'm "a way as the famous buildings on the
Rhine. John j. Ritter tolls this story in
n literally illustrated article entitled
"Somo American Castlcs' in the May
number of Frank Icsie's Popular
Monthly. The Fair Maids Of Morocco"
are pictured and described by Frederick
A. Obcr in the same number. Another
important article is "Japan's Three
Invasions of Corca, ny Tciichi Yam
agata, relative of the great Japanese
marquis. 1t is accompanied by many cx
cellent pcn-and-ink drawings of views i'm
of papers on American Universities and
Colleges Is continued with an article on
the University Of Minnesota bv John
Cochrane Sweet 4 we'll known thcos.
ophist, Marion +. Gitt tells i'm an inter-
esting way What Iheosophy Means. ;"
There are articles ON 'Constantinople
Streets " "The Mythical Manoa," Cabs
and Cabmen, 1.-TWO Arabian We'd
dinRs," etc, and number Of short
stories, including one Ivy the new and
promising writer. John Il. a. Beckett.
a now serial story, entitled THE Cats.
paw" by Frederick II. Burton. begins i'm
this number and Its opening chapter
gives indication of a stirring and power
full novel The always entertaining young
folks department and the bright para
graphs of the Leslie Portfolio are con-
tinucd.