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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-13

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HOME NOilk-lUuO ladies: no canvassing
flwe.klv armed; send stamped, addressed
rnvtlpue i,t SAINT " and particulars. som
mers a Orbacb, American Tract Building.
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For two days-Saturday
and Monday-we make the
following special offers in
sweets" to introduce our
new location to your notice.
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twenty five cents, for. ........ ~
Gold Medal Marshmallows, 1E,
worth twenty five cents, for. -. io'
Roast Almonds. chocolate COW
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Street Floor-Front Centre.
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Haughton carried back two yards on
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Fifty cartons imported Fancy Wings,
in black and all the leading colors--
prices regularly would be SIC. and SOC.
pair, our price only
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

dent homes where pains is taken to get
only the best in so vital q matter In
such families all over the country Paine's
celery compound is the first, last and only
remedy used
Prof Phelps had studied the nerves in
health and disease. when well nourished
and when under-nourished, in men and
women and children years before he look
ed for the remedy. Paine's celery COM
pound is the outcome of his entire pro-
fessional life. It is the one remedy that
the world could not lose to-day at any
price.
Paine's celery compound induces the
body to take on solid flesh.
Physicians recognize Palnes celery
compound as the one scientific spring
remedy, and IL is universally prescribed
by them wherever there Is great need OF
a vigorous and prompt restoring of health
and strength to the worn-out system.
Paine's celery compound is the best
spring remedy because 1t is more that a
mere spring remedy. It brings about a
healthy appetite, complete digestion, reg
ular action Of the bowels and the other
eXcretory organs whenever taken. wheth-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

large cities the leading newspapers max
ing their own canvasses again this year,
have found that the demand for Paine's
celery compound surpasses that of all 9TH
er remedies together
Paine's celery compound taken during
the early spring days, has even more
than its usual remarkable efficacy in max
ing people well. 1t makes short work of
disease. 1t rapidly drives out neuralgia,
sleeplessness, dyspepsia and rheumatism
from the system. 1t removes that lassi-
tude, or tired feeling" which betokens
weakened nerves and poor blood
Women working in close offices, sales
women tired out and nervous from long
hours standing on their feet and waiting
on impatient, irritating customers; over
worked, worried and dsheartened men
and women everywhere will be astonished
to find how much happier life becomes
when their nerves have been strengthened
and their blood purified by means of this
great remedy.
No other remedy has the hearty APP
proval of like body of educated men,
nor has there ever been a remedy that
was welcomed in so many intelligent, pru-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

to time the peculiar kind of specimens
which are the distinguishing feature of
the lode
Even in the placer gold of California
and other regions containing auriferous
alluvial deposits are observable such diff
ference of color and form as show it to
have come from different localities. The
expert buyers of gold dust in California
in the early days were able to tell almost
at a glance from what mining district
and often from what particular diggingS,
a lot of gold was obtained
The gold from the blue gravel of the
channels of the dead rivers" of Califor-
nia-the deep drift diggings-possess pc
cuiarities that distinguish 1t from that
of placers of more recent origin. II is all
ways so much worn by ages of attriton
as to be quite smooth on all sides and
a great deal of it of bean shape; also in
size much of it ranges about as do beans
from the smallest to the largest varieties
The smaller gold of the ancient rivers is
in the form of thick, well-rounded flakes
or scales and round heavy grains, while
the big nuggets and masses are of various
shapes and sizes, but are always worn
till smooth as the little golden beans"
Gold from the lava-capped drift diggings
and from the blue leads of the channels
of the ancient rivers, wherever found, is
called lead gold' When a prospector
hits upon such gold in a ravine that heads
on the slope of a big lava-capped gravel
mountain, he is pretty sure to trace it up
and find in the Bedrock the gap through
which the overflow came from the
dead-river channel beneath the noun
tain, then by means of a tunnel
he goes in under the mountain
and finds the main lead which was
the source of the gold he found in the
ravine. This lead gold is sometimes found
mingled with the gold of the more recent
placers, one of the rivers of the modern
| system, or a big canon, having at some
point cut through a dead river channel
and carried down and redeposited much
of the gold; but whenever tits found il is
known to have come from one OF the
ancient rivers. as it carries the ear
marks of the blue gravel
The gold of Australia is much redder
| than that of California Guinea gold is
also very red, but the gold of the Urals,
Siberia is the reddest found anywhere in
the world, though that of the Amoor
placers is a close second. The Mormon
| $40 pieces, coined from placer gold OBJ
| tanned at Lemhi, had a distinctly green
| tinge when held in a certain way in the
sunlight. Very thin sheets of gold show
a decided green tinge when held Up to any
strong light. Few people know the color
of pure gold, and when they do happen
to see ii they do not like II. They are
accustomed to the alleged standard gold
used in coins and in the manufacture OF
| jewelry. The purest gold coins ever made
were the octagonal $50 "slugs'' once so
common in California, but TO the multi
tude they have rather a cheap brassy
color-not the rich, ripe hue of the $40
piece.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
Oldest PostmIstress Resigns.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
New York. March 12.-Miss Blanche
Gerard. for thirty-hve years postmistress
at West Point, sent her resignation to
President Mckinley this afternoon. Miss
Gerard is u years old. She is the Oldest
living postmistress i'm the country. She
was appointed by President Lincoln, and
one Of the last acts Of President Cleveland
was TO reappoint her.
Miss Gerard succeeded her mother. who
held the post twenty-five years, being APP
pointed before the Mexican war. Prof.
Gerard. her father, was the first instructor
Of French in the academy and one Of the
first professors appointed. 1t was after
his death that his widow received the ap-
pointment.
There Is a sad romance connected with
the life of this remarkable woman Half
a century ago. when assisting her mother
IN the work OF the postofice. young cav
airy officer, a graduate OF the academy.
fell In love with her. One afternoon he
called on her, mounted on a spirited horse.
AS he rode away he was thrown and kill
ed In faithful devotion to her lover, Miss
Gerard has remained a spinster all her
life.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

PRIZES OF THE PARTY.
Geographical Considerations to Gov
ern Their Disposition.

Geographical Considerations to Gov
ern Their Disposition.
Washington, March 1.-THE notice has
gone out to office seekers who are after
high positions that geographical consider
atoms are to govern and that states al
ready represented in the cabinet will not
be called on to supply assistant secre-
taries of the departments until other
states are cared for. This is thought to
dispose for the present of candidates for
the assistant secretaryships of the states
war. navy, treasury and interior Depart
ments. at least. from California, New
York, Michigan, Illinois, Massachusetts,
Ohio. Iowa and Maryland. This would
apparently rule out the following most
prominent candidates for certain posi-
tions. Harrison Gray Otis of California,
for war; Judge o. L. Spalding of Auchi-
gan. for treasury; Theodore Roosevelt Of
New York. for navy, and eBllamy Storer
of Ohio. for state, but these appointments
have been considered slated for some
fine. and il is said to-day that the pres
emf incumbents of those position may be
continued in Office for several months in
the hope that the geographical distribu-
zion referred to may be sufficiently equal
lied by that time to allow the carrying
out of the original programme.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
DAUNrLEss STILL DETAINED.
No Definite Decision Reached by the
Cabinet or Attorney General.


Cabinet or Attorney General.
Washington, March 19.-The cabinet. at
its regular meeting to-day, took up the
whole question of violations of the neu-
trality and navigation laws by Cuban fill
busters, with a view to deciding upon
some definite policy. No conclusion was
reached at the special conference held
Wednesday between the President, Sec
rotary Sherman. Secretary Gage, Attor-
ney General NIcKenna and Secretary
Long. The subject of granting clearance
papers to vessels loaded with arms and
munitions of war was left open, with the
understanding that the Attorney General
should examine the law and precedent
and render the opinion requested by the
treasury department on the application
Of the steamer Dauntless to clear from
Jacksonville with a cargo of arms and
ammunitiOns That opinion was received
at the treasury department to-day.
In view Of the fact, however, that the
President and cabinet desired to give
further consideration to the matter. the
Attorney General does not state any def
mite conclusion on which the department
can act He leaves the question of grant
ing clearance papers to the discretion of
the Secretary of the Treasury for the
time being.
The cabinet meeting adjourned once
more without deciding upon any definite
plan Of action in regard to the Dauntless
case, which has come to be regarded as
a test case in respect to the policy of the
administration. Attorney General Nc
Kenna, following the well-known rule of
the department of justice and of the SUI
preme court, has declined to give a def
mite opinion upon anything short of an
actual state of facts. Supposed cases are
not made the basis of opinions. The
United States officials at Jacksonville,
Fla, have been directed to supply more
definite information as to the legal status
of the vessel in the United States courts
there. The condition of the appeal taken
by the federal government from Judge
Lockes decision will also be ascertained,
and its final disposition may be awaited
before anything is done in the Dauntless
case.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
THREE FRIENDS TO BE HELD.
Judge Locke Overruled by the Fed
eraI Supreme Court.

Judge Locke OverruIed by the Fed
eraI Supreme Court.
Jacksonville, Fla. March 19.-The man.
date of the United States supreme court
against the steamer Three Friends, which
was appealed from the decision of Judge
Locke of the United States district court
for the southern district of Florida, was
received Thursday and was this morn
ing presented to the court by Special AS
slstant Attorney Cromwell Gibbons. The
supreme court reversed Judge Lockes de-
Cision and ordered the vessel to be taken
in charge by the United States marshal.
In presenting the mandate Judge Glib
bons moved for an order of the court
everything the exceptions to the libel, in
conformity to the opinion of the supreme
court, and directing the marshal to take
possession of the vessel pending the final
hearing of the case on the answer to the
libel.
The court granted the motion, and an
order will be signed as soon as drawn up
by the attorneys to conform with the
views of the court. The Three Friends is
now on her way to this port with the
Mexican tug Asturias in tow, and is ex-
pected to arrive here tomorrow. AS soon
as she arrives the bond she is now under
will be cancelled, in obedience to the or
der of the supreme court, and the boat
will be taken in custody by the United
States marshal and held subject to the
further orders Of the court.
In the Dauntless cases, Judge Gibbons,
on behalf of the government, moved for
a similar order to that in the Three
Friends case, but the order has not yet
been granted. 1t is probable that the
same ruling will, however, be made in
both cases.
The libel against the Three Friends, for
which she is now to be taken in custody,
| is based upon the trip of the vessel from
this port on May %. 1895.
The Three Friends was at Miami this
noon The cutter Winona was there in
charge, and will escort her to Jacksonville,
| as the government seems very suspicious
! of the tug.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
E Spring Remedy in the World That Has
Stood Every Test Of Time.
PAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND MAKES ONE WELL.

nerves are able to furnish sufficient ener-
gy to the digestive organs.
No remedy in the world Accompanies
these results like Pa!nes celery com
pound. 1t nourishes, regulates and invig-
crates the entire nervous system from the
brain to the minutest nerve filament 1t
causes an increased appetite and tones up
the stomach TO deal with the increased
food. Its nourishing action is immediate
ly manifest in clearing up of the mud
dy, unhealthy skin. an increase in weight
and more refreshing sleep
First discovered after laborious, scien-
tifc research by the ablest physician
America has produced, Prof, Edward f.
Phelps, M. D., LID, of Dartmouth col
lege, it is prescribed and publicly indors-
ed by the best practitioners In every city
of America. 1t has been so enthusiastic-
ally recommended by grateful men and
women in every walk of life that 1t Is to-
day in every sense the most popular RENE
dy the world ever knew.
1t has proven itself the greatest of all
spring medicines.
In New York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Boston, st. Louis and two or three other
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
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SALISBURY SCORES KIMBERLY.
The Latter Explains What He Meant
by His Speech.


London, March 19.-In the House of
Lords to-day, Lord Salisbury made a bit
ter criticism upon the speech delivered by
the Earl of Kimberly. minister of foreign
affairs in the Rosebery cabinet, at the
meeting of the National Liberal Fedora
ton at Norwich, Wednesday evening, in
which he asserted that according to Lord
Salisbury the policy of France is also that
OF Great Britain. and is based upon the
maintenance of the integrity of the Otto
man empire"
This assertion. Lord Salisbury said, was
wholly untrue. IT, he continued, the pol
icy of the liberal party was to abandon the
ottoman empire, it had been lately adopt
ed Lord Kimberly would probably again
become foreign minister of Great Britain,
and in that event. he asked, would his
lordship then disregard the past policy of
maintaining the integrity of the Ottoman
empire?
Lord Kimberly replied that he had in
tended what he had said to mean that
the liberal party would depart entirely
from its past policy regarding Turkey and
maintain that the Ottoman Empire was
standing menace to the peace of Europe.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
DESERTS METED TO MURDERERS
Dragged to Death over "A Dusty Tex
as Prairie.

From the New York Evening Sun.
The sitting heat of a midsummer after
noon hung over the town of Deaf Smith.
One who hasn't lived through a summer
in West Texas doesn't know what that
means. There is nothing like II in the east
or in any other part Of America, unless
it be on the alkali plains of Arizona and
New Mexico, where, perhaps, II IS little
hotter Deaf Smith was an unattractive
place. consisting Of six shanties. 1t nestled
in a valley in the hills of the Pecosscoun-
try, surrounded by scrub oak, mesquite
and chaparral.
The past tense is used because Deaf
Smith isn't there any more. II has long
since disappeared. II went the way of
many other settlements which sprang up
In Texas Just after the Mexican war. II
left a history behind, but one that was
never exploited, except by the old pion-
GERS. who told its story In later and more
peaceful times 10 newer settlers, who
came on after they had cleared the way.
These old pioneers are dropping away
now and soon even the memory Of Deaf
Smith will have vanished. In 1850 Deaf
Smith was the most important place for
miles around
1t was on Aug. 15,-according 20 the
storekeeper's reckoning, but no one was
certain about II. There we're no calendars
in Texas in those days.
The heat rose in tremulous waves from
the powders IN the dry river bed the
grass was parched down and the mesquite
bushes were as bare Of leaves as a north
ern tree Is I'm winter There was little
sign Of life anywhere about A dozen
cattlemen were lolling around In the store
trying 70 keep cool 1t was too hot even
to talk.
Suddenly one OF the men looked uP-aRd
asked whats that?' The others were
listening in a second.
Sounds like hoof beats" said another.
The storekeeper got up and went 10 the
door. A thin cloud OF moving dust was
rising from the trail behind low hill.
Behind the dusa cloud came q horseman.
He was still half mile away. and the
! thick carpet Of dust deadened the sound
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

er in summer or in winter, but as the
greatest of spring remedies 1t has extra
ordinary opportunities for inducing the
body to throw off morbid humors that
poison 1t and cause rheumatism, neural
gia, heart trouble and a general low state
of the health as in spring the system Is
more pliahle and chronic diseases so Sc
curely lodged in the system that they are
with difficulty ousted. become more trac-
table.
Thousands of men and women have
found from personal experience that
Paine's celery compound makes people
WELL and keeps all from sickness who
take II In the spring.
Many father and mother have noticed
the unmistakable Improvement In he
health of their children from taking
Paines celery compound In the spring. 1t
is the one scientifically accurate remedy
fitted by its composition 70 thoroughly
purify the blood and dispel that exhaust
ed feeling and get rid of skin diseases.
headaches and fits of depression with
which children with weak, nervous sys-
tens. as well as grown people, are af-
fiicted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

fantastic shapes. Every now and then a
startled deer would spring out of the cha
parral and bound airily away over the
hills
The Texans couldn't see the dust cloud
which guided them in daylight, but after
eight hours hard riding they could hear
the thunder OF the feet of the cattle. At
first the sound was away In the distance,
but 1t gradually grew louder. and In an
hour more they could see the dark mass Of
cattle as 1t moved over the hills.
Guess they din't calkerlate at Ned 'ud
last I'll he got 70 Deaf Smith, 'er they d
a hurried a Bit" said Edwards, smiling
grimly, as they reached the summit Of a
low hill, and could see the herd galloplng
YEARLY along down the south slope five
miles away and hear the sharp cuts Of the
vaqueros as they prodded the faded beasts
along.
Wen rest up a bit and ketch 'em
crossin the Grande at daylight"
The Texans halted and unsaddled their
weary broncos. Men and beasts had had
hard ride one that had taxed their en-
durance TO the utmost. In a few mo-
ments the animals we're picketed and the
cattlemen were asleep In the thick grass.
They were in motion again before the
sun began to redden the eastern sky, and.
refreshed by their short rest. they made
better time than they had the night be-
fore.
They came upon the flying Mexieans as
they were riding into the wide, shallow
stream. The Rio Grande, like the Pecos,
was not much Of a river at that season.
The Mexicans had not been aware Of the
pursuit until the Texans we're upon them.
Then they doubled their efforts TO get
across the river. There we're about forty
vadueros in the party and twenty Pecos
river Indians. Most Of the Mexicans we're
IN the rear. The Indians and few other
Mexicans were IN front. The Texans
dashed into the rear party before they
could prepare for a defense. Their Wild
wells stampeded the herd, and many of
the vaqueros were trampled under the
hoofs of the maddened cattle. Those who
were in front rode on with the Ross
horses. leaving the cattle and their less
fortunate companions IN the rear to their
fate.
About twenty abandoned their horses
and took refuge An the shallow water be-
hind the powders. They would have pre-
ferred 10 run, bue a fight was unayolda-
BILE. They turned on the Texans with
courage born OF desperation. The Texans
adopted the same tactics and scattered
among the powders and timber on the
river bank.
Edwards was wounded IN the cheek as
he got of his broncho, but the Mexlcans
were not good shots and no one else was
hurt. Every time a Mexican or an Indian
showed his head he got bullet In IT, The
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20
HOUSE CONTESTS.
The Number Before the New Body
Expected to Reach Thirty.

The Number Before the New Body
Expected to Reach Thirty.
Washington, March 19-Mr. Mcdowell,
clerk of the House of Representatives
has up to this time received official notice
of ten contested election cases. Some
twenty more are expected. AS the present
law requires the testimony to accompany
the case when filed. it may be some time
until they are all in.
The cases filed are as follows:
M. F. Aldrich VS.. Thomas Plowman,
from the Fourth district of Alabama.
Grattan V. Grove vs. - Underwood
Ninth district of Alabama.
j. S. Willis VS.. l.. Irving Hardy, First
district of Delaware.
w Godfrey Hunter VS.. John s. Rhea,
Third district of Kentucky.
Cornelius ]. Jones VS.. Thomas c. Catch
ings, Third district of Mississippi.
E. b. Travis VS.. William L. Ward, Six
teenth district of New York.
NJ. S. Vanderberg VS.. Thomas H
Tongue, First district of Oregon.
r. A. Wise VS.. William A. Young, Sec.
ond district of Virginia.
r. T. Thorp VS.. Sydney P. Epps, Fourth
district of Virginia.
John r. Brown VS.. Claude A. Swanson
Fifth district of Virginia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-20

In March, April and May use Paine's
celery compound.
And only Paine's celery compound! For
it is natures remedy
Do not for a moment confound it with
any of the ignorant. catchpenny, short
lived patent remedies-sarsaparil ner-
vines and tonics that bear as much re-
semblance to Paine's celery compound as
the parasite vines do to the oaks that they
live on.
Paine's celery compound cures disease.
1t makes people well. 1t has saved the
lives of thousands of sufferers 1t makes
the weak strong.
1t purifes the blood and enriches the
nerves.
Every condition of winter life has been
detrimental to health. There has been a
steady decline in nervous vigor. Now that
spring comes the bodysis ready to cast off
unhealthy tissues if it is only given a
chance. This opportunity comes when the
excretory organs. kidneys, skin and bow
els are made to work actively and the