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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-27
STRUCK A SNAG.
Novel Point Raised In the FaIes In
s0lvency Case.
1t Was as to Whether or Not Dis
charge Operated as to Mortgage.

When the application Of George H.
Fales, Central Falls furniture dealer,
for relief as ar insolvent, came before the
Appellate Court this morning an unex-
pected snag was struck. All of the
claims against Mr. Fales, who some weeks
ago was declared insolvent, have come,
with one exception, into the possession OF
Eastwood Eastwood Of Central Falls, ana
n compromise of 2J cents on the dollar has
been agreed upon. T.. W. Blodgett sug-
gested that on Mr.. Fales' property there
was "A mortgage, and as the release from
claims read by Claude j. Farnsworth,
counsel for Mr.. Fales was broad one,
there might be some question as 10 how
the rights of the mortgagee were affected
by the discharge.
The release read by Mr.. Farnsworth was
an exact copy OF the language OF the
statute. and releases Mr.. Fales from all
debts owing to parties in this state or par
ties outside of the state who have Joined
i'm the proceedings in insolvency.
1t was suggested that the mortgage was
"A prior lien on the property mortgagod
not affected by the assignment or the dis
charge, but then the point was raised that
if the property was sold and did not real
ize the amount of the mortgage, did the
discharge as insolvent relieve him from
futher payment of the balance due on the
mortgage notey
John T. Goldsworthy, the assignee, stated
that he had been directed TO sell the equity
in the mortgage owned by Mr. Fales, but
an order had been entered TO prevent this,
so there had been no sale.
1t was admitted that the bank holding
the mortgage, the Pawtucket Institution
for Savings, was not party TO the insol-
vency proceedings, and Mr.. Farnsworth
was Instructed by Judge Tillfnghast to
see il this placed them outside of the
granting of any relief, and the petition
for discharge was continued
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-27
Court Calendar for Monday.
Appellate Division. }

tAppeIIhte DIVIsIuH'I
TT W. l6l Leroy L Coolidge VS.. A. b. Bull
lock.
Ex 2259. David A. Gage VS.. William K.
Sayles.
Ex. 2263. Patrick McCusker VS.. John
Mitchell.
Eq. 4ls2. Mary Y. Smith vs.. stephen Wright.
Div. l0774. Jose Da Roza Pereira VS.. Maria
Lula Pereira.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-27
TURKEY ATTACKS CHILDREN.
Two Little Ones Wounded by a Cob
bier. Which Mother Killed.

Cochecton, y. V, March S.-Edith and
Amy Gregory, aged three and five years
respectively, children of Seymour Gregory,
of Rowlandsvillc, were seriously wounded
yesterday by turkey gobbler.
The children were playing in the yard,
each wearing n red dress, when the turkey
attacked the younger child, throwing her
to the ground. The older girl then at-
tempted To rescue her sister when the fowl
attacked her also, thowing her down and
inflictipg several wounds upon her face
and hands.
Finally recovering her feet, little Amy
ran To "a neighboris house TO alarm her
mother. When Mrs Gregory ran into the
yard she found that the turkey had
severely wounded Edith also, and she
despatched the assailant with club.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-27
Two Women Asphyxiated.

New York, March 27.--A long haired
man. accompanied by two women, called
at Flamniy's boarding house mt 3 o'clock
and one of the women registered as An.
tony Marshall and wife, while the other
woman registered as Alice Borshay Of
Boston. At II o'clock Flammy found
both the women dead i'm the rooms and
the man unconscious. The gas jet was
TUNED on so that the rooms were filled
xtsfth
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-27
They Will Go on Duty.

City Solicitor Colwell has finally decided
that Mcssrs. Schellcr and Handy can be
appointed members of the police forco and
they will lc assigned To duty this even
ing. IL l. also positively stated that every
member of the police forcc new and old,
will have " bc tax payers by the first "A
June
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-27
His Bicycle Smashed.

As "A boy was riding bicycle through
Exchange street heading for Wevbossct
this afternoon he came i'm contact with n
carriage on its way down Woybossct
street There was nothing left of the
front wheel Of the bike but the tire. Tho
whole frame was so badly broken that the
mir shnn
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-27
To Drive Out Insurance Companies.

Topeka, Kan, March Insurance
Commissioner Webb McNalley announced
that under the Burton antitrust law of
Kansas he will expel all old line insur-
ance companies from the state or compel
them To leave the secret pool which he
claims they maintained by means of being
subscribers to Herrson Clarkson rate
boaE
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-27
Died OF Her Injuries.

Mrs. Hattie Billings whose clothing
caught fire while nt work nc her home ON
Pine street last saturday afternoon, died
irom her injuries at III. 30 today at the
Rhode Island hospital
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26
Railroad Economy.

The Baltimore and Ohio South West
ern Railway has been experimenting
with electric motors on turntables.
Turning locomotives at divisional
points and terminals is a service of
much annoyance and no little expense
to railroad companies. 1t generally
takes four men to turn a locomotive.
and while they are doing so their reg
ular work is abandoned.
Experiments were made with an
electric motor on the 60-foot turn
table at Chillicothe with such success
that the Park Street turn-table in
Cincinnati was similarly equipped. The
result has been rather astonishing in
the matter of expense. The current
was purchased from the power plant,
and it cost on an average of less than
one-half cent for each time the table
was turned. When this same table was
operated by hand it cost IL cents for
each engine. The yearly saving is
about $709.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26
4 EHEIEI

flowers pushing through the soft earth.
And whenever there was the fresh
odor of new-growing grass, and new
sprouting leaves in the city parks her
mind turned toward peaceful, pastoral
ways, and her eyes were filled with
visions of billowy, poisoning trees.
of plowmen moving across upland
fields, of the waking up of life and
industry. In short, the Old Maid was
pressions of her emotions never met
the keen eyes of critics or even the
kindly eyes of her friends.
Well, once upon a time the Singer
came to the boading-housre on the
square. He was young and his au-
diences-they were largely feminine
declared that nowhere else was there
a singer who carroled out songs and
sobbed out ballads so knowingly.
Whether or not he was peerless is a
question, but at any rate he had made
a great success, and people wondered
that he should come to the dingy
abode of the boarders and the Old
Mdlu. OOlllt odlu lIdI IL was
he had lived there in the days before
he was known to fashion. and some
whispered knowingly that the lady to
whom the Singer sang lived over the
way in the stone house with the bal
comics at the window and the guard
ing lions at the door. Be that as it
may, IL is a fact that when the Singer
came to the city for his series of con-
certs and recitals he sanctified the
abode of the Old Maid with his pres
ence for a whole week. And the Old
Maid was agitated mysteriously by
his presence, though it is doubtful IL
he even saw her shabby little figure.
One night she crept down the stair
way when the house was still and
slipped a paper beneath the Singers
door sill. The paper bore get of
verses written in the fine hand of
woman who was educated a quarter
of century ago, and little note that
read:
IF YOU should sometimes find this
worthy to sing would be the happiest
woman on earth"
Now, the Singer felt a brutal indif-
ference about all happiness save his
own, which had been sorely tried that
night by the lady of his songs. So he
merely muttered: "Confound imbecile
womenr' Then he looked at the verses
and than he went gloomily to bed. But
through the night, as he reflected upon
his blighted hopes and the hardness OF
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26
Trees and Men.

A single tree, according to COM
putation in knowledge, is able,
through its leaves, to purify the air
from the carbonic acid arising from
the respiration of a considerable num-
Der of men, perhaps a dozen or even
a score. The volume of carbonic acid
eXhaled by human being in the
course of twenty-four hours is put at
about 100 gallons; but by Boussin-
gault's estimate, single square yard
of leaf surface, counting both the up
per and under sides of the leaves, can,
under favorable circumstances, decom-
pose at least a gallon Of carbonIc acid
in a day. One hundred square yards
of leaf-surface then would suffice to
keep the air pure for one man, but
the leaves of tree of moderate size
present a surface of many hundred
square Yards.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26


mand. "She can't have any admir-
ers"
why should she look SO happy"
the younger, who spoke of Art and
Missions with capitals in her voice,
would ask "She can't regard being
secretary to that lawyer as a noble
calling"
And the wives of the boarding
house used also to puzzle over the Old
Maids joyousness, "for she has no
husband" they said, land at her age
can hardly hope to get one"
But | never marveled at the gentle
spinster's radiant face after we had
heard the Singer, not because hear
ing his voice was enough to provide
his hearers with a fund of inner joy
for the remainder of their days, but
because of the song he sang.
Now, the Old Maid had lived so long
in the clearinghouse on the square
that it had become second nature for
her to choose the less furnished spoons
in the holder and to avoid instructive
ly the top slices of bread on the bread
plate. She was familiar with all va
rieties of clearinghouse servants,
and she knew that all alike despised
her as "the fourth floor front" She
knew by heart the landlady's stories
of pressing present need and of past
afiiuence. She had nothing to learn
In the matter of substituted gas Jets,
and her feet were trained to skip the
torn spots in the stair carpet. Alto
gether there was nothing in the Old
Maids position in her clearinghouse
to account for her serenity.
Downtown the Old Maid was a ste
nographer in a law Office, where pref
tiness was at a discount as hindrance
to unremitting toll She did not real
ize that her chief attraction to her
employers was the lack of distracting
features and complexion. Long as she
had lived in the sordid but educating
clearinghouse, she had not learned
everything that was to be learned
about motives, and she believed that
her fathers old friendship with the
lawyer had much to do with her po-
sition
Before the remote day when the Old
Maid first came to the law office and
the clearinghouse she had lived in
the country. Even yet when the
spring rains came down and drenched
the grim pavements she had a swift.
fieeting sense of late SHOWS melting
by the rim of the brooks and of timid
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26
PASSING OF TOMBSTONE.
No Other southwesterp CSsSS S3ad S-ch
a Msseoric History.

Osuer SOuNnWebtSEp Ss>9Ha -1aN S~Cl1
a Msseoric History.
Thore never was another camp in
the southwest like that at Tombstone
in 1879 and 1880. Indeed, there have
been very few similar conditions in the
world. For over seven months the
daily output of precious metals aver
aged about $50, 900, says the New York
Mail and Express. Over a dozen men
went there penniless and came away
worth over 100000 in less than
year, and six or seven men struck 1t
rich and sold out for $1.900,000 each.
Fully half the population walked hun
dreds of miles to get there. No rail-
road ran through southern Arizona in
those days, and the awful Colorado
and Mojave deserts had to be crossed
in wagons or on foot by the multi
tude of fortune seekers from Califor-
MIA. Desert sandstorms were encoun-
tered, and for days travellers to Tomb
stone endured a temperature or over
$50 degrees in the shade. Many man
died on the hot, sandy plains. Miners
on their way to the new camp from
the cast anu SOuLu lOlltu dNAOSo SAAN
Arizona alkali plains through inn
mense cactus areas, and risked their
lives in the then hostile land of the
Apache Indians.
When Tombstone was reached there
were new privations and moro physi-
cal distress for the greater number,
especially for those who had fastened
from offices, stores. clerkships and
their pastors study. Over one-third
of the men in camp had very little
money. or none az all, and knew no
way of earning it except by the hard
est kind of manual labor, to which
they were unused 1t cost 81 night
to sleep in a dirty, rough, pine bunk.
Water sold at 90 cents gallon, a
small dish of beans at 80 cents, tai
low candle at two bits Us cents), COM
mon overalls at S. each, smoked hams
at $12 each, and cowhide boots were
disposed of as fast as they could be
hauled to camp across the desert from
Los Angeles and Yuma for $35 pair
In 1881 all the Tombstone mines that
paid we'll were in the hands of few
persons and the population of the place
had gone down from 10000 TO 5000
In 1889 the mines, with two exceptions,
began to peter out and the population
dropped to 5000. Since then 1t has
gone down slowly to less than LOCO
souls.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26

He Is In charge of one of the finest
chemical laboratories. Occasionally,
we see a dairyman who attempts to
conduct a dairy on scientific lines with
out the good sound judgment that must
enter into the management of all sue
cessful business. His failure is the
cause of much railery at the so-called
book-farming. The axiom that I'm
wisdom there is strength" is just as
true OF farming as anything else, and
be who best prepares himself for hia
life's work, all other things being
equal, will attain greater success. Too
much of the dairying to-day is of the
hit or miss kind. We are too apt Il
follow the tradition of our fathers;
hardly keeping pace with mechanical
Improvement and mental growth. A
great evolution has taken place within
the memory of the youngest dairyman.
First, We remember when our dairy
consisted of two or three cows. Tho
milking was done in the yard, the milk
set In pans in the cellar, the cream
churned in the old stone churn, the
butter worked with bowl and ladle,
packed in jars and traded at the
country store for what it would bring
in the way of provisions for the family.
little later came the first cooling pro-
cesses, the box or rectangular churn
and wooden packages; soon creameries
began springing up and the Cooley and
Fairlamb cans and the skimming wag-
ons came in vogue, then the separa-
tors, Babcock tests, and all the later
improvements of to-day. But the man
agement of the cows seems to have
hardly kept pace. In our nineteenth
century haste we have pushed ahead
stralning every nerve to get the most
milk regardless of cost. Cows have
grown old before their time by milk
ing the year round, and by feeding
more heavy feed than can be properly
assimilated. After two or three sea-
sons of milking, the COW is sold for a
Gamer" and a new one put in her
place at good stiff price. There are
many dairymen who have made money
In the business, who cannot tell which
or their cows they are keeping at
loss, or which are profitable; they can
not tell what it costs them to produce
pound of butter; they have never in
vestigated the relative value of feed
stuffs nor mc1e anything of thorough
study OF breeding, of disease, their
prevention or cure, and are weak in a
thousand other questions that are OF
vital Importance to the dairyman.
They have made their money through
hard knocks, strict economy and fru-
gality OF course industry and good
management are necessary to success,
but information regarding the details
of their profession makes money easier
with less investment, elevates, ennobles
and enriches the industry and raises it
to a plane that makes it desirable
field for the labor of those who have
looked upon it as a life of drudgery
and sorrow. 1t is life of scientific re-
search and practicability; worthy the
efforts of the brightest and best minds.
We cannot fear to know too much
about our business, and the dairyman
should hail with gladness any new
light that may be shed upon his work
and be proud of the noble profession
he has chosen.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26

his fate, some of the Old Maids lines
sang themselves through his mind:
I'll see thee in each flower that grows;
Thou art not lost while lives the rose.
Not lost while lives the rose,
the foolish refrain insisted.
In the morning the silly rhymes
would not be banished. He found him
self humming them to an air, and by
and by-so weak was ne. owing to the
cruel lady--he sat down at the piano
and played the air softly.
1t was the same week that he gave
his great concert at the hall uptown.
With Indifferent generosity he offered
the landlady tickets to be distributed
and so 1t happened that the Old Maid
and l went together.
The Old Maid was very pink and
very tremulous, and, not being in her
confidence, could not understand her
state. After all there was nothing in
a successful singer of 39 to excite a
spinster stenographer of so.
The Singer had sung grand opera
arias and the music from masses. He
had sung Scotch ballads and German
love songs. But he could not sing
enough to satisfy his audience. After
each properly numbered selection he
was recalled again and again. Finally
he came out and said:
II wish I could tell you the author
Of the words am going to sing. They
were sent to me anonymously in man
uscript, and have no means of giving
credit to whom it is due"
The Old Maids figure quivered. She
breathed sobbingly and drew closer
to me, and l wondered if she were 60
ing crazy.
Then the Singer sang the simple
verses. They may have been very bad
as verses, but as a song they were a
success. The audience listened in
tently. the women looking up, as wo-
men look when lowered eyelids would
let the tears brim over. And when the
last verse rang out, plaintively and
proudly:
And though thou hast banished me,
| touch thee in each nodding flower;
see thee, dear one, every hour,
In sky or star, or sea.
All beauty holds some hint ot thee,
And so thou canst not Danish me,
Thou canst not Danish me,
the hall forgot to applaud for fully
three seconds, when it caught its
breath and surreptitiously wiped its
eyes. That is, all but the Old Maid.
She wept quite openly, turning her ra-
diant. tear-stained face toward me.
ITS mine! It's mine!" she half sob
bed. 20. it's mine and am so happy
And then she told me the whole
story. But neither prayers nor en-
treaties could prevail upon her to let
me tell her secret. And the boarders
still wonder why it is that a colorless
little lady like the Old Maid sometimes
wears look of pride.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26
Ruttermiik In Demand.

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat says
that buttermilk is in such demand in
the saloons and restaurants of that city
that the dairymen find it difficult to
fill all their orders in this line. 1t has
been shipped in from 100 miles away
Continuing, that paper says:
But it is a mistake to think that the
saloons buy it all. That they should
buy it at all is merely one of the queer
features of the business. Much
buttermilk is sold to restaur-
ants. During the hot season,
sweet milk has been largely
tabooed, iced tea has lost caste, cof-
fee could not be tolerated, lemonade
and soda were not acceptable, and but
termilk was ushered in as a substitute
for all of them. And most desirable
substitute it has proved itself to be.
Much buttermilk has been sold to fam
lilies, and there is not an ice cream or
soda water parlor in the city that does
not handle it. AS with the saloons, the
demand began with the hot weather.
AS the temperature rose, the call be-
came greater. Restaurants, saloons
and ice cream parlors have been forced
to keep it, and in large quantities. The
dairy companies recognized the posi-
bilities of the business, and made ar
rangements to handle an immense sup
ply. They had placards printed which
called attention to their buttermilk, or
set forth it's virtues.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26
Professional nairxinr

1t is sometimes thought that IL a
man has received a liberal education.
has had more than ordinary advantag-
es In the way of self-improvement that
ne has hidden his talents when he en-
cages in the vocation of farming, says
writer In Hebron, ILL.,, Tribune. The
fact is, however, there is no business
In active life where wide range of
study, research and scientific investi-
CATION is more profitable or needed
than In dairying. His business entire
Is that of the scientist and chemist
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26
FREAK OF NATURE IN FLORIDA
Stretch of Land. 10000 Acres In Extent,
Covered with SInk-Ho

stretch of Land, 10000 Acres In Extent,
Covered with sInk-Holes.
Payne's prairie, three miles south of
Gainesville, Fla, covers an area of So
600 acres. A large proportion of the
prairie is now covered with water, but
there are thousands of acres around the
borders of the lake which has been
formed on which horses and other cat
tie Craze. There is no way of estimat-
ing the number of cattle, but there are
many thousands, and they are in fine
condition. The prairie, or savanna,
which it really is, occasionally goes
dry. the water passing out through
subterranean passage called the sink.
Where the water goes has never been
the lake goes dry, and when the outlet
becomes gorged or choked a lake from
five to seven miles wide and about
eighteen miles long is formed. When
the waters of the lake suddenly leave
it thousands of alligators, snakes, fish
and turtles are left with nothing but
mud for their places of abode. The fish
and turtles perish, but the saurians
and reptiles seek and find other quar-
ters. For miles along the northern
border of the lake there is a success
sion of sinks, averaging in depth all
the way from twenty-five to 100 feet.
Subterranean passages run in every di-
rection, leaving the ground in the
shape of honeycomb. The ground is
liable to give way at any time, Great
ing a new sink. Scenery around the
lake, especially on the north side, is
unique and grand, and is an attractive
feature to strangers who visit Gaines-
vile. The sink has long been popular
as a resort for citizens of Gainesville,
who go there to fish, boat ride and
in other ways enjoy themselves. 1t is
said that this vast area of land could
be drained at trifling expense, and
were it drained it would be the largest
as we'll as the richest tract of produc-
tive land in Florida. 1t is for the most
part a bed of muck. The land is owned
by various individuals.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26
Too L,tt,e Respeot for conr,..

Kansas City Star: The repeated ap-
peals which conservative writer's and
speakers feel called upon to make to
the people to persuade them to main
tain respect for the courts show forth
a necessity which ought not to exist
in this country. They simply prove
that the courts are not worthy of the
honor and confidence which the public
would like to yield them.
The Yale expositor., 1897-11-26

Hades.-If there is heaven there is
naturally a hell. One could not exist
without the other. but the Bible does
not teach of birthstone hell. but
merely by implication. Rev. John W.
westiock. Christian Church, Omaha
Neb.