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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18
WEST SHORE R.R.

frame i.a,e y" i-1 o. '.s'.e' ~. L.. - ioo"s. aad
10 IA. aalIer fTVIl IUOt fEanAin ST..
1880 A. NJ DAILY. Local 10 Buffalo.
U,i5 A. NJ. Daily for Albany tea. Syracuse. Roohes-
ter Buffalo Fails. Toledo, Cleveland, CHICAGO
II .:i5 a. NJ. Daily. except sunday to caIskill
tains NeN-PaliN. Lakes MOhunk ana Minnewaska.
Albany. U'ica Saratoga, Caldwell Lake George Pa0r
Car Albany.
600 p NJ Daily for Albany. Montreal. Utica Syracuse
Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls. Toronto Detroit.
Cleveland Chicago and -. Louis
7iS p NJ DAILY. except sunday. for Syracuse. Roches-
s,i5 r. a. Daily Albany Utica. Syracuse, Rochester
buffalo Niagara Falls Toronto Detroit. Cleveland CHI
cago and -. Louis
Time tables at principal hotels and offices.
- Nanaer bilt-ayc New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18
DEL. ACkAWANSA AND WESTERN II. X.
stations IN NcW-NOrk, foot of Barclay and
Christopher streets.
VESTiBULED TIMER: t Li:,i1 n'FFEf

Direct route to NEWARK BLOOMFIELD. MoNTCLAIR
THE ORANGES. Summit Barnarisvie Baskns
Ridge Madison, Morrisown, Passaic Paterson, Boon
ton Dover Sa1hope, NEWTON BUDDS LAKE,
LAKE hop ATCONG Hackettst0wn, sCHoOLEYS
MOUNTAIN Washington PH!LLIPsBURG, EAsroN.
SCRANTON, PITTSToN WIhKESBAnRE; NANTr-
n ros Il BIN;HAMT0X oXFoRD NORWfcH wstes-
viils UTICA RICHFfELD SPRINGS. Cortland
SYRACUSE. OSWEGO, ITHACA, oWEGO ELMIRA.
CoSNINti. BATH. DANSNILLE, BUFFALO and all
nonts WEST NORrHWEsT AND SOUTHWEST
500 A. M--BINGHAMToN NAH. Stops principal
N Of A M-1cate Carr. BUFFALO SCRANTON BrNG-
io" II aNTON UTICA RICTiFlELD SPRINGS SYRIA.
Use ana OSWEGO EXPRESS Pullman Parl5r
Cars Connecting at Buffalo with trains fo' ChIcas,
100 a p 'mmscRANToN. wILKEsBARRE and Er.MIRA
'' EXPRESS. Pullman Buffet psrlor Cars.
.oo p Nj SCRANTON. WILKEsBARRB and Pr.YM.
7.so p N CTaiy)-BuTalo vestibnled LIMITED Express
'''' frir' Si,RANTON BINGfIAMTON, EIMfRA hIfF.
FAIO Pullman Buffet Sleeping Car Connecting al
RIfIao with trains Chicago and points west.
sao p Daily Buffalo Express Pullman Slaepsrs for
~ SCRANTON. BlNGliAMTON ELMIRA. BATH. Mt
NoHRIS and BUFFALO arriving Buffalo A. 81
$50 p n dDaiiy)-BuEFAIlo scRANroN BINGHAM.
FXPRESS Pullman Buffet sleepers.
TICK FITS AND PULLMAN ACCOMMODATIONS az
uenrv Gaze 4 Sons Limited. ii3 Broadway II Park
place 400 Broadway. Tickets At ferry stations 9tj
i2rnaduav III 4thaye. l2thst; 53 West i23th-st
as5 columbus save. New York. 33s and 726 Fuion.s ST.
ana O6 broadway Brooklyn Timetables giving full In.
oIWNIETssTCorT EXPREss COMPANY will call for and
check baggage from hotel or residence to destination
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18
BALTlM ORE g. OHIO
Leave New-York foot OF Liberty 81. daily.

Leave NewSork. foot OF Liberty S'.' oaiiy'
CHICAGO p. M. and H. Is night . . 80.
PITTsDuRG; $50 ex sun sun y 70 n,sn''
WASHINGTON BALTIMORE SOD 10 obnlns sn Tar,;
II 30 a. M Dining Carr 2 $3.50 Dining carr . u, %
Carr n M 10 II night Sunday. 10 Dining carr, ,a5o
a. Dining Carr Dining Carr, tDinins 'a'' i-i"
night.
NORFOLK. lI.30 n. daily <e,,aa,
NEW ORLEANS. Through Sleeper. $50 p m 'ouN'a'
200 D. M. ,,.,
All trains are illuminated with Pntsch Light ,,u :,
Offices: l3 80 2Gi. AL LAO b way. 81 r.. ~. -
1877 Bowery y. y 800 3ai Fulton.st Brookyn; .a
Liberty ". g. r. r. ~ n j. bass"sr
hotel residence destination
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18

"a received at their Uptown ONCE No ?a2 Broad.
Vav OF Sist-st.. until o'clock IN. aos
vertssments rse,,ved following branch onese AZ
regular ONO. until o'clock .. m: VIA ~ tts-
9Th ave and isths,; lt2 columbusav near West Gehs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18
ROYAL BLUE LINE.


WASHINGTON
Fer Philadelphia. week days 80 500 e:co loo
Parlor carr. 1870 300 Dining Can. GOO 1870. 300 p
NJ 1915 night sundays. i3O, 900. 1000. II 80 DIN
ing Carr. A. NJ. 200 AGO. 300 Dining Can. r. NJ.
1915 night. - -.
For Baltimore and Washington week DAYS 500. 1000
# 80 Dining carr 4. NJ. 200. 800 300 Dining Carl,
p ~ i2:l5 night sundsys l9;' i, asz I2ih.s cam
Tickets and parlo seats can he secured q foot ~
81 9th Az, 81 East ith 81. lsa Fast i2lih 81 ~?
s., SCI Fulton ST. brooklyn: % Broadway Williams
burg The Nev-Yor Transfer Company will call for and
check baggage from hotels residence TO destination.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18
g range and close to-day. and closing DIGS the

Market closed steady at UNCHANGED to points sdyanSs
compared with yesterdays closing prices IraserrlDe
notices 7O5 Total sales 63.so0 bales New.lofk net
receipts $3.50 bales Exports: Great Britain lGSo 6aies
Continent i6c5 bales stock. go $40 bales Total net
port receipts day. 45l bales. thus far this week 80
sg bales $3.50 bales last week, and 4o4o paes
last wear Exports to-day; Great Britain I224 bales;
Continent T. 43 bales stock Te936o bales spot cotton
steady and unchanged Middlng upands TIC. middling
Gulf lie sales 1882 bales including $3.50 bales direct
shipment 493 bales spr ming. 200 bales contract Hes
mi veeily Interior oyement was as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18

FLOUR AND MEAI-The market for -four was guie
with nro, h sd M9 s1s by 9u me
ports. ON spring patents the market IL about " 40 iof
s wan & % O1t 10 sa 30 stun " little lot q
civ noar amounted to ISIS bbs total iransae
PISS 5s s fGows 800 SS' wS sS
So o,:n! asso Gs s's ely y csaT ioas ss
500 ii. 81 s ssgsS 40 $50 8 Ss y 49, 800 ss
s sssa 90 anS ME FL PToTE market was da
The season being spot is quoted nomnaly a. ~ 10
s' q scss BYE FtNMR&aI sale; sse 80
IS Quoted Kg ,ns White 7 iags fine yellow"
Ss7 5sS $500 100 r. 4o7sc Sharp 75
s rye feed q55c homny cssP s2Sgo' Sy esa
e. ssSs7 %sa' ''''' 0s'' 0''''''''
-WTEATThe opening OF me Sht t,r mas fes
This developed the presence or p'n h Western
markets leading the advance The trace was gCou sd dJ
s,e prces set back to sbou, final Of las. sSenns
fSns z . asan az a5ues ong Which
pe' regarding eon although ater on ne tbsn liz a.
though there reports uneasness on The IN
NE s S seIn 70 ye6eet any serious uneasness in Lon
Don The Liverpool future market ADVANCED SHARPLY , r
partly due talk and partly due 10 reports oa
Continental demand for On coast foreign houses
were moderate sellers The crop reports wer. cont
fear that damage advised may possibly prove sei
% v, The re29sT 90 not ses 50 @sr small only
ears against 300 cars las, week ana 10 sfg ed very
ot,s.
ol. with quotations however. about steady Inc VS.
dell. nrner with the advance in futures IN h'at
tered shippers 10000 bush Of spring wie't m
piyste Receipts Western points this "eth ho
slight falling or from last week. while sNsr.s
<en increasing The sales OF wheat to-day TOT shpn, ~
were on private No 2 red quoted ~ snif
ger May an at May closed ~ Soc; No haIu Nv
yors. &C over May a1oat. and No northern 80
fMk SIC May 0 b aNOat. .COkN-lnr mar
of corn was quiet but generally frm Ineir va
sy itle Interest shown in operations either here OF VIZ
receipts at interior points have shown large fsllhe 81
WIS week Amounting three DAYS TO lltSoU Ousl
sssnst leD3UO1 bush last week. The exports 3o W,
sins time have been 242s,v 900 bush. against o4UVp
eosh The future market closed quiet 10 day az sWis
~, gain Cash corn was strong but inactive: 20 was
sso.d az 2sxc elevator for old. and al A.c over May
nost LOT 40 for export May closed al 30l.e steamer
vs. quoted Al 2se elevator .OATS-The trade In os's
W.. comparatively light and the prices however, eon'
A. Seadier Following the Improvement in other cereals
and the total Tor three hes been ISL 600 bush
Tnnnn ibtsGO bush last week exports have been
eI1.D bush, against 2i.00 bush The market 10 DAY
&c. ~ '.o net advarre Cash quiet but
IN tone Exporters took 81 60 Sales OF cash
ZEE ts1 bush including 1900 bush track and
prtneo white. 2243lc 25000 mixed. clipped
ei,~Nss Terms. export and 1000 local No white
qus,sS ioWo bush private export: No oata
NJ <itc elevator. No 20Ae: No white 23hc
white 22ic .PARLFy-Msrket steady. Quoted
eTft. @cre Buffalo. opening navigation 32Ac,
q n r,i ork carlots. 50u32sc. T. mating 8ST42c
t. 4osm.,ia .RYE-Msrkst steady Quoted csr,ois
7unaio opening navigation. and 1iX9t2c -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18

4 ADVERTISEMENTS and sutscripons for ne , IT'D
n une received their Uptown Office. No La. l6roai
way "a north Of 3is St. until O'Clock p m ad
veriisenents received at the following bianeh ",es
regular ONCE until o'clock D. M, Va - oth
ave s O. cor 23d- st l52 6haye. cor l.th ST, MACY s.
Gh ave ard 18th 42 Columbus near west WIFI
ST. loo Yves; 42d st.. 9th ave; 92 Eas, I4th -
Wcs, i2ds between 9TH ard sth svcs l.o has 0oc o.
at 33s 3l ave- between 10th and nth SITS; lo=" 81
ave near Gls I0s ~ ave. near ssth st. ,So s1
Bleecker 2a1e 3dave.: $40 East nth St ~ "a
ave GEO "a ave. % Amsterdam ave. w Nest 42h -
rs Fast Gth-st o05 Fast 4sh-st.: SIG 9th ave; Wi
am ave- l52 81 9th Il; 2i te no ~
IA Gh- ave At the Harlem Offices. 2'@i 81 Hs We.,
ON ~ tet Tth and sth ayes 32o West 18TH at At
,tD F-ook.yn Offices 397 Fulton - 126 Fulton 81 ~
court st &C Braaivly. f. d: lo3 bToac"hS' T. b''
,,e Mvr,le-ave, Broadway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18

Cotton Exchange special Liverpool cabes-Spot cotoH
doing; 1900 bales. Speculation ana
export loo bales American. lGr bales; receipts "Wo
bales 5000 hales. MiGdling upland q 81 go
Futures quiet to 264d decline; closed steady 10
points decline; March 35siab March April 3ssb;
April May. S5slsb: May-June &5stb June July ssssDi
JulyAugust 35ts: August September 3Gi.b: Septrut-
October 35o.b october November 3ieb: Novemoer.De-
cemher 344isb D>cembtr January 3i4ish Manchester
dull. STEADY; cloths quiet and hrm
CNFFEfS-Deangs coffee this morning were quiet
Prices 10 points lower at the opening with the
official tone steady moderate and during the
morning a light volume Of trade developed Weaker
foreign markets and moderate deliveries again We're ap
pareny factors the early selling. Deliveries day at
all points 1886 bags American STOCKS are no'lHl,
although little falling off in the last rev Gays
in the visible supply. Brazilian cables OF steady
with No Rio quoted al 9s!lD; exchange
S 900 bags cleared for United states,
coo bags stock 2s3 quiet at lVs'o
receipts. 1900 bags; STOCK. 4lo"r
bags The Hamburg market 2, pfenning lower ana
bags. The Havre market opened steady
a, = 3 franc lower. and at 3 p. m showed an "a,
closing about steady at net unchanacd
10 Ia franc decline. Sales 1900 bags The local
ruled during the afternoon but about
steady closing quiet 10 points net decline Sales
lCO bags. spot coffee was &c lower with NO klo
quoted al &c and Sssc The market was inactive al
the decline. Mid coffee also very quiet
The following shows the highest, lowest ana closing
to-day contracts:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18
TILE TRADE Ii CHINAGO.

-, -, 5.c. H. as.c Lead dull Missouri So oIsgs3 lo
desiiy.rized 81 l2i.. speler unchanged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18

ouN,sa or *, all rail Observation-Disclosures steady
doy to-day the closing prices fer the previous
wear fo,nw "s prices TOT the corresponding date last
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18
"BLACK DIArlOND EXPRESS"

arrives Buffalo $3.50 T. ~ Pullman vestlhue Day Coaches
and TarlOr Dhing-Car service. Meals Ia carte
Connects Buffalo with through SeepeIs - Detroit ana
Chicago
13:lO T.. VI. daily exeep, Sunday. for Mauch Chunk
Intermediate. points
$40 u. NJ daily except Sunday, for Wi.kesbarre Ps-
ton, Scranton and principal Intermediate stats S.-
meets for all points In coal region Chair cars 10 "S'-
i;IO T.. VI. daily. except sunday. for. Wnkesbarre.
Ptston Scranton and prncipa! intermediate stations
Connects for AL points in coal regions Pullman blies
Parlor Car {, Wnkesbagre. - ,, 49,
tons
$40 r. VI. daily except Sunday Express for stating
and principal intermedate stations Connects iof
Reading and HARRISBURG Chair Car TO Siatng,cn
700 T.. VI. daily. for BUFFALO. NIAGARA FALLS
and all points West Pullman Sleeper Veetlhuled train
n Y. to Chicago. sleeper Buffalo and Toronto
500 r. VI. daily except sunday, stopping only AZ
South Plairned. Efston. bethlehem. Mauch Chunk.
l.. & B Junction Sayre. Geneva Rochester Batavia ani
Buffalo Pullman Sleeper Tor Buffalo. None but sleeping
car passengers carried. No baggage carried. -
900 T.. ". daily, for ITHACA. GENEVA ROCHE
TER BUFFALO. NIAGARA FALLS, and all poia's West.
Pullman Seepers Chicago and Buffalo. Sleeper ID
WikesbaTTe.
BOUND BROOK and inermedate points leave as follows.
900 A " '2:30 100 and $50 i. NJ. 1850 y. NJ tsat.
urdays onlyl. 49, . "a.
Tickets and Pullman accommodating at ll3. :35 2ci.
23 GA and l3.j Broadway 81 East IAN ST. i38 Eas'
lo5th St. l2i Bowery y. Y $50 fulton ST. 4 Court St.
9S Broadway and Brooklyn Annex. Brooklyn.
NewYork Transfer Company Will call for ard cheek
baggage from hotel residence through TO destination
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18
CENTRAL RAILROAD Of new JERSEY
(Antbracite coal used eAc!usiNeIy,)
Four tracks. Automatic Block signals.
On and after January 20 1897.

Four tracks. Automatic Block signals
On and after January ~. 1891,
Trains leave station foot Of Liberty s..
For Easton. Bethlehem Allentown. Maunch Chunk. Re-
$50 T:i5, $40 a rs to Easton A. NJ. 1910 1880 4ij
a 20 Fastonl 5:i5 q 80 to allentown r. ~ SUNDAYS
40 q; TO Esston) a. NJ. 100 $3.50 r. ". .
For WikeshaTre. Pittston. and scranton $50 A. NJ,
l:io 80 i:i5 p VI. sundays, ~ \. NJ.
For Reading i.3O 500 $40 1000. II 80 A. ". 10
100 200. 400 800 90 300 r ~, l2;lo night sun
For Harrisburg at 43o 500 $50 li3O A. NJ. i:io
,:3O 40 500 545 p. NJ. i25 night Sundays. 4:3o
A. NJ. 1900. $3.50 p NJ. 1915 night o.oo
For Sunbury Iewsburg and Willamsp0rt. at $50 500
o:io A. ~. 49, 1870, 900 p. 81. sundays. iSo A. ~,
500 h. VI. ,o,r,
FOR LONG BRANCH OCEAN GROVE. &c.
For Red Bank. Long Branch, Asbury Park. Ocean
Grove and points south 70 Point Pleasant. 40. $50
I045 A. n 80 l:4J 1910 Red BanD 4:l5. 4:i0.
53s 6ib p NJ sundays stops az Interaken for Asbury
park and Ocean Grove 900 4 NJ. 400 p. "
For LAKEWOOD.
4.3o 1915 A. NJ. ii5, $40 $40 @;3s SATURDAYS on'y'
For Tors River. Darnegat Park and Barnegat. $50.
lO:45 A NJ ~. 4:lo T. NJ. -
For Atlantic CITY vineland ard BrIdge,'n. 4;3o D. ~.
For Monmouth Beach. seabright and. Highlands &
Navesnk $50. i0:t5 a. N. 80. LAB 40 i;io
NJ \ NJ r NJ.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18
Ctcal Notires.
->o~-.---.--.>o >oo,>oNonNN>NNoNNoNNo
A TTENTION Is CALLED TO THE ADV FL

4 TTENTION Is CALLED TO THE ADVER'
"A TfsEMENT IN THE "CITY RECORD" commencing
on the 18th day Of March 1897 and continuing thereIn
conecutlyely for nine days thereafter Of the con-
nrmton BIZ The Supreme Court ard the entering In the
Rurpau for Collection ~ Assessments. etc OF the
assessments for OPENING AND ACQUIRING TITLE TO
the following named streets In the -
PATH WARD-lI2D ST. from the southern Hou;eVsIu
ward 20 West Farms Road. 80
ASIIBEI p FITCH. Comptroller
CITY u New YORK, Finance Department, Comptroller
Office March -. 1897.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18
LEHIGH Valley RAILROAD

stations foot Of CortIandt and Desbrosses SIS;
$40 4. VI daily SUNDAY, 10 A. NJ for AACCh
CHUNK and intermediate stations - ...-o>,
$40 a. VI. daily for WILKESBARRE, scRANI,oN
tweek days EI.MRA week days., ITHACA. GENE
ROCHESTER, BUFFALO NIAGARA FALLS, and the
West, and principal local points. Dining Car and Chalr
Car 10 Buffalo
1850 4. VI. dany except Sunday. for MAUCH CHUNK
intermediate points
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-18

receipts OF breadstufs points in thousands,
follows: ' ~ ' o'' ~
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-07
THE METROPoLTTAN HIGH SCHOOL

1t is probably not generally known that
until this year the school system of New
York has not included what is so notable
feature Of public education here in
Providence, for instance, tho high
school.
The question OF how far communities
shall support free education is ever up for
discussion and there mas been strong
sentiment in New York City that it ought
TO stop with the grammar grade gradua-
tion from which has been the conclusion
of the schooling o; so large proportion
Of young men and women.
Practically every city and large town in
tho United States has high school sys.
tenn. however. New York has managed TO
Normal Training School and the College
of tho City of New York took the place
of high schools. But tho training school
was intended eply tor teachers, and the
College Of tho City of New York was
moro OF college than high school
Although both were supported by the city
neither was recognized by the stats as a
public school.
But with the new term three schools of
tho high school grade will bo open and
these are to be added TO until there are
ten Inc metropolis is authorized by
Legislature to appropriate Sl0 600, 600 for
Oh schools and additional facilities in
tho common grades.
The causes Tor an incomplete school sys-
tom in New York have reon many. Inc
population has increased faster than the
school facilities, and it has been neces-
sary 20 expend so much money for the
common schools that the board Of educa-
tion could not extend the system. But
the chief reason was that certain of the
members OF tho beard Of education
seemed to think that common school
education was ample. and IL parents
wanted more for their children they
should pay for 10.
One of the new high schools will be
for girls only, one for boys and one for
both
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-07
KLoND KE INVESTMENTS.
Beware of the TOO easy Klondike inves

Beware of the too easy Klondike invest
iIent
AS to going into IL, a good rule for gen.
eral practice would bo-Don'tl
The klondike Stock Company has re-
placed the Southern town investment and
the Western debenture bond. And In q
good many cases 1t is quito likely TO
prove as prontless
just now the whole country is eager
for IT, klondiKe in the United States
arouscs the same sort of fever that kailirs
have Ia England.
The prospectus of company after com
pnuy offers stock nc small cost and prom
ise 100 per cent dividends, We note tho
lists of prominent names atfording TO the
investor seeming security that distin-
gulshsd the Southern boom town advertis-
ing material-that caught so many in
YES .prs here in New England, who have
10 show for their money today only sheets
OF highly adorned "bonds" and "stock"
Of no value except TO the junk man.
A single dozen Of the various sorts OF
Klondike development companies hlon-
dixie trading companies and hlonilIe
mining companies, shows an aggregate
capitalization Of fifty or sixty millions of
dollars-on paper, that is. Lesser con-
Germs come up every day like mushrooms
or, rather toad stools. 1t is safe TO es-
innate that 800 OOO 900 is not too great
figure that the promoters hope 60 secure
i'm money from crcdulous investors.
Doubtless there are good, safe and re-
liable companies whose stock is offered,
companies managed by experienced men
whose propositions have attracted dis
eliminating investors. But thore are
probably IA much larger number through
which the gold crazy investor must thread
his way that Will never have anything
else TO return TO their stockholders but
an indifferent holding in the Office furni-
ture.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-07
Tho Contest Began August ist
REASON HE SOLD PAPERS.

There is no curio more unique than tho
typical Denver newsboy, and the dullest
of their mum ber never fails TO provoke my
profoundest interest, if not compassion. l
ran across one last evening, whose pic
tJresgueness ard quaIntness charmed me.
He was typical gamiu, and SO diminu-
tive in stature that ! had TO stoop over 10
interrogate him, which | did in this way:
Where do you get yoUr papers, my
little mani"
Il Duy 'em Of Johnny Green.
And who is JohDny GreenY
Hes "a nowsboy-he buys 'em in the
Times alley.
what do you pay him for themg"
"Ficents. -
"What do YOU sell them forg"
"ticentS.
"lou don't make anything at thatY
Nope
"Then what do you sell them fory'
'Uh, just TO get to holler. "-DenVor
Times.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-07
A Newspaper, Not a Party Organ.
JERUSALEM, THE GOLDEN.

The Zionist Congress held recently at
Basle was il we may believe tho reports
most enthusiastic gathering.
1t looked to people like Palestine once
more with the Hebrew race under a
Hebrew government as of old.
"Zionism, as the new movement is
called, certainly must have fascinating
udice is so strong as IL Is among the
Hebrews, race of rare energy, religious
faith and renown in the arts and sciences,
in government and finance. Stripped of
the fanciful attributes that have been
popul arly associated with the movement,
Zionism does not mean that the Hebrews
are TO abandon their homes all over tho
world and betake themselves to Jerusa-
lem, the impoverished land Of their
f,thers but it appeals only TO tho unfortu-
nate who are denied the use of their
power for development and progress,
open up to them the fatherlaud where
they may become consolidated, free and
self-governing people
The problem that Zionism aims to
solve, too, is more economic than re-
ligious, as we understand il. That, at all
events, seems TO have been the keynote Of
the Basle conference Zionism as en-
Enthusiastically interpreted at the congress
means that the Hebrew is now strong
enough to look out for himself and his
own and that Palestine Is to be the
harbor OF people powerful enough des-
pite centuries of scattering ana persecu-
tion, TO found nation. In Russia alone
are three or four million Hebrews whose
existence is at tho mercy of Car bcuud
by a policy that makes the Hebrew an
outcast and in the face of the philan-
thropy OF the late Baron Hirsch to
found colony in the ArgeDtinos. and for
all the open welcome extended in the FREQ
United States. it is to Palestine that the
prosecuted Hebrew has most hopefully
turned his face and already Jerusalem is
being once again peopled by the descend
acts of its former rulers, the Hebrew
race There are said Co be today not less
than o.. 900 Hebrews in the population of
Palestine.
The revered Sir Moses Montefore was
indeed the practical originator OF the
organized colonization of Palestine ma
today the colonies established in the Holy
Land probably number "a score. To give
these colonies government Of their own,
TO secure them from the hostility of
Christian a. we'll as Mohammedan nation
is the essential work to be accomplished.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-07
QUEER CAPERS.

The negroes at Mountvil.e are cutting
queer capers Their strange actions recall
"a similar scene at n camp meeting of
colored folks in Georgia.
They had had meetings all day and all
night for three weeks, and the excite
ment was great. A convert would shout
himself hoarse then fall in dead faint
and lie "tranced' for hours. On one of
these occasions the preacher in charge
produced what he called "the holy
nCedle"-a large steel affair in the shape
of IA needle and when the converts were
Frustrated on the floor he would pass
among them and stick them with 1t. If
they gave any signs of feeling they were
put down as imposters.
one night "a very fat negro woman felt
the needle penetrate her arm-gave "a loud
scream and jumped TO her feet
Then she tackled tho parson, and for
full fve minutes there was trouble in that
meeting She pulled haudfuls of the
parsons hair, and tumbled him over the
benches ia great style.
The "holy needle" was dispensed with
after that. and the conversion test was
reduced 10 n bucket or two Of ice cold
water in their faces Atlanta Constitu-
ton,