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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
Pianists Practice Too Much.

while studying with Rubinstein,
Josef Hofmann practiCed three hours a
day." writes Mary 3. Mullett of the
famous pianist in The Ladies' Home
Journal. HE believes that most stu
dents make the mistake of overpraCtic-
ing. When he came TO this country the
first time, he was practicing an hour a
day. For two years after his return to
Germany he practiCed two hours a day.
During the next two years he averaged
four hours daily, and after that, until
he went to Rubinstein, six hours daily.
This he regards as excessive.
Ones mind grows stupid and con-
fused, HOfmann says, and ones fingers
follow the confusion of the brain. An
other mistake of young pianists is that
they use too much force IN practicing
One should play just hard enough TO
keep the fingers and wrists from getting
stiff. One is not aiming for artistic re-
suits as one is in concert playing. l. Is
the fingers which need constant prac-
tice' -
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28

There is some reason for calling an
owl the bird Of wisdom, and yet there
is cause for wondering if the crow is
not mentally his superior. Crows are
not disheartened by the gloom of late
autumn. If the fog is too dense to fly
through it, they rise above it or trot
about the ground, discussing the situa-
tiOn with their fellows. Is this speak
ing too positively? I have long been
familiar with an observing man who
has lived all his days wit.in sight and
hearing Of crows. He claims TO under
stand their language and can repeat the
''words" that make up their voca abulary.
Certainly crows seem to talk, but do
they? Does "a certain sound made by
them have always the one significance;
Year after year 1 have listened and
watched, watched and listened, and
wondered if my friend was right. He
believes it. believe it--almost. Are
there limitations to ornithologicai in
terpretation? And is this an instance
where truth is unattainahle2-
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
THE CYCLONE.
How This Wonderful and Destruc-
tive Air Fury Is Formed.

i've AIT
To get an idea of a cyclones forma-
tion imagine large circular pan or tub
with quite a large hole in the middle
of the bottom. With this hole plugged,
fill the vessel with water; then draw
out the plug and watch. There is. first a
rush of water from all directions toward
the hole and a turbulent effort to get
through. Then the water surface above
begins 10 sink and swirl, the particles
gradually circling around and around
and rushing, ever faster, toward the
center. At last there Is actually a hOl-
low space through the center, around
which all the water IN the tub Is Whirl-
ing, sluggishly near the rim, but with
more and more violent rapidity toward
the middle until it rushes downward
through the bottom. Now, if that water
were air, you would be watching a little
cyclone turned upside down, for the air
rushes upward instead Of downward.
In the cradle Of cyclones during the
summer months, when the land and the
water grow hotter and hotter because
of the longer days than nights, layer
Of air, hot, light and full Of vapOr, is
for a time held down by denser air
above it. Restless, expanding, tumultu-
Gus. it moves about like a beast at bay
until thinner place in the air above is
found. Then up it madly rushes and
into the vacuum left behind the lower
atmosphere hastens from all directions,
pushing and twisting and pouring up
ward until it has fallen into a regular
spinning around common center.
The cyclone, once formed, rushes
away from the tropics toward the pole,
and begins its career Of destruction,
bruising, wIecking and sinking the
luckless ships which happen to be in
its path. More and more Of the sur
rounding atmosphere is drawn into the
whirl until the storm often covers an
area nearly l, 900 miles in diameter.
Sometimes it filings itself upon our At
lantic coast and tears fierCely through
forests, fields and cities. Then again it
sweeps away across the broad ocean and
dashes itself upon the coasts of Europe
Once in awhile it so adrOitly avoids
the land that we never know it has
passed until ships come in torn and
broken. st. Nicholas.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
A Cemetery For Old Clothes.

In the north Of London there is lit
tie plot Of ground where old clothes are
buried and afterward exhumed for a
curious purpose. 1t is fat, barren and
destitute piece of ground and presents a
very melancholy spectacle. Little wood
en- stumps, bearing numbers, mark the
graves.
There Is a paper mill near by, which
finds it rather difficult TO get suitable
material for the manufacture &c = special
paper.
Tire ordinary old rags are no good.
The rags themselves have TO be manu-
factUred. Old coats, old trousers and
old dresses are covered with wet soil.
and after few weeks rotting are ex-
humed.
A corner is set aside for old linen
goods. The linen is placed in layers in
a box, with soft rich soil between each
layer, and then buried.
Limewater is then sprinkled over
the grave, and after fortnight's rot
ting the linen is reduced to a mlr6
skeleton, which is taken ont Of the box,
laid fat in a warm blanket and rush
ed off to the paper mill.
Though it is only the size Of a foot
ball ground, it contains 1000 graves,
which are marked by 1900 wooden
stumps, each bearing number.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
Hair Powder.

The cause of the general disuse Of
hair powder was the high price of -four.
1t was thought little less than criminal
that -four, which was almost beyond
the reach of some Of the very poor,
should be used by the rich as a mere
fashionable luxury of dress. Voluntary
associations were formed, the members
whereof bound themselves not to use
hair powder. In a similar way the
abolitionists bound themselves not TO
use any sugar whose production involved
the employment Of negro slaves. Notes
and Queries.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
A "SteeIe Bargain

Adam Steele of Shelby county once
rented a lanyard to a Mr.. Jones on
shares. His idea was to risk in the
business only the use of his lanyard
and not to incur any further liability.
So he protected himself by the fol
lowing safe clause in the contract:
IF anything is made, the said Steele
is TO have it, and if anything is lost the
said Jones is TO lose it,"
And this is known in Shelby as a reg
ular Adam Steele bargain to this day.
Lexington Ky Gazette.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
HOW'S This &?

We offer One Hundred Dallars Reward
for any case Of Catarrh that cannot be
cured DIV Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. / CHENEY s. CO., Prop. Toledo, o.
We the undersigned have known F. ].
Cheney for the last IS years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo o. Walding, Kinnan 81 Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testi-
monials free.
Halls family Pills are the best.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
BACKBONE OF OUR NATION.
The Brain Power of Our Country
Comes From the Farms.

''It is from the farm and the country
districts that the great brain power of
the country has come, is coming today
and must come in the future, " writes
Edward Box in The Ladies' Home Jour
nal. "Instead of deprecating country
life and saying that to live in the cOun-
try means to live out of the world, in
telligent people know that the free, un-
trammeled life of the country unques-
tionably gives broader views. The hu-
man mind always grows TO suit its out
ward surroundings. Originality and a de-
velOpment for great things have naught
TO check its growth where one can look
with earnest eyes from nature up TO ma
ture's God. To speak of the ignorance
of the rural regions is to stamp oneself
as an ignOramus, not the country peO-
pie. There is sOundness of core and
an intelligence in the back country of
this nation of ours that people who live
in cities and think themselves wise
never suspect. We can talk all we like
of social revolutions and kindred evils
that are supposed TO threaten this ma
tion. When they do threaten our insti-
tutions, the danger signal will not come
from the back country. Such thoughts
are born and fed amid the foul atmos.
phere of the cities. In the clear coun-
try air of the farm nothing threatens
this country, and when anything in the
shape of a sOCialistic, anarChistic revO-
luton does menace this land the true
voice which will stamp it out will come
from the country. The backbone Of this
land rests in the country and on the
farm. +"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
Not the WiSeSt Way.

1t is not always best to wait until 1t Is
needed before buying bottle OF Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and DiarrhGa
Remedy. Quite frequently the remedy
is REQUIRED in the very busiest season or
in the night and much inconvenience
and suffering must be borne before it can
be obtained. 1t costs but trif1e as COM
pared with its real worth and every family
can well afford to keep it in their home
1t is acknowledged to be the most sue
cessfrI medicine in the world for bowel
complaints. For sale by VIM. Dunning
q Bro, 35z Manton avenue, B. A. Smith,
Olneyville, and G. r. Parker, Johnston
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
DELAUNAYS SAD FATE.
A Prescntiment Of His Death That
Was Strangely Fulfilled.

n Presentiment of His Death That
Was Strangely Fulfilled.
Delaunay, the director of the Paris
observatory, was one of the most kindly
and attractive men L ever met, says
Professor Simon NewComb in The At
lantic. l found it hopeless to expect
that he would ever visit America, be-
cause he assured me that he did not
dare TO venture on the ocean. The only
voyage he mad ever made was across the
channel to receive gold medal of the
Royal Astronomical society for his
work.
Two of his relatives, his father, and,
| believe, his brother, had been drown
ed and this fact gave him a horror of
the water. He seemed to feel somewhat
as the clients of the astrOlogists, who,
having been told how they were to die,
took every precaution to prevent it. 1
remember, as boy, reading history of
astrolOgy, in which a great many cases
of this sort were described, the pecu-
liarity being that the very measures
which the victim took to avoid the de-
cree of fate became the engines that ex-
eCuted it.
The sad fate Of Delaunay was not ex-
actly case of this kind, yet it could
not but bring it TO mind. He was at
Cherbourg in the autumn of 1872.
Walking on the shore with a relative,
a couple of boatmen invited them to
take a sail Through what inducement
Delaunay was led to forget his fears
will never be known. All we know is
that he ventUred into the boat, that it
was struck by a sudden squal when at
some distance from the land, and that
all the members of the party were
drowned.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
The White House Design.

The White House is all exact copy Of
the Duke of Leinster's palace, Dublin.
In March, 1892, the commissioners
on building advertised for "a plan
for presidents house to be erected in
the city of Washington. The prize
offered was $500, and that of James
Hoban, young Irish mechanic, was
accepted. The design was supposed to
be original, but when the house was
completed it was learned that Hoban
had copied it from the dukes palace.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
"The Dirty Dozen"

The town of GrOton, VT, is terror
lied by hoodlums. A secret Organiza-
tion has been formed, known as 1.-The
Dirty Dozen" whose sole purpose is TO
perpetrate unlawful and shameful
deeds. Because Of the actions Of these
thugs many women assert they dare not
be on the street in the EVENING"
change.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
Try Grain.O! Try Grain-O D!

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a
package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink
that takes the place of coffee. The chill
dren may drink it without injury as well
a. the adult All who try it, like It.
GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of
Mocha or lava, but it is made from pure
grain, and the most delicate stomach re-
ceives it without distress. 4 the price of
coffee. I5c and IS cts. per package. Sold
by ali grocers.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
She Could Choose.

There were twin babies in the neigh
boris house, a great many babies little
Ella thought.
Mamma, - she said, 1.-THE stork must
have brought Mrs. Blank two babies SO
she could choose the one she liked best. F."
New York Staats -Zeitung
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
China.s Great Garden.

There is an immense garden in China
that embraces an area Of 90 900 square
miles. 1t is all meadow land and is
filed with lakes, ponds and canals.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28

1t rains on an average of 208 days in
the year in Ireland, about $50 in Eng
land, at Kezan about 90 days and in
Siberia only so days.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
Commercial Zeal.

Claudia, is the young man indus
trious to whom you are engaged?'
industrious? Why, papa, be intend
ed TO propose to me a month ago, but
was too busy. Chicago Record.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
Qnite Another Question.

81 could die for YOU he cried pas
sionately.
"Of course" she replied. "But
would you?"
Some girls are so practical and pro-
sale, you know.-Chicago Post.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28
An Apnropriate symbol.

"Suagsby is member of the Vege-
tartan club, isn't he?"
81 guess he is. l notice he wears an
IS carat badge. - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-10-28

Central African natives mine, smelt
and fashion iron very skillfully.
The herald., 1898-11-11
First Wreck Reported

CHICAGO, Nov. lO.-The tow line of the
schooner Iron Cliff, which was being towed
into port today by the steamer Iron Duke,
parted in the furious northeast gale, and the
schooner drifted rapidly southwark. Her
anchors finally held, until the apparently
doomed schooner was about 300 feet outside
of the inner breakwater off Van Buren
street. For two hours, three tugs tried In
vain to pull her into safety. The crew
clung to the schooner, although seas were roll.
ing over her from stem to stern. Finally
signals of distress were hoisted and the life
saving crew started at once for the wreck.
The Iron Cliff brought cargo of salt for
Joymorton and Company. She is owned by
Parker and Miller of Detroit
The life-saving crew, with the assistance of
two tugs, succeeded in saving the crew OF
the Iron Cliff, after much hard work. I'm.
less the wind and sea abates, the schooner
will be lost.
The lifeboat was nearly swamped several
time; but after long, hard struggle the crew
succeeded in getting her under the lees of
the Iron Cliff, which by this time was nearly
water-logged and evidently sinking. One by
one the men composing the crew of the Iron
Cliff jumped into the waves and were
dragged into the lifeboat. Some of the men
were unconscious when rescued. Soon after
the Iron Cliff sank in shallow water. She
will probably be total loss. The storm
today was even worse than that of October
25th and Goth. The wind blew 65 miles an
hour.
The herald., 1898-11-11
SWEPT BY STORMS OF UNUSUAL
SEVERITY
CHICAG0'S SEA WALL CAVED IN
Some Wrecks Reported and Many
Overdue Vessels Are Scarcely Ex-
pected to Reach Port
Associated Press Special Wire

CHICAGO, Nov. 10-Lal1e Michigan be-
ing swept by a northeast gale is tearing great
holes in the seawall and the paved beach
along the lake front. The Lincoln Park
commissioners had just gotten well under
the storm of October %, but the very break
ers have now put the whole shore line in a
worse shape than ever.
The action of the waves has undermined
the outer driveway in Lincoln Park, after
washing over and displacing the heavy gran
ite blocks with which the beach is paved
Along the north shore drive from Byron
street south the water ran across the road.
way and made. it impossible.
Several vessels are overdue in Chicago and
some apprehension is felt for their safety.
The herald., 1898-11-11
The CAT ISLAND WRECK
NOT SEEN BY SEAMEN IN THE
VICINITY
The Latest Description to Hand Accu-
rately Covers the Ex-Spanish
Cruiser Maria Teresa

BOSTON, Nov. lO.-If the Spanish
cruiser Maria Teresa is on Cat Island, Ba-
hamas,, there was little indication Of it
nav passed there on November 4, two DAYS
after she was abandoned The Saginaw
sailed from Port de Paix, Hayti, on Novcm-
ber 3, and passed within three miles of
Cat Island the next day. Captain Gar
vim said that when off the island he en-
countered a fleet of wreckers OF sponge
fishermen 1 who are 1 constantly on the look
gale as swept over the Bahamas during
the first of the week. If the Teresa was
ashore on the island at that time. every
one of those daring fishermen would have
fiocked around her within few hours
after she grounded and would not have
gone hunting about the ocean with such
a prize so close at hand.
The herald., 1898-11-11
A Small Fleet Ashore

PORT HURON, Mich, Nov l0.-The
steamer G. +. Curtis and three consorts,
bound down, were struck by the gale on
Lake Huron near Sand Beach this morning.
The Fassett finally went ashore near Sand
Beach and the life saving crew from that
point succeeded in getting all the men off
without loss of life The Holland and
Reed have not reached hore at late hour
tonight, and fears are felt for their crews.
Tugs have been sent out to search for the
missing boats. The captain of the Curtis,
which has arrived here, reports the worst
storm he has ever experienced
The herald., 1898-11-11
TELEGRAPH NEWS INDEX

Typhoid fever rampant among SOL
diers quartered at Honolulu and the
nursing force is utterly inadequate to
fill the demand.
Before the Philadelphia Contem-
porary club Historian McMasters ia
vors and T. G. Shearman and Ex-Sen-
ator Edmunds oppose Philippine an
nexation.
Creek Indians vote on the adoption
of the Dawes treaty; Agent Wisdom
denies reports Of disorder and blood
shed.
Citizens Of Wilmington, N. c., in
sist on white supremacy; negro news
paper Office is mobbed and one or two
negroes are killed, while most find
safety in hiding.
Spanish commissioners in Cuba give
notice that the evacuation Of the Hol-
guin division is complete.
Mckinley pleased with election re-
suits in California; many observers
accept Republican success as an en-
dorsement of McKinley's foreign pol
icy.
The state Legislature will be strong
ly Republican in both branches, the
senate having majority Of fourteen
and the assembly Of forty-one.
Surveyor Abercrombie reports that
Copper river mines are rich and asserts
that the unsuccessful prospectors were
grubstaked tenderfeet who did no
work.
The Cat island wreck described in
manner strongly to indicate that the
vessel is the Maria Teresa.
Major General Miles reports on mill
itary operations during the year; crit
icism is carefully avoided, quotations
from official dispatches rendering any
thing more unnecessary.
Salisbury's speech is not accepted
by British editors as an assurance that
the French situation has cleared or
that graver trouble Is not impending.
Paris editors prophesy that Spain
will never let go Of the Philippines
unless forced to do so.
A storm Of unusual severity raging
in the Great Lake region; some wrecks
reported and more expected.
Republicans now claim majority
Of twenty in the next house Of repre-
sentatives.
Judge Van Dyke elected to the su-
preme bench, and he now seems to be
the only Democrat on the state tnket
who has pulled through.
The herald., 1898-11-11
following the wreck down the shore. There
is little hope for the vessel,
A Schooner Eoundered

CHICAGO, Nov. 10. - Waterlogged and
unfit to weather storm upon the lakes, the
S. Thai, tramp two-masted schooner,
foundered off Glencoe in the gale of Wednes
day night and went to pieces in the surf
This morning the wreckage was cast upon
the beach, but no trace of the crew has
been found, and it is thought all went down
after cutting loose from the wreck in the
ships dory. The schooner is total wreck
There are scarcely two timbers left together
to indicate her dimensions. On board the
schooner were Captain j. Schutman and a
crew of three men, whose names are not
known at Milwaukee, where the crew was
shipped.
The herald., 1898-11-11
Wood at Work

GUANTANAMO, Cuba, Nov. l0.-Gen-
eral Leonard Wood, governor of the mill
tary department of Santiago, reached Guam
tanamo last night on the Hist. On landing
he was received by the Cuban general,
Perez, with whom he had long interview
AS usual, Perez claimed that he wanted to
disband his men in day or two, and offered
them for police use in the district to put
down bandits. The offer was refused by
General Wood, but the American COM
mander ordered that supplies be sent to the
followers of Perez. AS there are several
factions here with candidates for office,
General Wood told Peres that thsy must
The herald., 1898-11-11
Storm Predictions

CLEVELAND, o., Nov. lO-Probably
the thickest weather of the season prevailed
on Lake Erie today. A dense fog was ac-
companied by heavy downpour of rain.
Inquiry at the office Of leading vessel own
ers and ship brokers develops that while
vailing upon the Upper Lakes no disasters
had been received The local forecaster pre-
diets heavy northwest gale will prevail
over the lower lakes within few hours.
The herald., 1898-11-11
The Salisbury Speech

LONDON, Nov. ll-Lord Salisbury's
speech at the lord mayors banquet at the
Guild hall, especially his reference to
America, is making stir throughout Eu-
rope. The evening papers yesterday
Thursday, having long time for rehec-
tion, had much less satisfied tone than
the utterances of the morning press in tho
French capital, while the whole continent
reflects the feeling that the speech conveys
a grave menace for the future
The herald., 1898-11-11
A Michigan Storm

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. lO.--A heavy rain
is falling over the southern part of Michi-
gan with light snow in some portions. Lans.
ing, Grand Haven and Laper all report
snow. The latter town has three inches of
bureau predicts that the storm will last un-
til tonight or tomorrow morning with the
temperature growing slightly colder.
The herald., 1898-11-11
A Good Description

NASSAU, n. p, Nov. l0.-The steamer
ashore off Cat Island, supposed to be the
abandoned cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa.
is now described as being disarmed war,
ship flying the American flag, showing signs
of having been on fire and having leaked
slightly She stranded in an exposed posi-
tion on Thursday night last
The herald., 1898-11-11
Work for Life Savers

ST. JOSEPH, Mich, Nov. lO.-Tonight it
is reported from Michigan City, Ind, that a
schooner is stranded five miles north of
New Buffalo, Mich. At dark heavy seas
were breaking over the craft and four men
were hanging in the rigging. The life-saving
crew from this point was still endeavorng
to rescue the imperiled seamen.
The herald., 1898-11-11

combine, as otherwise he could not recognize
any of them and would appoint officials to
suit himself. The Cubans around Guam
tanamo are going to work on the plantations.
Colonel Ray refuses to issue rations to those
who decline to work at 40 cents q day, the
raoular rate
The herald., 1898-11-11
A Spanish Plan

MADRID, Nov. 1.-THE Heraldo asserts
that the government has resolved to main
tain Spain's sovereignty over the Philip
pines. 1t has been suggested that Emperor
William be asked to arbitrate in the event
Of the peace commission failnr to apree