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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21
DREAM is FULFILLED.

n hewsboy OF Il and girl OF 10 sat in
n dark hallway. The boy was smoking
a cigarette and the girl chewing gum.
say Maggie" said the boy, when I
gets to be man I'm goin' to run a
| paper o. me own"
The girl looked at him n moment
ana then, clasping her knees i'm her
arms, and swaying slowly back and
forth. said
When I'm woman I'm going To
nave u carriage, with black horses To
uraW IT, an man dressed up slick.
WIN brass buttons on his coat an a
nlSn nat. Then some day I'll tell him
10 ! urlVe down this ole street. An when
see a little girl like am I'll take her
an give her good feed"
You bet you Will, Mag. for when I
gets me paper you gets the carriage.
seei"
That was ten years ago. The ladies
ana gentlemen who are preparing to
attend the wedding of Mr. Joseph Leon
ard and Miss Margaret Lathrop at
terrace next Thursday morning never
heard OF ii. Time likes his Joke, though
he has gray beard
one day Maggie's blue forget-me-not
eyes and pinched. pale face attracted
the attention Of Mrs. Lathrop. who had
% HtdTl, Dul no Cnlld to feed
lts munger. and the child was taken to
her home. Education and environment
developed the innate refinement of the
child. and she became the adopted
daughter Of Judge and Mrs. James La
throp. She never forgot the dream
she had that afternoon, sitting with her
newsboy friend on the old stairs. and
many hungry little girls saw the real
carriage and enjoyed the feed she
had promised
one evening at the theatre friend
brought great dramatic critic to her
box and presented him. But Joseph
Leonard, whose pen was the hope and
fear of stage celebrities. proved to be
only the little Joe" who i'm those old
days in poverty row had shared his |
pennies, his apples, crackers snatched |
from the grocer's barrel, with the lit |
tie Mag who had dreamed of car |
fiages and footmen and feasting.
And the wedding will be an event i'm |
the aristocratic circles OF - terrace
Chicago lnter-Ocean.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21
A NEW BULLET.

II is not altogether pleasant reading
FOR a man of humane disposition to
learn that the War Office has adopted
new bullet, on the ground that the
ordinary Lee -Metford missile is not
deadly enough. Although the Lee Met
ford has a terribly long range. 1t does
not disable an enemy as effectively as
is thought desirable. men being known
10 have gone on lighting after half n
dozen such bullets have gone through
their bodies. Such "A bullet. too. has
been known to pass through two or
three men conseCutively, penetration
being its characteristic rather than
shock. The new bullet has the same di-
ameter C308, length and weight as the
Lee Metford. with a nickel case filled
only partly with lead. the conical end
being left empty, Its action on entering
the body Is 60 open out and lodge there
ana ~ is spoken Of as the man killing
bullet i'm contradistinction TO the piece
OF lead which IL supersedes, which is
known as the man penetrating bullet"
This new and CHASTITY messenger OF
death Us being manufactured at Wool
Wich az the rate Of two million rounds
OF ball cartridge per week, and Il has
been used for the first time I'm the Sou
dan cNpedition.-Cha Magazine.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21
TWEEN you AND NE.

According to the newspapers. the
Municipal League is able to be up. have
its bed made and endorse Mayor Baker.
After the hot fight he had 10 get the
nomination for mayor of Pawtucket. AL
derman White ought to find IL compar-
atively easy TO win the election.
The public school question -"Where's $
the cash?"
Where was Bro. Tom BickneIl when
the Infantry Hall meeting was called +?
"A popular uprising without Mr.. Bick-
nell could never uprise very high.
-Harbor Master Buckln isn't worry-
ing.
Neither is City Treasurer Granger
AS for Overseer of the Poor Cum
mings, he has most forgotten how TO.
too.
But not quite
DR. Coffin has been appointed sur
geon of the First Rhode Island Regi-
ment. But after all-What's i'm a name?
Nothing.
Elise | wouldn't be
THE CRANK,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21
DEER RAID AN APPLE WAGON.

Deer are becoming so tame In Maine
because of the protection afforded them
by law that they are a regular nuls-
ance. Many stories have been told
lately of their depredations among the
market gardens of the State, but the
most audacious piece of thievery ham
pened to Dedham farmer last week
while he was driving a load of apples
to Ellsworth, which were destined for
the Bar Harbor market.
Mr.. T.. c. Spencer is one of the oldest
guides in Maine. and the most success
ful apple peddler in the county. Ii is
eighteen miles from his home to Ellis
worth, and he makes the trip at night
in order to be on hand for the earliest
customers in the morning. On his last
trip to town his forward tire became
loose and when half way TO Ellsworth
the wheel gave out entirely.
After few mutterings about his
hard luck Mr. Spencer decided to BIZ
vouac for the night. He Embarrassed
his horse and fed him near a telegraph
pole, and after unloading the crates and
barrels he rolled himself into horse
blanket and stored himself in among
the apple crates and soon was fast
asleep.
How long he slept he does not at
tempt to say, but when he awoke he
was surprised to find that his blanket
and whiskers were covered with apple
pomace and his crates and barrels scat
tered in all directions over the ledge
Three deer were chewing away at his
choicest market beauties. Mr.. Spencer
grabbed a club and drove them into the
woods. but they returned again to eat
the apples while he was mending the
wheel.
II hain't swore for seven years. said
Mr. Spencer, but L vow that madded
me clean to the core and I~swore at
everything. III Id had gun I'd shot
them fellers. law or no law. and | would
er found out who's what, afore I'd pay
a forty dollar fine on any of 'em.
=" 'Tain't no wild deer that does a
thing like that; It's some of those fell
ers that folks have been making pets
Df all summer"
Mr. Spencer's load did not reach the
larbor.-Lewiston (Me.) Journal
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21

And yet-and yet-while the gods
may weep at its defections, for being
gods they cannot sympathize with hu,
man imperfections. it is just as well to
remind ourselves that the Providence
system Of public school work is a mag
niiicent system, judged by sum total OF
results; that the standard OF its teach
ing force is high for all the absence OF
much excellent material for which no
place is found; that the pupils in its
several grades could meet on equal
terms their fellows of respective grades
pursuing their studies i'm any educa-
tional institution in the land; that the
work secured, the facilities provided
and the education offered 90 not cost the
supporting taxpayers excessively; that
the school committee has been always
an earnest, enlightened, enterprising
and painstaking body OF men, and from
the establishment of our public school
system untouched by the breath OF
scandal. and that. all in all, member
ship and methods have aroused no
serious fault finding on the part of the
people Of Providence both being JUS
tihed to a remarkable degree in the
records of public education i'm this COM
We repeat il Is worth while
bearing something of this i'm mind dur
ing the progress of the present con-
troversy it the people of this enlight-
ened community would preserve their |
for cool headedness and |
for dealing dispassionately
With grave situation.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21
A WATERS PARADISE.

| Some time ago a London restaura
| teur, having become embroiled in a dis
| pute over the reckoning with a gentle
! man who had just finished dinner. en-
/ deavored To enforce his claim by inn
I pounding his guests hat. For this
| summary proceeding he subsequently
underwent judicial rebuke, while by
| the English public in general the man
oeuvre was condemned as no less un-
sportsmanlike than illegal. If, it was
! argued, the law allowed men To settle
disputes in this fashion. by seizing on
each others portable property as secu-
rity for alleged debt, life would sooner
or later resolve itself into series Of
breaches of the peace.
In Austria, however, they do not seem
to be troubled with any apprehension
of this kind. The higher court of Wen
ma has, after dignified delay of nearly
two years, just decided that a hotel
porter who has been offered an mad
equate "pourboire" by a guest about
TO take his departure is justified in car
rying back the wretched mans luggage
to the hotel and depositing 1t with the
manager. Six fiorins had been tender
ed To him for. thirty eight days per-
sonal service-certainly not very
handsome tip and he demanded ten.
The appeal court, in confirming the
dismissal by the court below of a
-
threats and injury to property" ruled
that a servant who received no wages.
was thrown for his subsistence on the
generosity of the visitors. a fact of
which the particular visitor was judi
cially held to have been aware; and
that personal service for thirty eight
days, according to the local usuage
of ten kreuzers a day amounted to
at least twelve horins. and that the
man was not only entitled at law to
this sum, but was quit within his legal
rights in retaining the luggage to Sc
cure himself against pecuniary ioss."
1t is, perhaps. only the fast part of
this decision which is calculated to
startle the English mind. but that un-
doubtedly is very startling indeed.
"UsuagenL this country continually
acquires the force of law. and when
known To both Of two contracting par
tieS-or even when only such as both
parties must be presumed To know
becomes as binding To both as an eN-
press contract. But English law rec
ogniZes the right of lien" sin only "A
limited number OF special and strictly
defined cases, and To allow one man to
seize and impound another mans prop
erty until he pays "A debt alleged To ba
due from him. instead of proceeding
against him for its recovery in the
usual way, certainly strikes one as
somewhat too rough and ready meth
cd of adjusting disputes to square with
the refnements Of an advanced civiliza-
tion.
II il We're applied i'm this country To
drivers of public vehicles, who would
seem to be just az much entitled To IL
as hotel porters, our streets would be
studded with cabmen sitting on ladies'
bonnet boxes to enforce payment of
that SO frequently disputed sixpence.-
London Telegraph.
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DI e D..

ARNOLD-In Phenix. Goth inst, James
l.. Aruold, aged rs years.
ARNOLD-In Rumford Goth inst, vii.
liam B. Arnold. aged 81 years.
COLEMAN-In this city 18th inst
Mary Elizabeth Coleman.
CONNORS-In this city, Goth inst,
James Francis Connors, son of Pat
rick and Ellen Connors. aged 1 year.
III months and 20 days.
DICkINSON-In Springfield Mass.
18th inst, Sarah A., widow of Will
liam Dickinson, aged II years and
10 months, mother of Myron w.
Dickinson of this city.
FISHER--In Lakewood goth inst. AL
fred Fisher aged IS years.
MCOY-In this city, 10Th inst, Francis
Mccoy.
MCURDY-In Pawtucket. 2Oth inst.
Elizabeth. widow of Alexander Nc
Curdy. i'm her 94th year.
PHETTEPLACE-In Scituate. r, T.
18th inst, Ann Maria Threse. wife
OF James B.Phetteplace and daugh
ter of the late Sayles and Freelove
tkeech) Brown, aged 6S years. &
months and Is days.
SHORT-ln this city, 18th inst. Charles
Short.
SMITH-In this city. 10Th inst, Ann
Smith.
SCHMlDT-In this city. goth inst.
Louisa Schmidt, aged go years.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21
THE IFAs WAKE.

The old Irish custo,o .,,.a,,,.,.., a,
dead has civ <n rise to,,,oh ,,,,s,'o,,,'r
seh'ation "1 the Irish Naracter; and
YET III It's intention IL iss kindly and
human custom. TO thoseyho do not
under stand the Irish natureor the inn
puifes which move IL. the drinking.
s]nuAsng and conversation witch take
! place at wakes" appear incngruous
and rcpulsive. To the Irish pople on
| tAe other hand, there is something very
cold unfeeling and repellent a the
Ehgilsh custom of leaving the orpse
shut up I'm a room. all alone. deseted.
as VI were, 10y the family. In Irelan, we
| Keep close company with our dead To
\ the very last moment
! Waking" means watching" Ve
| watch aff$rtionately by the body a, a
dead relative or friend until the time
arrives TO depart for the burial srolnd
Ihe body is laid on the bed, coveed
| with white sheet, leaving exposed the
mead and the hands crossed revereniiy
| on the breast The walls about the he'd
are covered with white sheets on which
are often hung punches of flowers and
laurel leaves. Seven lighted candles
stand on table near the bed: the room
Is frequently sprinkled with holy water,
10 keep OFT evil spirits who may be how
Ferlng around, ana on the corpse Is a
large plate of salt, which is believed To
De hygienically eilicaciOus for the
watchers.
The irish people are gregarious I'm
their Instincts They never like 10 he
alone, and this feeling for companions
snip rs strongest when death has Wis
lted them closely a family deprived of
member by death seek consolation
from the neighbors, who ever quick i'm
sympathy, in joy or i'm sorrow. crowd
IN TO cheer up the spirits of the be-
feaVed, to distract their thoughts from
their sad loss. First entering the room
where the corpse lies they kneel and
say "a prayer. But the manifestation of
sorrow is confined 10 the chamber of
death. Outside, i'm the wide kitchen.the
neighbors assemble: and snuf. pines
and tobacco. whiskey and stout are
supplied To them.
There are wakes" at which stories
are told. forfeits are played, and a liz
tie drollery INDUCED in; but as a rule.
While every effort is made by the
watchers to blunt the edge of sorrow
perfect decorum is preserved, and not
an unseemly word is spoken. have
Deen at many wakes" and certainly
! nave never heard a song sung, though
II II is otten said-of course by those who |
40 not know-that singing is a common
practice at these assemblies. Moreover
mere Is motive-founded upon SUPER |
stltlon, IL is true--for checking the |
of grief i'm the presence |
pf the dead. In some parts of Ireland II
S believed that the soul of a departed
person is made restless by the tears and
'egrets of surviving friends and rela-
ives, and that. unable to get to heav
m. 1T hovers about the earth until the
sorrow for its departure is appeased
nourners may, therefore, be seen M |
wakes" struggling To repress tbeir
obs and tears Don't be erwin that
way, ashore, or you'll keep him from
us rest, was remonstrance I heard
'indly addressed to young widow
'ho was weeping bitterly over the re-
Mains OF her husband-London Tele-
raph.
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wrongs. In this instance they are set
up one agdinst the other. Hence the
embarrassment Does IL throw any
light upon the solution of the question
that in advocating running into debt
rather than To break your word the
eloquent woman who is a moralist
chiefly by profession and practice is
supported by the banker whilethe gen
tlenr'n who hold that il. is better to
violate the word than to run into debt
I'm order To keep IL are lawyers? We
take il that this is merely coincidence,
that Mr.. Edwards and Mr.. Barney
would repudiate the idea that they
would break a promise quite as in
disnantly as the suggestion that they
might be guilty of running into debt,
that Mr. Vernon would admit no moral
force TO the argument of a customer
that he had promised to pay a bill and
accordingly wanted to overdraw his ac-
count at the bank.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21

THE BOY AND HIS CAP.

81 can't find my cap anywhere" is n
sentence more or less familiar I'm the
household. that being what the boy
says, looking for his cap. when he
wants TO go out To- play. Early i'm the
search he enlsts his mother. and that
may make a serious business OF n.
She has To drop her busting or what
ever household work she may be en-
gagged in. and the search may take a
long time.
Where did you put IL when YOU
came in?" is question sure TO be
asked. sooner or later, but all the boy
can answer H.:
Il don't know"
And then the search goes on. Every
where. over and under. Wa all sorts of
places. all at a great loss of time. N not
of temper. % is found at last. as most
things are. in time. and I'm some sim
pie. easy place. which makes the find
ing of ~ all the more eNasperating
The boy takes II and goes uut To play
and straightway forgets all about a.
but u may take quite q little time TO
restore the normal calm I'm the house
II is mystery how the boy manages
10 lose his cap as often as he does. but
IL appears to be q boys WAY. and com
mon 10 almost all.--The sum.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21
PARADISE OF SMALL BOY.

The small boy who has to go to school
i'm New York looks upon the small boy
who has to go to school i'm France with
something Of the envy with which Lag
arus may have looked upon Dives. II
is the question OF holidays which con-
stitutes the difference i'm favor of the
lad who attends a public school OF i'm
struction i'm the French Republic. The
school boys of France have more holi-
days than workdays in the year. and in
that fact lies the grievance of the
American youngster. The average boy
he he native of Manhattan or child
of Timbuctoo. is more fond OF holiday
than he is OF n workday. theorists and
moralists To- the contrary notwithstand-
ing. And the more HOLIDAYS he has
the better terms Is he on with himself
and all the world
Two hundred and six holidays i'm
the year. as against 100 school days.
That's the record Of public instruction
i'm France To begin with. there is the
regular midsummer holiday. which
covers a period OF 81 davs. That's
pretty good for starter Then there
are the Sundays. They are holidays
OF course everywhere. but they connt
am additional So days. Then ten days
are allowed for the proper celebration
OF Christmas and New Years. To be
thoroughly observant OF the great
feast OF Eastertide 10 DAYS are given.
are holidays and that means
80 more days OF nO labor. All Saints
comes Ia for three days holiday. So
two days. Shrove Tues
day and Ash Wednesday two days.
whitsuntide three days. and three
days 10 make merry when the nation
nj fete I'm uly rolls round. The rest of
the year the children are supposed 10
study.-N. Y. Herald
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21
IT'D BITS.

Shoes made of porpoise leather are
absolutely impervious to water.
Moscows orphan asylum. founded by
catherine H.. is supported by tax on
playing cards.
The Tibetans have week OF five
days. named after iron, wood. water.
feathers and earth.
The Mexicans are the most inordinate
smokers In the world. Even women
and children are habitual smokers.
A snake does not climb a tree by coil
ing round Il, hut by holding on with the
points OF it's scales. \ snake could not
climb glass pillar.
Spiders are serious plague I'm In.
pan. They spin their web on the tel.
egraph wires and are so numerous as
To cause a serious loss OF insulation
sweeping the wires does little good, as
the spiders begin all over again.
There is a fish found i'm Hudson Ray
which absolutely builds a nest. This
u does by picking up pebbles In it's
mouth and placing them I'm "A regular
way an a selected spot on the bottom
of the bay. where the water il not very
deep
About 10000 Africans are I'm Protos-
tant churches und 10000 children Inn
Protestant schools II is stated tbnt
there H. gpud reasun Ia brli..A ..-44.-r+-
Christianity VIII continue 10 spread In
africa ~ much mote rapid rate thau
ever before
The North china Daily News saws thar
Mrs. y. - Patterson NJ H.. "a presbv-
terian missionary In china. il eighty
miles from any foreign woman. While
her husband was away among the
starving she had. during nine months
seoo patients under treatmenL
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-21

The problem Of right and wrong In a
particular case is often hard to solve
In q general way certain authorities
have from time TO time assured us that
moral question is always a relative
question. That there is no such thing
as actual right or actual wrong. An
interesting case in point is offered by
the views of speakers on the public
school complication presented at In
fantry Hall the other evening. one
speaker was Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer.
Mrs. Spencer is a moralist. She laid
stress upon the fact that a number OF
teachers having been engaged, as they
thought, and as perhaps everybody else
thought. for years employment, a
moral obligation rested upon the COM
munity, whose authorized representa-
tives made the deal, to SO employ the
teachers to the limit OF the term under
stood. 'The city Is bound by HONOR
urged Mrs. Spencer, ''to give, up to the
end of the year, all that it has prom
ised the teachers" and she believed
that "the word of the city of Provi-
dence. like that OF the honora BILE indi-
vidual. should be as good as q bond"
This reasoning, of course, is calculated
to appeal to every honorable man. 1t
would seem to admit OF no argument IL
the situation is as Mrs. Spencer puts IL.
Furthermore, 1t was endorsed in like
terms by our esteemed fellow citizen.
Mr.. John w. Vernon. Mr.. Vernon is a
banker as well as q morallst. Now. |
admitting that q contract existed. as
stated, none the less real, though only
implied. the seeker after rectitude in
dealing with ones fellows is confronted |
with the view of our esteemed fellow |
citizen, Mr.. Stephen o. Edwards. an |
attorney-at-law and also moralist, as
we profoundly believe. Mr.. Edwards
did not argue the case OF the contract |
but presented new point for
the consideration of the strlvers i'm do
ing right. AS he expressed IL. the
moral question discussed was the
outcome of condition. That condition
was the action of the city council I'm
funds. Mr.. Edwards urged
that the school committee had no right
TO continue TO employ teachers when il
had no money. Our esteemed fellow
,itizen, Mr.. Walter II. Barney. like Mr..
only perhaps more so. a law
Ter-moralist. supported his professional
brother, declaring that he was as eager
Is Mrs. Spencer and Mr.. Vernon for the
OF the school work. but IL
wasn't question of support or curtail-
nent, "but OF being honest" II the
ity could not afford the money the
york had 20 stop, according to Mr.. Bar
ey's view.
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ing with errors. There can be no doubt
that deals and trades have on occasion
marked it's doings. There can be no
doubt that applicants for positions
have been rejected who are more
worthy than other applicants who have
been accepted. Unquestionably. the
school committee has not devoted all
the hundreds of thousands for which II
makes engagements TO the wisest pur-
pose. oh. it is easy to find fault with
the school committees.