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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-07
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| Queen Natalie who spends the great
er part of the year at Barritz, has just
given considerable satisfaction To the
French people. She has assumed the
presidency of the Society of Help to the
| Wounded on Land and Sea, at Bayonne.
Mrs. Gladstone is the owner of three
acres of land near Niagara. in Canada.
| which We're presented 10 her on the oc-
| casion of the opening OF the Canadian
| park. She is consequently registered
as an elector there, with the privilege
! of voting on local issues.
The queen OF Italy has n hobby OF
shoe collecting. She has fitted up a
large museum filled with the footgear
of past celebrities, including shoes worn
by Joan of Arc and Marie Antoinette.
buckingham Smith. who was secre-
tary of the American legation in Ma
drid i'm 1858, wrote that the tune of
Yankee Doodle" is practically derived
from an ancient sword dance of Biscay.
Herbert Maxwell, who acted as war
correspondent for the London Standard
during the campaign i'm the Soudan, has
received a check for $4,000 from his
employers, i'm recognition of his excel
itllA SCI Nitt
Charles Garrabrant of Paterson, has
the unique distinction OF being the
youngest granduncle i'm the state OF
New Jersey. Although Charles is but
eighteen years of age. he has been the
proud possessor of the title for over ten
years.
VI. $. Townsend OF MaYYille. Mo- a
comrade of Lincoln I'm the Black Hawk
war, was also one of those to whom, in
caucus, Lincoln, on the eve of his nomi-
nation for senator, submitted his IA
nous speech "A House Divided
Against Itself" Some wanted him to
strike out the clause declaring the
country must soon be 'all slave or all
free" but Lincoln, says Townsend. de-
clared. II will deliver IL as IL was writ
ten, come what may"
The kaiser has commissioned Signor
Leoncavallo, composer of "Pagliacci"
to write a new opera upon the legend Of
Roland. Signor Leoncavallo's letter To
the director OF the Bremen opera house
asking If there is "A statue of Roland
in that town, and, If so. If he can have
"A photograph of IL, has caused immense
i'm the Paris papers. They
point out that there is a Roland of
Roland of Bremen, "A
Roland of Nuremburg. and a variety of
other Rolands and they chaflingly ad-
wise the composer TO entitle his new |
opera Roland of Berlin"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-07

Neither is IL surprising that the
President in his brief reference to the
subject failed TO indorse the Indian
apols monetary scheme. Nobody. ex-
cept perhaps the leaders of that curious
movement expected he would Indeed.
the President was rather fatfooted I'm
opposition tn the first principle OF the
indianapolis plan. the retirement of the
greenback. The President did not say
much about IL. but what he did say was
Enthusiastically plain. The President
writes "Thc proposition that our do
mcstic paper currency shall be kept
safe. and vet be go related TO the needs
OF our industries and internal commerce
as TO be adequate and responsive TO
such nesds is proposition scarcely
less important" He does not contem-
plate the advisability, much less the
necessity. OF retiring the greenbacks.
and i'm this he is. of course. i'm accord
with prevailing public sentiment. De- |
sirabie OF not. the greenback is a big
favorite with the nations seventy mil |
lions. and, however dlsinterested may |
be the missionary work of such good |
authorities on financial matters as have |
associated themselves with the Indian
apolis monetary movement. practically
nothing has been accomplished toward
weaning public sentiment from the
sreenback. The same may be said Of
tho effort % make the banks responsl
bic for the nations currency problems.
and In other ways as wen as the retir.
Ing Of the grcenbacks TO take the gov.
ernment out Of the banking business"
Even II the idea Is sound. the people
are not ready for the change. Con-
gress II not ready for H. The Presi.
dent -ss not ready for II. The sugges-
tion that fbe President repeats TO pay
out United States notes only in ex-
rhsnge for the gold originally received
Tor them. as a measurc OF protection
'or the so-calied gold reserve" and to !
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-07

Everybody viii rejoice at the safe ar
rival in port of the Hen and Chickens
| lightship. which broke from her moor
! ings during the blizzard of a week ago
and has been tumbling about the deep
blue sea ever since trying TO make a
harbor. sturdy little craft. the light
ships and manned by hardy fellows.
All the year round, i'm calm and storm.
they 90 guard duty TO warn the coaster
and the deep sea voyager the dandy
rocks that are sprinkled off shore It's
wearing service they do, at best,
wearing for ship and crew. A light
house within speaking distance of shore
is mighty sociable place OF residence
by contrast 10 the lightship. And the
lightship is never quiet. She's always
on the roll. No sea can be calm enough
to rest the ightship idly on it's bosom.
Anchored bow and stern. she cannot
accommodate herself 10 the never ceas-
ing roll of the ocean. but needs must
take it as IL comes. She doesn't know
what AN even keel is like. the Ilghtship
doesn't. or the repose OF lying on her
beam ends for stretch with sails
trimmed close 10 the breeze. It's never
quiet and it's never dry aboard the
llghtship. Always tumblng and al
ways wet. il is aboard the lightship
And when the storm comes the tum-
bling and the wetness are something
fierce. Then the ligbtship tugs at her
cables, as though she would pull up
the bottom Of the ocean, and rolls i'm
a great arc that douses her lights into
the waves and takes enough water
aboard to sink fleet Of ordinary ships.
and the waves pound her and slam her
about and wrench her and play no end
Of rough pranks with her. And once
In while she yanks her cables up by
the roots or snaps them in two and
goes scooting away before the storm.
making for the Lord knows where with
very man Jack aboard Of her praying |
hat she won't find land too soon.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-07

Mr.. II. Iammett Tiliey. State com
missioner of the records of Rhode ISL
and soldiers and sailors In Colonial and
Revolutionary Wars reports that while
much work has already been done I'm
the way of collecting the material nee
essary to complete the rolls. ne would
ask the cooperation OF individuals I'm
possession Of such records or informa-
tion az will contribute to the work.
Particular attention has been paid to
the military papers relating TO the
Revolutionary War in private hands
ana much aid has been rendered nv.
those who possess these papers and who
kindly loaned them that they might be-
copied. II u hoped that others Will ass.
sisi In this work by corresponding with
the commissioner al Newport or send.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-07
TIFFANY OF THE ROUGH RIDERS

| wish 60 speak OF one OF the Rough
Riders whom 1 knew but slightly, but
whom | saw constantly about the camp
and on the march. and whom l admired
more as soldier than almost any other
man in the regiment. This was Ser
geant Tiffany. who. by tradition and
previous environment was apparently
the least suited OF men 10 perform the
work he Was ordered TO do. But he
played the part given him as well as
II could have been played He was the
ideal sergeant. strict in discipline to
himself and 10 others, doing more than
MS share OF the days work sooner than
leave the work ill-done, never stopping
To curry favor from his men, but WIN
ming IL by force of example and smi-
ing with the same cheerful indifference
when an entrenchng tool made his
hands run with blood. or a Spanish
bullet pass through his hat. as one did
when he charged the block house at
san Juan. He stood at salute and took
MS orders from men with whom for
many years he had been a college mate
ana clupmate, recognizing In them
only his superior officers. and there was
not mule-skinner or cow -puncher In
the regiment that did not recognize i'm
him something OF himself and some
thing finer and better than himself.
When Roosevelt promoted him to "A
heutenancy for bravery at the battle
OF san Juan, 4 heard him say:
T1nany, | am especially glad t6give
YOU TINS step, because you are about
the only man who has never by sign
or word acted as though he thought
he deserved promotion. There are some
who are always busy whenever | pass.
and who look at me as though they
meant To say. See how humble / am,
and how strictly | attend To my duties.
You who know how important
person L am at home will surely recog-
nize this and make me an officer But
you never have acted as though you
expected to be anything but a sergeant
all your life, and you have done your
work as though you had been ser
geant all your life. and so / am glad
OF this chance 10 make you a lieuten-
ant. .'-Richard Harding Davis, in
Christmas Scribners.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-07
DIE e D.

BUDLONQ-In this city. 4th inst. sud
denly. James Budlong. aged %
years.
BROwNELL=In this city. 9Th inst.
Richmond Brownell aged 81 years
CROWELL-In this city. 9th inst Mary
A. Crowell. aged ~ years.
DORAN-fn Fall River. Mass. Sd inst.
Elizabeth Doran, wife OF George ]
Dorsn. aged ~ years. $ months and
days
FLYNN-m this city, 9Th inst, The
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-07


| If | were you, Harry.
| Mr.. Peck-No. OF course, YOU wouldn't
dear; but AZ YOU are not me, you might
at least try TO act little less idiotic.-
| Chicago News.
He-Awfully jolly concert wasn't IL .
| Awfully jolly thing by that fellow
what's his understanding like door
knob.
She Doorknob Whom do you mean /?
! only know of Beethoven, Mozart,
Wagner Handel -
He-That's it, Handel I knew IL was
something you caught hold of!-Punch
Bruwn-If the country on the Pacific
slope Is as beautiful as this railroad
guide book says. ia like TO see IL.
Smith--Well. they don't ask you TO
believe the guide book. They want you
10 go out there by that road and see the
country for yourself.-Puck.
II want to know when YOU are going
to settle this bill" said Mr.. Dun
settler" smiled Slinker why. you
don't expect IL To settle as long as YOU
agitate IT, Allow IL To lie perfectly still.
my dear sir. and then have no doubt
II will soon settle. e."--Philadclphia North
American.
There was n man who into business
went.
And said For advertising I'll never
spend "A cent
Nobody knew he had a thing TO sell.
Cutil. TO sell him out. the sheriff ad- |
vcrtised him well.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
In riding bucking bronchos> ne had /
proved that ne had sand.
And as one OF Ted's Rough Riders ne |
had shown "a lot of nerve.
But, alas, He more than met his /
match the day he tried to stand
In a cable car that suddenly went |
shooting round "a curve.
Chicago News.
Mrs. Ilayseed--Yes. I had some citvI
bnarders durin tn summer. but didn't |
EN- around much 'cause
saw they wasn't fust class folks what
goes out OF the city every summer
Neighbor- Oh, They showed they'd
never been in the country before aid
.heyg
Mrs. Hayscel- indeed. WHY. tho
very rust meat they asked FOR cream
N,W York Weekly.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-07

preclude the possible necessity OF an
issue OF interest bearing bonds TO Sc
cure gold for the redemption OF a nom
interest debt, is evidently n plainly i'm
dicated expediency and meets with gem
eral approval including the commenda-
ton of the indianapolis monetary peo-
t,la
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-07
THE NEWS
DAILY EUROPEAN MINT.

(Secured for exclusive publication in
The News by arrangement with Felix,
Rouf, Doucet. La Ferriere, Paquin and
other famous Partisan costume max
ers.)
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-07
s MIL Es.

Mrs Peck--I wouldn't act like an idiot
If | were you, Harry.
Mr.. Peck-No. OF course, YOU wouldn't.
dear; but AZ YOU are not me, you might
at least try TO act "a little less idiotic.-
Chicago News.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-09-08
II UNION PACIFIC.

THE UNION PACIFIC.
Passes through the best cities and towns
in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and
Nebraska, and is the best route to Dem
yer, Kansas City, Council Bluffs, Sioux
City. st. Louis, Chicago and all eastern
points.
The advantages gained by travelling
via the Union Pacific are
Quick Time,
UnequaIled Service,
Magnificent Equipment.
Double Drawing Room,
Pullman Palace SIeepers,
Pullman Dining Cars,
Free Reclining Chair Cars,
Pullman Tourist SIeepers.
For time tables, pamphlets descriptive
of the country traversed, rates of fair, or
any other information. address
e. l.. LOMAX,
GENT PASS. AND TICKET AGENT
OMAHA, NEB.
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PRINTING.

PRINTING.
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Paul Thompson, printer------- % 80
Miss Nj. Epstine, binder-------- IL so
Mrs. Charbonneau, binder-- 1s so
Geo d. Graham. sundries-- 10 90
Carson CITY Gas Co., gas- so
Morning Appeal, Of. advt.------ so 90
275 10
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LIBRARY.

LIBRARY.
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-09-08
Third DaY. Sept q

No. Purse 800 Free for all. Trotting
and Pacing. One mile and repeat
No. drumming Purse Sl50-For three
year olds aud upwards.-Lady riders.
One mile.
No. 3-Hurdle Purse Si50-Free for all
5 hurdles. 1t miles
No. Trimming. Purse SlO-For all
district horses; three year old and up
ward. Six Furlongs.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-09-08
CONDITIONS

Five tie enter;t three to start. Entrence i've per cent of purse. Air running
purses divided 20, %, and 10 per cent. Trotting purses divided 60, 80 and 10
per cent. Entnnce money must he paid to Secretary before a horse is
allowed h start. National Troting Rules and California State Agricul-
Entrence to trothng and pacing races close with the Secretary Sept 9th.
Entries to running races close p m evening before race excepting handlcaps
In weight for age races the Society reservest the right to allow from 3 to Is
mounds Right to use starting machine is reserved. Entries must
saten names age color. Sc and pedigree OIL orsew with racing oolors ofo wner
For Catalogue and other information, address Secretary, Reno. Nevada
LEN ALLEN, President. LOUIS BEVElR, Secretary
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-09-08
Second Day, Sep 20

No. 1-Purse 500. 2:4O class t~rotting
and pacing; mile and repeat.
No. 2-Running. Purse 1928 For dis
trict horses; half and repeat
No. 3-Selling. ~S200-Four a old and
upwards-S]0O. Weight for age 4 pounds
for each 500, less to 500. One mile.
No. 4-Ruuuing, Purse 500, s ~furlongs
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Spe0~
First Day, Sept io

No. l-Running: Purse Sl00.-Maidens
District horses; three year old and up
ward; ten pounds below scale. 5 furlongs
No. 2-Running: Purse SIPS 6 furlongs
No. 3-Running: Purse $50 For theee
year olds and upward; ten pounds below
scale. : ]furlongs.
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STATE CLAIMS

Approved by the State Board Of Exam
liners at their Regular Meeting in Septem-
Der:
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PrOgr&m0
Fourth Dav. Sept ~

No. 1-Puree SICo-2:25 class trotting
and pacing. One mile and repeat
No. 2-Running-Purso SI0)-For dis
trict horses that have started and not
won at the meeting A. 1urlorgs.
No. 3-Running. Purse SI50-Handi-
cap for three year old and upward. en-
tries close Sept Goth. Weight and declar-
alton Sept 2lst. One mile and one-eight.
No. 4-Ruuning. Purse Sl00-Six Fur
longs.
Fifth Day, Sept %
No. Purse Sl00 Free for all t~rotting
and pacing. Two mile dash.
No. 2-Running Purse SI26 Five fur
longs and repeat.
Nc. Stunning. Purse Sl25 Htnt
cap for all ages. Entries close Sept, 2lst
Weights and declarations Sept. %. One
mile and one-eight
Sixth Day, Sept 24
No. Purse $3.50 Free for all t~rotting
and pacing. Two mile dash.
No 2-Running, Purse $300-Handicap
for all ages. Entries close Sept %. Dec
laraiions and Weights Sept. Odd, one mile
No. Stunning. Purse $I00-Consola-
ion For horses that nave started and not
won at the meeting. Divided as follows:
Horse at first quarter 10 per cent; at half
20 per cent; at three-quarters 30 per cent
at mile 10 per cent of the purse.
No. tRunning Purse for named
horses. Entries close Saturday at noon
with the Secretary at the track
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, 1898-01-01
Publics ton.

u is hereby made KIN, vn that Go
i vernment has aut nrized Mr..
ROBERT l.. MERWIN 0 act tenn
poiarily as U. s. Cons lar Agent
tor Frederiksted, st. Ccoix, during
the absence of Mr.. w. HARCOURT
WOODS.
Government secretary's Office, St. Croix,
the 29th December 1897.
LIMPRICHT.
, 1898-01-01
Saturday. 1st January 1898.

The year which commences to-day may
possibly glide by as smoothly for Santa
Cruz as the past year has done; but on the
other. hand it may be one OF very great
changes. 1t 10 of little use to speculate on
these, either as to the likelihood or not OF
these taking place, or as to the consequences
that may follow for each OF us. we Will con.
tent ourselves this morning by wishing that
whether we go on in the old way or have
TO meet serious changes. the island may still
be prosperous. For all our readers we wish
A Happy NEW YEAR.
, 1898-01-01

W FORBINDELsE med Bekjendlgjerslse
- af code November +. A. bringss det her.
we'd til ofentlig Kundskab, ut Diet Days Dato
til Uddeling forfaldne Rentebelcb af Gros-
serer WILHELM SMIDTS Understotte SEES
legat for Trengends psa St.lCroix eel bl vet
fordelt melItm folgende Prisoner:
LOUISA ABBOTT,
CAROLINE COOPER,
JULIETTE HOL.MANN,
CECILIA WILLIAMS,
ALICE KRAG,
ELIZABETH LARSEN.
SUSANN EMANUEL, ,.4..@
Gouvernements- Secretariatet, St. Croix,
den lste Januar 1898.
LIMPRICHT.
, 1898-01-01

We have been informed that Mr.. Thomas
Moorhead completes to day the twenty-fifth
wear Of his service MS Master Tailor Mt the
Military Depot, and We lake the liberty of
Joining the many friends who will congratu-
late him to-day on having serveu 4or 80 long
q period.
, 1898-01-01
OFFICIAL WOI1CES.
acknowledgements

|0iET bekjendtgj6res hervtd, at
W Gouvernementet har bemyndiget
Hr. ROBERT L. MERWIN til mid
lertidig at fungere som Konsular-
agent j Frederiksted for de Forene-
de Slater af Nordamerika under
Hr. w. HARCOURT WOODS Fra
vmrelse.
Gouyernements- Secreiariatet, st. Croix,
den code December 1897.
LIMPRICHT.
, 1898-01-01

We have been asked to state thas the dedi-
cation of the Morevian Chapel at Adyenture
will take place on Sunday the 23rd inAt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-20

there is no dimming of its lustre and
no abatement of its moral qualities.
Now that a pathway has been blazed
into impregnable Santiago, criticism
may trip lightly over the army's course
and show how it could have more easily
reached its goal, just as critics in civil
and military ranks-after the accom-
plished fact-have been showing how
Grant might, and ought, to have taken
Richmond, which no other commander
had succeeded in taking. But in the
Santiago, as in the campaign against
Lee, as in Sherman's march to the sea,
success crowns the work, and irrational
criticism loses its occupation. To the
army-voluntee and regular, white
and colored, rough riders and soldiers
without distinguishing marks, from the
humblest private to the commanding
general, honor and glory and Nations
gratitude, in no stinted measure and
with no detractions.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-20
Mausers and Common Sense.

The Spanish proposals that the sur
rendering forces should be allowed to
carry home to Spain the rifles with
which they have been shooting Ameri-
cans and Cubans, appears to have
gained more advocates at the front
than in Washington.
1t is easy to understand how brave
and generous men in the flush of VIC
tory and in the emotional frame of
mind produced by the knowledge that
the main object of the campaign was
already accomplished, might be inclin-
ed to listen favorably to the appeal of
conquered foe to be permitted to pre-
serve his military honor in the tangible
form of twenty thousand Mauser rifles,
or thereabouts.
Yet if SIMPSONS feet had captured
Cervera's ships, instead of destroying
them, there would have been just as
good reason for allowing the Spaniards
to carry home their cruisers and tor
pedo boats. Nobody, we think, would
have encouraged chivalric policy
toward defeated enemy to that ex-
tent of generous concession.
What was needed at the time of the
negotiations for surrender was the I'M
emotional, practical sort of common
sense which disconnects Mauser rifles
altogether from abstract ideas of mill
tary honor, and regards the twenty
thousand guns, more or less, not only
as captured property aud legitimate
spoils of war, but also as instruments
likely to be more useful to American
interests in the hands of twenty thou
sand American soldiers than as consol-
atory relics over Spanish mantelpieces,
supposing even that the parole could
be made to extend to the Mausers.
This common sense view of the ques-
ton, according to various accounts,
was promptly supplied and rigidly
maintained by the Hon. Russell A.
Alger, President McKinley's secretary
of war.
And that is what Secretary Alger is
there for.-New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-20
The Most Valuable Lesson,

"This war has given the world a
good many important lessons in rela-
ton to ships and guns, but its most
element in navies. Our victories at
Manila and Santiago are results of the
same cause that has enabled this ma
ton, while paying the highest wages
for skilled labor in manufactures, sue.
cessfully to compete in the worlds mar
kets with the less intelligent labor of
Europe. In the lastIfscal year we won
commercial victories, victories of peace,
all over the world, and they had their
source in that kind of manhood which
our institutions develop. Spain's ar
madas have been destroyed because the
manhood in her ships could not COM
pete with the type produced in this re-
public.
cit was the head of the column of
progress against the belated and be-
nighted rear, the advance-guard of So
cial and economic science against hide
bound conservatism; the best fruits of
nineteenth-century civilization against
the sixteenth century; confidence bas-
ed on conscious ability against pride,
ignorance and superstition. In the ell
ement of courage-in readiness to die
for their fag-the crews OF the Spanish
ships have set splendid example.
But that kind of courage coupled with
determination TO live and to make
the enemy die, and braced with conf
dence in it's power to carry that deter
mination into effect, is what our navy
has displayed. 1.-The Post, Washington.