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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05
DIE D..

BARBER-In Auburn, Sd inst. at
the residence of Jonathan J. Bates.
Mrs Ruth T.. Barber, widow of Will
let a. Barber aged 10 years, IL
months and days.
BUDLONG--In this city. 4th inst sud
denly, James Budlong. aged 7Syears.
CHACE-In this city, 4th inst. Warren
IL, son of George w. and Myra T..
Chace, aged IL years.
COOK--In woonsocket 4th inst. Ly-
man A. Cook. aged % years, il
months and 10 days
CLARKE-In this city 4th inst. Eliza
beth Jenckes. wife of |. Frank
Clarke. and daughter of Jenckes a.
and Harriet j. Smith.
DURHAM-In this city. 4th inst, Henry
c. Durham. aged I years. 3 months
son OF Katie and the late Richard
Durham.
FARNUM-In Greenville. Smithneld Il.
L.. Sd inst, John A. Farnum, aged
60 years.
DOVE--In this city. 4th inst. Susie Is
abel wife OF Joseph Dove.
HUNT-Tn this city. Sd inst. Amy G..
Hunt. aged 90 years, Z months and
days.
HARDENBERGH-I this city 4th
inst, Wellington Hardenbergh,
aged 90 years. months and 4
days
RATHBUN--In Belleville. North Kings
town, I'd inst, Joseph Alphonso
Rathbun. aged 43 years.
SAWYER-In Pawtucket. 4th inst.
Alice j., wife OF John u. Sawyer,
and daughter of Emmanuel East
wood.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05
'TWlxT you AND NE,

Il am greatly distressed by the fail
ure of my detached associate. DR.. Il.
Benz. Andrews. to have his own way
| out in Chicago.
Il s'pose you are, too.
In referring to DR.. Andrews as my
associate | do not wish TO be misunder-
stood as attempting to place him In an
equivocal position.
Il do not mean that we are asso-
ciates in physical sense.
Only in the sense of compatibility Of
temperament. We are what you would
call-yea, what you do call-cranks.
Men often reach common goal by
entirely different paths.
Principal Hoyt up at the High
School taught me that feather and a
ton of coal If dropped from height
In vacuum would reach the ground to-
gether. precisely at the same time. If |
remember rightly experiments with a
feather and piece of lead tended to
demonstrate this. At any rate | am con-
fident the principle is all right.
Now here are DR.. Andrews, Sidney
Rider and the Observation-Disclosures DR..
Andrews isn't really here now. of
course more's the pity. Folks have
been i'm the habit OF calling the first two
gentlemen by the name adopted volun-
tarily by the undersigned. OF course
there are others i'm town whose names
may suggest themselves to you but
nf
attained by us.
or course l am not i'm the same
class with either Andrews or Rider
Neither OF us is in the class with the
other, Andrews is one on what he would
call principle; Rider just for the fun he
gets out Of 1t, and I-well | have nv
reasons.
Our creed is to have our own way
or to try to. We are pretty successful in
carrying IL out though the boundaries of
freedoms pasture land are necessarily
circumscribed
But DR.. Andrews seems TO be maxi
ing a conspicuous failure out of ii. i'm
Chicago and / am sorry.
Still his distressing experience seems
to offer an instructive lesson that Rider
and l would do well to take to heart.
And that is that for one OF our kind
there's no place like home.
SO Rider and / will stay in Provi-
dence.
We are all that are left and we miss
DR.. Andrews sorely. THE CRANK.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05
ADVERTISING EXTRAORDINARY.

Great Scott has been made defend
ant I'm $4,000 libel suit. Great Scott Is
none other than VIM. H.. Scott. one OF
Baltimore's big furniture dealers and
advertisers. The plaintiff is a business
rival OF Great Scott. His name is
John III. chatterton, president of the
chatterton Mfg. Co, also "A big adver-
tiser.
The suit is the outgrowth OF an ad-
vertising war between the rival furni-
ture dealers. Great Scott is one OF the
most characteristic advertisers i'm the
country. lie poses as philanthropist,
quotes great deal OF sacred Scripture
In his ads interspersed with billings
gate OF very choice variety, all OF
which has had the desired effect of
stirring up his competitors 10 the boil
ing point.
Scott uses the columns of the Balti-
more American almost exclusively and
side by side OF his front page. three
column announcements are those of
his loathsome competitor, Chatterton.
Great Scott refers TO his competitors
I'm baltimore as cats. curbstone barkers
and usurers. Here is a recipe he gives
Tor killing a cat
There is only two ways TO kill a cat
successfully. One way is TO nail the tip
or his tail TO a locust post. and let him
hang head downward The other way is
10 stand him on his tail and smile i'm
his face, while you choke him TO death
with melted butter"
IL is said that Great Scott writes his
advertisements upon asbestos paper.
using vitriol for ink In proof of that
assertion here is specimen paragraph
from one OF his recent ads
Just look along Howard street be-
low Saratoga street. just look at the
signs, the dirty, white signs like soil
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05

Important as will be the message OF
the President in history, it's presenta-
tion has not been awaited with a cor
responding interest, since 1t is pretty
generally discounted 1t has been rea-
sonably safe to estimate what Il is
like, since the more important parts Of
1t are history that is made. Both the
events that have transpired since Con-
gress adjourned. and the non-secretlve
temper of our administration In dealing
with public affairs, have enabled the
people to forecast the message pretty
accurately. What the President has
done we all know pretty thoroughly.
and his policies and sentiments for the
future are pretty accurately guaged.
thanks to the frank and open relation
ship that has existed between MoKin-
ley and his fellow citizens from the day
of the Inauguration. The details orly
are lacking, and those the message will
furnish exhaustively.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05

whom. most likely. went to their graves
when the hulk foundered after the long
night OF horror, clinging to the thins
rather than casting themselves into the
roaring sea. But II any OF them were
strong enough OF body and mind TO
take to the water with the hope of MAX
ing the beach or trusted that If the
hulk did go under there was grain
OF hope. the fraudulent material of the
life belts forever settled the hope. The
fact that most, IL not all OF the bodies
that have been found were fully clothed
seems to indicate that few of the fated
ones had sufficient nerve left after the
nights misery 10 deliberately leave the
hulk for the water. but that all hands
awaited the last plunge of the battered
boat with only the fraudulent life belts
between them and eternity. Perhaps
the story OF this discovery is exag-
geratcd. 1t is to be hoped so. But it
one more horrible detail to
a story Of disaster that was already
horrible.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05
DANTE GABRIEL RossETTI. I:

Much diversity OF opinion exists as
TO whether or not on the death of an
eminent writer everything ne has writ
ten, good, bad, and Indifferent, should
be published. In the December num-
Der of the Pail Mall Magazine Mr.. VIII
liam Rossetti, in presenting 90 the pub
lic some unpublished verse and prose
by his brother, the late Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Views the matter as follows:
III writer has attained certain
standard OF merit and reputation-and
i hold that my brother had attained
that standard-all that he wrote. good,
bad, and Indifferent. should sooner or
later be published: emitting only such
productions as from their subject or
treatment apart from the direct ques-
ton of literary merits OF demerits)
may be unsuited for the public eye.
The good things should be published
because they are good the bad or in
different because they are interesting
or curious as coming from an eminent
man. They are documents subscribing
the mans biography, and may from
that point OF view be as important to
reflect upon as even his best perform
ances. sensible editor would OF
course give some adequate intimation
as to what he considers Indifferent or
bad, so as to safeguard from misoon-
Stfuction Doth MS author and himself.
In this general view my brother was,
think, not far from agreeing with my
self; in the case of such poets as Cole
ridge, Shelley, or Keats. he would-for
the purposes of any edition affecting to
be complete-have put i'm everything he
could lay his hands upon, although he
would always have preferred, for his
own reading, a compendium of the
masterpieces. But, as regards himself
individually, personal sensitiveness
gave him a different bias. He de-
tested the very idea that some of his
boyish crudities should ever be brought
forward. But there are some other
things, OF minor Importance or COM
pleteness-sometimes Intentionally joe
ular-which appear 10 me considerably
from being bad or poor. and
which he himself would probably have
thought admissible for eventual print
ing, though not for publication during
his lifetime. or as portion OF his solid
literary life work. The pieces which
have here put together are of this
kind. They all belong to the days of
his youth-the latest of them TO 1853 or
thereabous. when he completed his
twenty-fifth year. / think that every
one OF them has it's value whether on
the ground of intrinsic merit. or as i'll
lustrating some phase OF his mental
development and practice.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05

Indeed the record OF unseaworthy
craft that went TO n fate that was sure,
sooner or later. TO overtake them is
awful. The old hulks were of little
value to their owners. The money loss
is accordingly inconsiderable. But the
loss Of life is not to be made good or
slightingly passed over 1t would ap-
pear that under our laws the marine
insurance companies alone stand be-
tween the seafaring man and his con-
signment to an unseaworthy vessel.
Except that the insurance companies
will not take risk that is absolutely
rotten. the owners can send out men
on any kind of an old craft. AS mat
ter of fact, the insurance companies
appear to be ready to take on almost
anything that floats. providing 1t can
get a rate. It is pretty much matter
of rates. The poorer the tub the higher
the rate, and there are probably few so
poor that some company Will not take
1t on at price. But when the in
surance company draws the line either
by refusal to accept the risk or the
making of a prohibitive rate, the old
tub may yet be sent to sea, though
every cruise along the coast may be
expected to be her last. Poor Jack
must have work like other folks. If he
can't get the kind OF job he wants
he must take the kind he can get. And
so he ships in coffin. And every now
and then a northeaster or a southeastern
catches a whole feet of old hulks out
TO sea, within hailng distance of home
and harbor. and batters them to pieces
before they can make port Down to
Davy Jones locker goes poor Jack. and
the owners look about for another lot
of condemned craft to patch up and
send to sea, trusting only that they
may be spared to hold together until
they have paid for themselves and a
profit.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05

Indeed the record OF disaster off our
coast i'm this storm seems very largely
inexcusable. The steamer Portland was
perhaps the only boat of any great con-
sequence that put TO sea that Saturday
night despite the plain Indications that
a big storm was brewing. But she was
by no means the only boat that was
constructively unequal to meet such
storm that was caught out i'm it. Moth
ing about the columns Of reports of dis
aster that followed day after day all
last week was more striking than the
statement repeated in nearly every in
stance that such and such "A boat was
"old," a coffin" had been con-
demned." and the like. all going to show
that tho appalling list of barges,
schooners, steamers and craft of various
sort that foundered comprised chiefly
old hulks that never should have been
on the sea for more than a cruise OF
twcnty-four hours at the farthest.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05
CITIZENS OF WAiT.A-WHILE.

4 curious dispute has just been set
tied in New South Wales. on the rail-
way between Berrigan and Finley there
is station named Wait-a-W While. The
railway authorities I'm sydney have
long regarded this appellation of n
depot on such n busting route as the
Finley line as a satire on their opera
tions, and they intimated To the resi-
dents Of the district a desire to alter
the name TO Hurry There" One
Side-P Please" or some other phrase
pregnant with up-to-date railway life
and movement.
This radical proposal resulted In vio-
lent prorpsts from the residents at
Wait IA. While. who said that the name
had been good enough FOR their fathers
ana for them. and that II would have
20 suit the railroad magnates way up
in sydney. The parties have been in
severe conflict for some time. hut ultl.
msteiy the conmiss ssicners have given
way. and the romantic cognomen will
stand d-sWestminster Gazette.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05
THIS CLOCK RUNS A YEAR.

kankakee County, Illinois, man is
the possessor Of one of the most won
derful clocks i'm the country This clock
is as near a perpetual motion machine
as any piece of mechanism yet de-
signed. The owner is not n perpetual
motion crank. but is an exceedingly
ingenious jeweler named Peter NJ. Ra-
venskilde, of Cabery. hustling town in
the southwestern portion OF Kankakee
County. The clock is the product of
many years Of study and labor and
considerable expense. 1t Keeps accu-
rate time and will run for year
without the least attention from its
owner.
The clock proper is run with a wheel
so inches In circumference. From the
outer surface OF the circumference are
suspended 120 cups. each one-half inch
i'm diameter. and third Of an inch
which are successive, contain steel
balls three -eighths of an inch in di-
ameter Every minute and a half, as
this wheel turns by the weight of these
balls, one OF them falls out of it's SUP
rolls down an inclined plane 20 inches
long. when. by it's own weight, IL re-
unites q broken circuit OF electricity
and is again elevated by "a little car
travelling along sleeper ipclined plane
TO the top OF the wheel. Where IL falls
into a cup which stands vertical for a
short time.
After the car discharges it's cargo Il
returns to it's original station from its
own weight. From the time one OF
these balls is dropped into a cup until
IL is again dropped into another cup
II travels 36 inches. Thus the work
done by all the balls is equivalent to
one ball travelling over n mile "a day.
400 miles i'm one year. and during the
lifetime OF n person living three score
years the distance around the globe.
The electricity used is generated i'm
an ordinary storage battery. which
does not require any attention for fully
year.
Another clock owned by Mr.. Raven
skilde is Of n similar construction. but
considerably smaller This clock IL
used 10 attract attention To- the store.
porcelain globe is placed back OF the
clock, and at night, green, red and
white electric lights reflect their rays
alternately ON the face OF the clock the
colors being changed each time the ball
ia discharged from one OF the cups on
the timepiecs.
MIR Ravenskilde has had many Offers
TO exhibit his clocks but he refuses 10
do -. and so far he has not had the
mechanism patented. d.-Chieago Chroni-
Gle.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05

The message calls upon the Fifty.
fifth Congress for yet more work of a
history making kind. This Congress Is
by no means through with its list of
unusual labors, it's unusual opportuni-
ties its unusual accomplishments. as
we may trust. It solved the money
question. it solved the tariff question in
accordance with the planks in the Re-
publican platform. II began. prosecuted
and ended "a war which the political
issues of 1896 did not include. and which
could not have been foreseen. Today
questions which neither war nor party
platform anticipated are before the
Fifty-fifth Congress. questions as Sc.
rious as those thus have already been
settled To the legislative branch of
the government the Presidential mes
sage will present a history and indicate
prophecy. the fulhllment OF which
viii begin with this Congress. Neither
the President by his message. nor Con-
gress by it's acts between now and the
fourth Of March next, will record the
completion OF the new tasks set for tho
nation. But inspired by the executive
communication ION the state OF the ma
ton and backed by country that on
the eighth Of November last demon
strated it's confidence in the admins
tration. the Fifty-nfth Congress may
be counted upon TO begin the great
work with unclouded vision and the
constructive genius which has already
distinguished H..
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05

The Fifty-fifth Congress enters upon
the last days of its tour OF duty today. 1t
is particularly historic body. 1t has
made an important tariff bill and it has
made war. Chosen from one of the
most momentous political contests that
the nation has ever known, It discovers
confronting it at the close of its brief
term of service, equally momentous
but entirely different problems from
those IL was elected To deal with. IL
stands at the parting of the ways in
American history. Its record marks
the beginning Of new era in that his
tory. The members OF the Fifty-Flfth
Congress enjoy the peculiar distinction
that participation in great events ar
fords.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05

And there seems to be no laws ef-
fectivc enough TO compel the owners to
give Jack ship sturdy enough TO stand
little weather. providing he has sea
room enough TO toss about IT, The craft
that can keep away from such dan
gerous geography as Cape Gods sharp
snout i'm n nor'easter or Point Judy
Pint's coaxing beach in a sou-easter
ought 20 be strong enough 10 ride out
almost any sort OF "A gale IL she Is nt
to so to sea at all FOR more than a few
hours run. But the appalling disaster
list OF the recent storm indicates what
a lot Of old tubs are permitted to take
the sea
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05
SMILES.

Don't tell me it's no trouble to show
goods muttered the merchant who had
spent half the night fixing up his front
window.-Chicago Tribune
who Is your favorite composer"
asked the typewriter boarder.
Handel" said the Cheerful Idiot.
"lle Is so uplifting. Indianapolis is
Journal.
Professional Methods. Why didn't
Alice get engaged to that plumber"
He would propose only n Few words
at time and then 40 away. Chicago
Record
True happiness is found n pursuing
something. not in catching u.-Words
~ Wisdom.
The man wbo pursues the last car at
night knows betterS1Roxbur Gazette.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05

knows. 700. that local bank stocks in
which the State. in common with many
discriminating citizens, has money in
vested, have deprecated within the
past ten years and more.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05

The reported discovery that the life
belts with which the steamer Portland
was provided were packed with stuff
that when saturated with water belt
would add some fifteen pounds TO the
weight OF the human body instead OF
supporting. HcCOrd1ng To Inspection
regulations, twenty pounds " that
weight. Is startling. one may Imagine
indeed. that any life prcservers would
have been OF little enough use to the
oasbDogrrs Of the fatcd ship. many Of
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-05

Ex-President Bartlett OF Dartmouth
College. who died about two weeks ngo.
was. TWO years ago. one OF the three
survivors of the class graduated from
that Institution In 1S264sixty years be-
fore. The only member OF the trio
now. living h Or. Claudius b. Webster.
long United States consul at Sheffield,
England. and now living quietly in
Concord -. ~.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-24
O.BRIEN WORSTED.

Hartford, Ct. December 49, Tommy
Ryan of Syracuse proved too much for
Dick O'Brien of Lewiston at the Coli
scum tonight. The police interfered In
the l4th round and saved O'Brien from
an actual knock out, but so far as prac-
tical purpose were concerned he was out.
Ryan had tioored him a few seconds be-
fore with right hand swing on the jaw,
and Dick got on his feet again just as
Referee Roche counted seven. 1t was all
up with him though. The fight had been
all knocked out of him. He was helpless
and Ryan again foored him with
vicious right swing. Dick came to time
once moro only to fall a victim to a hard
uppercut Then chief of Police Bill
jumped into the ring and stopped th
bout, Roches awarding the fight to Ryan.
The action of ube police Was generally
approved as preventing . unnecessary
brutality. 1t was Ryan's fight all the way
through. He wore O'Brien down by in
oessant jabbing and had hin, bleeding at
the nose ard eye early in the game. Sew
eral times Ryan had his man going, but
although he made dozens of passes, he
could not land that right swing till the
fourteenth round.
The Syracuse mans superb GRITTY was
clearly proved and O'Brien is not in the
same class.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-24
SINISTER EVENTS OF 1887
Pope,s Greeting To Cardinals Not Re-
assuring.

Rome. December s3-The Pope today
at the reception of the Christmas greet
ings of the cardinals and ether prelates.
appeared to be In excellent health. Re
plyiug to their congratulations he re-
ferred to the "Sinister events of 1898,
and said it was high time the govern
ments of Europe united to stop s'un-
heard of outrages and savage extermina-
tions." But, the Pontif added, this
could not be expected ''until the fear of
God, the basis of all morality, is revived
in the conscience of the people and be.
comes the guiding principle of the organi-
cation of states -
In regard to the present position of the
church in Italy the Pope pointed out
that the symptoms we're not re-assuring
conditions imposed upon the head of the
church in violation OF his dignity and
rights swere not enough, for now it was
sn1yht to cast odium upon the press
which opeply espoused the defense of his
interests and the interests of religion
and morality. ~.
Continuing, the PontlH remarked:
esFurther Tigors threaten the clergy,
.lthonoh they are the class furthest re-
moved from seditious designs. The ODE
dience OF the clergy to the apostolic See
whose rights they defended andswhose in
tentions they seconded, is now being con-
strned as a political offeuse. Neverthe-
less. imbued with the sense of their high
mission and duty the clergy viii not
Weld either to batteries or menaces. and
| their firmness in finding response in nu-
merous laymen deeply imbued with love
| for the papacy. 1t is thus. by the CO.
operation of the clergy and lnity that the
salvation of coming generations is as
sured -