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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-03
TROUBLE TIDED OVER.

Barre, VT. March 3.-An differences
between the granite manufacturers and
their employees. growing out OF the new
bill Of prices, were settled last night.
The trouble. which stopped over 1900
nen from working yesterday. was over
an agreement OF the employees with the
tool sharpencrs. The union men in
sisted that each shop must have a jour
neyman This agreement is to be ac-
'cepted pending a final decision by ar
bitration. the tool sharpeners agreeing
TO a proposition to arbitrate. The bill
OF prices was signed in joint conference
last night. and all things are settled for
another year.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-03
PLATINUM IN ALASKA.

Chicago. March Am assay of black
sand found I'm the kotalinqua river,
Alaska, made by DR.. w. r.. Everette of
the Smithsonian institute. is said 20
show that one ton OF ii contains SIG
worth of platinum, besides iron. oxide.
gold worth Sl92S4, two pounds Of tin,
two pounds OF copper and one troy
ounce OF iridosn!nc. The great value
is said to lie i'm its yield Of platinum,
which is extensively used in electrical
construction and dentistry. Platinum,
Is found only IN the Ural mountains OF
Russia, from where ii is exported &c
this and other countries.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-03

therefore, there was no need for change.
Summarizing Americas policy. he said
You people of the United states can
not always remain within yourselves.
You cannot always go on making money.
You must get out into the world, and
take up your share of the worlds bur
dens. Already you are outgrowins
your own country. You will absorb
other countries. and give them good gov
ernment. Why should you not? You
have IL In your blood. The Philippines
will furnish new careers for your young
men The whole work will strengthen
you and broaden your national char
acter. Yes. already. you are taking
to IL like mothers milk"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-03
A SHORT STRIKE.

Brockton. Mass, March S.--About 40
lasters employed at the George r. Keith
shoe factory Nc. . quit work yesterds V
and reported 70 union headquarters.
The grievance was the alleged poor dis
tribution OF work. 4 conference was
held later and a satisfactory adjustment
was made and the men have been or
dered back TO work pending final settle
ment. The crm promises TO do the right
thing and the men appear to be satisfied.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-03

Score, Providence 7": Meriden 2.
Rushes, Cunningham 10: Warner I.
stops in goal. Heffernan %; =. Farrell
q. Fouls Murtagh. Cunningham 2, G.
Parrell, =. Farrell. Referee Lee. Timer,
Kirby.
Providence lost one goal on fouls.
OTHER GAMES.
At New Britain-New Britain. S: New
Haven. 4.
At pringfield-Springfleld 8; Water
hnrx+
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-03

The jury i'm the case of Nicola Pulano
against Frank -. Fenner returned "a
verdict yesterday for S94.47 The suit
was for a balance due for quarrying
stone.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-03

Scald head Is an eczema OF the scalp
very severe sometimes. but IL can be
cured. Doans Ointment, quick and per-
manent Ia its results. At any drug
store. 90 cents.
Diphtherla relieved In twenty min
utes. Almost mi-aciii us. Dr. Thomas
Eclectrio OIL At any mug store.
Too late 10 cure y cold after con-
sur vi hos flftene' its e1fiv Grip
on the ts Tffs D. WcoFs Norway
Pine syrup whhe yel there Is time.
What's the secret of happy. vigorous
health? Simply keeping The bowels the
stomach. the liver and kidneys strong
and active. Burd0ck Blood Bitters does
it.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-03

AVOY-STANLY-M Harris and
Wife New York: James f. Roach. AL
bany; T. r Hoxie. + Ellis and Wife,
Boston; w II Gould and wife. Fall Rv-
or; G Il Howe and wife. Buffalo. Frank
Flanagan, Boston; " T Gerald. Boston
] r. Morteau and wife, Albany: $ Bur-
lingame. Providence.
hllllDnil1:D ;kb. MdqoTF Arthu arohoi
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11
BANTAM LAKE IS working. :"


Idtchheld Conn, Sept. ll.-Bantam
Lake, the largest sheet of fresh water In
Connecticut and thp Nutmegger's most
famous fish pond. began TO work
week ago, and since. that time the or
dinary fishermap has been unable 10
catch anything. aithoug the lake fair-
ly teens with black bass, pickerel, yel-
low perch and other common fsE. biS
strings OF fish were being taken up 10
last Saturday morning when the WORK
ing" began. The lake has spell or
working Of about a month nearly
every summer. and old fishermen say
that this year IL is the worst ever
known They are unable TO account for
n satisfactorily. Small bubbles by the
million begin TO rise from the bottom
of the lake, ioosening up little particles
of mud or sand and I'm this way discol-
orlng the water SO that in the forty
foot holes as well as In the shoal spots
il is said 20 be impossible for fish TO
see n bait. In the shallowest places
the water is very muddy and almost
bOils at dimes with the rising bubbles.
The working" il expected 10 end by
the middle of next month. In the mean
time the fish I'm the lake are hungry
for bait but no one save the old an
glers who have tricks OF their own in
fishing can succeed in Turing them.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11
It'd BITS.


The telegraph will be extended 1000
miles south of khartoum by the end OF
the year.
TO get rid of fees sprinkle penny
royal all over your house; the leaves
are best.
The postoffice building at Virginia
San Diego county. Cal. Is made OF an
old plano box.
In the South, within the last five
months SiI,000.00 OF new capital has
been invested IN cotton mills
finished performance on piano is
always gratefully accepted these hot
summer days.-i<ansas City Star.
Even radshes are adulterated now in
Berlin. They are dipped into aniline dye
10 make them look fresh and pink.
An apparatus has been devised for
automatically photographing people as
they enter shops and other places.
The London Folk Lore Society's pub
llcatlons include forty-two volumes of
transactions. collections and mono
graphs.
Automobiles hare been excluded from
Fairmount Park. i'm Philadelphia. until
regulations for their guidance can be
prepared. AA
There are eighiy-eight silk plants in
Pennsylvania, and the output OF silk
ribbon in the State has been doubled In
three years.
During the fiscal year of 1S97-9s the
United States sold $4,000 worth OF
typewriters I'm Mexico. and $4,000
worth in Argentina.
If a lump OF alum is dissolved in the
water in which children's cotton dresses
and aprons are washed. IL IS said TO
render them fireproof.
Lemon Cream for the Hair-Two
ounces spermacetti eight ounces oil OF
sweet almonds. Melt. and as Il coolS
stir IN thrVe-fourths ounce essence OF
lemon.
Lettuce or celery may be kept fresh
ana crisp FOR several days by wrap
ping IN cloth wrung out OF cold water
and then pinning the whole In "A thick
newspaper.
ked wine stains can he removed from
| taDle hnen by means OF Few drops of
thick sour milk. this should b. left ON
LOT several hours, after which the place
can be washed in lukewqrm water.
| sponges-To clean these thorop,,i,.
and quickly dissolve a iarge handgri -
coarse SILT one pint of watar. so,i-
and knead the sponges in ths n,t,.t,.re
Two or three times. Rinse under a tan
and they VIII look and feel as good as
TO prepare spanish eggs in the chat
Ing dish cook two slices Of on,o,, 49,, :
~ light yellow, in n scant tahlesnoon.
ful OF olive Oh. then add on cupfui ~
mushrooms one OF tomato. two fable.
! spoonsfuls ~ tongue min "a fine. fbrs.
raw e,;gs tunb"aten). a ealt spnonfnl a..
salt ami p'mfict " a salt spponfui o'
cayenne. AS SON az the eggs arr se,
| the mixture is ready 90 serve.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11
THE B0L0 OF THE FILIPIN0S.
A Weapon Which las Proved Inefficient Against
hs american Trocps.

AT letter from Lieut.. William NJ. Copp
sf the Sixth Artillery, who Is on the
l,unboat Naridan i'm Laguna de Bay,
gives tle following interesting infor-
nation concerning one phase OF the
lighting with The Filipinos:
IAN odd trait i'm the character of the
natives is that they never leave one Of
their dead if they can possibly get him
away. They leave more now than they
used TO. for this reason: Formerly they
hati al least five men for every gun, and
about all these men were good for was
to carry away the wounded and dead,
although shey were armed with bolos.
rhe sc weapons were effective against
the Spaniards, as the boio men appar-
emily cared nothing for their own lives,
ami the Spaniards did not have the
courage to stand when they charged:
So OF course. they were cut TO pieces,
the boio being without doubt one OF
the most terrible weapons at close
quarters i'm the world. IT is very sharp.
ana so heavy that ii will smash any
sword in pieces that have seen. They
use them in the right hand. and a long
heavy dagger in the left. | had one Of
the many amigos who could handle the
bolo GO through the motions for me,
and II was truly wonderful. The rap
sdity Of his moves was such that the
eve could hardly follow them, and all
the time he kept a constant guard. The
holo is to cut. no point; the dagger Is
used TO stab. no edge. When these bolo
men tried the same tactics on our
men that they were accustomed to en-
ploy so successfully against the Span
iards. they were killed in large num-
hers as our men did not run, but SIM
ply shot them. Now so many OF these
men have been killed. there are fewer
of them 20 gun, and they are not able
90 get the dead away quite as well as
they did formerly.
"If your servant goes away for n dav
or two. you can he certain he Is with
tho insurgents and in some fight. II is
too common to excite comment here.
when an officers servant who has been
absent several days. Is found In the in
surGenfs' uniform killed. or Is brought
into our hospitals Cor treatment"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11

1T APPEARS that while the ma
jority of the operatives of the Fall Riv-
er mills are not sufficiently up on the
subject TO have an opinion. the leaders
among them rather favor the bringing
OF the mills into a trust. Thereby they
expect to see corrected a good many
grievances. OF which they have con-
stantly complained without much hope
for relief. Here Is an example where
the individuals bread-and- butter basis
OF thought works contrary 20 his theo-
retical and general views. or at least
contrary to the views which the self
appointed defenders Of labor hold for
him in this instance. For the laboring
man. as a class. is (persistently repre-
scented 60 be opposed TO trusts and the
trusts are set forth as injurious to his
interests. Yet when II comes to the spe-
cinc cases where the men are in "A
position 10 know what they are talking
about they favor the trust idea as
strongly as the rampant promoter who
favors IL for what there is I'm ii for him.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11

CAPTAIN Dreyfus is found guilty as
charged. AS the News suggested might
be the case the result Is i'm the nature
OF Scotch verdict in that. while the
verdict is without qualifications the
punishment Is comparatively trivial. In
word the result OF she famous trial,
like the proceedings. is a judicial farce.
If Dreyfus were guilty of treason he
ought TO be shot. or imprisoned for life.
There could be no compromise in case
like that. no tempering of the punish.
ment due the traitor. II he is not guilty
he should go free. equally of course
According TO the law of every civilized
land he is innocent until he is proved
guilty. The trial proceeded on the as
sumption that Capt. Dreyfus was guilty
unless his innocence could be proved
beyond reasonable doubt and the re-
suit is based on the same assumption.
Capt. Dreyfus is declared 10 be guilty
but the court that renders the verdict
is not so confident of 1t that they would
punish his guilt any more severely than
Is absolutely necessary. They have
given tho minimum sentence.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11
GANG.NEEDLE MACHINES.


II Is a more or less familiar fact that
sewing machines are used nowadays
for sewing man-' different materials. as
leather, paper. canvas, carpets. rubber.
They are used for making huttonholes s
and sewing on buttons. They are made
of many types and i'll si,rp!y hundreds
of varieties for special uses. Tut 1t may
not be known so commonly that
there are many sewing machines now
made with more than one needle.
The first of these q two-needle ma
chine, was made in the carly eighties.
about fifteen years ago. IL was jstd py
manufacturers of heavy clothing, per
haps firsD Of all by the overall manufac-
turers, making seams stronger by put
ting in two rows OF stitching. The util-
ity and economy OF the two-needls ma
chine soon became apparent and "
came into widespread and diversified
use. Whenever two rows of stitching
were to be made, two-needle machine
was used. A familiar illustration of the
work is seen in the two parallel lines OF
stitching running with perfect exact
ness around the top OF shoe vamp.
Shirt sleeves are stitched into the body
of the shirt on a double needle machine.
the two rows being made i'm the same
time that IL would take to make one.
I
needle machines. as were a great varie-
~ of these things, and later there were
produced machines with more than two
needles. the first OF these coming into
use within five or six years. There are
now made sewing machines with as
many as twelve needles.
A twelve-needle sewing machine SIM
ply has twelve needles. where the or
djnary sewing machine would have one
Instead OF single spool of thread on
the top Of the machine there appears
there a rack of twelve spools. There are
twelve tension disks. The thread from
each spool runs through it's own tension
disk 10 it's own needle. There are be-
low twelve shuttles. one Tor eacn nee
die When this machine Is operated. II
makes twelve rows OF stitching. just as
an ordinary machine would make one;
The tweve-needie machines are used
chiefly i'm the manufacture of corsets.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11
COUNTED SIXTY CENTS A DOLLAR.
An Astronomical TfsasurM's VERY Curious MIsaks
With Ms Trust Accounts

Not long ago II happened in a West
efn city that the members OF rich Sc
cret society lodge became very much
exercised over what seemed to be
serious shortage in the accounts of
their treasurer. A popular young as
tronomer had been elected unanimously
TO that Office all those that might have
been hhs rivals withdrawing their
names in the midst OF much hilarity on
1the ground that they were not TO be
compared with him when ii came 10
handling large figures. The man was
hhown To be the soul OF honor, a gem
tfeman and one whose only known
lauit was an absent-mindedness, when
az times became annoying TO ms
friends as well as TO himself.
The treasurer's friends were unwill-
ing 90 believe that he had erred wit
tingly. especially as he appeared more
surprised and aggrieyed than any one
else. declaring. with tears i'm his eyes,
tnat ne was unable to understand how
IL mad happened. He had To admit the
correctness or his accounts, he SAID
Tor he had gone over them time and
again without finding mistake OF any
kind. But he was also sure that he had
deposited every dollar in a bank as
soon as he had received II, and the only
explanation he could find was, that in
his absent -mindedness he had drawn
on the lodges account thinking IL was
his own.
committee was appointed to go
through the books and its members fell
To work at once. They were soon a most
puzzled set of human beings. Night af-
ter night they struggled with bills, re-
celpts. deposit Slips, etc. comparing
and checking off. The books were kept
beautifully; every single item was en-
tered correctly: nothing seemed to be
wrong. and yet the shortage remained
undminished. No one imagined for a
moment that the astronomer. whose
proficiency In the higher mathematics
was well known. could have made any
mistakes in figuring. The proposition To
see whether his addition was correct
was therefore, not received with favor
when made by some member, but IL
was the only thing left for them TO do.
Thus the mystery was solved at last,
II was found that everywhere serious
mistakes had been committed in the
adding OF the columns OF cents and the
| first column of dollars. There seemed
| to be some kind of system in the mis-
| takes. too. but their cause remained IN
| comprehensive until a member. after
! considerable figuring on his own hook,
made the surprising statement. that the
| treasurer had with fateful conse-
/ duences. been counting sixty cents as a
| dollar. thus making the accounts show
| false surplus much larger than the
/ actual one.
"Oh. now I have it, the treasurer
! exclaimed. while the members OF the in
vestigation committee laughed until
( they fell off their chairs. II have righ
along been figuring with hours and
minutes--one hour has sixty minutes
YOU know-just as l am doing most o.
the time in the observatory. Hooray
boys Ill set them UP tl.e next time W,
meet"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11

CrFFORD-In South Portsmouth, II. l.,
10th inst, William Henry Clifford,
aged 63 years.
GATES-In this city, at the residence
OF his son-inlaw Freeman ID. Har-
mon. eth inst, William j. Gates. aged
IL years.
II IANPSON--In this city. 9th inst, Alice
AdalIne Hampson. daughter of George
]. and Helen Hampson.
KENNEDY-Sudden in this city.
10th inst. Ellen. wife Of William Ken
nedy.
MANCUESTER-In Boston. Mass.,Sth
inst. Sarah w.. wife Of the late Henry
n. Manchester. formerly or Provi-
dence, X. j.
MOwRY-fn harrington. II. T., 9th
inst. Elisha Capron Mowry, aged 50
years.
uIrIyEY-At Saranac Lake. ". Y. 9th
inst. Mary. wife OF Patrick Mulvey
OF Providence.
pOTTER-In this city. 9th inst, George
s. Potter. aged go years.
RrcUARDS-ln this city. 9th inst.
Caroline Elizabeth. wife or William
II. Richards. aged 66 years.
yvIr.ROrrR-rn Little Compton. v. T..
9th inst. Isaac wiibour. aged 20
yeaf~.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11
SUCCESSFUL EXCURSION.
Large rahy Went 10 Nsmganssli Per Under The
AUSPICES Of lmmacua's Conception Socle'lts

quite large excursion party. under
the auspices OF the Immaculate Concep-
tion Beneficial Aid Societies was held
yesterday. the steamer Warwick sail
ing from Crawford street bridge at a:3o
o'clock. for Narrhgansett Pier. with
fully 1900 persons. The affair was n very
successful one In every detail. aud the
weather was all that could be- desired
The many attractions offered az tho
Pier were thorou ghly enjoyed. and che
f..turn Was made So that fha boat
reached Proviasn"e ~ 40 o'c,ock last
evening.
This - the first excursion that the
societies have given ana much of hs
success was due Go those who had the
details I'm charep. Peter j. Mcconnell
acted as chairman ~ the committee on
trsnsportation and I'm the arrangements
for this w-ss assisted by other repre-
| sentatives from the societies.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11

THE punishment that Dreyfus will
that the FIVE years already spent on
DEVILS island may be counted and thus
there will only be five years more i'm
prisonment. This at the worst will be
considerably more endurlble than his
former exile and will doubtless partake
OF the farcical nature that seems 10 have
characterized the whole performance.
The complexion of the case indeed has
radically changed since it's beginning.
In 1894 Dreyfus was found guilty OF
treason by the unanimous verdict of a
count martial And against his degrada-
ticn and the penalty OF life imprison-
ment there were no exceptions taken.
Today the verdict is found by only n
majority Of the judges and the penalty
is reduced from life imprisonment to
ten years, five OF which have been al
ready served. And against this quail
fed finding and mild sentence the whole
world outside of the anti-Dreyfus par
tisans in France rises in Indignation de-
popncing the military judges whose
verdict was so plainly dictated by ex-
pediency. cowardly conscience only
working to save the victim from fur
ther bodily torture. 1t is reasonable to
hope that the day will yet come when
Dreyfus will be proved innocent as al
ready his accusers have failed TO prove
him guilty
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11
COST OF MINING ANTHRACITE.
vsws Of an erpsh Who Gives Some Figures Of
Interest.

considerable criticism has been lev.
eled recently at the anthracite coal pro-
ducers." said a prominent official OF a
coal company recently to Baltimore
American reporter. I'VE hear for in
stance, the people who produce hard
coal are so blind to their own inter-
ests that they have gone TO great pains
to adopt policies to kill off their busl-
ness by the device OF limiting produc-
tion' and the like.
The trouble about such criticisms is
that they fail wholly to take into ac-
count the vital difference there rs be-
tween the anthracite and bituminous
trades. To compare them mall respects
is to mslead ones hearers. The ma
chnery for handling anthracite and the
original capital invested therein. are
vastly larger than for mining soft coal.
There is no bigger brcakrr required for
bituminous no sorting and none of the
array of expenses that that word sort
ing means. The soft coal is blasted
out and shoveled on car. and that
is the end of the process until one sees
IL in somebody's furnace.
In anthracite, we cannot sell egg
and broken at certain seasons. At othe
times we can sell only these. The re-
sut Is we have TO divide storage for
the unsalablt varieties for a good pDr-
tlon or the year. and this ties up lar rye
amounts OF capital. All OF this is saved
10 the producer of soft coal
"SOft coal can be handled much more
easily and cheaply than hard. We have
20 screen and sort and nick out slate.
and then. when VIC come to load. have
10 5bTt hgain. Soft coal can he loaded
night and Sundays. We have 20 have
daylight for our loading. Indeed. at
every stage OF the proceedings 1t costs
us more than It does the roft coal
handlers.
II see q correspondent Of n Philadel-
phia newspaper estimates the cost Of
mining anthracite at si.3l o ton. This
may be the figures In some places.
where the mine is above water level.
where pumping is not an expense. and
where all facilities exist for cheaply
supplying the mine with air. But
venture 90 say that II the truth could
be known 1921 would not cover the cost
In many places
ut IS very singular II the cost OF an
thracitc has killed its use as steam
fuel. that~such great quantities are
used in New York and elsewhere"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11

THE course OF politics in France for
the immediate future will he watched
with interest But 1t is unlikely that the
full effects of ihe Dreyfus case will be
Immediately felt for. celebrated as Il ~
IL probably has It's chief Importance az
"a manifestation OF the working OF forces
more tremendous than any mere trial
OF subaltern of the army for selling
papers TO foreign government. For
the time being the conteniing passions
In France spend themselves IN the
maelstrom that swirls around Dreyfus
But the vortex springs from far below
the surface and the Dreyfus incident Il
only one Of the things thrown UP I,
command attention for a while.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-11
HE MAKES A DENIAL.
Rev. Mr. McGifh SaIs Hs Old Mol Question The
Inspirsion Of lhs pbIe

Rev. Mr.. Garth. rector Of the Church
or the Ascension CEpiscopaO, Narra-
gansett Pier. who has just returned
from a visit 10 Canada. NEST emphatic
ally denies the report circulated that he
while occupying the pulpit of church
at -. Agathe. near Montreal, question:
ed the inspiration of the Bible, but that
on tho contrary. he says. the inspira-
tion OF the Bible was the one thing he
endeaVored to set before his hearers.
Mr. Garth further asserts that he en-
dcaVored 20 give n definition of inspi-
ration. which, while not the Traditional
One. was Intended 10 declare unmisiak-
ably that the Bible was GOd's word aud
az the same time abolish difficulties la
the way Of such belief.