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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-07-14
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Love is not love that loves for only
love,
Or hopes for hope, or dies TO live again;
With dice-in-hand Love throws the
highest move.
Yet knows his guerdon is the KISS oil
pain.
And Life is Life that struggles against
living.
Hopes against Hope. and dies with ev-
cry breath;
Gives grace-of- grief nor grudges in the
giving,
Draping Loves laurels round thescy the
of Death.
Boston Journal.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-07-14

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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-07-14

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,r n,iy rel i7Ta THOS. GRIMES N BRO.
The times., 1899-08-20
Trusts In Wild Lnirs.

(From the New Orleans Evening Pest.)
Mr. ]. Sterling Morton protests, in his
newspaper. the Conservative. against the
female wolf trust which is deyouring the
substance of the people of Nebraska. The
State pays a bounty of SO each for wolf
scalps. This makes wolf breeding profit
able industry. Fifteen thousand scalps
have been turned in and paid for this year.
and there are thirty counties yet to hear
from It must not be supposed that the
trust has wolf kennels where the breeding
takes place, and where the scalping is
done at leisure. No; nothing so foolish as
that The agents of the combine know the
places where the wolves breed naturally
and without expense to the trust. They
take good care not TO kill any wolves out
of season. and not to kill any females
knowingly. The principles Of protection To
home industry are skillfully applied. and
the results are most flattering. Labor is
in demand wages are high, employment
steady, and profits satisfactory. A steady
increase of the herd is confidently antici-
pated unless the outcry against trusts be-
comes so strong that the Legislature shall
feel obliged to adopt repressive measures.
But this is not apprehended at present, the
trust being strongly represented in that
body, and having a pretty large fund for
distribution among the lobby. This is not
the first time that a cash premium has
been offered for wolf breeding in the
United States, and it is probably not the
last
The times., 1899-08-20
The Cnrter InfamN.

The fippancy of Attorney General
Griggs in the matter of his remarks on
the Carter case has made a most dis
agreeable impression throughout the coun-
try. His assumption that the whole affair
is his business and that, after mis-
carriage OF justice lasting for more than
a year, it is impertinence on the part o,
the press or people to demand an early
decision, is accepted as meaning that
deliberate public outrage is contemplated.
In his private capacity Griggs is very
close 10 the persons whose interest it is
to secure a new trial for the convicted Of
ficer. 1t is quite true that there is moth
ing in the law or the facts to justify such
a review. The court martial which con-
victed Carter, including among. its MEM
bers several individuals who were as
signed to it because they were known to
be his warm friends, unanimously found
him guilty on all the charges. Only de-
termination on the part of the Administra-
tion to risk the effect of an utter malyer-
sation of justice in this connection has
saved the defendant from the punishment
decreed by the court.
The Government itself has taken the
strange course of spending public money
in an effort TO discredit its own judge ad-
yocate. and the president and members OF
the military tribunal. It has taken the
case out of the hands of Army lawyers and
relesated it to civilians, with the obvious
purpose of saving the convict.
Reading between the lines of the Griggs
utterances, it is easy enough to see that
the hopes of Carter and his friends in the
Administration are well founded. A new
trial is TO be demanded Some of the ma
terial witnesses in the last one are dead.
OT7neTs II c.sayeniently where they can
not be reached. There Is hardly a doubt
remaining that a new court martial would
result in acquittal, for lack of adequate
legal evidence upon which to found YER
diet of guilty
Under these conditions We think the
country may confidently look for a retrial
and the exoneration of the accused; al
though even his apologists and adherents
have not yet pretended to insinuate his
possible innocence of anything alleged
against him. The country will be power
less to prevent such an affront, but the
people may perchance have an opportunity
to register their opinion of 1t at the polls
IN November next year.
The times., 1899-08-20
HAITI's MINERAL WEALTH.
Prospective Development of Iron
and Copper Deposits.


and Copper Deposits.
New York, Aug 19-Sailing today on the
Dutch West India steamer Prins Willen
~, for Port au Prince, is Dr. Edmond Rou-
main, professor in the Medical Pharma-
ceutical College of Haiti Dir. Roumaiu
came TO the United States some tina ago
Tor the organization of a company for de-
Veioping the copper and iron mines of
haiti Previous to his departure, Dr. Rou-
main said that he had been successful in
the organization of his company, and ex-
pected results of a satisfactory character
from the operations which are TO be under
| taken as soon as, the proper concessions can
be obtained from the Haitian Government
These concessions have already been prom
| ised.
Although not a mining engineer, DR.. Rou-
main has given his attention for many years
| TO surface mining. and has had the aid of
a number of skilled engineers who have
| from tina to time visited Port au Prince.
The iron found In the mountain gorges and
along the swift streams of the Haitian
mountains. he says, is a magnetic oxide
which analysis has proved to be well fitted
for the making of BsssemsY STEEL The COP
| per Is found in veins, which lie so near the
| surface that the heavy rains wash away the
edrLh ard expose the ore. Fragments of
| rock containing rich traces of both iron and
copper can be picked up with scarcely any
excavation.
There We're once gold mines In Haiti
| and the abandoned workings are still to
| be seen by the traveller in the interior of
the island There are also many instances
! of cinnabar being found in small yuan
| titles by the natives and given to travellers,
! but the exact location of these deposits
| is not known. There are known to be
| many deposits of lignites in the southern
| part of the island, and rather Ioor
! quality of ship coal is mined to a con-
| siderable extent at present. The presence
| of the mines was known to the French
! Government when the island was a de-
| tendency Of France. In the mountains
near the place where the mineral ores
are found there is an abandoned health
| resort built many years ago by the Span
| iards. 1t is at present a little village
| clustering around a spring of sulphuretted
water
The times., 1899-08-20
Arctic Expeditions.
(rrom the Philadelphia Ledger.

(From the Philadelphia Ledger.)
It seems idle to discuss the question OF
whether Arctic expeditions pay, because for one
thing that is a matter which every person who
undertakes the perils of the journey must settle
for himself, and, for another, that results of
such ventures cannot be reckoned by dollars and
cents, or even by any ordinary amount OF pri-
yation or the occasional sacrifice Of life. Many
people there are who regard additions to the
worlds store OF knowledge above price or
personal considerations. and in comparison there
with precious life is cheap. SIr. WcIlrnan and
his brave companions men of this type. and
it may be accepted fact that not one among
them but feels that too high price was not paid
for their adventure, albeit they failed to reach
the North Pole
This is the intellectual view OF Arctic ex-
ploraton, the which is apart from all con
siderations of proportionate return for moneys
argument in favor Of Arctic expeditions, from the
standpoint Of financial profit TO the world is rot
without its strength. II is asserted and not
without solid reason, that very few expeditions
have returned from the polar regions without
bringing fresh knowledge of direct OF indirect
practical value to commerce or commercial in
terests. Be this it may Arctic exploration
will certainly continue until the mystery of the
North Pole is solved, and perhaps afterward,
and whatever men may think of the utility or
folly OF such ventures, all will unite in welcom-
ing each intrepid leader back to civilization and
hnp
The times., 1899-08-20
The High Hat.

A runor has been floating around of
late TO the effect that the top hat is to
be discarded. and the Chicago Times
Herald" is joyful over the prospect. 1t
says that il God had thought that a man
would be more beautiful with some tall
thing upon his head, man would have been
created with a crest like a peacock.
OF course, it is a pleasant thing to see
ones fellow beings happy, even in antici-
patton, and it is also agreeable to see
them anxious TO carry out the designs of
the Almighty, but in this particular case 1t
seems as If the Times -Herald's'' enthu-
siasm were somewhat misapplied In the
first place. there is no serious prospect
that the top hat viii go. Like evening
dress, it is a democratic thing. and makes
the poor man feel like a rich man when
he has IL on. II contributes to that sense
of being well dressed which is said 10 be
even more comforting than the eonsola-
tions OF religion. II adds a few needed inch
es 10 the height of the small man, who is
always grateful for any aid In that direc-
ticn, and most men are not tall enough
10 object 10 the additional height con-
ferred. Last, and most important, 1t is
very becoming 10 many men, and it was
developed just as was the crest of the
aforesaid peacock. through the desire to
appear beautiful in the eyes of others.
The argument about the designs OF the
Creator. moreover. seems TO be slightly
faiiacious. Is 1t to be supposed that far
The times., 1899-08-20
An Innocent suburbanite.

There is a man in suburb OF New
York who has been learning something
about cattle in the last year or two. and
may be of interest if not of use to the
average householder in the city.
There was mild and benevolent father
of family in that suburban town. and he
bought calf for his children to play
with. He kept it in the back yard. AS
The animal grew an idea, large and lumi-
nous, dawned upon its owners brain. He
would keep that calf until it became a
heifer. and then it would supply the family Z
with milk He was city man, OF the
kind which is rot brought up on farms.
II is probable that he never knew the joys
of extracting pigweed from the lettuce
bed. or chasing a refractory COW over a
mile and a half of pasture land. Hence he
did not know what The weak point OF his
plan was.
The calf grew. however. to the stature
o. heiferhood, and then the city stockman
made a discovery. 1t dawned upon him
gradually. and when it had fully dawne !
ne went and had an interview with the
butcher. The butcher came to drive the
animal away, and it was then discovered
that she was too large to get out of the
front door There was a. picturesque scene
when the attempt was made TO get her
out-a scene never contemplated by the
honest farmer on whose farm she was
raised, and whose premises contain ample
room for the movements of any animal
smaller than an elephant. The butcher
recommended that she be starved until
she was thin enough to go through the
door. The process was hard on the heifer,
merely unhappy-yery unhappy-for sew
eral days. So was the butcher, because
he knew that after he had taken possession
of the animal be would have to put that
flesh back on her bones before she wou d
be 1T TO sell even in sections. SO he final
ly came around TO the house and insiste
that the heifer be brought out. The whole
family Joined In a frantic attempt TO get
her out OF that door. Finally the butcher
lost all patience and chopped a slice OF
the side of the door with an ak. The
butcher and the would-be stock farmer are
now quarreling about the price of this
damage The Brooklyn Eagle" suggests
that the heifer and her former owner be
made into side show for a country cir
Gus, the heifer's history to be recited By
her owner, together with his former but
exploded theories on dairy farming. II
might be lucrative enterprise in the rur-
al districts
The times., 1899-08-20
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.
Criticism of the Neglected Condition
of the Bronze Monument.

New York, Aug. l9.-The grounds about
the Statue OF Liberty on Bedloe's island
are in sorry condition. the grass left to
grow wild. the steps and outstanding ap-
proaches weather-worn and uncared for.
A frugality recalling the thrift Of the early
Dutch settlers is conspicuous in the mode
of lighting the big stairway. and the en-
tire place at this city's show time OF the
year, when more people go to it than al
any other. wears an aspect the reverse OF
creditable. The one boat that carries vis-
itors to the island disgorges between sew
enty and eighty persons every hour Of ev-
cry weekday in the summer and on Sun
days the number carried on each trip
mounts well up into the hundreds. These
visitors are nearly all out-of- town people,
sightseers who determined before they left
home that trip to the great statue out in
the harbor was one CT the things not to be
missed on their New York visit Some of
them buy 50-cent efigies of the statue in
glass and metal on the beat before they
ever get there. and before leaving the ISL
and search the ground ever for a bit OF
the granite the base is made Of or some
other souvenir of the place to take away
with them.
I'm good climber when there's light
to see by" said a middle-aged woman yes
tcIudy, as HeT lOuTlSt party paused on tae
third landing, in the ascent 10 the statue:
but. my, those weak little lanterns! They
would hardly give light In a pantry closet.
and not half enough of them, and Just set
down on the floor at thatI You girls can
feel your way up farther. If you want to.
but I'll go here by the door and wait for
you
Why. those little hand-lanterns on the
landings are no better than a farmer uses
TO light the way to his COW she'd said
man who had tried Intellectually to induce
his wife to make the ascent. Il don't be-
lieve they burn ten cents worth of coal
oil here week They have only got lights
on every other landing"
And the lanterns don't smell pleasant"
said his wife, with housekeeper's obser-
vation- The glass shades haven't heen
washed or the wicks trimmed in a month
of Sundays
1t is said that the use OF the statue as
a sightseer's Mecca and as a money max
ing enterprise. is leased by the Govern
ment to three of New York's citizens. who
conduct the matter as suits them best,
perhaps with but natural regard for their
selfish interests 1t is a limited schedule
that is run by the boat, and occasionally
visitor of an observing turn of mind is
TO Coney Island and back in fine big boat
for what it costs TO make the short trip
TO the Liberty Statue In an out-of-date,
dingy old tub that looks risky, and is
cramped in accommodation.
The times., 1899-08-20
WHITECAPs IN TEXAS.
A Critical Situation In the Orange
Lumber District.

Austin Tex. Aug 19.-The situation in
the Orange lumber district Of Texas is ex-
tremely critical, and according to private
advices that were received here today a
bloody race war is imminent despite the
presence of troop of State cavalry and a
detachment of State rangers, who arrived
at the town of Orange today. being ordered
there by Governor Sayers. The serious
nature of the trouble is being suppressed
as much as possible by the business men
of that section. IA telegram was received
here late last night stating that the town
of Orange is virtually in the hands OF a
mob; that whitecap organizations have
warned every negro in that town and sur
rounding sections TO leave on penalty OF
being killed if they disobey the order.
Hundreds of negroes have already left
and if the exodus continues the whole ne
gro population will have left by tomorrow
night The whitecaps have killed one ne
gro and seriously wounded two others
They have notified all lumber mill men
that they would be killed il they employed
negro labor Some of the largest mills
have already shut down, while others will
attempt to run under the protection of
the militia and rangers. The better class
of white citizens Of Orange and in the
lumber camps of the region are endeavor-
ing to restore quiet and prevent further
killings. Governor Sayers today offered
reward of 5000 in each case for the arrest
and conviction of the members of the mob
who are killing and intimidating the ne
groes.
The times., 1899-08-20
HUNGRY CUBAN TROOPS.
General Gomez Makes Plea 10 Gen.
eraI Brooke In Their Behalf

Havana Aug 19.-GeneraI Gomez has
had a conference with General Brooke. ex-
planning to the American commander the
terrible conditica Of the Cuban troops
who are starving while waiting for the
SO apiece which is to be paid to them IN
accordance with the supplementary list
now in the hands OF CeIoael Mcale. who Is
now in the Santiago province General
Gomez added that there was great danger
that these men would become bandits. The
fact that. while they have no resources.
they still have arms increases this dan
ger General Brooke showed Gomez des-
patch from Colonel Moale saying that he
was at FL Cobre. and would leave there
tomorrow for Cubitas. where he would re-
main two weeks fer the purpose Of making
final payments in eastern Cuba
me Judge OF the District OF the Cathe-
dTai has indicted John David Harris. an
american employed In the Office CT the
SoVernor-General, for an alleged attempt
! 10 s"indie the financial department by
means mean, OF forged drafts purporting TO have
oeen signed by General Chanse and Senior
Montalco, the chief OF the penitentiary.
harris Indignantly denies the charges.
which are based only on the opinion OF
an expert, who says that the handwriting
OF the drafts seems Identical with thar OF
Harris.
Some i50 Cubans employed in the signal
corps and telegraph Office struck today be-
cause the Cuban engineers, Jose Nunez
ana J. Del Vale. were discharged by Cap
tam Houston. who is In charge OF the work
on the new telegraph building. The strik-
ers attempted TO collect their salaries uo
20 today, and. payment being refused there
was great row
band OF bandits has made its aD-
pearance at Managua. near Havana. under
the leadership OF former Spanish guer-
rliia- General Lee has sent a force OF
the rural guards IN pursuit OF them.
Inc Bishop OF Havana has demanded the
immaculate release under bail OF the priest
and nuns who were arrested and Jr5fcta5
at Pinar del Rio on the charge of swindIlne
merchants by means OF forged notes. a
report OF the case has been asked for
from the courts. -
The times., 1899-08-20
Vice in American cities.

(From the Chicago Chronicle.l
But the most ridiculous part OF the statement
in regard to the AIazet testimony is that it has
caused an Eruption of vile classes from the for
eien cities There is no form of vice ard crime
in any American city that can be compared in
depravity with the vicious and criminal practices
of great foreign cities. Nothing be gained
by painting New York or any American city
blacker than it IS
The '.New York Times says that it is too
much for travelled New Workers To believe that
vice is leaving English cities and coming to
American cities, attracted by the superior facli-
ties for its reprehensible practices here. LET it
be admitted" says the Times ''that this is
a 'wide-open town. but do not try to make
rs believe that the people of other cities, espee-
tally English cities. live in the odor of sanctity
and go TO bed at o'clock every night The
cant that municipal conditions in foreign cities
are better than in American cities is the most
absurd and rotten cant of the times.
The times., 1899-08-20
The same old sfnrr

The Colorado regiment. too. comes home
.enouncing the incompetency of Otis. And
Hale the Roosevelt Of Colorado. is alleged
10 have threatened him with arrest for COW
ardice.
This is fine kind Of general command
ing in chief in an important waR for Mr..
Mckinley to support and sustain in con-
troll OF great national movement. Fancy
a man like Miles. or Merritt. or Wheeler,
or Lawton. allowing a subordinate to
threaten him with charges OF eowardicei
Under ordinary circumstances man who
should submit 90 such things would not
last day in any position Of military re-
sponsibility. But Otis, like Sampson, has
done professionally discreditabie things be-
cause they were wanted by bis Admgnistra-
ticn masters DENLY has dominated Otis.
sud DENNY has been the real power at Ma
nila- Ne may add that the political and
The times., 1899-08-20
Partners Again.

(Frcm the Hartford Couraht)
Gentlemen of the ''boss'' class, whose ehlef IN
terest in politics is business one, never permit
nolitics to get in the way OF businesss-at least
not for any great length OF time. There may be
be A little strain vet in the politico-perSona'
relations between Richard Croker and Thomas
G Platt-due 10 the turning loose of the Mazct
committee upon the track of the young Crokers
earlier in the season-but there are signs that
commercial relations have been resumed
The latest and most convincing sign was the
attempt, Wednesday afternoon, to jam through
the New York board OF public improvements
forty-vear contract with the Ramapo Water Com
many that would have transferred over $1,000. 900
annually from the city treasury TO the bank ac-
count OF that concern. This contract came be-
fore the board with the endorsements OF Boss
Croker's commissioner of water supply and Boss
Croker's corporation counsel. Six Tammany mem
hers of the board zealously boosted it along, but
Controller Coler with the help of other members
succeeded in blocking the way. and action on
the contract was postponed for fortnight.
The Ramapo Water Company is what IS known
as Tracy, Boardman, & Platt Company"
New York paper says that Thomas c. Platt
Bejamin F. Tracy. Edward I.auterbach. Albert
b. Boardman. silas b. butcher, and other we'll
known politicians are interested in it.
The times., 1899-08-20
The Issue in Pennsylvania.
QFrom the Philadelphia Record.)

There are few candid men in Pennsyl-
yania no matter what may be their po-
litical faith. who do not now believe that
a great mistake was made in 1896 when
by minority vote William A. Stone was
chosen Governor of Pennsylvania, and the
admirable and able candidate of the Demo-
cratic party, Hon. George A. jerks. defeat
ed. Governor Stone. by his humiliating
Difference TO the leadership OF discrsdit-
ed political master has intensified all the
evils of which the people complain. BY his
unconstitutional acts in yetoing proposed
constitutional amendments, in cutting down
the school appropriations. and in appointing
Mr.. Quay a United States Senator notwith
standing the failure Of the Legislature to
elect, he has set at defiance the organie
law which he is sworn to obey and the
will of the people who have entrusted him
with executive power.
No matter what words the Republicans
may put in their platform at their coming
State convention, and no matter what men
they may name for the three State offices
to be filed they cannot get away from the
issues they have made. vote for the
Republican ticket this year will be vote
for Quay and Stone-an endorsement or
Tr-asury misrule, of fraudulent elections,
and of fragrant executive miseoings. There
Is nothing else at issue.