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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17
BATHS FOR WEAKNESS.
The Gossip.

Few people realize the many advantages
of the city house, with its full supply of
hot and cold running water. over the
average farmhouse TO which pilgrims go
In vain to get cool There is nothing for
severe WEAKNESS like the intelligent use
OF the bathtub. Fill II two-thirds full of
water as hot as you can stand.
a good way to determine how hot II
should be is TO put the elbow down into
the water To test it, OF course the fingers
or even the hand. form no test at al. Pour
tablespoonful of ammonia into the wa
ter. After about eight minutes soaking
In this. spray or sponge the skin with
cold water very quickly and rub dry with
rough towel.
II sore or lame from overeXertion.
walking or riding or bicycling, follow the
bath with mild massage of the muscles
with "A little vaselne. Then take a half
hour nap and you will be all right
Many persons believe that the daily
morning bath I'm water as cold as the
hydrant affords, If taken regularly is of
the UTMOST Importance I'm maintaining a
sound and vigorous constitution. IL Is "A
mista..e To think that il is unsafe to
take cold bath when the body Is heated.
I'm cases Of complete heat exhaustion the
treatment now favored is an ice pack
ing When YOU are perspiring freely and
are warm all the way through you are
i'm the very best shape 10 step into water
as cold as YOU can get,
The fear OF shock is only a meaning
less tradition so far as healthy persons
are concerned. Of course, victim OF
heart disease will do well to keep ont of
ice water, and very old aSd feeble folks
| must be careful. lt Is said that no case
| Of inflammatory rheumatism has ever de-
velopcd where the patient for "a series OF
years had taken a cold bath every day
The right method Is 20 first wet the
| head and neck and splash the shoulders
| with the cold water. Then IL is safe for
J almost everybody to take the plunge In
warm weather one can stay in the water
| a few minutes but I'm winter the best
| plan is to get out AZ soon as possible
Colds said 10 have been produced by
| cold baths are generally the result oi
standing around" i'm chilly air The rub.
| bing To restore the circulation Is too much
| OF "a fad, and takes up TOO much time
| Even ~ YOU dress before the skin Is
| thoroughly dry no harm will be done
Whatever moisture IL left will very quick.
! ly evaporate. The main thing IL 10 get
| into your clothes az soon as you can.
| one physician who believes in the cold
| bath says that only one caution l. nee.
| cssary. Never enter cold water Will,
| out of breath. Always wait till yom
| breathing ~ normal. Temperature has
| nothing to do with the matter. except
! that when chilled YOU must not get into
1 cold water"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

The leading feature at keith's next
week will be John w. Albaugh and COM
pany ia Trenton. a one-act drama Of
Revolutionary times which has proved
one of the notable vaudeville productions
of the present season
The scene Is laid I'm Trenton on That
Christmas night when Washington cross
ed t.e Delaware To overthrow the Hes
sian troops carousing I'm that city, and
this incident forms the climax. TruaN has
been scouting for Washington, and has
given the signal TO advance. Subsequent
lv. hes.s captured by Fairleigh, who Is
ouartorsd I'm the house In which Dorothy
resides. lie gives Truax his parole. but
later suspects him as a spy. and. with
drawing his parole, Is about 90 order him
IN mo shot when Dorothy intervenes and
declares Truax To- bc her affianced lover.
Fairleigh i'm a nt OF insane Jealousy Is
about TO have Truax hung when the noise
of an engagement announces that Wash
inpton has succeeded i'm crossing the Del
aware and that the battle h ON.
Mr.. Albaugh has written a play which
holda the attention To the climax. IL Is an
Ingenious bit of stagecraft and the work
Of The four actors is so harmonious as To
greatly aid the effect of their individual
efforts.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

If there Is any more ridiculously funny
act I'm vaudeville at present than QUO
Vadis Upside Down" which Is being pre-
scented this week at keiths by AL Shean
and Charles Warren. Il has not yet been
seen on the local stage. Shean. who used
To be- the funny man with the Manhattan
comedy four. has developed rapidly. and
IL now I'm class with the Rogers broth
ers as German dialect comedian. War
ren's burlesque high tragedy II also very
funny and the turn" Is one of the laugh
ing hits OF the Keith entertainment.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

AZ tea party given few days ago at
San Francisco by Mrs. William i. Nc
Mutt, she formally announced the engage
ment OF her eldest daughter, Miss Mary
l.. McNutt, and Lieutenant Ashton Pot
ter, L. $. a., who is al present with his
regiment. the Fourth Cavalry, doing duty
AT Manila
Knickerbocker family. His father was
member OF the banking firm OF Brown
Brothers OF -,ew York. An uncle OF the
groom-elect is the Right Rev. III. c. Pot
ter. the Episcopal bishop Of New York.
and an elder brother Is James Brown
Potter, the former husband of the actress.
A sister Is married To j. Kennedy Tod.
a lawyer of New York. Lieutenant Pot
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

ter's grandfather was the Right Rev.
Alonzo Potter, Episcopal bishop OF Phila-
dolphin, who died i'm the harbor OF san
Francisco i'm 1859 after a voyage around
the Horn in search OF health.
The young man who has captured the
hand of the fair San Franciscan was
graduated from the University of Cam
bridge.
No date has been set for the wedding
but IL Will probably take place upon the
return OF Lieutenant Potter from Manila
Miss McNutt is the eldest daughter of
DR. William T. McNutt the prominent
physician and owner OF the McNutt hos
pital on Suttcr street, San Francisco
Miss McNutt has been noted for her at
fractions. speaks several languages and
is "A musician of high order
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

Bryan and his shouters are wont TO
point TO the tin plate trust as a grasping
facts? In 1890 no tin plate was manufact-
ured in this country and every year we
sent S2O,000,0o to England to pay for the
supply we were compelled to purchase
from her. Now we are making our own
tin plate and the $2otvS,oO0 which before
went TO England annually is now being
largely distributed among American
workmen In the form OF wages.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17
(CEag@1u ~
|A[s OUT
| PEE8LPlIll lR .

IL was amusing TO see the hurry and
scurry OF pedestrians on the street yes-
terday afternoon, when the miniature cy-
clone came. People hardly knew what
10 make of the sudden change I'm the
~cather, and a friend remarked 10 me.
| III this had Happened In the west the
people would have taken to the cellar by
this time.
Weddings in the Providence Four Hun
dred seem To- be coming thick and fast
and am told that dressmakers and mill
liners are being kept very busy by the
families on the hill. Well. this Is just
the time To start for Europe, and IL is a
good time 10 wish newly married couples
bon voyage"
There was an old-time farmer standing
outside City Han Yesterday afternoon
tat least he looked like farmer) and he
turned 10 a bystander and said, What
be the politics OF this town?" He was i'm
formed that IL was a Republican city.
"B gosh. 1 knew IL was, from its go-ahead
look. I'm from Connecticut, but 1 like
yer town. and I'm coming bacn here some
time and bring my wife
AS ! sat I'm Infantry Hall last evening.
l could not help thinking that OF all the
military marches I have ever heard the
Second Regiment" by the late lamented
ID. w Reeves. is the best not only tor
it's spirited movement. but for the real
music there is i'm it. The public evidently
is of the same opinion, for IL was re-
ccived With applause and cheers.
The Republicans Of the Eighth ward
are evidently a class OF men who cannot
be discouraged by rain. even If it is n
downpour, and the flag raising was sue
cess in every particular.
Visitors 10 Infantry Hall cannot fail 10
De struck with the beautiful appearance
of the vast auditorium since il has been
recently freshly painted and decorated.
a new system OF electric lighting has
been put in. and now II is possible to
sec a pin on the floor so brilliant is the
illumination. / understand that In the
spring new floor is to be laid In the
hall.
There is a colored man who lives on |
Benevolent street who is a good deal OF
"A character I'm his way. lie was talking /
on street car the other day, and a pas
senger asked him what he thought OF the |
American Protective League. Well" |
he said, II tell YOU what the colored men /
around here want To- do they want To |
stick To work and let all leagues, and /
that sort OF thing alone."
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

nous English mimic, but does her work
I'm an original and clever fashion. Little
Elsie is a remarkable child. a graceful
dancer anu pleasing singer and deserves
all the applause she receives from the
large audiences that are crowding the
palatial playhouse.
1t has often been wondered whore all
the new jokes come from to supply the
incessant demand OF the vaudeville stage.
and the answer Is not always at hand .
but somehow they come Ihc jokers at
Keith's this week have very few chest
nuts" I'm their repertoires, and even the
old jokes have new faces Perhaps the
greatest hit among the comedians Is made
by Nat NJ. Wills, the Happy Tramp.
whose facial expression Is something
wonderful. and who knows how to deliv-
Joke in such way as To get all the
fun possible out of ~. lie has a budget OF
humorous songs. and his singing Is OF the
same high order OF merit his physlog-
nomy.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

dred COWS. the majority or which are the
mouse coiored Jerseys Every afternoon
Nrs Dring inspects her farmyard. which
Is on the hill behind the house and reach
cd through a laurel grove.
The house II filled WITH rare old iurni-
ture and china. in both OF which Mrs
Dring II connolsscur. But what she
most values L. her collection of colored
prints. Win which every wall H. covered
The fernery and greenhouses ~ tho rear
of the house contain many rare plants
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

The famous Deutschland cost ys.Sp 900:
disbursement $500 tons; accommods tlon
iO55 passengers. crew 525. IL has establish
ed new record for ocean steamers
Among the great remedies OF the world
Hostetters stomach Bitters holds the
record with its fifty years OF cures OF
constipation. indigestion and biliousness
" gets at the root of tho disease and
effects n cure. The genuine has our Prt-
vatc Revenue Stamp over the neck Of
the bottle.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

President Hadley OF Yale will support
Mckinley, but he makes a slight slip when
he SAYS ''the question of Imperialism was
settled ten years ago when we began TO
build battleships instead OF forts The
question of Imperialism was settled when
we annexed Texas. Louisiana. and Alas
ka, which was long before We began 20
build big battleshIps.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

IL Is generally remarked that the pres
snt presidential campaign is unusually
quiet. The explanation is TO be found IN
the fact that the people are too busily
employed in profitable work TO give UP
time 10 parades and other political dem
onsfrations
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

Ci'y treasurer Granger having an
houhced himself as a free sllverite. should
reel In duty bound to tell the cltizeps
whose votes he is seeking how 100 cents
worth of honest money can be made from
90 cents worth OF silver bullion.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

biliy Bryan's vocal apparatus was not
In its best working order AZ Now vor,,
last night but he succeeded in making a
good deal OF noise aud utterlns the OK.
pected quantity OF political nonsense
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

ihose New York detectives who al
lowed Mrs. Hart to escape must ba,..
oeen about as vigilant as the bank ~.
rectors who allowed their clerk to steo,
siVVOoo to maintain her in luxury.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

That wealthy Englishman who has be-
queathed a quarter of million dollars
10 each OF his two daughters on condi-
tion that they do not marry citizens Of
the United States, seems TO have as deep
rooted an aversion to America and Amer
leans az William Waldorf Astor.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

The New York Times. which Is ably
supporting John Il. stanchheld for COVER
nor OF New York, advises that gentleman
10 stop talking nonsense" IL would
seem that the Times would have Mr..
stanchheld carry on a speechless cam
paign.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

senator Chandler Is correct In his state
meat that the backbone OF the Bryan
campaign IL broken. but last nights hap
penlngs IN New York will convince him
that It's mouth IL still in working order
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17
FUNERAL SUPPLIES.

Full line AZ reduced prices. can
furnish "A nice csskst for So and
upwards. first-class carriages with
careful and experienced drivers at
the lowest prices
THoS. McMURRoUGH.
e Fenncr St. Opposite the Cathe-
dral
Telephone No. 2s3s
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

IL mas come-that challenge OF DR. Gar
vim 10 Hon. Adm II. Capron IN ,,h,,o =.
bate The doctor wouldn't know he was q
candidate unless he had such a challenge
pasted in his hat.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

Next Monday night the pro,.,a,,..
Democracy will decide whether II IL
party or only n playthlng for the Jopr.
na's stereotyper and the Journals law.
yer
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

Ny friend James A. Williams tells me
that the Prohibition parade 10 be held
here next week. will be a big affair, and
arrangements are being made to have
Prohibitionists from all over the state
take a place in the line
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

chief Justice Nichols has achieved mo-
toriety II not distinction. lie was the one
individual who did not vote to adm,
Abraham Lincoln into the Hal az r.,,,o
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

The least I'm stature. but by no means
the Ienst I'm Importance AZ an entertainer
An this weeks Keith hill Is little Elsie.
the juvenile character imitator. some one
h,s d,,hbed her "a pocket edition OF Cissy
Ioftus.r FOR that definition fits her Co
dot However. she has not copied the fa-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

Having made a failure Of their pine.
laying undertaking the Granger boomers
are indulEing m pipe dreams about a
Perkins harI
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

Monday evening. 1t is really distros.in.,
'hat the Grangerites are not to be per-
mitted to run the Democratic party.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

Paris Is an odd combination of neck
piece and n mum. The mum has small
roll OF fur attached at the waist 20 thu
long stole-lika scarf
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

Bnlidozing methods will not enable the
"ranger CLIQUE 20 frighten the Democrats
OF providence into a surrender Of their
rights ss citizens.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

The Journal II terribly alarmed. n has
heard stories that Democrats propose to
Interfere IN the Democratic caucuses next
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

Margaret Cast has accomplished
ghastly feat ON her bicycle.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

Uneasy rests the head that schemes 10
usurp party power
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17
Spring tiowering Bulbs,

Hyacinths. Tulips. Narcissus. Crocus
Lilies and other bulbs. Our Bulb Cata-
logue, just published. free on request al
our store or by mail
WALTER A. POTTER e. co,
8 Exchange Place.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17
HOUSEHOLD SEWING MACHINES

You will be surprised when YOU get QUE
prices. either cash or instalmonts All
kinds repaired and supplies kent I'm stock,
EDWARD PARKINSON. - sprsgus
street. Telephone ESQ.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17
MRS. SAMUEL D. SPHINX.

eJcSSSet ~, Ior. OF union.
Classes and Private Lessons.
Season commences SATURDAY. Oct.
goth. 1900. For further particulars please
call or send for circular Business hours
from II to p. m.. Telephone 1920. l.. o.
Box 1926
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

The Republicans Of the Eighth ward
are evidently a class OF men who cannot
be discouraged by rain. even If IL is
downpour. and the flag raising was sue
cess I'm every particular.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-12
FORECAST AND REUINISCENCE

The chairman of the Republican State Com
mittee expresses a strong desire that there
should be no misunderstanding as to the atti-
tude of the organization toward Governor
Roosevelt. He accordingly informs the public
that the Republican Convention will indorse the
Governors administration, as a matter of
course but equally a matter Of course VIII
refrain from committing the gross improperly
of approving his candidacy for a second term.
1T is one thing" says Mr. Odell, Ito ndorse
IAN administration and quite another thing 10
endorse a candidate. The convention next
week will have nothing to do with indorsins
candidates for the State ticket. 1t is called
"for the specific purpose OF electing delegates
"at-large and alternates-at-large to the Repub-
'lcan National Convention
This cogent and ingenious statement recalls
the interesting circumstance that on September
II, 1885, a Republican State Convention, called
for the explicit purpose of nominating State
ticket, unanimously and with great lack of en-
thusiasm declared the Hon. Levi p Morton to
be the choice of New York for the Presidency of
the United States instead of leaving that func-
ton to be automatically performed by the
State Convention which met in the ensuing
March for the specific purpose of electing dele
gates-at-large and alternates-at-arge to the Re
publican National Convention. 1t is to be OBJ
served that the act of the September Conven-
ton was not the mere expression Of a prefer
ence. 1--WE pledge him." said the platform, 1.-The
loyal and unstinted support of New-York." We
do not remember that Mr.. Odel who was
member of the convention. endeavored to per-
suade the delegates that 1t would be entirely
out Of place for them to project champion
into the National arena when their authority
extended no further than the selection of State
candidates, and we are consequently somewhat
confused at finding Mr.. Odell so strenuously OBJ
jecting to a reversal of the process. If he has
adopted new scheme of political morality the
public has not been generally apprised of the
fact and we are forced to conclude that when
he says ''out of place he means out of 1.-The
question"
The truth is, everybody knows, that pro-
priety cuts no figure al all in this business. Mr.
Plat judged that it would prove convenient for
his purposes to have the September Convention
OF 1895 declare itself in favor of Governor Nor
ton for the Presidency. He now judges that 1t
would not be convenient for his purposes to
have the April Convention of 1900 declare itself
in favor of Governor Roosevelts denomination
That is all there is to it, and if Mr.. Odel sup
poses that anybody is deceived by his outgv-
ings he has n lower opinion of popular inte-
gence than the chairman Of the Republican
State Committee ought to have
New-York tribune., 1900-04-12

to the Union as a Statei (Or Is 1t that the
United States should be annexed to the Trans
vaal? The former we beeve.) Nay, Is not Mr
Webster Davis formerly Assistant Secretary OF
the Interior and recently guest of "Oom PAU,
demanding that this country shall make the
Boer cause its own to the extent of going to war
with Great Britain? And is not Mr.. Davis's
chairman and introducer proclaiming that SYM
pathy with the Beers should be the deciding
issue in the United States Presidential cam
paign? In the face of these things, there is
some color for such serious view.
Yet we are convinced that such an interpre-
tation would do Figaro" sad injustice-the un-
pardonabe wrong of failing TO comprehend his
wit. 1t is only his playfuly oracuiar way OF
telling the Beers their goose is cooked, the jig
IS up, the apple cart is upset; they are, IN
brief, 'trun down" All that Is left for them is
to essay the impossible and to wait for It's
achievement until the Greek Calends. AT
such happy ieu desprit Americans will smile.
It reminds them of some of their own most
creditable wtticisms. But will the matter OF
fact Beers understand it? Such levity Is not
sanctioned by the Heidelberg Catechism, and
there entirely too many heads in the Trans
vaal for even Lord Roberts to get the joke into
them all by surgical operation.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-12
THE PUERTO RTcAY BILL PASSED.

The doctrine Of lex proprio vigore' as a
political shibbOleth is laid at rest That is one
meaning, and the most important meaning
OF the final passage of the Puerto Rican bill
yesterday. For a long time that impressive
phrase, varied now and then with some more
popular piece of buncombe like the Con-
stitutiOn follows the flag" has been bran
dished over the heads of people who were try
ing 10 study the government of new
possessions as a practical problem. At last,
after full discussion and in the face of much
adverse popular sentiment, Congress wisely de-
termines that this Nation shall be guided by
conditions and not by theories in meeting its
heavy and novel responsibilities in distant lands
untitled for our institutions and our laws. 1t
has established the precedent of a free hand in
dealing with the new acquisitions and refused
at the beginning OF new era of our history to
handicap the country by confessiDg A Limitation
Of its powers 10 the narrow circle within which
recent needs have called for their exercise.
This has seemed revolutionary 10 some but
il is only so because people have forgotten our
early period of expansion. The government for
Puerto Rico which is denounced as arbitrary Is
fully as republican that which Jefferson and
Madison gave 10 Louisiana, or Monroe and
John Quincy Adams gave TO Florida. And If
they did not levy separate customs duties ii
other course for the rulers of 1903 had no
doubt of their power to do so in the territory
they were frankly governing outside the Con
stitufion. With the subsequent steady develop
Inent OF territories settled by people from the
States on whom constitutional rights had been
conferred by statute conspicuous exercise of
this freedom was abandoned-though it always
continued to be exercised in some ways-and
It i fortunate that Congress has asserted once
more the existence of that freedom before IL
was entirely atroDhied as a power of govern
nent compatible with our unwritten Constitu-
ton which is the general spirit of institu-
lions The new expansion, like the old, pre-
sents strange problems not TO be solved by rule
of thumb application Of laws made for
selves and we find il wise to follow the exam
pie Of Jefferson and the other fathers of the
Constitution IN not trying 10 extend that instru-
merit TO places un6tted fcr government under
its detailed provisions.
Besides thus establishing a free hand and
making possible the maintenance Of the prom
iced "open DOOR to the worlds commerce in
the Philippines which would certainly be closed
X we had 10 give our new possessions our own
sa-if, the Puerto Rcan bill is a measure OF prac-