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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26
Mrs. Persons Dear Departed
Were Crlpp|ss or BedTlddsn
RER LATEST sUIToR IS 70
They HiWn't Met Yet, but Have Core
spondst--ThsIT Union, lis Said,
VIII Be for Love Only.

Hagerstown. Ky. Dec. 2G-Mrs. Izora
Pierson has buried four invalid husbands.
and now she Is 10 marry III. $. Kingery,
seventy-year-old sheep farmer.
They have never seen each other. but
have been corresponding for several
weeks and have exchanged pictures. MIR.
Kingery is said TO have passed his seven
tieth year, wldower fairly welI-to-do
and is one of the substantial citizens OF
his community.
The acquaintance OF these two ro-
mantle persons was started by Elder
Studebaker, a minister In the Dunkard
church. who described the virtues of the
widow to Mr.. Kingery.
AS Mrs. Pierson is also a member of the
Dunkard church. the Introduction by the
minister was regarded as satisfactory
proof OF each others good character.
When Mr.. Kingery proposed marriage
the very next mail carried the widows
affirmative reply, and the following In
coming mail brought the bridegrooms
check for 500 Ito pay expenses The
arrangement was for the bride TO come
OH 10 tAothN fOIu anu bttDh' oNN"'hfN'N
with the bridegroom and give him an
opportunity TO see her
II all should turn out satisfactorily the
wedding would come Oft.
Mrs. Persons first husband had only
one arm, her second was a helpless Grip
pie. The third was eighty-two years old
and I'm the last stage of senile debility
Her fourth husband was Oscar Piers,s.
twenty-five years old, of Mount Holly.
n. ]. He was helplessiy crippled from
birth and was PROSTATE on his bed, from
which he was unable TO rise.
lie made lace with his curved and
knotted fingers while lying thus in order
to sustain himself This lace was sold To
a store which employed peddlers TO carry
the goods about the country in packs.
In one of his packages OF lace Pierson
placed a note In which was described his
pitiable condition. He implored whoever
might receive the note to have -cnmpaa=
sion on his lonely state and assist him
10 procure treatment by physician and
IL possible better his condition.
Mrs. Pierson bought that particular
package OF lace. The way was easy for
the much marrying woman. Her last ven
ture Is for love alone.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26
CARRIER SWALLOWS.

The question Of employing swallows In
stead Of pigeonsAto carry dispatches has
been seriously considered in France. ac-
cording 10 the Journal des Sciences Mill
taires The aptitude of the swallows for
the work Is by many held to be even
greater than that 81 the pigeon. They ~
10 a greater height. and are therefore less
exposed 90 being shot. and they travel
faster, making good nearly ~ miles an
hour where pigeon would only get over
tN. IL Is also claimed for them that they
ore more faithful. intelligent and have
not on long journeys to stop TO feed. ss
the piseon has IL 10 also asserted that
the swallow can be more easily snd
quickly trained. The only doubtful point
seems 70 be whether, on resalnlng their
Liberty. they would not Weld 90 their
migratory instincts and their desire II
seek warmer climes.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26
Whole Population nConverted by
Two EvangsIists.
POKER CHIPS ARE BURNED.
Opera House Given Up 10 Revival Meetings,
yellow journals Tahausd and whisky
Is Thrown Awiy.

Tarkio. town in Missouri, has gone
wild on religion. As the result OF re-
vival season that has just closed. s53 Of
the 1900 inhabitants of the town have EN-
braced' religion, as the good old broth
ers and sisters choose 10 term II.
Add 10 this army OF recruits the sever
al hundred steady-going church members
who have for many years been within the
fold, and the younger generation brought
I'm from time TO time through Sunday
school influence, and IL Is apparent at a
glance that rarlSio is today the most
sanity town I'm Missouri.
Two evangelists from Chicago-the Rev.
Messrs. William and Alexander
wrought this wholesale change of heart.
They went there four weeks ago and
opened services.
At first they were received rather cold
ly. Worldly folk gave them no attention
whatever, and majority of the church
workers said they could not indorse the
sensational me,aods OF the evangeiists.
But the itinerant evangelists kept on
preaching twice a day afternoon and
evening. and about ten days ago there
came "A change.
"BrCK" SMITHS CONVERSION.
Buck Smith. the village bully, went
10 the meeting one night Ito make fun.
Before he had been there an hour he was
on his knees sending heavenward a
prayer for emancipation from sin.
Buck" Smith got religion" He made
no secret OF it. In his uncouth. rough
and-ready style, he became an exhorter.
He shouted aloud as the old-time camp
meeting people used to shout down i'm the
Cumberland mountains OF Tennessee.
The word that Buck Smith had been
converted passed from lip TO lip. and the
whole town knew or the remarkable in
cident by the next morning That broke
the ice. Sinners flocked TO the evangelists
by the dozen. Then they went in scores.
A few days more and they attended
services by the hundred. As high as 90
conversions were recorded on a single
night.
The church members "reckoned' that
them Eastern fellers is doin' some good
after all" and, regardless of creed, they
turned out en- masse and helped the vis-
iting parsons round up sinners.
RELIGIOUS FERvoR CO.. -INUEs.
Business was practically suspended, and
that means something in Tarkio. for IL Ia
the biggest town i'm Atchison county, and
is one of the busiest trading points In
Northwest Missouri
Men who had not been inside OF q
church for years were among the occu-
pants of the front seats. Religious fervor
spread as IL 1t were contagious.
In fact, II must have been contagious.
or the influence could not have been so
general.
The close of the revival meeting has not
caused the slightest abatement OF enthu-
siasm. In fact, the excitement seems 20
grow.
The different denominations now wor-
ship in common, all creed distinctions
having been obliterated by the wave of
holiness.
Such scenes were never before Witness
ed here, and IL IL doubtful of parallel
ever existed elsewhere.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26
TINE cirY or PROVIDENCE.
CHAPTER 81.

NTTATT INK %
An Ordinance Permitting the Providence
Telephone Company 10 Erect Poles and
Wires in Frank Street
(Approved December Z. 1907
IL Is ordained by the City Council OF the
city OF Providence as follows:
section l. Permission Is hereby granted
20 the Providence Telephone Company 10
erect maintain, use and operate poles and
wires IN. over and along Frank street,
in Arlington avenue. from Frontcnac ave-
nue. to Dlney street. in accordance with
the accompanying report Of the Commits
sioncr OF Public Works. provided all of
said poles and wires shall bc erected and
maintained subject to the provisions and
conditions Of Chapter "a of the Revised
Ordinances entitled Wires.
A true copy, Witness;
WILLIAM l.. CLARKE
iz2-yt Cifs Clerk
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26
At THE NORTH EMO

During tho present week = number of
Russians who have taken up their resi-
dence in ward . have attracted considera-
bic attention. th1Ygh st first ths report
was that there were 7s and sono one
made a remark II guess the ward com
mittee was down 90 the depot lie did
not say which ward committee
The families stopped rev DAYS 81
Boston. Citizens who came here from
Russia and are Of Hebrew descent call
the new comets gypsies. some VI The
money Monday telling fortunes Tbs men
Of the party are COppersmlths. ana wsef
beard which give them the appearances
vi being much older than they ate.
The Christmss ssrVicrs az all the
churchgE yesterday were we'll attended.
The continuation ~ the business boom
made the day .psr'ieulsriy happy fer
many of the little ones.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26
nCTEL ARRIVALS.

NARRAGANSETT - Fred Robinson.
New York: Samuel s Worth and wife.
London; Copeland, Boston: A A Beach,
New London; X Miller, Boston; A +
Talbot. San Francisco @ ID Emory and
wife, Miss Hattie Quint, Fall River; Miss
s Copeland, Providence; H ID Baker and
guests, Attleboro; Clarence S Cross.
Provldence; NJ Rosengarder. Albany: n
Gormly. w Il Hin. F r Marsh and wife.
Fall River; Morris Bacharaek. Isaac
Cook and wife. Philadelphia; Jennie
Rrockton; q r Brown and wife, Boston
w w Hanly. New Haven; l. Mendelson,
New York Curtis .S I, Desn, Yr will,hmantie nhn na
Boston; Oscar Kind, Louis Block. Phila-
deiphis: 8 III Cohn, Chicago; Max Weber.
Louis NJ Hitler, New York,
DoRRANCE-J C McKelroy, New
York; r J Block, Kingston: r Sillman
Wm Westlake. John Gallagher, New
Jr, New York: John Johnson. w Ander.
son. Providence: ! McGrail. s III Wit
ham, Woonsocket ~ 6 Brandt, II +
ton; II J Ross, New Haven; . Il Hunt.
New York.
NEwMAN-Thomas c Perkins. Hart
ford; III A Smith, Elgin: l. Charter
and wife, Willimantic: q v Harwood,
Worcester; Il u Kaufman. Lynn Mrs q
Bayden, Stafford Springs: Hoffman.
Boston; Il S Preston. Fred Grey and
wife, Westerly; w A Bowen. Riverpoint: /:
II III Kidder. Edgartown: Ed Sawyer. New
York; III A Weeks. clinton; X Pierce,
Boston; A Burnett. Now York
PERRIN--G n Watson and wife, West
erly: @ Morrill,, Providence: A Chalm-
ers. Boston. Hugh McKenna. Providence:
Mowry and wife. Jersey city: w
Baker. Jas Crowley. Providence; I.
Washburn, New York.
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26
SOME FOOLISH PEOPLE

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Price 75c. and Soc. Trial sire free. At
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26
esoW otncs TtltvnoNt COMPANY.

At a meeting of directors held this day
the regular quarterly dividend Of one dol
lar share was declared PAYABLE January
I. 1901. 90 stockholders % record peccn
her ~ 1910. ~ close of business
CHARLES r. HOWARD. Secretary.
rrcvldence, December u, 1910.
Dl3-3t-M. w.--s
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26

Merchants and Miners Trans
l0rtatiun COMPANY.

FIrst-ciass Passenger Ser
vice from Providence every
Sunday at 3 p. m, "Wednesday
and Friday at o p. m. Through
Tickets sold 10 oil points
South and Southwest. Baggage
checked to destination.
Sunday Scat Does Not Garry Passengers.
LOCAL RATEx
Providence to Norfolk, Va. $ 900
Round Trip, -. 1900
To Baltimore. Md. 1000
Round Trip. 1910
Tickets include meals and stateroom
accommodations. Send for descriptive
folder. etc.
For freight or passage. apply 10
w. II. CORA, Agent.
once and WnaFt foot of Bcrent street
Providence. X. /.
A. ID. sTEgBfNs. Asst Trafnc Mgr
W. p. TURNER Gen Pas. Agent
J. c. WHITNEY. l'raftic Manager.
Baltimore. lid.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26

cor AND WOOD.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26

RAILROADS..
NEW YORK. NEW HAVEN AND
I hartford RAILROAD.

Time Table giving full nformatioa
as To lesal and through train service
map be obtained at Proyidence stA1eu
aud stations below;
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-30
THE RAILROADS.

The statistics of the Connecticut rail-
roads for the last fiscal year show that
50,269,46 passengers were carried on
those roads and not a passenger was
killed.
Paris underground railroad caved in
recently at the Place de l'Etoile, owing
to heavy rains. At that point one tun-
mel passes under the other. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that the railroad can
be opened next spring in spite of the
accident.
American locomotives are used on the
Bombay, Baroda & Central India rail
way. The extent to which American
locomotives are being used abroad does
not fail to awake voices of anguish
among the foreign press.
There were at the close of 1896 1884
miles of railway owned and operated by
the Swedish government. There are
1880 persons employed during the
brisk season, and the rolling stock con-
sists of SOP locomotives, 42S baggage
cars, S92 coaches, three dining cars, As
postal wagons, 6 combined coaches and
baggage wagons, 21 prison vans and
l2,161 freight cars. 1t is curious fact
that 30deer were struck by trains, while
only six horses and Is cows were killed
and injured in the same period.
locomotives were. built for English
railroads in 1910 in the shops of William
Norris & Co., which now form a part
of the Baldwin works. Four locomo,
tives were built to work the Hickey in
cline of the birmingham & Gloucester
railway, now apart of the Midland sys-
tenn. The engines weighed 21,5OO
pounds and the drivers were 48 inches
in diameter. One of the four is said
to have hauled train of loaded wagons
weighing "a tons up grade of 81 per
cent. at speed of 9a4 miles per hour.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-30
T iSherieS' Trust Profits.

Two suits were fled Nov. 10 in the
superior court in Whatcom, the trials
of which, it is said, will throw consider
able light on the methods used in the
organization of the Pacific American
Fisheries Co. in 1898. f. NJ. Wilson is
plaintiff in the first one and G. J. Fry
ang in the second. Wilson claims
that he was to receive for his services
in getting the company started u per
cent of whatsoever amount Mr.. ONT
troy should get, and he asks Judgment
for $14 200, or D per cent of $56S, 900,
which he alleges was Mr.. Onffroy's
profits in the transaction. Mr.. Fry
gang is more modest, merely asking
81 600 for the hand which he took in
the affair. E B. Websteris also made
defendantin the last case. He was
Mr.. Onffroy's confidential agent in the
negotiations.-Trade Register.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-30
"Good Counsel
Has No Price.
washington Flour For Russia.

American -four male of Washington
wheat is likely TO furnish large part
OF the food for 10000 Russian troops
in Siberia and Manchuria, despite the
fact that the Russian government Will
put duty of IS cents per barrel on
product from this country on January
l, 1901. During the past ninety days
there have been shipped from the
Sound nearly 10000 tons OF flour for
Vladivostok and Port Arthur, the two
great centers Of military operations OF
the Russian government In the Orient.
OF this 6,4O0 tons has been purchased
within the past sixty days of the Cen
tennial Mill Company for delivery at
gVladiyostok before January /, 1901.
Tomething over 1000 tens has been
shipped within the past two months
by the Centennial mill to Port Arthur
which many people believe will be the
most important of the Russian strate-
gic bases in the Orient.
Local flour mill owners are unsettled
In their opinions as to the probable
effect of the new tariff on shipments
from Puget sound to Russian territory
in the Orient. AS to the government
itself is the largest purchaser, it is not
not believed that the duty will remain
for long. 1t is not certain whether
the establishment of the tariff is in
tended as measure to raise revenue
or for the benefit of the rye flour mill
ers of the Black sea, who have COM
menced shipping flour in small guam
titles to Vladivostok.
An optimistic view of the situation
regarding the demand for Washington
flour in Oriental Russia is taken by the
local milling and shipping men IN
spite of the fact that on January l the
duty becomes operative, japan two
years ago, it is pointed out, put i'll eff
feet tariff of 80 cents per barrel on
American -four, yet exports from the
Sound to that country have increased
wonderfully since that time. On the
same reconins there is little to be fear
ed from the new Russian duty because
of the well established fact that where
the price Of flour is reasonably close to
that of rice, the flour always super
.cedes the other iood.-P. I.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-30
VARIOUS MATTERS.

German. beer and California wine
have caused a great decline in the ex-
ports of French clarets.
There is practically no difference, so
far as the food value is concerned, be-
tween the white-shelled and the brown
shelled egg.
The board of supervisors of Santa
Barbara county, California, has pro-
hibited the killing of gulls, terms, peli-
cans and eagles.
Near Deer Gulch, Wash, the leader of
1000 sheep jumped over precipice and
the remainder followed it. The nara
tor says that after 300 were killed, they
made pile high enough for the others
to walk over them down the incline of
carcasses. The dead were burned.
A great deal of trouble is expended in
educating the snowy, housekeeping
horse. He is trained to step high and
act showily by being driven along n
path wherein rails are set crosswise.
He steps high to avoid tumbling and in
time always step high.
The Congressional Directory has
some feminine frills. A star appears
before the name of each member who is
accompanied by his wife, dagger
when his daughter is with him and
parallel lines when he has forwarded in
formation that other ladies have come
with him..
Up to President Cleveland's time it
of the diplomatic set in Washington to
remember the executive family by cost
ly gifts at Christmas time. During
Grants administration they were most
lavish. President Cleveland gave or
ders for the state department to init
mate that such gifts were not desired.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-30

ing the civil service examination. The
citizens hope that splitting in public
conveyances is now to be stopped, if
nothing else.
A 16-year-old girl with the rather
curious name of Melesin K. Sowles
lives at Prospect, Wis, where her faith
er is pastor of a Baptist church. Sew
eral times. during the absence of her
father Miss Sowles has occupied his
pulpit and has always given satisfac-
ton to her hearers. Since she was
ten years old the girl has taken the
deepest interest in things theological.
island, Naragansett and other places
along the New England coast is just as
high as at Hatteras. Their coast is not
so dangerous, however, because there
are convenient and safe harbors.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-30
For An Indian School.

To provide at this point an Indian
school patterned after that Carlisle is
plan that should engage the active
interest of the Washington delegation
in congress. There would not be much
difficulty, for the school already exists
has been successfully conducted, al
though on a small scale, and only
needs additional appropriations to be
placed on broader footing. The
large institution could have no better
site than the Puyallup reservation.
BY introducing instruction in me-
chanical branches Indians from other
tribes could be induced to attend in
larger numbers. There are now ~, I've
tribes represented and there about
twelve more to whom the enlarged
school could easily be made accessible.
Pupils could also be brought from
Alaska and here taught to better adj
vantage than they could in their ma
tive .wllds. There are Indians in Ore
gon and California by whom PuyalluE
could be more easily reached than any
other established.
II is curious circumstance that the
Carlisle school should have been sc
successful and not already have led te
the founding of other schools as good
and more advantageously situated
The Indians of the Northwest woulC
surely be better satisfied to attend ir
their own country than to be sent tt
a distance among strangers and un
familiar climatic conditions, while the
matter of lessened expense is worth
taking into consideration.
The subject is one concerning which
every representative of Washington
will be glad to say favorable word
1t would not give rise to any dlssensior
and there is no reason for supposins
that it will excite opposition in other
quarters 1t should particularly NEE
the views of New England where the
welfare of the Indian is little short o.
a religion with many people.-Ledger
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-30
Used by British Soldiers in Africa

Capt. c. G. Dennison is well known
all over Africa as commander Of the
forces that captured the famous rebel
Galisbe. Under date of Nov. 4, 1897;
from Vryburg, Bechuanaland, he
writes: Before starting on the last
campaign | bought quantity OIL
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedies, which i used
myself when troubled with bowel com
plant, and had given to my men, and
in every case 1T proved most bene-
fetal" For sale by G. V. Dunbar.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-30
Reducing War Revenues.

A reduction of $30,OOO,O0O in war
revenues is a measure proposed by
Secretary Gage and favored by the Re-
publican members of the ways and
means committee. OF course, this
measure will also have the approval OF
Democrats, for the excessive taxes
caused by the war inspired them dur
ing the campaign to utter many sounds
of lamentation.
The cost of maintaining action in
the Philippines will be much less now
than in the beginning. The trans
ports that had to be purchased in great
quantity are paid for, the animals
needed for troops and transportation
have for the most part been secured
and there is reason to expect that the
army will soon be materially cut down
in numbers. Therefore the money
that was imperatively needed few
months ago if collected now would &C
cumulate as surplus.
1t is to be hoped that IN reducing
the war tax the burden can be lifted
from such industries as feel it more
keenly. 1t is fair to say that the bur-
den has not been felt by the average
citizen at all, and that some of the
protest has been from men whom the
war did not put to an extra expense OF
10 cents yearly. A modification of the
law to force the express and telegraph
companies to pay their share would be
just and wise. The original law was
framed with every intent to make
common carriers contribute, and the
cunning evasion of it has been one OF
the most contemplate exhibitions OF
corporate littleness ever seen in this or
any other country.-Tacoma Ledger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-30

EXPERIMENTS are being made with q
variety of small fish that are caught
in the waters of Puget Sound, testing
their adabtibility for the manufacture
of sardines. The tests are by Eastern
experts and their work for this section
has been concluded. Several samples
of the prepared product have been sent
East, and if they come up to the stan
dard there will be in all probability be
sardine. canning plant established
next summer.