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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11
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BROWNSON-In this city. 10th inst.
Mrs. Mary A. Brownson.
BUSHBY-In Pawtucket, 10th inst,
George A. Bushby. aged % years.
CARROLL-In this city. 10th inst. at
st. Joseph's Hospital, John A. Carroll.
FITZGERALD-In Thornton. 10th inst.
John Fitzgerald, aged "a years.
ETSELTT-In Lymansville. 10th inst
Henry o.. son OF Edward and Anrie
NJ Eiseptt. aged 10 years, 10 months
and "a days.
GRAHAM-In Putnam. Conn, eth inst,
Robert III. Grhham, aged 80 years.
GOTT-In East Providence 9th inst
Elizabeth, wife OF David Gott, and
daughter OF George and Mary wors-
ley, aged 81 years.
GREENE-Suddenly at Schenectady.
Sth inst. Samuel Dana Greene, son OF
the late Commander Samuel Dana
Greene. L. $. Navy. also his wife Cor
nelia Chandler Greene, daughter OF
the late Rear Admiral Ralpa Chan
dler. u. s. Navy.
LOVELL--In this city, tDh inst NJ.
Louise, wife Of b. NJ. Love,
nj LVEY--In this city. 10th inst. An
ME Mulvey. widow of Thomas Null
vpy.
POTHIN-Tn this city. Sth inst, Han
nah, widow of Alphonse Pofhin, aged
SO years.
SAUNDERS-In this city 10Th ins.
Thomas u. Saunders. aged 65 years.
THOMAS-In Springfield. Mess.. Tucs-
day. 9th inst. Of apoplexy. David L.
Thomas, aged So years. = noaths.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11
It'd BITS.

New Workers find that they have been
drinking milk SS per cent. water,
The Division of Forestry Of the d
panment OF Agriculture has sixteen
men in the state of Washington gath
oring statistics regarding the growth
of the rod fir
Twenty English railways paid I'm
wages 20 employees during the first half
of 1899. C644000 more than was paid I'm
the same period of 1}9S-an increase of
5A per cent.
card playing has increased of late i'm
Britain. The number OF new packs
brought into use last year exceeded
2,2500O0, an increase OF 25O 900 on the
year -hnfnra and ef 400. eee t,tt 1885.
The consumption Of alcoholic. drinks
in France seems To be greatly on the
increase, in spite OF the fact that her
population, VI not stationary. shows
bus an almost imperccptible increase.
Speaking OF large nsurances. 81
Louis paper estimates that IL a man
secured an the insurance he could yet
IN an the lifc companies in the world
The aggregate would not be above
$40 0OO COO
Al a recent congress of veterinary
physicians at Baden-Bodcn. Or Heck
er. OF Halle. maintained that the foot
and-mouth disease can bp transferred
To healthy animals hy birds flies. etc:
"a fact which Ii substantiatcd viii call
for a modification OF legislation
\ gentleman I'm Louisville. Ky. makes
pet of a nrEp white gandcr. which
IL devoted 10 us owner. and accompau.
les HIM ON his walks n approached
bN stranger the gandor nutters t6 hts
master sQutwkiug for protection. and
is comtortcd as one might comfort "a
dog
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11
DEkDLIEST or MODERN GUNS.

IN accordance with tho recommended
tion of Parliament writes a WoolwiCh
correspondent the EQtish navy IS be-
ing strengthened by the addition OF a
new gun which will insure the suprem-
aCN of Great Britain over thc seas for
many years 10 come. n Is known as the
l2-inCh steel and wire gun. and is not
only The best weapon which the royal
navy has ever had, but is far superior
10 any gun possessed by any for III
navy.
Ii weighs fifty tons. Is II feet lors
has muZZle velocity ~ 1867 feet per
second. The projectile weighs $50
pounds, tho bursting charge 10 ng elgh-
N-threc rounds and the firing charge
l',la pounds of cordite.
The admrllty has ordered 80 at a
cos: of c1O,000 each. Ot these $50 have
teen completed. and 800 are st.il I'm the
hands OF thc contractors.
each man-of-Var viii carry four ~
t,rsc torrnidrhle Weapons. a ~ when
th" navy T. supplied they WI 5e used
at the forts on tho sea front The new
gun win bc the heaviest iu the service
and win take tho place of the 110-ton
l00-tou and S0-tou guns, OF which no
moro are to bc made
The best Krupp gun can fire a shot
twelve and une-half miles. and tha
United states government Is construct
irC at the arsenal az Watervliet a mon
stcr gun, which. 10 is said. will carry a
heavy shot fweuty-onc miles. The new
British uav1l gun though less than
half the weight Of the American wenp-
Un. mounted On The heights OF Dover
can however drop q shell on the shores
~ Franco No accuracy of aim could
of courso D. obtained or maintained at
81. Il "a. ..Fr
being 10000 yards. or between mine and
TON nnIl.e
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11
Why the B0ERS CAN FIGHT.

With no arts. no literature, no am
bitions except 10 excel as hunters. the
only reunions OF the youthful Boer
farmers. says the Philadelphia North
American. were at shooting tourna-
ments, the only honor 20 be expert with
a gun, the only quality which found
favor with the fair sex that Of unerrlng
aim. Thus the Beers have become the
finest riicmen in the world.
The story is told of 16-year-old
boy who was told bv his widowed
mothar that the harder was empty. and
he must go out and shoot buck or 60
hungry to bed. When the good vroue
handed the lad his well-filled cartridge
belt he testify emptied IL Of every round
OF ammunition except one
''My SON." she said, "why do you do
that
why mother" was the reply. "our
family is small. and one buck will be
enough. The dav Is hot. and why
should / burden myself with the extra
weight % more than one cartridge
when only one buck is wanted?'
The hereditary hardness of the Boer
warriors results chiefly from that period
before homes had been built and the
farmers had settled down to lives of
comparative Incidence. In the early
days they led nomadic existence.
passing from place To place. according
To the supply OF pasturage driving with
them their great herds OF cattle, living
in bullock wagons. sleeping when the
burning sun shone on the karoo. and
travelling by night. with the howl Of the
jackal and the roar 90 the lions rarely
unheard. and the constant threat uf
attack by some wandering tribe OF
kaffirs
on many such occasions. when the
men have been miles away. rounding
up the strayed cattle. the women have
shouldered rifles and warded of n
night attack OF the Black Evil"
Hence all men. women and children
have become uneITing shots and fear
less in the face of danger, They are
now fighting an enemy whom they fear
less and hate more than the most saw
age tribe of natives--one whom they
learned To despise al Majuba Hill.
Laing's Mex. and Krugersdorp. They
are fighting for the two strongest
principles in their rugged nature. For
generations. at their mothers knees.
the Beers have been taught to cherish
their freedom and To hate the English.
who have robbed them OF II again and
again"
Their hardness enables them to live
In the open and In trencehs I'm all sorts
OF weather without danger of disease.
Their commissariat department is OF
the simplest nature. They can live for
weeks on "biltong." or sun-dried meat.
They drink nothing but spring water.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11
Manila Prize Money

Manila Prize Money:
THE claim Of our Dewey and his men
for prize money for the destruction OF
the spanish feet ar Manila Is being
heard in court and Il Is likely that the
law will endorse such public opinion as
has developed from "A knowledge OF he
facts that the men Of Deweys fleet are
entitled 40 their reward. Prize money
10 be sure is a relic OF the days when
there was not much distinction between
"A nations navy and its privateers bur,
inasmuch as the law allows H. il ought
10 be paid wherever II Is due. The
claim for the eighteen hundred officers
ana men of the victorious Manila fleet
amount 10 a total Of S3S2OOd and their
fellow c0untrymen are perfectly willing
10 see IL paid just as quickly as the
necessary forms can be completed in
the court of award.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11
SMILES.

Justice 60 prisoner. who has brop
found guilty of stealing bicyclc)- Has
the defendant anything 60 offer in his
own bohalf9
pnsoner-tt was Just this way. Judge
! hadn't The stun 90 put M Tor wheel
and N I didn't milton onto one sorpa
where ia have 90 ride q last years pat
tern.
Justice Cwho hge whee's himself
The defendant is DISCHARGED ITo is
more deserving cf pity than puulsh-
mont Boston Transcript
The ar~w.rs- t1-corrpsD psDlu1snfr-rpnu.
feeling that thS eve of tho mnnaromynt
v-0s on him and aware hat Dot 4,
question had come IN FOR week. wrote
as follows.
Gnorrp u No
w ~ g In 1870
= w 60 not give addresses OF
busiun-s Grr1s
. r. Rod The advertising columns
of The BuCle
= auese.' said lho answers man t1
himself thUse ilei fao Uli nN 'ttn Co.
indianapolis Journal
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

-'dtViidi anu NAdlt DdnkSs
UNLESS there is legislation provided
to continue them in existence nearly
one-half OF tho national bank charters
in the country will expire by 1910 In
other words the present tendency 10
transform surplus national banking in
situations into state banks. or trust
companies. or the establishment of the
later where few years ago charters
for the former would have been taken
out. promises to be accepted by the rat.
ural process of expiration OF more than
fifteen hundred bank charters. IL would
be easy OF course to provide for an ex-
tension of the national banking system
as has been done once before. The orig
inal national banking law of 1863 limit
ei the corporate existence of the banks
organized under IL 10 twenty years and
in 1882 new act provided for an ex-
tension for another twenty years. There
seems to be no good reason why still
another extension should not he provid.
ed for, so long as banks organized un-
der the national banking act continue
Ia be regarded by a great many people
as preferable for their business TO state
institutions.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

THE hearing i'm the count on the prize
money claims brings out once again the
facts OF the fight In Manila bay in a
way "a demonstrate how wonderful was
THAI victory. Perhaps indeed there has
been never anything like II since Capt.
brakes little squadron destroyed the
big Armada Of Spain. Dewey's victory
was SO complete and was apparently
accomplished with such ease and vita
no sacrifice, that i'm certain sense the
deed has lost i'm the public reckoning
good deal of The glory 10 which 81 was
entitled. But II anything IL was a Dig
ger triumph than 10 seemed at first
glance 20 be-. 1t was an engagement
without armored ships on either side.
and. indeed. as a lighting force, Dew
eys feet was second class aggrega-
cation about as plainly as was Monto-
JOS. The Spaniards had men and guns
enough TO sink Dewey and would have
done II had they been good shots. on at
any rate IL they had had first class
ammunition instead OF the unreliable
contract mixtures 10 shoot with Tie
th1t the Spanards lacked and that was
first class powder shell and gunners
VINO knew how TO shoot straight. or
course such advantages were. pre-emi-
nent, but it does not alter the fact that
on the face OF It. the Spaniards pre-
sented the more powerful force. Back
ed by the heavily armed forts guarded
by mines, assisted by torpedo boats ana.
with ships which. II poor. were no more
vulnerable To- modern shell than were
Dewey's unarmored cruisers. the Span
iards ought really 10 have won the bat
tie of Manila by all the laws OF tactics
and disregarding the personal element,
the 'man behind the gun" II il safe
to say that a Yankee fleet similarly sit
UITFd W0U1d have made II hot FOR the
intruder. Not only did Dewey brave
unknown odds but the actual odds that
confronted him were far greater tnah
the ease of his victorXrAould indicate
and he and his men are entitled u their
prize money accordingly, unless evil
dence TO the contrary not yet produced
is presented TO the court of award
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

ASSUMING that there is some other
reason than the privilege of greater
latitude in doing business permitted the
trust companies, or state banks. over
what is possible 10 the national banks
that has tended 10 make the former a
mighty competitor of the national In.
stitutions and 10 close the doors of a
number OF them, IT is reasonable 10 be-
lieve that the national banks have been
themselves 20 blame, IL not az a class
then because OF the attitude unaccept
able TO the public al large of bankers
who renresented them. The attack for
instance, from national bank sources
through the indianapolis Monetary
Convention made upon the greenbacks
has proved It 10 have been I'M advised
and has undoubtedly excited hostilit,
60 the banks among the masses of the
people. II may perhaps be going too fnr
10 say that. because OF the attempts OF
financiers representing the national
banks 20 secure a monopoly Of the mon
ey issuing power the banks have fall
len into disfavor. but IL Is pretty clear
that since the indianapolis convention
began its crusade 10 put the govern
ment "out OF the banking business" tho
discussion provoked has served to in
struct the rank and file OF the people
in banking affairs and such instruction
has not tended to increase the popu-
larity Of the national bank as an insti-
tuition.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

MIR. Daniel n. Moffat Of Denver, Col.
seems 90 be a kindly disposed gentle
tention- treating -tAe-head waiter OF
a New York hotel to "A trip TO Europe
and now il Is learned that he has made
Christmas present 20 the cashier OF
his bank of 100000 and 60 the assistant
cashier of $4,000 as slight tokens OF his
regard and reward for faithful service.
II must be more than commonly nice TO
be- a cashier i'm one Mr.. Moffat's
banking institutions and any vacancies
that may occur in future will probably
not remain SO long for lack of dppli-
cants
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

IN other words the attack on tho
greenbacks and the attempt to take
away from government the money is.
suing power and place il exclusively
with the banks has not met with favor
and has developed a rather indignant
public demand that the banks mind
their own business. 90 10 speak. And II
IL not unreasonable TO suppose too that
the public mind had tended further 10
develop a sentiment ssSat the govern.
ment might "go out OF the banking
business 50 FAR as 20 renounce super
vision and responsibility for banking
and leave the same 10 the respective
states. There Ia really no good reason
why q state government should not su-
pervise tho banking Institutions with
in SIS borders as Il does every other
kind ~ enterprise including the tre
mendous insurance business of tho
country which is a banking business
under different name There r. NO real
reason Why the Federal governmen
should supervise or stand as sponsor
for banks any more than for dry goods
stores Of brokers offices.And. Of corrst.
there n no reason either Why the laws
of the respective states should not b,
20 contrived az TO safeguard the depos.
itor IN The banks within their borders
ss successfully a. The national govern
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

thin, but enormous numbers of them
are applied TO "A considerable variety of
manufactures, such as signs jewelry.
books. frames. furniture, pottery, and
other articles, and the aggregate value
OF the gold thus used is very large
The consumption of gold for gliding
has considerably increased since cleo
tro- gliding came into vogue. both be-
cause more gliding is done and also be-
cause the new process wastes a con-
siderable quantity of the metal. Ac-
cOrding 10 the French figures the
United States consumes i'm the arts
about $1,000 pounds Of gold in a year.
which amounts in value to SO 900. 900 i'm
round numbers. France. however.
with her pre-eminent manufactures of
iewelry and other articles OF luxury,
heads the list With an annual consump-
tion Of about 50 200 pounds a year.
Great Britain also surpasses the
United States with "a 100 pounds, Ger
many consumes 9.040 pounds, Switzer-
land 1890 Italy 1000. Russia 900O
Austria Hungary 6175, and Belgium
and Holland $3.50.
Perhaps one reason why the United
states consumes i'm the arts a good deal
more silver than any other country is
because photography here with it's
amateur branch. .s far more extensive
ly I'm use than in anv other land. The
chief Industrial uses OF Silver arc for
solid silver plates and for silver plat
ing. mountings for harnesses and other
ornamentation. ana photography. The
silver industries i'm the United States
consume over $50 900 pounds a year
Germany and France about 335. 900
pounds each. Russia 209 900 and Great
Britain POS 600.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

MRS. wTNSLOWS SOOTHING
SYRUP has been used for over f,.ty
years by millions OF mothers for their
children while teething, with perfect
success. 1t soothcs the child. softens ths
gums. alfays all pain. cures wind collie.
and is the best remedy for Dlarrhoaa'
Immediately. Sold by Druggists i'm ev-
cry part OF the world. twenty-five cent.
bottle. BE sure and ask for Mrs.
winslow's Soothing Syrip.' and take
no other kind.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11
snclsna'. A,mo,ea rrsi,..

The magnificent armored trains used
hy England iu her war with the Eo-rs
wiz trausuori her itOops. urotcc.
bridges ard te.cgraphic comnuuica.
lions in about thn~pmp way that Hos
.tet..rs stomach R'ttCrs drives dvspeD.
-'a from the human stomach and then
mounts guard that 10 does rol return
The Brtrc has won in every case %
Ind gcstiuu. bihuusnoss liver and kid-
ufy trouble fOr thD pIst deiy Vcurs
IL is invaluable - an times
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

THE nag symbolizes our purposes
and our sspir .uons; ii represents what
we believe and what we mean to main
tsin, and wherever it floats it Is the
flag of the free. the hope OF me oppress-
et. and wherever II Is assailed. at any
sacrifice II will be carried to a triumph
ant oeace."-President Mckinley. Aug
ls. 1899.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

ment does, the backing ~ which today
Is one OF the chief reasons for tn,
strength Of national banking institu
tions.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

London merchants accustomed deposit their money
the Mint in the Tower.
Charles the whole
and then they established banks
enlightened people with
their and often suffer
them 1ut foreshadowed BY the experience
Christopher Gedney of Flushing L. L. put his earnings IN
bottle which he buried in the cellar Monday
get pay off his mortgage. The money gone.
his all.
After the merchants lost their gold they created banks
posted in them. and perhaps richest world
Gedney put his the cellar No poorer
lives i'll New York State to-daybroken and
The moral plain. Find good bank and your little
hoard there.
The Union Trust Company good bank will be glad
place earnings its Participation Account allow you
Union Trust Company,
l3S Weybosset Street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11
THE NEWS
DAILY EUROPEAN MINT.

Secured for exclusive publication in
The News by arrangement with Felix,
Rouff. Doucet, LaFerriere. Paquin and
other famous Partisan costume max
ers)
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11
THE FIRE SALE
ADDING

has attracted great attention, it seldom happens
that goods OF the very best class offered in this
way for the reason that few stores conhne them
selves strictly to the very best goods.
They offer in this sale every description of
merchandise all good qualities from every depart
ment, wherever the slightest trace of smoke is
discernible
OF course there many kinds of Merchandise
not really injured by the smoke
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11
)hite Goods.
Handkerchiets.
Underwear.
Mems Shirts.
Collars,
Nosiery. etc..

and a hundred other washable materials not really
damaged but have lost little of their originai
freshness
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

Any person desiring The News left at
his residence in any part Of the city,
can send his order TO this office.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-11

Nsa,ion this Journal, ss Adv. 10 isssstsd %
our GoatIleuUQp.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-24

The Army and Navy Journal pro-
poses to start fund for the purpose of
sending Senator Hoar to the Philip
pines, in order that he may have an
opportunity to learn many things which
he does not know at the present time
regarding the people of that country,
and the situation in general. 1t the
Journal will reflect little, that fund
will not be started. Senator Hoar ia q
New Englauder. New Englanders
"know it all.''
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-24

AMERICAN veterans of the war OF
the rebellion are reading with amaze.
ment accounts of the treatment that is
given British prisoners by the Beers.
A letter said to have been written by
an English officer, a prisoner Of war in
Pretoria, to a member of his family, re-
veals some very agreeable pictures,
After telling that he and his com.
panions are prisoners of war and in q
''pitiful condition. the correspondent
goes on to show how truly pitiful this
condition is. He admits that as far as
health goes, they are all very well
treated: that they receive visits from
the leading officials, who are very
polite; that the government gives them
canned beef, lime juice, potatoes, an
iron bedstead with mattress, pillow,
q pajams suit, slippers, flannel shirt,
pocket handkerchief, towels. socks,
etc. By organizing q mess, they are
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-24

DESCRIBING the night scene after a
days battle at the Tugela river q cor
respondent says: with the gloom
came fitful flashes of lightning from
the thunder clouds, which had been
threatening all day. The clouds
eventually separated, showing the
moon. simultaneously with the clear
ing sky, well-known Dutch hymns
were repeated from kopje to kopje,
with a strangely weird effect, highly
inspiring both to the raybeards and
beardless youths.'' The battlefield it
may be added is full of historical
Significance. Spronkop Hill was the
eminence from which the Boer trek
kers, after crossing the Drakensberg
mountains, spied out the then bar
barrie Natal, and found it fair in their
eyes. 1t is as sacred a spot to them as
is Plymouth Rock to Americans.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-24

ANOTHER great exodus of gold seek
ers may be looked for next spring. The
United States governm ent's official re-
port upon the richness OF the Cape
Nome gold fields will soon be pub
lished, a. Washington dispatch says.
Government agents spent last summer
in these fields and they have returned
to Washington and compiled a most
conservative document. But even with
the conserv atism usually found in gov
eminent publications this paper, it is
claimed, will set forth Cape Nome IS
being.the richest gold country ever
discovered on the face of the earth, not
excepting South Africa, California or
the Klondike country. The report
will state that absolutely everything
needed by mau will have to be carried
along from San Francisco. Trees do
not grow in the Cape Nome district on
account of the cold. There are little
bushes in the valleys, but they will not
even suffice for firewood, SO few are
they. But these conditions will not
deter men hungry for gold.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-24

Now that Butler has apparently
come to standstill the international
situation is of more interest than the
actual operations in the field. The
seizure of another German vessel has
again aroused Germany and France
wants to know what she is going to
do about it,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-24

MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY is deter
mined to raise a million dollar sinking
fund for the womsn's suffrage cause
before she dies, and it is reported that
she will be more actively engaged In
the work after resigning as president
than che ever was before. Miss Susan
has tremendously big task ahead OF
her