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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

The decision the Supreme uphodng called eminent
domain act passed by Assembly recently created
prise among the when the before
the court among and of the Assembly who
were consulted before the passed Very neatly
speaking through the justice The
ative and judiciary departments There
guage that always opinions the chief justice
AT one time legislature encroach what
considered rights judiciary evident that the
judiciary does not rights
sembly.
There is recognition necessary rights
roads day. guarded
language placed arbitrary legislature
The great weight distinction
Newport police commission decision the
in strongest possible
Of law and its eonsitutionaty judiciary
nothing but with the it has everything do
oppose adequate opportunity
their opposition legislature people
polls folly OF course rights
legislature
tempt right though might distinctly
constitution just judiciary be
bound o interfere.
clearly explains police
the any
right citizen
restraints necessarily be
placed corporation however honorby
rights upon what at first
blush might a necessary coroay the decision
Very sously right property been guarded
this and the plainly the opinion
absolute necessity private property not be taken even
If compensation is offered
regarded legislation which was the sub
ect Of the consideration menacing right
business site he had special regard reassued
by the decision that only when private rights yield the
public good that
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
THE lORO's PRAYER IN VERSE.

An elderly man In the attire OF civil
War veteran bought ticket for Denver
the other day In Fearey's agency While
talking with Manager Walter Walsh he
drew several badges and trinkcts from a
little old leather bag which he carried.
Among them was a piece OF heavy. bright.
yellow silk ribbon about eight inches long
and three inches wide. frayed out at eth
cr end 10 form fringe. lie handed Il
over with the quiet remark:
young man. you may have that; Il
may do you good
On one side OF the ribbon. IN small
black script letters, was "rhe Lords
Prayer I'm Verse;" which is herewith re-
produced. There was nothing on IL to
show where, why or by whom II was writ
ten:
Thou. TO the mercy seat our souls dost
gather.
TO do our duty unto Thee, OUR FAITH
Err.
To whom all praise. all honor should be
given
For thou art the great God WHO ART
IN HEAVEN,
Thou, by Thy wisdom, rulest the worlds
Z whole frame.
Forever. therefore. HALLowED BE
THY NAME.
Let never more delays divide us from
Thy glorious grace. but let THY KING
DOM COME,
Let Thy commands opposed be by none.
But Thy good pleasure and THY WILL
BE DONE.
And let our promptness TO obey be ever
The very same ON EARTH AS tbs IN
HEAVEN.
Then for our souls. o Lord. we also pray,
Thou would'st be pleased 10 GIVE Us
THIS DAY
The food OF life, wherewlih our souls are
fed.
Sufficient raiment and OUR DAILY
BREAD.
with every needful thing do Thou relieve
And of Thy mercy, pity AND FORGIVE
All our misdceds. for Him whom Thou
didst please
TO make an Offering for OUR TRES
PASSES.
And forasmuch, o Lord. as we believe
That Thou wilt pardon us AS WE FOR
GIVE
Let that love teach wherewith Thou dost
acquaint us
To pardon all THOSE THAT TRESS-
PASS AGAINST Us:
And Thou sometimes, Thou find'st we
have forgot
This love for Thee, yet help AND LEAD
rs NOT
Through soul or body's want to despera-
tion.
Nor let earth's gain drive us INTO
TEMPTATIONS:
Let not the soul OF any true believer
Fall in the time OF trial, But DELIY-
Err
Yea. save them from malice OF the devil
And i'm both life and death keep Us
FROM EVIL.
Thus pray We, Lord. for that OF Thee.
from whom
This may be had. FOR THINE is THE
KINGDOM;
This world is of Thy work; its wondrous
story
TO Thee belongs-THE POWER AND
THE GLORY;
And all Thy wondrous works have never
ended,
But win remain FOREVER AND FOR
EVER
Thus we poor creatures would confess
again
And thus would say eternally, AMEN.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06


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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
DIE ..

BROwN-Tn this city, 4th inst. William
NJ. Brown, I'm the slst year of his age.
Funeral from his late residence, "A
Westfield street, Thursday. March 7th,
at o'clock Relatives and friends in
vited 10 attend.
CROwELI<-In this city, the 5th inst.
Raymond, youngest. son OF William ~.
and Emily Crowell. aged i year. I
months.
CooNEY-In this city. Patrick Cooney.
FLANAGAN-In East Greenwich, 4th
inst, William Flanagan.
0LADDING--At the residence Of his
grandson. Howard stillwill. at GIL,
Mass. March l. 1901, Benjamin II. Glad
ding, formerly OF this city In the seth
year OF his age.
GRINNELl.---ln Henniker, N H., on the
Srd inst. Robert Grinnell. aged 1S years.
JAMES-In this city. Attn inst. Lucinda
James, wife of the late Hon Charles
T. James, I'm the Odd year of her age.
REBHOLTZ-In this city. 5th inst,
George J. Rebholtz. in his SD year.
sTEERE-In North scituate. Attn inst.
Mary steere, widow of Horace Steers.
in her sSth year.
SwINBURNE-In Burrillville, 9th inst,
Alice NJ wife OF William G. Swinhurne
and daughter Of Horace c. and Mary
A. Arnold.
yALLETTE.-Tn East Providence. X. L..
March 3. 1901. William II. Nalette. In the
7lst year OF his age.
WHITING-In this city. 9Th inst. May
AIlena daughter OF Alvorado and Mary
r. Whiting, aged % years
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
Ohdf Others
fire Saying.

Possibly the Washington taste
would prefer a more military and or
namental display than the aged vet
erans xwn make, for, like other tra-
ditions once fondly reverenCed, the
patriotic sentiment OF Civil war times
has little place I'm the strenuous life
into which the present rulers seek TO
direct the nation. buffalo Courier.
ut is 10 the task OF settling afairs
In the Philippines and I'm Cuba that
the president will now devote every
energy. Long before another inaugu-
ration shall roll around we shall have
heard the last OF Imperialism, for
with peace and prosperity I'm our ISL
and possessions with local govern
nents tending TO the elevation or the
ideal one OF Hawaii this whole colo
NAL question will have settled itself"
philadelphia Inquirer.
THE American family OF five on in
augura ton day, 1901. paid $l2.25 per
year 10 support the general govern
ment. The American family OF Ave on
inauguration day, 1891, pays close up
on $50 per year for the same purpose"
New York World.
-so.s-
'The contrast between this and pre-
vious Inauguration ceremonies IS but
family symDolized in the extravagant
display. "-phlladelphia Times.
''The invitation extended 10 'Buffa-
10 Biz by General Miles 10 take part
I'm the inaugural parade gives
assurance to the public that the gen
erai fears no competition as a spccta-
cular figure. Absolute supremacy in
his own sphere ronders any man toll
Grant OF rivalry. kansas City Star.
.s.o.s
''As tho patriotic citizen shall pom
der on the amazing difference be-
tween the simple Jefferson Inaugural
tion ceremony of 1901 and the pomp
and glory and glitter OF the Mckinley
ceremonial I'm 1901, he will be inspired
with clearer apprehension OF the inn
measurable gulf fixed between ancient
Democratic doctrine and modern Re-
publican practice. ."-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
1T IL due TO the expiring congress
To say that II has been about ss prodi-
cal in spending money az IL has been
In reducing the taxes wherewith TO
provide for its prodigality. boston
Herald.
"The last four years have been
makers of history and opened "a field
which not even the widest dreams Of
the president contemplated at their
threshold The next four are sealed
book. baltimore Sun
.e.o.s.
ITO some II may seem most unnec-
cssary 10 30 out Of the way to sdorn
the capital for an inauguration, but
that Is a narrow and low conception
OF what the ceremony means and is.
Anything that adds 30 the impressive
ness. that prevents the distractions
incident 10 crude arrangements from
marring the occasion is To be well
coined. ."-PhiIadelphls Press.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
!'..5sheatres. re

The theatre-going public should feel
very grateful 10 Manager Wendelschae-
fer In that he has been successful IN max
ing contract with Mr.. N. &. Goodwin
and Miss Maxine Elliott TO appear at his
theatre the week OF March 11th. WHEN
they VIII be seen in their latest and great
est success by Henry V. Esmond entitled
when We Were Twenty-one."
These celebrated artists have toured
the country from Boston 10 San Francisco
with this ch1fming play and wherever a.
has been presented the press have been
Unanimous IN their praise OF play and
players. Mr.. Goodwin and Miss Elliott
have tust closed a return engagement At
the kfffckerbocker theatre, New York
city, where they have accomplished a feat
that has never been attained by any 9TH
or play and players. viz. TO return To that
city with a play that has packed the the
atre for eleven weeks and duplicate their
business for six weeks more.
The sale OF seats is now ON and from
present Indications standing room will be
at premium during the week. Only one
matinee will he given during the week.
The sale OF seats opens tomorrow morn
ing
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
A NOTABLE EXHIBITION.

The first annual spring exhibition OF oil
paintings by New York artists, now being
made in the Tilden a Thurber companys
art gallery. surpasses any similar collec-
ton ever seep In this city, both as to
the large number of master pieces and
TO the selection OF subjects.
Paintings by Becwith, Bricher, Curran.
Dumond, Deryey, Day. Rehn. Jones and
many others grace the walls. and are
daily viewed by hundreds OF lovers OF art.
OF the collection the most notable, per-
haps il the Keynote" by Francis Day.
while ''At the Well" by Frank Vincent
Dumond and Eastern Point Grand
Manan," by a. II. Brichcr are close Sec
onds.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

An extraordinary dueIling incident is re-
ported from Morchingen. town in Lor-
raine. Al the Emperor's birthday ban
Quet Captain Adams. an officer or the
l'th Infantry Regiment. resented some
rough 'but innocent horseplay on the part
of an army surgeon, struck him. left the
banquet and went home TO HIS rooms.
Two officers followed Captain Adams,
10 arrnnge the AFFAIR IN accordance With
the code OF honor but before the inter-
View could take place a third visitor
Lieutenant Ruger the army surgeons
brother shot Captain Adams dead as he
Was entering tho room.
Lieutenant RuEcr-weg gquote from the
Berlin correspondent OF The Times" OF
Wednesday. says the London Spectator-
then handed over his sword TO the two
captains, and explained that he had sac
rihced himself for his brother. who was
the fatnsr of n family. and who would
probably have been killed IL he had
fought a deul with Captain Adams. that
officer having been a notoriously good
shot"
However carfuliy safeguarded. the
principle of tho duelo must always place
the lives OF unskilled and innocent men
al the mercy OF the expert bully. Pro-
fessor Goodwin Smith writing only the
other day on this subject I'm The TO.
ronto sun" reminds us that I'm England
duelling was I'll far into the last cen
tury the fantastic privilege OF "A CASTE
In England the practice aid not survive
"a duel between two tradesmcn which,
by impairing It's gentility. brought il i'm
20 contempt" IL is 10 be hoped that by
his ruthless yet self-sacrlhcing logic
Lieutenant Ruger, VINO has been sent 20
Metz 20 await his trial by court martial.
has dealt no less deadly a blow at this
evil survival OF tho ancient wager OF bat
tie.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
RArTlEsNaKE POISON ANo lspnosy

Dr. Adolpho Mercondes dc Nours. o.,
Sac pnuio CBraxilj contributes paper on
the application OF rattlesnakc poison TO
the cure 81 leprosy 20 Tho German Med
ical Weekly Journal
This poiaen has been used for a long
period by the ma ativcs for tho tree tnont
of skin Diseases sud oven lrprosy. Many
Wonderful cures of lepers through rattle
snake bites having been reported 90 bin
pr. de Moua SET himself TO maxi. irVes-
tigaticuz. .
fIc experimonted with the poison on if-
teen Iepcrs. and has como 10 the conciu-
sion that the lepra tuberculosis. n not
complicated with another disease. Is cur
able by it, mcane.
The pulication Of DIR. de MouTs pa
Der has aroused much Interest in the mat
ter In medical circles
Professor levin. of Berlin. discusses
the subject IN the same number OF The
weekly Journal While he contends
from "a prior' considerations that the
ratfiexna kes poison Is not q true aBti1ote
neVerfleiess he admits that it may have
= temporary effect on The disease. and
consider The matter worthy ~ inNestiwa-
ton.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
WESTMINSTER THEATRE.

That ever popular amusement orga niza-
ton, Rose Sydclls New London Bellies
Big Show, after having had a siege in
a snow storm in Canada, arrived In the
city mt 1880 Monday evening and opened
at the Westminster Theatre yesterday
with one Of the best balls OF the season
The olio win certainly prove satisfactory
TO any lover OF the vaudeville. The COM
rany was greeted with large audiences
yesterday and Manager Batcheller has
every reason 10 believe that this will
hold good for the week.
The fun begins with a one-act farce
entitled transforming" in which Miss
Sydell assumes the leading role and in
this there is plenty Of fun, and OF a
pleasing nature.
The Van Cooks open the olio with a
musical act that is new and they are ar
lists in their line. Billy Hart. the well
known comedian. assisted by Laura
Langton ana Nellie Foster. following in
. sketch entitled ~ Big Smoke" and
they are accorded hearty encore The
Sisters Esher prove themselves to be
the best lady buck ana wing dancers
seen here this season.
Joseph Mitchell John a. Boone and
Agnes Anderson are seen in a playlet en-
titled the Smart Set" and In this Mr.
Boone appears 10 be the feature. James
LaClare is the funniest and one OF the
bcSt Juggiers In the business and was
heartily recalled yesterday.
The Well known Nelson Sisters are bet
ter than ever for they are acrobatic
marvels.
"satan's Wedding Night" is the title
OF the closing number and in this Miss
Sydoll. the comedian, and the score or
more OF girls take part and make things
lively for Is or % MINUTES.
The same excellent bill will be present
ed every afternoon and evening during
the week.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
GREAT LAKE vsKISHeS.


A great lake has vanished In South Az
riea. Ngsmi is It's name, and map
drawn I'm 1906 shows that II was then one
OF the conspicuous features of the coun-
try. when Livingston, however. visited II
on July rs, lSi9 he found that its water
was slowly disappearing and that its
banks were being covered with rank veg
citation.
Today there is no water I'm the lake, Its
place being occupied by spacious morass
which quickly swallows any one who Is
so adventurous as To set foot on IL. Be
meath this morass Is still some water, but
I'm order 10 bring IL to the surface the
ground must be bored TO considerable
depth.
River Tsuche formerly flowed into this
lake, but now the tributaries that led To
the lake are dry, and the river itself is
also choked up about thirty-two kIlo-
meters north OF Ngami. During the last
ten or twelve years the water has dis
appeared very rapidly. and the reason APP
parently Is because the mouth of the
river was gradually filed with the thou
sanas of small floats of RATS on which
the natives were won't TO take their
yearly tribute of corn 10 Denokans.
These RATS were left year after year
and travellers maintain that the river
found itself powerless against an obsta-
Gle like this, the result being that tho
river and lake have become dry and that
what was once n fertile agricultural re-
gion is now bleak and barren.
Formerly there were several villages
near the lake, but now these, too, have
vanished, ana only "a few cattle kraals
are 10 he seen. "And it will be impossible
60 restore the lake" says s. Parrarge,
who visited the place recently. ''since in
its present condition II would require
Tor l,a ha nv s~t. 10
Lake Ngami is gone orever."--Chicago
Intar-Dcpau
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
NEW SOURCE OF POWER.

An enormous amount OF energy IN the
form OF blast-furnace gas has gone stead
ily TO waste for many long day, and IL
Is therefore pleasure 10 note that the
difficulties in the way of it's utilization
I'm gas engines have been at last over
come, and that the world has now at
its service a new, cheap and important
source OF power.
Ia the last number OF the Journal OF the
Franklin institute. OF Philadelphia, Pref
Joseph W. Richards gives list OF some
80 engines in actual operation run by
blast furnace gas alone. These engines
furnish from 500 10 l0g0 horse power each,
while several are now being built Ia fur
nish 200 horsepower. There Is no doubt
whatever that during the next few years
the design and erection OF large power
stations for the generation and distribu-
ton of electrical energy In bulk VIII be
one OF the most important problems
which engineers will have 20 face. For
this purpose. even now. all over the land.
water power privileges are being eager
Iy acquired by powerful companies, and
IL 1s therefore, from the standpoint OF
industrial progress, matter or congratu-
latlon that we may have I'm competition
with Il a soSs>e OF power which In cer-
tain districts IL even cheaper than water.
The extent 10 which this form Of power
Is now golrg 20 waste in America may be
readily seen from the practice of n blast
furnace plant In Eastern Pennsylva "a
which is making 300 tons OF pig ron
per week. IL is an actual fact that In
these works there Is used 1890 horse
power furnished by burning coal.and that
all this power could be supplied by gas
engines, utilizing their own blast-furnace
gases The saving In the coal bill alone
would amount to $lb0,0oo.--Mail and Ex-
press.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
EAST PROVIDENCE.

The town council Will meet this after
noon and will be the last session before
the financial town meeting.
one ~ the local tsllors appears ~ have
= wagon load cf IAN coming 20 him, as he
has brought Law suit against enc Of
the best known men Ia town.
Health ofiCer Macon ~ Wood removed
q tlphtheris cnrd from n house on Di-
vision street near insfshanis corners
this morning
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
heGossio.
FESTIVITIES CONTINUE.

Amsterdam, March s.-The festivities
which began here yesterday in connee-
tion with the state entry of Queen Will
helrnina aud the prince consort were cen-
tinued today.
An enormous crowd gathered before the
palace 20 listen to y choir OF two thou
SAND voices serenading the royal coupls
The latter stood on the balcony. the queen
bareheadod, bowing their acknowledge
nents IN Response 20 the popular accla-
nations
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
NOTES FROM The THEATRES.

The vaudeville sensation of the week
is the August family at Keith's. who
are presenting the most novel and as
founding act OF jugglery ever brought to
America. Their feats are indescribabiy
wonderful; and II is not only the deft-
ness and rapidity with which they throw
about and manipulate the various articles
used In the restaurant scene. from the
furniture and lamps 10 the knives and
forks. eggs and oranges but the artistic
finish OF their ensemble work while their
clever pantomme is surely the most re-
fined and ineligible that has ever been
seen here.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

There is good reason 20 doubt the story
that comes from Kansas city to the ef-
feet that Webster Davis has sold his
book on ne Doer war FOR $4,000 Pub
fishers are not giving Up fortunes for
nctfon in these early days OF the twenti-
eth century.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

George Fred Williams f. disappointed
end silent hccause tho empire. whose mr.
rival he predicted cd not reach wash
lngton on schedule time.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

miss. They failed 70 provide place IN
tho procession for Col wstterson'.
horned lion ~ plptocrscy," or for
Chairman Jones trust octopus"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

Following ,hc precedent set by her own
supreme court the justices Of the SUI
prsme court Of Massachusetts yesterday
doansd black robes.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

II Il nov IN order Cor The Journal TO
condemn Col Con as tho cause of the
delay to trolley cars on south Water
street
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

There n only one trouble about these
Istser-day cures for consumption and
shst Il they generally prove fatal
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

Congress was determined 70 hnish up
business on saturley even n u took sIl
day Sunday to DO H.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

II is not often even In n Keith enter
tainment, that one may see three types
OF vaudeville plays so charmingly and
artistically presented as IL ,he case this
week Marie Dupont and Charles Lothian
delight with their dainty and refined
little comedy, ~ Visit 10 AnaJ Martha"
no less. though I'm oi'.te a different way,
than Eddie Heron and his company in
that roaring farce. "A Friend OF the
Family" while Jane Courthope and COM
pany in their intensely dramatic and
emotional little cUmedy-drama equally
win recognition. The variety afforded
by the three paylets is notable; and In
combination they appeal To about every
taste among the more intelligent class
OF theatre -goers.
IT seems somewhat strange to see Press
Eldridge this week without his familiar
short skirt but If the change from that
30 a simple shirt waist is accountable
for all the new laughter provoking mate
rial he fairly throws in a whirlwind OF
hilarity AT his auditors, all glory be TO
the shirt waist even on man. In man
ner Of presentation and In material Ed
ridge has never Saualed HIS present Of
fering; and the fact that he Is making
the biggest hit ever scored by any mono
loguist in this city Is only just reward.
II Ia doubtful IL any musical feature
quite so charming in every aspect, more
merftorious srtistically or equally plea sing
to the popular taste than the delightful
performance of the Helen Reed Trio has
been offered at keith's. The three WIN
some young ladies please equally the ear
and the eye; and they are compelled
twice each day to accede to extraordinary
demands for encore numbers.
The children who go 10 Kelth's this
week are set fairly wild with delight by
the Burto-Lowande-Wilson miniature cir
Gus. with its funny clown. trick pony and
performing dogs. It's trapeze act and other
spccialties: and n Is proving the best liked
chldren's feature yet seen at that thea
tire, which certainly is saying good
deal.
Those who may have thought that all
toe dancers are alike should SEQ Elseeta
at Keith's and be disabuscd of that err
roneous impression. There is something
I'm her marvellous work that arouses and
holds tho closest attention throughout I.
and her dancing on her toes without the
something never done by any other
dancer hut almost incredible even 10
those who sec ~ with their own eyes.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
AMrsEMENrs TONIGHT.

PROVIDENCE oRA Neu Of Old Drury
Vaudeville, Continuous Performance
TIfEArRE--'Across the Pacific
TIIEATRE-Danty Duchess Burlequers
wEsTMINsTER THEATRE- sydens London Bellies
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06

IN onc respect the managers of the IN.
p,sAtsA ibrade a, weahirsion we're re-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-06
the NEWS PUBLIS NIMC CO.

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