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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-24
new GYMNASIUM
Modern Building to Be Built
With Complete Equipment.

Excavations have been begun for a new
building to be n modern one In every re-
spect and filled with a complete equip
ment OF the latest and most modern ap-
planes.
The new building will be located in the
grove east OF the boys campus. II will
be constructed of brick, three stories in
height, 9S feet s inches by AZ feet 8 inches
Included I'm the equipment will be a
swimming tank. two bowling alleys, a
running track. lavatories. with shower
baths and locker rooms, all constructed
I'm the coeducational lines. with ample
accommodations for both boys and girls.
Plans have been perfected by q. c.
Congdon. Instructor or mechanical and
architectural drawing at the Friends
school
The plans are along classic lines. There
will be a slate roof with protecting DORM
er windows. Trimmings will be OF lime
stone. with granite underpinning and belt
course, There will he brick coins on the
corners and windows with fiat arches
over the latter. The entrance IL
arched with tower staircase on
each side and granite steps.
Lockers. baths. swimming tank and
several rooms will occupy the ground
floor. On the next floor will he the rooms
OF physical directors for both sexes. ana
the gymnasium proper for appartns. etc,
with diminsions 10 by 80 feet. The run
ming track occupies the third noor.
Twenty-eght laps make mile. The
plcnum - stem ~ heating will be used.
ana the most approved methods Of ven
tilation VIII be adopted. A tunnel 10
feet long will connect with the present
tunnel for electric lights and steam pipes.
'The building will be completed early IN
the spring.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-24
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care a d--n what they do with him so
long as they don't send him TO prison,
where we can't nail him. That's what
that bloody court will do, though. and
know IT.
How dyou know" flercely demanded
the other. Unless you've been In the
army. which you swear you haven't?
Where'd you desert from2 Come, own up
now" ana, turning for an instant from
his peephole. the speaker became sudden
ly aware OF the silent form Of Lieu
tenant Blake.
Nope of your dashed business" be-
gan the other. when a harsh shut up"
brought him around in amaze, and he too.
confronted the dark figure standing like
a signpost between them and the violet
light beyond the open doorway. Instinc-
lively the hands of both men sought their
pistol butts. but Blake never made a
move. The woman, looking around for
the cause OF the sudden silence, caught
sight of the statuesque intruder and
with, low cry threw her shawl over
her head and, bending almost double,
with outstretched, CROPPING hands, sour
ried to where the mission-made blanket
hung at the doorway of the bedroom and
darted through the aperture like rab-
bit 10 It's FORM the folds OF the heavy
wool falling behind her.
And still the tall Lieutenant neither
spoke nor moved. His revolver hung at
his right hip. his hunting knife slept In
its sheath. but his hands sat tauntily on
his thighs. The stern. set look or MS
clear cut face had given place TO some
thing like a grin OF amusement First at
one, then at the other, OF the two be-
wildered worthless he gazed, looking each
deliberately from head TO foot as they
lowered there. both irresolute and discon-
certed, one OF them visibly trembling.
There was a doorway leading into the
room I'm which was set the table for stage
passengers OF the better class, officers
and the few ladies who had ventured 10
follow their lords into faraway Arizona.
or the gente fine. which included amazons
whose money could pay their way pretty
much anywhere and was made pretty
much anyhow. But that room was empty,
and the one beyond 1t, the bar, had one
or two occupants. too far away TO see
what was going on.
There were a doorway and swinging
screen of dirty canvas just beyond the
ioophole lately occupied by "the wife OF
my brother" doorway that gave on the
corral and to each OF these each silent
tough" had given quick, furtive
glance, but not step was taken. How
long the strain OF the situation might
have lasted there is no saying. 1t was
broken by the sudden lifting OF that
dirty canvas screen as sudden and per-
ceptible a start on the part OF each of the
confronted men and the quick entrance
OF the engineer. For another second or
two no word was spoken. Lorings eyes
were evidently unable at the instant TO
penetrate the gloom. Then he recognized
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-24
Diseases and Vermin.

II Is we'll known that many diseases are
propagated by vermin. Flies transport
tuberculosis; mosquitoes. yellow fever and
malaria; rates. the plague. ". Haazen,
in the Annales de Pharmscie reports the
results OF experiments on the destruction
OF vermin- which are OF immediate prac-
tical Importance Bedbugs resist exposure
for "a hours tn an atmosphere containing
six grains formic aldehyde per cuplc
metre. with eight grains a certain num-
ber died. All perished with nine grains
per cubic metre. The gas furnished BIZ
the burning OF Is sehins Of sulphur per
cubic metre also destroyed all these pasta.
Flies and mosquitoes are killed by two
grains OF formic aldehyde per cubic metre
OF air. Fleas are destroyed by seven
grains per cubic metre, or by burning
sulphur. Rats and mice are destroyed by
an atmosphere containing rs grains of
formic aldehyde per cub metre, but the
full exposure Of rs hours must be given;
"A hours Is not Observation-Disclosures
Times.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-24

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you will never use any other BLAND
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-24
FoR OVER SIXTY YEARS.

MRS wINsLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP
has been used for over sixty years by
millions OF mothers for their children
while teething. with perfect success. IL
soofhes the chld, softens the gums al
laws all pain cures wind collie and Is the
best remedy for Diarrohea. IL will relieve
the poor little sufferer Immediately. Sold
by druggists In every part of the world.
Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and
ask for Mrs. winslows Soothing Syrdp,"
snd tax. nc other kind
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-24

Actor-I have a war as we'll as a his
trionic record. ] was nearly killed once
by the bursting of a shell.
Manager-Who threw the egg?-Balti-
more World.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-24

"KeeplnR hoy continually az the
grindstone." remarked the Observer Of
Events and Things. is no way TO
sharpen the boy."-Yonkers Statesman.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-24
MY dear" ne said softly.

MY dear" he said softly.
We'll" she returned with some as
perity.
There II Just one thing I desire 20
know in order 10 be contented with my
lot"
what r. it7' she asked
"wil you hold me up as a model 10
your third husband as you now hold ytir
first husband up TO me7"-Chicago Post
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-24
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-24

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02

For years and years before our boys
in blue invaded Cuba there were two
candlesticks on the altar in the chapel
of old Cabanas, one of the outer forts
protecting tue city of Havana. This
fort was used as a prison principally
for Cuban patriots). as well as for de-
Tense.
When patriot WAS ordered to be
shot he was allowed time to go to the
little chapel in the fort and say his
prayers before the altar. after which
he was taken out and executed. 1t
would be idle to speculate as to the
number of poor fellows who had thus
offered up their prayers before these
candlesticks and then gone out to their
death.
The body of the candlestick is wood,
covered with plaster of paris deco
ration and then gilded. The 'candle"
is of wood. with an imitat ton dripping
of wax down the side The wick"
is in reality small nail driven in at
the top.
The one from which this illustration
was made is in Brooklyn, while the
other is in Detroit, Mich.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
keeninu Car Seats Dry.

An English commercial traveller re-
siding at Leeds-he ought to have been
a Yankee drummer ia order to make
the story appears to have
solved the hitherto insoluble problem
of providing dry seat in an open
street car in wet weather He has
adopted the principle OF the roller
topped desk. When the cover is on
the ordinary electric car suggests n
double-decked railway saloon; when ii
is off the vehicle resumes its usual
aspect, with the addition of the light
circular Orders which sustain the
roller covering in position. says the
Leeds Mercury. To remove the roller
covering all that is necessary to be
done IS to release it and allow 1t to de-
scend into easements provided for it
at the sides of the car. This it does in
three sections on each side-first the
windows-fOr windows are provided
and then successfully the other two
sections, the easement accommodating
them side by side. The roller covering
is sandwiched with india rubber and
thus made not only waterproof but
also electric proof.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
Carried a MenaxerIe.

The thin man looked just as if every
body in the world imposed on him.
Even his mustache grew crooked. He
came into the car of the suburban ira
sidewise, deposited his basket ginger
ly, and slid into the seat beside it. As
soon as the train cleared the tunnel the
basket meowed. The thin man smiled
back at the man across the aisle. and
gave the basket shake. Another
meow. A little girl in the seat ia front
stood up on the cushion and peered at
the basket.
Like cats?" the thin man asked.
Yep" the child answered. "Lemme
see it,"
mo; it might get away" the thin
man said with another smile.
The basket preserved silence for sew
eral minutes, then it began to cluck
The child's eyes opened wide.
Like chickens:" the thin man asked.
Before the child could reply the bas-
ket emitted a shrill whistle, and the
man across the aisle. whose face was
as puzzled as the child's. asked:
What have you there, anyhow"
"Mockingbird.' the thin man answer
ed.-New York Evening Post.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02

Scattered here and there throughout
the States which border on Mason and
DiXOn's line are many relics of the ia
nous underground railroad which
furnished fleeing slaves means Of es-
cape to the next station and thence
onward until they reached their ulti-
mate destination and place of refuge in
Canada. One of these Is an old log
house In West Virginia, which once
connected with the celebrated rail
road" and it's mysterious apartments
are characteristic Of the stations along
the route.
Hidden away in the hills Is this relic
Of slave days. The house was kept
In the '4Os by John Mitchell. an aboli
ZIONIST, who made practice of shelter
ing negroes till they could be passed
along to the next station. The build
ing is two stories in height, with an
opening through the middle OF the low
er story. The cellar takes up all the
space under one end, the rest standing
on solid ground. The mystery to-day
is how the house could ever have con-
cealed anybody. This was explained by
Bentley. one Of the present residents
who said the other day to visitor
who was examining the premises:
Look here" pointing downward to
the broad. thick doorsill; that sill looks
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
WATERS AND EYEGLASSES.
Hotels and Restaurants Object to Help
Wearing Optical Aids.

Hotels and Restaurants Object to Help
Wearing Optical Aids.
Ever see a waiter wearing glasses?'
demanded the inQuisitor.
No one could remember, although just
why waiter should not be seen with
glasses as well as any other man was
not apparent
ITS just like the wearing Of boards"
Went on the inquisitor. The prOprie-
tors of our important hotels, restau-
rants and cafes will not permit either
boards or glasses to be worn by their
walters. 1t is possible that in some old
fashioned family or commercial hotel
the servitors may he found with their
noses straddled by optical helps, but
you won't find 'em along Broadway.
Now, this is fact worthy of note,
because in every other calling in life
the number of persons wearing glasses
is OH the increase, and even in our
schools considerable percentage of
very small children will be found wear
ing glasses. And while, as say, hotel,
restaurant and cafe prOprietOrs are Op-
posed to the glasses. still l have seldom
found q waiter whose eyes indicated
that he was in the slightest need Of
them.
You may argue that restaurant wait
ers are generally young men. Grant
you that instantly, but, all the same,
thousands of men of similar age have
to wear them in almost every other oc-
cupatiOn.
THE maiority of these servitors COM
mence in boyhOod, and the demand Of
their vocation causes no strain on the
eyesight. Consequently that may ac-
count in measure for the absence of
any necessity for the use of specs.
Moreover, the steam from hot viands
would render them useless probably"
New York Evening Telegram.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
Painful Means of Suicide.

'Have YOU ever noticed how many
suicides use earbolic acidy asked a
druggist the other day. Without hav-
ing any actual data on the subject, l
should say that fully one-third. perhaps
a half, use that means of exit. 1t is
something could never understand. be-
cause there are SO many more comfort
able ways of doing ii. There could not
possibly he a more agonizing death than
carbolic acid poisoning produces. The
corrosive fluid burns the mouth, tongue
and throat then passes into the stom-
ach. and must feel like so much hot
lead"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02

friendly welcome. he called at the
house of the young woman the same
evening. and was not little surprised
at the frosty reception.
After pause the young woman re-
marked, in the most frigid tones: You
sent me q note today"
"A nOte--IY'
"Certainly. along with the flowers"
ITO be sure, sent you flowers,
but"
And this note was with the bOu-
quet DO you mean 10 deny it?"
And the young man read: Don't
forget the old coat you promised me
the other day"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
NOW am 'caved in, but they was all
right when ole Mitchell lived yer"
Clever Deception.

A~vW''S" va NOuASC AhOS lC AOtNCO away
now am caNed in, but they was all
right when 'ole Mitchell lived yer"
Clever Deception.
Houses like Mitchell's, wNh tunnels
leading TO places of safety. were COM
mon throughout the border States in
slavery days. When the band of sher-
IFS would come in pursuit CT the es-
Gaping negroes. with bloodhounds to
aid them, the people about the house
would resort to a clever expedient to
save whatever negroes were there.
When the news of an approaching
posse reached the house the negroes
would be led to the river ana then
back TO the house, their tracks being
Obscurel by yfIely turIentine.
There were tw'enty-seven stopping
places between Mitchell's and O..io.
Mitchell was arrested at least half a
dozen times. Once he was taken to
Richmond, Va. where a mob wanted to
hang him. Another time he was taken
to Wyfhe County. where Il mob uroke
into the Jail and took him out. hut the
sheriff saved him just as they w enc
putting rope around his neck.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02

solid, don't IT, ana II looks just as II
It were part of the long, bottom sill log
Now look"
Entering the Cave.
Bentley stopped over and removed a
couple Of wooden pins on either side
which appeared to have been driven
into the heavy door casing to hold it
firmly I'm its place After he had re-
moved the pegs Bentley touched one
end of the fOOt-thick sill with his foot
and the huge block settled down ut one
end disclosing an opening over foot
I'm width and about twenty inches in
length.
Now wait till light lantern" said
Bentley. lighting piece Of candle in
nm old-time tin perforated lantern
Take holt OF them pegs. they're good
an strong, fer put new ones in only
bout year ago; they'll hold We. an
fOller me-"
The visitor did so. descending about
ten feet. when his feet touched solid
ground, and he found himself at the
narrow entrance to cave or tunnel
twenty feet or more in length. The
walls Of the cave were built Of solid
logs, and the roof was composed Of the
same material. Half dozen pieces Of
logs, two feet long, strewn about the
door: a few pegs in the rotting oaken
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02

walls: the crumbling remains of two OF
three wooden hunks alongside the walls
composed the furniture of the UNDER
ground cave
Here's one of the air holes, an heres
another" said Bentley, indicating two
holes about three or four inches square,
on opposite sides of the cave, one near
the roof and the other about two feet
above the floor. THE air cum thrO'
wooden pipes made out O. oak bo'ds
bout six inches wide. That one" point
ing downward. "cums out on the erik
bank under the roots of a big beech,
an t'other Gums out in thicket of
brush bout thirty yards from the
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
A Slight Misunde rsta ndiue.

A young man. whose .gallantry was
largely in excess Of his pecuniary
means. sought to remedy this defect
and to save the money required for the
purchase Of expensive flowers by ar
ranging with gardener to let him
have bouquet from time to time in
return for his cast-off clothes.
So it happened that one day he re-
ceiyed a bunch of the most beautiful
roses, which he at once dispatched to
bis lady love. In sure anticipation of q
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
} DON'T KNOW WHAT AuEO MARY.

When John Dalton came back from
the asylum where he had gone to place
his wife, his neighbor, Perry, met him
at the station and went home with him,
that he might not enter the empty house
alone. The old man was stunned and
daZed.
II don't know what allied Mary" he
said, duly. You see how clean and
snug this house is? She always kept
things so. Up before dawn, milking
and baking and washing. Same thing
done at the same hour. year in and year
out. She hadn't complained of sickness
for forty years. Then. nil ut once. she
began talking of an iron band around
her jaws and queer pains in her head"
"She seldom went to town, did she?"
asked Perry.
"Never, hardly. I'm not much of n
hand for gadding about to no purpose.
She used to want to go to church Sun
days, but l didn't just like to hitch up
when there was no work to do. But
l wish now I'd done that for Mary"
"She didn't visit much with the neigh
bors. either, did she:" asked Perry.
mo. That was my doing, too. When
the days work is done, want to put
on my slippers and rest. and then to
bed. and not 60 skirmishing about or
having lot Of company in"
He was silent while. II don't know
what allied Mary" he said again. "She
would sit looking at nothing. straight
ahead of her, by the hour. and then cry
and Cry, yet always saying she had no
trouble. And she got weaker every day,
and then her mind went altogether. $ !,
didn't know me, nor even her own
name"
"She will be cured in that sanitari-
um?" said Perry, cheerfully. land come
home we'll in the spring." He watched
his old neighbor furtively a while, and
then said:
do you know, Dalton, some years
ago my wife and daughter got peevish
and irritable. l thought the steady
work and loneliness were telling on
them. So got that parlor organ, and
paid for years lessons for Susy. We
had music and singing every evening,
and the young folks would gather in
with their reading clubs. Then l took
two or three papers; my wife is main
hand for guessing the riddles. And
once a year l took her an Susy up to
town for a week.
YES" said Dalton. dryly. You spent
a lot of money, I've heard"
It's bringing me In good interest,"
They sat in silence while Then
Perry put his hand on the old mans
knee. when she comes back, if she
ever does come, I'd open up life for her
a bit, Dalton. You know how it is with
potatoes. You plant the best kind in
good ground, and they yield splendid
crops for year or two. Then they be-
gin to dwindle and rot
"Of course the ground runs out. They
need new soil"
Yes. You plant them in a different
lot. and they yield big, healthy crops.
Human beings are like them, Dalton.
You've got to renew the soil, give them
fresh food for their minds, or they'll
dwindle and rot"
Dalton did not speak for long time
There's something i'm it," he said, final
ly. I'll do different-if ever have the
chance" Companion.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
Unwilling to Take Chances.

$50 you have at last settled on q
name for the baby"
"Yes'm. First, we named him Hob.
son, then changed it to do Dewey, an
afterward to Funston Schley johnson.
But now we've named him jes' plain
jim. Yo' nevah finds you've made a
mistake when you calls EN- jes' nothin'
but JIM"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
WhetStOnes.

In the United States rocks suitable
for making whetstOnes are found in
nearly all Of the states east OF the Mis-
sissippi and in a number of those to
the west of that river, but the supply
is obtained from Arkansas, Indiana,
Ohio, New York, Vermont and New
Hampshire.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
A Clock of Bread,

Milan has a curiosity in a clock
which is made entirely OF bread. The
maker is native of India and devoted
three years of his life to the construc-
tion of this curiosity. The clock lie OF
good size and goes we'll.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02

lis he in good shape fnancially-in-
DEPENDENT" "Well. he's in good shape
financially, but as far as being indie
pendent, / guess he's like most OF us
married mep."-Detroit Free Press.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
His Desire.

He was teaching her how to swim.
To teach girl how to swim it is not
absolutely necessary that one should
hold on to her all the time, but it ie
better so, if she happens to be pretty
and otherwise attractive.
"Do you think l will learn quickly?"
she asked.
81 hope not" he replied.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
Fish Sauce,

A delicious fish sauce to serve with
fish or meat is made by putting six
spoonsful OF water to four OF vinegar;
set on the fire, thicken with yolks of
two eggs; make hot, not boiling, and
squeeze the Juice Of half lemon before
serving.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02
A Spreading Chestnut.

at doesn't take much to make some
people cOnceited."
"What now"
"Why, since the village blacksmith
learned how to mend automobiles he
calls himself blacksmythe. "-Chica-
go News.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-02

'1s your wife ever speecnless with
indignation?'
"She says she is, but l have reason
to doubt it,