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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-27


story that the daughter of the former
negboring place marble slab the grave of
pet monkey with inscription "Man hath preeminence
the beast sad commentary the education the departed
governor gave his child.
Famine in Chicago and plenty of beef everywhere
strange situation Those the business of buying and selling
this article is deliberately held for further
in nearly every big city of this country
Not even Mr. Dooley anticipated dangers of the
presidency of nomination therefor Mrs Reynolds and
justly indignant unwarranted nerer
with their private affairs.
There are many indications and
Fall River directly interested in the OF the mills
in hearty sympathy with the operatives.
All Rhode Islanders ST. Louis
position praise highly and especially well pleased with the
building and those in charge of it.
And what August Belmont when he said
who visited him seemed think he had been made
urer of the United States.
1t all over in West Virginia according gen.
Argentine Republic Senator Ekns has his fathernaw
whipped standstill -
Improvement earnings ordinary
any surplus cash in govern
bonds in hurry
There something respectable ngo
protest Britain against the seizure sink
ing of neutral ships
Both sides in Fall River satisfactory results for the
three of the when really both would much prefer
different conditions.
Tom Taggas selection chairman Of the Democratic
that there will be plenty Of
in the campaign
be the belief of Democratic leaders that
pulling will them better than wire pulling in the present
Fonal campaign
According Candidate Swallow good be
governed He would have lemonaded
doubt
all improbable that persistenty solid south has
least produced absolutely solid north.
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Birds Nests in Tiers.

In the little island of Layson, Of the
Hawaiian group, which has no human
inha bitants, bird life is so dense that
the various species have economical
space by building their nests. one above
the other. The similarity of these tiers
OF nests to the fats in tall apartment
houses is quite marked. For example,
the petrol and the wedge tailed shear
water live in burrows which compare
with an apartment house basement.
Above them dwell the gray backed tern
and the sooty tern. Higher still in
bushes the red tailed tropic bird and
the Christmas Island shearwater have
their apartments. Higher still in
shrubs the Laysan finch and the miller
bird build their homes. The lOftier
branches of trees are filed with the
red footed BOBBY, the man'o-War bird
and the Hawaiian tern. Naturalists
who visited the island last year fire.
quently crushed through the roofs Of
the petrol burrows, sinking to the
knees in these subterranean bird
homes. 1t was necessary in walking
about to exercise great care lest nests
and eggs and young OF all kinds Of
birds be trampled dupon.-ChicagO News.
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A Winter Hardship.

Senator Proctor, of Vermont, has a
constituent who rejoices in the name
of Mike Quinn, who first saw the light
of day in the "ould counthry." Quinn
staked his claim to business patronage
in Rutland in the days when i great in
flux of foreigners followed the opening
Of railroad construction work, in that
Commonwealth. Quinn opened. a livery
stable, and when he hung out his sign
the Mike" was missing. He said it
didn't suit him, and his name forth
with was NJ. Quinn.
One day a friend who had been, fig
uratively speaking, down in the heels,
dropped into his office. He told Quinn
that he had been unlucky all his life,
in fact, was born under the guiding
star Of misfortune.
Faith" replied Quinn, land Oi'm
with yer in thot. Whin Oi was bhoy
Oh had niver a stint and Oh wint hungry
nl'ny's ther tonne. Oh used to go bare
footed. but that wasn't so harrud. But
Oh did used, to moind it bit when
skatin' tonne came and OF had to run
the spoke up my heel to keep the skate
or.'-Colier's Weekly.
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On the Installment plan.

"What's that watch worth?" asked
Mr.. Klose, pointing to one in the show
case.
Ten dollars replied the jeweler.
"I'll take it," said the customer, and
after paying for it he went out.
The next day he came, around again.
'.This watch doesn't exactly suit me-
he said. whats that one ,Worth?
pointing to another.
Fifteen dollars"
"I'll take that instead Of this one, if
you don't mind"
Certainly"
A day or two later be came in again.
How good watch have you got for
$25?' he inquired.
. well, $25 will. get q pretty good
timepiece," said the jeweler, handing
one out. Here's one with gold filled
case and full jeweled. The movement
is warranted"
"I'll take it,"
He paid the difference, took the
watch and went away.
After the lapse Of few. days he
made his appearance once more.
Have you got first-class watch,
with a solid gold case, that you can
sell for $50?" he said.
"Yes. Here it is"
"Well, I'll take it," said Mr.. Klose.
Here's the other watch and$25. That's
the one I really wanted at first, but l
hated to pay out all that money at
once."-Youth's Companion.
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Summoned by Name.

An exciting lovers quarrel was once
brought about by the young woman's
accidental reading Of telegram where.
in the unfortunate lover had spoken of
lis new yacht in terms Of endearment,
omitting to mention the fact that Ger.
aldinc was only a boat. A similar
hlunder is reported by the Philadelphia
Telegraph.
There were five passengers in the
street car, and as it approached cross
ing the conductor called, William"
One man got up and went OUT
"Annw announced the conductor, and
Il woman left the car.
Tucked away in the corner was lit.
tie man with foreign looking face.
When the conductor called "Georger'
and another passenger alighted, the
little man aWoke to the situation. He
rose. tiptoed down the aisle and whis
perad to the conductor: Before you
calls out de name of de lady in dere,
I'll tell you wants to git of soon. Ny
mama it 10 panl"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-02-17

Statistics Of inconsequence are fre.
quently interesting. The latest pub.
lished in this class comes from a per.
son who took to studying for few
weeks the folk who eyed themselves
in q certain elevator having two sides
freely set with mirrors, observes the
Boston Transcript. His first attempt
was to decide whether more women
than men patroniZed the looking glass,
during which he learned, perhaps to
his surprise, ttat the patrons were
equally divided between the sexes
Next he fell to studying the object OF
each sex in this contemplation Of self,
with the result that he opined that
men peered into the mirror for the sole
purpose of seeing and approving them
selves, while with women there
seemed to be a desire to be sure their
hats were tipped at the right anglo
and. that the numerous bows affected
now by the fair sex were all in the
place dictated by custom. Thus it
seems to be established that vanity
alone prompted the men to look, while
a commendable wish to be ''set right"
animated the women.
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The Discoyery of Radiunl.

1t was at the close of the year 1897
that I began to study the compounds
of uranium, the. properties of which
had greatly attracted my interest. Here
was substance emitting spontaneous.
ly and continuously radiations similar
to Roentgen rays, whereas ordinarily
Roentgen rays can be produced only in
a vacuum-tube with the expenditure
of electrical energy. By what process
can uranium furnish the same rays
without expenditure Of energy and
without undergoing apparent modifea.
ton? Is uranium the only body whose
compounds emit similar rays? Such
were the questions asked myself, and
it was while seeking to answer them
that I entered into the researches
which have led to the discovery of ra-
dunn. - Nine. Curie, in the Century.
Magazine.
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The town of Shekpo was destroyed
and 1000 villagers massacred Oh East
River, near Canton, China, in an effort
to capture Ma Wong Hoi, noted ball.
dit. The brigand took refuge in Shek-
DO, his native village. Admiral Fong
surrounded the town with 25G0 troops
When he requested the elders CT the
town TO deliver Ma Wong Hoi the BAN
dit himself appeared and killed eight
soldiers. THIS so enraged the troops
that the admiral permitted a heavy
cannonade, which set the town on fire.
Two thousand perished, including many
women and children.
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Umbrellas Now Made to Orde.:.

In these progressive days one is not
obliged to buy umbrellas ready made"
unless one choose. 1t is quite the fash
ion to 60 to a manufacturer and, order
an umbrella made up to suit the indi-
vidual taste.
The handles and tips are in great va
riety-in gold, silver, pearl, tortoise
shell and gun metal. Some are plain,
while others are handsomely mounted
and decorated. When the umbrella
wears out the handle and tips, if of
the best material, will be as good as
new. The frame can then be turned
over to an umbrella maker to recover.
Among the novelties in Christmas
gifts in the leading dry goods houses
were handles and tips, which came
beautifully mounted in box.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-02-17

The veneration Of intellectual Ger
many for Goethe has been shocked by
a proposition to disfgure the, garden
of the house in which the poet lived
in Weimar, and which is now used as
a Goethe National Museum, by cutting
off part of the garden, demolishing a
stone wall and substituting for it an
iron fence around the remaining part
of the garden. Leading artists, pro-
fessors, academicians and literary men
of Berlin have sent q strong protest
to the national museum against the
proposed step as "desecration Of
historical sanctuary"
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the missive. 1tiwas addressed 10 nlms
John Combes, in precise, legal-look-
ling handwriting. He turned it over
and stared at the back. There, stamped
on the flap, was the address Of a firm
of lawyers he knew.
He tore the letter open feverishly and
glanced through it.
Dear Sir" it ran, 1--WE have at last
ascertained your address, and that you
are living under the name OF John
Combes. We are glad to inform you
that our clients, Messrs. Ellington &
Co., have come toga: satisfactory under
standing with ithe defendants in the
case Branscombe Ormonde, and are
now in a position to make you~an offer
for such rights lin your patent as you
may be disposed to cede to them. An
early interview will be esteemed a IA
vor."
John Branscombe dropped into his
chair. The letter meant salvation, and
it had come to him by the hand of his
little neighbor who had induced him to
put off "the long journey" he had con-
templated. But for her he would have
been dead hours ago, and the news that
at last justice was to be his would have
come too late
He dropped on his knee and drew the
child to him.
"God bless you, little neighbor," he
said. providence sent your baby foot.
steps to me-"
A gentle tap came at the door
Come in," he said. The door opened
and a woman stood in the doorway.
II beg your pardon" she said; "is my
| little"
Then she stopped and staggered.
John Branscombe had arisen and faced
| her.
His own child had saved him; his
own child had brought husband and
fwife together after nearly seven years.
Man, yort- Waaklv
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"'Tis an i'll wind that blows nobody
good" and the recent cases of cruelty
to soldiers in tie German army have
been a good thing for America. One
officer, Frankie, by name, has been
sentenced to five years Imprisonment
and dishonorable discharge from the
army on 1920 counts of mistreatment
of soldiers and 100 of abuse of author
ity. This is remarkable but no
doubt not an isolated case. Many good
German youths choose 10 expatriate
themselves rather than submit to the
brutality, and hundreds of model citi,
zens, driven from the German army,
find their way to Americas hospitable
shores
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Natures Equilibrium.

Some twenty-five years ago mon
gooses We're imported into Barbados
to drive the rats which ate the sugar
cane. Now the sugar planters have
petitioned the governor to authorize
the destruction Of the moHgooses be-
cause the latter, instead Of confining
their attention to the rats, have driven
out many useful native animals, in
Guiding lizards, which were the enc
mics of the moth-borer caterpillars.
The caterpillars are now left free to
penetrate the sugar canes, thereby,
making holes for the lodgmont Of de-
structive fungi. Thus in the continual
struggle for existence nature herself js
often found to have established rbe
best system of equilibrium, interfer-
ence with which brings more ills than
it drives away.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-02-17

: The tuberculosis mortality has de-
creased in New England, in the last
fifty years even more rapidly among
females than among males, and there
is little doubt that it will go lower yet
if the habit of sleeping with open win
dows or even out Of doors, not merely
as a means of cure but also of preven-
tiony once gets established. Without
interference with its normal activities
this entire Commonwealth may even
tually become great open-air sana-
torium; and in that day the hotels of
Arizona will run to bad. business.
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IL ! ef
Today

Miss Withers-"When Harold, kissed
me he told me that he loved me-" The
Eriend-".What a waste Of words. -
Town Topics. -, ~
They shiver by the steam pipes.
While their vigils drear they keep,
Tor the frost is on the window a W
And the janitor's asleep. ;ss., s.
"My friend" said the parson, "you
should be content with what yonSf
have" II am" replied the grumbler:
Its what I haven't got that worries
me."-Chicago News. d
The general opinion Of the neighbors
is that the Chelsea girl who has had
her winter hat trimmed with sprays Of
mistletoe has gone a step too far
Somerville (Mass.) Journal.
IT'S hard to get along in life
If fortune snile or frown, :5i
For first you hive your income up, 4
Then try to liveit down.
"Our new company is capitalized at
100000 ,O00" "Great! Let me see your
prospectus" "Oh. we haven't got out
a prospectus yet. The-er-the blamed
printer wants his pay in ADVANCE.
Puck.
"Impressionism,' said the fiance, as
he gazed ruefully at the powder
stained waistcoat, where her fair head
had rested, may be all right, but it's
a poor thing in engagements" Primes
ton Tiger. |N
"Can you support my daughter in
the style to which she has been accus-
tomedT' mo, stree! I don't intend
to keep, right on buying her candy and
flowers. She'll have to do without
that.eDetroit Free Press. f
why" he was asked, ''do you give
your audience SO much raghDe
musicm Because said the great
bandmaster, swallowing sob, "tbat's
all that gives me my glad rags and
my easy time."-C Chicago Tribune.
Henley-"So you liked my brothers
Qnging at the vaudeville show last
evening? And yet some people say
he can't sing at allr Bentley-"He
can't. That's what makes 1t SO inter- 7
esting when he tries to."-BostoD
Transcript. ...., .R3 4
Manageg.".I'm going to start a eom-
edy company on the road in a couple
of weeks" Crittick-"What's the:
play2" Manager-"Oh, haven't writ
ten that yet, but heard good joke
to-day that we can use in it."-Phila-
delphia Press. E~
Dashaway-"A few short hours ago
I was sitting with girl, telling her
she was the only one in all the world
I ever loved, and so forth, and so
forth" Cleverton-"And she believed
you, didn't sheT' How could she help
it? Why, L believed it myself" Life.
IT believe in corporal punishment"
said the man. "You can't bring up
children right by simply talkin' to
them. I used to get licked nearly
every, day when I was %" Then
seventeen people arose and shouted:
who wants further, proof that whip
ping is horrible?"-Chicago Record
Herald,
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Just then vogue for high romance
Prevailed, and I'd pent-up yearning;
The hollow cheek, the hungry glance,
Betrayed the fever inly burning;
At inconvenient times the thing would out
Especially when ladies were about.
Somehow the care OF female hearts
At that time always fell to my lot;
Within the maze of Cupid's arts
I was their guiding star, their pilot;
Not to have loved me with binding pas
sion
Was, broadly speaking, to be out # fash
ion.
But latterly, don't know why,
That star has waned, until at last I'm
Left in the lurchS awhile maidens,Ay
Toward the Tuder forms of pastime;
And now their talk is all of tennis courts,
Of golf, gymkhanas and athletic sports
I don't complain. I know there'll be
One Of these days mild renaissance
In the exclusive cult of Me;
[ view the fact with some complaisance;
One day there'n come an era of the brain
And Theodore will be himself again.
Punch,
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Zinc White From Mine Stag.

News received from abroad would
seem to indicate that Professor Eller-
shausen. Well-known German chem
ist, has invented process of extract
ing zinc white from Stag. He and Pro-
fessor Sir William Ramsay success
fully experimental at the Hafaa mine
in North Wales. showing that ton of
zinc white can be extracted from
fifteen tons Of Stag by far simpler ard
cheaper process than is now used in a.
roundabout production from spelter.
Great Britain imports about 200, 900
tons of zinc white annually from tie
United States. Germany and Belgium, {
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-02-17
How Could 1t Be o Mistake.

What a woman doesn't know about
newspapers isn't worth knowing. The
other morning Mrs. B. was talking to
her husband.
II notice in the Daily Hoodoo that
Mr.. Biffkins died on Sunday
IT'S mist1ke, my DEAR" replied the
husband. HE died on Monday
But the paper said Sunday
"I know it, but it was an error in the
print"
II thought SO, too. at first. but l got
a half dozen copies of the paper, and
il was the same in all of them. They
certainly couldn't have made the mis-.
take over and over again."
The husband tried to convince her,
but it was no use. and he gave it up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-02-17

The scarcity of divorces in Canada is
remarkable. In Ontario, Quebec, Man
itoba and the territories divorces can
be obtained only by an act of the
Parliament of Canada, and from 1868
to 1900 only sixty-nine were so Sc
cured: In the other provinces they
may be obtained in the courts, and,
during the same period Novia Scotia
has granted ninety-two, New Bruns-
wick, seventy three; British Columbia,
forty -seyeD, and Prince Edward Island
none,
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The model Of 10 structure more fa-
pie of the South, will be seen at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition than
that of Liberty Hail." the ancestral
home Of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice
President Of the Confederacy. The
State of Georgia has agreed to erect q
model of Liberty Hail. at it's State
building. There is no private residence
in that State better known than the IA.
NOUS old home of Stephens, and 10
building about which centres fonder
recollections Of the great nan who
made it his home for years.
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SPORT GF THE AUToMANIAc
Necessity For Laws Governing The Spec
of tie Automobiles.

Necessity For Laws Governing The Speed
of tie Automobiles.
The Massachusetts Legislature of
this year, after careful deliberation,
passed bill to regulate the use of
automobiles and motor cycles. 1t pro-
yides for the registering Of machines
and the licensing of their operators;
it limited their speed to fifteen miles
an hour on country roads. and to ten
miles an hour in cities or the thickly
settled parts Of towns. The law was to
90 into. effect on the 1st of September,
and now before it has really had a
chance to be tried and it's workings oh.
served the antomobilists, it is under.
stood, are organizing to secure its re.
peal at the meeting of the next Legisla.
ture. The registration of the machines
and the numbering of them plainly,
together with the licensing of their
operators for the purpose of identif-
cation, appear to be particularly OBJ.
nOxious to those affected by these
measures. ..
This is thoroughly characteristic Of
the automaniac who wishes to indulge
in his favorite sport of rushing through
the crowded streets and over country
roads at railroad,s speed without the
slightest regard for the rights of
other users Of public highways and
then to evade any responsibility for the
accidents he may cause by avoiding
recognition. Such individuals can be
restrained only by the most stringent
measures. The Massachusetts, law, as it
now stands, is none too strict and is far
less so than the law which it has been
found necessary to enact in England
and on the continent of Europe. In.
stead Of trying to have this law re.
pealed, the automobilists would do well
to keep quiet lest worse thing happen
to them. ...''
This organized effort to have the speed
limit both in town and country in.
creased and to do away with the means
Of identifying those who violate the
laws in this respect has moved certain
gentlemen of prominence in Boston to
issue circular letter calling attention
to the matter. The letter asks for co.
operation in bringing this matter to the
attention of candidates for election to
the Legislature, so as to secure a state.
ment from them of their attitude in re.
gard to it. The law was passed after
careful canvass and deserves fair
trial for a year or more, so that its
effects may be observed. Then, if it is
found to work any real hardship to au.
tomobihsts, notifications can be. con.
sidered. Experience abroad has shown
how utterly inconsiderate of the rights
of others many automobilists are and
that severe punishment is the only
thing that will make such listen to rea-
son. The Massachusetts law is COM
mendable as far as it goes, and could
be initiated with advantage in other
States, and the people may be depended
upon, as soon as their attention is
aroused, TO second the efforts Of those
moving in opposition to the effort to
secure it's repeaI.-Providence Journal.
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shores.

Professor Sandford Bell, fellow in
Clark University, declared recently
after a scientific investigation Of the
love question covering a period of if-
teen years and embracing 100 cases,
that the love period extends from
three years to old age, and that no one
is safe from the fever during that
time. Men reach their maturity in
affairs of the heart at twenty four and
women at twenty-five, he says, and
adds that the masculine stages of love
are from three to eight years, eight to
fourteen, fourteen to twenty-six (ma-
turity), twenty-six to old age, and e1-
tending through old age. For women
in love he fixes the stages at three to
eight, eight to twelve, twelve to twen-
. ty-two (maturity), tweniy-three to old
age and through old age
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tuberculosis may be fought by wise
methods and by foolish ones. TO the
latter class belongs the plan which
the Australian colony Of Victoria is
said to have adopted. 1t is proposed
to isolate eonsumptives, whether they
like it OF not, and send them to a quar-
antine station. Educating them in re-
gard to the proper precautions for
avoiding the spread of infection would
be far more sensible.