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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-07-26

immediate and complete reform OF these
I'm respect 20 the extraordinary deposits
made by them with few favored banks
and trust companies
II approves the smaller companies that
have been content with a moderate pace. .
Referring 10 the Equitable Life Assur
ance society. the report says:
ITO all outward appearances life insur-
ance has been coming along serenely and
beautifully during the past 25 years, with
money rolling into the treasures I'm broad
streams
But rude awakening came. A chasm
opened, showing the hidden secrets OF q
great 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HYDE insur-
ance company II has suddenly dawned
that during these 25 years OF peaceful con-
quest OF millions ~ public money there
had been Judasses at work betrayins
their trusts for financial gain"
ROYAL ARCANUM CASE.
Fraternal insurance and the case of the
Royal Arcanum are dealt with az some
length in the report, the commissioner ex-
pressing his opinion that the new rates
recently adopted by that order and caus.
ing such a stir within IT'S ranks are not
too high
After dealing at length with the subject
OF life insurance. Of the enormous amount
of money involved and Of the close re-
subsidiary trust companies. the commits
sioner says, referring 10 last years re-
port:
1T must he said that the situation CON
stantly presents the temptation 10 direc-
tors. who also have stock I'm the trust
company 10 give the latter all the advan-
tages they possibly can in the way Of de-
posits and loans. The interests OF their
pockets are in perpetual conflict with
their duties as hduciary agents Of the
policy holders"
The Massachusetts department called
attention 10 these conditions q year ago,
and OF this Commissioners Cutting says:
The department had hopes that the
daily press would put matters OF such inn
portance before the public. but in most
cases their columns were practically
closed against the revelations. The ma
iority continued 20 eat. drink and make
money, But a rude awakening has come -"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-07-26

probably feel very husness-like in your
spick-snd- span shirtwaist tell you
clothes are very important factor OF
stage work"
THE GIRL BEHIND THE PEN.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-07-26
ACTORS
CHAT ABOUT
AUDIENCES

AUDIENCES
are tickle" said
Edwin Nicand-
er You never
quite know how
they are going
10 take a thing.
A line that at
rehearsal seems
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12

The question Of Washington having
a suitable building for great gatherings
has long been agitated, but it was not
until the citizens of the district were
very clearly informed by congress that
the big pension Office would no longer
be given for inaugural balls that the
movement for such a hall was begun.
For time last winter it looked as
though congress might refuse the pen
sion building for the Roosevelt ball
and the citizens committee was in sore
distress, for there was no other build
ing suitable or available in the city.
A small balance of $4,000 or $4,000 re-
mained in the treasury of the inaugu-
raj committee after settling up all the
expenses connected with the inaugura-
ton and that was used as a sort OF
nest egg, around which has gathered
subscriptions that seem to promise the
erection of big national hall.
If Washington had convention hall
that would seat 10000 or $4,000 people
it is believed that the great political
parties would select it for their quad
rennial conventions. The political
leaders, as rule, would prefer Wash
ington as convention city, as they are
more at home here and in better touch
with the whole country. Such a build
ing, it is maintained, would also at
tract the stated conclaves of great fra
ternal bodies and Washington would
become still more the capital of the ma
ton because. of national gatherings
that would be held here.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12
Rapid Steel Saving.

Friction saws for the cutting Of struc-
tural steel has been in use in the larger
steel mills for several years, but the rap
adtty with which a recent Chicago in
stallation goes through it's task is little
short of marvellous. To the accompani-
ment OF deafening. shrek the largest
size beams rolled are severed in 16 sec
onds, a speed far ahead Of any precious
records on cold steel The material to
be cut is brought before the saw at right
angles on power driven rollers id two
sections, one moving it forward and the
other taking it away, says the Chicago
Tribune. The machine has two beds,
one stationary and the other moving
back andEforth on the first to meet the
work. On one end of the movable bed
Is a 1OO-horsepower motor and "a feet
away is the saw on the other end. The
saw disk lis Of soft fange steel, three
eights of an inch thick and 81 inches
in diameter. Travelling at almost 1000
revolutions per minute the saw has .
cutting speed ct something over q 900
feet minute. The operator, standing
in front Of the saw, is protected from Ay-
ing bits bysa glass shield, while sheet
steel shield prevents pieces from being
thrown above and back of the saw.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12
JUDGE DEFINES A CYCLONE
Minnesota Jurist Gives Legal Defni-
ton Of the Phenomenon-Court
Gives Ruling.

st. Paul, Minn.-Judge Page Nor.
ris, in the United States district court,
told jury that properly constructed
cyclone should be made according to
the following formula:
z "A cyclone is violent and destruc-
tive storm OF greater or less extent;
sometimes its path is narrow strip,
and sometimes wide strip of terri
tory. It is characterized by high
winds, rotating around low pressure
center, which center moves at great
velocity. It is generally accompanied
by thunder and lightning"
This statement of what constitutes
a cyclone came after the court and a
jury had been listening to testimony
and argument for several days in the
suit of Young, Finche & McConville
against against the Maryland Casualty
company to recover on an insurance
policy covering the goods in their mer-
camille establishment, which had been
damaged because an automatic fire
sprinkling device had been set into ac-
ton by the storm which hit st. Paul
August 20 of last year, and which has
been described as cyclone, a tornado
and a heavy windstorm.
The case was given to the jury, and
after short deliberation verdict was
reached that the storm was not cy-
clone, and the plaintiff was awarded
damages in the sum of $26,225 A
clause in the policy issued by the Cas-
ualty company exempted it from dam
age caused by cyclone.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12
HISTORY IN FRENCH ARMY
Ruling That No Events Earlier Than
I 1878 Shall Be Taught Is Rid
iculed by Writer.

To those people who are never SO hap
by as when they are asserting that Eng
lish officers are taught nothing and
know no military history the debate in
the French senate on the war budget
must have come as bit of a shock, says
an English writer. Comte de Trev-
eneuc discussed the new scheme for the
admission of cadets into Saint Cyr, the
Sandhurst of France, and pointed out
that no history is to be taught previous
to 1915. That such a fantastic limit
should be laid down seems absolutely in
credible. Even if modern France alone
is held worthy of being subject of in
ment should have been 1889. Modern
France is the outcome Of the revolution,
and the continent Of Europe is partA
toned under its influence, direct or in
direct. For student of parliamentary
debates 1916 is a possible date at which
to begin to date French history; but for
Saint Cyr it is absurd. For the future
French officers will know nothing of the
wars of the revolution and of the empire.
They will not learn how the battles Of
Valmy, Wagram, Austerlitz, and Jena
were won or how those Of Leipsic and
Waterloo were lost. All that they will
know of Napoleon is that he died at st.
Helena and of Marshal Ney that he was
shot. The 20 years from 1895 to 1916 are
absolutely necessary for any student Of
military history; and, despite the croak-
ers, we can at any rate say that in this
respect they do not manage things bet.
ter in France.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12
DEADLY BOMBS.
Nitrogen Is Entirely Harmless Until
It Is Controlled by Man for
Terrible Purposes.

When left alone to it's natural func-
peaceful course, but when man sue
ceeds in capturing it and combining it
with other elements it becomes q dire
potentiality for evil, as is obvious in
the recent events of the war in the far
east and in the crime in the streets of
Moscow. The love of freedom, So to
speak, characteristic of nitrogen, is
terribly exemplified in the explosion of
the bomb in which it is imprisoned and
bound to other elements On the
slightest provocation-a spark, q
shock, a fuse-the nitrogen suddenly
expands from seemingly nothing, as re-
CARDS the space which it occupies, into
infinity. This is. in reality, what hap
pens when dynamite, lyddite or other
unstable nitro-ccmpoundsi explode
when hurled in shells in warfare and
in bombs in desperate attacks on hui
man life. Nitrogen, against it's natural
disposition, is locked up in an uncon-
genial space in these compounds, from
which it is set free by very simple
means in an enormously expanded
gaseous state with deadly effect, re-
turning, in fact, to its normal peaceful
mission once more 1t lis the analogue
of the sword and the ploughshare; in
the nitro-explosive nitrogen is the
modern engine Of warfare and crime;
in the free state in the atmosphere it
ministers directly to the quiet and
peaceful needs of plant and human life.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12
OPTIMISTIC OBSERVATIONS.

Trouble seldom visits those who DO
not expect it. .-...ss-
Hope for the best-prepare tot the
worst and take what comes.
Failures should be used as stepping
stones to future success. AT
Happy is the woman who has as many
changes Of gowns as she has OF mind
Woman was born to love and be loved
-and she fights 1t out On that line.
Cynics and pessimists have 3 hard
row to hoe in this contrary old world.
It's surprising how much 4 woman
can say about herself without telling
anything,
The wise worm doesn't crawl out until
after the early bird has eaten his break
fast.
Dying in poverty Is easy enough; It's
living in poverty that comes hard on
fellow.
1t doesn't matter II beauty Is only
skin deep SO long as the skin is worn
on the outside
1t is only Id accord with the eternal
fitness Of things that miss. kiss and
bliss rhyme together
1t is the circumstances Of men over
which she has no control that Is re-
sponsible for the spinster.
Out OF evil comes good. The apple
Eve swiped has furnished employment
to thousands Of tailors and dressmakerA
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12

CnQef HIS w Wln0oW voice was lea
ture of the community long before his
yellow body and pink eyes were seen.
Brigand started out as. a Romeo,
and it is thought that his career
might have been different If his
"Comeout Mariar" had been needed
by the felines that belonged around
the block But by some instinct they
avoided Brigand and crept closer into
their corners at his call, and it is GER
tain that lack of attention to his dulcet
tones brought on the villainous change
in his nature. One night he started
out determined to kill, and as he ap-
preached a certain mansion where
.dwe1t two new and confiding kittens
his spurs jingled as he walked and
his sword clanked at his side. His
very knock on the cellar door pro-
claimed him swashbuckler and the
little ones within could see in their
minds eye the saucy feather waving
in his broad hat and the CLINT of steel
as he barred his sword. AS he sharp
ened his claws on the cellar door it
shifted ajar enough to admit him.
The family asleep above was awakened
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12
COMES A TIME
When Coffee Shows What It Has
Been Doing.

"of late years coffee has disagreed
with me-" writes matron from Rome
N. r., Its lightest punishment was to
make me 'logy' and dizzy, and it,
seemed to thicken up my bicod.
"The heaviest was when 1t upset my
stomach completely, destroying my ap-
petite and making me nervous and ir-S
ritable, and sent me to my bed. After
one Of these attacks, in which ! near
ly lost my life. concluded to- quit
and try Postum Food Coffee.
"It went right to the spot! found
It not only a most palatable and re-
freshing beverage, but food as well.
.All my ailments, the Ioginess' and
dizziness, the unsatisfactory condition
Of my blood, my nervousness and ir-s
ritability disappeared In short order.
and my sorely afflicted stomach boz
gan quickly to recover. began to
rebuild and have steadily continued
until new. Have good appetite and
am rejoicing in sound health, which
owe to the use of Postum Food Cof-
fee" Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tie Creek, Mich. s.A2.
( There's reason.
Read the little book. "The Road II
Wellville." found IN each pkg.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12


During that day three chickens were
killed, II geraniums were torn out OF
the ground and nobody had an after
noon nap. It was resolved that no
one in the block should go to sleep
that night until the marauder had
been captured and destroyed.
The first shout that broke the still
ness of the night came from Smiths
back yard.
"Come on, folks, I've got him!" he
cried, and in ten seconds there was
scampering of feet in the neighbor-
hood that sounded like the charge of
4 regiment 1t was big yellow An
CORA animal that was tightly clasped
IN Smiths arms. It purred and rubbed
lplayfully, but these evidences of af-
fectian had no effect on the deter
mined posse. Silently they found a
stout cord and tightly they tied it
about the cats neck. It's yellow hair
xlisteaed in the moonlight and the cat
playfully paved at the string as it was
tightaned. Smith climbed to the rail-
ing Of his porch and tied the other
end Of the cord to the rafters.
"One-two-three-" he said.
Tha cat dropped, wiggled, choked-
and then Smith shot it through the
head with his revolver. just to make
sure.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12
SYSTEM THAT DIDN'T WORK
Clerk Memorized Hardware Mans
Name as "snails" When It Was
"Stackso-Latter Gets Mad.

Some Of the feats In remembering
names and faces of persons only seen
once performed by bank clerks and
persons in similar positions are aston
ishing, but it is fact that very few OF
them owe this faculty to any of the
artificial systems of mnemonics SO
widely advertised Either the gift is
a natural one or is acquired at the ex-
pense of much hard work, says the
New York Times.
The cashier of downtown bank
who is noted for his memory for names
and faces got talking the other day
about his faculty and confessed that
1t had been acquired with much labor.
When was young fellow he
said, Il was secretary to the presi-
dent of a New Jersey bank, and made
up my mind that good memory for
names and faces would he a valuable
asset, and set to work to supply what
nature had not given me- | invested
$50 in an elaborate system Of mne-
monies, and the first opportunity
had to use it was when my employer
sent me to hardware store on q
personal errand.
MY system consisted in associating
the man in my mind with some SIM
pie article connected with his trade
and, prefixing or sufiixing letter or
more as necessary. For instance, San
ders the grocer would be associated in
my mind with sand, and would OF
course remember to add the three let
ters needed to form his name.
We'll, framed up plan on this
system to remember the hardware
mans name, and in two weeks came
back again. My system was work
ing beautifully. / walked in as brisk
as.you please and hailed my friend.
e'How are you. Mr.. Snails?' said.
Something in the mans face made
me fear that there had been a slip
somewhere. Are. you not Mr.. snails? p
/ asked
young man. he said, you are too
blamed fresh. My name is Stacks. -
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12

deprived of his distinction. olnee eAe
late Nelson Dingley, of Maine, passeu
away, shortly. after the enactment "
the tariff law that bears his name' NIL
Payne has been chairman OF the ways
and means committee, position whlch
carries with it the floor leadership q
the majority in the house. Mr. Payhe
is a distinguished looking old gentle
man of rotund proportions, large head,
rubicund couptenance and snoW-"nlte
hair and mustach. Up until two years
ago he wore full beard, he then maze
himself almost unrecognizable to Old
friends by shaving it of and appearing
with only mustach.
The late Speaker Reed used to refer
to Mr.. Payne as the "Whlte-heaoea
Mandarin The parliamentary car,
however, could always depend upon the
gentleman from New York to carry out
the programme of the committee on
rules. He has big, resounding voice
and perpetual smile and the opposl-
tion might as we'll run up against
rock as against Serene E. Payne when
he is charged with carrying out the be-
hests of his party, as expressed through
the committee on rules.
Mr.. Payne is a great traveller and
will investigate the Philippines with
Secretary Taft this summer. After he
had accepted the Invitation to go some
of his friends began to tell Taft what
an elephant he had on his hands. They
have given Payne a reputation that
will strike terror to all the passengers
on the steamers he will travel on, and
all the guests at the hotels he will pat
ronize. They declare that he can snore
longer and louder than any man in the
United States. His ability in this dl-
rection is tradition among his col
leagues. When party of which he is
member goes by rail his colleagues
entreat him to accept the drawing
room, as no one in the open car can
get to sleep after Payne's head touches
the pillow.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12
The Polieernan,s Gun.

A very sensible suggestion made in
the convention Of police chiefs at
Washington is that policemen SHOULD
be able to shoot Eefore they are armed.
A bull on rampage is hardly more
dangerous, declares the Baltimore
American, very truly, than man
with supposed ofscial authority to use
firearms over which he has no control
in public places. The safety Of inno-
cent and law-abiding citizens is Of
quite as much, II not more, Importance
than the capture of escaping criminals.
1t would also be prudent measure to
have policemen taught their legal
rights in the matter Of making escape
subject to death penalty for all classes
of offenses, and to, be made strictly to
observe the limit Of those rights before
the law. It is as well to make those
charged with the enforcement OF the
law the first to set an example OF
obedience to it.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12

private business enterprises. This is
true in the production of books and
pamphlets by the government printing
Office and their destination under the
franks of members of congress and
high officials. A great deal of work is
now saddled on the government in the
way of publishing reports and proceed
ings of various bodies that 25 years
ago was not thought of.
The one department that more than
any other inspires the thought of pa
ternalism is that of agriculture. An
Indiana farmer last year gave a fair
Illustration of a somewhat prevalent
idea concerning the province of this
department. He wrote to his congress-
man, saying: Please send me mule
and a double-shovel plow." He had
an idea that all his congressman had
to do was to visit the agricultural de-
partment, put in this order and it
would pc filled. He had heard of the
seeds which the department furnished
free, The trees and textbooks on vari-
Gus subjects until he supposed that
Uncle Sam conducted this depart
men. for the purpose of giving worthy
agriculturalists start in life.
Tae farmers have received the larger
share of the helpfulness of the govern.
ment, but the cities are now. to get
SC me attention. Congress last session
appropriated $4,000 to send agents
abroad to look up markets for Ameri.
can products. This amount will pay
salaries and expenses to about siz
agents and their duties will be to visit
countries where American manufac
lures should be able to compete with
those of the world and by their inves
legations and research Secure informa
tion that will be useful to American
business men and manufacturers.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12
GONE FISHING.


God made the world for fishermen--
Tor us the small waves flash.
For us the scarlet berries crown
The lakes eneircling ash.
For us the clouds are milky pearls
Set in a turquoise's blue.
For Us yon eagle solemnly
His winged circle drew.
What luck?" II luck were always good,
The chiefest joy were gone.
The lure Of sweet uncertainty
Still draws US on and On.
The dimpling waters softly smile,
And underneath them lies,
Swallowed by some mysterious rock,
The swift, elusive prize.
The glory of his golden scales
A kings reward might be-
Fail we to-day? To-morrows fy
Shall take him cunningly.
Clinton Dangerfeld, in Sunday Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12
FULL HOUSE AT. FUNERAL.
Simply Turned Them Away, Declares
Actor Whose Father Had Just
Passed Away.


No one ever understood the foibles
of stage people better than did the late
Kirke La Shelle, and of the ruling pas
sion of actors he tells this story in the
Washington Post. / won't mention the
actors name, but he is a star of con-
siderable reputation. Mr.. La Shelle
met him on the Rialto one day and mo-
ticed that he was wearing mourning
badge on his arm.
tits for my father" the actor ex-
planned. 'I've just come back from
his funeral. 1t was a said affair."
Mr. La shelle expressed his sincerest
sympathy The actors grief was OBJ
vio,lsly real and great.
"A thing like this man doesn't get
over soon," he went on. II attended to
all the funeral ARRANGEMENTS. l did
the best could. We had everything
just as father would have liked it,
Many there?" asked Mr.. La Sheile
."Many7 there!" cried the actor,
changing from grief to animation.
why, my boy, we turned 'em away"
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12

knows. Before 1t on11teo AJar'
anyone could reach the scene he had
eaten one of the kittens and had cor
nered the other one. He was slapping
this one vigorously when candlelight
appeared at the head of the stairs, and
like the yellow streak that he was he
disappeared.
From then on the neighborhood knew
the Brigand was a yellow cat. The de-
scrtpticn sent out that night made him
monstrous tall, with fierce whiskers, a
staggering gait cleaning eye and a
desperate purpose. From back fence to
back fence the next morning the de-
scripticn grew to enormous proportions
until Jumbo, the elephant, could not
have equaled his size or Bengal tiger
his ferocity. Men in the neighborhood
went armed. The women kept the gas
burning day and night to have hot water
on hand
kill the Brigand at all COSTS" was
the verdict Of the neighborhood, and
no household was without its special
remedy for the pest of the vicious cat.
One morning Brigand got up early and
wandered in meek disguise through the
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-08-12

have been trying to figure out q
general condition of happiness, and !
reach the conclusion that 1t consists
mainly in the ability to march with
ones own generation. neither deplor-
ing the progress the generation makes
nor grumbling because it doesn't make
more, says Frank Putnam, in the Ma
tional Magazine. We can understand
best the men and women of our own
age. or near it. DR.. Osler spoke truth
when he said that most men cease TO
be receptive to new ideas after ~;
hence our elders in the SOS and Gus
and 7os say, who have ably guided
the affairs Of the world during the
decades Immediately ahead of us, will
often seem to us to move less rapidly
than we think they should, toward
new industrial conditions. And the
generation Immediately behind us
the restless chaps in their 2os, are
,,tt;ng more pressure upon US from
enc roar than we are able to believe Is
wholly justified.