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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1905-01-13
ruEIr nnNEYMooN.

"How ar, you. BIZ? heard you
were married last Saturday said an
employer 10 one Of bis men.
Yes, sir"
Have . good honeymoon"
Eyes, sir, thank you"
"Wbere did you gOT'
1--WE didn't 20 anywhere. Leas'.
ways. We went 10 see the football
match In the afternoon"
But your wife hardly enjoyed IT,
did shc:'
"Didn't sac. though? They mobbcd
the referee when e. gave the match
against us. and my Sally was lucky
enough 20 get In o wipe at I'm with 'er
umbrella. She enjoyed the 'Oneymoon
more than 1 Old even London Tit
Bits
signs of the Towns Growth.
How the old town has grown" mur.
INJURED the returned traveller. Really.
It's quite o city now. There arc signs
OF progress everywhere"
yes" assented the citizen. Take
Brown & Smiths place Of business, for
instance. can remember when IL was
called . Dry Goods Emporium Later
folks called N = store. whereas to-day
Il is universally alluded to as a shop -
Cleveland Leader.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1905-01-13
sign. nf the Town. crorlh.

Paris is 10 use automobile garbage
carts Ia future.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1905-01-13
HE FATE OF LIEUT.. KGDDER.

HE FATE OF LIEUT.. KIDDER.
Many persons acquainted with the
litary history of the early West may
all the name OF Lieutenant Kidder.
the Second L : Cavalry. who per.
ed in combat with the Indians in the
|r West. II is thought that Kidder
inty. North Dakota. was named af-
Lieutenant Kidder The Republi.
printed at Steele. Kidder County
tn Dakota. recently printed a short
tch written by Dr A. J. wOodcock.
Byron. III. describing the fate Of
gallant cavalryman lie writes:
{ was early In the year 1sGs that
Itenant Kidder. with ten troops %
Second L. $. Cavalry guided by n
Gus Sioux chief. Red Bead. left
sedgewick on the South Platte
y. carrying dispatches from Lieu
Of. General VIM. T sherman to the
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1905-01-13
r. s.
NSs'=>=a-=;S<ss
Us HUMORISTS.
Nhene'cr a Joke gets fraEEled.
And sort Of seedy. then
We dress t IN another garb
And send lt out again,
PROOF LACKING

Mrs. Thirdtime-"B Both of my other
husbands had more sense than you"
Thirdtime-'You must be mistaken,
my dear. All three of us were foolish
enough to marry YOU. Chicago News.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1905-01-13
Pluck and O o
O O Rdventure.

APT. JOHN &. NOSs. a
native OF British Colum-
bia, and FOR many years
master OF Nova Scotian
ships. has just accom-
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-01
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

The sworn and proved average weekly circulation OF
The Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant for the year
ending December 81, 1904 was Io,5o9 copies.
For the six months ending June 80, 1905, the sworn
and nroved average weekly circulation I2,2SS
copies.
The Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant has
"A aygey circulation than any other North Caro-
lima ueekEy and
"A za,gey circulation than any other farm aOeekEy
tub,;sbed betyeeu PHILADELPHIA and Dallas.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-01
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
M.-After-Thoughts of the Trip.

"And now this is the las row O stumps," as
Uncle Remus told the Little Boy. With this
hatch Of miscellaneous after-thoughts. ends the
account of my trip West, and ] am glad that so
many of my readers have seemed to think these
letters worth while.
Irrgation is the most important subject that
have failed to touch upon at all. How have
escaped it hardly know, for to write of the West
without discussing irrigation is like writing OF
Shakespeare's "Hamlet' without mentioning the
mad Dane Beyond the Rockies they dream
about irrigation just as the Oklahoma people
dream about Statehood Irrigation is their shlb-
boleth and battle cry.
Nor is this strange. In Colorado they have
amended the old nursery rhyme to make it read
Little drops of water
On little grains of sand
Make mighty difference
liz the price of Western land"
All of which is easily proved by statistics any
where. Much land in Colorado which twenty-five
years ago was worth only $1.25 Per acre, has been
irrigated and now commands $500 to $500 per
About Riverside. California. where land Is
worth $4OO per acre, was a sheep ranch thirty
years ago. and the man who sold it for So an
acre thought he had caught sucker. Arteslan
wells and irrigation have made the change.
\ Colorado man told me that when dry sea-
son comes they plant onions and Irish potatoes
and the potatoes grow so large and the onions
grow so strong that they bring tears to the eyes
Of the potatoes, so that they have moisture
enough! In spite of this discovery, however, l
notice that the people are still at work trying to
harness every mountain stream-big canals run
nmg from the rivers into small bitches, and
smaller bitches into yet smaller ditches and still
smaller bitches into drainage rows in the helds'
much like the old adage that
Big feas have little feas
Upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little heas have lesser heas,
And so ad infnitun."
Ihe United States Governoment, as everybody
Knows, is now extensively engaged in the irriga
uon business, and about Nampa, Idaho, we founc
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-01

work in progress on a system of reservoirs to
cost $11,0OO.OOO. These are expected to reclaim
100000 acres of land, increasing the price from
500 and $40 to 5000 per acre. Each farmer will
be given ten years time in which to pay for the
actual cost of getting the water to his farm, and
the government will then withdraw from the field
entirely, leaving the water rights the permanent
property of the farmer. Heavy crops of alfalfa.
corn, sugar beets, etc., etc., grown on the
irrigated lands. And all this reminds me that
Horticulturist Hume is of the opinion that our
truckers in the Carolinas could use irrigation to
splendid advantage the tests which have
been made so far corroborate his opinion. More
of our people should look into the matter.
It would be rather strange if the West should
ever lose all trace of the wild and woody, for
Nature herself is so eccentric and freakish be-
yond the Mississippi. Not only has she piled the
Rocky Mountains in colossal confusion, and bis
tered wide-sweeping deserts, and nurtured sky
scraping trees, and opened giant geysers, but
she also shows fondness for cyclones and
drouths and floods entirely foreign to the demure
Mother Nature we Fasteners know. Usually
they raise enormous corn crops in Kansas-and 1
saw a Kansan in st. Louis last year who In
bountiful year had burnt in his stove 1t
being cheaper than coal. But after several years
of plenty, Nature may go off into a tantrum,
bring on drouth, and the people actually suffer
want The ghastliest freak of Western Nature
l saw was cyclone-swept Snyder, the stricken
Oklahoma town. In Portland / saw a man who had
spent five years building home in Texas and
had nice house, farm, and orchard until cy-
clone swept everything into the next county. Out
| in Western Kansas passed through line
| wheat country but the rains had almost drowned
the corn Fifteen years ago, we told, it new
| er rained here the land was as arid the des-
| ert. Along the western border of the Dakotas,
| too, where it seldom rained until five years ago.
there has been enough rain three years in sue
| cession to make good crops.
|
Not only does the farmer escape cyclones and
| drouths in the South but land is so much cheaper
| with rs Tt looks to if the South ought
now to be most attractive field for the immi-
| grant of small means anxious to build home
of his own. And now that practically all the gov
ernment land in the West has been taken up,
why should it not be the natural thing TOR I'M
migration to turn Southwark!
| The West is a land of magnificent opportuni-
| +;as of course but so is the South, and my con-
viction is that we have the finest people, the best
| men and women in the South that are to be
| found anywhere It is good atmosphere In
which TO be born and in which to grow up we
hove some fine old-fashioned ideals OF honor,
i and q reverence for gentle and sacred tmngs'
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-01
Weekly-$l a Year.

that the bustling North and the breezy West seem
to to lack.
For thing, take regard for women. An
Oregon young whose mother Texan
spoke to me about this difference between the
West and the South "In Portland" he said, mot
one man in a thousand will let woman go before
him in getting a street car; not one In
thousand will take off his hat if woman comes
into the elevator; while as for giving up ones
seat to in street car, have done this
when it made me so conspicuous [ almost felt
ashamed of myself"
But let me not do an injustice to the Western
men. It is not all their fault-not by any means.
The Western woman seems to have been trying
so aggressively to prove herself the "equap of
man by breaking into his sphere that he does not
think of her belonging to any higher sphere.
Down South the women don't vote not because
the men don't think them good enough, but be-
cause we think them too good And the expe-
rience of Utah and Colorado and Wyoming and
other States where woman suffrage obtains only
goes to show the striking fitness of the toast
man once proposed in Of these States: "Here,s
to woman-once our superior, now our equalP'
So after Southerner has been out West he is
moved to thank God for the Southern woman and
the Southern Sabbath! And observance of
Sunday is only an evidence of old-fashioned
Puritan faith in God and the Bible. There is no
doubt but that at times we have interpreted both
with rigid and unlovely coldness that has been
harmful but the austerest Puritanism is ever to
be preferred to any sort of easy EDicureanism
that nevertheless leaves rudderless on a sea
of doubt.
In former letter mentioned the Westerners
lack of regard for Sunday, and reported some
specific Illustrations. In San Francisco Sunday
CLOSING is entirely optional with the merchant Or
shon keeper Saloons are full blast; the market
stalls are literally patronized; the sound OF car
penters building wakes you on Sunday morning;
picnic parties march through the streets with
brass bands; and at night the theatres probably
draw larger crowds than the churches.
Church spires not only not so prominent
in the outlines of Western towns as in the South,
but of the churches large proportion are OF the
freak sort-Christian Science and Universalist
churches not to mention the Mormons, whose
| missionary zeal has already been noticed. Some
| body has represented thorough-golng Atheist
as SAYING: T can believe anything provided 1t IS
not in the Bible" So it is that many people who
think it credulity to accept Biblical stories as
true are vet ready to credit the widest stories
| of unsayory spiritualists and mediums"
very much impressed by the large number OF
| fakirs of this sort who advertise in the San
Francisco papers.
CONTINUED on Page 81
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-01

Ihe United States Governoment, as everybody
knows, is now extensively engaged in the irriga-
uon business, and about Nampa, Idaho, we found
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-01

npocREssIvE FARMER-vOL. Xxx NO. 2G
liz COTTON PILANT-VOL. XXI. NO. "A
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-07
Wreck of Barge Texas
On Block Island.
Men Form a Life Line and Drag Four
of the Barge's Crew From the,
Surf. Two Others
Drown.
(By the Assoclated Press. }

Block Island, r. l., April 6.-Two
men lost their lives and three were
rescued by four islanders following
the wrecking today of the barge Texas
on Block Island, and the grounding
of the tug Covington, which had the
barge in tow.
The tug cut loose of her tow and
reached New London some hours later
in leaking condition.
The dead seamen are Joseph Berne,
Boston. deck hand, and John L. Toole,
Newbedford, cook.
The saved are Captain Oscar Olsen,
of Providence; John Clayton, engineer,
Newport News, and Perry Simmons,
deck hand of the West Indies.
The wreck occurred during a thick
fog. The tow line was cut, and the
men nthe barge putting on life pre-
servers, plunged overheard. The dis
tress whistles of the tug brought four
men from the southeast light to the
scene. and rushing down the cliff to
the beach, they formed line and
dragged four of the men from the
breakers. Berne was the last man to
be taken out, and he died a few min
utes later. The cook was drowned.
The Covington and Texas were
bound up the coast from Newport
News for Boston with a load of soft
coal and the two craft grounded al
most simultaneously. The Texas
which is of iron and was formerly the
steamer Knickerbocker, will be ~
tai loss. She was owned by the Sea-
bo1d transportation Company, of
New York.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-07
AN ADDRESS AT WACO.
Whistles Tear the Air and Cannon
Thunder Welcome.
(By the Associated Press. J


Waco, Texas, April 6.-Amid the
thunder of cannon shrieking of steam
whistles and the hurrahs of thousands
of people, the special train bearing
President Roosevelt over the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railroad rolled into
the station shortly after O'Clock to-
day The President was met by re-
ception committee of Confederate and
Grand Army organizations and was
given cordial greeting.
The President-4Nvas escorted to the
park adjoining the depot where an
immense assembly awaited him. The
reception here was an ovation. Hats.
handkerchiefs, umbrellas and flags
were waved by the people Each per-
son entering the park bore a small
United States flag and the futtering Of
thousands of these embiems made a
beautiful spectacle. >
The President in his address said:
Much though you believe in Texas
you cannot believe in it any more than
/ do. l have been passing through tho
North and Middle States, and it is
borne in on me at every stop what a
marvellous heritage you OF this great
commonwealth enjoy, and mind you
anything that tends to the greatness of
q part of the United States inevitably
tends to the greatness of he whole.
All the United States is concerned
VIII the greatness OI 1EAdS UGCdust-
every good American feels that he has
some part in the ownership of every
square foot of American soil. Most
assuredly all that l can do will, as a
matter of courlse, be done for the
greatness of every portion, South and
North, East and West OF our common
country.
"One of the things that has gratified
me most is that every place where 1
have stopped in Texas / have been met
by the mingled bands of those who
wore the blue and those who
wore the gray in the great Civil War.
Here in your own town / am met by
one OF my former comrades who was
in my regiment He can tell you that
III that regiment we had the sons of
the Confederate and sons of the Union
soldier, and that we judged each one
by the will and power with which he
could serve cur common country. [
believe in Texas with all my heart and
soul, because / believe in the United
States with all my heart and soul.
You must bear in mind that in per-
forming the duties of citizenship that
come to you, you deal not only with
your own concerns but with the con-
Germs of the entire nation"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-07
EDWARD HOBNOBS
WITH NJ. LOUBET
No Coquetting With Mo
rocco, Wilhelm.
THEY LOOK JUST THAT
And the Public Takes the Meeting and
Conference as a Conspicuous Re-
sponse to the Attitude of Ger
many Toward Morocco. Ger
man Minister Appointed.
man Minister Appointed.
lBy the Associated Press. }

Paris, April 6.-The arrival of
King Edward in Paris today was the
occasion for a notable manifestation
of Anglo-French cordiality, which is
being generally interpreted tonight as
a conspicuous response to Germany's s
attitude regarding Morocco, although
the King remained but a short time.
He was met outside the city by Presi-
dent Loubet, who held private con-
versation with His Majesty, lasting
nearly an hour.
The details of the conversation eX-
cite a wide range of speculation, but
it's actual purport has not been dis
closed. However, a semi-ofticial COM
munication recites that the meeting
had far less reserve than that between
King Edward and President Loubet
last year and that it was marked by
the freedom of the confidence eX-
changed.
Beyond tlIis private conversation
King Edward confined himself to the
usual public expressions of good WILL
He spoke at the station of the pleas
ure q visit to France always gave him,
but there was not the slightest pub
lie utterance having significance upon
pending political affairs. In this re-
spect the Kings reserve is being COM
pared with the freedom of Emperor
Williams recent utterances. The
passage of the King was unattended
by any spectacular features. as it was
the earnest wish of the authorities to
avoid political demonstration.
President Loubet joined the royal
train at Pierreftte station, where,
surrounded by distinguished officials
of both governments the two rulers
exchanged their first greetings. The
King conducted President Loubet to
his private car, where conversation
continued until the Lyons railway
station was reached. Outside the sta
ton the crowd was held back by cor
dons Of police, the absence of military
display being noticeable. During the
half hour at the station King Edward
continued to talk with President Lou
bet, and held an extended conference
with the British ambassador at Paris,
Sir Francis Levison BERTHE.
King Edward left Paris at 1910
o'clock for Marseilles, where he will
join Queen Alexandra on board the
royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
The effect of the visit appears to be
strengthening the determination to
proceed with Frances policy in Nor
Occo in accordance with the terms of
the Anglo-French agreement as the
visit is construed as a timely express
sion from the signatOries of that
agreement.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-07
Downed By the Majority
of 529.
MADE PEOPLE STARE
The Loss of the Prohibition Vote, On
Which the Dispensary Advocates
Had Been Counting, SmOte
It Under the Fifth.
Rib.

Especial to News and ObserverO
Asheville, N. c., April 6.-The cleo
tion in Asheville today for the pur-
pose of deciding whether liquor should
be sold from a dispensary or by Is
bar rooms resulted in big victory
for the saloons and the defeat of the
dispensary proposition by a majority
of 529.
The election was one of the quietest
for many years. Both sides worked
hard during the early morning hours.
There was little friction, and when the
dispensary people saw that they were
hourly losing ground they lost heart
and before noon practically gave up
the fight.
The prohibition vote stayed at home
or went fishing, and this accounts in
Il large measure for the big majority
in favor of the saloons. There was no
provision made under the Webb dis.
peIrsary law for the prohibition votes
and only one was cast. This vote was
challenged but the judges failed to
sustain the challenge and it was
counted.
The day was featured by a snow
storm that kept up for several hours,
although the weather was not cold.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-07

he, 'look now down with pity on this
young man about to be launched into
eternity for the Grim 'nich he has
committed. He has o.. his
guilt and repentance $50 fSSo IApYI
We commend him, 001 ~
mercy. ~
1--WE thank thee for the good
duct of the people, for the full and
fair trial that the prisoner was ac-
corded and we pray that Gods pity
may be granted to him. and that mis-
death may teach a lesson to all, that
the wages of sin is death"
The prisoner was on the trap.
Sheriff Marsh and Deputy Monahan
tied him about with ropes. his hands.
his feet, coils about his body and his
knees. Once he protested:
Mind out Mr. Marsh that's too
tight"
Finally, after he had said his good
byes, Deputy Monaghan put on the
black cap and adjusted the moose. A
nervous man is the deputy and he
wanted to make an easy shift of this
young boy. Standing on the brink.
with the wicked knot under the left
ear, the deputy pulled on the rope.
forcing it down upon the neck.
From the muffling folds of the black
cap came a sudden cry:
On LOfUy, uOH pun IIdI SO IlRnlt
there amt no need of that"
Deputy Monaghan jumped back. He
tore the rope combining the spring of
the gallows. With a cry Of relief he
shouted: "All right sir!" Sheriff Marsh
pulled the lever; the trap fell; at the
end of the rope. turning like a top
for a moment. hung the black hooded
body of the prisoner.
But only for a moment. for the legs
contracted till the knees came almost
to the chest. They shot back stiffiy
with cOnvulsive force. The rope
creaked with the agony at it's end. 1t
swayed across the narrow width of the
staircase. The body bumped against
the wall near the window. On the
the feet struck the steam
pipes running across the width of the
tiers of cells. The feet caught. For
Continued on Page Six.)
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-07
Peace AppreciabIy Nearer.
(By the Assoeiated Press }


St Petersburg, April 6.-At the
German Embassy the statement that
it had advised the Foreign Office that
ii regarded an early conclusion of
peace as probable was denied. The
embassy, it was pointed out, simply
reported the prevailing talk about
peace in st. Petersburg. The embassy
now shares the opinion expressed in
these dispatches that the efforts made
in the direction of peace failed and at
this moment nothing is being done.
The general feeling exists in dip
lomatic circles, however, that peace
has been brought appreciably nearer.
The admiralty processes ignorance of
the exact-whereabouts of Vice Admiral
Rojestvensky's squadron and has no
information showing that the three
vessels sighted by the steamer Mar
mora (Which arrived at Colombo, Cey-
Ion, Yesterday $50 miles southeast of
Ceylon April belonged to the Rus
sian squadron. Nevertheless the be-
lief prevails in naval circles that the
squadron will go through the Straits
of Malacca, but that Admiral Togo's
heavy division will not be encountered
until Rojestvensky reaches the eastern
sea
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-07
Cheering Rough Riders
Greet Their Chief.
SAN ANTONIO ABLAZE
Sill Under the Far-Streaming Rays Of
the Lone Star, Roosevelt is WhirIed
Onward to a City ArraYed as
a Bride For His
Coming.
(Bv the Associated Press. )

San Antonio, Texas, April 6.-After
an eventful trip today across a large
portion of Texas, President Roosevelt
arrived in San Antonio at S:S9 o'clock
tonight When the special train bear
ing the President reached the station,
he was greeted with cheers from
thousands of throats and the lusty
thurrahs" of his old comrades in
arms, the Rough Riders of the Span
ish War, who are holding their an
nual reunion near the crumbling
walls of the historic Alamo, could
plainly be heard above the din.
The city is maze of color in hon
or of the Presidents visit. Business
houses and residences are decorated
with flags and bunting and tomorrows S
exercises promise to be the most pa
triotic demonstration ever held in
Texas,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-07
RUSSIA. 1890. 7890$ 7S90$ 7S9 rs:
REPULSE AT CHICHEATUN.
Russians Attack With Infantry Sup.
ported by Artillery But are
Beaten.
CBy the Associated Press.)

Toxic, April 6.-G p. m.)-Imperial
army headquarters reporting today
says:
part of the Kaituyuan force en-
gagged in driving the enemy, occupied
Kuiyushu, three miles north of Mien-
huachieh on the afternoon of April 4.
"On the afternoon of April 3, the
enemy with mounted artillery and ma
chine guns advanced south from the
direction of Tawo, on the Fenghua
road, and on the morning of April 4
opened a bombardment on Chinchea-
tun.
simultaneously a large force of in
fantry advanced from the vicinity of
the main road, two other columns de-
touring 10 cover both our TANKS.
They approached within 400 metres
of our position, but at O'Clock in the
evening we entirely repulsed them.
'Our casualties We're 27 men wound
ed The enemy's loss is uncertain but
it is estimated at over 200 killed and
wounded.'