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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
WANT The
COMPANY
DISSOLVED

The petition OF President Charles S.
Mellen OF the New York. New Haven and
Hartford Railroad company for the dis
oolution OF the Providence and Stoning-
ton steamship company has been set
Gown by the appsllats division 90 the su-
Ereme court for hearing on March 4th. In
the petition for dissolutlon.It - declar-
eo. the corporation has no debts and has
no assets except it's charter and fran
chise.
There Is said TO be no reason for the
further existence OF the corporation ana
no need for the appointment OF a re-
ceiver. The stockholders. at a meeting
held on Jan. T. 1905, passed a vote au-
thorizins Mr.. Mellen TO apply for the
winding UP OF the corporations affairs,
Owing TO tho discontinuance OF the
Ston'ngton line OF travel between this
witty and New York the corporation ex-
lsts in name only. Nathaniel w. Smith
Is counsel for Mr. Mellen.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
HEARING
ON SCHOOL
COM MISSI0N

The house judiciary committee gave
hearing ar 1880 o'clock today on the bill
establishing a school commission in the
city OF Providence. Judge Harris pre-
sided.
Alderman Ssson OF the city OF Provi-
dence defended the bill, as also ex-Com-
mission Of Public Schools Charles Phil
brick. Miss Sarah r. Doyle, one OF tho
veteran teachers in the public schools,
made mastery and convincing argument
IN favor or the amendment. and her argu-
ment was received with enthusiastic en-
comiums OF applause. a. the time OF go
ing 20 press Stephen o. Edwards IS speak-
ing I'm favor OF the bill, and II Is esu-
mated that the committee will report
favorably In support OF the establishment
OF a school commission.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
SUIT TO RECOVER
DAMAGES OF $500

The Fidelity and Casualty company has
brought suit against tho Robert Z. Smith
company TO recover 1880 damages for al
legged breach OF contract. In 1899 and in
other years the Robert z. Smith com
pany insured against losses for accidents
10 Its employees in It's yards with the
Fidelity and Casualty company.
The plaintin claims that the defendant
was 10 pay q certain per cent on wage
list. amounting 10 $4,000, and a certain
additional per cent upon an increase. The
wages paid by the Robert K. Smith COM
pany during the years IL was insured by
the plaintiff amounted TO $4,000 a year.
and suit Is brought TO recover the addi-
tional per cent which was never paid
w. Il. GreeAough is attorney for the
plaintin
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
HON. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN
IS ON THE WARPATH AGAIN

the former colonial secretary had a full
house when he rose to address the house
Of commons this afternoon on the fscal
amendment 10 the address in reply 10
the speech from the throne proposed by
Mr.. Asquith (LiberaD yesterday.
A dissolution OF parliament had no
terrors for him. he said. He was quite
content TO trust his political fortune TO
the working men. who for thirty years
had placed their confidence i'm him so
generously. In his opinion the sooner a
dissolution came the better lie hoped
however. that the government would not
abandon It's trust simply because the op-
position wanted office
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
RUSSIANS AND CHINESE CLASH.

81. Petersburg. Feb. ia telegram
from Ssehetun reports that fatal af-
Chinese at village 40 miles northw est
OF Saehetun where a party OF Russians
went on a foraging expedition. The vii
layers seized the Chinese Interpreter with
the Russians and a fight ensued during
which a Chinaman was killed. The VII
layers killed the Interpreter and fled.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
INTENSE COLD FORCE
C0LLERIES TO CLOSE

Pottsville. Pa. Feb 1.-THE Lehigh
Valley Coal company has ordered the
suspension OF n number OF the colleries
until Monday on account Of the intense
colo.
Coal washeries and jig machinery are
blocked throughout the region today
operating being impossible on account OF
the large amount of water they
quickly freezing and blocking the ma
ChIuerv.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
E0STON X SlClaN FOUND
DEAF IN FRONT OF HOME

Boston. FEB. ie-Dr. Israel Hunt. a we'll
known physician of Charlestown was
found dead on the sidewalk in front OF
his home at Monument square today
Both legs we're broken and there was
n serious injury on his head
IL is supposed that he arose in a de-
mented condition and Jumped out OF the
window ~ his room which was on the
second floor. Or. Hunt was sixty-five
Years OF age
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
THE ELKS WILL PROBABLY
NOT PURCHASE THE EL0ISE

II is improbable that Providence lodge
Of Esks. No. II. will purchase the Eloise.
as was mentioned some days ego, but
there Is little doubt but that before long
some suitable property viii be purchased.
The committes in whose hands this
matter lies - going into the matter very
carefully and something definite may be
decided upon later.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
NANTUCKET VOTERS THANKFUL.

Nantucket. Mass. Feb. fs-The voters
OF Nantucket at a town meeting today
adopted n resolution thanking the post
master general. the secretary OF the
treasurer. Congressman Greene and Post
master Binwood for seefforts which
resulted 10 the transmission OF the malls
to Nantucket by the revenue cutter
Mackinac The meeting centured the
local steamboat company.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16

making earnest efforts toward ooopera-
ton with the great education forces Of
our time The elective system Is slowly
spreading among the Summaries. few
seminaries are teaching the literary Ian
guages OF the larger mission fields. and
Offering COURSES in comparative religion.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16

Boston, Feb I6-No of character
held in Boston been marked by meetings than those held
Religious Education those arranged
for today when the be brought close The
attended by accredited
delegates convention but also by people OF Bos
attracted by the and variety of the
discussed and by the ability of the speakers.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
N. Y. BROKERS SUSPEND.

New York. Feb. IS The suspension Of
Eningwood a Cunningham. the brokers
who made an assignment FOR the bonent
OF thor creditors. yesterday. was an
nounced on the Stock Exchange today
A member OF the firm said that they
expected 90 resume business next week
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
RECOVERED FROM ILLNESS.

Mr. A. S. Pitts. local manager OF tho
10y Line, who las been confined 10 his
home for some weeks by illness. Is now
able 10 be about and has resumed his du-
tics
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
TO SPEAK BEFORE The W. c. T.U.

Miss Elsie f,ole will address tho wom-
ans Chrlsti1n Temperance union on" Tn
small hall of the v ~ q. A. Friday. al
8 o clock. Board meeting al clock
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
ke Now York Stock Market.

Reported for The News over the pri-
vate wire of EDWARD p. SHELDON &
co. Bankers and Brokers. a. Westminster
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
The Produce Market.

Reported for The News over the pri-
vate wire OF EDWARD p. SHELDON &
co. Bankers and Brokers. AZ Westminster
street
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
The Cotton Market.

Reported for The News over the pr-
vate wire OF EDWARD p. SHELDON IG
CO. Bankers and Brokers. ~ Westminster
street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16

Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protrud.nE
Piles Your druggist vii refund money
II PAZo OINTMENT falls 10 cure you IN
Q TO IL days 5oo.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

rake Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
Ill druggists refund the money IL Il fails
% cure f.. W. Groves signature Is on
nch box. 25c.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

MADAME DESMARROw-MASS
and bath. Hours 10 a. IN. TO 0 p m. 757
Westminster street. f16-2w
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-13


In a semi-facetous mood the Wash
ington Post remarks that before the
roses come again next spring Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the United States
senate are likely to be better ac-
quainted than they are at present.
Whether they shall be better friends
time alone viii tell
Taking this as a text, Joseph L.
Bristows who, by reason of his seven
years spent in Washington as one of
the stars of the Mckinley and Roose-
welt administra tons, knows something
about the United States senate as we'll
as President Roosevelt personally
makes some very interesting observa-
tions in the Salina Journal.
"It can also be safely predicted
says Mr.. Bristow, @that if the senate
blocks legislation for the control Of
freight rates that the president is ask
ing, it win get better acquainted with
the public sentiment Of the country.
The senator from the west who has
sufficient regard for the sentiments Of
his constituents viii support the policy
Of the president, ana the senator from
the east who prefers to stand for
right and justice as against corporate
greed viii support the president.
ia this fight for an equitable adjust
ment of freight rates because he is
standing for what he himself has
styled a square deal for every man.
and they are with him as strongly now
as they were a year ago. The great
mass Of President Roosevelt's western
admirers do not approve of his course
in the Morton rebate case or the Bow
ar-T F,.~,-re-.-,-
those matters he made mistakes but
that they were mistakes of judgment
and not of the heart They have no
less confidence in his sincerity of pur-
pose and still viii support him with
practical unanimity against the SEN
ate or any other political power or in
huence. They believe that he Is hons
est and a friend of the masses, and
that the senate is not. The fact that
during the last two years three MEM
bers of the highest legislative body in
the world have been indicted for grave
crimes and two of them convicted in
the courts, has not given the people a
very high regard for the integrity Of
that body.
THE holiness with which the presi-
! dent has denounced official dishonesty
and demanded the prosecution of re-
creant officials has inspired the people
with great confidence in his integrity
and courage and when it comes to an
issue between him and the senate it
requires no oracle to forecast which
side the people will take. We do not
anticipate the great struggle that is
predicted. When the issue is joined
the senate will yield to the pressure of
public opinion and permit a law to
pass, but probably try to render it
| ineffective by some hidden clause that
will only be visible to the courts at
some future time when its legal status
/ &c tested
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-13

istallments. and the accrued interest
was paid on those on which there was
ACQUIRED interest. Yet the very coupons
on which the state paid accrued in
terest are not accounted for. Some of
these coupons We're stamped as proper
ty Of the state and some were not.
There are also Irregularities in the
accounts of Blsmore township bonds
and some lola city bonds.
It may be true that the township
authorizes Of these townships clipped
the first coupons on each of these sets
of bonds and never turned them in to
the state. It seems rather peculiar
that seven months interest should be
allowed to be clipped off of the
1Iarmaton $4,000 bonds. for instance,
inasmueh as they bear only four per
cent. but it may have been done. But
this does not explain why the coupons
on which the state paid accrued inter-
est were not accounted for, nor does it
explain who got the money on the
coupons that were registered and
stamped as the state property, and the
money for which went into the state
ttreasurer's account in the fiscal agency.
Can the Record find information on
these points?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-13
HOW AROUT THIS


A representative of the state ac-
eountant was in lola recently, suppos-
ed to be checking up the interest pay
ments on Allen county-bonds held by
the state school fund. When former
Accountant Charles Rowett checked
up Allen county he reported a NUM-
Der Of coupon payments not accounted
for. The lola Record mentions the
visit of the state accountants repre-
sentative, and is led to add that the
Allen county payments are all right,
inasmuch as the first coupons on a
number of bonds were clipped before
the bonds went to the school fund
commissioners.
The Record evidently knows but part
Of the truth. Part of the Allen coun-
ty coupons which are not accounted
for are stamped as property of the
state, and were not the first series, but
the second. Here are the facts as set
forth in MI Rowett's report:
On December s. 1899, the school fund
commission purchased $4,000 of Mar
maton township, Allen county. bonds.
dated December /, 1899 running twenty
years, and bearing 4 per cent interest
There is nothing on the school COM
missioners' records to show that the
bonds were purchased to bear less
than 4 per cent, but only SO coupons
are registered in the auditors Office
as being on the bonds indicating that
the first coupons were not on the
bonds when registered. This first ser
les, due seven months after the bonds
were purchased and amounting to
1856. IS, is not accounted for, and Ac-
countant Rowett reported that they
should be accounted for III some man-
ner, not necessarily by the state treas
urer however. But inasmuch as there
was no excuse for clipping coupons
from per cent bonds, Mr.. Rowett
thought some account should be made
Of the missing coupons.
But that is not all-and the rest Of
it is the part that was not told the
/ Record.
The second series Of coupons
amounting TO $500, is not accounted
[ for either. These coupons were due
January /. 1901, thirteen months after
the bonds were purchased The can
ceued coupons are stamped as the
property of the state, showing that
+ they passed into the possession of the
Estate treasurer. Furthermore the
money to pay for them was received by
the National Bank of the Republic of
New York, at that time the fiscal
agency, and duly credited to the state
treasurer's account on January II,
l19O1. This checks it I'D to the treas
urer's office to account for this money.
Just a week after the purchase of
the Marmaton bonds, S1I5O0 of Usage
township bonds We're purchased. The
first coupons on these bonds ran only
one month. due January 1, 1900. Both
those and the coupons due July l.
1890 were not registered or stamped
as property of the state. and cannot
therefore be traced to the state treas
Jury But the series due January 1,
1901. were stamped as state property
land duly registered. the money for
them vas paid to the state fiscal
agency and placed in the account OF
1.-THE state treasurer on January IS
1901,
/ sixteen thousand dollars of Elm
township bonds were purchased in in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-13
NE PARAGRAPH.

PROBABLY the paragraph needs 70 be
reformed, but it couldn't well be abol-
ished The American people would not
tolerate the London style. Whether it
was a fault originally chargeable to
Mr.. Premise or some one else, the
American public has been educated to
like and expect the paragraph. and it
is taken at its true value. The work
of paragraphing may, indeed. be ardu-
Gus and without adequate compensa-
ton. but the man who can do such
work exceedingly we'll is a genius, one
of rare order. and he should feel the
qualification that comes from work
well done, though his pay be limited
and his name be never known to the
Notwithstanding Banner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-13
A Ghost story.

This twentieth century ghost story is
told by the London Chronicle: "A
ghost of bellicose tendencies is trou-
bling the peace of mind of the occu-
pants in an old-fashioned inn in g
village near Pontypool According to
the narrative of the proprietor, uncan-
ny noises have been heard almost
nightly for some weeks. A few nights
ago the landlords son, after he had
retired for the night, heard a click.
as though some one had pulled the
trigger of a pistol. This was followed
by a grooming noise and the slamming
of a door.
He conducted a search through the
house, but could find nothing unusual.
day or two later a customer put up
at the inn for the night. Soon after he
had retired he aroused the landlord in
alarm and complained that while in
bed he was struck on the face two or
three times by some mysterious figure.
He struck a light, but, to his surprise,
found himself alone in the room.
There were marks on his cheek where
he had been struck.
Nor. could the proprietor throw
light on the occurrences. He told OF
further curious incident Some
months ago a strange odor was noticed
in one of the rooms, and when the floor
board were taken up a wreath of
lilies of the valley in a good state OF
preservation was discovered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Personal note: Webb AfeNall brought
his grin down from Gaylord Thursday.
1t has grown considerably since John
A. McCalPs troubles began in New
York.
In deciding that a pool table is
billiard table, the judges of the Kansas
supreme court shows that they have
never spent much time visiting on the
third floor of the governors mansion.
Cannot Embezzler Dougherty of Pc
oria show that he paid the money on
those forged teachers warrants to "A.
f. BROWNE"
John Philip Sousa thinks that KAN
sa City should be proud of itself. Mr..
Sousa and Kansas City evidently agree
on that proposition.
Henry Alien and Charles F. Scott met
in Lawrence the other day, and Law
renee was greatly disappointed because
an embryotic cane rush did not take
place between them.
President McCurdy says his insur-
ance company was started as "a great
benedcient and missionary institution. .
Well, it seems to have fulfilled its pur-
pose towards the McCurdy family
The annual cane rush is to take place
at Washburn tonight. The man who
can invent way Of Harvesting the
freshman and sophomore energy that
win be wasted tonight and applying it
to running machinery viii make for
tune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atehison Globe-l

LFrom the Atehlson GiODe-1
All your troubles are exaggerated,
including the uneasiness that conscience
causes
Eating slowly doesn't mean that you
have a license to talk everybody around
you to death.
When friends urge you TO come ana
see them amy time it requires some
figuring to find out just when that time
is.
A married man who will not admit
that he has troubles at home, VIII put q
sign out whenever married life is talked
about.
We once had an ambition to fnd out
what girls talked about when together.
and gratified 1t, and have never nao
that ambition since.
There is this much about a woman
religious convictions: If she loves her
husband, and he goes about it Ike
diplomat, he can get every one OF her
convictions out o. her
When a Topeka woman goes away
from home to attend lodge or mis-
siouary convention. and is given an
office. there is more excitement when
she. comes home than there was in the
early days of the Shawnees when a
brave returned with white man s
scalp.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-13
JAYHAWKER J0TS

For the first time .inaseyen years the
lid is on in Montgomery county.
Now there is a famine in cattle cars
in southwestern Kansas. It beats all
the number of new varieties of famine
that can be invented out in that coun-
try.
The independence Reporter has
grown to be an eight-page. seven
column paper. It has come to the
front rapidly under its present man
agement
John Macdonald suggests in the
Western School Journal that every
teacher ought to ask himself or her
self this question: Fifty years after
the opening day of school what will
this boy or girl now standing before
me think of me and my work p
A Wichita woman asks for a di-
vorce from her husband because he
made love to another woman in her
presence. The court viii doubtless
grant it. The courts certainly ought
to lay down the rule that husbands
who make love to other women shall
not do so in the presence of their
wives.
The Syracuse Journal tells of a
school teacher who told her pupils of
the landing of the Pilgrims and then
asked each one of them to draw from
Imagination, a picture of Plymouth
Rock. All went to work at it but one
little fellow, who hesitated and finally
IAlSEQ HIS manu-. w eli. WHAT Is IL
asked the teacher. please, ma am.
do you want US to draw a hen or a
rooster ?"
In explaining the reason If anything
queer should creep into his columns
the editor of the LindsbOrg Record
SAYS: Upstairs there is a sewing ma
chine. a beginner on an alto horn. q
cOrnet player, thnee pianists. and two
ViOlinists. In the adjoining room is q.
gasoline engine with bad cough and
an industrious job press. The school
house is only a block away. Hence
this thusness.
Atchison Globe: A law has been
passed In Indiana prohibiting the sale
OF face powders, unless every box is
marked with the crossbones and skull.
This may seem to the women a
drastic measure, but it has been found
that the frequent and careless use of
cosmetics in the form of powder
causes all manner of skin diseases. The
Globe has no desire to become a re-
former. being kept busy with ordinary
work from sunup to shutdown, or it
would attempt to coax women to cut
out face powder Its use is growing:
did. and never WILL improve a girls
looks. Some of the victims are using
it so lavishly that we would enjoy
kissing a floury biscuit as much as we
would enjoy kissing beDowdered girl
Doctors report that pimples, blisters
and eruptfons of all sorts are largely
due to this dangerous practice. Per
haps Indiana is right. At least a
crOssbones and skull on every powder
box might make a girl think twice be-
fore beginning her hourly dabbing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-13
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

CFrom the Philadelphia, Record
A popular man may eventually be-
come as unpopular as a popular song.
No. Maude; you don't have to pump
the organ to find out all the church
gossip.
If you would avoid a breach of prom
Use suit don't cultivate engaging ways.
NeIl-''How is your friend the grass
widow getting along?" Belle--"Oh.
she's in clover"
Pugilists seldom waive their rights,
but when they do they still have their
lefts to fall back on.
Many a man has acquired a reputa-
ton for generosity by giving away the
things he didn't want.
Wigg-' sFIarduppe regards himself as
the glass Of fashion" sWagg-"WeIl,
the glass of fashion is broke"
The average fellow is ready to em-
brace an opportunity If the opportunity
takes the form of q pretty girl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-13
LOVES sACRTFTCE.

Heap high the Goals until the fire
Upleaps with lambent light,
Tor love upon the blazing pyre
VIII sacrifice tonight
He'll offer first the rose she pressed,
Then feed the flame 8 red core
With snowy lace that on her breast
She once so sweetly wore.
A knot of ribbons viii he toss,
And watch their swift eclipse;
A mouchoir soft as silken floss,
That must have touched her lips.
The fans and favors on the wall,
And note on tender note,
Each one of which he used to call
'Griefs blissful antidote.'
And last, he'll fling some fluffy strands
OF amber hair. that he
Once cherished with earessing hands,
And thoughts of sanctity.
Why, do you ask, this direful heap4
Forsooth, she married Gold,
And Love, poor little, luckless chap
Is left out in the coldi
From Rhymes and ROundelays from
Life