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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-24

Although he will not participate in the
opening production OF the Albee stock
company at Keiths tonight Tom Wise,
the new comedian Of the company. will
be present 20 see from the front the
first performance % his fellow players,
having arrived from Chicago this after
noon direct from his emphatic success
there In Home Folks" Mr. Wise 5
first appearance with the Albee company
will be next week when he will appear
in that furiously funny farce. Are You
a Mason?" i'm which he was co-starred
for two seasons with John G. Rice Are
You a Mason" besides being the fun
niost play presented IN this country in
years. will be a sharp contrast TO the
first production In which the Albee COM
pany will appear and will be an espec
ially happy demonstration OF their YER
satility. The great interest felt in this
play. especially by members Of secret So
cieties. Is evidenced by the fact that six
parties OF secret societies have already
been arranged and several are being
planned. but the nights not definitely
settled as yet. Nir. Edwin Nicander.
who has been dangerously ill the past
few weeks Is now convalescing and will
appear for the first time this season May
8. Mr.. VIM. II. Turner. another mem
Der Of the company late IN arriving ow-
ing 20 the length OF his starring tour in
David Harum." will appear for the first
time this season May %.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-24

Tonight the Edward r. Albee Stock
company begins its nth season al
Keith's The return Of these favorite
PLAYERS has beer long and eagerly an
ticipated by local theatregoers and
everything seems remarkably promising
for their opening The theatre will
doubtless be packed TO the doors for
even standing room Is in great demand
by those who are anxious 10 be among
the FIRST TO welcome the newcomers and
greet the old favortes. The local for
lists are also glad 10 welcome the Albee
company members for their opening
means a big business for the florists.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-24
\ HE THEATRE$

George Ade IS the author Of the must
cal play Peggy From Paris" which
will come TO the Providence Opera
House tonight and 1t contains some Of
the cleverest wit Of that celebrated hu-
morist and his brightness and satire are
constant and unfailing. one OF the early
hits in the play Is an ode to an oyster
stew Therein Mr.. AIDE voices the mem
ory of boyhood misery. Mr.. AIDE has
spent his youth on farm in Indiana.
The community in which he lived was
public spirited in a way. also social, and
both public spirit and sociability found
expression in oyster suppers. II the viii
lage wanted TO raise money for an enter
prise they got up an oyster supper; II
the church needed anything, an oyster
supper was arranged TO raise the fund.
whenever anybody gave party the re-
freshments were always sure to include
an oyster stew. Young AIDE suffered
from this oyster stew habit. His family
was public spirited and felt that IT ought
to contribute 10 all public needs, there
fore must patronze the oyster suppers.
None Of the other members went often.
but George was sent as the family rep
resentative. He was n social favorite
too. SO he was invited 10 the oyster sup
pers lie declares that the oyster stews
Of those days consisted OF a little milk
in \ lot OF water and a surface OF grease
upholding a few crackers. II such a
thing as an oyster entered into the con-
cotton the boy never saw n sign OF 1t,
consequently he grew TO hate the very
thought Of an oyster stew, and when he
wrote Peggy From Paris" the memory
OF that awful dose was strong upon him
and he poured forth his bitterness in the
comical "Ode 10 an oyster Stew
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-24
HOTELS.
HOTEL UpDIKE

EAST GREENWICH. r. l.
American and European plan. station
No. 4, Rhode Island Auto Club. Electric
cars pass the house. Sunday Dinners
from ?. m. 10 p. m, 75 cents
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-24

Jean Schwartz. who gave the world
"Bedeia." has written a new song for
May Irwin. II Is called Tennessee"
and will be sung by the comedienne dur
ing her forthcoming engagement In the
Providence Opera House.
May Irwin is said 10 enjoy the work Of
playing after two years OF enforced rest
as much as ever before The jolly come
dienne is the picture Of health and old
time good. IN nor, which she seems to
radiate from her pleasing personality.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-04-24

with the inauguration OF the stock
season at Koiths. Manager Lovenberg
will enforce the rule OF allowing no peo-
pic 90 be shown 60 their seats after the
curtain has been raised on amy act and
the action OF tho play IS wCil begun.
This is a rule that Will be heartily well
coined bv everyone, and with n little
gorethought and courteous consideration
bv fow annoyance and bother may be
saved thousands This rule Will shortly
ba introduced az The Madison Square
theatre. IN New York md it viii doubt
less Re taken up 10y all the New York
theatres soon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
d Tell-Tale Envelopes.

An envelope has been designed that
mail thieves cannot tamper with un-
detected. There are two ways in
which ordinary envelopes, may be
opened-one by forcing the flap open
with thin metal blade and the 9TH
er by steaming the envelope until the
mucilage no longer holds the flap. In
either case. it is difficult for even the
person to whom the letter is addressed
to ascertain whether the envelope has
been opened unless something has
been extracted. The improved envel-
ope differs from the ordinary kind only
in having a sheet OF tissue paper at
>tached to the flap and extending down
inside the pocket. This sheet attaches
itself to the surface of the envelope
with the sealing Of the letter, and it
is obvious that any attempt to force
the flap would tear the letter, and, in
spite Of the utmost caution, the torn
tissue would be plainly seen when
the envelope was opened in the proper
way. To detect any subjection to the
steaming process the tissue is secured
to the flap by colored mucilage,
which liquifies instantly when brought
into the. presence of hot steam, dau5-
ing the inner and outer surface of the
letter until it plainly indicates the use
OF improper methods to ascertain the
contents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
nse For Tree Stunps.

Professor Frankforter, of Minnesota
University, has been studying the mat
ter Of utilizing the immense number
of stumps of the great Douglas FIR
forest which cover thousands Of square
miles of the Pacific Northwest Lum.
bermen leave high stumps in cutting
these trees because the amount OF
resiAous pitch in the tree near the
ground makes them difficult to cut
Professor Frankforter says:
SIT has long been known that the
pitch in the abandoned stumps had a
commercial value, but means of ex'
tracing it had not been at hand. 1t
was to provide these means that l
spent months experimenting.
'To give tersely the results, I will
say that each stump contains forty
per cent. Of it's bulk in pitch. 1t con-
tains FIVE or six cords Of wood. or the
pitch in the stump twenty per cent can
be easily resolved into turpentine,
thirty per cent. into tar and Oil, anu
fifty per cent. into common tar.
"All the products of the fir stumps
can be removed by what is technically
known as destructive distillation.' One
of the most marvellous features is that
during the distillation process the tlr
gives out a gas of strong heating and
Illuminating powers, sufficient to main.
tain the process and furnish the means
of extracting the products desired for
commercial purposes. The distillation
pays for itself and leaves the products
of the pitch practically clear profit"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
Lucky Stare Fright.

One of the most striking anecdotes
told in Hermann Klein's Thirty
Years of Musical Life in London" ,"
relates to Anton Seidps first interview
with Wagner, in the library at Wahn'
fried. Seidl found the room dark; and,
imagining nobody was there, he pulled
out his letter of introduction and be-
gan silently rehearsing the speech he
had prepared. Suddenly, from out OF
a gloomy corner, Wagner appeared
and Seidl was so nervous that he
could not bring out a sentence Of his
speech. This proved to be his sal
vation, for Wagner, declaring, IF you
can work as we'll as you can hold
your tongue, you will do" engaged him
on the SPOT.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
Poi4ous In the, Body.

The body,is a factory of poisons If
these poisons, which are constantly
being produced in large quantities in
the body, are imperfectly removed, or
are produced in too great quantity, as
the result Of overfeeding. the fluids
which surround the brain cells and all
the living tissues are contaminated
with poisonous substances which as
phyxiate and paralyze the cells, and SO
interfere with their activity. This
fact explains. in part, at least, the
stupidity which is a common after
dinner experience with many persons !
When food is retained in the stom-
ach beyond the normal time, either be-
cause of it's indigestibility, the taking
of too large a quantity of it, or a
crippled state of the stomach, these
changes are certain TO take place. This
fact explains very large share Of the
myriad symptoms which af1ict the:
chronic dyspeptic. The giddiness, the
tangling sensations, the confusion of
thought, and even partial insensibility.
which are not infrequently Observed
a few hours after meals in chronic dys-
peptics, are due to this cause. Here
is the explanation of the irascibility,
the dependency. the pessimism, the
indecision and various other forms OF
mental perversity, and even moral de-
pravity, which are not infrequently
associated with certain forms of gas
tro-intestinal disturbances. - Family
ROp+or London
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Spirituality means honesty, truth
fulness, purity and reverence.
You cannot prove that you are good
by proving that somebody else IS bad.
He alone is an acute observer who
can observe minute!y without being
observed.
Men satisfy their consciences by feel.
ing their wrong-doing will not come to
plague them.
However vast may appear the world
in which we move, we all Of US live IN
q limited circle.
It is a great misfortune not to have
enough wit to speak well or not enough
Judgment to keep silent.
The cause of irritation fs always
within. That which is external can
never be more than an occasion which
enables the cause to become operative.
Eradicate the cause if you would gain
tranquility.
The habit of blaming others when
things 60 wrong is an insidious and
dangerous one. Far more Is it the
purpose to inquire within whether the
fault or much Of it may not lie at
home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
Tn Old Times.

Once kings did all the work of gov
ernment. Thus, we hear Of King Sol
omon acting as judge and jury. Kings
went to war and led their armies on
to victory or defeat. Later certain
mobiles thought they should have some
thing to do with the government, and
finally their claims were granted. Still
later certain landed gentlemen deemes
it only right that they should have a
voice in government, since they had
large interests that were affected, and
this claim was granted. Later on all
men claimed the right to have some
voice in government. and this was
granted. During all this time women
were entirely overlooked. Now the
women think they should have voice
In government, vote, since they have
as large interests at stake as men, and
this seems to be reasonable conclu-
sion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
A Long Time.

Budd Doble, the veteran reinsman,
used to attend frequently a queer lit
tie church on the outskirts of Phila.
delphia. His friends would hear from
him q great many facts about this
church. One Monday he said:
AT last the meaning of eternity has
been made clear to me. The parson
explained eternity yesterday in such
way that everybody could under
stand.
" "'Eternity,' said the parson, is for
ever. and five or six eVerlastings on
top of that. Why, brothers and Sis
ters, after millions and billions Of
centuries had rolled away in eternity
it would still be a hundred thousand
years to breakfast time '"-New York
Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
USES OF REINDEER WOOL;
Blankets and Cloth es Made Of It Arc e,
celIent Protection Against Moisture.

Blankets and Cloth es Made of It Arc Ex-
celIent Protection Against Moisture.
Thousands Of years ago the reindeer
roamed far into the temperate zone OF
the European sxd American continents.
To-day they are found only in the Far
North. Whoever visits the more re-
mote regions of Norway soon learns OF
the great Importance Of the reindeer
to the norladic Laplanders.
America has q specially strongly
built species. not yet domestlcated'
called caribou. 1t is found in all parts
of Canada, and also in Greenland,
where it is made use Of. In Northern
Europe and Northern Asia, besides the
Laplanders, the Samojedes and
Tungese keep large herds Of these ami
mails; in fact, they are their most Vaiu'
able and almost their only property.
The meat serves as food, the hide fur
nishes good leather for tents and CLOTH
ing. and the female reindeer yields
nourishing milk.
From time immemorial the Lapland-
ers have known how to manufacture
coarse but warm blankets from the
woolIy hair of the reindeer. These are
an excellens protection against mois'
ture and frost. The inhabitants OF
Sweden and Norway were the first
TO observe how we'll the reindeer
swims across large bodies Of water.
This led to the thought that there
must be something in the anlmafs
hair suitable to the making of useful
textiles. This, in turn. then led to the
manufacture of fabrics which are used
mainly for protecting the body when
the wearer goes out on the sea in Win
ter.
A close examination of the hair OF
the reindeer furnishes an explanation
of it's peculiar value. The hair does
not have a hollow inside space for it's
whole length, but is divided or parti-
toned off into exceedingly numerous
cells like water-tight compartments.
These are filled with condensed air
and their walls are SO elastic and at
the same time of such strong resis-
tance that they are not broken up Ell
ther during the process Of manufac-
ture of by swelling when wet The
cells expand in water, and thus it hap
pens that a man clad completely IN
garments made of reindeer wool does
not sink when in water, because he IS
buoyed up by means OF the air con-
tained in the hundreds Of thousands
of hair cells.
In the markets and stores of Norway.
Sweden and Russia garments and
blankets of reindeer wool are to be
mad at lower prices than other fabrics.
In Vienna there is factory which
manufactures garments Of reindeer
wool, especially bathing costumes. For
persons unable to swim the possession
of such garments is of great value. 1t
is possible that they may be utilized
in learning how to swim. Recently
successful trials have been made in
Paris in this line.
In England attention has been di-
rected to this peculiar property OF
reindeer wool, and it is proposed to
take up it's manufacture and possibly
to improve it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25

chanic and was constantly improving
the plant. Even in those days, before
the discovery of the hand press, the
Bund was engaged with the problem
of making a press that should work
without noise. 1t was at last made,
but was not installed in Babroisk, but
in another city. the secret Of which
remains with the Bund."
Where the new issue Of the Voice is
published cannot be told. The last
number was a handsomely printed
magazine of twenty-six pages. Among
the articles was one dealing with the
late Luba Isantad, woman leader of
the Bund, who lived in New York. The
paper is Of good quality, and there
are many articles of general interest
besides those devoted to the work of
the revolutionary propaganda-Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
Stopping q Cough.

Apropos of public coughing: I always
carry something to hand to habitual
coughers, which is about the limit OF
my philanthropy. One night I saved
a performance Of LADY Windermere' 8
Fan" by means Of a tablet triturate
which a woman in the centre Of the
auditorium was prevailed upon to lei
dissolve in her mouth. Her hacking
expiration had set the whole house on
pins and needles, spears and pitch
forks, and dozens of disgusted folk
were about to quit the theatre. Even
the actors were in distress. She sub
sided instantly, but nobody sent me a
vote of thanks engrossed on embossed
vellum. A person with a cough ought
to have too much sense, or delicacy.
or self-abnegation to go to a theatre.
There is such place as home.
Another coughing woman, plasteriug
US all over with her symptomatie
germs, attracted my attention in an
elevated car, and with a profound
obeisance I produced tablet, with a
polite suggestion that it would afford
immediate relief. You should have
seen that look! Daggers were not in
it, but forked lightning. "How dare
your she hissed, struggling away.
"You may be a poisoner. I do not
know you" She was on the safe side.
81 am not Jack the Poisoner,'" I said.
"See! am not afraid to take my own
medicine" With that, I broke the
tablet in two and ate half. She
thanked me, took the other half and
stopped coughing.-Victor Smith, in
the New York Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
CARNEGIE AND THE CHEMIST
The Little German Made the Crane
Work and Earned Fortune.

The Little German Made the Cranes
Work and Earned Fortune.
When electricity was first being put
to commercial uses, the Carnegie Steel
Company invested in electric travel
ing cranes to the extent of S250,0O0.
After the cranes had been delivered
and paid for, the discovery was made
that they wouldn't work. AS a result
the men who had talked Mr.. Carnegie
into giving his approval to the pur-
chase of the cranes sat up nights try
ing to find way to make them travel,
and incidentally wondering what
would happen to then if they did not
discover the way. 49,.
While these lieutenants were thus
occupied, little, unostentatious chem
ist in the Edgar Thomson works, who
had recently come over from Germany,
spent his spare time in making a set
Of plans for some sort of mechanical
construction. When he had finished,
he rolled up his work, placed it under
his arm, went to Mr.. Carnegie's Pitts
burg office and sought admission. In
the course Of time he got to his en-
ployer. ....
"Mr. Carnegie" he said, after he had
introduced himself, 'I can make the
electric cranes Co."
Mr.. Carnegie looked at his visitor
in astonishment.
'You make them gor' he said, in
credulously. "Do you know that the
best electrical experts in America can't
make them go?"
II do," was the reply, "but I can
make them 60 just the same"
"Tell me how" said Mr.. Carnegie,
impressed by his employees earnest
ness.
With that the little chemist, who had
not been given credit for knowing any,
thing beyond the range of his mortar
and tubes, unfolded his blue print
plans and started to explain his
scheme. Before he got fairly we'll
started it was evident to Mr.. Carnegie,
poor mechanic that he is, that the Ger
man had hit upon the one idea that
would make the cranes so. He turned
to his desk, and while the man at his
elbow kept up his struggle with the
English language, he wrote out the or
der:
"Mr. - is to have any material and
any men that he deems proper at his
disposal until further notice."
"Take that" he said, as he handed
the paper to the German. and broke
of the interview, "and if you make the
cranes go, shall be much pleased"
A month later the chemist again OBJ
tained an audience with Mr.. Carnegie.
'They. are all working" he said.
To-day the man is living in Germany.
where he is running vineyard. He
bought it with part Of the $3.50, 900
the cost Of the cranes-that Mr.: Car
negie allotted him of the stock of the
Carnegie Steel Company.-New York
Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
The Billfonaire's Progress.

When he had nothing, he had thou
sand friends.
By dint of industry and some little
scheming, he managed to get together
$4,000, and at the same time lost five
hundred of his friends.
BY the time he had 100000, he had
dropped one hundred friends.
When the 100000 grew to 81, 900, 900,
his list of friends had decreased to
fifty.
when he could count $1OO,OOO 900,
he had only two friends left
The $500, 100000 mark he celebrated
by observing that mans only friend
was himself.
When he achieved his billion. he was
SO sore on himself tnat he was unhap-
py ever after.-W. D. Nesbit, in Life
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
CONDENSED ORCHARDS
Who're the Trees Are Kept Dwarfed AMI
Great Crops Produced.

Great Crops Produced.
A certain boy with famous appetite
for fruit discovered early in his career
that the trees with the best fruit were
to be found in what was called the
hospital" Of his grandfather's fruit
nursery, a piece Of ground devoted to
refuse trees, which were too small for
customers, and which were often taken
up and replanted. Many fine feast
the boy enjoyed in the hospital, says q
writer in Pearson's Magazine, but it
was not until he came to a thinking
age that he realized why these particu-
lar trees bore fine crops, although they
never made strong growth.
The reason was simply that they
were often moved, and that the ground
round about them was often dug over.
Understanding this he began to intro
duce a new system Of fruit cultivation.
that of making the trees fruitful and
healthy by keeping their roots near the
surface, pruning the trees frequently.
and moving the trees if necessary once
in about two years. In this way the
trees are kept dwarfed, and great crops
are produced.
I'm old-fashioned orchards trees are
allowed to grow to whatever size and
in whatever shape they will, and the
grass is allowed to grow beneath, for
food, it may be, for cattle. But now
the orchards are orchards in miniature.
condensed orchards, with trees only a
few feet in height, and generally either
pyramidal in shape or like little bushes
and the ground beneath them is care
fully cultivated.
An apple orchard of one acre planted
with dwarf trees will contain more
than 900 trees shaped either as broad
little bushes or as regular pyramids,
and there will be space for some 7O0
smaller bush fruits between the trees.
The effect on the fruit trade that has
been wrought by such revolutlonlzing
idess cannot be calculated. The little
bush or pyramidal trees make very tne
ornaments for lawns or gardens.
Still more interesting is the method
of growing fruit trees in pots as orna-
ments for Conservatives. The trees,
with their beautiful foliage and fruit.
are as decorative as any exotic flower,
and would be we'll worth growing for
their beauty alone, even if their fruit
were uneatable. In the gardens at
Sawbridgeworth, in England, small or
chards are grown in pots under glass
orchards of peaches. nectarines, cher
ries and plums, while pears are grown
in pots in simple orchard houses, with.
out artificial heat.-Youth's Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-25
Soluble Tea.

This is a new preparation which has
made an appearance in Ceylon. 1t is
described as "a pure soluble tea, pos
sessing all the best properties of tea.
with a minimum amount of tannin." A
one ounce bottle holds enough or the
tea powder to make fifty cups. AL
ready a slpply has been sent for use
in Somallland; it is likely to make it's
way into Egypt, and it has met with
Lord Kitchener's appreciation.