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The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
DOUBLE INJUSTICE.

The negro soldiers OF the Twenty-fifth
infantry who are guilty OF the outrages
committed at Brownsville Texas, last
August, deserve hanging or life imprisou-
ment. They killed one citizen. wounded
another and fired upon many unprotected
citizens at night in their houses.
To let them off with nothing more
than dishonorable discharge from the
army Is shocktngly inadequate punlsh
ment. But to Discharge with dishonOr
scores of innocent soldiers is a shocking ~
unjust use of executive power
In his report Mai Blocksom, who con-
Quoted the first investigation for the in
spector generals department, says i'm de
scribing the Brownsville riot: 1.-THE sol
diers, to Is, possibly more, then jumped
the wall and started through the town" :"
III President Roosevelt is officially as
sured that 20 to Is. possibly more" col
ored soldiers alone are guilty. how can he
visit punishment with equal severity upon
every man OF the entire three companies,
guilty and innocent alike. nearly 200 in
all, and still go on patterlng his phrases
about "a square deal?"
And what is TO be done with the Off
GERS whose failure to maintain discipline
was responsible for the outrages and
whose subsequent negligence made IL i'm
possible TO detect the guilty?-New York
World
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
MODERN WHALING.

Robert Dunn. writing i'm the current
Harper's Weekly of THE Hidden Trage-
dies of the Arctic Whaling Fleet" has
some interesting things to say OF the
whaling industry as 1t exists today.
whaling" he says. lis almost dead you
hear. Yes. IL Is "A small enterprise COM
pared with the great industry Of long
ago. The old lure, oil. is scarcely thought
Of today. the vegetable world having so
completely supplanted the leviathan I'm
the arts The bones the thing. IL has
never been higher in price, some $3.50
pound today. and n right whale VIII
average more than 5000 pounds OF bone.
Two whales will yield ship divi-
dend: i've are the average catch, although
this year the luck has been poor, ana
some vessels have no more than one or
two. II costs about sl50o0-including ad-
vances 10 the personnel, later deducted
from their catch percentage-to outnt u
shin for summer i'm the Arctic. Often
the catch Is worth $4,000, OF which about
$4,000 goes to tho skipper, There's money
I'm whaling. often more than in mining
and samon-cauning. the north admits
and 40 even greater lawlessness exists
than in those pursuits
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
OUININE-GROWING.

According to writer i'm 'Harper's Week.
Is. il Is probable that the department ol
agriculture will shortly undertake some
experiments in cinchona- growing, as IL -
believed that il could be done with great
nront in Porto Rico. Hawaii and the CUT
states Alabama is particularly adapted
both i'm soil and climate. to some Narie-
ties of cinchona. In South America, en-
cbona-trees are found over an area OF
great diversity Of soil and climate, a strlp
zoo miles wide and 2OO0 miles long Many
trees arc found growing az altltuoeS ol
800 10 5000 feet above sea-level
AS an indication of the probable profits
of such cultivation, the returns from the
plantations conducted by the goverilllen. l.si..
of Madras. India, may be cited Ihe gross
receipts from the plantations was SooaI',
of which $40, 4s9 was net profit. The Gro. Grop
of bark amounted to $4,000 pounds. ms
S,arl, was worked up at the factory ope-
rated and owned by the government. me s
cost of making the quinine, lnciuolns ti7
value of the bark, was $500 per pounu.
while the market price was $50 to "a per
mound in bulk.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
CHINA'S ARMY AND OPIUM

Another important and Illuminating fact
bearing upon this matter and arguing
that the time Is coming when the Chilcse
army VIII no longer be a disorga Sized
feeble, helter- skelter pusilanim9us
sleepy horde. II found i'm the Imperial
edict lately issued prohibiting the cult
walton OF the poppy and the use OF opium
IN any form except upon medical pre-.
scription. Opium has been the curse Of
the Chinese nation. although poppy cultl-
walton has been source OF great reve-
nuc 60 the people I'm certain sections OF
China. The native crop cut down the
sales OF Indian opium from $40 OOO.O 900 in
1870 TO Si5.0o0.Oo0 I'm 1896 and since the latter
date there has been a steady increase In
the consumption OF the domestic drug at
the expense of the foreign. Yet the gov
ernment IN willing To sacrifice this indus
try for the sake OF the vitality-the re-
vitalizing-of the people, and their prep.
aration for the new regime that has beJn
mapped out.-Richmond News Leader.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
TIP FOR SUBURBANITES.

Suburban neIghborhoods infested by
burglars might wisely take hint from
T.. j. Rath's amusing little burglar story
I'm The American Magazine for December.
Our newly patented burglar alarm
has been working ever since | woke up
and saw you said the head of the house
No funny business, now said the
burglar sharply What burglar alarm
ITS a new kind that helped to In
vent said Mr.. Wilson. a note OF pride In
his voice. This burglar alarm doesn't
ring In your house at all. It rings In tho
other fellows houses. Sec this little
switch here?' Mr.. Wilson lifted the covers
and disclosed small contrivance fastened
To the framework OF tho bed We'll. when
first saw you l turned that switch and Il
started To ring gongs i'm twenty different
houses around here When my friends
woke up and looked at their indicators
they saw that No Q had dropped. That's
my number. Then they got their revol-
GERS and shotguns and dogs and came
around 10 call. At least ! hope So You
might look and see
"The burglar sprans 10 n window and
looked out into the moonlight. The alarm
had worked"
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
THE BROKEN NOSE.

We've got "A baby. Since II came
There's not single thing the same.
act Just like did before,
But no one loves me any more,
/ guess I'D better run away.
L might as well, for II stay
Who'll know or care? Perhaps a year
VIII pass before they even hear.
Ill take the things 4 like tho best,
NY Sunday tie, my velvet vest.
The spotted eggs and bluebird's nest,
The autumn leaves that mother pressed,
The rabbit skin that father dressed
All these Ill take and so out West.
] ought to start. but o, the sky
Is dark today and very high
Still, after all, | guess I'll wait.
For father by the garden gate.
He'll maybe rough my hair and say:
well. well, my boy! How goes the dayf
You're big enough To make IL pay"
q dear! ! wish he'd come, though he
May never even notice me-
And yet | guess I'll walt and see
Louise Ayres Garnett I'm The American
Magazine for December.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
MRS. ROSE p. STOKES
ARRAIGNS IDLE RICH

Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes arralgned the
idle rich In an interview at her home. No.
40 Norfolk street, New York, paying par
ticular attention to Miss Giulia Morosini
on account OF "A recent published state
ment I'm which the bankers daughter took
occasion to inquire what the working
girls would do were Il not for the rich TO
give them employment
Women OF Miss Morosinis class may
not be aware OF the fact that they are
paupers." said Mrs. Stokes. "A pauper Is
one who is supported at the expense OF
the community. either through inability
or unwillingness to support himself. IL
seems TO me the one who can. but Is un-
willing TO support himself Is the truer
pauper Of the two. In just and fair So
clety. and In a state of high civilization.
there will be no room for the latter kind
of pauperlsm.
Miss Morosini says she believes that
woman's duty is To dress as beautifully as
possible. from an artistic point Of view,
because In doing SO she keeps money in
circulation. IL one has done nothing to
earn that money. the circulation OF II is
no virtue. II is because such women as
Miss Morosini never think what things
cost, and the working classes are COM
PEELED TO think constantly OF what things
cost. that the rude awakening is bound
TO come To us all some day.
ftTndps III VIII come at a greater cost
than we can afford unless these women
who spend great wealth they have never
earned begin TO think early and soon OF
the deep injustice underlying our eco
nomic and social conditions.
'Wasteful and extravagant women arc
not happy, because they do not deserve TO
he happy. Women having only barely
enough clothes to give them a semblance
of self-respect cannot 5e happy. There is
not a thing Miss Morosini wears that is
not produced by labor, and yet labor lives
In poverty.
Miss Morosnl is quoted as saying,
What would the working girs do If they
had no rich to work for?God willing, they
would work for themselves. Instead of
making things for idlers they would
make things for workers who would re-
turn the courtesy by making things for
them.
II know that Miss Morosini does some
charitable work in a small way around
her home i'm Riverdale. but she does not
allow her charities to interfere with the
extravagant adornment of her person.
Doing the right thing is more indicative
OF taste and character than wearing the
right thing"
When Mrs. Stokes words were called to
the attention OF Miss Morosini as she
viewed the horse display in Madison
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
GRACE BROWNS LETTERS

Nowhere I'm the literature Of tragedy is
more acute description of human suf-
fering than that which an unlettered sirl
poured out OF her troubled soul TO the
object Of her affection and the author Of
her wrong. The letters OF Grace Brown
show the power OF the simplest language
10 convey worlds Of meaning when what
is said Is felt and when what is felt Is
uttered straight from the heart. No Hugo
has sounded "A lower depth OF agony than
this simple minded child whose fervcnt
plea for dellverance or death was answer
ed, the public prosecutor and the grand
jury have said. with blow and push
into the waters.
The tragedy whose end draws Chester
Gillette into the shadow of the electric
chair again illustrates how the truth.
which we meet almost daily I'm tho days
news can be so written by novice as TO
surpass the craftsmanship OF the most
imaginative author of hction.--New Yo,k
Press
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
Things Seen Through
The Eyes of Others

oHlce or mayor when committees OF tho
IlvaI party organization sought out com
Petent voters. dragged them before tho
eIection board and constrained them 10
quarry and register. the list shows \ de-
crease through simple negligence.
Ihls is unfortunate; for ii is a political
fact that OF even greater rornapt 80
the election or the right man for mavor
is the election Of the right men 10 The
hoard OF aldermen, the common coupcll
the school board. And when we have the
Ilght man IN the mayors chair IL is nc
culiarly desirable that his hands shall be
Post ''''oH
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26

Square Garden from a grand tier box, she
shrugged her shoulders and said:
Mrs. Stokes? Who is she? oh, yes,
remember. She doesn't know. poor thing.
She doesn't know of what she is speak
ing. She doesn't know of the good | do
j suppose every one must live his own life
as he sees 1t. That is all. / have nothing
more 10 say"
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26

Gov-Elcct Higgins frank advocacy of Gov.
Folk presidential possibility is just what
would be expected of him. and during his recent
campaign he said nothing better rejecting his own
character than when at Washington last Thursday
night he asserted that Let man have good
character, let him go into a fight with grim deter
mnation, and he will win without the aid of a
political boss Never go in for party loyalty
against your convictions"
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS

MRS wINSLOw'S SOOTHING SYRUP
has been used for over so years by mil
lions of mothers for their children while
teething, with perfect success. II s0Utnes
,he child. softens the gums, allays all
pain: cures wind collie, and Ia the best
remedy for Darrhoea IL will relieve the
poor little sufferer Immediately. Sold by
Druggists In every part OF the world.
Twenty Ave cents bottle. BE sure and
ark for Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup"
snd take no other kind.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
Smile with thew orld
4 Vile Performance.

ON fhc occasion OF his brothers oenent
Edwin Booth was standing behind the
scenes when a character actor VINO hau
noon giving limitations OF noted actors
was about to respond to an encore
''Whom do you initiate next?' inquired
Booth.
"Weu." was the reply. II was going 10
represent you !n Hamlets solioquy' oul
II YOU look on I'm afraid l snail make
mess of it
"suppose / initiate MYSELF" remarked
tho tragedian and hastily putting on the
orher actors wig and buttoning up ms
coat he went on and delivered the we'll
known lines.
Next morning the newspapers stated
that the limitations ruined the perform
ance che personation of Edwin Booth
being simply vile enough to MAKE llde e
actor shudder had he seen it'-Toleuo
Blade.
The Russian Editor.
First Edltor--I tell you, We're getting on
fast. why. ] got license Tor my paper
second Editor Gan old hand)--fe..
things do happen fast nowadays In 'hres
weeks they'll contlscate your typc' IN
four weeks they'll suppress your paper, IN
six. you'll be bankrupt ana ih scNen
you'll starve.
The Negroes Lament.
Gwine long de big road
Maxim err my moans.
White man eat turkey,
An gimme dc bones!
Think de good times comm,
An den you gifts de wust,
Climb ter reach dc 'possum,
White man git i'm fust!
Trouble. trouble. trouble
Chance look mighty SLIM
Dunno why he hit me
wen 1 never trouble him!
Atlanta Constitution.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
MAGIC HAIR STAIN.

For brown or black, prepared by
GEORGE ORMSBY. Wig Maker and
Hairworker. i69 fremont street, Boston
II Is simple. safe and easily applied con-
tains no lead poisorsi use II once and
you will never use any other. BLAND
ING & BLANDING. 50 weybosset street
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
ODD THINGS WOMEN
ARE DOING

Miss Zena Dalrymple, Democrat. has
been elected county and district clerk at
Uvalde, Tex, defeating Jane Milligan.
Her husband two weeks dead. Mrs.
Isaac Weldenstein, CO. of Duluth, died OF a
broken heart
The baggage room ablaze. Miss Emma
Jeffries. operator and assistant agent at
Wynnewood. Pa. fought the flames gall
iantly with hand grenades until the fire
companies arrived.
II would like TO start the current my
self says gentle Mrs Martha Gibbons,
Columbus tO) police matron, horrfied at
the crimes OF Castor, whom the chair
awaits.
Three pairs of silk stockings i'm the SUI
gar bowl struck George w. Dalton as un-
usual. His detective instincts were
aroused. lie Is now suing President Albert
Heineman of the Heineman Manufacture
Ing company of Milwaukee for $1,000 for
alienation.
Mrs. Georgia Lathrop, leader of the
smartest set in Bloomington, H., implores
the Rev. r. V. Meigs to accept a call to
Urbana, Ill She says he holds her In
thrall. Mr.. Meigs says he does not know
her
The troth OF Miss Emma Stephany.
pighted in jail as she awaited trial for
murder to her fellow prisoner. Nicholas
Quinton, boy burglar. will be redeemed
at once. Miss Stephany was the first to
greet her lover as he strode from jail a
free man.
Mrs. James Lane OF Trenton. n. T..
took fatal dose of acid before her hus-
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
UNFORTUNATE FACT.

The close OF registration for the munlci.
pal election In Boston shows an aggregate
OF 1853 upon the list This falls some
what although not alarmingly. below the
normal ratio TO population, but ~ Is sig
niticant because OF the drop OF 1900 from
the registration OF last year.
The number Of voters In Boston mas
not fallen OF since last December. the
natural increase has gone on as usual.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
CONSIDERATION FOR
CONSUMER

The court I Findlay. Ohio, has assessed
a fine OF 5000 against the Standard oil
company when II could have made IL
s6.Oc.OOo II Is presumed that the leniency
was exercised out OF consideration for the
consumer.-Washin Post
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26

fruitless speech, or on the campaign platform;
but TO lose the power of feeling, then the
sense of hearing, then sight and lastly speech,
and yet the life thread uncut is indeed a hard fate
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26

EX-Gov. Elisha Dyer who carried Providence
in 1903 for governor over Church, Democrat by
about 1000 votes lost the city this month hy more
than 22oo, loss of over 6ooo votes. Was it be-
cause now that he is mayor The people know
him?
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26

While the spirit of Thanksgiving is one of
thankfuness for blessings received, how much
more truly is he blessed whose thoughtfulness has
given to others less favored real cause for thanks
giving.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26
TODAY'S DIVERSIONS

PROVIDENCE OPERA House.
Mrs. Temples Telegram
ISEITU's-Continuou Performance.
IMPERIAL Washington Society
Girls.
ENPIRE--"A Rocky Road 20 Dub
lin"
NICKEt.-Motion Pictures and Illus
trated Songs.
wEsTMINsTER-F rrwln's Ma
iesifcs.
NATHEwsON STREET RINK
Roller skating.
ABoRN STREET RINk-Rolier
Skating.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26

Booker T. Washington again reveals his
soundness OF judgment by declining to be drawn
into discussion of the dismissal of the colored
troops
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-26

Boston. face to face with innocent milk, hopes
when il gets il that il will be the real thing AS
suredy it ought TO be at that price.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
FOR WORKING WOMEN.

The wage earners of the state had reminder
yesterday of the energy with which the Repub-
lcan state administration is enforcing the laws
intended for their benefit while demagogues
are trying to deude them into the belief that
their welfare Is neglected. 1t was not through
any effort of Mr.. Hearst that the Republican
Legislature forbade the employment of women
in factories for more than sixty hours week
or between p. and 6 a. III. Nor is 1T due
70 his efforts that Labor Commissioner Sher-
man and Attorney General Mayer have been
cooperating to uphold the enactment and secure
its enforcement in face of most strenuous at
tacks Yesterday the Court of Special Sessions
upbeld the constitutionality of that part of the
statute which limits the hours If labor for
women in factories to sixty a week
The other part of the statute the same court
has hitherto declared unconstitutional we think
mistakenly for we believe that an industrial
custom which forces women and girls-the
majority of them young and many of them
are under age-to work regularly at night and
be out on the streets unprotected at late hours
is fairly subject TO regulation by the police
power for the sake of health and morals. We
have felt that the inferior court took an eX-
traorinarv course in thus blocking at the be-
ginning the enforcement of the deliberate will
of the people when there were good precedents
in other states for legislation along this line. The
court and the Republican administration will
do all that it possibly can to protect women
from the moral and physical dangers of night
work.
Although precluded for the present at least from
enforcing the night work feature of the law,
Commissioner Sherman has not been content to
make that difficulty excuse for permitting
the law in general to be diSregarded, as he
might safely have done. He has been active in
giving the wage earning women every bit of
protection possible. and his factory inspectors
have been energeticaly hunting out manufact-
urers who worked women more than sixty hours
a week and prosecuting them on the chance that
this section Of the statute might be upheld in
the initial stage of litigation, though that re-
suit was probably not greatly expected in view
of the earlier decision of the same court. Yes
terday when the decision handed down
twenty-six manufacturers pleaded guilty and
nearly seventy-five other complaints are still
pending. This is the sort of work for labor
which is being done by the Republican admin
istration 1t is quiet work. 1t does not lend
itself to the fomentng Of class hatred, but it Is
of practical benefit to humanity
New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
AMERICAN INDUSTRY SAFE.

well known authority in electrical science,
DR.. Louis Bell, Of Boston, expressed the fear I'm
The Engineering Magazine" two months ago
that the methods Of American manufacturers,
while insuring temporary prosperity imperiiled
their future trade. It seemed to Us that DR..
Bell was unduly apprehensiye, and we said so
frankly at the time The same comment IS now
made by Mr.. William o. Webber, in the pages
Of the periodical which gave publicity TO DR..
Bells views. In a predatory note the Editor Of
1.-THE Engineering Magazine" refers to the
author Of the second article as IAN engineer
well experienced in American industrial mat
tiers
DR.. Bell recognized the fact that the adop-
tion of standard sizes and styles Of machinery
and other products enabled the manufacturer To
lower his prices and meet demands with re-
markaDle promptness. He fancled, neverthe-
less, that standardization might prove an OBJ
stacle TO progress. He thought that new appli-
cations of Inventive talent would be discouraged
the effort to improve on old models would he
abandoned and that foreigners would eventr.
ally be In position TO beat this country when
bidding for the orders of disnterested and dis
eliminating customers. To show that those
misgiyings are not fully warranted Mr. Webber
insists that some American manufacturers
carry on two lines OF work at once producing
not only standard types, but special designs as
HclI. III liuStrduOn or That practice he men
tions firm or company which once made only
a single class Of water Wheels but which now
adapts them TO a great variety of requirements
Of speed and pressure.
Independently Of the facts which Mr.. Webber
mentions there is ample reason to believe that
in certain industries, at least-the American
manufacturer is IN no dancer from European
rivals. visitor TO the Paris Exposition Of
1900, noting the remarkably large display of
harvesters from this country, asked the renre.
sentative of one Of the exhibitors: "Arent won
running great risks in showing your latest i'm.
''provements over here? Do your patents nrotact
you sufficiently from foreign competitions"
The reply was, in substance: I'VE do take ont
patents abroad on some OF our novelties hut
"our chief safeguard is the inability of orr imi.
"tators TO catch up with US. We are INTRODUCING
something fresh almost every season. hut even
1.-The most wide awake European manufactured
keeps about four or five years behind us"
There might have been a little extravaganza IN
the statement but the large experience of the
speaker Justifes confidence In its substantial
accuracy. What was then true of one partic-
uIar class of machinery made in this country
YVES probably true OF others. and little doubt