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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

The Sixtieth congress has work OF
Importance before II. 1t Is the desire
OF the people that that work shall be
done before the country takes up the
matter OF choosing a successor TO the
president rather than that 1t shall be
sighted, deferred and finally over
shadOwed and thrust aside by the alb
sorptions of a national election. Just
now there is keener, deeper and far
more general interest In the tasks OF
congress than In the tasks that will be
befofe the conventions when they
meet next summer. II is to be hoped
that the national legislative body will
take note Of the fact
What IL chiefly expected OF the new
congress comes In the line Of what
may be called unfinished business
The closer students Of politics will fol-
low the session for signs OF promise In
the new men. No better arena exists
than that Of congress, and particularly
the lower branch, for the development
and the display Of the qualities that
go to the making and the exercise OF
political leadership.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
NORTH SCITUATE

Mrs. James Gaskell is much improved in
health.
c. II. Page jr., has been confined to the
house with grip cold.
The Pentecostal Institute closes Satur-
day for Christmas vacation.
A meeting of the Grange was held in
Cleaner chapel Wednesday evening.
Mrs. A. L. Wood has been engaged as
assistant teacher at the Academy school.
Turkeys will be lower. Place your order
at the Scituate Public Market.
The village schools, also throughout the
town, close Friday for the Christmas vaca-
tion.
Mrs. Williams is i'll from an abscess at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. A L.
Wood.
All work on the new telephone line was
given up last Saturday for this year. II is
thought it may not be in operation for
nearly year.
Mr.. and Mrs. August f. Bouchart were
conveyed to their home on Hayward Park
in Providence on Wednesday. Mr.. Bouch-
ardt has been very sick at his summer resi-
dence here and under the care OF Doctor
Arnold for three weeks past. All larrange.
ments were made to return to Providence
early in November as usual, when sick
ness made its advent
The Academy school gave a fine Christ
mas entertainment on Thursday evening.
The following program was render ed Song
by the school,; Recitation. Matilda S. AslIe;
Dialogue. Sarah Knight and Howard Ar
mold; Motion Song, Sixth Grade; Recitation,
Philip Campbell; Dialogue, Minnie Potter.
Mary Wilson, Marietta Burgess AMI Gladys
Suston; Dialogue, Samuel Tourtellotte and
Louis Harris; Motion Song by Fifth Grade
Medley, Seven Girls; A Wreath Drill,
Ninth and Ten Grade; Song by the School
Desroches bought the entire stock of a
N. Y. hat manufacturer which he has on
sale at so cents OH the dollar Desroches,
Olneyville Square, opposite the theatre.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
Man at His Best.

Andrew Carnegie passed his seven
tieth birthday recently with cheeri-
ness that seemed to give the lie to the
threescore and ten years that are back
of him. When asked whether a man
could accomplish as much at seventy
as ut forty he answered quickly that
a man Is equipped with greater expe.
rience at seventy and II he has con.
served his physical and mental pow
ers he will he better fitted for useful
ness then than at an earlier age. Look
Ing backward from his SEVENTEEN
birthday, he expressed the conviction
that mans usefulness increases with
age.
Before the organizations which
poured in upon Mr.. Carnegie were
cold another septuagenarian attracted
wide interest by reaching Chicago
after walk of over 1,20O miles, in
which he beat the record made over
the same course while he was in his
prime. 1t Is believed by some that
Weston accomplished his feat because
he was not trained "stale," as the
phrase Is. lie did not train for the
ordeal, because his life has been one
long training. wholesome one in
every respect. Carnegie as persistent
seeker after longevity would probably
fail In his ambition and Glso wreck his
career of usefulness. And II Weston
had tested his powers TO the theoret-
ical limit, say for year past, In order
to be In condition for the effort Of his
life he would have risked a break.
down. One lesson from these two lives
is that n man should not invest his
whole energy in trying to be a phe'
nomenon, and another Is that he
should not let his birthday calendar
tell him when TO quit.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
LEGAL NOTICES
TOWN OF SCITUATE
Application for Liquor License.

The followisg named persons have made
application for license TO sell pure, spiritu.
Gus, intoxicating and malt liquors:
Alton j. Hill, Main street, Rockland, Hill's
saloon.
Frank ii. Stanley, Saundersville Crossing,
Old Gristmill Place.
Said applications are referred TO Wednes.
day, January sth, 1907, at O'Clock pm. at the
Town Council Chamber. in said Scituate, at
which time and place remonstrants will be
heard as to the granting thereof.
HENRY III. POTTER.
Council Clerk.
scituate. K. l., December 10, 1907.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
ASHLAND

Desroches bought the entire stock of a
N. Y. Hat Manufacturer which he has on
sale at so cents on the dollar, Desroches,
Olneyville Square.
Wilson Barden is confined to his home by
a severe attack of erysipelas.
Covenant Lodge at recent meeting
elected the following officers: Noble Grand,
Henry ii. Potter; Vice Grand, Charles A.
Potter; Recording Secretary. Leander Hop
pins; Financial Secretary, Herbert Taylor;
Treasurer, Silas N. Smith; Trnsteos,C. A.
Potter, c. III. Lawton and II. III Potter.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
ROCkLAND

Mr.. and Mrs. William King expect tC
spend Christmas in Woonsocket.
There will be Christmas tree at the
church on Christmas eve.
A masquerade ball will be given in Red
Mill Hall next Tuesday evening.
The Christmas tree and concert at the
Christian Church will be held Oh Tuesday
evening Of next week.
Buy talking machine Tor Christmas at
Dwight Keeney's.
Desroches bought the entire stock of a
N. Y. Hat Manufactures which he has on
sale at so cents on the dollar, DcsrocheS.
Olneyville Square.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
TRIMMING Women Wnrkers.

A committee OF the National Society
For the Prone ton of Industrial Train
Ing recently made recommendations
for a reformed educational system
which shall provide for industrial
training I'm camection with regular
school work The committee assumes
Mat the conditions OF American life
hre changing and the educational sys-
tenn for the masses must change with
them. According to the last census,
about GO per cent of the 100000 wom-
I'm and girls who work for wages are
engaged I'm domestic and personal. .sery-
Tee and in trade and manufactures. II
Eocs- without saying that this proper
ton will tend TO increase rather than
diminish
Arguing from the disparity between
the wages of girls of fourteen TO TWEEN
ty years OF agc who have had no train
Ing and girls or-thc same age who have
been trained. the committee urges an
tldbblhAN - '''h' W. ~ l'NN'''' 'N'N
under teachers who have themselves
been trained 10 teach industrial sub
jects. 1t is proposed 60 have Industrial
centers, fully equipped, where girls
may come FOR training after they have
completed certain tasks in the public
schools Girls attending school may
divide their day between the indus
trial center and the regular school
studies. ana girls who have finished
their public school studies may have
one or two years training In industrial
work The Industrial training is not to
DC given haphazard, but adapted In
each individual case TO the local needs,
the wage market ana the physical ca
pacitics of the girl. For girls who are
already at work the industrial ond
housekeeping training schools will
maintain evening classes. Broader
and better training can be had in a
we'll equipped industrial school than
In the AVERAGE household or small shop.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

der TO prepare for nard times. But
the crops are all right, and the outlook
for foreign trade was never better.
The causes OF uneasiness are thus seen
to be OF a much narrower character
than those which must operate TO pro-
1uce real panic. With the American
people producing wealth as rapidly as
ever and with the knowledge that with
extremely few exceptions the banks
are as sound as banks can be, while
the government is free from any posi-
BILE complication OF a dangerous ma
quired to make the depression Of en-
terprise In 1907 Of short duration.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
The First Battlefield Angel.

The First Battlefield Angel.
Recently King Edward conferred
upon Florence Nightingale the English
Order OF Merit, rare honor, since this
is the first time 1t has been bestowed
upon q woman. Almost sixty years
ago Florence Nightingale inaugurated
the pioneer corps of battlefield nurses
ed herself personally administered to
he suffering In field and In hospital
during the Crimean war. To her is
given the credit today for the organi-
zatlon OF the corps OF women nurses
found upon every field of battle and
upon every scene Of suffering and dis
aster. The founders OF the Red Cross
and all similar societies frequently
consulted Miss Nightingale, who, al
though bedridden, has never ceased to
interest herself In projects to relieve
the sick and wounded OF all nations
under all circumstances.
One OF the most inspiring and in
terestlng Of all the good causes Of to-
zation wide as the world, recognizing
no distinction Of race or caste, but de-
voted to doing good and to hepfulness,
to binding up Of wounds, relieving dis
tress and succorlng the sufferers In
time of disaster wherever the sun
shines. 1t was formed originally for
military purposes to mitigate as far
as possible the horrors of war and to
carry prompt assistance to the wound
ed. Its flag soon came to be recog-
nized and respected by all belligerents,
and the wounded looked more eagerly
for 1t on the battlefield than for their
own. Soon II began to extend It's min
istrations TIL now wherever sudden
disaster of any sort fails or famine or
epidemic ravages the Red Cross ap-
pears with its corps Of trained work
ers to administer relief. The Red
Cross is national and international,
and every man and woman In the
country and in the civilized world
ought TO belong to II as tribute to
the spirit which animated Florence
Nightingale and inspires her noble sue
cessors.
Florence Nightingale is now eighty
seven years old, and for many years
she has lived so quietly that many OF
the present generation have scarcely
heard her name, but wherever a Red
Cross flag flies 1t constitutes a memo
rial to this heroic woman.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
Houses and Homes.

There have been and there are today
In the various lands of the earth many
people who have no houses and moth
ing that you could call furniture even
of the antique variety. But there can
be no doubt that they are far happier
than many who are comfortably housed
In mansions which contain everything
that money can buy.-Uncle Remus'
Magazine
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
GEORGIAVILLE

The family of Mr.. Frank Martell, who
recently moved here, were discovered by a
milkman on Sunday morning nearly suifo-
Gated by gas fu mes from a coal stove. The
members of the family, five in all, were in
sensible when found. DR.. l. S. Cook was
summoned and after working over the REQ
pie for several hours, they were restored to
consciousness.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
To Horse Owners.

George Price, the harness maker, has
full assortment OF horse blankets for street
and stable, carriage robes and mats, horse
covers, carriage boots and mems storm hats
and coats. lie also sells DR.. Daniels horse
medicines and Tuttes Elixer. in fact every
thing for the horse, wagon and driver at
I845 Westminster street.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

An English miner has invented a
safety grip which may be applied to
mining cages, elevators, etc, and will
prevent the possibility of accidents
due to the breakage of winding and
hauling ropes. 1t is said that 1t acts
without causing a sudden stoppage
and the consequent danger to occu-
pants OF the cage from that source.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

Wagner's simple life" teaching
would now appeal to the American
pocket and probably get better hear
Ing than It did two years ago, when
prosperity was at high tide.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

one million dollars In gold double
eagles was the output of the Philadel-
phla mint In single day recently,
and the same plant will coin S52,OOO.-
900 I'm double eagles as rapidly as they
can he turned out. No reaction In
Uncle Sans great factory:
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
Chains and LOckets,

So, $3.50, IS, $3.50 s9 to SI5. Largest
stock Of chains and lockets in the city. fine
gold filled and solid gold, all length chains,
latest style lockets; call and see them. J. A.
Angel, 1928 Westminster street, Olney-
Vile square.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
Talkino and Thinkinu,

The Man - 4 learned scientist ad
yanCes the theory that severed head
is capable of thinking although 1t Is
unable 10 speak. The Woman-Thats
queer. 1t is so much easier TO talk
than il is 10 think!
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
Satisfied Customers.

Men who buy suits of US are suited.
Men who buy overcoats are pleased and
men who buy fancy vests are proud TO
wear them. All this speaks we'll for E.
Elias, 2Iz Union street, Providence, RI.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20
PROBATE CLERKS OFFICE

Scituate, r. l.. December ~, A. ID. 1907
All persons interested in the con sileration
OF the petition OF the guardian of the person
and estate OF Charles l.. G.. Tasker OF said
Scituate, minor, for leave TO sell all the right
title and interest in certain real estate, 10.
Gated. In said Scituate, belong iug TO said
minor are hereby notified To attend Pro
bate Court on Wedne sday, January sth, 1905.
nj o'clock y. N. at the Probate Court Room
in said Scituate and be heard thereon.
BY order OF said Court
HENRY II. POTTER,
Probate Clerk
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

Money is the salve OF the wise
man and the master OF the fool" com
ments an exchange. How benefcent,
then, Is that social institution which
sees to 1t that the fool and his money
are soon parted.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

Uncle Joe Cannon brands as an infa-
nous lie the story that he smokes only
three cigars a day. Perhaps the per
son who started the report meant to
say that Uncle Joe smoked only three
before breakfast.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

A German has now invented another
device to obviate a ships rolling at
sea, and 1t is soon to be tested on one
OF the North sea steamers. Is the sea
to be robbed of all its exciting stunts
and made as safe and steady as the
land2
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

IT Is always n good thing for the
country when business Is too brisk TO
permit one TO pay much attention to
The professional knockers.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

A Brooklyn court recently decided
that contractor cannot collect pay for
house unless II complies with the
specifications. The wonder is that so
obvious a square deal should be dis
puted In the courts at this day.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

Rings Little Liver Pills wake up lazy
livers, clean the system and clear the
skin. Try them for biliousness and sick
headache. Price 25c.-Soid by L. r.
GRADY, 1916 Westminster street.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

Bees Laxative Cough Syrup for coughs,
colds, Group and whooping cough grows
IN favor daily with young and old
dren. IL Is prompt relief TO Group. IL Is
gently laxative. driving the poison and
phlegm from tho system. IL Is n simple
guaranteed.-Soid by r. Il. GRADY, 1916
Westminster street.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

In recent French duel both OF the
combatants were wounded. If that
happens again the sport is liable to be-
anna 1pnonnlor
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

II Is fitting that only four out OF 103
new congressman wear full boards.
Most of them owe their seats to a
close shayc
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-31
TALL HATS FOR sAvAGEs.
Striking Costumes Worn by Semi Civil
lied Potentates on State Occasions.

The manner and occasion of wear
ing the garments of civilization some
times chosen by savage chieftains and
semicivilized potentates have often
proved a source of mirth.
Perhaps the palm for a unique COM
esque Polynesian native who honored a
state function by appearing in a stove
pipe hat, the rest of his costume con-
sisting of postage stamps, abundantly
and artistically applied in elegant pat
terms over his entire person. Still
other striking effects have been at
tanned.
Robert P. Skinner, who was sent
lately on a mission 20 Abyssinia, re-
Iates that, having presented an Amer
lean flag to Alto Paulos. hospitable
official person, far removed from saw
agery. he received this gracious &C.
acknowledgement of the gift.
Il appreciate this more than any
thing you could give me. 1t is the
proudest decoration I could possibly
own. I shall ask the emperor for the
right to accept it, as we cannot accept
anything of this sort without authori-
cation, and he will say yes Then 1
shall wear it about my shoulders every
feast day"
The tall hats which the Americans
wore at the court of Menelik evoked
much admiration, says the Youths
Companion, as indeed tall hats seem
always to do in lands unfamiliar with
their peculiar rigid dignity. One which
a previous traveller had bestowed up
on a provincial ruler of the country
had been, they learned, so highly ap-
preciated that it was at once sent to
the court jeweler and the brim en-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-31

The unexpected appearance of an
enormous group Of sunspots in the
middle of February and the simulta-
neous outbreak of magnetic disturb
ances in various parts of the earth
make the question OF the nature and
power of sunspots particularly inter-
esting. since there may be a contin-
uance of these phenomena during the
summer.
1t is commonly said that the earth
could be dropped into the central cav
ity of a great sunspot, like a billiard
ball into pocket. But this statement
conveys little impression of the vast
dimensions of these solar disturb
ances, and none whatever of the in
conceivable forces at play in them.
Neither does it afford to the mind OF
the reader any idea of the strange
appearances that we should behold IL
we could visit the sun during one of
it's periods of CONFUSION, or, for that
matter, at any time.
But it is not difficult from what is
now known of the sun to form an
idealized picture of the state of things
on and just beneath its surface. An
attempt is here made to present such
picture including some of the more
conspicuous and wonderful phenomena
of the solar shell.
Landing upon the sun, supposing
ourselves able to endure the tempera-
ture of 10000 degrees, or more, and
the irresistible electric energies contin-
ually Embossed there. we should find
that, in place of solid crust like the
plane of white hot metallic vapors,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-31
BY GARRETT P, sERvIss.

forming the surface that is visible
from the earth.
Sinking down through this, we would
come into a region marvellous beyond
all words-a region corresponding in
some respects to the earth's atmos-
phere. over our heads wou.o be the
vast canopy of glowing metallic clouds
and thousands of miles beneath us the
mass of tremendously heated gases,
kept by the immense pressure in a.
state of consistency resembling that of
tar.
We may suppose, as Trouvelot has
done, that this inner globe of the sun
has a somewhat definite surface, from
which rise on all sides currents of me-
tallic vapor, colossal fiery trunks like
the stems of crowded forest of giant
trees. The lofty tops Of these inaagin-
airy trees of fire, spreading out and
mingling together, would form the pho
tosphere or visible surface as viewed
from the earth. There condensation
must take place in consequence of con-
tact with cold. outer space, and all
around us we should find descending
continually hot rain of partially con-
densed metals, swiftly absorbed into
the fearful, heaving SOIL a thousand
times hotter yet. Here would be all
the elements of the earth in unrecog-
nizable forms-or rather ASSOCIATED
and disintegrated atoms of all the ele-
ments, forming a mass with which our
chemists would not know how to deal.
Underneath that mass submerged
and struggling forces would manifest
their presence. The whole vast inner
globe would appear to be alive and
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-31

moving with strange imprisoned pow
ers, like the mud geysers of the Vel.
| lowstone before an outbreak.
| Presently in some places the gather
! ing energies beneath would obtain
the mastery. There would be a gigantic
| unheaval. With sudden outburst OF
| resistless energy, the sluggish surface
would swell and burst, and a vast rush
of metallic vapors would soar upward
dashing into atoms the fiery trunks of
the more quiescent columns of ascend
ing gases, tearing passage through
the forest of tall flames, breaking the
ing itself out into free space to a
height of thirty or forty thousand
miles.
A great ragged hole, ten thousand
miles across, would be torn III the outer
solar surface. It would be the birth
of sunspot. Immediately the blazing
vapors of the metals thrown up into
cold space would begin to condense,
and in a short time back they would
come, controlled by solar gravitation,
descending over millions of square
miles about the central cavity, dark
by contrast through the effect of
partial cooling, and depressing the
photospheric envelope, like a lake of
black water lying upon white ice.
Out in space, a hundred million
miles away, the electric reverberation
of that terrific explosion of pent up
energy would set the atmosphere OF
distant planets a-quivering with au-
roral beams, and their magnetic forces
would instantly respond with strange
pulsations.
And what figure would our SEEM
ingly huge, massive earth cut in the
midst of such a solar explosion? Let
us imagine it suddenly thrown from
it's orbit and descending upon the sun
while we stand watching in the depths
of this hell of fire. We will suppose 1t
to have reached the central opening
VI LiiS GREAT Sppt Will It's lSliiiliIdl SCO-
features yet recognizable.
AS 1t drops into the midst of the
whirling vapors it is spun about like
a bubble. Suddenly it's great globe,
which looks pitifuily small and insig-
to us now, begins to melt like
wax. The oceans are gone in breath
OF steam; the continents dissolve; the
Alps, the Himalayas, the Andes, in an
instant, float off and disappear in tiny
wreaths of smoke, and then the whole
frame Of the world that gave us birth
vanishes in a momentary burst of fiery
sparks and is swallowed up amid the
roaring, flaming gases of the giant
sunspot like a handful of sawdust cast
into a furnace,
It is truly not matter for wonder
that the earth, even at the distance of
93, 000, 900 miles, feels the effect when
the sun is excited. 1t is rather surpris-
ing that the effect is not more disas-
trous.