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The place to save money Thompson Brothers. —DEALERS IN— : GROGERIES AND #ROVISIONS, WHOLKSALE AND RETAIL. The Leaders in Cash Prices. 1040 High St., Olneyville Sq. VOL. 7. NO. 16. OILNEYVILLE BUSINESS CARDS. STOPr! Ramsdell’s THE GROCER. —Every Variety Of— Choice Groceries, Meats, Fruits, Vegetables, Ets. AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. John Ramsdell’s, 358 Plainfield Street. F'or» Salce. A New Blacksmith and Wheelwright Shop 24x32 feet with room 24x24 on second floor, cor per Plhanficd and Bridge Sts., Browr: Flat. Store and Barn, coruer rvlainfield and Brook Sts . now doing a fine grocery business. Two new houses, 8 ard 11 rooms, all well rented, supplied w'th Pawtuxet water; 15 minutes from FProvidence by electrie ears. Also good building lots for sale. DANIEL BROWN, Thornton R. I. M. SIMA LI, The Plainfield Street Tailor, Has just returned from a very successful Season at Narragansett Pier and will be pleased to meet all his old customers at the old stand. 3 Phinfeld Siveet, Olnepville, B, | Call and sce his Fa!l and Winter Patterns. Olneyville M:neral Waters. Edwin B. Steocro, Bottler of Hop Beer, Sarsaparilla, Birch, Tonie, Lemon, Ginger Ale, ete. Odd Fellows' Square. Plainfield St. Lock Box No. 6, Horse and Carriage Repository. A full and complete line of Carringes, Har nesses, ete.. constantly on hand at the lowest possible prices. Boarding at reasonable rates Henry A. X ullexr. 41 Tobey St , Providence, R. 1, Telephone. P. H. SMITH, Dry and Fancy Goods, small Wares and Schoal Supplies, 291 Plainfield St., - Johnston. JOHNSTON Concrete and Roofing Co.. Providence Address, 15 Tuxedo Ave. Concrete laid In Side an | Yard Walks. Driveways Cellars, Mill Floors, &c. ROOFING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES OFFICE AND YARD, HARTFORD AVE., JOHNSTON, R. I. F. SLAVIN., Manager Johu H. Walsh & Co. Furnishing Undertakers and Embaimers. Evervthing in connection with the busingss provided at short notice. Offive and Residence 1706 Westminster St. Hacks furnished .or funerals and weddings, All ealls promptly attended, day or night. Telephone 3428, R. S, MOWRY, Surveyor and Engineer, WATERMAN'S BLOCK, . OLNEYVILLE SQUARE, P, 0. Box, 434 J. E. Lynch & Co., Undertakers and Embaimers. Office and warerooms: 285 Broadway, Providence, R. 1. J. B. LYNCH Carpentering. Shingling and all kinds of repairing. g®._Store fitting a specialty. Be sure and get our prices be fore goiug elsewhere. F A. SPRINGER. No. 7T PLAINFIELD ST., C. E. Bennett, Practical & Plumber, Tin and Sheet Iron Workers. jobbing promptly attended to. 10 Plainfield Street. HAVE YOU TRIED I1IT? WuAaT? Why the Westminster Haaf Lauadey, Hand Work at Machine Prices. Goods called for and delivered in any part of the citv. 1776 WESTMINSTER ST. T. H. WOOOD. FLORIST. 19 Alverson Avenue, Johmnston, R, L. Wholesale and retail grower of Carnations, Roses, Callas, Smilax and Adiantum. Boquets, Wreaths, Plllows Crosses, Anchors, ete., Fine Pecorating. Televhone Counnectiqn. Telephone 3933, Olneyville, R, I, M. LYNCH OLNEYVILLE. Mill work and Olneyville Che Olnepballe Trmes PROVIDENCE BUSINESS CAARDS BOOTS = AND = SHOES WESLEY'’S, 699 Westminster St. Times are hard and money scarce, but you will always find something to fit your purse. | have a good wearing shoe for Men and Women for a very little money. Call in and be convinced that the place to buy shoes in these times is at WESLEY'S 699 Westminster Street, DRUNKENNESS CAN BE CURED. A successful treatment has been found whereby the chains of ¢*Old King Alcohol” can be broken and the fettered mind set free. You can be cured! Consultation free! Consultation free! No restrictions of any kind imposed. C. B. DAVIS, M. D., 139 Friendship Street. Office Hours: 10to 3,6 to S p. m. New Life for Women. A result of years of careful study and experi ment by the leading Pathologist of the World. Every woman using NOVITA Becomes its friend. Other remedies and local treatmeut only relieve for the time. NOVITA Cures all female difileulties, and ean be used with absolute sa'e'y by the most delicate, old and young. All wornentired of a life of weakness, nervousness and p.in, are invited to call on Bessie Starr Keefer, Manager Novita Co., 174 Weyhosset St.., - TRoom 406’ PROVIDENCE, R. 1. Lady Attendants. Consuitation Free. Oriental Rugs ! = —— 484 Westminster Street. PROVIDENCE, R. I. Nearly opposite the Y. M. €. A. bullding. Nahigmian Bros , famous in all prineipal cities in Turkey, have opened a permanent store at 434 Westminster St., with a complete and elegant line of Turk:sh and Persian 2ugs, Carpets Em broiderivs, Portieries, ete. Their stock is one ol the largest »nd best, and the prices are lowest in the Uniied States. An inspection of this beauti ful swore will prove satisfactory. Nahigian Bros., 484 Westminster Street. Nearly opp. Y. M. C. A. building, Providence. Blalxlcecy’s Orchestral SBand. Can be engaged for BALLS, SICIALS CONCERTS, ETS.. Apply to Fred Blakley: Ss2Sears Ave, Mount Pleasant, Providence, ~PAINLESS FILLING.— Pairless Extracting. Broken Plates repaired, Artiticlale teeth a specialty, &5 to 810 per set Dr. C. W. Eastwood, 767 Westminster Street, Providence. R. Feed Your COWS on Barley Sprouts. A BIG MILK PRODUCER. For Sale By Peck & Black: Dealers in Hay and Grain, 36 to 40 So. Water St., Providence, R. 1. JOKN T. THORPE Teacher of Elocution and Dramatic Action- Pupil’s will be furnished with positions when competent, Mr. Thorpe can also be engaged for readings. 248 Weybosset Street, Room 9, Providence, R. 1. J. A. LATHAM CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, > Removed to Swart's Block, 87 Weybosset St., Prov. l'elephone. Rooms 50 and 51. Elevator. W." A. LESTER. Successor to Chas. . Hazard and Wm. K. Randall. HIRE & MARINE INSURANGE AGENT Room 4, Wilcox Building. 42 VWeybosset St., Providence, TELEPHONE 354. Companies Repr sented. ASSETS JAN. 1, 1892. American, Newark - . $2.182,420.69 Sun Insurance Office,London (in v. s.) 2,510 836.58 Westchester, New York - - 1,685,591.30 Firemens, Newark - - 1.848,166.57 Providence Wuhinmn. Providence 1,432.307.21 Rochester German, hester - 894.534.44 Caledonian. Scotland (in v. s.) 965.545.00 Springtield Mass. . - S 63l 960.42 i OLNEYVILLE., R. 1., FRIDAY. DECEMBER, 8, 1893, QUEER AND GIFTED. AN ARTIST WHO PAINTS MONEY LIKE THE REAL THING. A Soldier, Socialist, Artist and Journalist, and He Has a Hobby—His Great Regard For Rabelais—Some of His Remarkable Paintings Described. Poor Victor Dubreuil, who lives in Forty-fourth street, paints United States currency so that it looks real, and yet he rarely has in his pocket two coins to jingle together. Over the bar of a Seventh avenue sa loon hang several of his pictures, One is called ““‘Barrels o’ Money.” The barrels, or kegs, are of good, stout oak, set in a row three deep, dnd from their yawning mouths &1, &5, $lO, £2O, $25 and £5O and $lOO, £2OO and $3500 bank notes, apparent ly fresh from the United States treasury, are escaping by hundreds. The bills in some of the barrels are weighted down with heaping shovelfuls of gold coin of the larger denominations. These seem to glitter in the light, and so do the dia monds and turquoises which have fallen from the kegs and lie sparkling beside them on the floor. With them are large bank note sandwiches done up in paper wrappers, over the edges of which crisp new edges of the bills curl temptingly. To the left of this painting hangs an other of about the same size, which, as it not only teils a story of its own, butis the key to the life, struggles and aims of the man who produced it, is the most im portant and interesting in the place. The spectator appears to be standing inside the railing of a bank or large mercantile counting house. Before him is the tell er's or bookkeeper’s desk, upon which, cleverly foreshortened and painted, lies a ledger, the ruling and writing on the pages of which are well simulated. To the left of the book is a bottle of ink, from which a pen protrudes. Under the desk lies an overturned stool. The cash drawer, with its brazen handles, is open, and a desperate looking man, with un kempt, tawny brown hair and long beard, squints along the glistening barrel of a loaded seven shooter on the other side of the grating around the desk, while an aged crone in a red cloak stands beside him, and with her skinny arm thrust through the open window in the grating transfers, with a greedy and tri umphant leer, bulky packages of realis tic bank notes from the drawer to a fold of her skirt. Stand in what part of the room you will, you are compelled to gaze down the barrel of the revolver, which covers the spectator at all points, and to shud der at the hungry leer of the woman, which, strange to say, is unmistakably seen to linger upon her careworn face, although her eyes, those windows of the soul, are hidden by her blood red cloak. . The woman is the artist's ex-washer woman, now gathered to her fathers. Her desperate looking accomplice with the pistol is the artist himself, and the entire picture is the key to the aspira tions, disappointments, joys and sorrows of Victor Dubreuil, ex-financier, soldier, journalist, organizer, porter and stable man, and at present artist, author and socialist agitator. This will be better understood when it is explained that the titie of the picture is “A Prediction For 1900; or, a Warning to Capitalists.” ~ “J am vat you peeps call vairsateel,” said the artist. *I paint ze steel life, ze genre, ze landscape, ze portrait—any zing vatevare. I gome to Amerique., I have no monnaie. I go te Theophile Keeck, ze bankaire on Clinton place. I work zere as stapleboy dwendy-two hoursa day for four mons. I get dwelf dollaire a mons. By my economie I safe forty-five dollaire. Zen I say: ‘Dubreuil, you owe monnaie, You must pay heem. You cannot get reech as a stapleboy. Vat, zen, will you do? I sait, ‘I vill pe coom one arteest.” SoI do so.” Besides being an artist, M. Dubrenil has been a soldier, serving with the French army in Mexico. He was clerk in a banking house and then went into the business on his own account. He became interested in the formation of a company which should do for France and Africa what the East India company did for England and India, with the dif ference that through Dubreuil’s company the workingman, not the capitalist, was to reap the reward. To further this scheme, he became a newspaper man, and for six months published La Polit ique d'Action. Judging by his own state ments, this journal was so searchingly and caustically truthful as to arouse first the ire and then the fear of capital ists, who, according to his story, ruined him. ~ During his good fortune and his bad there has been one occupation that has always engrossed this soldier-banker pocialist-artist. It has been the study of Rabelais, with the intention of explain ing him to his fellow countrymen and the world. ' In the guiet retirement of his studio, on West Forty-fourth street, the self taught artist toils day and night to fin ish the annotations on Rabelais’ works, which are nearly done, and at which he has been laboring for 18 long years. These, he declares, will open wide the eyes of the entire world, and with in ventions at which he has been toiling will bring him in by next year sufficient means to return to France, liguidate his indebtedness centime for centime, crush his enemies and reorganize his African Development company. Dubreuil be lieves that Rabelais has foretold for all time the outcome of the capital and la bor situation, and that it is only neces sary to make the laboring classes rea! the great satirist through his spectacles in order to start them on the right track toward working out their temporal sal vation. ¢ Besides the Rabelais commentary and the inventions, which include a new mo tor for vessels, suggested by the recoil of cannon, and a patent suspender, which he is arranging to sell to the American government, the artist is painting an al legorical conceit which he calls the *“Apotheosis of Liberty."—New York Cor. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. THE ORIGIN OF ANTHRACITE. A Possible Solution of Oune of the Mysteries of Science. The main difference between anthra cite and bituminous coal is that the for mer is devoid of volatile matter. Here tofore the theory generally accepted to account for this difference was that pre sented half a century ago by Professor Rodgers while conducting the first geo ligical survey of Pennsylvania. Observ ing that the anthracite beds lay in the eastern part of the state in close proxiin ity to the Archean axis of elevation, he sarmised that these coal beds had, so to speak, been ‘‘coked” upon the eleva tion of the Appalachian chain—timat is, he supposed that the heat and pressure accompanyiag the Appalachian eleva tion, acting most vigorously near the axis, had distilled and removed the vola tile matter of the coal b@l nearest it, To adjust the theory of increasing facts, Professor Lesley added the sup position that the heat involved in this theory was brought up by conduction when the superincumbent layers of rock were extremely thick, which have since been mainly removed by the erosive agencies which have been active over the region for millions of years. The in adequacy of these theories has led Pro fessor J. J. Stevenson of the University of New York to propound another and simpler theory, which was ably defended by him at the recent meeting of the Geo logical Society of America. He would account for the lack of vola tile matter in anthracite coal by the sim ple fact that it had been longer exposed to that kind of decay which takes place in vegetable matter when immersed in water, and which consists chiefly in the loss of the hydrocarbons which consti tute the volatile elements in bituminous coal. On thissupposition the anthracite beds are those which were formed ear liest in the swamps and lagoons of the carboniferous period and remained long est devoid of the covering of sedimentary deposits, which subsequently preserved them from further change. This theory is confirmed by the fact that there is no such strict relation of the anthracite beds to the Appalachian axis of eleva tion as Professor Rodgers had supposed and by many other considerations which Professor Stevenson is about to publish. This simple cause seems adequate to ac count for all the phenomena and proba bly solves one of the long standing mys teries of geological science.—lndepend ent. Saintly Race Horses. Said one of a group of turfmen in the cafe of the Brower House a night or two ago: “I shut up an old chap who was railing against the wickedness of racing horses yesterday, and he was shut up so tight that he stayed shut as leaz as I was about. It was on the ferry cross ing to go to the track, and he was hold ing forth at a great rate to three young men who sat near him and who had been discussing the day’s card. They didn’t appear to mind his lecture—in fact, they seemed to rather enjoy it—but neverthe less I thought I'd chip in and make a bluff at shutting off his steam. “So I opened the last issue of ‘Good win's Guide,” and said as solemnly as I could, ‘Sir, you must be in error about the utter wickedness of the turf, because this little book shows that many racing men select saintly names for their horses, as, for instance, St. Anthony, St. Au gustine, St. Croix, St. Cyr, St. Elmo, St. Hubert, St. John, St. Leona, St. Lucas, St. Luke, St. Maxim, St. Mark, St. Michael, St. Pancras and St. Patrick, all of which are running this season.” All the old fellow said after staring at mein astonishment for a moment was: ‘Well, well, well! Bless my soul!l’ and he was heard no more.”—New York Herald. Music the Kernel of Welsh Nature. Music is the very soul and kernel of the Welsh nature. A musical ear is the national birthright. Every Welsh preach er who migrates to an English church finds the greatest difficulty in abstaining from that weird, peculiar intonation of his sermon which is known as the hwyl, and which is often strangeand objection able to English ears. A remarkable and subtle fact which will be interesting to English readers and at the same time significant of the sensitiveness of the Welsh musical ear is that it is positive discord to many among the Welsh congregations if the minister, in ““giving out” the first verse of the hymn, does not so pitch his voice that it shall be in harmony with the key in which the tune has preliminarily been played by the instrumentalist.—West minster Review. German Greetings. In Protestant Germany the usual greet ing is “*Good morning:” in Austria, *“‘Se rous;” in south Germany, “Gruss Gott” (““God greet you”), while the Roman Catholic parts of the country have adopt ed the formula recommended by Pope Benedict XIII in 1728—viz., “Praised be Jesus Christ,” with the response, ‘“For ever and ever, amen.” In mbdern soci ety the older expression, ‘*Gott befohlen” (French, ‘““Adieu”), used at leavetaking, has been changed to ‘“‘Empfehle mich” (“I commend myself to your good wishes”). In the mining districts youn are saluted with ‘“‘Gluckanf” (“‘Safe re turn to bank”).—Lander und Volker kunde. To Preserve Grapes. A French méthod of preserving grapes in something very close to their natural condition has some interest at this sea son. Shoots of the vine, bearing, say, two bunches of sound grapgs each, are placed in bottles or vases filled with wa ter containing charcoal in solution. The bottles are then hung along the edges of notched shelves in a dry place. It is said that if the water be renewed from time to time grapes so treated will keep in good condition into April. New Light on History. Teacher—W ho was the first murderer? Son of Distinguished Lawyer—Nobody knows. In the Cain and Abel affair Cain had no lawvyer to defend him, so the case went by default, and he got convicted.— Brogklva Life, . 4 UNCLE SAM, FLORIST. A GLIMPSE OF THE BOTANICAL GAR- DEN IN WASHINGTON. Finest Collection of Palms In the World. The Victoria Regia, a Lily Which Will Hold Upa Child—Plants Included Among Congressional Perquisites. Uncle Sam's botanical garden in Washe ington occupies a tract of between eight and nine acres of land almost in the shadow of the capitol. If you are a newly elected member of congress and have not been initiated into the full scope of your perquisites, you will probably receive within a short time after vour arrival a letter from some person you never knew and never heard of, asking you for an order on the superintendont for some choice ferns, palms or hanging baskets to be filled at their own suggestion. Perhaps the let ter comes from some resident of Wash ington, for there are many here who are on the outlook for new members of con gress, especially those who donot bring their families with them, or it may come from one of your own constituents, who is well versed in all the congressional perquisites. So it will not be long be fore you learn that there is a vast vari ety of things beside seeds and congres sional reports, which only await your order informing the cnstodians where the articles mav be sent, Each member of conoressis entitled te a certain amount fromthe hotanical gar den each year, the kiw and the amount being of course subject to the rules of the superintendent. If a senator should send for one of the rare specimens of palms or cactuses, it is very doubtful about the request being honored. The last specimen of & rare plant would not be given up under any circumstances. The most of the orders sent in are for roses, geraniums and blooming plants, of which there is a great supply. If the representative or senator prefers to have his quota of plants sent to his green house in his native town or city, he is furnished by the clerk of the house of representatives with a wooden shipping box, in which the plants are sccurely packed and shipped by express to their proper destination. Upon entering the botanical garden by the west gate you will notice on each side of the broad walk an endless va- riety of cactuses, in all of the varied con ditionsof growth and scratchiness. Some seem to grow after ideas peculiarly their own, as if their chief charm lay in their scrawny ugliness. Others are very pret ty and would help wonderfully to adorn any conservatory or bay window, This avenue extends for about 250 feet, when the decorations of the avenue change, and you find yourself amid an avenue of palms. You may have hurried by the great va riety of cactuses, but yon will certainly loiter along among the choice collection of palms gathered from every gnarter of the globe where palins grow. The largest of all the conservatories is the palmhouse, with its immense dome shaped roof. The building has to bea large one to accommodate some of the immense palms which it contains, many of which are 40 feet high. Here you will find palms from Mexico, Brazil, Central America, South America New Caledonia, Australia and the South Sea islands; palms with long trunks, palms with thin leaves, with broad leaves, with loag pames and with short names, that you read and forget with an ease that is wou derful, so that the most you carry away with you is a memory that you have seen the largest variety of palms in the world. In the large basin, 90 feet in diameter, is the Bartholdi fountain, which was purchased at the Centennial exposition of 1876 by the library committee for the Botanical garden. The fountain is of cast iron and cost §6,000. In the basin of the fountain growsthe Victoria Regia, the largest species of water lily in the world. The lily is an annunal, and asthe season in Washington is too brief for the lily to reach its maturity, the seed hasto be imported each year. The plant is a native of Brazil, and the seeds are im ported in water, for if they were kept dry during the length of time which would be required for transportation the seeds would be worthless. In An gust the Victoria Regia is in ita full glory, and it is during this month that the amateur photographer delights him gelf by posing a small child upon one of the immense leaves. DBy this novel experiment we are better able to judge of the size of this giantess of the lily family. Among the other wonders of the bo tanical garden is alarge bed of elephant grass, which grows to the height of 18 or 20 feet. As a rapid growing plant this grass seems to be the first in its class, but during the winter season it dies down to the roots. When in blos gom, the bed looks like a small section of the jungle transplanted to American soil. The trees in the botanical garden have been selected more with a view to their adaptability to the soil and climate and to their worth as shade trees rather than to illustrate peculiarkinds or varie ties of trees, and altogether the general effect of the tree planting has been very successful, in that the requisite amount of shade has been secured as well as a harmonious touch of general embelish ment of the garden.—Boston Herald. National Flowers. The flower badges of nations are as follows: Athens, violety Canada, sugar mle; Egypt, lotus: England, rose; ce, flower-de-luce (lily); Florence, giglio (lily); Germany, cornflower; Ire land, shamrock leaf; Italy, lily; Prussia, linden; Saxony, mignonette; Scotland, thistle; Spain, pomegranate; Wales, leek leaf. Mixed Metaphor. “Brethren,” said an earnest exhorter to a body of religious workers, ““breth ren, remember that there is nothing which will kindle the fires of religion in the human heart like water from the mtfins of life.”—Springfield Repub- CHINA We are headquarters for Exta Fine Flours made of 0!d Wheat, Very Strong and White. Every barrel Warranted to Suit. Pillsbury’s Best Haxall, Kennedy & Gough’s Fanecy Haxall, Bridal Veil, Splendor Christian’s XXX and Niagara Falls Haxall, from §5 to $85.25; Best St. Louis, at $4.25 and £4.37. All New Wheat Flours 252 bbl. less than old Good Fomosa Tea, 40¢ or 3 Ibs. $1.00; Extra 50c or 2} Ibs. $1.00; Very Best 60¢ or 2 Ibs. $l.OO Bvst‘Creamery Butter, 20¢ or 4 lbs sl.oo¢ to 25¢ Ih. Foreign Money bought and sold. and silver on h:nd. Passage Tickets to and from parts of the World at lowest rates; also sight drafte payable without discount ; also Railroad Tickets to Chicago and all parts of South and West at cut rates. Kennedv, Gouzh & Muiray, hennedy & Gough, 357 Main St, 81 Manton Avenue: Pawtucket, R. 1. Established 1867 Olneywille, R. 1 Teleph ne Call, Pawtucket, 4407-3. Olneyville Telephone Call, 3932-3 T. & J. SAWYER Hot-Air Furnaces, OTf BEvery Description. CARPETS and FURNITURE. ¥An elegant Guide and Atlas of the Columbian every purchase of $25 worth of goods. g o 1875 William L. Whipple, &7 saf 43 Naaien Aveaue, Scasonable Groods., W in. I s House A Choice Selection of Wall Papers Keot in Stock. KALSOMINING and UPHOLSTERING. STORE HARTFORD AVENUE DR ANE:: Has Attended to the s l KER CARE OF THE For the past 13 uears at the Same Old Stand. cdl Westminster St., ®eemszene® Proyidnce, R. I Is in training AMISON’'S prices on remain on a peaceful T P e Heating and Cooking Stoves & J. SAWYER, 1923 to 1927 Westminster Street, Olneyville, Jg. W/ . Coolxe, Painter and Paper Hanger. (Opposite Horse Car Barn.) Olneyville. Peoples = Teeth IF YOU WANT A First Ciass Crayon Portrait At a Low Figure visit WM. MILLS & SON. OLNEYVILLE sQUARE and 58 and 60 Arcade Providence Butterine the Best in the Market, 18c We always keep a large supply of English gold HEADQUARTERS FOR Look at our line of Barstow Stove Co.'s Bay State Ranges And Parlor Stoves. ¥@™Sanitary Plumbing a Specialty. House Furnishings of every description at Whipple’s. PRICE 3 CENTS for war but TEAS basis. dai ooy 0" 'w also Fair Noar Olneywile Souan, Plumbing given with 1893