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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

1t is a Polish electrician, in Vienna,
who claims to have invented ''teleop-
tfcon" or "far seer" to take it's place
along with the telegraph and the tele-
phone among the extraordinary dis
tance-destroyers of the century. The
purpose of the instrument is to enable
us "to see by wire,' say from Boston
to Chicago, just as we now may hear
or talk from one city to another; and
what is more, Prof. Dolbear says, it
seems quite possible, though he does
not know whether this particular report
be true or not 1t appears that the mir
rored reflection of the object to be seen
is broken up into numberless points of
light, which are of course but waves to
be transmitted over the electric wire to
the receiver, where they are again as
sembled by mirrors in a perfect pic
ture. This description of the apparatus
looks about as vague as the inventors
name, szezepanik, but it is rather easier
to read out loud.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

Concerning the divorce suit which
Frances Hodgson Burnett has brought
against her husband, DR.. Swan NJ. Bur-
nett, it is said n Washington, the fam
lily home, that the pair have continued
the marital relation only for the in
terests of their son Vivian, who is in
Harvard, and has just become of age.
Mrs. Burnett entertained very ad-
vanced IDEAS as to the rights of women
and the duties of a wife, which in no
way accorded with those of her hus-
band, and hence what at first was only
a difference of opinion grew to be the
cause of their final separation" This
difference was irreconciliable, and mu-
tual friends had advised the present
proceedings. Mrs. Burnett was mar
ried when she was only eighteen years
old, but even then she was writer. OF
course the usual sermons about women
in literature and Of the domestic trials
of literary people in general, will have
to be heard again.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

Apparently the soft coal interests are
in the usual doleful dumps-the same
difficulty that brought about the great
strike, last summer. There are too
many men at work, and too much coal
is being mined. Eight months will suf-
fee for producing all the coal that is
needed in year, and when the market
is full, what are the mine owners to do?
At the recent conference for fixing
prices of labor for the year beginning
April /, it was suggested that as there
were SO per cent more miners engaged
than could be given steady employment,
some of them would better look for
employment elsewhere. OF course the
miners could not see any elsewhere"
There wasn't any. What then could be
done? Nothing. And nothing was done.
When summer comes around, conditions
will apparently be ripe for the usual dis
turbances, The grievance is of several
years standing, but hitherto nobody
has had the wit and the courage to de-
wise and apply the proper remedy.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

Again, this time from London, comes
the announcement that Mark Twain"
has paid off the last penny of his in
debtedness. There have been various
warnings against accepting rumors
made in this unconventional form, and
some of the stories have been explicitly
denied. There is no doubt, however, that
the entire debt will all be paid, even if
it has not already been. The point is,
that what Mr.. Clemens is doing or has
done, is more than he was under legal
obligation to do. The courage, vigor
and high sense of honor which have
characterized the man only give addi-
tional proof that a humorist may be
cast in as heroic a mould as other men.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

The British campaign on the Indian
frontier has been very costly, especially
in officers and men, but if it is now ac-
tually ended, as the giving of the re-
quired 70 hostages by the tribesmen in
dicates, the imperial government will
be apt to think that the struggle has
not been without its compensations.
Especially will it be so, in view of the
encouraging financial report of the In
dian council, which estimates the sur
plus for the coming year at $4,000 ru-
pees. Under the circumstances, silence
on the currency and silver question
need hardly be national cause of COM
Dlaint
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

The death of Roland Worthington,
founder of the Boston Traveller, and col
lector of the port of Boston under Presi-
dent Arthur, recalls two great innova-
tions in the newspaper business that
were introduced by him in Boston. One
was the system of noisy newsboys, and
the other was the bulletin board. Both
aroused criticism and ridicule at the
time, it is said, and the bulletin nearly
cost the colonel his life He fell off the
balcony and into the street one after
noon, while he was hanging out the
board. Col. Worthington was business
man and manager rather than an editor,
but he knew how to make others carry
out his ideas
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

The Bostonians have had sorry time
in San Francisco with Jules Jordan's
opera, RIP Van Winkle." The Argo-
naut condemns it as worthless" and
criticises the judgment of experienced
managers in selecting it. ''It is mainly
composed of number of coIorless, un-
interesting and insipid solos," and the
opera "has died a weIl-merited death;
there is absolutely nothing to commend
it, either from a musical or literary
standpoint" Evidently rip Van
Winkle' is very bad indeed, or else the
Argonauts music critic is horrid. Provi-
dence people will accept the latter al
tentative a A,ey4&
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

That is an entertaining statement
which comes from an Havana news
paper to explain the moderation that
patience of our government in the pres
ent trying situation. Only those who
cannot see and do not know would i'm
agine that President Mckinley was
prevented from sweeping the Spanish
out of Cuba by fear of civil war in
which the west and south would strive
for separation from the north and east.
This explanation can only be matched
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

1t is hard nowadays to tell war dis
patch from a patent medicine ''ad" in
a jingo paper, until you get far
enough away from it to be able to see
all the type at once. Yet while the
time for receiving the report Of the
Maine inquiry board is so near at hand,
war news grows thin and scarce, and
the invention Of the yellow correspond
ents falters. Their stories are but a
spiritless rehash Of earlier efforts, and
their newspapers are positively dull
They contain nothing but WAR news,
and that is utterly empty. Has the
orange been squeezed dry?
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

The treasury receipts once more show
strong tendency to increase during the
latter part of the month. The total re-
ceipts have been considerably more than
at the rate of 100000 day; that is to
say, $l9,65S,SS9 gross for sixteen business
days. More than one-half of this amount
has come from customs duties. The in
dications are for total of about $31 00O,-
900 for March, which is at the rate of
365,O0o,OoO for the year, and that is
self-supporting basis. The revenue out
look, therefore, is very satisfactory for
Pacific railroad receipts are not included
in the figures quoted. Meanwhile the
gold reserve has surpassed expectations,
for already it has passed $171, 900, ,0O0 The
contrast between this showing and the
melancholy exhibit of Spanish finances
lately made by, New York newspapers
contains whole bookful of lessons.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22
FIRE IN RAILWAY STATION.
Great Terminal Structure Of PENNSYLVANIA
Railway Damaged.

New York, March 21.--The PennsyI-
vania Railway terminal station in Jer-
sey City was damaged by fire early to-
day to the extent Of 100000. The NAM
moth train shed and the large office
building escaped. Much United States
mail matter was destroyed. Incoming
passengers had to walk for blocks train
and ferry traffic being seriously i'm
peded.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22
WORCESTER.
TUESDAY, MARCH 2a. 1sss.

Some assurance was required on the
part of the New York Journals man to
ask Theodore Roosevelt not to deny g
faxed interview with him, but the as
sistant secretary of the navy was quite
equal to the emergency. He gave the
Journal fakirs the lie direct, and ham
mered it home with such vigorous de-
nunciation and scorn as the ex-police
commissioner is known to be quite capa-
bic Of.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

It is rather cruel to suggest that
President Merrill E. Gates excuse of
i'll health for absenting himself from
Amherst College seems like the stud
ent's familiar plea, that he must go
home to attend his grandmother's fun
eraL If there is any little unpleasant
ness in the college that calls for an
extended tour as a softening and re-
medial measure, let's not say anything
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-22

by the highly ingenious suggestion of
Gov Leedy, the Kansas populist that
the purchase of warships and the hur-
ried expenditures for coast defenses,
big guns, ammunition and commfssary
supplies. is for the purpose of subduing
fantastic blatherskites like himself.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05

tempt As for the sentimental phases OF her
tales II must be said that Miss Pool was never
very successful in these, but In this ftory she
has managed TO set forth with notable tender
ness and refinement the patient and unselhsh
love OF n pure hearted wife. THE Red Bridge
Neighborhood" is not work Of genius, but IL
Is assuredy n sterling performance, and one
that dccpcns regret that 80 strong and careful
hand has dropped the pen forever
Mr.. Clinton Scotland is chiefly known for a
pretty taste and some technical cleverness In
verse his writings being OF minor sort, but,
in their modest way tunefu and pleasing he
has produced In "A Man. Arms" the equiva-
lent in prose TO a volume Of his lyrics 1t Is a
pretty tale gracefully told yet lacking In the
ouaIities which go to the making Of frst-rate
novel The pot-which IL half the battle in
story Of the sort-contains several episodes more
or less exciting but 1t is loosely knit and owes
the moderate conference II possesses more TO an
ingenuity which is visible on the surface than
TO the Imaginative power which is the only true
basis for drama OF love and stratagem in the
Italy OF the Vsconti In fact, this book seems
the fruit of reading rather than of Imagination,
since conspicuous figures and characteristic con
ditions I'm early Italian life are exploited without
their convincing US OF their reality. 1t is such
a tale as any writer with sinattering OF
Southern history nigh. have composed The
author has failed. moreover to reproduce the
color and atmosphere OF the period with which
he deals We are aware OF the names OF his
toric cities and personalities, we get hints OF
costume. but II Is perhaps needless to add
that these alone do not make good novel We
come back, however to the gifts which have
won approval In Mr.. Scollards verse They
leave an agreeable, II not a very serious, impress
sion In bis novel, and "A Man-a Arms" will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05
NEWYORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT-.

and Wordsworth came back to England pre-
pared TO uphold the principles for which as he
and Beaupuy considered the French nation was
ready to shed its blood. Events moved rapidly.
ana soon the excuses Of the Terror shook his
aoherence to the cause Of France. The fall Of
f'opespierre gave him renewed courage, but this
was destined to dissolve swiftly away. His
trust mad not been placed in the French Gov
eminent, says M. Legouis but in the People
and In the virtues which his eyes had
seem History tells how the people disap-
pointed their sympathizers in the first mad rush
or the revolutionary impulse. and Wordsworth's
political enthusiasm began to wane. The fall
ure OF the people sent him into the arms Of
William Goodwin, with whose distractions he
dwelt long enough to look sceptcally upon the
race Then he settled at Racedown with his
sister Dorothy. and began to feel the fevered
condition Of his mind and soul relaxing and
receding. He was drenched in nature again,
and was on the road to happier and stronger
state Association with Dorothy soothed and
refreshed him. He led the life Of happy
recluse. and once more responded to those
human appeals which had made part OF his life
among the villagers OF Hawkshead. He was
not yet out OF his troubles however. Dorothy
Incompatible sister but an exclusive
reliance upon her biassed Judgment was cal
culated to confirm the budding poet In a danger
belief In his own ideas. Providentially
Coeridge appeared upon his horizon, and the
two saw much of one another. The Words
worths removed to Alfoxden. Coleridge
near by. at Neither Stowey. Under the in
huence Of his new friend Wordsworth opened
his sympathies once more to political discussion.
and the invasion Of Switzerland by the French
stirred his depths. But time had wrought its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05
while away an hour with a Of youthful
romance for the not too exacting idler.

While away an hour with a sense Of youthful
romance for the not too exacting der
The Clash Of Arms" is a story with plenty OF
versimilitude and go" In an ancient dwelling
full OF grewsome medieval contrivanoes a fair
and innocent maiden is foully imprisoned which,
however unpleasant for the maiden IS an excel.
lent thing in tale OF adventure The stalwart
rescuer swinging across a horrible gulf at the
risk OF his fe gains the roof, ties the end OF his
rope to chimney. finds the fair one and pre-
pares to carry her to safety the airy
emptiness Of the path by which he came. Aasl
The rope has been cut at the other end, Tragic
situation No. Immediately arises Maiden and
soldier creep down the stars, the soldier holds
his dagger the heart Of the sleeping senti-
mel while the maiden unbars the door and tho
two are departing-just in time to be met op
the threshold by the returning villain! Tho
book is full Of blood -curdling episodes Of this
sort, and very good reading ii makes for a lazy
summer day. Mr.. Bloundele- Burton Is not an.
other Anthony Hope, it is true. but he tells an
animated story In reasonably good English, and
certainly knows how to evoke shvers and shud-
ders In susceptible readers.
THE Peacemakers" is a novel more effective
In conception than In execution There is clev.
erness in the picture of the passionate, stern
old man who POUNDS sect of Peace in secret
cOmmemoration of the thwarted love of his
early youth, and who disregards all his theories
and utterly destroys the happiness Of his old
age In the effort to keep rash promise made TO
his long dead sweetheart. II Ii not at all bad
idea but II becomes a mere absurdty in tho
course Of the tale. The fantastic behavior OF
the respectable old British manufacturer grows
more and more impossible of oredence until the
would-b be pathos turns into farce. The story II
without Distinction 1t is as cheap and tawdry al
British fiction can well be- Bottles Baby"
was no great achievement in the novelists art.
but It was brilliant in comparison with this
stuff.
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changes, and Wordsworth could consider the
situation with greater calmness and clearer
understanding He did not allow himself to be
swept of his feet On the contrary. he again
found solace for his troubled spirit In nature,
and little by little exchanged the pessimism he
had imbibed from Goodwin for the nobler out
look which henceforth he WAS resolved to retain
The world was revealing Itself to him through
his awakening genius. He saw life steadily
and IT WHOLE" quote Arnold's familiar
words and the crude young man, with magma
ton and moral theories and ali sorts OF emo
tional and intellectual impulses struggling with
In his BOSOM was transformed into poet, and
entered upon his long career OF social quietude
and impassioned contemplation. The Words
worth whom we know had arrived.
NJ Legouis leaves him in familiar euise at the
end Of this volume, but the poet IL better under
stood the growth Of bis genius Is made more
tangible and, what is more important. 1t Is
made to seem more natural and logical than 1t
has seemed before. Our author perhaps takes
his subject a trine too seriously, but that Is to
be expected In a true Wordsworthian, and his
analysis II unnecessarily microscopic. Is at any
rate readable The book throws new light on
1.-THE Prelude" and its author by showing more
viyidly than has ever been shown before the
intimate relations between the philosophy OF the
one and the personal history OF the other For
tbis all students Of Wordsworth are bound to
be grateful.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05

THE RED BRIDGE NETGHBORHOOD. BY Maria
Louise Pool. illustrated by Clifford Carleton.
Duodecimo, PIP 369 Harper Bros.
MAN-AT-ARMS. A Romance Of the Days OF
Clinton Scollard illustrated by f. w. b. Ham
iton. Duodecmo. pp 49, Lamson. Wolfe
Co
THE CLASH OF ARMS BY John Bloundelle-
Burton. Duodecimo. pp 33 d. Appleton & Co.
THE PEACEMAKERS. BY John Strange Winter.
Duodecimo. PIP. az. J. b. Lippincott Company.
The late Miss Pool possessed we have
said before IN enviable gift for the delineation
OF New England character, and this gift was,
on the whole most forcibly shown In her
that her long novels were unduly defective In
this respect, for the people OF her domestic
dramas were always more or less convincing:
but the exigencics OF sustained narrative some
times weakened the impression she sought to
make and blurred the outlines Of her study. In
her last novel. however. she deals with types
which belong to the universe rather than to q
small portion thereof and she has made them
clear and consistent 70 a high degree The
misery and sensual old man who yet has
enough good In him to recognize a real l0fu-
ness OF soul in his sons unhappy wife, and who
executes posthumous vengeance on her tor
mentor, is drawn with unmistakabe power
Equally faithful TO nature is the son who IL
winning and bad and weak. a thing Of facile
Of this character the author has tried her hand
at the doctrine Of inherited evil, and the re-
suit has In a large measure justified her At
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05

Among the most profitable OF the books OF
,h;, century have been those moral romances
which that excellent woman Charlotte mary
Yonge has given to the world Much OF the
money they have brought to her Miss Yonge
haa given TO religious objects From the profits
&c ,.,,,ho Daisv Chain one Of the most popular
Of Of her books, she gave $4,000 toward a mis-.
s,onarv college In Auckland, and 1.-THE Heir OF
RedcIyffe" fitted out the missionary schooner
Southern Cross.
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FICTION.


THE RED BRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD. By Maria
Louise Pool. Illustrated by Clifford Carleton.
DuOdecimo PIP. 800. Harper & Bros
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05
WORDS WORTH.
PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF HIS EARLY
DEVELOPMENT

-ur EARLY LIFE OF WILLIAM WORDS
rhWToRTH 177o-l79s. Study Of The Prelude "
by isxnn Translated by J. w: Matthews.
S@s,h a Predatory Note by Leslie Stephen.
~ ATT Charles Scribner'S Sons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05

MAN-AT-ARMS Romance Of the Days OF
Clan Gaeazzo Visconti. the Great Viper BY
Clinton Scollard illustrated by f. w. d. Ham
ilton. Duodecimo. pp. 3e2. Lamson. Wolfe
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WhoOping Cough.

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Cough Remedy. / did not think that
any medicine would help!hlm. but safter
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He Did Not See Them.

a story is told of a certain politician
sSbnse education was somewhat defectiVe,
.sua who In particular was not born
.-,-,Ifer He became prominent, and his
-s,srespondence therefore took on certain
s1axpOrt0nce.
ono day a particular friend came 10 MN
ans5 said. Look here, William, you must
F,,.e a secretary write your letters ana
never undertake to write any yourself
s4Whyf" asked the public man.
because people are laughing at your
Ic4sssrs. and they will do you harm.
saWby do they laugh at themS' In aston
kshntent.
"Beoause you make SO many mistakes
s1 spelling" A..
Mistakes IN spellingf" exclaimed the
.-vu~.4 man. 'sNOnsense read my letters
al over after write them, and ! never
and a rnisspelled word.
He bad not yet learned that, althougi
a., a certain extent a man may safely D'
20. law unto himself, no one can be I
.a.rfSouary unto himset