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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
THE NEWS OF SUNDAY.

The Spanish situation.
Senate passes joint resolution for me-
mortal fund for Lafayette statue.
French liner La Champagne disabled
Large filibustering expedition said tc
have landed in Cuba.
King George of Greece fired upon while
driving.
Gen. Thomas p. Dockery, formerly oi
Arkansas, dies in New York.
Fitchburg railroad has large contract
for moving war munitions.
Personal property Of the numbered
Newtons at Brookfield sold at auction.
Mary S. Page Of Hardwick accident
ally burned to death.
Six persons killed at Chicago in a
coach run down by train.
Warwick Cycle Company OF Spring
field votes to go into insolvency.
County base ball men meet in the in
terest of a league
Capital stock of 100000 all subscribed
to Worcester and Webster Street Rail
way.
George H. Lawrence, one of the vic
Tins of the Hubbardston accident, dies
at Fitchburg.
Illicit still unearthed at East Douglas
by deputy internal revenue collectors.
Worcester man witnessed Maine ex-
plosion in Cuban waters.
Worcester Academy won at interscho-
lastic meet, with Worcester high school
second
Another bridge scheme to be petit
toned for at Lake Quinsigamcnd.
/. G. A. A A. holds important meet
ing in New York.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
PoS6LBLE r0MPLIcArLoN


Whatever may be the findings of the
naval board of inquiry at Havana il is
earnestly to be hoped that the decision
| as to the cause of the destruction of the
Maine, as well as the evidence on which
it is based will be so strong and clear
that there can be no room on either side
for dispute or doubt as to the facts. If
| il should be conclusively shown that the
explosion originated and took place
within the hull of the vessel, the Incl
dent may be supposed closed" SO far
as any International aspects are con-
cened, barring, of course, the very re-
mote possibility of evidence of CON
spiracy or plot worked out within the
vessel itself
IT. on the other hand, the investiga-
ton should show that the shock came
from outside the Names hull, and
should bring direct evidence to prove
how the wreck was accomplished, the
method of procedure would still be clear.
and the immediate result could be pre-
dicted with reasonable certainty.
Suppose, however, that the report
while asserting that the initial explosion
came from outside the ship, should at
the same time fail to offer direct evil
dence as to the means and responsible
ity, there would be additional embar-
ressment in settling the presumed dis
pute.
This obstacle to settlement was fore
seen by the less excitable section of the
press as soon as the disaster was known,
and it was noted in the Spy's first edi-
torial utterance concerning the loss of
the Maine The Importance of the mat
ter is now emphasized by the official
declaration from the Spanish legation in
Washington, that there were no mines
or torpedoes in Havana harbor
Should the board of inquiry assert that
the ship was destroyed by some outside
agency, while the Spanish government
maintained that this could not be true.
because it had not caused any explos-
ives to be placed in the harbor. and
! there was no evidence of private
malice an issue of fact and
veracity would be at once raised.
Now who is to decide this is
sue? For us, at least, that duty devolves
solely upon the government of the
United States; primarily, the president
aud in proportion as the difficulties and
embarrassments Of the case are in
creased, by so much is the duty of the
people to await and stand by his de-
cision also increased. with absolute
proof of the means by which the vessel
was destroyed from outside, the fact and
Spain's liability to indemnity might be
accepted by both parties, and the ques-
tion settled through diplomatic chan
nels much as Italy's claims were settled
when mob murdered the subjects OF
King Humbert in New Orleans
With the lack of such evidence, and
only preponderance of evidence or
probability that the explosion came
from outside would the executive con-
slider that such a representation war
rants war, in case indemnity should be
refused? or would he withhold decision
till ample facts have been gathered TO
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

prove conclusively to the disinterested
nations of the civilized world, that we
have suffered monstrous grievance for
which Spain is responsible and for
which she refuses to make amends?
These considerations deserve the atten-
tion of those journals which manifest a
disposition to force the executive to act
prematurely and hastily. That the whole
nation to a man will support the presi-
dent, should he deem extreme measures
necessary, nobody doubts. If there is
anybody who desires peace at any
price," with the implication of dishonor
we have not yet observed that he has
got into print.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

Thomas w. Lawson's statement before
a legislature committee, that he and his
colleagues who were laboring for the
Whitney pipe line gas bill In 1896, spent
100000, 100000 or 100000 to get that
bill through the legislature, is hardly
getting the attention 1t deserves. To
be sure, Mr.. Lawson is now opposed to
worked so assiduously, but he says that
good offers We're made him to continue
in their service 81 was shown $3.50, 900
to stay out of this fight" were his words
on the witness stand Why he has
changed sides is of less moment now
than his testimony. Here are some of
his confessions: That the legislature
was hoodwinked and befooled; that the
Whitney pipe line scheme was discred-
tied by engineers hundred years ago;
that it was laughed at in the board of
directors; that the proposed use of the
Nova Scotia coal mines was a fake, but
Mr.. whitney wanted a market for them
and the owners of the Boston gas light
COIIlpduleS WdDleu lH6lI SUCK TO 80 up,
that the first 1000 feet of gas made by
the company would send a train of coal
cars to New England that would reach
from Philadelphia to Boston and knock
down the price of coal to such a point
that we would never hear Of Mr.. Whit
ney's Dominion coal again; and that
the entire scheme was simply a device
for getting control of the Boston gas
properties, with no notion whatever of
giving the people the vaunted so cent
gas, provision which Mr.. Lawson says
got into the bill "by mistake" The
present charges against the New Eng
land Gas & Coke Company, as to the
Illegal issue of stock and the making of
contracts with Boston gas companies,
which win make it Impossible to sell gas
at less than a dollar instead Of so cents
all these things seem but the logical
following out of the policy outlined in
Mr. Lawson's confession. The most
urgent question Is: How was the enor-
nous sum of money alleged to have
been spent in pushing this extraordinary
enterprise, applied?'
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

the ex-presldent as a punishment for
tax dodgers but coming from SO high
an authority, it is attracting more at
tention than heretofore. That such 81
law would produce vastly more revenue
for the state than any double doomage
law, may easily be believed. II rigid
Enforcement OF the tax on intangible
personal property is the one thing need
ed in order to make our taxation system
perfect, why not adopt Gen. Harrison's s
plan OF enforcing it? But the truth is,
Gen. Harrison hardly touched the objec-
tions to the personal property tax that
have been urged by economists in gem
eral, and his exposition Of the matter,
patriotic as were its purposes and spirit,
will not make many new converts. AS
the Springfield Republican points out,
the advocates of tag on both real and
personal property have, IN order to es-
cape the charge OF double taxation, fall
en- back upon the argument that 1t is
contention which clearly makes it tan
tamount to an income tax. Why not,
then, accept the income tax frankly, and
have done with the whole vexatious
question of taxes on personal
property? People would then know ex-
actly what the contestants on each side
were driving at an income tax would
reach everybody who earns a living or
inherits one, and It would be no more
difficult to collect than tax on stocks
and bonds. Dare the personal property
takers accept so logical. though unpop-
ular, an alternative.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

The gold product of the Yukon dis
tfict last year is estimated at 50, 500, ,00(
by the Canadian government. On this
basis the wise ones have predicted that
more money will be taken into the Klon-
dixie from the. United States than will
be brought back. The first year of the
California fever brought 10000 people to
the territory to dig for gold, and now the
railroad and steamship estimates indi-
cate that 100000 is a conservative guess
for the number that will invade the
Klondike this year. The common esti-
mate of the expense of the trip and the
outfit is $500, which would make the
gross expenditure of the whole number
of gold hunters s10OOOo,O0O. Even if the
number Of adventurers should be halvea
and their expenses should be halved
also, the gross outlay would be $25, ,000,-
0O0 which is aboGt twice as much as
the annual gold product OF California.
II is to be noted that this money is alb
solutely sunk beyond the possibility Of
any return, save what the gold hunters
may wash from the dirt
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

Preserve liberty, protect posterity,''
is the title of a rebellion -to-tyrants-is-
obedienee-to-God" sort Of an address to
the people, issued by the general COM
mittee for remonstrants" against the
bill proposed in the legislature for the
further regulation of the practice of
medicine and the protection of the peo-
pie from the impositions Of quackery
and medical humbug. The address ig-
nores the real point at issue 1t might
be said, also, that the actual objection
of the remonstran1s is not against the
bill, but against any kind of law what
ever that purports 20 regulate the prac-
tice Of medicine. So far as the rights of
present practitioners of every sort is
concerned, careful and specific provision
has been made to protect them. If the
law should result in the exclusion OF
quacks coming from other states, and
should ultimately compel every practi-
TONER to undergo due preparation in
some reputable medical school, the sensi-
BILE people of the commonwealth will ap-
prove of il
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

1t was pity that Senator Billy
Mason of Illinois could not attend the
dinner of the Essex Club in Boston
Saturday. There was reasonable curl.
sosity to see and hear him, and it is pos
sible that his interview with Massachu-
sets people might have been mutually
profitable. 1t would not be fair to sus-
pect the genuineness of his excuse fol
absence, that illness in his family kept
him away, but it is fair to observe that
since his attack on the navy and his
outbreak in the Cuban debate, for which
he was eastigated by Senators Hoar
Lodge and Wolcott Senator Billy has
suffered a serious relapse. He has been
conspicuous by his silence
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

An American who has been cultivat-
ing the English barmaids for a year
with proud success, writes the New
York Sun that they are very nice young
ladies and moi. at all the giddy things
they have been represented to be. One
with whom he corresponded wrote a
fashionable hand and her letters were as
correctly spelled as vassar girls" He
furthermore asserts that as a class they
elevate the tone of the saloons, and he
once heard even a London cabman re-
buke companion for saying bloody
because "a lady ears wot you say" The
lady was the barmaid Now this is just
what the reformers have been looking
for to elevate and purify the barroom.
Let them introduce the British barmaid
system, and every saloon must evidently
become as polite and harmless as five
o'clock tea
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

DR. Mary Walkers recent experience
in being refused admission to the order
of the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, because she is not considered
eligible or acceptable, she having re-
pudiated the recognized apparel of
Women" reminds contemporary OF
Bill Nye's remark, that Dr. Mary was,
so far as he knew, the only self-made
man in America. 1t appears that DR.
Mary's pedigree was the correct thing,
but her pants were not en- regle.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
POMONA GRANGE MEETING.

The next meeting Of Worcester Cen
trail Pomona Grange will be held Wed
nesday at Holden, commencing at 1890
a. m. The morning topic will be 'Vil-
lage improvements" which will be
handled by HI. Ward Moore of Worces-
ter At the afternoon session, b. W.
Potter will deliver an address on "Mu-
nicipal government" This address will
be public.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
IN rHBrR NEW HOME.

Rev f. D. Penney, pastor of the Lin.
coin Square Baptist Church, has moved
into the parsonage which the church
has Just built on Wachusett street, near
Institute road. Mr.. and Mrs Penney
will hereafter be at home to the men,
bers Of the church and congregation on
Wednesday afternoon of each week
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
A FAREWELL SERVICE.
Free Baptist People Bid eodspeed to
Miss Prentice

Miss Prentice.
The evening service at the Free Ban
tist Church, Sunday evening, partook
largely of the nature of a farewell to
Miss Carrie R. Prentice, who is to leave
Worcester tomorrow for New York city.
as the first stage in journey which is
not to be completed until she reaches
Macao, province of Qwang-SI China.
where she hopes to begin the life work
she has mapped out for herself since
early childhood. Miss Prentice will be
Joined in New York by seven other
young missionaries, under the leader
ship of A. b. Simpson, in whose school
they have been trained for this work
The party will proceed across the con-
tinent to Tacoma, Wash, from which
place they will embark for their destina-
tion in faS-off China, March 12 The
party will stop in Buffalo, Chicago and
st. Paul for the purpose of conducting
missionary meetings Miss Prentice is
very enthusiastic over her work stating
that 1t has always been her ambition
since she was very young girl to do
this self-sacrificing labor.
The remarks made by the pastor of
the church, Rev Essex Kenyon, were
particularly inspiring to one entering
upon a new field of work. He spoke Of
God as personal friend of man, and
unless one can feel that God is his per-
sonal friend, he is not Christian. 1t
is necessary 70 feel that Jesus Christ
is person, he loves as a person, he
holds sympathy as a person, he guides
us as a person 1t is part Of his great
| loving self that he wants to be your
personal friend and companion.
Speaking Of the natural desire of the
human being to better himself, Mr.
Kenyon said that one should take no
heed to the shaping Of his course, but
! allow his affairs to be entirely domi-
mated by the will Of God, thus one would
scarcely fail of doing right.
At the close of the service numbers OF
friends gathered around Miss Prentice
! to bid her godspeed upon her journey.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
WORCESTER.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY rs. Isss.

May be it will and may be it won't
but it looks now as if the revenue, to-
day, would put the treasury receipts
for the month ahead Of the expendit-
ures. If it does, it will be the first time
in some years that the United States
treasury has known a surplus in Feb
rnary. What is more, nobody had
much expectation of such result a
week ago. The past week has been an
eYe-opener in the revenue hnsiness
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
A DRuG STORE RA1pED.

Sergt. McMurray and Officer Ryan
raided the drug store of Keen & Co, 81
Green street, Sunday morning, and
seized 61S gallons of whiskey ana u
cases of lager beer.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

The blueblrd is hailed as a harbinger of
spring. II is also a reminder that a blood
purifer is needed to prepare the system for
the debilitating weather to come. Listen
and you VIII hear the birds singing: Take
Ayers Sarsaparilla in March. Ap7ll, May"
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

Henry B. Fuller has nearly ready for
publication, through Houghton, Mifflin
& Co, book containing four stories OF
transatlantic travel, to which he gives
the title, From the Other Side"
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

Benjamin Harrison's suggestion, that
property on which man pays no taYes
during lifetime be not permitted by law
TO pass To his heirs is not original with
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

A new book Of stories by Bret Harte.
called Tales of Trail and Town" is
coming from the Riverside Press short
ly.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

Col. Higginson's Cheerful Yester-
days" will be published by Houghton,
Mtfflin & Co. next month.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

DR.. Griffis has written for Houghton,
Miffiin & Co. book on "The Pilgrims in
Their Three Homes-England, Holland
and America"
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
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THE PERIOnIcAIS

The American Monthly Review of Re-
views for March publishes three import
ant interviews concerning the anti-Jew-
ish crusade in France. The first, with M.
Drumont, the head and front Of the anti
Semitic agitation in France, is reported
by Valerian Gribayedoff, the well known
Husslan journalist and artist, formerly
of New York Robert II. Sherard reports
conversations with DIR. Max Nordau, the
author of Degeneration" and with M.
Zola; these, of course, give the Jews
side Of the story. The whole series, taken
together, throws much light on what
to the Anglo-Saxon mind seems so in
oomprehensible-the real animus of
French anti-Semitism, and especially Its
bearing on the Dreyfus case and Zola' S
trial in Paris.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

story which has been running in the At
lantic Monthly, will be brought out in a
book, probably in March, by Houghton,
Miff1in & Co., with several illustrations.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
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The Art Amateur offers superb num-
Der for March. The text is all by well
known writers, and the illustrations are
superb The color plate, "a Holland sun
set, by John ], Redmond, is very
charming. There are mastery articles
on 'Sir Joshua Reynolds as a painter of
children" by Montague Marks; the IA
fous Stewart collection" by Roger
Riordan; What constitutes connois-
seur," by Frank Fowler; on "Horatio
Walker" the we'll known figure and
animal painter. The practical articles in
clude ''Sketching from nature Land
scape painting" Charcoal drawing" ="
Composition Miniature painting" :"
How to become a ceramic decorator" :"
Suitability of designs "Glass paint
ing" and Decoration of lamp globes"
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

During March The Youths Companion
will publish a series of three articles by
the Hon. George f. Hoar the senior
United States senator from Massachu-
setts In these papers he recalls Com
cord and the life there in his boyhood
days, sixty years ago, describing the
tasks and pastimes of the young peo-
pie of the village in that good old time
Bringing his recollections down to a
somewhat later day. he pictures the
three sages of Concord-Emerson Thor
eau and Alcott--as they used to appear
in intercourse with their neighbors It
is said that the fresh touches which
Senator Hoar adds to the portraits of
these philosophers are of exceptional
value and interest.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

Hon. Marion Butler, United States
senator for North Carolina, writes in the
March number of the Arena about
Trusts their causes and the remedy"
Hon. Charles A. Towne, chairman of the
national committee of the silver repub-
lican party, contributes an article en-
titled "The victory of the vanuuished.' p
Among the other leading papers are two
studies on the money question, one by
Anthony w Dimick, who discusses cur
rency reform, the other by John Clark
Ridpath, who replies to Mr.. Dimick's :
arguments
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

Many people in Worcester have met
and regard highly that able and scholar
ly clergyman of Cambridge, Rev. Alex
ander Mckenzie. He is preacher of
thoughtful, practical sermons Of evan
gelical character A volume of his Sc
lected sermons has. just appeared from
the press of Houghton, Miffl:n G. Co. of
Boston; and they are well worth careful
reading by all In these sixteen essays
much that deals with our contemporary
life, our history and the problems of the
American future is found. The book is
dedicated to Kenneth and Margaret,
children Of the author, of whom there is
a fine full-page frontispiece portrait
For sale by Putnam, Davis & Co.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28

Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, arch
deacon of Pennsylvania, has added a
readable volume to the growing library
of worthy novels dealing with American
history. His book, For Love of Coun-
try" is a story OF land and sea In the
days of the revolution. There is a we'll
sustained romance amid a narrative
which deals vividly with some famous
events and men, including the father Of
his country--W Washington. The hero and
heroine are virginians. Published by
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York For
sale by Putnam. Davis & Co.
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