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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-13

Miss Mary Z. Williams died yester-
day at the home of her mother, Mrs
Harriet Williams, 5 Ashland street
Miss Williams had been an invalid for
nearly a year, and her death was due
to a complication of diseases. She Is
survived by one brother, Charles A.
Williams, who lives at 40 Fruit street
The funeral will be held Friday. al
Mrs. Williams home on Ashland street
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-13

Butchers and Grocers' excursion, July
10. Tickets 81. Nantasket Beach, Ma
hant, or ball game, Boston VS.. st.
Louis
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-13

Butchers and Grocers' excursion, July
10. Tickets ST. Nantasket Beach, Ma
hant, or ball game, Boston VS.. St
Louis.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-13

THURSDAY. JULY 10. 1899.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-13

WORCESTER PEOPLE IN NEW YORK
The following local people were IN tha
metropolis yesterday: G.. Stevens. Broad
way Central; w. s. Cosgrove. ST Denis,
w "a, Raymenton, c. r. Macomber. I'm,
Darling, Murray Hill, - W
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10
The Answering of Ler,srs.

Time was when men and women took
letter writing very seriously, and sat
down to the desk as if to an important
task. The scrawls of the modern girl,
her hasty dashing off of an epistIe to
catch a post; her dozen notes scribbled
in hot haste and illegible penmanship,
sealed with sprawling wax. and dis
missed with sigh Of relief. would
have filled young woman of Jane
Austin's day with unfeigned horror.
Apart from the stilted style, affected
by persons who hail the courtliness Of
their period and its leisure, without
the Unborn grace of the raconteur who
is Of no period, but belongs to all time,
the epistolary remains Of the last cen
fury and of still earlier centuries,
POSSESS an interest which we shall
yainly seek in the annals of our own
day when We come to search for them
in letters. Cowper, Madame dc
Sevigne, Mary Milford, the ladies Of
the Hare family, Mrs. Browning in q
yesterday Just past, and others, whose
memoirs form part of our literary
wealth, are good EXAMPLES of the per.
J feet letter. -Harpsr's Bazaar.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10
Gold and victory.

The Iowa Republicans. two years
ago, under the lead of Governor Shaw,
made a fat-footed declaration in favor
of the gold standard, the language Of
the resolution adopted by the State
convention being as follows:
The monetary standard of this coun-
try and OF the commercial world is
gold. The permanence of this standard
must be assured by Congressional leg.
islation, giving to it the validity and
vitality of public law. All other money
must be kept at a parity with gold.
Now, it is known that many Western
Republicans were afraid to make dis
tinct issue of the gold standard, even
William Mckinley being very timorous
about the subiecE. But the Iowa Re-
pubicans went in for declaration in
favor of the gold standard as plain and
unequivocal as was the declaration OF
the Democratic National Convention
of 1886 in favor of the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver ut the ratio Of
l6 to l. Other Republicans were fear
full, therefore, over the Iowa expert
mont of two years ago, but their fears
were without reason. Upon this IN
equivocal gold standard platform Gov
ernor Shaw was elected by plurality
Of about 10000.
Wednesday the Iowa Republicans
again met in State convention, and not
only readopted the above resolution,
but supplemented it with an urgent
"call upon our Senators and Repro.
sentatives in Congress to lend then
best endeavora TO enact these propo.
sitions into law
And there is not question that upor
this platform the Iowa Republicans
will win again this year. II may be-
urged that Iowa is a suro Republican
State, but before the Democratic PARTY
was rended by the free silver coinage
folly it thrice elected governor il
Iowa and once secured majority Of
the States delegation in Congress.
How foolish to attempt to array the
Democratic party on the side of fire.,
silver coinage and give to the Republi
can party all the advantage to be de
rived from an advocacy Of tho cause o
sound money. The money question
ought not to be political issue, any
way. 1t is a business, not a political
question. But since 1T has been in
iected into partisan politics, the Demo
cratic party will constantly play ;
losing game by adhering to the wron.
side and leaving the Republicans alon
| in upholding the right.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10

Maryland's places in Statuary Hall
in the capitol at Washington are to be
filed by statues of Charles Carroll Of
Carrolton who, before his death IN
1882, was the last surviving signer of
the Declaration of Independence, and
John Hanson, who was distinguished
member of the Continental Congress
and whose name is closely connected
with the early history of the State.
Gov. Lowndos recently appointed a
commission to select the statues, which
are to be of heroic size in marble.
The commission has decided to select
names OF some OF the leading sculptors
and to ask them to submit designs and
estimates and TO compete for the work.
1t is expected that the commission
will be able to award the contracts by
November lst, and that the statues will
be in position year later The Legis.
lature appropriated s24,O9 for the two
statues. When completed they are tc
be placed in Statuary Hall between the
statues placed there by Maine and
Massachusetts, near the door leading
to the clerks Office of the old House Of
] Representatives.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10
why tn, Faction. Divide.

Many people are in somewhat of n
mystery as to the real cause of the
division of the Republican PARTY of
Delaware into two hostile factions. The
reason for this division is thus given
in the editorial columns Of the Morning
News:
The Republican party ceased to be
one on May 9th, 1895, and on May 18th,
1896, fifty Republicans withdrew from
State convention for the purpose Of
maintaining the old and original Re-
publican party. This was after an at
tempt was made to set aside all prece-
dents and to increase the number of
delegates in convention from the lower
counties to the detriment Of Now Castle
county and against the established
custom Of generation. The Union
Republican might with truth and pro-
priety have said:
Sup to five minutes of II O'Clock
noon on May 9th, 1895, the Republican
party Of Delaware, was one in its belief
that the majority should govern. But
four men elected as Republicans stood
in the breach and declared that fifteen
other Republicans should not elect q
United States Senator unless the choice
Of the four boiling men was named.
-Four against fifteen shattered the
idea of majority rule and four out OF
nineteen made possible O vacancy in the
United States Senate. That was the
date upon which the first breach in the
Republican party Of Delaware was
made. -Four men did it,and the fifteen
others, standing by their unquestioned
right to name Senator, were checked.
In 1896 the fifty delegates who left the
convention declared that the mon who
were responsible for the outrage of the
year before should not prevail either at
Dover or at ST. Louis. And they kept
their resolution. Ever since then they
have declared that the one man who
was responsible for that failure to elect
United States Senator should never
be taken as Republican and should
never be honored by any act Of theirs.
They continue to SO declare.
That is the real history of most I'M
fortunate situation. 1t will not down
and no evasion at this time can make
right-minded Republicans believe that
the crime of 1895 should ever be con
doned to the extent of surrendeoing to
the man who made it possible. One
Republican party in Delaware is
enough, and there will be one again
Just as soon as the one obstacle in the
way is removed.
According to this and it is prett,
straight goods the dividing factor Of
Delaware Republicanism is MIR. j.
Edward Addicks.
And according to the Morning New:
pretty good Republican authority
there will DO no unity in the Repuhli
can party of Delaware SO long as Mr..
Addicks remains factor in Delaware
politics.
| This is good cause for dissension il
the Republican party. All good oiti
zens will hope that the dissension viii
continue until the cause is removed.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10

Statistics collected by the Engineer
ing and Mining journal for the seventh
volume of 1.-THE Mineral Industry
indicate the largest mineral and metal
production ever recorded in the United
States. High prices have stimulated
productin to the utmost. 1t is inter
esting to observe that aluminium was
produced in this country in 1898 to the
extent of $500, 600 pounds, an increase
of 1900, 600 pounds over 1897. The
price per pound was about 30 cents.
The increased price of copper caused a
largely increased demand for the light
metal. Our production of gold was
3, las, 642 ounces, worth $50, 0S2, 430; of
silver, 80, 763, l27 ounces, worth SO cents
an ounce, against 35 cents in 1897.
The pig iron product was II, $50, 165
long tons. The copper product was
$50, 800, 600 pounds, a large increase over
1897. OF platinum the output was 800
ounces, worth $3.50 an ounce. OF
phosphate rock the product was /, 257,
Gas long tons, against 1,007, 1857 in 1897,
the increase coming from Tennessee
and South Carolina. T=g=.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10

The London Telegraph reports a
series Of interesting experiments in
wireless telegraphy with balloon re-
Gently made by the Rev. j. M. Bacon,
Mr.. j. N. Msskelyne and Mr.. Neyil
Maskelyne at Shaw House, near New
bury, in the presence of large con-
course of spectators. Last year Mr..
Bacon, with several scientific friends,
made balloon ascent from the same
grounds with number Of instruments,
and conducted some experiments. No
attempt has been made to appropriate
the system used by Sir W. II. Preeee
or Signor Marooni.
The first experiment made was the
firing of powder magazine electrically
from distant point without contact,
the firing point being the transmitting
station between which and the balloon
communication was maintained when
the ascent took place. The object of
this experiment was to give practical
demonstration of the possibility OF
utilizing tho principle of hitherto com
munication in time Of war. Mrs.
Maclsarness, wife of the Recorder of
Newbury, touched button attached
to an instrument in the electric station,
with the result that at distance OF
400 yards from the magazine the struc-
turo was blown into atoms. Mr.. Mas
kelyne explained that tho same result
could have been obtained with the same
instruments at distance of ten miles.
Messages were afterwards transmitted
from tho electric station to tho receiv-
1 ing station with entire success.
The weather proved fine, but towards
6 O'Clock the sky was studded with
clouds, and there was fair breeze to
the eastward. The occupants of the
car attached to the balloon were Mr..
and Miss Bacon and Mr.. Thomas Simp.
son OF Ealing, with Mr.. Perciyal Spen-
Ger, tho aeronaut, and at about five
minutes past six tho signal to let &C
was given. The balloon rose rapidly,
and drifted away in the direction Of
Reading, but it was quickly lost to
sight in the clouds, from which it did
not emerge for some minutes, when il
appeared as speck in the distance.
In the meantime, Mr.. Nevil Maskelynt
transmitted several messages to the oc
cupants of the balloon, who gave
signals that they were being received.
The first message sent was as follows
Come back; You have my stop
watch," rapidly followed by another
beg pardon, Maunder has it; oh
these astronomers. Heavy gun cottor
cartridges suspended below the car o
the balloon were fired from the electri,
station on the ground when the bal
loon was some miles distant, and ther,
were similar discharges from the cleo
trio station which shook the ground.
The experiments, which were regarded
as highly successful, were carried on
by means of valuable instrument
which had been purchased for the pur
pose by Mr.. Maskelyne. but they wer
necessarily worked under great diff
Guilty.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10
THE NEWS OF NEW CASl1r

New Castle, Aug. ga M,
eight from Philadelphia who i,
rived ON Tuesday last to camp !,
low this city, expecting to rem,
three weeks, mot with trouble
day which rnarrsd thoir pleasu,
caused them 10 break camp,
yesterday morning the party
across the river to Firms Poin.
to fish. After fishing awhij.
moved, and in drawing In her In,
Mary Noshell missed her tooth,
fell overheard. Miss Margaret NJ
spraue after her and landed aim,
top Of her friend. Charles WalvI
stantly jumped into the water an
hold Of Miss Voshell, who was SUP
by Miss Walcott. The boat wasa
rowed to the spot. Before MissE
was taken aboard Miss Walcott h
exhausted and was sinking wh,I
was seized by Alexander Duu|
hauled into the boat. She soon I'd
Miss Voshell was resuscitatei
bard work, but became hysterical
wards. She recovered. The pad
for their homes last evening.
Sheriff John Il. Taylor treats
205 prisoners in the county Jail, \
day, with watermelons. Each nj
received half of a melon. Tho !
were first taken into the corridor
jail, near the warden's Office.
prisoners cut the melons In halV
four others served them to tho
were confined in the cells.
New Castle, Aug. IA color,
named Warren Myers, aged 10
was found beside the tracks
Delaware railroad, yesterday ino
with his left foot close by til
The boy was in q semi console,
dition and was cut on the he,
face. He was not seriously inju
J. e. Pritchard of Baltimore
Gil, Jr. O. U. A. M, visited In
Council last night, in behalf
Orphans Home. situated at Tiff
This institution is one Of the lar
it's kind in existence. The OBJ
the committee of the institutio
raise 100000 with which 20
buildings for aged members. Th
number of members in the ord
is 1856, 900.
st. Peters I. A. B. Societ
completed arrangements for tn
bration of it's 10th anniversar,
November, in the Opera House.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10

In 1870 tho foreign mail from Eng
land for the United States, carried on
the Great Western, consisted of two
sacks of mail. As late as 1873 steamer
from Europe with 10000 letters on
board was considered record breaker.
Today the Cupard steamers and other
TRANSATLANTIC ships carrying what is
called full European mail, " usually
bring some 200, 900 letters, and an
average Of 300 hundred sacks of news
papers andprinted matter for New York
City, not to mention the 500 and odd
sacks for Canada, Mexico and trans
pacific countries, and few United
States exchange Offices, which are now
taken direct TO the trains and not
handled at the New York Office Serb
ner's.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10
T :
The Letters OF Children.

Children seldom show much indi-
viduality in their letters. Occasionally
a bit of originality crops out, and one
sees peeping through the formal dress
the quaint sweet face of a little lad or
lass, and hears the music of the childish
speech through the carefully chosen
words. But because we grown people
insist that written words shall not be
spoken words, and force upon small
seribblers vocabulary not their own,
their letters are apt to be stilted, and
to be very like the letters OF everybody
else. Thus in the school room the
whole class will submit on composition
day letters which vary little from be-
ginning to end, which are as similar as
buttons pressed in mould. The fact
is that the little writer's have been
given copy to follow, and have fol-
lowed it slayishly, and far too often the
teacher marks them not in the order of
merit, for spontaneity, or for eleverness
or sprightliness, or keen powers of OBJ
serVation and nicely in reporting things
seen, but rather for the neatness OF
the general screed--for the absence Of
blots, the correct spelling, and the
proper use of names and appropriate
placing of the date. The outside ap-
pearance OF any letter is very important,
and children must be taught tho ETH
quette Of correspondence, and not al
lowed to fall into careless habits as to
the spacing, folding and addressing Of
tho same. One of the hall marks of
gentle breeding is found here, and the
polite person., as distinguished from
the awkward and unframed one, may
be known by the letter he OF she writes.
Regarded as a passport to social success,
an adjunct to business, an assistant in
every department, the ability to write
q graceful, direct and Ineligible letter
is of great value, and parents owe it to
their children to give them thorough
training in this particular branch Of
education. -Harper's Bazaar.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10
FOLLY of ra,ernal eorsrnm.nt.

Nebraska offers a bounty for wolf
scalps, wolves being a nuisance in that
State. How the bounty system works
is thus told by The Nebraska City Con-
servative:
Next after the bounty for getting
chioory into the coffee markets, the
bounty provided by the Nebraska Leg
islature for wolf scalps is the most
idiotic.
The law-givers appropriated s45, 900
last winter for payment Of bounties
upon wolf scalps taken in Nebraska.
Nearly the entire sum has already been
absorbed. A bitch wolf-with scalps
cashable at SO each--is more valuable
as money breeder, under this encour
agement, than a Poland China SOW.
Farmers who cannot raise wolf pups
to scalping age, at SO each, ought to
quit live stock entirely.
The wolf crop increases yearly. II
pays splendidly. 1t is encouraeed
along with chicory and beet sugar by
generous and iDdefencible bounty.
Grow wolves!
OF course the people of Nebraska
will raise wolves as long as it pays tc
do so. . 9 ..'
Let the paternal government with.
draw the bounty for wolf sealps and
Nebraska farmers Will soon exterminate
the wolves, for their own protection.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10

In recent address before the Anti
Imperiallst League of Chicago, Prof. j.
Laurence Laughlin made this very per-
tinent point: ut is tricky and unfair
to plunge US into policy of expansion,
except after a full and fair discussion
in national campaign. If we really
desire expansion, then every argument
in favor of taking the Philippines ap-
plies with much more strength to TAX
ing Canada and Mexico. Grant that,
under international law of monarchical
nations, we have legal right to be
there. Is that any reason for our viola
tion of every maxim of common sense
and morals? Why sink for every hun
dreds of millions of dollars in the Phil
ippines, when We know that the people
can mover in centuries be assimilated
into an Anglo-Saxon state: that the
land can never be colonized by u white
race SUCCESSFULLY" -4-.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10

The Indianapolis journal says that
during the week ended August 9th
there were received and forwarded at
Indianapolis 2s,777 cars, %, 209 being
loaded, which was 1920 more loaded
cars than were handled at this point
IN the corresponding week of 1898, 1892
more than in 1897, 500 more than in
1896, 6,44S more than in 1895, 5,6l7
more than in the corresponding week
of 1894, and an increase of 1,54o over
the week ending July Goth this year,
making it record breaker in number
of loaded cars received and forwarded
in any one week in the twenty seven
years this weekly statement has been
published. The fact is that for the
first time in several years the railroads
arc in position to dictate both terms
and conditions on which freight will
be carried. For some days East the
roads have been forwarding the freight
that must be shipped Immediately and
leaving other classes, of freight until
such time as they can get cars and
power to handle it. A point has been
reached that shippers are willing tc
take any kind of cars and on any con-
ditions, providing they can get their
goods delivered. Freight men say thai
unless there is marked falling off in
or change in trade in the fall months,
the roads will not be able to carry all
that will be offered.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10
Cuba as a Future winter Resort.

The entire island is great park that
needs no artificial training to enhance
its beauty, and it is destined to become
the winter resort Of all the Eastern
States. But great administrative i'm
provements in the ports, besides the
police and material ones noted, will be
necessary before this can happen. For
instance, it would do much for the
island it the port of Havana could be
freed from the high pilot fees, anchorage
fees, docking fees, and fees Of all sorts
that make it impossible for small craft
to enter. Even the large steamers do
not dock, but cargo has to be lightered
out and passengers are compelled to
use the small boats that swarm the
harbor. --Scribner's.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10

Dover, Aug. 9.-Camden campmeet.
ing closed this morning, after success.
full season. Old Folks Day was oh,
served yesterday. The Rev. u. f.
Price preached in the morning. and
tho Rev. T.. III. Rawlins in the after.
noon. A new white organdie dress,
owned by Miss Kate Cullen, was stoIer
from the camp grounds Sunday.
pocketbook containing S. was stolen
from Charles Pardee's tent Monday.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10
WIN M,KinIey and Congress Do 1, ?

Abiding to a very pertinent matter
the Sound Money Democrats and their
probable attitude next year--the Phila-
delphia Ledger says:
The part of wisdom for President
Mckinley and Congress would be to
consider the grievances Of the Sound
Money Democrats, who made Republi-
can success possible, and to supply the
remedy. These critics are not selfish.
They are not seeking a share of the
Offices. They are merely contending
that the Republican party shall faith
fully redeem the pleages Of the ST.
Louis platform. They ask for currency
legislation that. in the words of the
Iowa Republicans, shall give to the
gold standard the validity and vital
ity OF public law, /" and deprive the
Secretary OF the Treasury of his dan
gerous discretion to put the country
on silver basis. They demand con-
sentative action touching the question
OF territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and the
avoidance of any radical and unneces-
sary departure from the spirit of Wash
ington's farewell address. They insist
upon q revision Of the tariff, ut least to
the extent that its trust fostering feat
ures shall be eliminated. They look to
the President to be consistent with his
former record and the pledges of his
party with regard to the maintenance
and extension of the merit system in
the civil service.
The Gold Democrats have been SO
patriotic and courageous that the Re-
publican party is bound in honor to
| give consideration to the complaints OF
faithful ally.
This is sound suggestion, but it is
not likely to find favor with Mckinley
and the coming Republican Congress.
They will probably prefer to leave the
money question open another year, in
the hope of again profting by the sup.
port of Sound Money Democrats in The
campaign for President.
But they may find themselves greatly
mistaken il they enter upon this dis
honest and mistaken path.
| In the opinion of the Seaford News
the Democratic party wants a mai
nominated for President "who can b,
elected. The only man that can unit,
the party and whose election would b,
certain is the Hon. Arthur Pue Gormai
of Maryland. " But the propristy o
nominating man who has been s,
signally repudiated by his own Safe a
German has been is decidedly doubt
full However,it is encouraging to not
that the Seaford News will even con
sider any other candidate than Brya,
or any other issue than the free an,
unlimited coinage of silver at the rati
of l6 to L