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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13

WE GIVE NO REWARDS. An offer Of
this kind IL the meanest of deceptions.
our plan is to give every one a chance to
try - merit Of Elys Cream Balm-the
original balm for the cure of catarrh, hay
fever and cold in the head. by mailing for
10 cents a trial size to test it's curative
powers. We mail the 80 cent size also,
and the druggist keeps It. Test it and
you are sure to continue the treatment,
Relief is immediate and n cure follows.
Ely Brothers, 90 Warren street. New
York.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13

NO. o63 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
gave me" she says. DIR. Pierces Golden Ms al
ca discovery has cured me of chronic scroflla
~ twenty years standing. l had doctored for
me trouble until was completely discouraged
! also mad chronic diarrhea for twelve years. 1
am IN good health now-better than ever was
IN my lie, owing to Dr. Pierce's Discovery I
my name TO publish"
A lifetime of practical experience has
qualified Dr. Pierce to deal with obstinate
chronic diseases more. successfully than
probably any other physician of his time,
DO not be discouraged however severe
your case may be, but write to him. Your
letter will be treated in strictest confidence,
and he will send, in plain sealed envel,
ope! without charge, the best professional
advice to be obtained in this country.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13

IT THE BABY IS CUTTING TEETH.
Be sure and use that old and well-tried
remedy, Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup
for children teethlng. 1t soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays all pain,
cures wind collie and Is the best remedy
for diarrhoea. twenty-five cents a bot
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13

The operatives of Farnum's cotton
mill are feeling good this week, on ac-
count of receiving the first weeks pay
with the 10 per cent addition.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13

Edward II. Chafin of Holden, the
army secretary of the y. NJ. =. A.
who is with the Second limos Nolun-
t mi,p seventh corps, is seriously sick
in the hospital at Havana.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13

Elbridge Christian, 16 years of age,
has run away from home and enlisted
in the cavalry. His father is making
decided efforts to find his boy, and get
him out Of the army
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13

william H. Basoom and wife OF
Worcester are guests of Mrs Anna W.
putnam. Main street.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13

The Christian Endeavor Society of the
Congregational Church has elected the
following officers for the ensuing six
months: President, Fred L. Searle; vice
president, Mrs. Edwin Ward; recording
secretary, Carrie B. Wood; correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. Eta Fay; treasurer,
Alice Lawton; organist, May Fuller.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13

The Benevolent Society of the First
Congregational Unitarian Church is to
hold its annual Easter supper, sale and
entertainment on Wednesday afternoon
and evening, March 20. The entertain
ment committee have secured the serV-
ices of Rev. Benjamin Fay Mills, the
eminent preacher and orator of Boston.
The topic of his lecture will be Our
wonderful century; or, The social revo-
luton.
The Woman's Relief Corps No. so will
give a pie supper in G. A. r. Hall,
Thursday evening, March 23d, from 7
until o'clock. The menu will consist
Of fancy apple and meat pies, hot rolls
and coffee,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13
HAPPY ODD FELLOWS.
Northwest County Members Have a Jolly
Good Time.

ball. Friday evening, was the most
successful social event OF the winter,
brethren of the order. with their ladies,
being present from Orange, New Salem,
Baldwinville, Petersham, Phillipston
and Royalston. The First Regiment
Band Orchestra of BrattleboTo, Vt, fur
nished the music for dancing, and gave
a concert which was listened to by a
large audience.
After the concert, Canton Athol gave
drill under command of Capt. E. E.
Gibson, in which the various evolutions
were executed in a most creditable
manner.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-13
TO FURTHER ADJOURN.
Westboro Committee Should Have Album
dance of Time.

Westboro, March Eat the adj
journed town meeting next Thursday
morning, motion will be made to ad-
journ until Monday morning, March 20
at o'clock. 1t has been the usual GUS
tom to have the adjourned annual towr
meetings on Monday, two weeks from
election day. This gives the committee
on appropriations plenty of time tc
make up their report for print.
The times., 1899-08-04
Thc MARYLAND Democrocv

Our compliments to the Maryland De-
nocracy. The results show that the pro-
ceedings Of the Baltimore convention must
have been provocative of much excitement
and must have entailed arduous labor upon
the participants.
The convention adopted a platform which
in ringing words declares that the liberty
OF the press in America ought to and must
be preserved unimpaired. This comes Just
in the nick Of time &c save the press from
the annihilaton threatened by the furious
Pingree. II is an exempliication of that
law Of compensation which asserts itself
when Evil stalks abroad in the land and
is met and throttled by Good.
So high ragged the excitement OF the
Maryland Democracy over the preservation
of the liberty of the press that its failure
to take note OF .other party tenets which
are being assailed may be regarded as a
natural oversight and not an intentional
slight.
For example, the Chicago platform. Fol-
lowing a custom with the prestige of age
party conventions, particularly of State d.
mensions. make declarations of feaIty to
the platform upon which the preceding na-
tional battle was fought. Occasionally they
take issue with the platform In doing
neither one nor the other, what are we to
think Of the Maryland Democracy?
The times., 1899-08-04
AssEMBLYMEN TESTIFY.
The Mnzet Committee Getting Facts
on City Government.

The Mnzet Committee Getting Facts
ON City Government.
New York Aug. 3.-Members of the
municipal assembly were the star witnesses
before the Mazet committee today. Nearly
all the city fathers who had been sub
poenaed and who are In town were present
when Mr. Mazet called the committee to
order. Those members who were called
upon to testify were pretty generally of
the opinion that two branches of the
municipal legislature were not necessary,
and several of them agreed that the Of
flee of borough president should be abol
ished or that the holders of this Office in
the different boroughs should be provided
with more work. The Republican mem
bers of the committee considered the evil
dence important, because upon 1t it is in
tended to base legislation to remedy the
evils complained of. The proposition to
cut short Mayor Van Wyck's term was
mentioned. Several of the witnesses inti-
mated that Justice Fitzgerald was not COR
rectly informed of the situation when he
issued his famous mandamus
Horgan and Slattery. the Tammany
architects, who were before the committee
the opening day, today filed a petition in
bankruptcy. An order for the examina-
tion of Horgan and Slattery in supple
mentary proceedings, under judgment for
debt was obtained from the Supreme Court
today, the applicant. 1t is said, being
newspaper which had a notion Of con-
ductiLg a supplementary Mazet investiga-
ton. When they heard of it the archi-
tects filed a petition in bankruptcy and
obtained from Judge Thomas an order
staying their examination under the order
of the State court for one year, when
they trust the wicked will have ceased
from troubling, or until such time as they
apply for their discharge in bankruptcy
The object of the petition, aside from
this is to get rid OF liabilities of S191, 1892
contracted in 1893, when the petitioners did
business as the firm of Horgan G. Slat-
terry, builders, with an Office at G3 Park
Row. They say they have practically no
assets.
During the examination of Commissioner
Lantry before the Mazet committee to-
day, Mr.. Hoffman, one OF the committee.
asked him If II was not a fact that during
the former administration work was given
to a certain firm upon the recommendation
of Senator Hanna, of Ohio. The witness
replied:
Yes, sir"
Mr.. Moss asked few questions about
this matter and brought ont the fact that
a firm that did some work for the de-
partment of correction gave Senator Hanna
as a reference, and that, when written to
about the firm. Senator Hanna had writ
ten back that SO far as he knew they al
ways executed their contracts in a salts
factory manner.
The times., 1899-08-04
ARRESTS IN HAVANA.
A Former Spanish Army officer Ac'
cused of SysindIing.

Havana, Aug. S.-By order of General
Ludlow, Mora Saavedra, former officer of
the Spanish army, has been arrested on 4
charge of swindling. The prisoner has
made himself conspicuous lately by or
ganizing demonstrations among the Span
iards in honor of General Gomez.
The Cuban general Aveino Rosas. who is
a Colombian by birth, was arrested yes
terday by order of General Ludlow, but he
was released today after signing a docu-
Dlent pledging himself not to take part in
any more transactions of a blackmailing
character, operations in which line had led
to his arrest.
General Ludlow is about to issue an or
der forbidding anybody to carry arms OF
any kind All permissions to carry arms
that have been issued by the police will
he revoked.
Two more cases of yellow fever are re-
ported here. The victims, both of whom
are Spaniards, have been isolated by order
of Major Davis, the chief sanitary officer.
There are two cases of the disease at Casa
Blanca, a town across the bay.
The Bishop of Havana applied to the
Minister of Justice for the release of the
priest who was arrested at Whales for sew
eral crimes. including manslaughter, as
told in yesterdays dispatches. but was in
formed that the prisoner would have to re-
main in custody until his case was decided
by the courts.
The times., 1899-08-04
Hnnnufsni.

CFrom the New Orleans Times -Democrat)
Like a musician who has much skin with his
instrument, Hanna plays upon the instrument of
mems avariciousness with skill acquired only
by profound study and persistent and long-con-
tinued practice. He has a familiarity with the
shadier side OF mems nature which few politicians
have had; and it is to that shadier side that he
attaches himself and through which he works his
corTupting purposes.
Now, if Hanna were merely local politician
playing upon the immoral tendencies Of few men
in village country town, the narrow range of
his debasng influence would prevent him from
doing much harm, and might cause him to be
overlooked; but here he is in the full blaze of
that strong light which beats upon the Presidents
chair-necessary, with his meXas and his un-
blushing corruption, an immense power for evil.
1t is not only that he twists and turns poor Nc
Kinley about wherever he wishes him to go, and
makes him dance TO whatever tune he pleases: but
the example Of his successful corruption has a
fearfully demoralizing effect upon the people.
The times., 1899-08-04
Iowa BimetaIlism.

From Iowa comes the first official note Of
what We may regard as the Republican in
tention concerning the currency plank in
the platform of 1900. We think we discern
the velvety touch Of the Hon. William b.
Allison and the Scottish shrewdness OF the
Hon. d. B. Henderson in this section of the
platform adopted at Des Moines:
The monetary standard Of this country and Of
the commercial world is gold. The permanence
of this standard must be assured by Congressional
legislation giving to it the validity and vitality
OF public law. All other money must be kept at
a parity with gold.
And We earnestly call upon our Sem
ators and Representatives in Congress to
lend their best endeavors to enact these
propositions into law" say the platform
makers in polite terms of authority. which
are not at all dubious of their right to COM
mand nor Of their strength to enforce
obedience.
The plank quoted is from the Iowa plat
form of 1886, and the Hawkeyes manifest
great pride in calling attention to that
fact. Its significance did not attract ma
tional attention three years ago 1t would
not now appeal TO us except for the
peculiar circumstances which attend its
reiteration. The Iowans point with just
pride to the very conspicuous position
Iowa enjoys today in the eyes of the ma
tion, with an able and practical representa-
tive in the Cabinet, with recognized ma
tioral Republican leaders in the Senate
and our own gallant Henderson soon TO
occupy the Speakers chair" All of thi.
means that Iowa is going to lead the new
programme of fraud and juggling with the
currency question In the next campaign
The plank readopted was interpreted In
Iowa in 1896 as meaning bimetallism. The
trusting souls who had been following ALI
son in his winding In and winding out
monetary course for so many years that
their whiskers grew grey were made to be-
lieve three years ago that that plank was
demand for bimetallism as opposed TO
1s to J. Next year they are to be again
told that II really means bimetallism. but
. bimetaiiism with a single standard, "All
other money must be kept at a parity with
gold is the astonishing way Republican
bimetailism will run in Iowa after SEN
The times., 1899-08-04
Illumination.

1t is the deliberate opinion OF the New
York Sun that ''it would require the
longest apparatus known to the artesian
well industry to reach the subterranean
level of the Hon. Arthur P German at the
present moment" BY which the Sun
means TO assert that Mr.. German refuses
to disclose his immediate political pur-
poses.
Yet. Mr.. German is as open as the
day. Believing. as he has a right to. that
Mr. Bryan's denomination would be unfor-
tunate. Mr.. German opposes 1t.
Not in words. In deeds. For if Mr..
Bryan requires two-thirds of the votes in
the Democratic convention of 1900 and Mr..
German can control more than one third
against him Mr.. Bryan will have 10 *
change names with a third Irishman whose
patronymic is Dennis
The Hon. Arthur p German is a states
man, and therefore perforce. thoroughly
experienced politician When the decisive
moment arrives he throws aside all tech
nical and anatomical knowledge OF breast,
heart, lights, and liver and shoots straight
al the bear
The times., 1899-08-04
Boyeotts and Dynamite.

lEroin tpuiuHt-J
Law-abiding American citizens who are neither
plutoerats nor professional agitators-and there
are 4 good many millions of them-do not like
TO see mob violence and the boycott driven in
double harness. They have an inherited prejudice
in favor of civic order and personal liberty. They
are quite prepared to consider questions relating
to the hours or the wages of organized labor"
dispassionately, on the merits. Their sympathies
in the beginning are usually with the employed
rather than with the employer. Most of them are
comparatively poor men themselves wage-eaners
OF one sort or another They dislike anything that
looks like rapacious greed or hard oppression.
They want this to be county Of iair-play and Of
opportunity for every honest. industrious man
within its borders. But wanton breaches of the
public peace always disturb them, and when the
dynamite begins TO go of they begin TO grow
angry. They Lave been singularly patient, all
things considered, with the alien anarchists to
whom that kind OF argument comes natural; but
there IS 4 limit.
The times., 1899-08-04
War Article Authors.

The narrowing question is raised il the war ar
ticles that have appeared in the magazines under
the names of distinguished war officers are genu-
inc productions of their pen. Sir Walter Besant,
of English literature, appears to think that this is
not always the case, and he has written in re-
monstrance against literary lending them
selves to this kind of work The readers who are
epchained by these narratives may dilate with
admiration Of the wrong person who is eloquent
in depicting what has been done. but the main
point is in the heroism they chronicle, and this.
perhaps, may be even more vividly described by a
pen employed for the purpose than it would in the
hands of one who could say OF it part of which
/ was" Modesty may not be deemed SO indis-
pensabe when it is vicarious. But the attraction
in these articles In the beginning was largely in
their novelty, and We have had so many of them
of late that this is much worn off, whoever may
have been their writers.
The times., 1899-08-04
COUNTERFEIT KRoNoRs.
Spurious Swedish Certificates in Cir
cuIation in New York.

New York, Aug. 3.-Local dealers in for
eign money have been defrauded by coun-
terfeiters with spurious 10O-Kronor notes
Of the Swedish Riks Bank. The bad notes
TO the estimated aggregate OF 5000 kronors,
or about 81, $50 American money value, are
now in the possession OF Chief Hazen. of
the United States Secret Service. who is
endeaycring to locate the counterfeiting
gang, at least some of whose members are
thought to be in this country A 100-kron-
or note is worth about S27. 1t is about
the only Swedish Government note The
counterfeits were distributed in Sweden
and elsewhere in Europe to a total that
is said may exceed 100000 kronor5, or
more than S270000.
The counterfeits are described as the
finest and most dangerous CT foreign note
ever produced, and in their way more dan
gerous even than the famous counterfeit
$100 United States silver certificates that
gave the Secret Service officers so much
trouble last year. Owing to the remarkable
ability displayed in the counterfeiting the
opinion was expressed by some OF the
money brokers today that the counterfeit
ing was the work OF some American eoun-
terfeiter. 1t was reported today that a man
believed to belong to the gang that has
circulated the bad notes had been in the
custody OF the United States Marshal at
Joliet, Ill. but had managed to escape
The times., 1899-08-04
TRIAL OF THE FEUD BAKERS.
Testimony Concerning the Murder
of Howard and Stores

Barboursville, Ky, Aug. 3.-The trial of
Jim Baker, the son OF Tom Baker. charged
with completely in the murder of Wilson
Howard and Burch Stores, in Clay county,
was begun here this morning. Bal Howard,
father OF Wilson Howard, was the first
witness for the prosecution. He said that
on April G.. 1898, while riding along the
road accompanied by his son and Burch
Stores they were fired on when near the
home Of Tom Baker. The fire came from
the bushes near the roadside, and turning
he recognized Tom Baker and some one
with him whom he took to be Jim Baker.
He could not positively identify Jim Baker.
James Robertson, who was at the Baker
home at the time of the shooting said that
when Jim left the house he took Win
chester rifle with him, and that when he
and his father returned they were greatly
excited. He said the Bakers had forced
him to swear before the grand jury that
both the Bakers were at home at the time
of the shooting Fuller Barrett who was
a member of the Baker faction and who
turned States evidence, causing the in
dictment OF Wiley and Jim Baker, next
testified. He said he was with the Bakers
when Bal Howard, wilson Howard, and
Burch Stores rode up; that Tom and Jim
Baker opened fire, and that Rurch Stores
and Wilson Howard were killed in their
saddles.
He was forced under penalty of death to
swear before the grand jury that Tom and
Jim Baker had nothing to do with the kill
ing. Jim Baker denied the testimony Of
the Commonwealth witnesses. declaring he
had not seen the men until after they were
dead Barrett had remained in jail eleven
months before turning States evidence.
The jury will be given the case tomorrow
morning
The times., 1899-08-04
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS.
His Theme Is ..Practfcul Politics and
Decent Politics.

Ocean Grove. n. j., Aug. 3.-Before an
audience OF 1900 persons Gov. Theo-
dore Roosevelt delivered an address in the
cal Politics and Decent Politics" In part
he said:
1T is idle for the mass OF good citizens
TO try to set themselves apart as not re-
sponsibie for our political shortcomings
In the end the politicians must be exactly
what the people allow them to be. They
must represent the people-perhaps the
vice, perhaps the virtue. perhaps the indif-
ference of the people. We never can have
politics on a satisfactory basis in this csun-
try until We make it understood that dis
honesty in a public servant is an unpar-
donebie sin; that corruption of any kind
will not be condoned for any consideration
of party expediency. Now. this is decent
politics. and. therefore, it is practical pol
itics. but it is by no means all that there is
of practical politics. II is not enough for
you TO Go what is honest yourselves. and
to insist upon honesty in Others 1t Is
not enough Tor you to act up to what yoI
believe to be right; you have also got to
possess courage, and. finally, you have got
TO possess common sense"
Speaking of the Philippine question. Mr..
Roosevelt said: I'VE shall be guilty OF
a ttiIiuit NlOHE 10 humanity H. al tuc
Philippines, we retreat before armed saw
agery instead of organizing a suitable Gov
ernment, which shall guarantee justice to
everyone and an increasing measure of
liberty to those who show themselves
worthy of it. The whole history of the
world shows that the wrong done By the
mere sentimentalist is often of larger pro-
portions and more elastic than any other
kind of wrong. and of this wrong wa
shall be guilty if we fail to do our task
thoroughly and well. 1t will call for but
the merest fraction of our strength pro-
vided only that We choose to exert that
strength. What the people have to do
is resolve to back up the President to the
full in seeing that the outburst OF saw
agery is repressed once for all; to see that
these new tropic islands in the East and
West alike are not left to be the prey OF
partisans and spoilsmen. but are govern
ed primarily in the interest of their in
habitants and, therefore, ultimately for
the honor and renoWn of America"
The times., 1899-08-04
A SPLIT IN THE RANKS.
Efforts to Form n CoIored Anti-Im-
perinlfstic League VIII Fall.


perinlistic League VIII Fall.
Boston, Mass, Aug. 3.-The serious dis
agreement among the colored people of
| this city as to whether or not Miss Lillian
Clayton Jewett will bring the Baker family
North is bound to have one definite result
and that is that the proposed colored
branch of the Anti-Imperialistic League
which it was hoped to form here will
amount to absolutely nothing. This is be-
cause William Lloyd Garrison, who was in
strumental in arousing the interest of the
colored people in anti-imperialism. is op-
posed to both the ,Jewett and anti-Jewett
factions. Rev. ]. l., Dart, President Of the
Normal and Industrial Institute of Charles
ton. has been in this city a week aiding to
raise the fund 10 provide for and educate
the Baker family.
In connection with this fund William
Lloyd Garrison has written a letter today
saying that he wants it distinctly under
stood that the movement under his con-
troll for the relief Of the Baker family is in
no way connected with that represented
by Miss Jewett. The money contributed
through him will be placed in the hands OF
Hon. George W Williams. jr.. President of
the Carolina Savings Bank OF Charleston,
and will not be used to encourage any pro-
posal to bring the Baker family North for
spectacular purposes.
The family referred to is that Of Baker,
the colored man who was killed by mob
at Lake City, S. c., in the fall OF 1897.
Baker was appointed postmaster at Lake
City by President Mckinley over the pro-
test OF the white people. He assumed office
and was killed by band Of white men.