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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-09
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All our 4Sc Cyrano Watch Chains, all
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40 dozen H. and s.. Elite Corsets, in
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500 pieces White Val Lace Edgings,
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SHlRlS AND DRAWERS.
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e 10 cents
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Grand and Majestic Wringers, regular
price $1.S9 MILL END SALE PRICE
for Monday
93c
Liberty Washing Powder, regular
price &c per package. MILL END SALE
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SC per package
Lawn Mats, regular price 10c each, or
8 for Zoe. MILL END SALE PRICE
for Monday
S for Csc
We have four S-Burner Wickless
Blue Flame Oil Stoves, regular price
$1,000 each, MILL END SALE PRICE
to close
$500.
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Wllllmantic Spool Cotton
&c spool
Nickel Safety Pins, all sizes
2 dozen for SC
I Black Brush Braid, equal to FEEDERS
&c per yard
Kid Curriers'
&c per dozen
Corset Clasps
&c pair
Best American Pins
&c paper
children's Hose Supporters, button
catch
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Ladies' Hose Supporters, button catch
&c pair
Ladies' Satin Belt Supporters
1Oc pair
Remnants of 5s-inch colored Silk
Elastic Web, all colors
&c piece
500 pair Rubber-Lined Dress Shields,
with fine Nainsook covering, one of the
best manufacturers goods, nameless,
not stamped:
No. 2, usual price 15c. MILL END
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10c pair
No. 8, usual price zoe. MILL END
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lie
No. 4, usual price 25c. MILL END
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$1.s9 pair

100 Mems 2s-inch s-rib Taffeta Silk
Umbrellas, steel rods, case and tassel
choice natural wood handles, with
swedge; our well-known $500 grade
For this MILL END SALE
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iSc piece Of II yards

1000 yards White Oriental Laces, 8 to
4 inches wide, choice of seven patterns:
value 121ac and 15c. MILL END SALE
PRICE
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CORSETS.
Csc per pair

A large lot of Summer Corsets, value
75c. We offer them for this GREAT
MILL END SALE at 6s, stfs4
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LINENS,

A small lot of our foreign buyers
sample line Of Linens, mostly Towels, at
is off marked prices for this MILL
END SALE
Lovers of fine linens will find come
great values in the lot.
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SOME OF THE
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In CLOAK DEPT.

One lot of Jackets. formerly $3.50.
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$3.75
One lot of Jackets, formerly $1,000
and $1,000. MILL END SALE PRICE
$3.50
One lot of Jackets, former prices $500
and $1,000. MILL END SALE PRICE
1928
Wool Suits formerly priced at $3.50
to $1,000. MILL END SALE PRICE
$49S
Wool Suits, formerly priced at $1,000
to $1,000. MILL END SALE PRICE
$3.50
Wool Suits, formerly priced at $500
to $500. MILL END SALE PRICE
1928
Wool Suits, formerly priced at $1,000
to $2S.50 MILL END SALE PRICE
$500
20 dozen Crash Skirts at 25c each for
this GREAT MILL END SALE.
dozen Crash Skirts, manufactured
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$l.9s.
2 dozen Fine White Pique Skirts,
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Regular prices $500 and $3.50.
CSC per pair
MILL END PRICES IN
CROCKERY DEPARTMENT.

One lot French Earthenware Bread
and Milk Bowls, beautiful decorations;
something new. WHILE THEY LAST,
10c each
In order to make room for new goods,
which will soon begin to arrive, we shall
offer for Monday every Jardiniere in
our stock at just HALF THE MARKED
PRICE.
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Grace Church Sunday School

Members of the Sunday school of
Grace church with parents and friends
gathered in the vestry of the church
last night to participate in the annual
Christmas celebration.
There was a supper for the little
ones at o'clock, followed by an enter
tainment and distribution of Christmas
gifts at o'clock. A new feature was
introduced in connection with the ad-
vent of the patron saint, in that he was
accompanied by his better half, the
characters being impersonated by r. A.
"A. Chase and Miss Mabelle G.. Beals.
A temporary stage was set to repre-
sent a room with large open fireplace
through which Santa Claus made his
entrance. The entertainment program
included these numbers: Piano duet,
Miss Cora Belle SQuier and Foster S.
Ford; tenor solo, r. A. A. Chase; reci-
tation, "a Tramp's Christmas" Miss
Helen Howe; dialogue, Peace on
earth, good will Ntoward men," Lillian
Campbell, Emma Hill Mildred Lusk,
George Lusk, George Mcdonald, Alice
McDiarmed and Howard Brady;
Santa Claus letter, with duet by Mr.,
and Mrs. Santa Claus, Miss Beals and
Mr. Chase; dialogue, Annie and Will
lies prayer, read by Miss Cora B.
Squier. illustrated by Mildred Parker
and Roland Beals; dialogue, Santa
Claus on time" May Shedd, Thomas
Rennick, Paul Brady, Ivy Reed, Ethel
Squiar.
Santa Claus was assisted in the dis
tribution of gifts by number of young
men
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At the Church of Christ

There was a Christmas entertainment
at the Church of Christ last evening al
6 o'clock A large number of children
were present. After an organ volun-
tary, M. Snyder gave a solo, followed
by reading Of the scriptures and pray
er by the pastor, Rev. Roland A. Mich
OILS.
An anthem, 1.-THE Lord is risen,'' was
sung by Miss Addie Wilson and Eugene
Burr; Miss Edith Walls and Miss
Frances Reyes gave recitation. Tell
me the story" and chorus sang Joy,
joy to the world" The primary class
gave an exercise. Babe of Bethlehem; -
Miss Louise Phillips sang a solo, "Shep-
herds watching their flocks by night !"
Miss Edith Knox recited 1.-THE King
and Prince is born;' Ring, ring the
bells" was rendered by the chorus; Ed
win Hines and Miss Eta Knight gave
a duet; Bessie Nichols, the pastors
daughter, gave a recitation, Santa
Claus"
e. P. Crerie, dressed as Santa Claus,
instead of the customary pack carried
a huge stocking upon his back from
which an inexhaustible store of candy
came out. Every child connected with
the Sunday school received a present.
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Park Avenue Methodist

A large audience gathered in. the
Park Avenue Methodist church last
night to assist in the Christmas day
exercises by members of the Sunday
school. There were two large trees lit
orally loaded down with gifts for mem
bers of the school, parents and friends.
and all We're remembered.
There was an address by the pastor.
Rev. Alonzo Sanderson, followed by
this program: Recitations, by Robert
Williams, Goldie Blow, Ralph Blodgett
and Mel Rust; piano duet, Fred Bailey
and Miss Katie Green; song, Miss Eva
Hall.
Next in order was the distribution
of presents by Santa Claus, imperson-
ated by Benjamin Rust, who kept the
children merry with his droll stories
and funny makeup. ST. Nicholas was
assisted by several young women of
the parish in passing out the presents.
A. H. Anthony, superintendent of the
Sunday school. had charge of the en-
tertainment, which closed by singing,
"All nail the power of Jesus name 3
and benediction by the pastor.
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SENATOR H0AR'S DREAM
In Harmony With the Essence of
Christianity

The Boston Saturday Evening Ga
zett in its leading editorial on Christ
mas says
The spirit of Christmas has been con-
spicuously absent from the glorious
deeds over which nations rejoice, and it
has been publicly acclaimed with much
religious. ferVor that God aimed the
guns that shattered out the lives of
some of the human beings that He
created.
At the present moment with the sun
rise of Christmas falling on the world
all the Christian nations, at moment
notice, are ready to plunge into war and
the battle hymn and not the hymn of
praise and rejoicing is on their lips.
Everywhere the spiritual has been ell
bowed aside by the material, and in
stead of the cross, nations are Worship
ping at the shrine of the sword. The
retrospect and prospect are not uplift-
ing.
There is the true spirit of Christmas
time in The resolutions recently intro
duced by Mr.. Hoar in the senate; but
in their utter inapplicability to present
modes of thought and morals they sug-
gest a sarcasm that was not intended,
and provoke a ridicule they do not as
suredly deserve. Mr.. Hoar asks for the
gospel of peace; he would have great
cities govern themselves in freedom,
honor and purity: he would have the
ballot box made as pure as a sacra-
mental vessel he would make the negro
safe in his home and in his rights, and
he would do justice even to the Indian.
But more than this, he would have set
"a peaceful example of freedom which
mankind will be glad to follow, but
never to force even freedom upon un-
willing nations at the point of the bay
onet or at the lannon's mouth"
Mr.. Hoar's wishes, or dreams, are
in full harmony with the essence of
Christianity, yet they are so far remov-
ed from the spirit of our era that they
seem to apply to an impossible Utopia
rather than to the world in which we
are living. The spirit of Christmas still
passes over without touching the earth.
Man is still the slave of his canine
teeth, and in the matter of morals the
epitah for the dead nineteenth century
may be written with the one word:
Barbarousl On the Christmas day of
the year 1899 the world is ruled by the
spirit of enmity and not of love, and
the fact will be more startling to pos
terity than it is to us.
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FED NEARLY 800
Lively Scenes at Salvation Army
Barracks Christmas Day

Nearly 800 poor women and children
We're given all they could eat at the
Salvation Army barracks yesterday af
ternoon. In fact, 1T looked as though a
good many of them were getting more
than they could eat. 1t was an inter
esting sight to see SO many people who
do not get good meals from December
year being treated to the best sort of
dinner by the army corps in the build
ing on Commercial street.
The meeting room on the second floor
was turned into a waiting room, where
the children were corraled until the ia
bles We're ready. Across the front of
the platform was an evergreen arch,
with a tree at either end loaded with
presents, while festoonS of evergreen
stretched from post to post all through
the hall A doorkeeper was stationed
at the top of the first flight of steps
to usher the people into the room, and
all who had tickets and some who had
not We're made to stop there until all
was ready. When the signal for dinner
was given, there was a rush for the
door, but Staff Captain. Allen and the
members of the corps restrained the
too anxious ones, and the entrance into
the dining room was in some sort of
order.
The tables were set in the large room
on the third floor. There were clean
paper "cloths" on the tables, and at
each place was a plate of all sorts of
good things, { IS and a napkin. The
walters were ID busy filing the
plates and p.,-s4ng coffee, and after
everybody had caten all he could, the
children took up their knives and forks
and We're marched to the door, where
they were allowed to exchange the
weapons they had used with such tell
ing effect for bags of candy and fruit.
This was repeated over and over again,
the tables being filed as fast as they
We're empty, and it was after 4 o'clock
when the last hungry person was fed.
They were not all women and child
rem who attended the dinner. There
were some old men, and younger ones,
too, who were entitled to a dinner.
There were some funny things happen
ing all during the day in the large hall.
One little fellow came in, and, after
staring at the tables, turned to Staff
Captain Allen and said:
Does this happen every day?'
He was rather disappointed to find
that it didn't, but he enjoyed his din
ner just the same.
ALI through the day Capt. Allen re-
ceived notes from people who were sick
and could not be present, and after
everybody was served, what was left
over was put into baskets and sent
around to needy families. About 30 or
60 of these were sent out, altogether.
Walter L. Stearnes, who is interested in
the army, presented q number of the
children with American flags, in mem
DRY of the soldiers in the Philippines.
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AT THE HOME FARM
Christmas One Round of Good
Cheer For the Inmates

The celebration of Christmas day re-
suited III a continuous round of good
cheer for inmates of the Home farm.
Mass was celebrated at o'clock in the
morning by Rev. James H. McKechnie,
assistant pastor of the Church of the
Immaculate Conception. A female quar-
tet made up of members of the chorus
at st. Paurs church, furnished music,
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon roast
pork dinner with all the accompanying
good things, was served, and during the
ensuing hours merriment ran high.
Eleven porkers raised on the farm were
slaughtered for the occasion. There
was no lack of good things to eat.
The principal feature of the day was
a Christmas tree with the accompany
ing entertainment held at 5 o'clock in
the afternoon A majority of the in
mates received gifts of one sort or an
other sent to them by their friends,
while each person was presented with
box Of candy and nuts, furnished by
Miss W1nnifred G. Crane and her pu-
pills of the Winslow street school. Fol-
lowing the distribution of presents, an
immense Christmas cake was cut and
coffee and cake served.