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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

most noted men among the purchasers
are Richard Croker, Nathan Straus,
Senator A. r. German, Joseph Fl,
Hoadley, the Cramps of Philadelphia,
and Lewis Nixon, designer of the Ore
gon, Massachusetts, Illinois and vari-
Gus other battleships of the new navy.
The reason the compressed air syndi-
cate is interested in engines is because
they need engines to compress air and
to run their plant.
The exact value of the plant is
matter of some dispute Some con-
sentative writers have put it as low as
S346,0O0. Mr.. King says s., 000, 900 comes
nearer the mark. The plant was
bought subject to $4,000 mortgage
The concern o~1nloys 1900 hands. when
running full time.
Inc combh J omises greatly to in
crease It's capacity and efficiency. ].
RI. Hoadley will be president of the
Rev company and Col. D. M. Thon1pson
of Providence will still be local mar
ager. ii. w. King and George S. Ora
ham of Philadelphia are the attorneys
VINO arranged the transfer.
MT. King will return to Providence
TINS morning to arrange the details of
the purchase. From there he will re-
turn to New York 1t will be Soma
tlme before he can again feel thai
Worcester is his home
Russell Sage held a long conference
with VIII, the general manager of the Auto
Truck company Saturday, discussing
pressed air power on the Manbatta+
Elevated. but he has not vet made NH
TIC ms intentions. 1t is said to be al
most certain that the 2Sth and ootb
sIeeC croSS-toWn cars will use air q.
their motive force. az
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06
RdTIEY TOuAY

The news from Manila should make
sure the ratification of the peace treaty
in the Senate today. 1t has been as
serted that a clash of arms in the
Philippines would hasten ratification.
and it should logically be so. 1t will
make playing at politics unpopular as
well as Improbable, and that is the
character Of the democratic opposition
led by Senator German. He has seldom
asserted his leadership in any import
ant question without making political
advantage his chief aim.
There is not the slightest gain in
compelling an extra session for the
mere purpose of ratification. and The
Spy has always deprecated obstruction
tactics like this. Whether the admin
istration will consent to the passage
of the very mild Sullivan resolution as
"a compromise, after factious opposition
has been withdrawn, remains to be
seen. 1t ought not TO do so.
The outbreak reported by Admiral
Dewey is unfortunate, but it can hardly
be described as surprising 1t would be
idle, moreover to deny that the SEN
ate's hesitation to ratify the treaty has
encouraged the Philippine insurgents
TO misbehavior and hostility. 1t is a
notorious fact that Agoncllo has been
sending from Washington incendiary
messages intended to stimulate Agu-
naldo and his followers to open war.
| fare against the United States. Could
the treaty have been promptly ratified
with or without amendment, and the
authority Of the United States immedi-
ately established in the islands, it is
probable that an understanding might
! have been arrived at that would have
| placated the natives for the time be.
ing and until definite arrangement
could be made for the political status
of the people. The embarrassing at
titude Of uncertainty and irresolutior
at Iloilo would also have been avoided
and to this exhibition alone much O.
the confidence and impudence of tn,
| insurgents is no doubt due.
The Filipinos can gain nothing b,
| fighting. Until the treaty is ratified
they rank technically as Spanish
subjects, and as such their attacl
amounts simply to a violation o
the protocol. Now that they hav
placed themselves in frank hostility t
J American arms, the problem of dealing
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06
REAL ARTICLE.
1t Was Beautiful Snow
and No Mistake.

1t was the much-famed "baau+ie,,,
snow that fell yesterday. 1t was not
the heavy high-piled, drift forming ar
llcIe that fell in the November bliz-
zard, suspending traffic and making
the city impossible. But it was the
most feecy, fluffy, downy snow that
TINS winter has produced. Each flake
was feather. Not a branch bent he
nedth the weight of it's three or four
lnches of white covering.
Every flake as it fell retained -,
crystalline structure to perfection
Gafetul study revealed the most com
and many ff fHitBffeet sgeometric forms ina
the result of some tunhRRf conventional
struse law of mathematics, was sfe5jan n q
found solidified into a flake.
The storm, if it could properly be
Termed a storm, began with the day.
Ine lakes fell soft as feathers, and
oelng large and devoid of moisture
piled up high into little drifts. But the
orlfts had no consistency, a touch of
the broom and all was gone. 1t was
more like the conventional stage snow
than the real article. But it fell CON
tlnuously and without intermission all
morning and until late in the after
noon. Just before sunset it stopped
and people swept off their sidewalks
for the last time and agreed that it was
the most beautiful snowfall of the sea-
son.
The trolley lines were not affected
TO any extent by yesterdays fall Of
snow. The Consolidated had one sweep
er at work during the day and evening,
and this was found to be sufficient to
keep the tracks clear. The motormen
found it necessary to use extreme eau
ton and plenty of sand going up and
down hills.
The Suburban lines were somewhat
delayed in the early part Of the day.
but by noon time were running on
schedule time.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06
INCORRECTLY REPORTED.

Editor of The Spy:
Worcester, Feb. 5.--An interview with
me was most incorrectly reported this
morning. viii you kindly state in The
Spy, tomorrow morning, that my
visit to Italy this winter has nothing
whatever to do with the work of the
Paris exposition managers. | do not
intend visiting Paris or even France.
Ny visit was planned last summer. and
is simply to take two young girls over
Tor good time. have nothing what
ever to do with the exhibit of the Wor-
cester manufacturers. The work of
the Massachusetts commission is here
in Massachusetts,, not in Paris and the
Hon Charles S. Hamlin il ON the com
mittee with me to look after state in
situations.
II viii greatly obige me if you will
make this denial public.
Frances NJ. Lincoln
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06
THE MEAT SENSATION,
A Sharp Reysw of Gen. Miles Actions
and PosLion in the Matter.

A Sharp ReVew of Gen. Miles Actions
and Position in the Matter,
Properly the Investigation of the mat
ter Of meat supplies for the army, and
Tor the navy also, should be scientific.
1t is a question for expert chemists to
/ decide whether Gen. Miles odious de-
scription of the meat as "embalmed''
has any other foundation than malicf-
Gus suspicion.
! we are glad to see, therefore, that the
National Provisioner, "the organ of the
meat and provision industries of the
United States is SO confident of the
groundleSsneSs of the accusation thar
II calls for such an expert investigation
IN these words:
A commission of impartial chemists
can settle the question of the embalm-
lng' 'poisons' and dangerous acids
charged by the scandalzers, in short
| ofdef. Analyze the meat analyze the
canned stuff. This will settle the whole
matter Why not do it?"
IL IS essential that there should be
sucn an investigation, in the interest
| ol the whole public, for the meat Gen.
Miles calls "embalmed" is consumed
regularly by large part of the people
portant osr+ 9f 49,, .I.t uees an I'M
countries. AS the trade nane,, So II
which we have already oIo+o1 ,.a,,,+,,.I.ll
the cheap notorietv raa,1ed h. va ~ ~,
commanding general of tbe a,.,,,,, ,,, ~
the assistance of an ontra oeo,,sii,, WIN
satlonal section of the daily press" has
stirred up fanaticaI or dana sr,,ri ils,E
legislators to concoct bills to brighten
peopIe win the suspicion that every
of the use of presarvati,.eS f,r Iii
and butter. no less tbav, e.. 10 Nun u.
perverted to provoke non1,la,. sIo, -
after the Miles Milan tbo1ioh 80 ~, "a
trade authority saws ..tI,a - -. 'ilIe
food TO an enormously incraog epiS VI
frequently crowded nonuIafio,, 1,,o ",id
be simply impossibIe IF n,oCa,.,i Wilt
and science had NOT nro,idod Seiii rus tS'
the safe transportatjon Of n ar;,ita III
goods from the seat of production to
the centres of consumption"
zen Miles and his coadjutors are
NnuIy attacking science and doing
Wllat they can to destroy the devei-
opinent OF great industries which have
eAteiloed greatly the food supplies of
mankind and lessened their cost to our
WI wv, people and to foreign peoples.
w mere the inspiration of such efforts
y not the malicious demagogy of Miles
its motive is sheer ignorance and child
ism credullty
u is encouraging, therefore, to be
eolo mat the industries engaged in
furnishing these supplies on a scale SO
enormous are not only willing but also
anxious to submit their products to ay-
pert scientific examination and analv-
SIS. Inc question raised is purely a
question of fact, and the decision of if
by Such means can be obtained and If
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

with them has been in measure sim
plified. The employment of force which
is now demanded has hitherto seemed
However deplorable the
event may lie for other reasons, it at
least relieves our government from the
of uncertainty. and fur
nishes additional argument for instant
ratification of the treaty. Let the Sem
ate act accordingly and at once.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06
is VERY SUCCESSFUL.

Thomas n. Doutney, the temperance
lecturer, was at the Pay States House
over Sunday and left on an evening
train for Bristol, Conn, where he is TO
conduct a series of meetings MIR.
Doutney has been giving lectures to
large audiences in Plainville, Bristol
and surrounding towns the past few
weeks, and WILL at the earnest re-
quest of the clergymen in that section,
continue his work q few weeks longer.
Mr.. Doutney considers Worcester his
home at present, and intends to renew
his meetings Of a year ago, in the near
future, as soon as he can secure a hall
suited to his purpose.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

We we, the undersigned, do hereby agree e e
GSIiSHe1 nc Warranted Syrup Of Tar II ,I ~
,,iI 10 cure your cold or cough we aiso
f Gatdant q 70 cent bottle to prove saliS-
factory or no pay.
Albert w Andrews.
Q. j. Carroll & Co.
frank G.. Rourke & Co.
j. II. Fales, Holden.
ALBERT p. Booth. Leicester, atm.
y. II, Gregory g. Co., PrlnioSgV'A'
II. j. Wizard. East BrookfieIu'
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06
AT ST. MATTHEW'S.

AT the morning service at st. Mat
thew's Church yesterday, Bishop Law
renee confirmed large class and
preacehd an able sermon before large
congregation. He was assisted by the
rector Of ST. Matthew's, Rev. Henry
Hague, who read the service and pre-
scented the candidates for confirmation.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Gen, Gomez was never able to muster
10000 troops when our soldiers were
lighting in Cuba. 1t required douceur
OF s3.00O,OO0, or a hundred all round to
bring the whole insurgent army out of
the woods. Before the war enthusiastic
correspondents used TO count 10000 or
even 10000 men in arms. but ante bell
UNI Cuban stories were long since rele-
gated to their place in contemporary
fiction.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Yale deserves to have the big guns
for which her alumni paid $4,000 to arm
the cruiser named in her honor. Eli
and Handsome Dan would make pic
turesque ornaments in the campus
landscape.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Maybe the whole thing over at Manila
is contrived plan to keep our Dewey
while longer away from the glorious
welcome this entire nation is aching to
give him,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

1t is noted as a marked Endorsement
of President fuckers administration of
Dartmouth College, that PIP of the to-
tai Of 80 students come from Massa-
chusetts. while New Hampshire is sec
ond on the list. with 1SS young men.
The Granite state has generally been
first in supporting Dartmouth in the
past, and, besides, Massachusetts has
several tolerably good colleges of her
own
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

1t is a nervy and self-satisfied SEN
Rtor indeed who will stand around and
talk constitution" with half-savage
Filipinos shooting at United States SOL
diers. Ratify the treaty.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Gov. Roosevelt is right. If the law
prescribes the death penalty for muir
der, there should be and is no discrim-
nation on account of sex. Mrs Martha
Place, therefore, need hardly look TO
him to excuse her from sitting in the
electric chair.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Harvard University has enioyed an
the past fiseaare than 81, 1862 900 during
two millions in gifts Of Iliur4jgad about
curities, while the expenditures left a
cash balance of 1921, 600. Yet here is
President Eliot making his annual plea
of poverty. The university, it seems. is
still hampered for funds. which if il
had. ii would like to use in the erection
of four new buildings and upon general
equipments. But undoubtedly there will
be milionaires in the future as in the
past, who Will do what they can to keen
the wolf from the door of the univer-
sity The fact is, of course. every stem
in advance only leads to another one.
and there is no limit to progress save
lack of funds. Furthermore, legacy
sometimes adds nothing to the revenue
OF the university and may actually in
crease the burden of expense. This has
been true both of funds devoted to the
erection of buildings and the establish
ment of new departments of the col
lege. The testator is not always the best
judge of what the institution needs. and
so it comes about that the most well
come gifts are those which are not re-
stricted to any specified purpose other
than the general maintenance of tha
university.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Aguinaldos fool followers did some
active campaigning Yesterday in be-
half of the treaty that is to be voted
upon today in the United States
Senate.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Fear OF fire from the cracked lamp
sockets has stopped the electric illum-
ination of the state house gilded dome
for time. Bostonians will be glad
doased the glfm tbs governor has not
slider the game worth the caiAnot con-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

With Filipinos potting our soldiers,
whose sole mission has been to save
the former from Spanish oppression.
it isn't very good time for United
States senators to be dallying over one
of the best treaties ever formulated.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

If the Associated Press allows itself
TO be done up again as thoroughly as
1t was in this last Manila fight, even
Cristy will close his annual whine for
admission.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Reports from Cuba continue to be
encouraging. The opinion is general
that the period of military occupation
in force need not be long, and that
many if not most of our troops may
be safely withdrawn before the RAINY
and siclly season sets in If the Gu
bans behave as well as they now
promise, there will be the best of rea-
sons for laying upon them the duty of
policing the island and thus relieving
our soldiers of peril and our govern
ment of expense.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Stand by the treaty, stand by the
president, stand by the nations honor,
today and forever
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

How would it do to slap Aguinaldo's
impairment ambassador" to the
United States in Jail as a spy?
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

The dinners and fetes arranged for
Admiral SIMPSONS entertainment in
Boston and Cambridge, this week, may
remind him of the strain put upon his
time and energies during the Cuban
blockade. He deserves all the re>ogni-
ton he will get, but perhaps he might
prefer to be blockaded himself.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Don't court martial Gen. Miles. Give
him another chance. Send him TO
Manila.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

y decision for a court of inquiry con-
corning army beef should be welcomed.
The men whose probity has been bold
ly aspersed cannot afford to let the
charges go unrefuted; but whether the
allegations be true or false, the coun-
try has right to know the facts, and
it looks as if the administration held
this view. also.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

vid pulpit efforts. It seems destined
to be theme demanding attention
any and every daY in the week.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06
DR.. Bulls Cough syrup never disap.

points those who use 1t for obstinate
coughs, colds and irritations Of the throat
and lungs. II stands unrivalled as REM
edy for throat and lung diseases. Sold
by all druggists for 25 cents.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

There is scarcely a more remarkable
episode IN current foreign politics than
the "no-popery" agitation in England.
Having its origin in revolt against So
called abuses of ritualism within the
established church, it has spread till if
mas AFFECTED -conformists of every
grade, and now threatens a serious
scnlsm IN the conservative party. The
administration program for establish
ing a Protestant university in Belfast
ana a Catholic university in Dublin
mas intensified the feeling to such a
pitch that Arthur Balfour, the most
popular of conservative leaders. was
all but Missed and howled off the stage
at recent political meeting, where he
endeaVored to avoid discussion of This
exciting issue. A bill designed TO
guard more effectually against the al
legged infractions of church law and
prepared under supervision of the bish-
ops, is to be submitted in parliament
and IN that body the fight promises to
De aggressive, the opposition being led
by Sir William Harcourt, the former
liberal leader. Predictions as to the
outcome are uncertain. and as conflict
ing as they are numerous.
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

THE SPY SHOULD HAVE The EYE OF ARGUS: He
IS HONORABLE If he DO But LOOK TO The VEL
FARE OF THE COMMONWEALTH
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

Statistics from the state house show
that while there We're about thou
sand fewer horses in use in Massachu-
sets last year than the year before
the number was larger than for any
other preceding year. The price of
good horseflesh, moreover, is the high
est known since the panic of 1929,
when there was a precipitous slump in
the horse trade. a survey of the last
ten Years shows that while bicycles
and trolley lines have not reduced the
actual number Of horses in use till
last year, the ratio of annual increase
has been materially cut down.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

A friend sends to rhe Spy some earn
Tufts. an octogenarian minister at
Monson, to The Springfield Republi-
can, deprecating any pulpit indorse-
ment Of imperialism. He thinks it is
not subject for public Sunday com
ment But Dewey on Sunday, May 1,
and the American forces at Manila
again yesterday, Sunday, discussed and
advanced the subject of Imperialism
in a way that for power and effect
iveness is ahead Of even the most fer
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

1t looks as if the Australian fedora
ton were going to federate at last. The
objections of New South Wales, the
only colony which has hitherto been
unable to marshal sufficient majority
for the union, seem to have been re-
moved, and general colonial govern
ment, modelled upon the Canadian plan.
may yet be organized. That plan is a
compromise between the American sys
tenn and the parliamentary system of
England. Where it parts company with
our own government is in the institu
uon of a ministry with a premier at
the head, which must command the
support of a majority of the congress or
else resign. Our secretary of state is
sometimes styled premier" but in
truth he is nothing of the sort. The
president is the real premier. He is re-
sponsible only to the people and can
not be called to account till the end of
mis- term, except by impeachment
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06

The French are not only pushing the
Panama canal in Washington. but are
rushing work at the isthmus They
boast that the great cut" the most
formidable portion of the work, will be
completed in nine months, and their
agents in Washington are exerting
themselves to get our government to
abandon the Nicaraguan route and
take up with theirs. The fact that wa
ter has been let into the canal for 10
miles on the Atlantic side and Z miles
on the Pacific coast, has some force as
argument. but it is not conclusive. The
Panama people say s125. 900, 600 will be
needed to complete the big ditch, but
unfortunately they have already spent
more money than that and more than
the original estimate of the entire cost.
They have been far from trustworthy
arithmeticians and calculators.
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-04-02
DR.. STAFFORD ON MACBETH.
The Brilliant Lecturer To Appear Here
on Tuesday Night.

Rev. DR.. A. J. Stafford, Of Washington,
d. c., who starts upon his annual lee
ture tour this week, will make Richmond
his first stopping place and will appear
at the Academy of Music on Tuesday
night. The subject Of his address will be
Shakespeare play Macbeth and it
is safe TO say that his analysis is sura
to be most intellectual and farming Or.
Stafford Is young man 10 have a ma
tional reputation for oratory. eloquence
and learning, but such is the case, and
the honor is we'll merited. He has lee
tured I'm principal cities of this country
before all kinds OF audiences and he has
given satisfaction to all by his matchless
eloquence and profound learning.
A northern paper said of one or his lee
lures in a recent issue that his powers
as an orator are realized from the first
sentence uttered and from that moment
TO the end you hear only him, see only
him--all else is forgotten.
In his lecture on Macbeth" Or. Stat
ford gives all possible literary, critical
and philosophical explanations, reads the
lines and impersonates the characters I'm
q way that is hard TO surpdss. His
ability as public speaker is too well
known TO need any further comment. In
his lecture on Shakespeare it is apparent
that the deep theoogian and brilliant
preacher Is also deep student of the
early English drama.