The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-16

A Snowman suffering from snake bite
is at a local hospital Over familiarity
with snakes usually lands men at a
Kelley cure.
The Michigan Legislature came within
a single vote of enacting a single tax
measure. Doubtless there was double
dealing somewhere in the matter.
Jibes at the inaccuracy of fishermen's
statements should not lead mankind to
forget that when the Savior of the world
desired a dozen men upon whom He
could depend, He found most of them
fishing.
There is a suspicion that the report
of a snow fall in Paxton is \ clever
scheme on the part of the Hon. Led
yard Bill to boom the town as a sum
mer resort.
The usual announcements of the poor
work and condition of the Yale crew
are already appearing. For high-mind-
ed young men, Yale athletes in their
preliminary showlngs, always seem to
have guile to burn.
The gist of Mr.. H. o. Havemeyer's
complaint seems to be that he did not
get enough protection for his sugar
monopoly. This sufficiently accounts for
his peculiar frame of mind, and his mel
ancholy lament over the tariff.
One of those wonderful New York
newspapers offers a timely prize for
the best answer to the question. how
to keep the hair in curl at the sea-
shore? That is an easy one. Never
take off the wires and papers.
Springfield and Holyoke are to have
Mckinley, and Fitchburg hasn't yet
gotten over talking about Gen. Miles
visit. 1t is believed that one of Dewey
first thoughts aftersthe battle of Ma
Mia bay was: Now I can go to Wor-
cester."
On the first mention in The Spy OF
the unparalleled drought, the weather
man was a little incredulous and SLOW
to get in his work. But at the second
reference to it, yesterday, he turned on
the hose in good shape and afforded
prompt RELIEF.
The democratic national committee is
said to be almost unanimously opposed
to making free silver the leading issue
in the next presidential canvass. Good
bye, then, to William ]. Bryan and
George Fred Williams. Free coinage is
their only stock in trade.
Those who are talking of German as
the coming leader of the democracy
forget that he has a heavy contract to
bring Maryland back into the party
fold. A candidate who cannot carry his
own state would make a sorry showing
in a presidential campaign.
The quietness with which Gen. Mar
Gus P. Miller, the captor of lloilo,
slipped unannounced into Stockbridge.
bears testimony to his .soldierly mod
esty. Naturally the townfolk were not
slow to discover him and renier such
homage as the selectmen and TIE VII
lage band could express.
1t is too early yet to bank heavily
on these reports of the coming disin-
tegration of the Standard Oil Com
pany. despite the positivencss with
which they are made. Nevertheless
the indications are that the Ohio at
torney general has been a more an
ncying thorn in the octopus flesh than
was commonly supposed, and those
who put their trust in antitrust legis-
lation will rejoice accordingly.
Gen. Otis will hardly receive the in
dorsement of the Boston milksops fol
much of anything. He is a particular
" eXasperating man to be wiring from
Manila that we are licking our rebels
there faster even than he at first sup
posed, and that the inhabitants re
| joice at their deliverance and welcome
with enthusiastic demonstrations tht
arrival of our troops" The Bostonest
effort to incite our soldiers at Manila
to mutiny has not been a humping sue
cess.
a Montana millionaire who removed
to Hoboken, y. J., and advertised fol
a wife. got two hundred letters in z
! single day. His mail was so large thai
| the postmaster held ii as suspicious
and ordered an investigation. Perhaps
the most interesting of the ranchman'.
| correspondents was a Brooklyn widow
whose husband had been dead six days
but who cheerfully offered herself ant
eight small children. There are few
things in this life a man cannot get by
judicious advertising; even 10 a ready.
made family.
The Mazet committee obtained expert
testimony yesterday from Chief Of Po-
| lice Devery on the subject of ring con
| tests. Devery, it viii be recalled, an
nounced several days before the JET
-Fitzsimmons contest that he
would stop it if there was a knock
down or any signs Of brutality. He
thinks the contestants were Jared dur
ing the bout. but ne saw nothing that
he could swear was a Touchdown or
that was brutal and from his descrip-
ton Of it. the greatest battle Of recent
years must have been much less spir-