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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

and President Hadley of Yale is anx-
ious about the outlook
President Harper Of the University of
Chicago states that the sor of a mil
lionaire has just as good chance at
his institution as the next man of poor
and honest parents, but no better.
Some Of our best and most prominent
students" he says, have worked their
way through the university, while 9TH
ers, with the advantages that money
affords, have been equally conspicuous
That is an evidence Of a good deal of
democracy on the part of the University
Of Chicago, where it is claimed so per
cent Of the students belong to the
great middle class, and get through col
lege life on a meagre allowance.
This authorized aristocracy of
wealth" receives but little encourage
ment here in New England. Rich and
poor study the same subjects, and sit
side by side in the same class. They
meet on a perfect equality, and the son
of the millionaire is lucky if that fact
does not act as handicap in the demo-
cratic race for leadership in studies and
on the foot ball team.
Here in Worcester a fair percentage
of the students at the Tech, Holy Cross
and Worcester academy pay their ex-
penses by outside work These are Of
varied nature, including waiting on la
BILE, moving lawns, tending furnaces,
caring for horses, milking COWS, wash
ing dishes, making gardens, washing
windows, cooking, typewriting, book
keeping, tutoring, type-setting, report
ing, ami almost every other conceivable
kind of work for which there is a de-
mand in city of this kind. And yet
in all these institutions, as in all other
universities of the country, may be
found sons of wealthy parents, to whom
the possession of money brings neither
disgrace nor undue advantage in the
race for knowledge.
Students from both classes have again
and again given valuable service to The
Spy as reporters during their university
life, and they have demonstrated that
one man is equally as good as another.
There need be no fear that Worces-
ters educational institutions are in any
danger rom an "aristocracy of wealth"
among their students. They are in far
greater peril from the absence of wealth
in their endowments.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
THERE is A DIFFERENCE.

striking comparison is presented in
the difference between wages under the
Cleveland administration and today. He
must be dull indeed, who, after the ex
perience Of the last three presidencies,
cannot choose his political candidate. 1t
is not matter of vain boasting, but the
figures compiled in the Industrial CEN
sus just covered by the American Pro-
tective Tariff League in nearly 1000 in
dustrial establishments are presented.
Number of hands Employed
March, 1895, 1871, 1921.
March, 1899, 267,4s61a.
Gain for March, 1899, SO. So pr cent,
Amount of wages paid: March, 1895,
s6,S9S, 044.53; March, 1899, 1853, 2SO.SS.
Gain for March, 1899, 54.09 per cent.
Average wages per capita: March,
1895, $3.50; March, 1892 $685..
Gain for March, 1899, 1919 per cent.
March, 1896, was among the most
prosperous months of the Cleveland
Wilson period. The false boom" of that
year was just setting in. March, 1899,
was not the high tide of the present
prosperity. 1t has been rising ever since
that time.
We call these wages of 1899, which are
81 per cent greater in volume than the
wages Of 1895, republican wages, be-
cause they are paid under the political
domination of party which has res
cued the greatest market in the worlds
history from foreign invasion and pos
session, and because it has assured
every one investing a dollar of labor or
capital in supplying that market that
he will get his dollar back in the same
100 cent money which he put in.
We call those wages which at best
were "a, and at worst nearly 100 per cent
less, democratic wages, because they
were paid under the domination of a
party which, after 1t had followed one
leader to the destruction of the tariff,
dismissed him for WEAKNESS in we'll
doing and secured another to lead them
to the destruction of the currency.
We call the one republican and the
other democratic because there never
were two occasions in which politics
acted so closely upon economics as in
the elections of 1892 and 1896
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
WHAT LIQUOR DEALERS PAY.

The internal revenue receipts for Sep
TENDER, amounted to $24, 522, S95, which Is
an increase as compared with September,
1898, of S2S09. sos. The collections from
spirits were 50, 020546 an increase of 81
358. 315 and from fermented liquors, &c. 621,-
458, an increase Of $4,000.
The receipts for the first quarter of the
current fiscal year aggregated S76, $685. 63.
an increase over the corresponding period
of 1898, of s4,96s. 1893, The receipts from
spirits for the first quarter amounted to
$25, GILL; OH, an increase of $2,S67 01S and
from fermented liquors $22, 101, 437 an In
crease of S1.243 536. At the present rate at
which internal revenue receipts are run
ming the aggregate for the entire fiscal
year will be over 5000, 900 COO. a sum greater
than was ever collected from this source
The largest amount ever collected was
S29s coo, coo in 1856 when war taxes were at
their highest point
There is a tremendous significance in
these figures. The government has
great interests involved with the pro-
duction of fermented and spirltuous
liquors. 1t is almost a partnership in
the business.
The figures do not show a dangerous
increase in the consumption of alcohol,
but they do show the great volume Ct
business affected by the internal rev.
enue laws
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
PLUCKY MISS ROLLSToN.

Worcester people will rejoice at the
firm stand taken by Miss Rollston of
this city in not allowing herself to be
forced out of the New York school of
applied design by the snobbish race
hatred Of any southerner. The young
lady from Atlanta who sought to
draw the color line, has retired to her
Georgia home, discomfitted but wiser.
She now knows that the customs Of
the north are not those of the state
which burned Sam Hose to the stake.
The faculty and board of directors of
the New York institution also merit
high praise for the way they stood by
Miss Rollston
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

mand of the trustees Of the Worcester
art museum would not permit Of the
erection Of the PROV, and so the amount
which this would have cost still re-
mains in the hands of the management
Of the museum, awaiting the pleasure
of the Woman's club.
Mrs. Dorothy McTaggart- Miller, who
is in London studying with Georg Hen
schel, writes that she is working on a
cycle of songs, Sea Pictures" which
are to be sung by Miss Clara Butt, the
celebrated English contralto who is
now touring this country under the
management of N. Vert, the English
impressario. She is also studying a
cycle of sacred songs, by Dvorak. Mr.
Henschel is arranging a program of
concert songs for Mrs. Miller.
At meeting of the Friday Morning
club, yesterday morning, Mrs. Prentice
read paper on Bach's church music:
Mrs. Mitchell. Mrs. Knowles, Mrs. John
son and Mrs. Harris gave selections
from the Parsian music of St Mat
thew's; Mrs. Prentice Mrs. Ingraham
and Miss Starr concerto for three pi-
amos.
me Associated Charities, through the
secretary. Miss Witherspoon, has sent
a report to the tenement house commit
tee OF New York charitable organlzb
ton, on the condition of tenements and
tenement house life in Worcester. A
thorough investigation was made of the
conditions prevailing here before the
report was drawn up.
Worcester is remarkably free from
congested tenement house districts. On
an average, there are seldom more than
three families in a house, and hun
dreds Of houses where but one family
lives The tenements for the most part
are clean and so arranged that there
are few dark bedrooms This allows
Of the free circulation of the ailSsnd the
incoming of the sunlight. The sanitary
condition of Worcester will rival that
of any city of it's size in the world
Worcester is to be asked to contribute
to the fund being raised for the purpose
of perpetuating the Dewey arch in New
York. It viii cost from half a million
to one million dollars to do the work,
and from the enthusiasm manifested
throughout the country, it will be
raised.
Mrs. Minnie Frances Bagley is study
ing with Erving Winslow of Boston.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
NEGROES INDIGNANT.

Weir City, Kan, Nov. Suppressed
excitement still exists over the lynch
ing, Monday night, of Wells, the negro
miner, charged with numbering a white
bartender. The negroes are particularly
incensed at the town marshal and night
officer at the Jail, who they claim, did
not provide sufficient protection for
Wells They have threatened to kill
both. The negroes held a secret meet
ing last night and, fearing an out
break special deputies were sworn in
and patrolled the streets all night.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
THE DOUGLAS PANTS.


1t was rumored about town yesterday
that a man had been snoi and killed in
Shrewsbury The Herald received tele-
gram from the station agent at Cuttings
Vile last evening which ran as follows
There is nothing to the story. A man
near Cold River had his leg on a log and
bullet went through his pants by the
one deer down here, and it is a wonder
more don't get shot. 1t is nothing bur
Bang! BsngP all day" A pair of 'pants
by the name of Douglas" injured by a
bullet is all that can be made out of the
story
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KAIsER's VISIT.

Rome Nov. lit is announced here
that 1t is certain that King Humbert
and Emperor William Will meet shortly
and that the interview will be of great
political importance to the Italian and
German governments, which have al
ready agreed to renew the treaty of al
lance.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
BISHOPS MEET.

Philadelphia, Nov. 1.-The semi-an-
nual meeting of the board OF bishops OF
the Methodist church began here today
and the sessions will be continued UNI
I'll next Wednesday. Today's meeting
was an executive one.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

Dewey is certainly a shrewd fellow.
First he gets the nation to build him
home. Then he announces his engage
ment so that the nation viii furnish it
with wedding presents.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
HEARST WINS.

Albany, N. Y, NOV. 1.-Attorney Gem
eral Davies has granted the application
of w, r. Hearst of New York city as
a stakeholder of the Ramapo Water
company for permission to commence
an action in the supreme court to dis
solve the corporation.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

And now the poor army mules are get
ting all the blame for the disaster to
British arms. Instead of baking, as
might have been expected, they turned
tail and ran, carrying all the ammuni-
ton with them. The mule can always
be depended upon TO do the wrong
thing.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

Gov. Gen. Leary thinks the Philip
pines are suffering from too much
Christianity of certain kind He has
deported from his realm six friars,
thereby expressing his preference for
foreign missions rather than for home
missions.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

The yearly roll of Gloucester sailors
who have persisted at sea is as large as
usual. The fearful average is main
tanned. This year sixty natives of the
little fishing town sacrificed their lives
in the pursuit of their vocation Such
figures as these remind US of what
Roosevelt said in one of his recent adj
dresses: There are two kinds of heroes
that stand forth conspicuously in times
of peace" said the governor of New
York, "fremen and fishers on the Grand
Banks"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

The British army has placed large
order for beef with Chicago packers.
The knowing ones consider this worse
piece of news than the defeat of Lady
smith.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
A UNIT FOR McKINT Ey.

Tuesdays meeting of the Republican
club in Boston was the occasion for
many patriotic utteranoes, as 1t always
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

THE SPY SHOULD HAVE THE EYE OF ARGUS
He is HONORABLE If He DO BUT LOOK TO The
WELFARE OF The coMMoNWEALTH."
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

Few republican presidents have got
the welcome from the south that Nc
Kinley gets whenever he crosses Mason
& Dixon's line.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

is. The enthusiastic reception rendered
Gov. Roosevelt and Senator Lodge
shows that the republican party will be
a unit in it's support of Mckinley and
his policy in the Philippines. All who
opine differently on the question of inn
perialism will have a chance to deposit
their ballot for Bryan year hence.
But they will be obliged to go out of
the republican party to find candidates
who favor an ignominious withdrawal
from a half-completed task.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
WEALTHY STUDENTS.

The authorized afstocracy Of
being discussed a good deal just now,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

about town. Do you know them?
The query is often made,
What makes a criminal? There is one
class that has always been criminal in
its tendencies, because of heredity and
environment. Its members steal, be-
cause to them that seems the easiest
means of earning a livelihood. There
are others who are driven to commit
some crime because of pressure of cir
cumstances, poverty, desire for temper
airy financial assistance and many 9TH
| er causes.
The other day in the criminal court
l saw one of the saddest cases ever seen
here in Worcester. A man about 40
years of age, with wife and family,
good business situation, a good stand
ing in the church, was arrested for lar
ceny. For many years the man had
worked for one firm. He was trusted
| and had men under him. Sickness
came in the family and he had an aged
mother father, wife and three chill
dren to support on SIS a week
When the doctors bills began to
come in there was no money to pay
them. Then temptation came There
was an easy way of making more mo-
ney than he could earn in years. The
stock of the factory was very valuable,
and it would be an easy matter to con-
ceal some of the stock, and realize more
money in one deal than he could hope
to win in years of long hard work
Tempttion came and he yielded Be-
| fore the goods that had been secreted
could be sold the whole thing came out
and the man was dlsgraced in the eyes
of his family, of his church and in the
estimation of his employers.
The case came up in the court, and
the man pleaded guilty. The judge
was compelled to pass sentence. For
| several years a man who had never
committed public offense before in his
life, must herd with criminals of the
most abandoned type. His home has
been destroyed; his chance to get work
when he comes out of jail Is small.
And besides all that, the man is suf-
fering from an aggravated form Of
stomach trouble, and is not too fit to
work if he had the opportunity.
Is this man to be considered a criml-
nal because he yielded to a strong temp
tation? His motive was not to procure
ease for himself, but to obtain the COM
forts, yes, the necessities of life, for
loved ones dependent upon him. VIII
the prison life make the man hard and
bitter towards the world, or will the
punishment melted out by law reform
him? There are serious questions In
volved here, that the student of crirni-
nology may we'll consider
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

Failing to secure Dewey as its guest
Atlanta has done the next best thing,
and is lionizing his Flag Lieutenant
Brumby. Hoke Smiths paper prints
beneath the flag lieutenants picture the
line, Lieut.. Brumby, who planned the
battle of Manila" Unless Brumby
watches out, he will be Hobsonized in
the south.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

1t is a long time since New England
suffered so disastrously from storms on
her seaboard The hurricane signals
were set early Tuesday morning from
Maine to the Carolinas. Notwith-
standing this warning, shipping suf-
fered heavily. Reports Of wrecks were
frequent and the highest tides of the
year occurred at various places.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
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This celebrated remedy will cure a cough
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for all kinds of lung trouble and costs
but Is cents a bottle.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

an adept with the scissors that he can
trim his own hair around the edges
as neatly as a barber. Sisters shoe
dressing puts an elegant shine on his
pedal protectors and he sallies forth in
all his glory, mistaken by people that
do not know him, for a bank clerk.
In summer, of course it is the real
thing to wear a boutonniere, and this
he secures by a clever flank movement
on the city hall flower plots.
This IS a photograph in words of
certain type of civilized cannibals
about town. Do you know them?
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
THE WORCESTER SPY.
CHARLES MUTT.

EDWIN j. SEWARD,
Business Manager.
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442-444 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER, MASS.
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-06-16

LANSING. Mich, June H.-Appllca-
ton Of the single tax to Michigan cities
escaped enactment by the Michigan
legislature to-day by only one vote, A
bill providing for submission to the
people OF any city of the proposition to
assess city taxes upon the land values.
upon petition OF 20 per cent Of the tax
payers OF the city, which had passed
the senate. was defeated in the house
by vote of so yeas to Il nays. 1irty-onc
being a majority of the members elect.
1t Ia understood that Governor Pingrce
would have signed the blll had It been
passed. Single tax advocates are eiatel
over the large vote the bill received,
compared with that obtained for SINH
lar measures In former years,
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what"n selfish, conquerins. land-grab-
afistocratlc government like England
|, would do and that her. policy and
methods are tterlyincompatible with
our institutions. When court thus
revclses Itself without obvious reason.
except q temporary partisan purpose),
our people are apt to put their trust in
other tribunals, 2
Trade Follows Prestige.
This new knowledge. these new du-
ties and interests must have two effects
they must extend our power, Influence
and trade, and they must elevate the
public service. Every returning soldier
or traveller tells the same story-that
the very name American has taken q
new Significance throughout the Orient
The national prestige Is enormously In
creased. and trade follows prestige
especially In the Farther East.
THE new interests abroad must COM
pei an improved foreign service. 1t has
heretofore been worse than we ever
knew, and also better. On great occa-
sions and In great fields our diplomatic
record ranks with the best in the world
More important still should be the I'M
provement In the general public SER
Vice at home and In our new posses.
slons. New duties must bring new
methods. Ward politics were ban!shed
from India and Egypt as the price OF
successful administration. and they
must be excluded from Porto Rico and
Luzon. The practicable common sense
Of the American people will soon see
that any other course Is ruinous. Gil
gantlc business interests will reinforce
the theorists In favor OF reform that
shall really elevate and purify the
civil service.
Hand In hand with these benefits to
ourselves. which 1t Is the duty of pub
lie servants to secure. go benefits to
our new wards and benefits to man
kind. Those, then, is what the United
States Is to stand for" In all of the
resplendent future-the rights and In
terests OF its own government: the
general welfare of Its people: the en-
tension OF ordered liberty In the dark
places Of the earth: the spread Of civil
lization and religion. and the conse-
quent increase of the sum Of human
happiness in the world
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A ROMANTIC CASE,
Suit for the Possession Of a Bright
Child,
WHICH TWO WOMEN CLAIM.
The Youthful Error OF u Woman and
the Trouble it has Brought Upon
Hcr-Ai Contention that Rivals in
Intricacy5 tho Porplcxins Problem
that King Solomon was Called on
to Solve !, 4.
oec,al Dispatch to tho In,elllEencer.

| Special Dispatch to tho IntellIgencer.
CHARLESTON, w. VA. June 15.-A
controversy for the possession 81 q
child is now going on In the courts here
which rivals In ntrIcacy the famous
case settled by King Solomon. Mrs.
Leota Wysong and Mrs. Elm Walters
both claim to be the mother OF Bessie. u
bright little girl Of years. The Wy
song woman is now suing for posses
sion under habeas corpus proceedings,
brought several months ago, In the
meantime the child Is a ward Of the
court.
The Wysong woman claims that the
child was born 10 her Mt Huntington In
1895, and that its father IS Creole Wy
song, q soldier In the regular army,
who married her few months ago.
Nher the child was q month old, she
claims. she took 1t to Mrs. Walters, who,
had been recommended to her by a
midwife. Mrs. Walters took the child
with the understanding that she was
10 palm 1t Off on her husband. then
away from home. rs her own. At that
time the Wysong woman was unmar-
ried, and she went by the name OF
Leota Atkins. her real name being con-
cealed In order to- shield her family,
which is Of high standing in Lincoln
county.
The girl continued to live with the
family Of Mrs. Walters for some time.
and then came to this city and obtained
employment. as domestic. Several
months ago Mrs. Walters brought the
child home. and while 1t was at the
residence of 4 relative In this city the
WysonE woman secured possession OF
1t and ran away taking 1t with her A
warrant charging abduction was sworn
out for her by the Walters woman,
and she was arrested in little Ohio
town near the West Virginia border
Her lover. Corporal Crede Wysong, had
returned from: Cuba on n furlough and
was with her at the time. When he
discovered her predicament he married
her In this city. Shortly afterward she
WAS indicted In the criminal court here
for abduction. but n few months ago
the Indictment was nollied and the case
was left to be settled In the civil pro-
ceed!ng.
The Walters woman, who comes from
Greenbrier county family, and has
relatives here. claims that she is the
mother Of the child. and that the Wy.
song woman's claim WITS set tip as
ruse to entrap her lover into marrying
her. The WySong woman contends that
she left the child with Mrs, Walters
only temporarily and paid for Its keep
Ing. Both of the claimants testified.
The case Is being tried before Jury
In the kaHawha circuit court.
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