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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14

That young woman missionary looked
sad when she went away
Yes we liked her up SO she won't have
to have any new clothes made fo1. sa,tey
years. Chicago Record. 's-'
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WHIMSICALITIES.
DO you know anything about yachts?,
No more than / do about GOLF
Shake. cleveland Plain Dealer.

Till me" said Larry, what tn Unoitee
Shtates hos liver done fer tn Oirish!''
good dale, spoke up Dinney; "shes
soide. Chicago News. "''i'
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women. This stocking equals
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Women's XXX heavy
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We carry a complete line of
imported cashmere and wors-
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for men, women and children.
Prices from SOC to 81 I-2c
Own importationS.
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"Oh Good morninglp cheerf,,lIv or,aa
the good-natured man, II hope / see vou
we'll" sec you
II you don't the crusty curmudreon
tartly retorted, you'd better consult an
ocuilst catholic STANDARD and Times.
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The inventor who achieved fame in
the electric line before he turned his at
tention to machine guns, has rencunced
American citizenship to become sub
ject of Queen Victoria. He was quick
to follow the lead of William Waldorf
Astor, and his naturalization certificatl
is dated Aug. 16 last. Maxim's' first
invention, like that of Jay Gould, was
mouse-trap, but that is the only re-
spect in which he resembIed Jay.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14

1.-THE democratic campaign has open
ed in New York" is the inscription be
meath first-page cartoon by Daven-
port in yesterdays New York Journal
Boss Croker is represented as driving
his chariot around the arena dragging
Dave Hill, the Il am democrat!" in
the dust. The democratic campaign in
New York this fall will be worse for
the democrats than for the republi-
cans
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MEMS DEPT.

Unlaundered Shirts = We
make a speciality of sleeve
lengths (four lengths in each
size shirt, in all our white
shirts. Also extra full bodies
for stout men. So you see
we can fit you. whether your
arms are long or short,
Whetheryou are large or small.
Do not pay for custom shirts
when you can find your size
here, equally well made of
superior materials at half the
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Chicago Tribune.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14

COLOSSUS" unlaundered
Shirts. SO cents
"Gibraltar" unlaundered
Shirts. rs cents
"Sillesky" unlaundered
Shirts, $1.00
Hercules laun der ed
Shirts, IS cents
Best Numbered Shirts,
S1.OO
Evening star., 1899-03-04
Planning a Deuarture.

What we want" said the publisher, 'is
a good, realistic story of army life. Some-
thing that will show just how events move
among the soldiers"
Il see,' said the author; IT was in the
army myself 1 know exactly how things
are conducted"
Something that will thrill the reader to
the marrow and make his hair stand on
end"
Il thought you said you wanted some
thing out of the ordinary"
That's what 1 am after"
"W.ll, in that case, we won't have any
thrill in it. OF course it's there, but it
comes so suddenly and is so soon over that
you hardly have time to know what thrill
ed you. If you want to get right down to
hard-pan realism and sound the keynote
of the soldiers general experience, you
want to leave out most of this description
of hero rushing headlong through strug-
CLING men and over fallen horses, waving a
gun with one hand and the star spanged
banner with :he oth,r. while singing My
Country, Tis of Thee at the top of his
voice. Well get out of the beaten track of
fiction and relate how many hours day he
spent currying his horse and polishing his
weapons, and how many miles a day he
Travelled and how often he wanted to talk
back and didn't dare, and how he would
have been willing to give four dollars a
square inch for a beefsteak, and all the
rest of the little details which play so i'm
portant part and which. writers of fiction
have hitherto so strangely neglected"
Evening star., 1899-03-04
Fight Between Whales.
he San Francisco Chronicle.


Passengers on the steamer Falcon bound
for Avalon, Catalina Island, witnessed a
most novel struggle between monsters of
the sea yesterday. Midway between San
Pedro and the island two great whales were
having a terrific struggle for supremacy
and churned the sea until ii was a mass
OF foam over great area. The great mann
mails would dive at one another and strike
blows with their tails which would seem to
he able TO crush in one another's sides
and between the periods of the struggle
each would spout great stream of water
at the other, as though to show its con-
tempt for his adversary. The passengers
gathered upon the deck and watched with
interest the wonderful exhibition of power
and hatred on the part of the giant brutes
There are many whales TO be seen in the
channel of late. A school of half a dozen
passed the mouth of Avalon Bay Tuesday
morning, going in an easterly direction, and
mammals are frequently seen by people on
the boats, but the sight which was pre-
Sented yesterday when two whales came to
blows is one rarely witnessed by man.
Evening star., 1899-03-04
The Old Music BOx.

The Old Music BOx.
Its tones were tinkling once and gay;
But now, unheeded in the gloom,
1t occupies, mid shadows gray,
An ill-kept. unfrequented room.
Yet. carelessly l sometimes pause
And turn the key and bid it sound
Despite the broken pegs and flaws
Which so complainingly abound.
The melodies are old and queer
You scarce would think that years ago
They trilled to every idle ear;
And now for me alone they flow.
Even though cogs may squeak and jar
And rhythms often feebly halt,
They call sweet memories from afar.
1 love the theme and pass the fault.
Perchance my lot or yours twill be
Some time in shadows to remain
When We are worn and out of key
And strive for harmonies in vain.
l hope some old-time loving friend
Our dormant skill will deign to stir
And find US, even to the end,
Not as We are, but as We were.
Evening star., 1899-03-04
A NATTER OF DOUBT.
1t Was Hard to Tell Whose Funeral
1t Would BE,

1t was a hot day on the mountain road
and l had stopped at a spring by the way
side to let my horse have a drink and to
get one for myself. AS I sat enjoying the
shade and the scenery sweeping out across
the valley below me- a mountaineer on a
mule, with a Winchester thrown across his
saddle-horn, rode up and stopped to let his
'critter beast have some water We
passed the time of day and as he seemed to
be in-no especial hurry began to ask him
a few questions, including one about one
of the peculiar mountain cemeteries 1 had
seen about a mile farther back
Il wuz jist a-goin' thar myself he said.
whats going on?" l inquired. "A
funeral?"
'oh. no; not as knows of. We do most
Nv our buryin' on Sundays"
l commented upon this and passed on to
the subject Of a store / had seen about a
half mile further along than the grave
yard.
It's Parishs," he said Purity nice store
fer the mountains, too, don't you reckon?"
Excellent, but l didn't have time to ex-
anime it very closely. There was a drunken
fellow out in front swinging a gun and
making himself so disagreeable that 1 got
away soon 1 could"
The mountaineerS face lighted up at my
information
What kind NV a lookin' feller wuz he?,
he asked. Mighty long in the couplin',
with red whiskers onto his chin and only
one eyer
THAT was the man, I presume. at least
that describes him. l heard some one cali
him jim
That's him. Shore" said my friend Jerk
ing his mules head up out of the grass by
the roadside and stiffening up in the saddle.
81 said minute ago." he went on, that
thar wusn't no funeral goin' on at the
graveyard, but thar's likely to be one eff
somepin' don't happen to the centrairy. Air
you goin' on over the mountain?'
said was.
WELL" he said moving off down the
mountain. you stop at the fust house at
the head of the branch and tell somebody
that that Jim Anglin is down at Parish's S
drunk. an I'm headiR to'rds him. They'll
know the rest. Goodbye, thar amt no
telIin' whose funeral it's goin' to be, fer
Jim amt no slouch in settlement NV the
kind that's got ter be betwixt me an him
fer the six hogs Nv mine he's shot out OF
the woods, jist fer spite.'
Evening star., 1899-03-04
ONerdiplOnatiC.

Mr.. Meekton was gazing at his wife with
that inane and amiable fxety which comes
into mans face when he has been nap
pir4g and is ashamed of the fact.
'I,eonidas," she said sternly
what is it my dear?" he inquired as he
Strengthened himself up in his sleepy -hol-
low chair.
What Is the matter?"
Nothing is the matter" he said, grow
ing red in the face. Il haven't intimated
that there was anything wrong, have I?'
mo. But you have been behaving rather
queerly. Just now you gave little start
and exclaimed, Yes, Henrietta,I agree with
you perfectly"
''Well," answered he, apprehensively,
there isn't anything in that to take excep-
tion to, is there?
Are you sure you meant it?"
Every word of it,"
You had given the matter due considera-
tion before you spoke?"
Certainly. Do you doubt me, Henri
etta?"
''Oh, no. But l can't help attaching some
significance to the fact that 1 hadn't utter
ed a word during the ten minutes previous
to your enthusiastic Endorsement of my
sentiments
We'll. to tell the truth, Henrietta, had
been asleep and something awoke me- and
! naturally supposed-that is to say, took
it for granted" And then he gave it up.
Evening star., 1899-03-04

little John (after casting his penny into
the fund for the Bamalam Islanders)-"I
wish 1 was heathen9'
Sabbath School Teather-"Oh, Johnny!
Why do you wish such an awful thing as
that"
Little John-'The heather don't never
have to give nothin'-they are always
gettin' somethin' Tit Bits.
Hostess-sPlease play something classic
professor; play something pretty"
PgofessoT-vish vill you half Wrist,
Evening star., 1899-03-04
The Natural Born Censor

1
He's always kept busy. There's no chance
| for rest.
His calling he can't be neglecting.
It's the business of others to labor their
best
| And it's his TO do all the correcting
He's "a knocker''-you've heard the collo-
quial term.
And it's hard if you're ever caught nap
ping.
| For you're sure to wake up with a start
and squirm
AS serenely he sets up his tapping.
And the more a weak victim may beg and
fmplore.
The more his tattoo he increases.
| He is worse than the raven who tripped to
the door
While Poe was composing his pieces
sAnd the cadence is spoiled for full many a
By his bland and irrelevant rappng,
And brothers break step as they're march
Because of his heartIess tap-tapping.
Too Much Information.
"Is you still gwine to school. sonny?"
asked Uncle Eben of the tall yellow boy
with spectacles.
Eyes, indeed"
81 s'pose you knows mo- now dan yo'
uncle does"
about seven or eight times as much"
The reply nettled the old man.
go on, sonny" said he. .'Git all de learn
in you can. But you wants ter be kyahful
bout one ting. You doesn' wanter git mo
| r.
manage. You wants ter member bout de
educated rag-a-tag."
Whats that?''
"Da's monkey"
You mean 'ourang-outang.'
"Da's what | says-a rag-a-tag. He had
hahd times after he done got educated an
went back ter live wifi de res o. de rag-a-
tags"
Il don't know that ever heard about
him."
"Co'se you nebber. 1 was jes' gwineter
tell yer. He lef home an went way up
yon whah it's cold. to git educated He
had oatmeal mush foh breakfas' an pie
an milk foh lunch an turtle soup an roas'
beef fob dinner, an when he got back home
ne warn. used ter rag-a-tag ways. whatso-
ever. While he was learnin' one ting an
nuthuh, he come across lesson bout nuts
an de book say nut is round an hahd on
de inside and sweet in de kernel. He learnt
1t by haht an laid 1t up In his mind BY
an by he went back home An his family
moved into q part o. de country whah all
de trees was diff'unt FUN what dey was
used to. An when dey all climb a tree to gift
supper. he looked aroun' an he says.
What we gwinter eat?' Case it were a
Brazil nut tree, an he never seen no Bra
zil nut befo. Do father rag-a-tag. he say,
We gwineter eat some er desc nuts Dem
ain nuts says de young man rag-a-tag
Nuts is round. an hahd In de shell an
sweet In de kernel. You better look out
whut you go eatin'. 1 wouldn' touch 'ern.
Dese amt round. Desc ie triangular An
Evening star., 1899-03-04
why He Kent II.

Ffom Pearson's Weekly.
Caller-'I sent you a poem about three
weeks ago. What have you done with it?'
Editor-'1'm holding 1t. Every now and
again Lthink that we are not getting out
as good paper as we ought to, and then I
take that poem and see how much worse
the sheet might be. and that makes me
cheerful again: Come, now, how much II
YOU take for it?''
Evening star., 1899-03-04
The Enslishm mans Experience.

He was an American citizen and a bit
vainglorious, and he was talking to an En-
glishman who had wit of hts own despite
reports to the contrary. The recent
achievements of Uncle Sam in various To-
calities constituted the subject of conversa-
ton, and the Yankee fairly bulged out with
pride. ii "Fl
II am a free AmericanTI am" he said.
sapping his manly bosom, though there
was no especial occasion for such demon
stration. - -
IT fancy not" responded the Englishman
in a tone that sounded as if he knew what
he was talking about ,g:
The Yankee resented itswith promptness
and dispatch. 80
.'I'd like to know. str, why am not?" he
exclaimed. with theiIcolorI tof wrath rising
to his face III is'
You are married, aren't your"
"Yes" n =
And to an American?"
'sWell, that settles 1t in my mind. I've
got an American woman for a wife my
self"
The Yankee smiled, stuck out his hand
them to organize an Anglo-American ALL
ance not entirely for commercial purposes.
The Chinese government does all In its
power to check the opium habit, the pun
ishments common in the Chinese army for
this habit being extreme. For the first
offense a man may have his upper Lip cut !:
for the second he may be decapitated. For
the last sixty years on an average half a
ton of opium has been sent to China from
India every hour.
Never speak unlsindly to child. A child's
feelings are very sensitive, and an unkind
word rankles in its memory and may cause
1t to drop piece of orange peel in your
path.-Tit-Bits.
Evening star., 1899-03-04
why He Liked Maudr,..

From the Chcago News.
why is 1t that you like your sister
Mande's children SO much better than your
sister Grace's? The latter seem to be
very bright-fnore so than the others"
Yes, they are: but Maude has never
taught her little ones to speak pieces"
Evening star., 1899-03-04

low dey was gwineter take chances an eat
EN- triangular an all. An dem Brazil
nuts was fine. an aftuh dat dey didn't pay
no 'tention whutebber ter de young man
rag-a-tag. but made him carry water an
cut stove wood an rock de baby"
Evening star., 1899-03-04

Husband-'why are you SO angry at the
doctor?"
Wife-'When 1 told him had terrible
tired feeling he told me to show hin. nv
tongsie."--Ttt-Bits
Evening star., 1899-03-04
x < :; X X

The Army Register for 1899 will be ready
for distribution in a week or So" said
clerk Of the adjutant generals office to
Star reporter. being this year two months
late in getting out. For the past six months
It has been impossible to have even a tenn
porary register kept with anything like
accuracy. for the changes have been so
The times., 1899-04-05
The Proclamation.

The proclamation of the American Com
mission in the Philippines is document
that must challenge attention because it
is formal declaration to the world of the
purpose and policy of this Government,
and command the respect of the country
for its clearness and firmness. Its tone is
dignified and even impressive and its
statement of principles convincing.
All discussion of the object of the
American Republic in the acquisition of
the Philippines must cease after this dis
tinct announcement. To the people of the
Islands it promises the most ample liberty
and self-goyernment consistent with 1.-The
sovereign and international rights and
obligations of the United States" We are
there as the ruling power to stay-there
to bless and benefit people long op-
pressed, with the institutions that are en-
joyed by the American people 1t is the
clear intention of this country to bestow
on the Filipinos the freest government
they are willing 10 welcome, but over all
must fly the Stars and Stripes, the symbol
of freedom and justice.
isfactory TO the people of this country and
to the nations having interests in the
islands than the affirmation that the
supremacy of this Government must and
will be enforced throughout every part
of the archipelago, and those who resist
it can accomplish no end other than their
own ruin This is assurance that Cur
responsibility to civilization will never be
relinquished in any degree.
In the face of this able and generous
paper. there cannot be the shadow of an
excuse for the antagonism of any man
who has the welfare of the Philippines at
heart. Only in the interests of a selfish
adyenturer. seeking the power of an op-
pressive dictator, could there be resist
ance to an authority that offers such
pledges of its high aims
The times., 1899-04-05
The Jamaican Proposition

For several reasons the Jamaicans are
unhappy and impoverished and also de-
spairing. Deprived OF their banana trade
by the great fruit companies at New Or
leans that have established their own
plantations in Central and South America.
and robbed OF the sugar markets by the
German policy. they could only look to the
English market, and not even thar, unless
there should be a tariff to exclude the Ger
man product. Parliament could not adopt
a policy that would be ruinous to so many
enterprises. and. therefore, Jamaica is
without business and without hope. Al
though loyal to Great Britain. her people
have had their thoughts turned to America
as possible source of relief 1t is this
rather than any admiration for the Ameri-
can people and their institutions that has
led TO the annexation movement.
Having Porto Rico and having the power
10 establish a coaling station on the coast
Of Cuba. there is nothing in the situation
OF Jamaica that would make it desirable
possession. Considering the tariG policy
we have adopted in the case of Porto Rico,
cuba and the Philippines. annexation
could afford no relief TO the Jamaicans.
There IS nothing in the character OF the
people to lead US to desire the responsible
~ Of their government.
II Is probable. however. that The Hoars
and Iiales and other enemies Of expansion
VIII find a source of enthusiasm In the
mad proposition TO exchange the Philip
pines for the British West Indies. Find
Tag The American people deaf 10 their hys-
ierieal warnings. they would gladly COM
promise on such moderate expansion as
This would represent. or the resources OF
the Philippines We have stiii no adequate
conception. but it is known that in this
wholly undeveioped archipelago are stores
OF gold. copper. iron. and other minerals:
The times., 1899-04-05

great forests of mahogany and teak; a
soil adapted to the cultivation of fibres for
the manufacture of the worlds cordage.
and capable of an immense product of cof-
fee. sugar. and countless other articles. 1t
is still largely open to pioneer settlement
and is an ideal country for the establish
ment of thrifty American colonies, with
a climate to which the American can
quickly adapt himself, and needing only
capital and energy to support many mill
ions in almost unparalleled prosperity No
less than ten per cent OF all our volunteers
in the Philippines are eager to remain
and capital is fighting for a chance TO en-
ter We have only to contrast with this
precious possession the worn-out impov-
erished islands OF the British West Indies
to suggest the answer the American people
will make TO such proposition.
The Philippine archipelago is situated
where We need possessions to warrant an
interest in the determination of the destiny
OF Asia. where our commerce promises to
exceed that of any other Industrial coun-
try. Ii We were without foothold in the
West indies. Jamaica as a Gibraltar would
be of great value to us. but the offer comes
too late. The superIative feature of our
policy of expansion is that it involves the
Philippines and not necessarily something
else.