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The Worcester spy., 1899-11-10
SUCCESS ASSURED.
Committee on St. PauPs Lyceum Fes
tlvaI Arranees Details.

The committee on the harvest festival
to be held under the auspices of St Paurs
Lyceum held meeting at the society
rooms last night and from the reports
The Worcester spy., 1899-11-10

our complexion improved by use OF
CARRIERS LITTLE LIVER PILE
The Worcester spy., 1899-11-10
LORD MAYORS
GREAT SHOW.

CONTINUED from Page one.)
The evening times., 1899-08-31
THURSDAY. AUGUST 81 1899.
Another Chance for Otis.

Considering the character of its members.
the Boston Filipino Junta has been COM
paratively quiet and much depressed OF
late. Its cause has received some little
announcement from the Nebraska and
Iowa platforms, but its main reliance. the
TagaI leader, has been Disappointing, while
the alarming action of Brigadier General
Dato Mundi, of Mindanao, is regarded with
positive terror.
We understand that Aguinaloo has been
advised of the necessity for action, an
has ordered a general concentration o his
forces in Cavite province and an attack
upon linus. The place named is one that
Otis and DENLY have allowed our forces
TO keep in possession because il was sur
rendered peaceably. Acting in accordance
with the fixed policy which has marked
his misconduct throughout the INSURE
ton, Otis will probably order Lawtoa 10
abandon linus to the rebels as soon as
there is any prospect of lighting; since
Aguinaldo might be greatly placated by
having the opportunity given him TO cut
all the throats of the citizens who well
coined our troops and acknowledge thf
sovereignty of Otis and DENLY.
By the way, Mr. Secretary Root, the
country is getting very impatient over the
Manila scandal
The evening times., 1899-08-31
Street Car Discomfort.
, the Edition of the Times.

To the Editor OF the Times:
The nuisance of which I an speaking perhaps
exists on all the roads of the city, but my COM
plant is for the evil which does exist on the
New York Avenue line, where l travel every day
On that line, as all the double track lines
a person, as a rule, will not beard the car by
standing between the tracks, but will naturally
stand on the other side, which is the safe and
proper SIDE When the car comes to full stop,
what do we see? Nearly all the entrances to the
seats are blocked by some man sitting there some
of them with bundles near their feet, who do not
have sense enough or politeness to move inside in
order to let lady a gentleman get on the
car without passing uncomortaby in front of
him. Last week l saw an incident that pleased
me very much.
A very good looking and finely dressed old lady
signaled to stop the just where she was
standing she took hold of the handle and put her
foot on the first step of the car. There was
negro sitting at the end, who turned his legs
aside to let the lady pass in. but the lady looked
at the negro in commanding way and told him
to move in. He did and everybody in the car
made demonstration of approval.
Now / ask, why should not white man he
given lesson similar to the one given to the
negro?
i hope that the ladies will take this subject up
and protest through the press, so that the seats
in the cars will be kept free Of access. I think
that the nuisance can be stopped by the company
posting notices on all the cars, or by enacting a
law similar to that prohibiting splitting in cars.
The people will have knowledge OF it quick
enough and act accordingly.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
behind CIosed Doors.

The Dreyfus court-martial is sitting be-
hind closed doors today. This is at the re-
quest of the government, which does not
want evidence on the question of the pris-
oner's connection with exposures of techni-
cal artillery secrets to become public. The
defence is confident that its witnesses will
be able to confound the prosecution in thls
direction, even as it has been confounded
in all others. There is extreme tension al
Rennes, and the air is full of surmises as
to what the headquarters conspirators in
tend 10 do next The opinion seems al
most general that the present game CT Mer-
cier. Roget, Gonse. De Boisdeffre, and the
Others. is 10 admit Esterhazy's authorship
of the bordereau. but to assume that the
information it contained was furnished by
Dreyfus and Well. The apparent change
of front, manifested by Mercier yesterday,
is interpreted by many to have been in
preparation for this new line of attack
Some observers on the ground are pre-
dieting break in the ranks of the con-
spiracy. Ii is argued that Mercier and
Roget, if they finally decide that acquittal
is inevitable, will turn on Boisdeffre and
Gonse and attempt to exculpate them
selves at the expense of those officers. No
one can say exactly what Du Patty de
Clam has testified; but. if he sticks to his
former story, it will amount 10 a contes-
sion of grave Irregularities committed un-
der the direct orders of General Gonse. 1t
is highly encouraging to observe that
Maitres Labori and Demange do not ap-
pear in the least afraid of what the gen.
erals may do. or what Du Patty de Clam
may expose. They consider themselves
impregnably fortified in the strength OF
their case, and fear no enemy.
We are more than ever inclined to think
that the defence has deadly weapon in
reserve for the conspirators. in the form
of evidence furnished by the Italian War
Office. which, if used, would not only COM
pletely exonerate Dreyfus, but would ex-
pose the whole plot and name the real
traitors. The suspicion that Labori has
/ this death warrant up his sleeve is so
prevalent in the neighborhood of the court
| that il is quite sufficient TO account for
/ the panic among the staff generals, and
may have much to do with the rapidly in
creasing strength confidence, and cheerful
ness of the prisoner.
The universal sentiment in all civilized
countries outside of France, voiced in the
leading press of the United States, Eng
land and the Continent, is having its effect
on the French Government and the think
ing classes of the country: and the chances
| are that it will prove helpful in stiffening
the determination of Loubet and Waldeck-
Rousseau to see justice done at whatever
risk General de Gallifet does not neet
any bracing. He will do his duty honestly
and fearlessly, like the gallant old wal
horse he is.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
A FRUIT COMBINE.
Leading Importers of the East and
South to Unite.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 31.-The Buckman
Fruit Company well known importers.
will cease to exist under that name tomor-
row, and its business will be conducted
hereafter under the name of the United
Fruit Company, which includes a combi-
nation of the leading fruit importing
firms of the East and South. Mr.. Cecil C.
buchanan, who has been identified with
the West India fruit business at this port
for twenty years. will remain rs manager
of the Baltimore division OF the United
Fruit Company Mr.. Samuel NJ Buckman.
who has been treasurer under Mr.. Cecil
C. Buckman, will be assistant manager
The United Fruit Company also includes
the Boston Fruit Company, OF Boston and
Jamaica: the American Fruit Company, O.
New York; the Quaker City Fruit Com
pany. of Philadelphia; the Banes Fruit
Company of New York and Cuba; the
Sama Fruit Company, of New York and
Cuba; Dominican Fruit Company, OF New
York and Santo Domingo; Columbian
| Land Company and the Tropical Trading
and Transport Company, OF Port Llmon,
| Costa Rica; Snyder Banana Company, o.
! Mobile, New Orleans, and Boca del Toro;
| s. Oteri and Macheco Bros, OF New Or
| leans and British ana spanish f1ohuuIds'
New Orleans, Belize and Central American
Royal Mail Steamship Company; the Eu-
reka Banana Company. OF New Orleans
and Boca del Toro, and the Planters
Steamship Company, OF Galveston and
| Spanish Honduras. The name United
Fruit Company will supplant all the 9TH
| ers tomorrow. The Baltimore division
! will comprise the steamer lines to Balti-
more and Newport News from West In
dian ports. In addition to the Jamaica
banana business the United Fruit Com
pany will be in position TO place on the
| market fruit from Cuba, Santo Domingo.
Port Limon. Honduras. Boca del ToIo,
| and other producing countries IN
which the company has acquired large in
| terests in banana plantations. Handling
| of cocoanuts. lines, pimento, oranges,
and other tropical fruits and spices will
| be included in the general impo.t ting busi-
ness of the company. The United Fruit
Company represents millions of dollars ol
capital, controls immense fset o.
steamers, and has acquired a position
from which fruit can be placed in market
from one country whenever weather con
ditions ruin a crop or circumstances pre-
vent importing from another.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
ALAsKA's GOLDEN SANDS.
Plenty of the Precious Metal Said to
Be ut Cape Nome.

Plenty of the Precious Metal Said to
Be ut Cape Nome.
The Director of the Census yesterday re-
ceived a letter from S. C. Durham, special
agent of the Census, which discredits
former recent report published throughout
the country giving the impression that
little or no gold is being found at Cape
Nome. Alaska. Director Merriam is par
ticularly anxious that his bureau be not
held responsible for this erroneous report
sent in by one of its agents detailed to
gather other information.
Mr.. Durham. writing from Cape Nome.
after a personal investigation, says that
there is undoubtedly gold in large and pay
ing quantities there and in the vicinity.
He speaks from personal observation of
the Beach diggings, where good wages can
be made by working the beach sands. He
reports an exceptional instance in which
four men working eight days with one
rocker took from a space "a by 80 feet
$500, or little over s162 a day for each
man. The beach gold, he says, is found in
layers Of ruby sand generally from one to
four feet below the surface. These lay
ers vary in thickness from one to six inches
lying in bedrock blue clay. He took out
gold himself, he says.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
MULTITUDEs OF BRYAN MEN.
An Immense Attendance Certain q
the Cooper Union Meeting.

NEW YORK, Aug. 3l.-The Chicago
platform Democrats who are getting up
a Bryan meeting to be held in Cooper
Union on Monday evening, have received
so many applications for tickets that they
haze decided to hold an overflow meeting
This will be addressed by Lawson Purdy.
4. ]. Wolf and others.
FORMER Governor Altgeld, of Illinois,
who will deliver the address at the meet
ing, is expected to arrive in town on Sun
day morning. He will be requested TO ad
dress the Henry George memorial meeting
TO be held in Grand Central Palace on
Sunday afternoon. He will also be present
at the conference of the Chicago platform
Democratic leaders and committeeman, to
be held on Monday. AT this conference it
is expected that most of Mr.. Bryan S
warm friends from all parts of New York
State will be present. 1t is the intention
of the State committeeman to beg. n a
vigorous campaign in every county in the
State immediately after Labor Day.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
The Unique Turner.

Since the preparations for the Dewey
celebration have been going on in YER
mont. it has been discovered that there is
freak in that State He is man named
Turner, and he lives in South Royalton
This Turner does not think that the tax
payers of Vermont ought 10 be asked to
pay for celebration. His share would
probably be about three cents. but 1t is the
principle of the thing for which he is con-
tending. He says that If Dewey is so
smart" he ought to have friends enough
TO pay his bills without saddIing them on
the taxpayers of Vermont.
Smart" is not exactly the word which
would occur to the average person as ap-
propriate to Admiral Dewey. When they
say that man is smart, in Vermont, they
mean that he keeps his fences up, drives
a good horse, has bank account of few
thousand dollars, and can screw higher
price for board out of the summer visitor
Than any other man in town. Incidentally.
ne may be mixed up in q few transactions
which cause some of the helpless and
'shiftless" people of the town to anathe-
The evening times., 1899-08-31
Treason i'm Cape Town.

Bitter comment on the course pursued
by the premier of Cape Colony is being
made in London and throughout British
South Africa. Schreiner is denounced as
a traitor, and, apparently. with some
reason. He has allowed the Orange Free
State to arm against England. by means Of
supplies brought through Cape Town, and
he has declared that in the event of war.
Cape Colony would maintain an attitude of
strict neutrality.
TuTpitude of this kind would not sur
prise US in certain American quarters but
in a British subject it is very surprising.
The patience displayed by the Imperial
Government in the face of such colonial
impudencesis even more so; but, if hcstili-
ties were TO ensue. it is supposable that
a sudden quietus, if not pair of hand
cuffs would be put on Schreiner
The pendulum OF public opinion again
seems swinging to the side of pea e,
though what fresh grounds there may be
for believing that the Beers have expe-
rienced a change of heart might be diff
cult to explain. Optimism doubtless gath
ers encouragement from the assumed ef-
feet upon Kruger of the universal foreign
sentiment unfayorable TO his cause. and
On unwelcome conviction that he cannot
hope for European aid or even sympathy
in a struggle with his suzerain power
The official and semi-official press of the
Continent has been telling him this in
the plainest-language and if he and his
advisers have not gone daft, they Will
heed the warning.
We are not placing much confidence in
their desire or ability to avert the threat
ened disaster. They have gone a Iona
way in educating their ignorant and stub
born people in the belief that one Boel
can whip three Britishers any day. WheT
once a community gets that kind of z
fighting notion in its aggregate head, sane
advice is apt to be wasted, and trouble
is lamentably liable to result However
it is said that fresh pourparlers are flash.
ing between London and Pretoria, and a!
everything is possible, it may be that tn,
LADDERS Of the South African Republic vii
sry to make terms which would allow then
something of their cherished looting privi
leges, as an alternative to being wipe,
from the face of the earth.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
A Leather-cutting Device.

An effective leather cutting device invented by
Henry Parsons of Marlboro, Mass, is claimed to
solve the problem how to arrange for the contn-
ual moving of the dies on the block other than by
the hands of the man operating the machine; the
dies weighing from ten to twelve pounds. as many
changes were necessary during the day, work be.
ing thus made slow. BY this improved arrange
ment, all such movements are superseded, all that
the operator has to do being to change the dies
when necessary and do the cutting as easily as he
operates his machine On the beam of the sole
leather cutter is iron carriage, extending from
which is an arm, attached to the latter being two
spindles, and at the end of these is magnetized
handlike fixture. which firmly holds the die. this
receiving its power from tiny electrical dynamo
arranged at a convenient point on the ceiling of
the room and transmitting its power to the clasp
below. The invisible power in question firmly
and securely holds the die in position, while the
carriage and spindles allow of the easiest and
most pliable motion that can be desired.
The evening times., 1899-08-31

matiZe him. Dewey is not a smart man In
the Vermont sense of the word. Mr.. Tur-
ner is wrong about that
But there is one point on which he
ought to be enlightened-the Vermonter
who is not proud of the greatest man who
ever emerged from that little three-cor-
nered State. Dewey has friends enough to
pay all the expenses of all the celebrations
without 'ssaddling" anybody with them.
So far as heard from, Turner is the only
man in the whole United States who is
not on the Admiral's list of friends so far
as that goes. He will not be asked for
his three-cent tax. He can plow all day
long. while his fellow-townsmen cheer
Dewey, il that be his idea of bliss.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
Queen WiIhe1mina,s Sayings.
(From Golfers Weekly,

Some of the anecdotes told of Queen Wilhel-
nina, the young Queen of the Netherlands, are
interesting. One day the little queen was busily
occupied in bringing up her dolls in the way
they should 60 One Of them, however, par
ticularly obstinate, and the queen to
shake it violently, and say, Look here, if you
don't behave yourself I'll make you queen, and
then you'll have to play with When
on a visit TO England, and asked by the Prince
of Wales what she thought of the English people,
she replied: "They are very nice and amiable,
but should never have thought ii from the
specimens / have seen in Holland
The evening times., 1899-08-31
Scripture Up to Date.

certain Sunday school teacher in town who
has class of boys of assorted szes'' establish
ed the custom in her class of repeating each
Sunday Scripture passage in unison until it
was firmly implanted in the ''vagrant minds" I"
The selection of the Sunday in question
'"Tis l. be not afraid" and after the usual
mental gymnastics had been gone through, after
eXpectant hush, one promising youth volun
teered the information that he knew. "Well
what is it % asked the teacher ''It's me, don't
get skeered,'' was his rendition OF the verse.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
Claims Upon His Party.
(From the Sardinia, Ohio, sardinian.)

IFrOm the SaTdlnla, Uhlo Safulniah.J
John r. Mclean has served his party for over
thirty years, and has never before said to his
people, 81 am candidate and want your sup
port" In all this time he has contributed lib.
orally to the Democratic cause and has made it
possible for the party TO win several brilliant
victories in Republican Ohio. He it was who
made il possible to give w. J. Bryan 6,500,00
votes in 1906 Taking these facts into considera-
tion. ask, How can the Democracy of Ohio
refuse him what he asks for today?
The evening times., 1899-08-31

There is positive danger that Gen. Leon
ard Wood may make himself persona non
grata to the Administration If he keeps on
prosecuting that eminent patriot, Jiminez.
The city of Santiago in Santo Domingo has
pronounced for him and yearns for his po-
tential presidential presence. but the city
OF Santiago in Cuba holds him in chains
and dungeons vile. Is it possible that, IL
spirit Of mean jealousy, Brooke can have
withheld from Wood the information that
Jiminez was duly nominated and unani-
mously elected Dictator Of Santo Domingo
by Smith M. Weed at the Hotel Champiain
conference few weeks ago? This thing of
imprisoning the chief of friendly state,
merely to prevent his going home to the
arms of an eager and enthusiastic people,
savors overmuch of tyranny. 1t may
lead to reprisals when Jiminez comes to
his own.
The evening times., 1899-08-31

dollars TO have a biemish on her pet
removed. Across the street, a poor
mans wife dies of consumption be-
cause he cannot afford to give her even the
care of nurse, to say nothing of treatment
by skillful physician, or the change OF
climate which would save her life.
The evening times., 1899-08-31

BY tomorrow we shall know how the
Presidents Epistle to the Cubans is taken
by the people of the island. So far. we
only learn that they are surprised at its
breyity, and We suspect that there will be
disap continent over the vagueness OF its
promises. Probably it was hoped in Ha-
vana that Mr.. Mckinley would proclaim
evacuation, independence, and unlimited
loans without security, ninety days after
date The Cubans must learn that many of
their leaders will scratch old heads before
the United States can afford to leave them
TO their own devices
The evening times., 1899-08-31
Gone as Far.
lie Cnnstitution.l

(From the atlanta C0nstItution.)
The campaign next year will show that Uncle
Hanna has gone as far his brand of states
manslip carry a politician in this country.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
At n Disadvantage.
fFrom the pbiladelphia Times)

(From the Philadelphia Times.)
So far as it's an omen of the outcome in that
yacht race, what Columbia is to the ocean the
song tells u.s. while the Shamrock only fOUrisheS
on land
The evening times., 1899-08-31
viewed With Suspicion

{From the Minneapolis Times)
An Indiana Judge has returned his railroad
passes and his brother of the probate bench is
keeping eye him.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
The Hobo Dictionary.

(From PucS.l
First TramP-Is dere any difference between
indolent and lazy?
Second Tramp-Well. | 'spnse when mans
lazy what kin afford it, dey call him indolent.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
Mixed Metnphora,

tFrom the Indianapolis JOurnal)
'Yes,", said the excited man, ''he tried 10 act
the hog and treat like dog, but soon
showed him he was playing horse with the wrong
man when he mcnkeyed with me-"
The evening times., 1899-08-31
CURRENT HUM0R.
a Portentou. Sign.

(From the Chicago Record.)
81 believe sladge has designs Mr.. Robin
son.
'-Why?"
'Tve noticed her hooking at him with her bar
sain-counter expression on.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
Too Conspieuous.

(From The Detroit Free Press-)
''Ma I've got to fix some way to get extra ice
without anybody seeing it.
..Why. daughter?'
..Whenerer Jack and I make ice cream the
whole neighborhood turns out and calls Us
in the evening"
The evening times., 1899-08-31
A LucrntiYe Job.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
eyes, George is coming back from Dawson with
4 fortune.
Ibid he wash it out in pans?''
''No, in glasses; he was assistant bartender at
the Polka rot saloon.
The evening times., 1899-08-31

Not the First.

(From the IItVeIahd I-eader-J
Jerry Simpson appears TO have lost himself il
one of those big cornfeds in Kansas.
The evening times., 1899-08-31
A WARNING TO HAzERs.

secretary hOOts Oruer- DlSmlSs1n{s
Cadet Smith From West Point.
Secretary Root yesterday issued the fol-
lowing order dismissing Cadet Philip S
Smith from West Point Military Academy:
War Department,
Washington, August 30, 1899.
Upon the Recommendation of the superintend-
ent of the Military Academy, Cadet Philip S.
Smith, third class. is, by direction of the Presi
dent, dismissed from the service of the United
States for hazing and annoying fourth class
man. ELIHU ROOT,
Secretary of War
The evening times., 1899-08-31

Grom the New Haven Union.)
Thomas B. Reed is not, however. the first states
man who has used New York as last ditch.
The evening times., 1899-08-31

At the reburial of some of John Browns
companions at North Elba, N. Y, yester-
day, a firing squad and a bugier from the
Twenty sixth Infantry took part in the
ceremonies. There can be not the least
doubt that this was grave breach of pro-
priety, and we are astonished that the Sec
retary of War should have allowed it. In
the eyes of the law John Brown and his
raiders were simply rioters and murder
ers, and were tried and punished as such.
Their Interior motives, or she sympathy
which persons of certain humanitarian or
political predictions felt for them have
nothing to do with the case. To illustrate
this let us consider the other extreme,
Suppose lot of the friends and admirers
of the late John Wilkes Booth were to
rebury him and his accomplices some
where! Would Mr.. Root allow a firing
party and a bugler from the Twenty sixth
Infantry to do the honors of the occasion
The evening times., 1899-08-31
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

THE TIMES. 10 eli its editions, Morning. Even.
ins and Sunday, viii be mailed TO one address
for FIFTY CENTS per month. Addresses changed
a. often as desired.
The evening times., 1899-08-31

There is hideous cruelty to the President
in allowing the fact to leak out that he
will shortly have the appointment of two
major and five brigadier generals! He has
enough trouble on his shoulders now. poor
man. What will happen to him when the
friends of Keifer, Fred Grant, young John
Logan, young Webb Hayes. young Blaine,
and Harries get after him for these com
missions, we tremble TO think. 1t may be
remarked, however. that aspirants who
chance to be equally good Ohio men, as
we'll as practical Republican machine poll
tic:ars, need not regret the possession Of
such qualities tions