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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
WORCESTER SPORTS.
Many of Them viii See
Sharkey Go Against
Jeffries.

| Worcester's delegation to the big
fight in New York tomorrow night will
be the largest that has ever gone as far
as the metropolis to witness a fight
The advance guard went yesterday
P. H, Hurley left Worcester yesterday
afternoon and will be at the ringside.
M. w. Leyden, boniface at the Tour
telotte house in Millbury, and John
Sherlock left last evening. Martin Do
herty and Mike McGady>will go on to-
day. Jere w Regain will not start until
tomorrow morning, but he'll be there.
John Anderson contemplates making
the trip.
| Jeffries has the call in the betting in
| Worcester. Odds are being given of
from 10 to to to l. One bartender
gave odds of $25 to $40. He could go
broke giving those odds if he stayed up
town long enough. The biggest bet re-
corded was between Jere F. Regain and
a man named Jones, brother of the well
known collar and elbow wrestler. II
was 500 at even money. The placing OF
the money caused more than one spec
tator to smile. Jones first asked what
odds Regain would give, and the latter
offered $100 to $50. Jones wanted better
odds and the bet hung fire Then he
suggested $50 to $40 wager which Re-
gan was agreeable, but Jones didn't put
up the money In a minute, though, he
put up $500 at even on Sharkey.
| Nelson Dupre had a roll of $1,000 on
Mechanic street last evening which he
was willing to lay on Jeffries. He was
/ giving odds of 10 to 5.
There are plenty of Sharkey followers
in local sporting circles last evening,
but they wouldn't make any bets unless
they got 10 to 6. The Jeffries crowd had
barrels OF money for what they called
a good thing but they offered only 10 to
8 in the main. An occasional 10 to Z
was offered. There was not much bet
ting, however, as the Sharkey men are
waiting for better odds. They figure the
odds will be 2 to / before the men enter
the ring.
There is a general belief among Wor-
cester sports that much of the betting
done in and about New York is fake
betting to draw out the Sharkey money
and hold the short end up so the JEFF
fries crowd won't have to give too big
odds
The SPORTS in this city fancy Jeffries.
There are few Sharkey men, but they
are few. The champion is the favorite
here. George p. King, who is unques-
tionably the best betting man in Wor-
cester, is strong Jeffries man. Mr..
King will probably back his opinion to
the extent Of several hundred dollars.
He will go to New York today to wit
ness the big battle. He can't see where
Sharkey comes in at all, as he is a firm
believer in Jeffries' long reach and abil-
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ity to jab sharkey with his left, as he

ity to sab sharkey with his left, as he
did Fitzsimmons.
Probably the greatest supporter the
sailor las among the men who follow
the game closely is p. H. Regain. He
picks Sharkey as winner, and thinks il
Will be easy for him. Mr.. Regain bases
his confidence on Sharkeys ability to
get Inside the big fellows guard on the
work he did against the clever Kid Nc
Coy, whom Sharkey hammered easily
enough MIR. Regain doesn't place much
faith in making comparison on the re-
suit of the Jeffries- Fitzsimmons fight.
lie thinks Fitz did not use good iudg-
ment III that battle, and feels confident
that Fitz could whip Jeffries now if
they were to meet.
The fight is causing more interest in
worcester than any that has taken
place for many months. Everybody will
be anxious for the latest and quickest
returns. They will be in front of The
Spy office, for the returns will be given
by The Spy's megaphone artist red-bot
from a wire that runs to the ringside
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
WILL NOT AID FRANCE.
Germany Thinks Intervention Would
Help Her Rival

Berlin, Nov. 1.-The Neueste Mach
richten, in the course of an article, evil
IDENTIFY inspired, says: Germany has
no intention of playing into the hands
of France by intervening in the Trans
vaal. She intends to pursue a course
of absolute neutrality"
Replying to the anti-Semite pan-Ger-
man cutlery against the emperor's ex-
pected visit to England, the Neuste
Nachrichten remarks: Although Ger
mans individually may disapprove of
Englana's policy, the actions of the en-
peror must be dictated by Germany s
interests, which do not allow her I'M
necessarily to adopt a bad feeling in
England. 1t would be great injury
to prejudice Germany's interests in
South Africa, in view of the future
reorganization of the political situation
there. Moreover the great sea power
and the great land power have every
reason to cooperate in union and har-
mony."
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WHAT EACH LOST.

London, Nov. 1.-The war office today
issued the following additional list of
casualties sustained by Gen. Yule's
force from the time Of the battle of
Glencoe until it Joined the force OF Sir
George White:
Kings rifies-Four killed, 10 wounded.
Leicestershire regiment-One wound
ed. missing.
Artillery-One killed, l wounded, 2
missing.
Mounted infantry Twenty-seven
missing.
The last mentioned were attached to
the squadron of the Eighteenth hus-
sars that was entrapped by the Beers
after the battle of Glencoe. They were
undoubtedly captured with the hus-
aars
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MUST Sect THROUGH.
Roseberry Says Victory Must Come
Cost What 1t May.

Edinburgh, Nov. Lord Roseberry,
toasting The army and navy" at a
banquet given this evening by the lord
provost of Edinburgh to the officers of
the Gordon Eighlanders and the Scots
Greys, referred to the reverse in Natal,
and said
1T is much to be regretted, but in a
considerable campaign we must look
out for such affairs. We have had a
good many of the same kind, and have
generally got out right in the end. But,
whatever happens, we must see this
thing through. even if it should cost
still more battalions and still more
millions.
Some day there will be an inquisi-
ton as to the preparations made for
this war, but the time for that is not
now. Our duty now is to support those
who have the direction of affairs
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
ROBBERY IN CLINTON.
Masked Burglar Gets Away With Rich
Haul This Morning.

At 240 o'clock this morning the Wor-
cester police received a telephone mes
sage from the Clinton police to be on
the lookout for a man who robbed a
house on Boynton street in that town.
He awakened a woman in the house
and she saw him prowling about with
dark lantern in his hand.
She was too frightened to call for
help, and when he left 1t was found on
examination that he had stole an over
coat, three pocketbooks containing s95,
and a gold filled watch. It was thought
by the Clinton police that he had gone
in the direction Of Worcester.
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DEATHS.

STONE-In this city, 1st Jennette A.
widow of Stillman Stone, formerly of
Rutland, Mass, Il yrs. Il mos. rs days.
Funeral at her late home, No. Is Home
street, Friday, at II u. m, Relatives
and friends are invited to attend. Burial
in Rutland, Mass.
MORSE = In this city, LIST, Drusilla B.,
wife of James L. Morse. 70 yrs. mos.
q days.
Funeral private.
GoODwIN-In this city, 3Oth ult, Charles
Goodwin, GO yrs. mos.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend funeral services at his late resi-
dence, IS Coral street Thursday at 2
p m.
O'NEIL-In this city. 1st, Winifred S,
infant daughter of John and Margaret
Funeral from parents home, IS Eouth
Baffum street Thursday, at p. m.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend.
NILSON-In this city, 31st. Otto Walfried,
only child Of N. w. and Ida Nilsson
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
j. N. COCHRAN APPOINTED

Boston, Nov 1.-Governor Wolcott
today nominated j. N. Cochran OF
Southbridge as special justice of the
llrst district court of southern Worees-
ter and Mabel Simpkins of Yarmouth
port as public Libraries COMMISSIONS
vice Anna S. Weld, resigned.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
WARS SAD HAVOC.

Over Thousand British Dead Thus
Far.
London, Nov. IA careful calcula-
ton of .he British losses in all the en-
gagements since the outbreak of HOSTILE
excluding the casualties among
the non-eommissioned officers and of
Mondays disaster at Ladysmith,
which are thus far unknown here
gives a total Of 916. to which probably
1900 will need to be added when de-
tails regarding the Ladysmith reverse
are received. This total is made up as
follows.
officers: 1873, being 10 killed, 81 wound
ed and IS captured
Men: 1888, being 1877 killed, 492 wound
ed and 154 captured.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02

WORCESTER, Mass, Nov. I, 1899.
Having disposed Of my in
terest in the Childs' Business
College, located in the city Of
Worcester, | hereby give
notice that | am not RESPONSE
bic for any bills contracted
after this date, in or on ac-
count of said business.
ROBERT T. PRENTISS.
EVA M. CHlLDS, Atty.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
sTRAeoLERs COME IN.

London. Nov "a special dispatch from
Pietermaritburg dated Tuesday morning
says: "Stragglers from the Gloucester
shire regiment are arriving at Lady,
smith. A number of mules with portion
of the mountain battery are also coming
IN
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
ENGLAND IN JAIL.
The JeweIer viii Begin Work in the
Chair Department. Today.

Chair Department Today.
Jeweler W. a England, who was COM
united to the Summer street Jail yes
terday, will begin his duties as a prison
er today, and this morning will start in
work in the chair department and will
be obliged to conform with all the
duties of a regular prisoner at the jail.
The case of assault and battery which
is preferred against him by Mrs. Nettie
Ellis will be tried Friday, Nov 10.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
MARRIAGES.

- In Northboro 1st by
Rev Charles Simmons, Francis w. Codd
and Miss Elizabeth Augusta Corey, all
of Northboro.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-02
Beautiful
Woman.

Ladies kept looking young is no long
er a wish or dream, but an actual fact.
Don't neglect your face; it is duty
each and every lady owes herself. If
you have wrinkles, pimples, freckles,
moth patches or objectionably red face
nave it treated; old made young soft
and beautiful. Such compilations can
be made almost regardless of years, as
young in appearance as the face of
pretty young woman. Call on
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family physician had prescribed matted
but after a few doses she was seized
with vomiting. Her mother became
alarmed and told the doctor she believ-
ed her husband was trying to poison his
stepdaughter, but the physician thought
her fears We're groundless. In two days
the girl died. The suspected bottle of
matted milk was taken by the physician
to be analysed But before the various
tests had been applied to this medicine
Mrs. Kunkel had also died with unms-
taxable signs of arsenical poisoning. 1t
was then found that the matted milk
which Mr.. Kunkel's stepdaughter had
used was saturated with arsenic.
St Louis was drawn into the chain
of cities with a poison mystery on
the 18th of January. On that day
pretty young widow, Mrs. Frederick M
McVean. received a package of candy
through the mail. But Mrs. McNean
in this case acted as her own ha nd
writing expert. She believed that the
address on the box of candy was like
that on certain anonymous letters which
she had received during two yeas past;
she suspected Il young woman, in fact
a mere girl of 20, Miss Zoe Graham.
Both move In good society. The SER
vices of the police We're enlisted. but
they would not make an arrest on the
mere suspicious of a woman. The box
was taken to City Chemist Tiechman.
1t was a very dainty affair and was
filled with candied cherries. Upon test
ing these the chemist found they con-
tanned enough arsenic to kill ten men.
Mrs McVean's susyicions had saved
her from quick deat}..
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THE APPENDICITIS FAD,
From the Minneapolis Tribune,

From the Minneapolis Tribune,
NOT long ago We gave a brief summary
or the views of an ex-Minnesota physi-
eian, expressed through the Medical Rec
ora, 10 the effect that the much dreaded
modern disease of appendicitis is simnly
an oid-fashioned stomach or bowel pain:
that it can be cured in nine times out of
ten by proper medication and that no
surgical operation is necessary. He gives
record of large number of cases treat
ed by him with simple calomel and soda
purgation. every one of which recovered
without the use of the knife
And here comes DR.. E. j. Miller of
scotland. s. d., as quoted in the Sioux
City Journal who says:
Il saw in the journal the otaer day the
statement of some leading physician that
the trouble is that operations for the all
ment are postponed too long, and the ia
tallties which are so frequently recorded
are due. not to the operation. but to the
delay in having it performed He re-
marked further that many peop.e are in
absolute dread of the surgeon Is it any
wonder?
Up to ten years ago not one person in
loo,0oO had ever heard ethe word appendi-
citis.' 1t was not to be found in any med
ical distionary or text book. Now it is
banded by man. woman and child, and
appears as topic in daily conversation,
and in prose and poetry and is referred
to in connection with every colicky pain
which may be suffered
DR.. Miller goes on to say that a large
number of the cases in which the patient
dies from the effects of an operation the
reported disease is appendicitis, and that
statistical results gathered in the practice
of the best French physicians show that
more than 80 per cent. of all cases of an
pendicitis recover without any operation.
Dr. Guttman shows that only ) per cent
die if the treatment be merely medical
and good Judgment be used Drs, Loomis
and Thompson say: 1--WE believe that in
the near future pbvsicians and surgeons
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The Supply of Gold.

II WRITER in the current number
of the Pc pular Science Monthly
I undertak IS to prove that not
Withstanding tie immense increase in
the production of gold in very recent
years there is not the slightest danger
of its depreciation in value. He cites
the fact that whereas the average an
nual output between 1881 and 1885 was
less than 500. 000 900. the output of 1897
was S237. 100000. and that of 1898 was
s2S6,O0O,O00. The writer quotes the di-
rector of the United States mint as pre-
dieting that the year 1899 will give a
yield of more than $500, 900, 900. In sup
port of his argument that gold will not
be materially lowered in value, notwith-
standing the enormous increase in it's
production, the writer advances this ar
gument: Modern gold getting by sci
entitic m athods compels the permanent
investment of an enormous amount of
capital, and a moderate return only in
dividend is looked for as a rule. thus
the balar ce between acquisition and
disbursement is likely to be maintained
in the future" This means, if it means
anything, that the element of chance
has been eliminated from gold mining.
and that it has been reduced to as solid
and permanent a basis as that of dry
goods and groceries. But that may
well be doubted AS the Detroit Tri-
bune says, again and again it happens
hat }I,o ,,l- t.,
that event the producer has to take
what he can get, and often he gets less
than he has paid out in producing it.
The world never asks in any event
about the cost of production, but buys
where it can buy cheapest Compet-
tion keeps prices near the cost of pro-
duction, but when the market is flooded.
this competition in selling depresses
prices below cost. If the world should
awake some day to find that there is a
superabundance of gold, the fact that
it has cost a good deal to get this gold
from the ores and tailings would cut no
figure. More of it than before would be
needed to buy a barrel of flour. which
is the same as saying that it has de-
preciated in value. If the world should
find ten times as many ships on its
hands as are needed. the price would
go down despite the great cost of them
originally, So with gold; the over-sup-
ply, if it comes will cheaper the whole
stock. The most potent influence in re-
storing the value would be the suspen-
sion of production, which would be sure
to occur when it could not be produced
at a profit 1t is this suspension and
not the cost of production that would
sustain the value.
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Senator Hoar is not a stingy man.
but he looks out for the pennies. He
was riding on a street car the other
day and had just completed a transac-
tiOn with the conductor involving the
payment of a quarter of a dollar for
six car tickets--4 1-6 cents a ticket
when an acquaintance got on board and
took the seat next to him. The ac-
quaintance handed the conductor a
nickel and turned to open up cOnversa-
ton with the Massachusetts senator
The senator tigeted in his seat minute
and then broke in with the remark:
Il am glad to see that you are pros
porous"
Prosperous, exclaimed the other
man, why, l am poor as church
mouse"
Excuse me, I thought you must be
rich. ! am comfortably we'll off my
self, but l have never felt that | could
afford to pay 3 cents for a ride in a
street car when l could get six rides
for a quarter"
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sion of destruction. The glaciers of
Greenland and other north .rn lands
nay. the very bulk of our northern con-
tinents themselves-wil at once be-
come terribly potent 20 attract these
loosened and floating oergs and waters,
and they will come pouring across the
equator in a wal' mile high, bearing
on their crests the gigantic fragments
of the ice cap, which will be hurled
against all che low lying lands of Eu-
rope, Asis. and North America, burying
them bandreds of fathoms deep before
one can do more than utter a last ap-
pea. for mercy
1t may be that the impending del
uge will be delayed until the science
and genius of our race can be brought
to bear upon this great menace-taking
action against it. As promise of
this three different expeditions are
now on the way to the South Pole
those of Borchgrevink and Drialsky,
and that of Sir George Newnes of
London. the publisher of the Wide
World Magazine and the Strand. If
means could be found to turn loose
upon the ice cap the volcanic fires
which are known to exist in that vi
cinty. or if our Edisons and Teslas
could bring the known resources of
electricity to bear upon the problem.
But who cares for the coming deluge.
any more than men are said to have
cared for that of Noah?"
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The Coming Deluge.
THE announcement by certain ge-
ologists that the earth Is about
IN ho ,.iSita6 bv anntbar Salnpa

~HE announcement by certain ge-
ologists that the earth Is about
to be visited by another deluge
of extraordinary proportions is receiv
ed by the public with just about as
much credulity as that exhibited by the
people of Noah's time. The ark indus
try is not looking up. The price of life
preservers has not risen and nobody
seems to be at all concerned whether
the deluge comes or not. The deluge
we are informed, Is to be brought about
by the melting of the great Antarctic
ice cap, which now, so some scientists
contend, holds an enormous quantity
of water in its frosty grasp. Once re-
leased, this vast liquid volume will rush
northward. submerging continents as
it flows. In fact the deluge may occur
now at any moment, engulfng the
greater part of the continents of Eu-
rope, Asia and North America under
miles of water and replacing them with
new continents in the southern hem
sphere 1t is expected, when the flood
comes, that New York city will repose
several miles under the surface OF the
sea. Possibly we who are up here in
the Rocky Mountains may stand a bet
ter show of getting out of harms
reach, but there is no certainty about
/ it, The situation as it is described by
Leon Lewis, a geologst, who thinks
! he knows. is simply this:
THE development Of the great gla-
! cier at the South Pole has reached the
point which Immediately precedes it's
sudden breaking up into fragments. At
any day or hour the abrupt disintegra-
ton of these millions Of cubic miles
of ice may let loose all the accumulat-
ed waters of the southern hemisphere
-fourfif of the whole-and start
them northWard on their dreadful mis-
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A BORDER LAMENT,

The hostile red men are no more, their
yells no longer tear
The fringes from the feathery wings of
the astonished air.
Their snaky eyes no longer gleam with
eagerness to twine
Their fingers in our hair as in the days of
OIL lang syne.
Around the reservations now thew loaf
and take their ease,
Their bronze legs hid in paleface pants
quite baggy at the knees;
They while the happy hours away In fire.
quent lazy maps.
An keep their cash in motion payin' poke
or shootn' craps.
The tenderfoot now strolls about no long
er fearing that
Lead protests hot from smoking guns may
ventilate his hat
For usn' water on the side to make his
WhiSkey set,
In violation of the rules of border cit
quette.
It's come to sich a painful pass that men
in tailor clothes
Are held in jes' as high esteem an full
respect as those
That wear wool shirts an canvas duds,
with pistols on the side.
I swear 1t nearly breaks my heart! knocks
out my honest pride!
The courts o. law have downed the rope,
Judge Lynch has taken legs
An left the field to starchy chumps with
heads like ostrich eggs.
An if a feller pulls his gun an downs an
other gent
1t costs a pile O cash to square the trivial
event.
An Jest to think, funeral is now put
up to be
A sad an serious affair, while in the Of
days we
Would chuck his lateness underground
without a sigh or sob.
An leave him there to rest in peace while
holdin down his job.
1t makes me sore to gaze upon the ruin
of land
That once in maxim life a joy could pay
winnn' hand.
To see pale tenderfeet come In with
cranky Eastern views
Of miXin fancy bftters with the purity
of booze,
l feel as lost an out O. place an short
o nervy sand
As any painted Injun would up in the
Promised Land!
An ] would hit the trail but where in
thunder could | 60,
Since all the West is ruined by this pro-
gress circus show.
Denver Post.
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Nothing Serious.

Did any of your folks celebrate Wash
ington's birthday, Bobby?'
'Only sister,
what did she do?''
She had a call from that hatchet-faced
Mr.. Mouser. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
One on the Teacher-"How many in
the class can tell me who is the lieuten-
ant governor of this state? Johnny. do
you know?'
Il reckon l ought to know He's my
father, ma am. Chicago Tribune
Was George Washington senator,
papa?' asked Sammy Snaggs.
mo, my SON.
III he had been a senator would he have
cut down a plum tree instead of a cherry
tree ree?-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
lie had been studying a new bankruptcy
law "I;'s cheaper to fail than to paw
bills he said at last
Not always" was the reply. mot If
you get hold of high-priced lawyer, for
instance. w ashington Star.
Not Serious aSe.-Doctor-The pa tient
is beset with the idea that the land as far
as he can see belongs to him.
judge wouldn't call that insanity. 1t
is merely incipient political ambition
Philadelphia North American.
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Irving to Save Alkali Deserts.

Investigations by the division Of soils
of the department Of agriculture into
the alkai waste lands of the Yellow
stone valley. particularly in Montana,
develop the fact that great tracts may
be saved by underdrainage. The dam
age is due principally to excess of water
used in irrigation and the resultant ac-
cumulaton of salts. 1t is urged by the
division officers that the land be saved
from utter annihilation by underdrain-
age, which, though being expensive, is
sure to be paying investment.