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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
WITHOUT. FORMALlTY.

Several city officers elected Monday
evening began their duties for the cur
rent year yesterday with no formality,
as they simply held over. Others, in
GLIDING the city treasurer and city au-
ditor, are obliged to file bond which
must first be approved by the board of
aldermen, so that they can't be sworn
in until next week, City Clerk Enoch
II. Towne is also obliged to file bond,
but he was given the oath of Office Mon
day morning, and is formally installed
for 1899.
City Treasurer Fred w. White
received hundreds of congratulations
yesterday. He kept a box of good CT
gars in his desk, and many of his
friends enjoyed smoke on him.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
SENATOR HoAR CONCLUDES

In re-opening his argument, yester-
day, Senator Hoar spoke in part as
follows:
Is there any different rule to be fol-
lowed in getting at market value be-
fore and after taking, than in getting
at 1T for taxation? Suppose you are
going to tax it, Shedd's barn would Sell
at auction tomorrow for a sum effected
by the expectation that they could ac-
quire the right to store the water and
sell it If Shedd be right in his facts.
The mills below Kettle brook would
sell at auction tomorrow for a sum eff
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
NO ROW THIS TIME.

The work of snow removal is being
done by Street Commissioner w. s..
Prior, the question of what portion the
street railway companies shall pay be-
ing held in abeyance for the present.
City Engineer F. A. Mcclure is fig
uring the area of streets in which there
are street railway tracks, to ascertain
what portion of the streets are taken
up by the tracks, and how much the
city is responsible for.
When he completes the undertaking,
an agreement will be made with the
street railway companies as to the
amount of money they will be required
to pay If the snow is removed by the
city from the entire street.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
DE FossE is BUSY.

C. Herbert DeFosse, sealer of weights
and measures. went back to his old
task of sealing bottles yesterday. In
the past few days they have accumu-
lated in his workroom, there being over
900 half-pint bottles there at present
waiting for his mark. In about two
weeks the sealer expects to pay a visit
to saloons to see if they give as much
as the law requires on the bottles
which are labelled pint and half-pint.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
BUT FEW REMAIN.

The gymnastic exercises which as
pirants for positions as policemen had
to undergo under the direction of the
civil service examiners, brought down
many of them. OF the SO who started
in with the mental examination, only
2S succeeded in passing the three eX-
aminations, mental, physical and gym
nastic exercises.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
THE WEEKLY PAY ROLLS.

The pay rolls for the city depart
ments for the week ending Saturday
as made out yesterday by City Audi
tor John b, Bowker, are as fol-
lows: City hall janitors. SOFT; fire de-
partment, $1925.95; parks commission
$1503S; police department, $215S. Sc: :
school department, ianitors, 1892. %:
school department labor or repairs,
$17S55; sewer department, $4222. 05;
street department, S2l6l45; water de-
partment $794.33
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
WISE DUCKS OF wRENTHAM.
Made Virtue of Necessity and Improvised
Pond.

(From the Boston Transcript
In the ineffable old town of Wrentham
a great business is made of raising ducks.
and the exuberant fancy of the native
Inhabitants consequently turns itself
loose nowadays on duck stories. Per-
haps the most remarkable ducks in the
town are those that belong to Mr. Green
ing, the storekeeper. Mr.. Creeping keeps
his fine white Pekins in a small pasture
did trickle-a rivulet Of water. Mr.. Green
ing, of course, erected about this Enclosure
a high chicken wire fence, so that his
ducks could not get out; But on the lower
side of the pasture, where the streamlet
went through, there was space enough
between the wire screen and the water for
Mr.. Greenlng drove down some stakes,
side by side, into the bottom Of the stream
to prevent the ducks from getting out.
Then the ducks arose magnificently to
these stakes, put there merely to restrain
their liberty, the foundation of great hap
piness. They assembled in the rivulet,
close up against the stakes, they pad
webbed feet; they stirred up the mud and
forced it against the stakes, and little by
little they made dam, which caused the
water to back and create for them
beautiful pond And now every day these
happy and astute ducks may be seen
gayly swimming on fine, smooth ex-
pdilSe OIL water, WHICH ~ lne result OF
their own engineering talent.
And yet this is not the most remarka-
BILE instance of the intelligence of Wrent-
ham ducks. There is another breeder out
there whose ducks possess a nice, natural
swimming pond, of which they are very
proud Last fall, when the cold weather
came on, the pond began to skim over
with a thin crusting of ice. Now these
wise ducks had discovered that If the
water We're disturbed it would not freeze
over so readily; and in order that their
pond should not freeze, they spent one
entire night going in and coming out of
the water, and SO necessarily troubling
its surface that 1t could not freeze. The
proud owner of the ducks, having been
out at a lodge meeting, discovered them
thus engaged at about midnight, and
stayed up a while to watch them. After
he went to bed he could not sleep, and
got up and looked out of the window The
ducks We're still industrIously waddling
in and climbing out of the water The
result was that next day, when all the
other ducks ponds were frozen up and
their possessors wandering and quacking
disconsolately on the banks. these wise
ducks were complacently floating and
padding on the free and silvery bosom of
their charming lakelet.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
THERE is A CLASS or PEOpIF

VINO are injured by the use of coffee Re-
Gently there has been placed i'm ali the
grocery stores new preparation called
Grain;o, made Of, pure grains that takes
stomach receives IL without distress ara
but few can tell 1t from coffee II does
not cost over one-fourth as much. Chill
dren may drink It with great benefit. is
Ask for Grain-O ~
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the results of one yesterday. On Mon
day he requested The Spy man to print
an item calling attention to the delin
quency of election officers in calling
for their money. Only a word was said
in The Spy, but yesterday they APP
peared in such numbers that Mr.. White
got tired seeing them coming.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
COULDN'T BE OTHERWISE.

City Treasurer-elect Fred W. White
will begin his duties with a good knowl-
edge of the far-reachlng effects Of a
news item in The Spy. He witnessed
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
COMMON CASE NOW.

From the indianapolis Journal.)
II Is an awful thing not to know whera
ones next meal is coming from"
Yes, but good many of us married
men arc experimenting II since the grocery
stores cot advertising bargain Bales.i'
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04

NEW

A Pittsburg b-aH w 'Y.. to Get Power
Direct Fl. car 49,. ract,
(trom the Pittsb, ? Laz ,r)
John j. Miller, manage. az ,.- .ar
Electric Construction c., .r.-
Pittsburg, thinks he can get
electricity direct from the cat,
Niagara AT least he intends TO l.
He proposes to build and place direc, a.
oeioW the rails great steel boat 800
feet long. From its prov will extend
arms for 100 to $50 feet long, at the end
of which will be turbine wheels. on
Whlch the nightly rush of waters will
IAN ana generate electrical power. Mr..
miller SAID yesterday that his idea in
10 pulld a power boat for the purpose
OF furnishing incandescent light to
street railways, and to operate motors
IN factories. One of the great factories
is TO De IN the boat itself. 1t is to be, If
the plans of the inVentorbear full fllrit.
the plans of the inventor bear full fruit
veritable hive of industry, with 5000
or 400O operators busy at their lathes.
Inc boat is to be of steel 900 feet long.
100 feet wide and six stories high. II
is proposed to anchor this boat below
Niagara Falls. 1t will be held in place
with large cables on the bow and the
SIDES, and three large iron piles at the
SUI H. ne pudt ~ 20 nave Serier of
work arms from 100 to $50 feet in
length, extending from the bow These
arms will extend right into the falls
at an agile of 45 degrees.
me important feature is the peculiar
turbine wheels the construction ~
which is at present a secret The wheels
are to be 10 to Is feet in diameter and
to 10 feet wide. There will be at least
IL Of these wheels. The estimated horse
power will be something less than 100
O0O WV
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04

Mr.. G. They call him one-horse
lawyer"
Mr. Y" How did he get that name,
do you suppose?" uN
Mr.. C.-"Because he's such a fine
charger, imagine. "--Yonkers States
man.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
MOTOR CARS IN TIE ARMY.
brussels correspondence of the London
Post)

The Belgian military technical commit
tee is experimenting with motor cars in
the army 1t has been found that On q
Journey a transport train occupies one
NTH the space in a column that would be
required IL horses were employed, and
that where long distances are concerned
important economies are effected An au-
tomobile wagon Of ten horsepower costs
only one halfpenny an hour and travels
Tar more rapidly than horse-drawn yehi-
Gle. Moreover, the motor cars can be used
to move heavy guns. go
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
STEAM Frs.
WINSOR'S LINE.
Duly Direct Line to phiIadelDI1ia

Every Wednesday and Saturday at n
m. from Ives wharf. India street. Provi-
For Freight Only.
Steamships Norman, A. s. Megathln
Saxon, S. G. Sherman --''
No wharfage and nc rehandling. Goods
received daily and forwarded promptly
connects with Pennsylvania Railroad, also
Philadelphia and Southern Mai Steamship
Co. for Saws nnah.
Freight forwarded to all points in the
sors line.
For further information apply to
GEORGE a. KILTON, Agent, Ives
VII India street. Providence
, C 70 zee c. ECKHARDT, Agent. 45s
SCUM De aware avenue, Philadelphia. Pa.
~, =. hMPSON. Gen. Man, BostJn.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04
FESTIVAL CHORUS.

The committee on Examination
will be in session at Summers music
rooms, 80 Main Street, THURS
DAY EVENING, January 9Th, at
7.3o P. IA. Singers wishing to
identity themselves with the chorus
for the Festival of 1899 are request
ed to present themselves for exani-
nation at that time.
CHARLES |. RICE,
For the Committee
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-04

uoupies. SOD py druggists
Pixies Tcothache Drops cure in one minufS.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-17
BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD.
worcester. Nashua and Portland


For Montreal and all points north; Port
land, Bangor and all points east.
Winter arrangement, in effect Oct 2,
1893. Passenger trains will leave Worces-
ter as follows:
FOR. STERLING JUNCTION : 6.4s, s.O5,
FOR OAKDALE-6.43, .S.04, sos, Ills, II. 20,
FOR cL1NToN@s,l3, s0i Ills is il. 40 81 a. M;
FOR i : 4 11.M a. m; $50
FOR S 4 s.o4 II < express;
train stops only at Oakdale, Chat n.
Aver, GrOton and PepperelD II. 40 a. M;
230 ASS, 6.25 p. m. Sundays -6.45 a. m:
FOR RotcEHiEsTER-S.o4 a. M: $50 p. III.
FOR PORTDAND-S.W a. m; $50 p. m.
FOX SH4S k SS!aSsETdTSE1S B1DDEFoRD AND
FOR ALTON BAY AND WaTFBoRt -
F9 So S 3; R; Z G y r = 8 % a. M
FOR FlTCHBuRG : Via Sterling juno
tion}-6;4S,o dl.2Q a M; 45S p. m. VIA
FOR LowELL-6.48, Ii 40 a. IA; 4.5s p.
F0R R qpSfyES;fs q, 40 a. M; Ass
FOR MANCHESTER AND CONCORD
S.04 IL Is, II. 40 a. m. 2.SO, 46S, 6.25 p. m.
T H6T 1Ek5EaTS9N u 81 ALs4Fq Il mp 4
M; 625 p m. Sundays-4.6 80 p. m.
FOR ST. JOHNSRURY, NEWPORT AND
a. M; 6.25 p. m. Sundeys-4.50 p. m.
FOR BOSTON = (Via Ayer)-6.4S, S.04,
Il 40 a. m; 2.30, ABS, SIS p. m. Sun
FOR BOSTON-(Via Central Mass. R. r.
500 8 % a. M; 3.l4 p. m. Sundays
6.45 a. m.
FOR WARE AND NORTHAMPToN-9.O
a. M; 2.30, 4.5S p. m.
d. j. FLANDERS. Gen. Pas. & Tiki Agt.
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she aspired to something better and tried
, to make her life good and wholesome and
thought that all was clear to her when
love came her way and showed her the
possibilities of her heart. She heard her
mother complaining of the hardships in
store for her, her courage giving way at
the last-her mother, who had certainly
borne great deal for her and who was
going out into the new life-to watch
her. Her mother was doing her part;
Lizzie was 1oing her part she herself,
who had made all the trouble, was doing
nothing She had eaten what was placed
before her, assisted in clearing the table.
Then her mother said she must go and
say farewell to the women of the house.
Lizzie ratified at her machine, shrieking
out words above the noise.
"Your train doesn't leave till 10!" she
shrilled You'll have time to get ac-
quainted with Tom. Het, you always
could outdo me when it came TO talking.
Lay it on thick with Tom. Use all your
Dig words. If you could manage to get
in little French, he'd talk about it for
a week. I've sprung 'distangy' on him
and chick so don't use them"
Her tongue wagged fast, and Het lis
tened, but all the time the fever was
gaining on her. For the'frst time in two
years she was letting her heart ache.
Why should her mother leave the home
she chung to, and why should Lizzie wish
to have Tom coneiliated? And yet-"a
willing sacrifice" Those were the words
of the pretty girl in the car. She wonder
ed if that sweet young thing were not at
this minute telling her papa" about
''him."
"Why Hetp' cried Lizzie. II don't be-
lieve you're listening to a solitary thing
I'm saying, and here I've been telling
you about Toms not telling me what he's
got for me for tomorrow and his sister
and the way her house is furnished. I've
been there, and she's not at all stuck up.
| hope mother will take her all right.
Wait There, I'm done with you, you
troublesome thingw addressing the gar
ment which she pulled from under the
machine needle. She came over to her
sister.
"Het," she said solicitously, you'll
write once week, won't you? My, what
fun you'll have with mother! Won't she
fight the new people? People-here scarce
~ fight with her any more, but she'll give
the new ones chance"
Lizzie" said Het, II want you to tell
me about Harry Ludlow"
A furious red leaped into Lizzie's cheek.
"Oh, Hetw she cried.
SIS he getting along well?" asked Het.
''Do you ever see himT
"He's invented something in electrici-
ty," sullenly answered Lizzie. Hell Ne
rich. You give him up. He didn't give
you up. rt'n across him once in awhile.
He always eaks. He's got room down
near Norge factory in that house at
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The women at the house would be GU
rious to see her. Lizzie would look up
from the sewing machine and say cas-
ual word, as though there was nothing
unusual in the home coming, trying thus
to make her feel at ease, yet it would be
all lost on her. She should not care if
they called "Thiefr from the house tops.
Was she thinking? Could she think who
had tried to put thought back of her so
many months? She would not dare to
think of Harry Ludlow. She had not
heard his name in two years till her
mother in the cars told her he had made
fool Of her. They were separated irrev-
ocably. The past two years had done
that.
Here we are" said her mother. They
were in front Of the old house. Children
played on the steps; women gazed from
the windows
Het ran the gantlet of the eyes, her
mothers manner causing a modification
of the glances directed toward her, for
Mrs. Baldwin was well known in the
house as one who insisted upon that
modicum of respect without which no
lady is satisfied
A child in the hallway confronted
them.
Get out of the way, Alice" command
ed the elder woman. "Why, it must be
little Alice Kslorn," said Het How she
has grownw though she did not offer to
accost the child.
So they went up the stairs, the mother
overweighted by the luggage she carried
and of which she refused to be relieved
At the door of the third fight they stop
ped. From within came the whir of a
sewing machine.
"Open the door" commanded the pant
ing mother, unless you're too tired to do
it, Young people are so easily tired"
Het turned the knob and went in A
young girl with an elaboration of blond
couture and much befrillment of gown
looked up.
THAT you, HetF' she said, and that
was all, just as Het had expected it
would be- Merry Christmasw
The mother threw down her packages
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"There," she said, "mother's gone to
the grocery, Hetw Her eyes were brim-
ming. She leaned over and kissed her
sister and they never used to kiss
Het looked up at her.
Lizzie got down on the floor and rested
her arms across her sisters lap.
Say" she said, mother does CRATE,
doesn't she? She's just the same as ever.
But she means weR Took how she's
going west with you tonight! But /
didn't dare to make any fuss while she
was here, though you don't think I've
forgotten you, do you, old girl? I've
thought of you every day I've even had
words about you-with Tom, you know"
"Tom?"
"Tom Clark"
ooh, yes"'
"I've made him see as 1 do" Lizzie
went on. ''At first he was little ofish
when he heard had sister where you
were, but that was before he got to lik-
ing me-"
Liking you" Het repeated in per.
functory manner.
"Oh," said Lizzie, tossing her head
and playing with the rings on her fin
gers, there's no nonsense about us!
He thought I'd make a good wife, and
l thought he'd make a good husband,
so we made a match of it. Now he
thinks I'm the best Of the kind, and he
can't get along a day without seeing me.
1 know how to manage him, and Wen be
as happy as the days long. He's one of
the men who think they know it all, you
know, and l don't let him think he
doesn't. Wait till you see him. He's
promised to go to the station to see you
and mother off tonight You'll like him.
Make believe you think need a good
deal Of looking after, and he'll like you.
Het, maybe we'll come out to see you
when we're married. l wonder if you'd
have time to show us around. You'll be
busy, l guess. It's an awful bore for
you to Learn couple of hundred new
words out there, for Of course the new
firm won't use the same words the firm
over here did. That's the worst of being
a typist. You've got to learn a new way
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the side. They say he cooks for himself
He's always reading, they say, when he's
not working, and he's getting patent for
something or other. He's thinner than he
used to be. There! l won't say another.
word about him. You ought to be
ashamed"
Lizzie went to her machine again and
would have nothing more to say Though
she glanced her sisters way now and
then, she saw her sitting there calm and
cool. her hands lying idly in her lap, her
eyes directed toward the window. As
the minutes wore on her anger rose
against Het, the one who had disgraced
them all and who, their mother said in
privacy, had by her act helped to hurry
their father to his grave.
When her mother returned, Het sud-
denly developed a deal of alacrity and
was almost garrulous. She went round
the room tidying it up. Lizzie frowning
and clashing away at her machine.
Mother" Het said all OF once, Il be-
lieve I'll go out. | am going over the
old neighborhood. You know it viii be
for the last time, and | want to see the
Christmas shops"
Lizzie muttered Her mothers lips
were pressed together.
But Het was quite gay as she pinned
on her hat.
"You know haven't seen anything for
two years" she said. "But I'll not get
lost"
slope you'll enjoy it," her mother call
ed out angrily as she went out the door.
81 wouldn't" said Lizzie, 'have Tom
Clark see her noW-no not for worlds"
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of putting words together every time you
change your position. Anything / can
do for you here, you know, just you
write. I've got something for you for
Christmas"
She rose and went to another part OF
the room and brought back hat trim
med with the white silk of which her
mother had spoken to Het in the car.
"Try it on" said Lizzie, and she fitted
it on her sisters head and regarded her
critically. you look real nice, Het, only
you're a little pale, but that'll wear off,
and don't you mind what people say;
just you send 'em to me" rafting her
bangles menacingly. 'Ive made you
three dresses too. One Of them was to
be one of my wedding things, but
wanted you to have it. You must go out
there decent"
Het smiled and nodded, fearful that
Lizzie should pity her.
Then they heard their mother on the
stairs. Lizzie few to her machine.
"She'll go out this afternoon to say
goodby and fight for you, Lizzie wills
pered loudly 'Then well have talk
want to tell you about Toms sister.
She's rich-up in Harlem. They keep a
man in a swallowtail to wait on the ta-
BILE | suppose he couldn't do it if he
wore n cutaway. Politics! Toms in his
brother-in-law's office"
The machine whizzed and ratified as
the door opened and the mother came in.
From that time on to dinner. after
that, nearer and nearer to Het came the
old fever that had once possessed her
when she lived in these rooms. The two
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and took off her bonnet and blew the dust
from it.
"Of course" she said, lyon haven't
tended to the dinner, Lizzie?"
"You seem to know" returned Lizzie
"All the same, have, and the mince pie
too"
well, wen hurry and have dinner,
then" said the mother Its next to the
last meal I'll ever eat here for awhile"
How trsgicw retorted Lizzie you'll
be back inside of a month, you know
you will. You couldn't leave this street if
you tried"
"If anything would make me want to
leave it," said her mother, it'd be your
impudence."
"No, it wouldn't" chirped Lizzie, hum
ming the words to popular tune MY
impudence, as You call it, would make
you want to stay to give it back to me-"
So they talked and talked, neither adj
dressing herself to Het, who had taken a
chair by the window chair she had sin
gled out, chair she remembered Of old.
She looked out at the muslin perspective
strung on tiers of lines from tall poles.
1t was the same as it had always been.
She might have been from the house but
a single day. She was sure that was
Mrs. Days skirt. The edging was al
ways coming off Mrs. Days skirts.
There were II pairs Of children's stock
ings on the Days line. When she went
away, there used to be only ten. How
the wind rocked the things! How the air
must be coming into the refectory at the
place she had left that morning! She
had always liked the cool air as it swept
through the refectory.
Then she was aware that the machine
had stopped. There was a scusrying
across the foor, and Lizzie was beside
her.