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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11

of her winnings have been placed at close
to 800, 600. All this from ''shoestring,"
Her old neighbors are delighted at her
good fortune, and the opening of the
new place today resembled an ovation.
All wanted to know if she would have
a racing stable in the spring, but the
Duchess" says she will confine herself
to her new business venture.
Mrs. Westphals career has been most
romantic. She has been married three
times. In the 70's she became the wife
of Henry Bailey, a wine merchant.
Bailey died and Adam Fortnight, the
keeper of a restaurant, was her second
husband. He taught her the game of
poker and she soon became known as
the most expert woman at cards in the
lower part of the city.
Fortnight having died. the business
fell to her. In the management of the
poker game she eXcelled. She bought a
racing stable and took down all kinds
of money. Paddy Diver and Paradise
Jimmie Oliver were in her string OF
thoroughbreds.
Twelve years ago she saw Anthony
Westphal lead 1900 policemen in street
car strike. She fell in love- and, as she
said: His bravery won my heart, and
as he was also in love with me, we were
married when the strike was over"
She announced today that she thought
she would be content with what she had
and quit the track for good.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11
MANSFIELD is AN
ARTIST IN MAKEUP. s"

eyes are balls Of fire, the regular smil-
ing mouth is hideous cash, the lines
Of the head are brutal. With regard to
this, there is a story which Mansfield
refuses to confirm, but it accounts, in
q measure, for his startling effect 1t is
said when he has made up for Jel1yll, he
closes his eyes and has his dresser paint
other eyes on the outside of his eyelids
with phosphorescent paints, and these
are the eyes of Hyde. When he keeps
his eyes open, and his features regular,
he is Jekyll, but when he commands the
muscles Of his face to assume distorted
proportions, and closes his eyes, disclose
ing the weird, wild eyes on the lids,
then he is Hyde.
The nose of Cyrano Is a state secret
With Mansfield. He does not tell how he
puts 1t on, or Of what it is made. Some
say it is wax, some say PAPER mache
some say painted aluminium, some say
rubber, some say putty. That nose and
the few artful strokes of the brush
transform him so that even his most
intimate associates cannot detect the
slightest resemblance to his own face.
The Napoleon makeup was even
more wonderful. With no artificial
members nothing to work with but
paints, and his own remarkable control
of the muscles of his face, he created
portrait of Napoleon startltngly exact,
though he looks not a bit like the
French emperor.
In the Devils Disciple" he startled
his acquaintance and every one who
saw him with a new portrait, unlike any
of his others as it was unlike his own
natural face. Though about forty in
reality, he distributed color, lines and
shading in such a way as to make Dick
Dudgeon, a rollicking scamp of twenty.
Beau Brummel looks not a whit like
Mansfield, yet he is totally unlike Mans
fields portrait of Napoleon or of Dud-
geon. Yet the Beau's countenance was
the composition of nothing but paints,
A wonderful facial Characterization is
Baron Chevral. There is age, disipa-
ton, sinister desire In every feature. yet,
beyond a slender mustache, every line
in the face is Mansfelds own.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11
NECK BROKEN, YET WALKED 6 Miles.

Yonkers, N. Y, Dec 1O.-John MORT
arity, hod-carrier, aged slxty-five,
walked into st. Joseph's hospital here
and calmly announced to the doctors
that his neck was broken, and that he
had walked six miles from Dobbs Ferry
to Yonkers, to have them FIX it up"
The doctors didn't believe the old
man. He had, however, told the truth,
as they learned when they examined
him. His neck had been broken.
They found it difficult, too, to believe
that he had walked six miles over a
rough road with such a shocking in
jury. That part of the old mans story,
however, was as true as the one that
his neck was broken.
Two weeks ago Moriarity fell from a
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11

scaffold in Dobbs Ferry. He was car
ried to his room. He lay insensible for
ten days.
When he recovered consciousness he
found he suffered no pain and could
walk. Then he dismissed the Dobbs
Ferry doctor who had attended him.
He thought he was well again.
Thursday he felt a keen pain in his
neck, and determined to go to the
Yonkers hospital. He hobbled all the
way, leaning on crutch, for one side
of his body was numb.
The doctors are amazed at his mar
velous endurance and vitality. They
will try to save his life by removing
the fractured vertebrae in his neck.
He is such a splendid specimen of
stalwart manhood that they think they
will succeed.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11
GRAIN-O BRINGS RELIEF

70 the coffee drinker. Coffee drinking is a
hsbit that is universally INDUCED in and
almost as universally injurious Have
vniI tried GRAIN-O? 1t is almost like
ccoffee Itsthe effects are just the oppo-
site. Cofree upsets the stomach. ruins the
digestion. effects the heart and disturbs
the whole nervous system, GRAlN-O
tones up the stomach, aids digestion and
strengthens the nerves. There Is nothing
but nourishment in GRA1N-O. It can't be
otherwise. 15c and 25c. per package.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11
REMARKABLE RESCUE.

Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, Ill,
makes the statement, that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; she
was treated for a month by her fam
lily physician, but grew worse. He told
her she was a hopeless victim of con-
sumption and that no medicine could
cure her, Her druggist suggested DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton; she bought a bottle and to her
delight found herself benefited from
first dose. She continued its use, and
after taking six bottles, found herself
sound and we'll; now does her own
homework, and is as well as she ever
was.-Free trial bottles of this Great
Discovery at Brewer & Co.'S drug
store. Only so cents and $1.00; every
bottle guaranteed.
Improve your disposition and temper by
use Of
CARRIERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS.
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rHAr rHRoRR1NG HEApAcHE

would quickly leave you if you used DIR.
Kings New Life Pills. Thousands of
sufferers have proved their matchless
merit for sick and nervous headaches
They make pure blood and strong nerves
Try them Only % cents. Money back If
not cured. Sold by BREWER & CO..
druggists.
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cYcLIST BEAT SKATER.

races between Harry Gibson, middle dis
lance champion bicyclist, and Reno Runck,
champion roller skater, closed last night.
Gibson won two races and the series. In
last night S contest, which was an Aus
traiian pursuit race, Gibson caught Runck
after pedalling II miles and II laps, The
tiy,a WAS 26.9S 'sfs-
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VO.License in worcester Has Never worked
For Temperance, but Rather the other Way
WHAT A Prominent POLICE OFFICIAL
SAID OF IT SIX YEARS AGO.

A FTER the last year of no-lcense in Worcester
~ (892), one of the principal officials of the
Police Department himself staunch Republican,
and also an earnest temperance manwas quoted in
of the local papers expressing the honest conviction
but humbug.-"There were kitchen dives and tenement
saloons every side OF us, and with police force the
size of could not begin to suppress them 1t
would require four times many have to
enforce nocense and even then it could not be fully
done. Our have their hands full as it is looking
after the ordinary criminals and preserving law and order
without being compelled to raid dives and drug stores at
all hours, when they might be putting their work much
proftably their regular duties.'
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sPANfARDS LIBERATED.

Madrid, Dec. 10.-An official dispatch
from Manila says that 229 Spaniards, who
we're formerly prisoners in the hands of
the Filipinos, have arrived there.
The Spy will give the earliest and
most correct returns Of The city election,
Tuesdav night.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11

In time Of -Hipworth-"I like
to make a bargain with you" Sykes
(of the next fiat)-"What?" Hipworth
IF you won't give your boy a drum
on Christmas. won't give mine a
horn Philadelphia North American.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11
DEATHS.


ALLEN-In this city, 10th, at the Home
for Aged Women, Caroline Maria Allen,
81 yrs. mo. 10 days.
DUNHAM-In this city, 10th, Gertrude
c., wife of Walter s. Durham, "a yrs.
mos. 4 days.
HENRY-In Sterling Junction, Sth, Mary
Henry, formerly of Worcester, rs yrs.
Funeral from her late residence, Ster-
ling Junction, Monday morning at
o'clock. Requiem high mass in st. An-
thongs church, West Boylston, at 8.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend.
McsHERRY-In this city, 9th, at st. Vim
cent ; hospital, Catharine (Coonan), wife
OF John j. McSherry, and daughter of
John and Bridget (BolanO Coonan, %
yrs.
Funeral from her late home, Eliza
beth street. Monday morning at
o'clock. Requiem high mass in St
Anne's church at O'clock Relatives
and friends are invited to attend
WELD-In this city 9Th at the city hos
pital, Daniel L. Weld of Oakham.
Funeral at home of his daughter, Mrs.
Jerry Mann, Leicester, Tuesday, at IL
o'clock m
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The people who think they are not
appreciated, fail to take into consid-
Grafton the law Of supply and demand.
Puck.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11

Since License Commission was established the
of Worcester has been conducted by the holders of licenses in strict
with the and what otherwise might serious evil
has been kept within safe and proper bounds by responsible
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-11
Under License the AbOminabe Neither can the alleged
Kitchen Dive Cannot Flourish numerous IN evey s secoD
of the city during the years of no cence.
Public Morality is Not Advanced by the Dive,

the loaded express wagon the vile stuff that drink
in illicit groggerieS the scandal to young DID, male and
female, which the hole and sale of liquor under
nO-lcenSe always
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ALLEN-In this city, 10th, at the Home
for Aged Women. Caroline Maria Allen,
81 yrs I mo TX DAVIS
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HE BEAT THE TRUST.
Clever Scheme Which Was Worked
by a Matchmaker.

A Clever Scheme Which Was Worked
by Matchmaker.
Il don't care to mention names," said
a visitor from New Jersey, but this is
an absolutely true story of how one
man at least beat big trust at it's
own game. He was at the head of a
small concern making-let us say-car
Wheels (thats not exactly it, but pretty
nearby, and about year ago he got
private hint that the other car-Wheel
people were arranging a combine. He
SAD nothing, but Immediately commu-
nlcated with several Of the largest con-
sumers, and by Offering confidentially
a reduction of about 10 per cent. Sc
cured advance orders that would oc-
cupy him over two years to fill, run
nlhg at full capacity. At the price
named every wheel would be made at a
loss, and his partners were badly
scared. He told them to keep their
mouths shut and wait.
In few months the trust was Or
ganlzed, according to programme and
one day bland agent dropped in and
offered him a fair price for the plant.
He said he didn't care to sell. The
trust thereupon preceded to put on
the screws in the usual fashion. In
other words, they cut rates, but,
strange to say, the little Matchmaker
didn't seem to care. Then they made
another and much larger cut with the
intention of freezing him out at one
fell swoop.
THAT was just what he was waiting
Tor, and through a third party he in
stantly placed orders covering all the
contracts he had made at figure that
left him handsome margin of profite
Without suspecting that the large Or
derS came from their intended victim
the trust people became alarmed at the
losses incurred in the freezing out pro-
cess and made him another and much
better offer for his plant, which he
promptly accepted.
Now the trust has the concern and Is
obliged to run it day and night to make
wheels at 20 per cent. under actual cost
for the man it tried to ruin. AS fast as
he gets them he turns them over on his
contracts, and reaps the intermediate
profit, while, needless to say, the trust
magnates howl with anguish every
time they make a delivery The little
wheelmaker got enough out of the sale
of the plant to retire for life, and he is
carrying out the rest of the campaign
merely for sport. He says it's great
fun to see a trust on the gridiron."-
New Orleans Times Democrat.
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Some Copious Languages.

Among all the European languages
the English is the richest so far as the
number of words is concerned, and it
is also the one which has added to its
vocabulary the largest number of
words within the last half century. The
latest English dictionaries contain NOT
less than 100000 different words, Next
In rank comes the German language
with 10000 words, and then come in
succession the Italian, with 35,OOO; the
French, with 10000, and the Spanish
with 10000 words. Among the oriental
languages the Arabic Is the most conf
GUS, Its vocabulary being even richer
than that of the English language. In
the Chinese languages there are 10000
syllables or roots, out of which 1t Is DOS
sible to frame 10000 words. Another
notable language is the old Indian Ia
mil, which Is now spoken in the south
of India, and which contains, accord
ing to the latest calculations, 67.G42
words. In the Turkish language there
are 22,530 words, and thus 1t is richer
than the Spanish and some other Euro.
pean languages. \ singular fact is
that aborigines, as a rule, have very
limited vocabularies. The KafIirs Of
South Africa have at their disposol
not more than 5000 words, and the na-
tives of Australia use only 1000 words.
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The Escape Of Her "Rieh Fool"
snvs0Ns0nSs Ssoys0,A0eNs0xsonxssYeo oyssy*ovoysexe5 y

a great deal the best. Are you the
agent Of this house, sir?'
"Yes," said Mr.. Dart, with a queer
expression in his eyes.
"And is $4,000 the lowest rent-the
very lowest?"
Eyes"
II told you so, dear" interposed the
elderly lady, meekly. "Our means will
not"
There you go again. snapped the
daughter with your everlasting cackle
about means, means! I'm sick and tired
of the sound Of it. VIII you show us
the house, sir?"
Mr.. Dart obeyed in his inmost heart
pitying the subdued mother; the tall
young lady swept like queen through
the passages, pauSing in each room to
survey it's adaptations for the purposes
to which she had assigned it in her
mind.
81 like the house." she said, imperi-
ously, as they paused at length in the
lower hall Mother, you must take it,"
"My darling" deprecated the mother,
$4,000 a year and papas salary is
only $1,000, besides the interest we
have to payw
"Pshaw! do have done with your lee
turing. What do l care whether papa
is pleased or not? I'm going to be mar
ried, thank goodness, and get away
from all your debts and grovelngs and
grumblings. A rich fool for a husband
is better than no husband at all!'
But, my dear" the conversation had
fallen into an undertone, "you are not
sure of it yet, and"
YES, l am," said the daughter,
sharply Don't I tell you he's COM
pletely under my thumb? And do you
suppose l would be married from such
hole as that little house in March
StreetY
And turning to Mr.. Dart, who was
an unwilling and unedified listener to
the conversation, she said, in a louder
accent:
I'VE shall take the house. My father
will call and see you tomorrow. Let
this bill be taken down."
And she glided away, more like Queen
Semiramis than ever, with the meek
little mother following, look of panied
perpleXity on her face.
AT s o'clock precisely Mr.. Dart was
ready.
why uncle" cried Harry Field,
gleefully. How nice you look"
do I?' said the old gentleman, COM
placently. well, l tlatter myself | am
about the correct thing! Come on, my
boy, or we shall be late"
ITS not far" said Harry. ITS only
on March streetw
March street! March streetw re-
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peated the old gentleman. 1T seems to
me as ii | had somewhere heard that
name recently!"
But he could not remember where,
and was still racking his brain when
they reached the residence of the dam
sci whom Harry Field enthusiastically
termed his guardian angel"
The apartment into which they were
shown was rather of the tawdrily-
splendid order-satin- covered chairs,
enameled with stray grease spots: mar
bic mantels, undusted. and gaudy
velvet carpet, strewn with clippings of
thread and scraps of paper forming its
chief characteristics.
Presently in walked tall, beautiful
GIRL with black eyes and n wealth of
raven hair, smile dimpling her cherry
lips and adding Il new charm to her
lovely face.
"Olive" said Harry, proudly as he
advanced to greet her, this is my uncle,
Mr.. Dart, and"
He stopped short in astonishment, for
Olive shrank back, coloring redder than
the reddest peony in all the gaudy car.
pet patterns.
aha" said Mr.. Dart, plunging both
his hands in his pockets. ~ think
We've met before?'
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-08-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Duchess Of Fife, accompanied by
the duke, is often seen walking in
Hyde Park and Kensington Gan den,
London.
When a chameleon is blindiolded it
loses all power of changing its color,
and its entire body remains in a uni
form tint.
"Our Duchess" of Marlborough by
her sweet and winning WAYS is fast be-
coming one of the most popular women
in England.
A successful firm of tea merchants
in London is composed entirely of wo-
men. The blenders, tasters and pack
ers are also women.
Empress Charlotte. of Mexico, re-
Gently celebrated her Goth birthday at
the Chateau de Bonchoto. where she is
confined. Although she does not look
her age, her mental condition is hope
less as ever.
The losses by fire in this country
during the first four months of this
year amounted in round mum bers to
500, 600, 900, against about $3S, 900, 600
for the corresponding period of 1898.
A like rate of destruction continued
during the year will bring the figures
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for 1899 to the enormous total of $780,.
600, 900 or 10 times as much as all our
battleships together cost to build.
The record OF the greatest number Of
notes struck by musician in u hours
is said to have been made by Paderew.
ski, who struck 100000 notes.
A large turkey buzzard. with a bell
fastened to one of it's feet, has made
its appearance in umberland county,
N. j.. for the tenth successive spring.
A custom peculiar to Buddhists 10
that of wandering about the country
with hammer and chise and carving
holy symbols upon rocks by the way.
side.
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An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured bv the
CALIFORNIA FIe SYRUP Co., illustrate
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"Met before?" echoed Harry Field.
"When? Where?
Olive Melton, remembering the very
free use Of her tongue she had made,
was too near the verge of fit of hys-
terics to reply Coherently, so Mr., Dent
calmly narrated the brief interview
they had that morning.
Harry's brow darkened as he lis
tened.
"a rich fooln' he muttered, "and
completely under her thumb Olive, is
this trueY
She could not deny it-she dared not,
with the cold light of Mr.. Darts gilt,
tering eyes upon her.
Mr.. Darts house was "let' the next
day to widow and the two best apart
ments are occupied by the uncle and
nephew, who keep bachelors hall' in
fine style.
And | believe" the widow says, in
reference to her two favorite boarders,
that the old gentleman really means to
live and die a bachelor; but as for Mr..
Harry-as long as there's youth there's
hope"
But Olive Melton's chances are gone,
New York Daily News.