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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-09
FROM ICY ALASKA.
Clinton Wives Hear
aFa From Their
Husbands.
ON THEIR WAY HOME. NOW.
Business Mems Association
May Meet Water Board
On It's Own Ground.
ON THEIR WAY HOME NOW.

Clinton, July Shelters from Arctic
CITY and the gulches 176 miles beyond.
In the dreary depths Of frozen Alaska,
indicate that the party of Klondikers
who left Clinton last March, as part of
the expedition of rs men, sent by the
Winthrop Mining company, are coming
home, and are probably even now on
their way home.
Wednesday, Mrs. George Conrad re-
ceiyed a letter from her husband, and
on the Monday before, Mrs. Abban Cox
was overjoyed because she got a let
ter from her husband These letters are
short. They contain much that Is per-
sonal between wife and husband The
amount Of reference to the situation
where the miners are encamped is lin
tied. Mrs. Cox and Mrs Conrad talked
with representative of The Spy, this
afternoon.
Mrs. Conrad's letter was written in
January. 1t has been all this time on it's
Journey to Massachusetts. Mr.. Conrad
says nothing of the manner in which he
forwarded the epistle. Mr.. Conrad is not
properly speaking in the Klondke, but
many hundred miles away. He is at
what Is known to the party as the
Clutches. The Clutches is 176 miles be-
yond Arctic City. The party have not
discovered gold in quantities that gave
them much hope OF a large strike for
the future. This applies only to the sec
ton Of the expedition at the Clutches
When the expedition reached Alaska 1t
divided, the sections dividing to in
crease the chances Of a find.
Mrs. Conrad is certain that, barring
accident, her husband will be home by
the first OF September He said in his
letter that she would probably not re-
ce1ve another letter before his return
He said that home would be heaven
after his experience in the frozennorth
Mrs. Cox's letter was written in Feb
ruary. The party with which Mr.. Cox
Is keeping are delving for gold at Arc
tic City, or rather on the site Of the old
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Arctic city, which was washed out some
years ago.
Mr.. Cox has written a longer letter
than Mr.. Conrad. The party is working
on the claims it has staked out There
is gold there, but they cannot tell how
much gold until they have reached bed
rock. They were delayed in getting to
work until the river should freeze solid.
The letter speaks of trip to the Kokak
river near the Arctic ocean, from which
point the letter was probably dis
patched by some returning miner.
Mr.. Cox expresses the fear that there
will not be time to thoroughly ascertain
the value of their claim before their
contract with the mining company has
expired. No gold has been discovered
In paying quantities up to this time and
there is no certainty that any will be.
Mrs. Cox infers from his husbands let
ter that he will return in September,
unless something happens now forseen.
She believes that he is on his way.
Charles B. O'Toole is with one or the
other OF these parties. His brother, Wal
ter F. O'Toole, said last night II have
heard nothing to enable me to- know
whether he is On his way home or not"
The contract which the members of
the party have with the company pro-
vides for their maintenance for IS
months, with transportation in both
directions. The 18 months will expire in
September. Mrs Conrad thinks that all
the married men are on the road home,
and will be here early in the fall. She
does not know whether the single men
are or not. She thinks that Mr.. Cox =
party will send a man from San Fran
cisco with provisions to watch the
claims upon which they have begun
work.
Richard Attridge of Lancaster, who
was formerly coachman for Col. John
e. Thayer, is expected home when the
others come. 1t is thought here that
none of the miners have been fortunate
in making a paying strike. But the
contract provides that the find of one
shall be the find of all. Until the re-
turns are in, ii will be impossible to
say that the expedition has not reached
a rich reward for It's venture of $26 900
or Whereabouts.
News of the Clinton men who went
with the expedition is eagerly waited
for here. The fortunes of the miners
are closely followed by hundreds of
people, who wish them luck. The bal
ance Of the 26 men in the company is
made up from Lowell, Chelsea and other
towns in the state.
1t looks as if the Clinton Business
Mems association, If it chooses, may
make out a case against the contract
or's commissary, and thus meet the
metropolitan water board on it's own
ground The association has several
times called the attention of the water
board to the perfectly well-known fact
that the contractors on the reservoir
system maintain commissaries, and
sell groceries and supplies to their
laborers at prices grossly extortionate
To each communication of this kind
Secretary Davenport has written a let
ter reading, to make the statement
brief, Prove it," The association is
not in the detective business and has
not until now been in a position to Sc
cure the particular evidence necessary
to prove it" as the board demands.
But Monday Frank Decesere, an en-
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OXFORD.

Oxford, July s.--Services will be held
in the Universalist church tomorrow at
up. m. Rev. c. L. Ball of Webster will
preach.
Miss Florence May Whiting cele-
brated her sixth birthday this after
noon by party at which % of her lit
tie friends and schoolmates were prese-
emit. Miss Florence received many
tokens Of remembrance from her young
friends.
Robert B. Taft, o. H. s., 80, has
taken the position Of clerk at A. w.
Sigourneys agricultural store.
Frank Fuller is home from South
bridge over Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. James II. Mlnekin Of
South Manchester, CT, are the guests
of Asa Shepardson.
Mrs. w. A. Taft is visiting in Union,
N. II.
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Mr.. HILL STEPS OUT
Sells All His Inter
ests in Spencer
Light Co.
A new BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Attempt to Change the
Name Of the Company
Failed.
A NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

Spencer, July S.--Luther A. Hill has
resigned from the Spencer Gas and
Electric Light Company, and has sold
all interests therein.
This action was taken at the annual
meeting Of the company this afternoon,
The company was reorganized and a
new board of directors, consisting of
five members, chosen. The new board
consists of Erastus E. Jones. Frank
A. Drury, Frank E. Dunton Noah Fl.
Sagendorph and Fields M. Proutv
The last two were members of the old
board of directors, which consisted OF
nine.
An attempt to change the name of
the company was made, but owing to
objections from the gas commissioners,
1t was knocked in the head.
Az the next meeting of the board Of
directors, the officers will be elected.
Erastus E. Jones and Frank A. Dru-
ry own the controlling shares in the
company. Many of the other bond
holders besides Mr.. Hill have also sold
their interest in the gas and electric
light plant. Ever since the organiza-
ton OF the company, Luther Hill has
been its president, and has q control
InS INTEREST IN ~, out tonight he is out
or 1t entirely, and in no way connect
ca with the Spencer Gas and Electric
Light Company.
The new management will change the
old style of doing business, and try to
make IL paying venture, which IL has
not proved to be in the past. The en-
ployees at the gas works, Supt. Thos.
A. Clark, Daniel G. Coffey, Emanuel
Matthew, and Lewis Cassavant will
remain in the company's service until
next Tuesday night, when some change
may come about. Supt. Clark has been
in the employ of the company now for
several years.
This change In the management of
the company has been on foot ever
since the INJUNCTION was placed on its
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was his first game since his leg was
injured. Hamilton made a run, made
a base hit, put three out, and made
an assist He did not make an error.
The funeral of James Prendergast,
who died yesterday, aged SIS years and
8 MONTHS of illness brought on by old
age, will be buried from st. John S
church tomorrow. He is survived by his
sons, John and Joseph, and his daugh-
ter, Bridget, wife of John Burke. TO-
seph is a member of the Jesuit Broth
erhood. He is stationed at Jamaica, in
the West Indies.
The funeral of Miss Annie Moran,
who died last night will take place to-
morrow afternoon in st. Johns
church. She was % years and one
month old. The cause of death was
acute phthiss.
The double installation of officers of
div. and the Ladies' auxiliary of the
division, last night, is an event that
will be long remembered by all who
were present. In spite of the large sums
Of money expended beyond the usual
demand upon the treasury of the di-
vision, because of sick benefits, many
OF which were incurred in behalf of
members of the organization who
served as soldiers in Cuba, the organ
lzation is today the strongest, financial
ly, in Clinton, by the amount of money
invested or on deposit
The board of fire engineers held a
special meeting Friday evening, in
town hall, and voted to increase the
salaries Of Drivers Taylor and Chip
man, who are on duty in the central
fire station, to SIG a week. They will be
allowed "a hours off duty each month.
The increase in the salary of sthe driv-
ers is compensated in part by o de-
crease of SIS a year in the salaries of
two of the stewards
Judge Co C. Stone is on his vacation.
Jonathan Smith, the associate justice,
presided this morning. John Tierney
got two months for being drunk. He
served four months not long ago.
Daniel Conway showed papers iEdi-
eating that he is an inmate Of the sol
diers' home at Togus, Me. He was CIV
en- until ! o'clock today to get out of
town. Robert Howard was assessed IS.
He, too, was drunk.
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ux5RIDGE NEWS NOTES.

,uxbridge, July Sat the Congrepa-
rtlonal church tomorrow, at 10.45 fhe
pastor Rev, Frank Louis Bristol. viii
r ~ eacn on Fickleness" In the eve
OF the Episcopal church" eneA
Az the Taft Memorial church. tonor-
LOW, the pastor, Rev., Henry u
Ss,Wartz, will preach at 1080 ana ~
, .ne evening at 7, on "A well eailpned
man who failed" 9oiPpeu
Inc Y: T. S. c. e. will hold a lawn
Ary at w. L. Johnson's residence
thursday evening, July IL,
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Keno, Mcdonald street. Mr.. Raauloo
is on three weeks vacation.
George Frost, compositor in the spen-
Ger Sun Office, has gone to his homo IL,
beverly. He expects position as ioh
printer in Boston. ~"
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"a an ola country sexton, in showing ,,,s,t
az ca ronna tne churchyard, used to ston ~
Is c tbc or t9nm6etone and say "ThisV ere
eleven wo of9 81 on Thomas On, Copper an, is
ni!tfYen2 Dear me, that's ratber q h io,
r nra H. The old man looked az ~,
81 and replied; "Well. nun az ner
% y war an 'obby Of ism. Tit Bits ss'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
SEPTEMBER.

Here's lyric for September,
Best of all months to remember;
Month when summer breezes tell
What has happened wood and dell,
Of the joys the year has brought,
And the changes she has wrought,
She has turned the verdure red;
In the blue sky over head,
She the harvest moon has hung,
Like silver boat among
Shoals of stars-bright jewels set
In the earth's blue coronet;
She has brought the orchards fruit
To repay the robins flute
Which has gladdened half the year
With a music, liquid clear;
And she makes the meadow grass
Catch the sunbeams as they pass,
Till the autumn's floor is rolled
With a fragrant cloth of gold.
Frank Dempster Sherman
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

was willing and the traffic was not
blocked thereby. The prisoners were
accordingly discharged and went IN
their way rejoicing.
The Albany Law Journal prints the
following as a verbatim report of an
address to a jury by western lawyer:
you sit in that box as the great reser-
voir of Roman liberty, Spartan fame
and Grecial polytheism. You are to
swing the great fail of justice and
electricity over this immense commun-
ity in the hydraulic majesty and con-
jugal superfluity. You arc the great
triumphal arch ON which evaporates
the even scales of justice and numer-
ical computation. You are to ascend
the deep arcade of nature and dispose
of my client with equiponderating con-
catenation in reference to his future
velocity and reverberating momentum.
Such is your sedative and stimulating
character. My client is only a man Of
domestic eccentricity and matrimonial
cOnfgurati0n, not permitted, as you
are, gentlemen, to- walk in the prime
val and lowest wales of society, but he
has to endure the redhot sun of the
universe ON the heights of nobility and
feudal eminence. He has a family Of
domestic children, that gather around
the fireplace of his peaceful homicide
in tlImultudinOus consanguini'ty and
cry with screaming and rebounding
pertinacity for bread, butter and mo-
lasses. Such is the glowing and over
whelming character and defeasance of
my client. This Borax of the law
here has brought witnesses that my
client stole f1rkin of butter. Now,
| butter is grease, and Greece is for
eign country, situated in the emanci-
pated regions ofLiberia and California;
consequently my client cannot he tried
in this horizon and is out of the bene-
diction of this court I will now
bring forward the ultimatum of res
pondentia, and cap the great climax Of
logic by quoting an inconcelsable prin-
cipIe of law, that ninetynine men are
guilty where one is innocent. Now, it
is your duty to commit ninety-nine
men first; then you come to my client,
who is innocent, and acquitted accord
ing to law. Now if these great prin-
ciples shall be duly deprecated in this
court, then the great north pole of
liberty, that has stood tor so many
years in pneumatic tallness, shading
the republican regions of commerce
and agriculture, will stand the wreck
of the Spanish inquisition, the pirates
of the hyperborean seas and the ma
rauders of the Aurora Bolivar! But,
gentlemen of the jury, il you convict
my client his children will be doomed
to pine away in state Of hopeless
matrimony, and his beautiful wife will
stand alone and delighted, like a dried
UP MULLEN stalk in sheep pasture.
Amen" 1t is not reported what be-
came of the client, the lawyer or the
jury as the result of this extraordinary
address,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
RESTAURANT ICECREAM.

A little gelatine added to cream
helps to stiffen it. While supplying
cream to a reStaurant-keeper one sea-
son, the vender observed how he made
it UP. For twenty-quart freezer, he
would buy twelve quarts of light
cream. To this he would add about
three quarts of condensed milk, con-
tanning little or no sugar, enough
flavoring to suit, and sweetened with
syrup, made of graduated sugar and
boiling water. He also added little
pure gelatine, dissolved in boiling
water. No eggs were used, neither
was the cream even cooked. His
cream was the finest ever found in
any restaurant, in texture, flavor,
grain and stiffness. Q
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
FEMININE FAILING.
Fretting Wears Out More Women's
Lives Than Work or Care.

Worry wears out more people than
work does, and fretting causes more
unhappiness in families than either
sickness or poverty" writes Mrs. Moses
P. Handy in WOman's Home Compan-
ion. Indeed, the secret of happiness
may almost be said to be making the
best of everything, and good-humor
under all circumstances the most USE
full virtue which man, and more espe-
cially women, can possess. There are
good women who to-day would peril
life and limb for husband and children,
yet who daily render their dear ones
uncomfortable by going forth to meet
trouble half way, and by grieving over
that which is past and irremediable.
II thing can be helped by any effort
of yours, go to work promptly and
help it; if not, waste no time in vain
repining. When your husband has
made mistake in business and times
are hard do not wall over the mistake.
Gather up the fragments and stand by
to help him. If you can do nothing
else you can at least pretend that you
do not mind; can show him that you
believe in him still, and prophesy that
better times are coming. Nothing so
chills a mans courage as the damp
spray of wife's tears. Did you never
try to run your sewing-machine with
out oil? Don't you know how the sur
faces grind upon each other, and how
hard the work is? Well, just as one
hour of that scraping will injure the
machinery more than a whole days
use would if properly oiled, just SO
one days worry will dig more wrinkles
in your face and sprinkle more gray
in your hair than will months of patti
ent, trusting labor. Worrying is an
essentially feminine failing, and there
are women who do it in spite of them
selves. If you chance to be such a one
fret all to yourself in the privacy OF
your chamber, provided you have any
privacy. But under any circumstances
do not empty your basin of cold water
or worse, your bottle of tears-ove1
the sitting-room fire"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
SOME NEW POINTS OF LAW.

Sleeping car companies cannot be
held liable for the loss of money or
other personal effects of passengers.
The company, however, has certain
responsibility as vas stated by the
court in a recent New York case. "The
contract for the sale of a berth involves
the implied invitation to sleep, and,
reasonably, the implied agreement to
guard property from depredations by
theft by the exercise of a degree of
vigilance commensurate with the dan
ger ito which the passenger is exposed.
A sleeping car company is bound to
maintain a reasonable watch during
and is bound so to manage it's car
as not unreasonably to expose his
property to an unusual risk Of loss by
thieves or otherwise"
The Green Bag relates a tale of a
juror in Worcester, Mass, who asked
to be excused on account Of deafness.
The judge refused to excuse him and
he sat patiently through the trial last
ing several hours. AZ it's close the
other eleven jurors were for conviction
but he voted persistently for acquittal,
on the ground that as he could not hear
the testimony, he could not vote for
conviction
In answer to recent advertisement
by New York law firm for an office
boy, six full-fedged lawyers responded,
who were most anxious for the place.
Patrick Murphy and Rose Malone
were recently before a New York police
magistrate, charged with disorderly
conduct. The offenses consisted in the
fact that, while waiting for car, Muir
ply improved the feeting moments by
kissing the young woman. Magistrate
Pool declared that he knew of no law
against such conduct provided the lady
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME.

The sun shines bright in our old Ken
lucky home;
IT'S summer, the darkies are gay;
The corntop's ripe and the meadows
in the bloom,
While the birds make music all the
day.
The young folks roll on the little cabin
floor,
All merry, all happy, all bright;
By'm by hard times comes a-knockin'
at the door
Then my old Kentucky home, good
night!
Weep no more, my lady; oh, weep no
more today!
Well sing one song for my old Ken
lucky home,
For our old Kentucky home, far away.
They hunt no more for the 'possum
and the coon,
On the meadow, the hill, and the
shore;
They sing no more by the glimmer OF
the moon,
On the bench by the old cabin door;
The day goes by, like a. shadow DER
the heart,
With sorrow where all was delight;
The time has come when the darkies
have to part;
Then, my old Kentucky home, good
night!
The head must bow low, and the back
will have to bend,
Wherever the darby may go;
A few more days and the troubles all
will end,
In the field where the sugar-cane
grow.
A few more days to tote the weary
load,
No matter it will never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the
road,
Then, my old Kentucky home, good
night!
Stephen Foster.
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So You May Bend the Saplfno
But Not the Tree. p
EksA1iZa sEE5;L points

1t CHANGED that the Miser and the
Spendthrift took ship together.
En- voyage, the Spendthrift bought
much wine and sat long at the gaming
table.
''The fool and his money soon part"
sighed the Miser
Presently g. storm rose, and the ship
foundered, and they were all cast into
the water, and the Miser, having his
gold in belt about his waist, sank TO
the bottom.
"The fool and his money" observed
the Spendthrift, sadly, for he was a
generous soul, don't always part!"
After that the Spendthrift swan to
a raft, where he starved to death.
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is something lacking if he is not made
to feel that in his own home he has
the best and most sympathetic friends
and counselors. 1t is the want of
sympathy that sends him abroad to
find, the fortunate is the careless par
ent whose child excites the sympathy
and care of worthy person. He
should not be exposed to the risk of
falling in with evil companions, but
should be made to feel and to know
that in his own home circle he is as
sured not only of care and love, but of
the wisest and broadcast sympathy in
all his trials and aspirations.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23

SWANSON'S So DROPS" is the sun
Of the sick room. 1t has saved the pub
lie, in less than five years, more money
than the national debt of this country,
when you measure the value of health re-
stored, suffering humanity relieved of it's
agonies and diseases. Money which 9th
erwise would have been expended in fun
erals, doctors and drug bills, loss of labor,
etc.
SWANSON'S "5 DROPS" never fails
to cure 1t has cured and is curing mill
ions of people afflicted with ACUTE and
CHRONIC RHEUMATISM, SCIAT-
ICA, NEURALGIA, ASTHMA, LA
GRIPPE and CATARRH of all kinds.
$50 DROPS" has never failed to cure
these diseases, when used as directed. 1t
will cure you. Try it. Price of large
sized bottle $1.O0, sent on receipt of price,
charges prepaid; 25-cent sample bottle
sent free, on receipt of 10 cents to pay
for mailing. Agents wanted. SWAN
SONS RHEUMATIC CURE COM
PANY, No. 1874 Lake street, Chicago, III.
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UNCLE SANS NEXT BLUE BOOK
Biennial Register Will be Issued
About January Next.

''The blue book, biennial register
which is now in course Of preparation
will be issued from the government
printing Office about January. though
members of congress may have ad-
vance copies two weeks earlier, or
about the time congress meets. AS
usual, the preparation of the blue book
is in charge of the Interior Depart
ment, though I think there will be an
amendment of the law the coming ses-
sion putting future editions of the
work in charge of the superintendent
of public documents. Though the work
is in charge of the Interior Depart
ment, that department has nothing
further to do with it than to assemble
the various parts which are prepared
by the different departments. Thus the
Treasury prepares all portions of it re-
lating to that department, the Post
office Department, State, War and
Navy, Agricultural and Department OF
Justice the portions relating to theiF
departments, though they are as
sembled by the Interior Department