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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26
THURSDAY, OCTOBER GO, 1899.
THE EAST ST. LOUIS CASE.

Those who have followed the difficult
ties between the separatists and the
regular Catholic church in North
Brookfeld, are wondering what bear
ing the recent decision of the vatican
relative to the East st. Louis church
will have upon the North Brookfield
difficulty. 1t will be remembered that
the Poles of East st. Louis, Directing
to an English-speaking priest petit
toned for a priest of their own ma
tionality, and falling into a dispute
with the bishop of Belleville, Ill, the
entire congregation was excommuni-
Gated. They refused to surrender the
church property, and the bishop start
ed new church, neglecting to take
possession of the old pending deci-
sion from Rome.
The vaticans decision has but just
been received through Cardinal Ledo-
chowski, project of the papal propagan-
da. The bishop is ordered to remove the
English priest and appoint a
Polish pastor of the flock. The ex-
communication is dissolved.
This fiat will undoubtedly form a
precedent Wherever possible the vati-
can will very properly insist that the
priest of each parish shall be of the
nationality to which the majority of
members of his flock belongs.
The East st. Louis case would be
parallel to the North Brookfield case if
the French worshipers outnumbered the
Irish and Catholics of other nationali-
ties. But they do not. The question
at issue has been whether or not the
French Catholics were strong enough
to form a church of their own. Bishop
Beaver and other authorities have
ruled to the contrary. French Catholic
churches exist in all Massachusetts,
cities where the number of worshipers
warrants, but when they worship in the
same church with other natfohalities
they have no right to ask that the
priest in charge be of their particular
race. It is doubtful if the East St
Louis case will afford any precedent
by which the North Brookfeld separat-
lists can strengthen their case.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26
MISS DAVIES IN WAY DOWN
EAST"

Miss Phoebe Davies in way Down
East" is a winsome, actress. She will
appear at the Worcester theatre for
two nights, commencing Friday, Oct q,
and in a special matinee on Saturday.
Instead of bringing "old favorites"
into his production of Way Down
East" william A. Brady is creating
new favorites. Chief among these is
Miss Phoebe Davies, whose PRESERVATION
of the wronged heroine compelled the
homage of tears from all New York
last season.
Miss Davies first gained distinction
upon the Pacific coast some years ago,
and is now afforded her second oppor-
tunity in the east. When the average
woman playgoer is moved to tears, she
thinks she is having a perfectly lovely
time, but while Miss Davies makes
other women cry, her own disposition
is particularly bright and sunny and
she takes a cheerful view of life.
She loves animals, and flower culture
is her hobby. All summer she was a
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Greene,
near Baydide, Long Island. The genial
dramatist and shepherd of the Lambs
club is an amateur gardener of great
renown Keen is the rivalry between
him and the prosecuted heroine of the
New Hampshire play. Learned are the
joint discussions about pots and plants,
seeds and shrubbery and arbors and
trellises. The sweet pea is Miss Davies
flower, and upon the ground set apart
for her special planting she raised
nearly four acres last summer.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26
ANTI-EXpANSIoN.

Democrats are trying their anti-ex-
pansion ideas on the dog this year. 1t
looks as though the dog would come
out of the struggle in a healthy condi-
ton and anti-expansion perish. If his
tory recorded instances III which the
democracy has profited by experience
until experience has knocked out the
partys brains, it would be fair to as
sumo that disaster this fall would lead
it to suppress anti-expanslon in the
national campaign next year. Demo-
cratic papers admit that the tribe of
squaw men in Ohio is pretty small
Party leaders find that patriotism is
more potent than Atkinsonism. Those
whom they relied upon to favor anSi-
expansion will have nothing to do with
IL. The democratic party has another
campaign of education before It, in
which the people, as they have many
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

A Mrs. Stockwell, widow of the
famous New York jeweler, who has
been enjoying life at the Savoy hotel in
London, reports that she was robbed Of
$4,000 worth of jewelry and $4,000 in
currency on Monday. The thieves, who
ever they were, are said to have escaped
in the thick London fog. Fog will come
into more than general use and will be
appreciated for it's true value by the
crooks. A number of rich Americans
have Jared badly at the hands of Euro
peans during the past season. Only a
little while ago a prominent Massachu-
sets manufacturer, occupying a high
position in political life, was robbed of
a good round sum at one of the Ger
man spas, but it was Immediately
hushed up. The proper way for Ameri-
cans to travel on the continent is with
chain and paddock attachment for
their valuables
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

spending on education. Why do women
in Munich work in the trenches, wear
ing mans hat and boots? Why does
the Russian peasant chew her black
bread and fasten it to her baby's wrist
before leaving it for her work in the
fields? Why is it that, the average
Asiatic never has enough to eat?
when | speak of the waste of war.
the money loss is not the only loss, for
to 1t must be added the amount the
standing armies would produce if al
lowed to work.
Il believe war can and ought always
to be avoided between civilized nations.
Thank God, fine beginning was made
this year. Nothing is SO important as
this. Most Of your charities would be
needless were the two great wastes of
liquor and war renowned. >
We wonder why we can not do this
or that-why such bad architecture
must be tolerated; why in a city of
260, 600 people, only 5000 have bath tubs;
why the excellent school system start
ed in Cuban last year is stopped this
year. What does it all come back to?
Good government
Thel3 are two ways in which to
make ID government possible. We
must work for it in the home the
church, the press. to do away with the
evils. and we must stop the wastes. :,
Here MlIs. Mead spoke in some detail of
proportional representation as a means
Tor making this country a true dem
ocracy. Proportional representation she
SAID, is one of the most elementary
principles Of government. Civil service
was another matter which she urged
as important to good government. If it
were not for the money wasted by the
Senate in helping the members impe-
cun1ous retainers, taxes would not be so
high, and we could have all the hos
pitfalls and parks we want We should
get to the root of the matter. instead of
finding palliations for this state of af-
fairs. ANOTHER trouble, said Mrs Mead,
is that we at present insist on having
a man live in the district he represents.
Unless some of these faults are recti-
fed. we are going to have a fearful tan
gle, with waste of money, and legisla-
ton done this year that must be I'M
done next. We are beginning to see that
the most expensive outlay is to pay for
incompetent service. The trouble with
our present system is that it is bring
ing up generation whose business is
to confer and accept office.
II have great hopes Of the women s
club" continued Mrs. Mead. FOR with
the fierce competition that drives men
to work not only day but night, men
have little time to study these ques-
tions. But the harder they work, the
more leisure women have. Never was
there a time when so great RESPONSE
bility was placed on women, and If we
are to live up to our responsibility we
must take these things first. using zeal
and discretion in the study, and learn
ing how to keep our tempers. Talk in
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26
OUT AND ABOUT.

II was with mixed feelings that the
Woman's club met in Association hall
for the first time yesterday afternoon.
There were about 400 women there,
enough to have filled Memorial hall and
to rattle around rather hollowly in the
superfiuously large accommodations Of
fered at the Y. w. c. A. Many of the
women felt like the proverbial cat in
strange garnet, and said So
Mrs. j. H. McMullen, chairman OF
the work department, presided, and
introduced as the speaker Mrs. Lucia
Ames Mead of Boston, wife of the we'll
known author and reformer, Edwin D.
Mead. Mrs Mead's lecture was the
first in series of six on household
economics to be given under the aus
pices of the work department, and was
upon the subject "Misdirected ener-
giles" but although it was spirited and
earnest, it did not bear even indirectly
upon household economics. 1t was, RAJ
ther, an earnest exhortation to women
20 address themselves seriously to pub
lie affairs. Passing over the wastes OF
the fashionable woman, such as whist
and big sleeves CT calculate that in
their day big sleeves cost the United
States ten millions of dollars'D, Mrs.
Mead said: Although the waste in the
world is still wicked, inexcusable, l
hope that it is less today, and that in
the future scientific discoveries will
tend to lessen much of the physical
waste But in private life there are
many wastes that any one who will can
obviate. The waste from liquor is one
Of the greatest in this country, where
as much money Is spent on liquor in
a year as for bread stuffs and boots and
shoes put together. This fact ought to
be brought before the American peo-
ple John Brisbane Walker says that in
America the people waste one-third Of
their time. Intemperance is affecting
all our work here, our hospitals, gov
eminent, parks, etc. A friend once said,
I wish the women would let all other
questions alone until they have solved
the servant problem But you can't
settle any problem alone, not even the
liquor problem.
I'm all this melancholy year" con-
tinued the speaker, nothing more
hopeful has occurred than the confer
ence at The Hague. Three years ago
we thought war could never come to
this country but we are now spending
$35. 900 a day in transportation, and that
is but a trifie compared to what the
year has brought to us in war expenses.
Europe is now spending twice as much
on war materials as she did 30 years
ago In time of peace. For what? Sim
ply that the nations may hold their
own. This expenditure Of money for
war is appalling, especially as it is from
TO IL times as much as Europe is
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26
COSTLY VICTORY.

In spite of their early successes, the
British have little cause for congra-
tulation thus far in the campaign
against the Beers. Their victories are
of the sort known as Pyrrhian victories
successes equivalent to defeat. AS
one dispatch put it: LET the English
win two more victories like those Of
Glencoe and Elandslaagte, and they
will be left without officers" A few
more in addition would probably leave
the Britons without privates.
The obvious course for the British to
pursue is to crawl into their fortified
towns until Sir Redvers Butler with
his strong force arrives to bear aid.
Then strenuous campaign might make
short work of the Dutch; but for the
present the best plan is to avoid vic
tories.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

This is a great country. There are dis
patches from Helena, Montana, saying
that the northern part of that state is
digging itself out of snow drifts from
10 to II feet deep. On the same day
comes another dispatch from Newport,
VT, of the appearance of a second crop
of raspberries and strawberries and the
new bloom Of wild roses and apple
blossoms. The hot weather of the past
ten days in Vermont has revived all the
vines and Shrubs, and fruit everywhere
is ripening under the Indian summer
sun
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

easiest working iron mines in the Unit
ed States. Today Theron and steel trade
leads all the other industrials. One
can scarcely scan a paper in any part
Of the country that does not note some
enterprise, the completion or starting
Of which is not, in a sense, delayed or
prevented altogether by a lack of iron
or steel. Today the owner of the iron
mine is a power behind the throne in
the Industrial world.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

The sorrow of Queen Victoria and
that Of the relatives and friends of the
British soldiers who met death and
disaster at the hands of the Beers in
South Africa contrasts strangely with
the Notification that prevails on the
London stock exchange as Kaffir or
gold mining stocks soar upward. 1t is
as the Springfield Republican aptly re-
marks, "A gold mine war" and every
click of the ticker and every fraction
of rise in stockssi is paid for by the
life-blood of England's best and brav-
est soldiers.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

Walter L. Farnsworth, now of Chi
cago, is bigger man than Congress
man-elect Roberts of Utah. Farnsworth
has four wives who lined up in the
police station and preferred charges
against him. But there are others,
Farnsworth says. There are half a
dozen more in China and six or seven
in Brazil, he declares. "I'm a great
lad with the ladies' he says. Its get
ting so that have to use a pitchfork
to keep 'em away from me-" If Farms
worth lived in Utah he might be sent
to congress. AS it is, he will probably
go to jail
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26
GOING TO PORTO RICO.
Three Worcester Girls viii Engage as
School Teachers.

A trio of Worcester girls are to try
their fortunes in the new country
which seems almost q part of the
United States since the Spanish-Ameri-
can war The young women are Miss
Juliette e. Casey, Miss Alice B. Casey
and Rinette Lovewell. They responded
to the call for volunteers to teach in
Porto Rican towns, and while they have
little knowledge of what lies before
them, they will make the most of the
situation They will leave Worcester
wednesday, The Misses Casey are
graduates of St. Johns parochial school
and Miss Lovewell has served an APP
premiership in the Quinsigamond
school.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

diligently and look at matters in,nar-
TALLY. 1t is a religious duty to see wbat
is wrong and put our shoulder to the
Wheel to right it. We are living in a
most critical period of the Anglo-Saxon
race Certain stupendous changes are
gong on, and in the direction of the
suppression of liberty, and intelligent
american women must do what they
can to stop them"
The next lecture in the course will he
NOV at o'clock. Prof Edward Cum
mlngs Of Harvard University will speak
on Domestic service"
Mrs. McMullen entertained Mrs.
Mead at luncheon at the State Mutu-
ture.
There will be a brilliant gathering at
the underwriters banquet at the State
Mutual restaurant tomorrow night. 1t
is expected that there will be about 60
IN the party and that ten or more
guests from out of town will grace the
occasion, and take part in the after
dinner speaking. Among the out of
town guests will be John F. Makely of
New YORK. chairman of the executive,
committee of the National Associa-
ton Of Life Underwriters of the United
states, and manager of the National
Life Insurance Company for New
York; Col. R. N, Ransom of Boston.
editor of The Standard; j. L. johnson.
president of the National Association
of Life Underwriters of the United
States; f. G. Sanborn, chairman of the
executive committee of the Boston
Association of Life Underwriters. and
w. L. Tyler, president of the Boston
Association of Life Underwriters.
Guests will also be present from Con-
cord, N. H, Portland, Me-, and Provi-
dence, r. l.
DR.. and Mrs. e. H. TFowbridge gave
a German whist party last night in
honor of Charles A. Brown of Honolu-
lu There were three tables.
William Willard, the portrait painter,
dear to every Worcester patriot, has
received this week three important
new commissions for portraits.
Beginning today Rev and Mrs Fran
els L. Phalen will be at home to their
Pensioners of the Church of the Unity
every Thursday afternoon and evening
The Soldiers Charitable Society of the
church will tender them reception,
but the date is not as yet set.
Mrs Dorothy McTaggart Miller is
studying with Georg Henschel in Lon
don, and is living while in England
with his mother-in-l law, Mrs. Bailey.
DR.. BULBS Cough syrup cures Il
most stubborn coughs, colds and lung
affections. Even incipient consumption
has been successfully cured by this mar
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

Mrs. Langtry says she will not get
to work on her autobiography until
she finishes her American tour. That
does not begin until January. An Am
erican publisher is said to have offered
$4,000 for the right of publishing the
book. This may or may not be true,
but undoubtedly if she is to confine
herself to the truth, Albert Edward
would give her a much larger figure
to stifie it, even if he had to go among
the Jews.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

1t is neat proposition the Daughters
of the Revolution are about to carry
QUITO forward Christmas boxes bv
government transports to the soldiers
in the Philippines who are not remem-
bered by their friends These boxes will
be sent to responsible persons and will
be properly distributed. 1t is proposed
to send in each box a cake of soap.
toilet powder, a package of tobacco.
two handkerchiefs, some postal cards
paper and envelopes, pencil, knife, a
book or two five by eight inches, and
Christmas card. 1t is of course a very
gracious and generous thing for the
Daughters of the Revolution to do, and
in great measure will help to bright
en- up what would otherwise be a lone
ly and forlorn Christmas day. But one
feature of the proposition presents
rather an amusing problem. The toilet
powder will be almost as bad a propo-
sition for the old regulars as the or
binary Filipinos, and the probabilities
are that some of them will mistake it
for a sort of dressing or powdered sugar
for Christmas pudding, and that it
will all be gone long before the close of
Christmas day, It is to be hoped that
there will be no poisonous compounds in
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TOWN TALES.

Joe the Turk" has been arrested and
Jailed in his native country. Is there
anyone who does not remember Joe?
He was one Of the most unique charac-
ters of the Salvation Army, known from
one end of this country to the others.
He has been seen upon the streets of
Worcester many a time singing in the
Salvation Army ranks. 1t was my for
tune to interview Joe the Turk" and
"Ashbarrel Jimmie" while connected
with the Boston papers, and in all
my experience 1 never found two more
peculiar and complex characters than
those men.
The real name of 1.-THE Turk" as he
was called, was Joseph Garrabed. He
went to Turkey on July Ii last, armed
with a passport which he supposed
would protect him as an American cit
izen. On showing his passport he was
seized by the Turkish authorities and
to Major Harris, attorney for the Sal
walton Army, that the United States
consul not only neglected to protect
him, but advised him to leave the
country as soon as he was liberated.
The attention Of Secretary of State Hay
has been called to the matter and the
case is now being investigated by the
state department officials. If Che story
that Joe tells of the United States con-
sui is true it is probable that he will
be disciplined and removed.
Two members of the ancient and dis
honorable order Of gentlemen of lei
sure that hang around the city hall
rialto day after day, and coagitate on
the problem Of how to live on the fruits
of industry without identifying them
selves personally with the general ac-
tivity We're discussing matters of one
sort or another one day last week when
one of them, better informed than the
rest made a passing reference to
something connected with the French
revolution, and incidentally mentioned
the guillotine.
"Gil O'Tine?" queried one of the
gang. 81 never heard that name be-
fore. What country did he come from
He isn't brother of Nick O'Tine is
he? I've heard tell of Nick, but never
a word of Gill;
The other tried to explain, and APP
parently the explanation was compre-
hensive and satisfactory.
A few days afterward the man that
knew of Nick, but never heard of Gil,
was in a Spring street barroom, and
being with crowd that knew even less
than himself, he brought up the sub
ject of the guinotine. Eye see, boys,
said he, there was two brothers of
them, Nick and Gil. The prisons were
full in France at that time and the
government became tired of feeding
the prisoners. So Gil was appointed
headsman, and right merrily he swung
the axe neckward."
Thus does transformation, like a bad
penny, get into circulation and merrily
make the rounds.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

THE SPY SHOULD HAVE THE. EYE OF ARGUS;
He IS HONORABLE " He DO BUT LOOK TO The
WELFARE OF THE COMMONWEALTH"
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If there is any particular
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

What a lucky man Rockefeller is!
Years ago he secured control of the
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26
WHIMSICALITIES.

George-''What will you rather settle on
the man who marries your" Milly-"Ali
the rest of The family, probably "-Har-
lem Life.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

the rest Of The family, probably ."-Har-
lem Life.
Mrs. Tellington-"Po Mr.. Moonabout
is very absent-mnded. isn't he?" Mr.
Tellington-"Yes; his latest freak was to
lose his pocketpooK anu IN Elvs3K . :.
among the 'p's' in the dictionary. Judge
Sharp little thing. Papa" said the
missionary workers little daughttA, II
am playing that my dolls are heather ="
That is nice, dear" "And-and-papa 1
want 10 cents to pay my salary. Puck
Pushing along the good work = my
wife got UP a charity card party last
week" Did she have any success with
it,? Il should say she did. Took in all
most enough to pay for the prizes. CHI,
cago Times-Herald.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26
Dr.. BULBS Cough syrup cures 4 .

most stubborn coughs, colds and lung
affections. Even incipient consumption
has been successfully cured by this mar
velous remedy Sufferers will obtain re-
lief after a few doses.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26

Mrs. Dorothy McTaggart Miller is
studying with Georg Henschel in Lon
don, and is living while in England
with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Bailey.
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Beginning today Rev. and Mrs. Fran
els L. Phalen will be at home to their
Pensioners Of the Church of the Unity
every Thursday afternoon and evening
The Soldiers Charitable Society of the
church will tender them a reception.
but the date is not as yet set.