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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18

ers, which frightened small property
owners from building. Some, however,
speak encouragingly of the outlook.
Boston business is good and this is ad-
Vanced as reason why Worcester
should also feel the boom of building.
Among the more important additions
being made in the city are the new
wings that are being put on the insane
asylum, Fuller q DelanO have been
drawing the plans and work is rapid
ly progressing. Vaudreuil has the con-
tract for this work. The plans for a
stable on Commercial street have just
been finished for G. f. Hewett, and es-
Inmates are now being made as to the
cost and contract
Barker & Nourse report slowness as
characteristic of the trade this sum-
mer. They are now at work on a large
house and stable for A. A. Spaulding
on Marie avenue. Rankin & Wood
side have the contract. A five-stOry
factory addition for the Wire Goods
Company in Bangs court, which this
firm is making, is nearly completed, the
roof being nearly finished. The place
will be ready July 1, and will cost
about $4,000 Henry Mellen e Son
are the builders. The plans for a S40,-
900 contract on the corner of Trum-
bun square and Bartlett place have just
been drawn up, and it is expected the
buildings will be finished about Nov. l.
They are to be two eight-tenement
houses, with stores underneath and be-
tween the buildings two other stores.
They are to be built for Drs. Kelly and
Delahanty. John Lotus will have the
general contract, while the carpentry
will be in charge of Thomas F. Nell
can. a large three-story tenement
house is also being built by the same
hrm for j. H. Graham on Bowdoin
street. 1t will cost $4,000 when done
which will be very soon, as thee cellar
is already completed. A. NJ. Booth is
in charge Of the work. The six-room
school house in Quinsigamond, which
was designed by Barker & Nourse, will
be ready for the next school term in
September. J. E. Fuller Jr., is doing
the work.
Earle & Fisher are now at work on
the plans for the Providence street fire
engine house for which $4,000 was ap-
propriated this week The building will
probably be begun about July l. The
old Trumbull house, at Trumbuu
square which has been torn down, viii
be regretted on Massachusetts avenue,
with additions, by Earle & Fisher.
rms interesting building, which used
70 be the city court house. belongs 10
Miss Susan Trumbull. and will be re-
bullt exactly like the old building, with
especial reference to the preservation
of the court ROOM The foundations
have already been begun.
cutting, Carleton & Cutting drew the
plans for two cottages for H. II. Bige-
low, at Lake View, near the oval They
are to be seven-roOm cottages, and will
cost about $4,000 each. E. D. Ward has
the contract.
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ARBITRATION.
Thomas Baleh of Philadelphia Claimed to Have
Suggested the Plan Now in Use.

International Courts of Arbitration.
By Thomas BaIch. Coats & Co., Phila-
delphia.
In view of the general interest in ar
bitration and its practical and success
full application, this reprint Of an i'm
portant document by the late Thomas
Balch of Philadelphia is of particular
interest. This monograph was first
published in the Law Magazine and
Review of London, in 1874, and after
ward issued in pamphlet form in this
country. 1t is now reprinted by the
authors son, together with a brief pre-
fatory note and his fathers notes Of an
interview with President Lincoln in
1864 Mr. Blach did not suggest that
all war could be avoided by any pana-
cea, but he pointed out that great civ
ilized nations could secure the services
of the leaders Of neutral nations, and
could before a small body of experts Of
that kind thresh out their differences
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18

accompany him, but she had attended
the class in English composition anu
literature only once, when she became
infatuated with the teacher, Alfred
Honore Palatne, and thereafter during
the six weeks Of the school, her one
thought was to catch him. Jessie was
a. crude, western hoyden, as frivolous
and selfish as she was bold; her arch
coquetries and loud familiarties dis
gusted the man she thought she loved
while they gave infinite pain to her
fiance, The worst of it was. Palatine
fell in love with a classmates sister
, who took it into her head to study at
the summer school.
Jessie squandered her money on shirt
waists, ties, hairpins, ribbons and the
like, in the hope of distancing her RI
val. She attended Palatine's consul
ta-ion hours, waited till the others
had left, walked home with him, wrote
him notes, and the only result was
that she annoyed the Harvard profess
sor wounded her lover to the quick
and made a fool of herself. One day
in an impulse of mingled amiability an
scorn she took some of Gorchs poems
out of his trunk and asked Palatines
opinion of them; the opinion was fatal
but what most interested Jessie was
that when the poems were returned
there came a sheet of paper in Paia-
tines handwriting containing severed
paragraphs with as many proposals of
marriage.
She told this to George in a moment
of triumph, and George incorporated
his feelings on this point with his in
tense personal dissatisfaction with ev-
erything else at Cambridge in his last
theme, in which, like every one else,
he had been asked to record his i'm
pressiOns of the summer school. 'Pala-
tine would have been more or less than
human had he not resented the insults
Gorch heaped upon him, and after he
had read the offending document aloud
to the wondering class, and offered to
meet the author alone and give him the
satisfaction he desired-a horsewhip-
ping-it was clear that he had the best
of it.
George was pacified; Jessie, hurt and
disappointed to find that her four pro-
posals were all a mistake, was brought
to terms by the discovery that if she
was very anxious to get home 10 Peru,
Ohio, it must be by making it up with
George, for she had not enough to pay
her car fare. They do make it up, and
the last one hears the wedding invita-
tons are nearly ready. One rather
pities the young man at the prospect
of life with such feather-headed, self
ish thing The story is realistically
told. and with a certain keenness and
sharpness of outline that is delight
full. The author is pitiless in his dis
section OF character, but he tells his
story we'll and enteftainingly. The
seeker after novelties in fiction will
count himself in luck if by good chance
THE Pedagogues" should fall into his
hands, for it is not likely that he ever
came across just it's like before. Mr..
Pier is to be congratulated upon the
production of a fresh, vigorous, mem
orable story that is as far removed as
possible from the commonplace.
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Of the Methodist church on Park street
which is now Notre Dame church.
Paul H. Langlois and Leon Robert
made arrangements for the purchasing
Of the church and in three. months Sl5,1
900 was collected among the French
parishioners. During FIR. Primeau's
stay much was done for the religious
and Intellectual advancement of mis-
parishioners. A parochial library wa7
established night and day schools wers
opened, and the parish was put on g
firm basis In 1888, when ne left, he
was replaced by three Jesuit Fathers,
Rev. Frs. Vigneault, Beadry and Lee
Blanc, who had charge of the parish
for is months.
In 1884 Rev. FIR. Joseph Brouillet, tina
present pastor of Notre Dame, took
charge of the parish. Much has been
done by him. 1t will be Is years in July
that FIR Brouillet has been mere, and
in that time the parish has assumed
large proportions; he built the Gray
Nuns convent, also the parochial
school on Green street
The immigration from Canada has
been on a steady increase for the last
20 wears. The first immigrants came
with the firm intention of making this
country their home. 1t is true that
certain number of the pioneers re-
turned to Canada, but they spoke 50
highly of the country that they uncon-
sciously convinced great many others
to come.
Today a great number of them are
proprietors and statistics go to show
that there is not foreign element
here that own much property more
largely than the French Canadians In
the last few years they have shown
great activity in acquiring a perfect
knowledge of the social conditions and
of the politics Of the country.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18

By preliminary inspection, we reduce
this number TO about one-siXth, whom
we turn over to the medical examiner,
who puts them through a final test,
We throw out all men who are not able
bodied and in good health. We never
take a man who is dissipated in APP
pearance or under the influence Of liq-
our. Some men are barred on general
appearance.
The men retained for examination
by the surgeon are stripped to the
shin and put through calisthenic eX-
ercises to determine whether their
joints are in good condition. They must
have good teeth, at least -four: good,
sound mOlars, with which to masticate
their food. Their eyesight and hear
ing are tested, and any deficiency is
cause of rejection. They must be UP
to the proper standard in height,
weight and chest measurement, also in
chest expansion. No man under five
feet four inches in height is accepted
for any branch in the service-infantry,
artillery or cavalry. The loss Of either
thumb the trigger" finger, or of any
two fingers on the same hand, is cause
for rejection. A hammer toe-that is,
a toe that Is bent over so that the nail
strikes the sole Of the foot in walking
lis a positive bar to enlistment. Or
against a man. The head is examined
for the purpose of learning whether or
not there has been any injury to the
skull or brain The heart lungs and
the spine must be in first-class condi-
ton.
zone of the most interesting features
Of the physical examination, to a can
didate for army service, is when the
physician makes his search for birth
marks. or scars of even the faintest
character OF course they are all care
fully recorded on prepared forms, and
when the applicant asks what it all
means, he is invariably told, Well, it
will be the only means of Identifying
you when you are picked up dead after
the battle
That answer has been known to con-
clude the examination in quite a num-
Der of cases.
Only men between the ages of IS and
IS are eligible for the service. Minors
must have the consent of their par
ents, if living, or their mothers or
guardians, if the father is dead.
The class Of recruits that are for
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THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

and accept the Judgment Of the court.
Mr.. Balch claimed that for the earliest
suggestion of International courts of ar
bitratiOn. He was promptly supported
by Prof. Lorimer of Edinburgh author
of several standard works on interna-
tiOnal law, and by NJ. Provost Paradol,
one of the brilliant newspaper men of
France under Napoleon III, and by
Richard Golden, that great exponent
of sound commonsense in good govern
ment. 1t received the characteristic
approval of President Lincoln, who said
to Mr. Balch, Start your idea-it may
make its way in time, as it is good
one" And that prophecy is now fully
realized at the end of only little more
than a quarter of a century.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18
WENT To THE FRONT
Worcester's Recruit
ing Record Is a
Proud One.
TO THE PHILIPPINES NOW.
Local Station Hardest to
! Pass in the
Country.

During the war with Spain, it is be-
lteved that this city and county gave
more soldiers to the call of the pres
ident than any other locality of proper
tionate population in the country.
THE same patriotic conditions exist
today, and the local recruiting office,
which was established during the
Yanko-S panko war, is now considered
one of the institutions of the city, and
the familiar sign of the United States
army recruiting station SO boldly dis
played at the entrance of the Walker
building would certainly be missed
should it be considered advisable to re-
move the Office from this city.
Up to the receipt of the recent order,
which calls for the sending of all re-
cruits to the Philippines, this city and
the immediate neighborhood We're send
ing picked men without the shadow Of
blemish in their physical makeup
for duty in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18
NEW SCHOOL BOOKS,
Works That VIII Meet the Approval of
Teachers

works mat VIII Meet the approval OF
Teachers.
The Macmillan Company has added
to its list of English classics edited
for school room uses, Dryden's- "PaIa-
more and Arctic from Chaucer, edited
with notes and an introduction by
Percival Chubb. principal of the high
ture schools, New York. Dryden, ac-
cording TO Prof. Chubb was a more
exact and curious workman than his
predecessors and brought to his work
better instruments of critical under
standing than they. CHM & Co. have
added to their home and school library
The Wonderful History of Peter
Schlemihl the Man Who Lost His
Shadow" translated by F. H. Hedge,
D. D., and edited. with notes and an
introduction, by William r. Alger. The
same firm has brought out a new, re-
vised edition of G. A. WentwOrth's
plane Geometry" a standard work
with which every teacher is familiar.
Great pains have been taken to make
the pages attractive.
From the press Of the American
Book Company has appeared new
edition of the ten orauOns of Cicero
which are most required by the various
colleges of the country, by William r.
Harper, president of the University Of
Chicago and Frank A. Edlup, profess
or of Latin at Colgate Academy A
life Of Cicero. a list of important dates
and a sketch Of Roman oratOry before
Cicero and of the Roman government
preCede the text of the OratiOns. Four
teen Of CicerOs letters are also given;
1876 pages are devoted to notes, and
there is a sufficiently comprehensive
vocabulary.
The American Book Company has
published the Theory and Practice Of
Teaching, or the Motives and Methods
of Good School Keeping by David p.
Page. the friend of Horace Mann. Page
was like Mann. "a pioneer in education,
and his book is a classic. Z. G.. Bran
son of the Georgia state normal school
has edited it. Elbridge 5. Brooks
Stories of the old Bay State" should
be known TO every public school teach
err in the state. Il brings the young
mind into relation with Standish, the
Adamses. Hancock, Revere, Webster
and Mann. Everett and Sumner, and
helps to lay the foundation for a broad
patriotism. The stories are told colo
Quially and in an attractive way, and
there are numerous Illustrations.
."I love to make visits in the. morning"
DO you2'
them try TO act glad 10 see me. Detroit
Ere Press
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18
WITH THE NEW NOVELS.
Notable Fiction for the Summer
Months

WONkUSs
TivertOn Tales. By Alice Brown.
Houghton, Miflin & Co. For sale by
Putnam, Davis & Co.
Miss Brown has infused the twelve
tales of homely life and plain people
with an exquisite pathos and humor.
Their subtle charm and beauty are quite
as marked as in Miss Wilkins stories,
but Miss Browns diction is more in
volved and her method more deliberate
and analytical. Love plays a promin-
ent part in these stories, and no grand
passion of the facts is more dramatic
than the modest episodes Of these
Yankee folk, living in the tiny, dron-
ing hamlet Nor has all the attention
been given to the love of courtship;
the calm, delicate beauties of married
life have been depicted with equal fell
city. The character drawing is delight
full. and so is the artistic finish which
Miss Brown knows so well how to i'm
part to whatever she touches. The
Mortuary Chest" in which two old
lovers revive the days of their court
ship over an old chest Of relics, is per-
haps the best of the collection, but
Horn of-the Moon" with its lovely
heroine and the careless hero who af-
ter two years repaid her tender love
with a gift Of three pieces Of gold is
very tender, and so is "A Second Mar
riage," which is curiously Like yet un-
like that notorious bit of neurotic fic-
ton, The Quick or the Dead" Carica-
ture and coarseness are both foreign. to
Miss Brown. whose work is among the
most admirable that finds its way to
the reviewers table.
The Pedagogues: A Story Of the Har-
ward Summer School By Arthur Stan
wood Pier. Small, Maynard & Co.,
Boston.
When George c. Gorch and Miss Jes-
sic beagle, Of Peru. Ohio. and engaged,
decided to attend the Harvard sum-
mer school. il was from different mo-
tives. George vas a public school prin-
cipal and a poet and he wanted to
spruce up his English; Jessie came to
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18

The most wonderful thing about a
baby is the way he conceals his shame
at hearing the queer sort of STUFF his
mother talks to him.-New York Press
In the summer one should try to meet
new people. and not stay entirely with
those whom they have known before
In this way new ideas are gained. and
one Genes from a trip quite reiuve-
mated. simply because one has had
ones thoughts diverted into new chan
nels.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18

A Catalogue of Authors Whose Works
Are Published by Houghton, NIiHin &
Co, Boston,:
In this handsome catalogue the we'll
known firm of Boston publishers has
brought out what may really stand as
a select, classified list of the best that
has appeared in American literature. II
is designed primarily to bring into an
orderly group the authors for whom
this firm act as publishers, but it is
so lucldly and conveniently arranged
that it will be found a handy volume
for reference. Brief biographical
sketches accompany each name, and
the works of each author are arranged
in chronological order A list of the
various libraries and series issued bv
the house and a brief sketch of the
history and organization of the firm.
are included. The portraits of Long
fellow Hawthorne, Lowell, Emerson.
Holmes and Whittier, with whom the
house Of HOughton, Miffiin & Co. held
long continued and exclusive relations
form the frontispiece, the several nor
traits being beautifully reproduced
from etchings by photogravure. Con-
les Of this useful book may be bought
at the absurdly low price of 25 cents
each.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18
MANY BUILDINGS GOING UP,
Notwithstanding This, Architects Think That
the Business is Dull. .-. q. g. -

The architects have not encouraging
words about the building business this
season. AS to the cause of the du11ness
there are many reasons advanced.
Some say that it is due to the depress-
ing influence of the war; others lay ID
to the high price of iron and lumber.
and to the recent trouble of the plumb
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18
THE PHILIPPINES.
A Man in Bedford Thinks He Has Solved the
Problem.

What Shall We Do With The Philip
pines?" BY George H. Sweetnam, Bed
ford, Mass. For sale by the author.
This little pamphlet contains an ar
dent plea for American sovereignty in
the Philippines. What money we ex-
pend in the Philippines" he says will
be an investment of altruistic conf
dence, a loan which will be repaid with
generous interest, provided it is Judi
ciously manipulated"
A portrait of the author opens, and a
poem by him concludes, the pamphlet.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18

ct love to snake visits in the. morning"
do you2"
yes: all the other women are busy
cleaning house. and il is so funny to see
them try 10 act glad 10 see me. Detroit
Free Press.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-05-25
Europe and Our Ex-Presidents.

Marquise de Fontenoy, writing in
the Washington, D. c., Post, says;
Europe is disposed to treat ex-
Presidents Of the United States with
the courtesy that is usually accorded to
personages who have formerly ruled 1.
but whose sovereignty has come to an
end in fact, much in the same way as
monarchs who have abdicated, or who
have been deposed. True, they are not
regarded as entitled to official preced-
ence, but they are conceded precedence
as a matter of courtesy. and not only
Gen. Grant, but likewise President
Buchanan, when visiting Europe at the
conclusion of their terms of Office, were
received at the courts Of St. James,
Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, &c. with
semi-royal honors.
"There is no doubt that President
Harrison would have been made the OBJ
jeot of similar courtesies had he crossed
the Atlantic merely as an ex-President
Of the United States Had he even at
tended the Venezuelan Boundary Arbi-
tration Commission on behalf Of the
United States his action would have
been understood. though, perhaps. not
altogether approved. But that he should
cross the Atlantic as the paid counsel
Of the Venezuelan republic offends old
world ideas concerning the luster that
is supposed to surround an ex-President
of the United States. 3"
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-05-25

Andrew Carnegie arrived at his Scot
fish domain at Skibo Castle, Suther-
landshire, on Thursday. and got a royal
welcome from the tenantry, who antici-
pate a prosperous and easy life under
their new landlord. The millionaire
was addressed by tenant. the spokes.
man Of his fellows. and presented by
the oldest tenant with flag bearing
this inscription:
Presented to Andrew Carnegie by
his tenants. crofters and femars, on the
occasion Of his homecoming as proprie-
tor of Skibo, at the castle. "
Mr.. Carnegie addressed the gathering.
He said it was the first experience he
had ever had Of entering large resi-
Dental property as the proprietor. He
had been thinking, as he drove along
the magnificent avenue for nine miles,
what the possession Of such a property
meant. What did it amount to that he
knew all this was reputed to be his?
Happy is the man who has croft
or little bit Of land and can truly real
ize IL as his own" he exclaimed.
ut seems impossible, he continued,
'for me to realize in any sense my pro-
prietorship over miles and miles Of
land; but when saw the gatherings Of
tenants at the gate began to realize
how a man could indeed feel that he
possessed the hearts Of the people. That
is the best title deed to land, and the
best key to the castle "
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-05-25
Unprscedented Profits.

A dispatch from Greenville. s. @. 4.
says
THE annual meetings Of the various
cotton mills in this section are about
over and they show unprecedented pro-
fits. For instance, the American Spin
ming Company, capital sl25 600. shows
net profit Of t37. 900; the Piedmont
mills. over sl25. 900; the Huguenot
mills. 500. 600, aud others in like proper
ton. Now, while these profits seems
large, the profit for the current year
will be much larger. The Poe mill 4.
which made s2l. 900 for twelve months
last year, is now making $4,000. per
month net.
This prosperity will add many spin
dies to the mills of the South. Already
the stock for 5000, 600 mill at Anderson,
S. O.. has been raised. A %. 0C0 spin
die mill will be built as Bolton, s. O.
"ProssiblY the easiest thing in the
world to do now in this section is to
raise half n million dollars to build a
cotton mill All OF them have good
dividends. and there is all confidence
in the future. certainly so far as this
year is concerned There are other
evidences Cf prosperity. as well IS
thrift Of the cotton mills One bank
ing institution in this city has volun-
tarily reduced its rate of interest from
to per cent There are less farm loans
than ever before in the history of the
country "