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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
OUR VACATION SCHOOLS.

With the beginning of a new year
in educational circles and the advent Of
a school board composed of many new
members, it is well to call attention to
the work of the summer vacation
schools which have been maintained
during the past few years through the
efforts of some of our public spirited
citizens, with the cooperation of the
school board. These schools have been
success from their inception, and an
effort should be made to each year ex-
tend their field of usefulness. Such
schools should properly be maintained
by and be under the supervision of the
school board. The expense for their
maintenance should be included in the
total appropriation for school purposes.
Worcester has been somewhat behind
the times in this later measls of educa
ton, other Massachusetts cities much
smaller having had vacation schools
under The control of the school board
in operation for many years. In the
city Of Cambridge, where the vacation
schools have been in operation since
1896, the attendance has increased from
60 to 1852, and the per capita cost of
maintenance has decreased from $11 in
1896 to S4.51 during the past summer.
These schools have been maintained by
generous citizens during the four years
that the money has been we'll expend-
ed. These vacation schools take the
children when the influences of the
street are most dangerous and supple
ment the all-too brief education of
those who must end school life at an
early age
1t has been the experience here as
we'll as elsewhere that the parents as
they come to realize the influence of
the schools, become more eager for
their continuance. A great anxiety is
taken from their shoulders when they
come to know that their children are
using their faculties for a good pur-
pose instead of being in the streets,
yielding to the temptations which be-
set the idle. The boys and girls take
advantage so naturally and happily of
the opportunities of instruction offered
that corrective discipline is unneces-
sary. The subject of vacation schools
for Worcester under the care and di-
rection of our school board is worthy
the attention of all who have the well
fare of the youth of our city at heart,
especially the members of the school
board
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
HARPERS' EMBARRASSMENT.

1t is genuine surprise to the reading
public to learn that the ancient firm Of
Harpers' Bros. is in financial difficult
ties. The wide circulation of their vari-
Gus excellent publications and the large
book publishing business done has given
this conservative old house an appear
ance of prosperity. Though the reasons
for the existing straits are not given,
the unfortunate condition of things is
undoubtedly due to the cheap magazine
and the phenomenal success of several
new Corners in the weekly periodical
field. 1t was predicted from the first
that the conservative publications
would not be able to maintain their old
time prices, and though the Century
still demands its former rate the recent
cut in the price of Harper's Monthly
Magazine seems to be a move in the
right direction.
What the old house has needed for the
last few years is an active and energetic
head and this they now have in the per-
son Of G.. B. M. Harvey. 1t is a source
of untold satisfaction to learn that an
arrangement has been entered into by
which there need be no suspension in
the Harpers' publishing business.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
FIRM For GOLD.

The new financial bill reported by the
republican caucus committee, who by
special dispensation have been working
on it all summer, is not surprise. 1t
declares fearlessly and unequivocally
for gold basis. This is significant. A
few years since no committee would
have dared to have been so plain-spoken
in framing a bill. Some compromise or
concession would have been necessary
before the populists and silverites who
held the balance of power would have
permitted it's passage.
But all that is changed. The Senate
has working sound money majority
for the first time in many years. A true
republican sound money policy is now
assured. An encouraging thought is that
even if by any latter day miracle free
silver president should be elected in 1900
it is unlikely that he would be able to
secure a Senate willing to aid him in his
schemes to destroy the national credit
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30

Washington, Nov. 29.-J. P. V. GRID
ley, a son of the late Capt. Charles "
Gridley, who commanded Admiral
Dewey's flagship at the battle of Ma
Mia, was today designated for appoint
ment as a lieutenant in the marine
corps b. President Mckinley.
Young Gridley is too old to enter An
napolis, and the only opening for MN
in the navy lay in an appointment to
the marine corps, but he lacked the
necessary education, and worse IMAM
this, the money to study.
The boy was too modest to tell any
one Of his situation, but Admiral Dew
ey suspected it, and decided to act, lie
determined to pay the boys expenses
while studying for the examination
This morning he met young Grldley
at the White House and presented MIN
to President Mckinley.
Admiral Dewey started to explain the
situation, when the president inter
rupted and said: You and l, admiral,
will pay his expenses in preparation
for examination. If he fails in the first
examination I will give him another
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
AMERICAN GIRL
SHUT Up IN KIMBERLEY.

The celebrated miniaturist, Miss
Amelia Kussner, is, as a guest of Cecil
Rhodes and the Misses Rhodes, prac-
tically prisoner in the beleagured city
of Kimberley. Ten years ago, Miss
Kussner, then unknown to fame, left
Chicago in quest of honors. Her min
1ature of Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick, one
of her first works, had attracted the
attention of society women. She was
young, handsome, and had some good
letters of introduction. Her work was
new and original, and within a year
she achieved success in the east.
Among the women who led fashion in
her studio were Mrs. John Jacob Aston
Mrs. Lorillard Spencer and Mrs. Van
Rensselaer, Cruger. 1t was not long
before the artist could choose her sit
tiers. She made an income of $4,000 q
year, and was petted and made much
of.
Having thus won New York, Miss
Kussner looked to the old world for
larger fields to conquer. A year age
she arrived in London, the protege OF
Mrs. Arthur Paget, to whom she had
been introduced by New York friend
Her work was shown to Sir John Mil
lais. and he recommended it. Then il
found q place in the royal academy.
A miniature of Mrs. Paget was the
first of her London work. When she
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
Town Tales
SIYS9sSSTSS ) > ) !

do you swear?" asked long-vis-
aged man of an applicant for work.
mo, by -. I don't" was the unex-
pected answer, which lost the applicant
a situation.
That swearing is a habit is exempli-
fed by the readiness with which it is
dropped when some other habit forces
it aside. The habit of slang has super
seeded that of swearing; man being a
talking animal uses a super1uity of
words, and he likes those which are in
the nature of epithets and carry con-
viction with them. There are degrees
of profanity, and he suits his arrows
to his outrageous fortune. The care
full observer must have noticed the alb
sence of severe profanity from our
street and travel circles very much less
OF that offensive use of sacred names,
an inclination on the part of men and
boys of the loafer element to avoid loud
scandaious phrases and profane re-
torts, and has perhaps wondered what
has brought about so desirable a re-
form No companion tablet to the street
car command, do not expectoratet' -
has suggested, DO not blaspheme''
But the fact remains to gladden. the
sensitive soul, swearing as a habit is
sensibly decreasing.
Here is what the Chicago Record is
saying. For pure nerve the writer leads
the procession: Arthur Poe, who
kicked a goal from field just before
the whistle blew last Saturday, will be
graduated from Princeton next June,
and we think that so brilliant young
man should not be permitted to remain
W he ri oh
Christian athletics are so abundantly
hlled. We have no doubt that fiattering
offers will be made by eastern colleges
TO Mr.. Poe to induce him to become a
member of a distinguished faculty, but
that should not prevent us from trying
to secure him for the spread of culture
in Cook county and for the furtherance
of universal extension OF course DR..
Harper does not need him, for Professor
Stage is probably without a peer in the
line of muscular and healthy physio-
logical Christianity, but the chair at
Northwestern is not altogether salts
factorily filled, and we think that DR..
Rogers would be justified in making
overtures to this brilliant young man.
1t is amazing to read in a letter from
Idaho that there is anybody so ignorant
IN the world as to ask whether the
Theodore Roosevelt, who is governor of
New York, is the Theodore Roosevelt
who once had a ranch in the west"
Can it be that there breathes a man
with soul so dead as not to know that
there is only one Theodore Roosevelt
under the sun, and that in preservation
of the natural law of equilibrium there
can be only one? There are many stars
in the economy of nature, as there are
many men and heroes in the domain of
the world, but there is only one dis
tinctive sun, and one distinctive moon,
and one distinctive Roosevelt.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
THANKS FROM GEORGIA.

The following letter received at The
Spy office explains itself:
Rome, Ga, Nov. pa box of nice
magazines has been kindly sent me for
distribution by some friend or friends
in your city, and as no card, letter or
notice of any sort has reached me, may
1 trouble you to make this acknowledge
ment of its reception with my sincere
thanks to donors. Miss Sarah M. Brig
ham, the Boston mission agent. of
Lend-a-Hand office in Boston, whose
home post office is Grafton, Mass, NAV
have requested some helpers in Wor-
cester to send thu literature to me
and no one has yet notified me-and if
they have, it has failed to reach me
While I am native of the south I ap-
preciate the broad beneficial and pro
gressive literature and fraternal ideas
and teachings of New England-or of
anywhere else-and am eagerly and
earnestly trying to be of some use in
my way, to help all I can in the good
work of peace and fraternity which
such literature so greatly promotes.
May the goth century inaugurate bet
ter social, political and moral era than
this past has to show. Ugh. Beers!
Philippines! =!
Sincerely,
T. f. Jeffries.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30

rington. Miss Ruth Earle; the mystery
table. in the form of a Christmas pie,
will be in charge of Misses Alice
Ward. Mary Hamilton and May Green.
Miss Emily Eaton and Miss Helen
Goulding will serve afternoon tea, and
the ice cream room will be presided
over by Miss Alice Mitchell and Miss
Florence Ward. Mrs. Frank r. Ma
cullar has charge of the supper.
Those who enjoy a rousing service Of
song, with full chorus, organ and or
chestra, solos and duets will find an
attraction at Trinity church tonight
Arrangements have been made for the
large chorus to gather at Ills and the
praise service will commence promptly
at 7.30, under the leadership of Charles
Il. Clark Letters of invitation have
been sent to all the new converts, and
a real Thanksgiving jubilee will fill the
evening. An unusual thing in connection
with this revival at Trinity has been
the fact that three-fourths of the con-
verts have been men.
The program for the College club this
month is as follows: Dec. /, talk on
socialism by Prof. S. A. Reeve at 4
o'clock Dec. s, hearts party at
o'clock Dec. Is, reading by Miss Grace
E. Gabriel; Dec. %, Illustrated talk on
ceramics by John G. Haywood; Dec. 20,
informal tea.
The program at the Friday Morning
club yesterday was one of the most in
teresting of the year. Like its predeees-
sor it had Handel for it's subject. The
numbers were as follows:
Vivace from concerto, Crosse, Miss In
H. F. A Schmidt
Paper on the oratorio, Mrs. S. B. Wood
Judas Maccabeus" (a Come, ever
smiling liberty" Mrs. j. w. MITCHELL"
(b) duet, 20 lovely peace" Mrs. Mitchell
and Mrs. Merriam; (c) From mighty
kings" Mrs Ida F. Johnson.
Sarabande, Mrs. Louie Ware, Miss Ba-
con.
Joshua" 90 had I Jubaps Tyre" Mrs.
Inez Buss-Knowles
"Jephtha," I'm gentle murmurs will
mourn, Mrs. Merriam.
Samson, Let the bright seraphim, -
Messiah" Halleluiah chorus, Miss In
graham, Miss Starr Miss Hammond, Mrs.
Schmidt.
Morton r. Crane, only son of Hon. E.
B. Crane, and Miss Florence M. Mes
senger of 720 Main street, will be quiet
ly married this forenoon about 10
o'clock by Rev. G. w Kent at his house.
Mr.. Crane and his bride will reside at
20 Richard street with his parents.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
AFTER THE HOLIDAYS.
Recruiting Business Will Boom After
Christmas is Passed.

Recruiting Business Will Boom After
Christmas is Passed.
Although yesterday showed no in
crease in the recruiting business in
Worcester, Sergt. James E. Chamber
lain, in charge of the regular army re-
cruiting office in the Walker building,
and Sergt. Edward F. Larkin, in charge
of the marine office on Front street,
feel that men are not especially desir
Gus of enlisting at the present time, but
would much rather wait until after the
Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays
are over
Yesterday afternoon Sergt Larkin
met Capt. F. ]. Moses, Jr., who is in
charge of marine recruiting in Massa
chusetts, at the union station as the
captain was on his way to Boston.
Sergt Larllin was told that the Front
street office would be kept open for an
other month, at least. Sergt. Larkin
sees good times ahead for men who en-
list in the marine corps, as the navy
department will shortly set to work to
re-establish stations which were discon-
tinued during the war. Some new ones
may also be formed by the navy de-
partment, and Sergt Larkin feels that
men who have never seen much of the
world will have the chance of their lives
in the marine service Capt. Moses
has been thinking of keeping the Wor-
cester Office open and sees chance at
the. expiration of the holidays to do
some business.
Yesterday two men applied for enlist
ment at the marine office, but failed to
pass the physical examinations and
were rejected. At the regular army
office, in the Walker building, Sergt.
Chamberlain also rejected two men who
failed to come up to the army standard
in the physical examinations
A letter was received by Sergt. Cham
berlain yesterday afternoon from Ed
mund P, Welch of Stafford Springs, CT.
incliring as to the enlistment of Mr.
Welch's son, Wilbur H. WEIGH. Mr.
Welch was anxious as to his SON S
whereabouts, and the sergeant's book
shows that young Welch was at the Of
fice Nov. Is and was rejected in the
physical examinations. Sergt. Cham
berlain wrote Mr.. Welch to that effect
yesterday afternoon.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30

had done nine miniatures, Mrs. Paget
gave a tea to. introduce the artist to
London society. Fifty women were
present, and many of them ordered
work. Within three months, Miss
Kussner had executed miniatures of
the Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Flo
Sturt, the Countess Dudley, Lady Cole
brooke, Miss Muriel Wilson, Nine. Won
Andre and the Duchesses of Portland,
Devonshire and Switzerland. She was
then unexpectedly summoned to the
Russian court to paint the czarina. For
month she worked necessarily, and
with such success that sittlngs from
the car followed. Miss Kussner was
heartily complimented by the royal
pair. Encouraged by her new honors,
she returned to her work in London.
Concerning her presence in Kimberley
during these war times, her mother
Mrs. Emmaline Kussner, of Chicago,
says:
MY daughter wrote me several
months ago that she was going to At
RIGA to execute some commissions which
she recently received. The last letter
I received from her came two weeks
ago from Cape Town, where she had
just landed"
The portrait of Cecil Rhodes, whose
guest she has now become in Kimber-
ley, was chief among these commits
Sions.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
The LAFAYETTE DOLLAR.

A new coin will be struck off in the
iladelphia mint within the next few
days. 1t will be the Lafayette dollar
designed as a means of raising funds
for the monument to be presented by
the American people to the French ma
ton during next years exhibition. The
dollar will bear fine portrait of the
French liberator on one side and on the
diverse side a representation Of the
equestrian statue which it is proposed
to donate.
The first coin struck off in the mint
will be presented to President McKin-
ley, who in turn will send it as gift to
President Loubet of the French repub-
lie. The dollars will be sold by subscrip-
ton at the rate of two dollars apiece
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
THE MAGAZINE COVER G1RLs

III not gainsay your beauty. for indeed
you're wondrous fair,
But tell me, oh, | pray you, how you ever
nix your hair?
II sweeps in wavy pillows up and down
and round the page,
silken cage.
And, while YOU are about it. lovely type
;, Of perfect grace,
ENplaln the way you manage to secure
your gown in place:
II made of airy nothings, and 1t hardly
seems to touch,
And If you'll send a pattern 1 will thank
you very much
nope you won't be angry, but another
thing I'd know
a question that perpexes me as seasons
- come and co.
What do you call the flowers you invaria-
- bly, wear
Those little things like cabbages that nes-
tie in your hair?
Wallace D. Vincent in Brooklyn Life.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
BANK CLEARINGS,

Lest there should be any misunder>
standing regarding the lessened totals
of bank clearings at the leading New
England cities growing out of the new
method OF the Boston clearing houses
for collecting country checks, Brad
streets prints the following explanation
from Charles E. Curtis, secretary of the
New Haven clearing house, as to its
effect on that city's clearings.
For some months the Boston clear
ing house has been acting as collect
ing agent for the Boston banks in the
collection of checks on points in Massa-
chusetts and Maine. Since November 9
this plan has been extended to Rhode
Island and Connecticut, the Boston
clearing house forwarding the checks to
the several banks on which they are
drawn and securing remittanees direct
from the various banks. Thus, instead
Of a New Haven bank receiving for col
lection from it's Boston correspondent
checks on all the New Haven banks,
to be paid through the New Haven
clearing house, it now receives only
checks on itself. This is true for each
of the banks, and the sums thus di-
verified from the local clearing house are
in the aggregate very considerable.
During the first week of the operation
Of this system the loss to New Haven's
clearings was $124,0269O, or rs per cent
of the total remaining Something like
this percentage of loss is probably suf-
fered by Providence, Hartford, Spring.
field, Worcester, Portland Fall River,
Lowell and New Bedford, amounting
all told to not less than 1900, 900 for
one week."
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
DEWEY and MCKINLEY PROVIDE
FOR CAPT. GR|DLEY'S son.

chance. but am sure he will be ready
when the time comes
AS Admiral Dewey and the young
man were descending the White House
steps the admiral was saying to the
son of his old comrade: Now, you keep
an account of your expenses, and let
me know what they are"
At thu foot of the steps the admiral
ran into a group of newspaper men.
II shall be glad to give you an item
this morning" said the admiral. THE
president has just agreed to designate
this young man, a son of Captain Grid
lev for examination for lieutenancy
in the marine corps, but he has no
money with which to prepare himself
for the examination" he continued.
"However, the president and l ar 20
ing to attend to that" he added, look-
ing at the son of his old friend with
suspicious moisture in his eyes.
CHOW" said the admiral, as he
turned away, "let the people of the
country know what sort Of presid ct
they have
Mr.. Gridley's mother is living at Erie,
Pa She is drawing a pension of $50 a
month. which her friends in congress
will seek to have increased by special
act during the approaching session.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
THE MOTHERS LAMENT

o what would Rudyard and Roosevelt say
L they knew about my boy?
When he comes home at night there's no
sign Of a fight to fill my heart with joy.
His nose is not smashed, his cheek is not
gashed, and his eyes are not black and
Elue,
And 1t fills me with dread when I think
what I've read from those strenuous
stalky two.
Kipling and Teddy why doesn't he heed
TO the precepts laid down by you?
Why doesn't he glare, why doesn't he
swear, as a youngster of pluck would
do?
My heart is still when ] ask for the kill
and he hasn't thing to show.
For / know that fame and an honored
name can never be his below.
Louise Brewsters King in Life.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30

resented, and no attention was given
to the regular army, navy or marine
corps. Upon the return Of the commit
tee to Boston a full report was rem
dered to the several camps here, and,
with one exception, was accepted, and
the matter of outside control of the or
der was settled in the negative. Their
attempt to force the commandership
upon Admiral Dewey cannot succeed,
as he is already an active member of
this organization, and therefore cannot
consistently become a member of an
other having identically the same
avowed purpose.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
THE WORCESTER SPY
CHARLES MUTT.
EDWIN J. SEWARD,
Business Manager.
442-444 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER, MASS.

Tha SPY Is the only Morning paper in Wor-
cester presenting the Telegraph service of the
Associated Press, the greatest news gathering
organization In the world. 1t has correspond
ents all over the United States and In every
foreign country. By combination with the
great New York and Boston papers 1t Is en-
abIed to print the latest news Of the world.
Together with its unrivaIled city service, the
SPY thus affords its readers a model American
home newspaper.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30
REPEATS ITS SUCCESS.
The Annual Social of St. Anne's Soci-
ETY. Largely Attended.

1t has been the custom of the St.
Anne's Total Abstinence society for
many years to celebrate Thanksgiving
with a social in Horticultural hall on
Thanksgiving eve, and last night the
one held proved to the members that
their friends were as anxious as ever
to celebrate the day with them. The
hall was crowded and the social from
every standpoint was more successful
than any ever held before The officers
IN charge of the dancing were: Floor
director, c. J. Carmody; assistants,
John H. Reardon, John Malone; aids
r. F. McGrath, 0. f. Hagan, Eugene
f. Conlin, Michael J. Dowd, John F.
McGrath. John Marlowe, J. P. Harvey
Frank Mcfarland, Thomas Degnan
jerry Donahue, Ulysses Burke, w. NJ
Moran.
Reception committee: Thomas f. Ma
lone chairman, Edward F. Dolan John
F. Sullivan, Thomas J. Rourke, Fl. P
LAWN, John J. Salmon, NJ. A. Doherty
j. H. Deadly, j, F. Degnan, P, W,
Johnston
Rileys orchestra played for dancing
and gave concert early in the eve
ming, every number of which was APP
plauded and in several instances a rep
etition was demanded
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-30

Dewey is right Aguinaldo relieves
this government from much embarrass-
ment by escaping. Should he be cap
tured and pardoned or dealt lightly
with, storm of criticism would fall
upon the government. But should he be
treated severely he would make politi-
cal capital out of his sufferings and
would win the sympathy of an army of
cranks