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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02
THE WORCESTER SPY, SUNDAY, APRIL 2. 1898.

pear at any time and an admission
fee of so cents a head was charged.
Yet there would not be seat to be
had in Mechanics Hall though biz
Yard were raging, were Sharkey and
Fftzsimmons to fight there, and the
admission be placed at s25 ticket.
The line along which the peace peo-
Pile ought To proceed seems to be in the
direction of securing an antitoXin
with which to inoculate human ma
ture and kill the microbe or bacillus
of savagery which appears to be lurl1-
ing In the system, and make people
immune to prize fights and other bru-
tai spectacles. Until this is accom-
plished. talking and dreaming will not
be potent in bringing about peace and
a universal brotherhood Of mankind
Sherman years ago declared war to be
hell, and the young men who fought
in Cuba found that he was not dream
ing when he made the statement. yet
the government has no difficulty in Sc
curing recruits, and II war should be
declared today, one million men would
spring to arms if the country required
their services, and those who were I'm
able to go would be disappointed. The
microbe of savagery and the bacillus
of adventure are in the system. A doc
tor is needed instead of a preacher.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02
THE MICR0BE or sATAeERY.

The quilting party has given place
to the peace society. an innocuous in
stttution which young people can at
tend with perfect propriety. The peace
society furnishes a time and place for
the promotion of the gayety of nations
by good men and women upon whom
the dust of the earthly today meier
falls. Their feet rest firmly upon a MIN
bus as they exchange ideas with the an
gels of peace, and incidentally give the
latter points and cause amazement by
the novelty of their theories. The
peace societies sometimes promote
their ideas with so much solemn
ity that they quite forget that there is
fun in this wicked world Consequent
ly the czar's international joke has
been taken for the ftuttering of the
wings of the dove as it perched upon
an olive branch. The quilting parties
Of our grandmothers were never stirred
more profoundly by the projection of
a bit Of choice gossip, than peace cir
cles by the cars joke.
But peace societies are not altogether
out of place in our social system. The
good people who compose them must
have something to do when time hangs
heavily, and they might be employed
far worse than in dreaming of days
when swords shall have been beaten
into pruning hooks and the clash of
arms transposed into the dangerous
melody of the lutte. But while they talk
and dream Dreams an energetic and
untiring devil saws wood, builds ships
of war, drills armies and invents wea-
pons still more deadly, and invites the
great nations of the world to range
themselves in serried ranks for a su-
preme conflict such as the world has
never seen, and Strange to say the
great nations appear all too willing
to fall in with his satanic majesty's
fell proposition. 1t is an open question
if the king of evil, the Untiring One,
has not accomplished more in the way
Of bringing about universal peace by
his ingenuity in devising destructive
implements for the promotion of war
fare, than have the good and well in
tentioned people OF the peace societies
by volumes of protestations against
strife and years of dreaming. The
impartial onlooker, therefore, who
would really like to see wars relegated
to the past, but has not formed an
idea as to the best way Of accomplish
ling it, must be perplexed and alto
gether uncertain whether to shout "go
it, devil" or "hurrah for the peace
societies..
But when the theories of the profess
sionaI promoters Of peace are ranged
alongside facts, and their feet are
transferred from the nimbus to the
March mud, it does not appear that
they are making progress with such
rapidity that they need TO hold on to
their hats. 1t is probably a solemn
fact, and it is lamentable as well, that
the smallest hail in this city would
hold any audience that might gather
to hear the profoundest preachers of
peace If they were advertised to an
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02
WHAT JEFFERSON WOULD DO,

What did Thomas jefferson ever do
in life, that his memory should have
suffered thus? Scarcely year passes
but there is a violent alteration be-
tween the warning factions of the dem
ocratio party in an effort to decide
which represents the principles of
Thomas Jefferson. These squabbles
have led the public to believe that JEFF
ferson had a most grotesque job lot of
principles that would suit any time and
ism. Every democrat like Bryan, with
rocco ideas, Immediately elbows all
the old line democrats out of the push
and claims that ne alone has the right
and title to speak to the toast Tho
mas jefferson" The fight this year
between the $40 democrats and the 81
silvercrats to decide whether Jefferson
was a $40 statesman, or 81 politician
with an actual value of about 40 cents,
has been unusually humorous. But
the question of which dinner Jefferson
would attend if he could step out of
the tomb with an appetite, is easily
settled. He wouldn't attend either
He would be a republican today, and
feast with the party of Lincoln and
Garfield, and Harrison and Mckinley,
and Blaine and Reed, rather than with
Croker and Bryan, and Cleveland and
Hill. Fancy Thomas jefferson ban
quoting at a board at which Croker sat
at the head, or at which the crown-of-
thorns Bryan presided. If jefferson by
any chance were to attend either din
ner, served in his name, he would sit
at the table tailor fashion through fear
that If he stretched his legs beneath
the mahogany, Croker, Bryan or some
Of their followers would lay hold of
them and pull
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

The fact that the Chicago Times-He-
reid supports Harrison. the democratic
candidate for mayor, rather than Car
ter, the republican nominee, would be
less significant, were it not that
influential republicans seem to be
doing the same thing, Mr., Carter is
represented to be a good enough man
personally, but he is handicap
ped by common impression
that he is strongly allied to
Yerkes, the street railway mag
nate. These things damage the repub-
ican chances of slipping into the
mayors chair through the democratic
division created by the rivalry of Har-
rison and Altgeld.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02
OUT AND ABOUT,

One of the most amazing things
connected with Mr. Hackett's immense
ly clever representation of the dual
role in Rupert of Hentzau" is the
lightning rapidly with which he AL
ternates between the two characters.
He is obliged to change his costume no
less than ten times in each perform :
ance, 1t is said. For instance. he
comes on as the king in the first act
changes TO RassendyI, changes hack
to the king, and then returns to Ras-
sendyll for the remainder of the act
He keeps it up that way through the
play. One Of the changes has to he
made in twenty seconds, and this IN
cludes not only the matter Of clothes.
but facial makeup also, for Rassen-
dyll is smooth faced, while the king
wears a full beard. 1t is business. that
requires the assistance of three 'dres-
sers," although in an ordinary part
Mr.. Hackett prefers to dress himself.
Lieut.. Samuel Hathaway is the auth
or Of a series of beautiful reflections
on Easter morn, which has been cfrcu-
lated among his friends and have re-
ceived general praise, but have not yet
been published.
1.-THE Idle Hour is the title Of a
magazine "of fashion, literature and
the home" published by the Barnard.
Sumner & Putnam Co, the spring
and summer number Of which contains
good reading Of light and varied ma
ture, besides innumerable pictures il
Illustrative Of their new styles in every-
thing from sewing machines TO hair
pins. One OF the novelties mentioned
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02
MAIL MESSENGER.
John flanagan Started In on His 80 Days
Trial Yesterday.

The new mail messenger, John Lana
gan, started in on his 50 days trie4
carrying the mails at the post office
yesterday His outfit is an Improvement
over the one he had when he had the
contract carrying the mails previous
to the regime of the st. Onge brothers.
The wagons are painted red and black,
the running gear being Of red and the
body black. The horses attached to
the wagons are not blooded steeds by
any means, and the drivers lives are
not in danger from runaways. Post
master ]. Evarts Greene has the power
to remove any of the drivers whose
work is not satisfactory, and the 30
days trial does not hold good as far
as the drivers are concerned.
The receipts Of the post Office for the
past month amount to $50, 7SS .16. and
for the month corresponding of last
year the receipts were SIS, ST. IS, an in
crease of S2116.2S.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

Gen. OTIS emphatic declaration that
the hea1th of our troops In the Philip
pines is excellent, only eight or nine
per cent being on the sick roll for all
causes, tells of conditions that prevail
ed before the serious fighting began.
It is nevertheless reassuring, for it
shows that the men had become
well acclimated and therefore the bet
ter able to endure the fatigue incident
to campaigning when the temperature
reaches the height of 100 degrees and
stays there 1t will hardly be hotter
than this when the rainy season sets
in, about May first.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

One result of the Spanish war is a
serious disturbance, one might almost
say disintegration, of the state mill
tia, The conditions that prevail in the
Worcester companies will be found in
almost all others that saw service or
went into camp outside the state. Of
ficeFs who failed to pass the physical
examination when their commands
were mustered into the United States
service, still retain their commissions,
and others who were promoted to fill
vacancies thus caused, have come back
with the prestige of higher command,
but really to serve in their former in
ferior rank. so that often there are two
captains, sometimes two sets Of officers,
with a company clique to support each.
Many OF the officers and men who en-
listed for the war have had enough of
soldering and would gladly leave the
militia, while others object to serving
under the officers who were rejected
when the war broke out. The confus-
ion of interests has brought about so
much discomfort that drills are poorly
attended and reorganization is at a
standstilL 1t would impose a severe
tax upon the time, patience and saga
city of Adjutant General Dalton to visit
each company, in an effort to discover
the root of the difficulty in each, but it
looks as if radical measures might have
to be taken. One way out of the mud
die might be a succession of calls for
designations, and the beginning of a
new deal throughout the armories OF
the state. The present status is worse
than stagnation.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

Pollution of lakes and rivers is an
unusually prominent issue in the state
legislatures this season. At least five
states, Connecticut, New Jersey Penn
sylvania, Illinois and Wisconsin. are
devislng means to stop the abuse, and
generally private interests alone
stand in the way of reform. Most
cities are sufficiently enlightened now
adays to take pFeeaution against the
needless contamination Of streams and
water fronts by sewage but with pri-
vate individuals the uppermost thought
seems to be to get rid of their factory
waste, regardless of the consequences
to the community. Finally, public pro-
test is provoked and then there is a
struggle TO retain what the individual
deems an established privilege. There
can be no question, of course, concern
ing the right of the people to stop such
abuses, but while the struggles that
have been going on show hopeful pub
lie awakening, they have also demon
strated the tenacity with which the Of
tenders cling to their offence.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

The German newspapers complain
that the late little bombardment at
Samoa ''wounds public opinion in Ger
many" Public opinion in the United
States had to endure some pretty
severe and wholly unnecessary tabs
from German insolence in and around
Manila recently, and this country is not
particularly in the Gemuthlekeit bust
ness with Deutschland just now.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02
WILL VISIT BATTLEFIELDs,

Gen. AIger to See tine Grounds Where
Americans Distinguished Themselves
Santiago de Cuba, April The seq
rotary of war, Gen. Alger, arrived here
today and was received by a guard Of
honor of the Fifth regulars and a Largo
party Of officers and others. After
luncheon at the Venus Cafe, the sec.
rotary visited the improvements made
in the city and neighborhood and ex-
pressed himself greatly pleased with
the sanitary conditions prevailing. He
VIII hold a reception tonight. after
dining at the residence Of Gen. Leon
ard Wood, and will visit San Juan, FL
Caney and other places tomorrow.
Several British army officers who are
here on an excursion from Jamaica
will attend the reception,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

The bribery investigation in the
Pennsylvania legislature in connection
with the senatorship and the Jury bill
promises to lead to prosecutions ir
court A melancholy development is
the implication of Gov. Stone in an at
tempt to bride a member with the
promise of office for a friend. The gov
ernor is yet to be heard from in his
own defense, but the man who gave
the testimony was very 10th to-teH his
story.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

Companies, mainly trusts, were Or
ganized under the laws Of New Jer-
sey during March having a total "capi-
tai of 81, Iii. 100000, or a matter Of over
billion dollars, in single month
Some alarm might be felt lest at this
rate enough capital should not be left
in the country to move the crops, were
not the easy status of the Jersey laws
as to corporations perfectly well under
stood.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

A treasury surplus for March is a
gratifying showing, especially as it is
made without counting the Pacific rail-
road receipts. The large increase IN
customs returns for the month is
chiefly responsible for the change.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

New York banks are going to charge
ten cents for every outside check they
collect. We all ought to be glad that
they don't insist on taking the whole
face of the check and leaving only ten
cents to the customer.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

Returning officials, soldiers and 9th
ers who have been in Cuba are show
ing something Of a fondness for inter
lapdfng their talk and speeches with
Spanish. A good deal Of it sounds sus-
pietously as though 1t had been mem
orized from the tops and sides of cigar
hoxas
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

Noah Raby. who observed his 127th
birthday last week, has a record of 12C
years as a smoker. The w. C. T. U. and
the League for the Prevention OF
Smoking by Children please take notice.
This Is a case of inverted horrible eX-
annie.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

Certain New York publishers and
editors are likely to experience as much
trouble from calling a president of the
board of education as that fine old
educational mastodon." as did DIR. Sam
johnson when he applied the abusive
terms parallelogram and parallelopiped
20 a fish lady Of London. But Presi-
dent Little, for the sake Of his children
and his ohildren's children. is going to
carry his libel suit to the grand jury
to prove that he is not an extinct
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

Sir William Macdonald, the pFincely
benefactor of McCdl University. has
Just given that fortunate institution
another 100000, 1t is to be hoped Nc
Gill will not go up in smoke. Sir Will
liam made his money in tobacco,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

One fact in President Eliots annual
report Of Harvard University that has
not received the attention # should, is
the preponderance of public school
graduates among the honor men of that
institution. OF the thirty-five honor
men of last year, no less than twenty
two men fitted for college at public
high schools, and as % out of the
thirty-fve were from Massachusetts,
the part which secondary schools have
played in the higher education of the
commonwealth Is clearly a distin-
guished one. 1t would be interesting
to know the exact relation that the
public high school bears to the college
for women. but undoubtedly a yet
larger percentage Of honor men at Wei
lesley, Smith, Vassar and Bryn Mawr
are the product Of high school training.
public school, Americas most truly
democratic institution, where material
and training are alike free to all,
should excel in the proportion and quail
fty of the scholarship they turn out,
the expensive and select preliminary
school. Perhaps one reason is the old
reason why white sheep eat more than
black-because there are more of them;
but in any event, the practical compari-
son between the two which the Oldest
and largest university in the country
is in the position to draw every year,
is suggestive.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

proboscidean quadruped of the family
elephantidae and sub-fanily mastodon-
tinae, nor an antediluvian, nor re-
dictionary, such being the vile calum-
MES that have been circulated about
him in the Educational Review, One
thing stands in need of no proof, and
that is that the worthy but indignant
gentleman in question IS a very paohy-
derm on the point of humor. Otherwise,
he would see the fun which the
Messrs. Holt claim for their eplthet. But
fancy suing anybody for libel merely
because he called you tout of your
name!" And just fancy grand jury
bringing in true bill on the strength
of a geological comparison like thati
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THE SPY SHOULD HAVE THE EYE OF ARGUS:HE
is HONORABLE If NE DO But LOOK TO The VEL
FARE OF THE COMING NWEALTH."
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

SUNDAY, APRIL 2. 1899.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-02

The German Evening Club met Fri
day evening with Miss Elizabeth White,
121 Pleasant street, and finished the
reading of "Egmont." The club will
meet with Mr.. James Green, 81 Elm
street, on the evening of the 14th. It
is proposed fl take UP the study Of
Goethe's "Goetz Won Berlichingen,"
1.-THE only objection to telling fbs is
that you get found out. Not If you ar
range things not perhaps exactly as
they were, but as they. ought TO have
been. In that way a lie becomes a
sort of localized and essential truth
1.-THE Liars
What In the world is rag time on
era?" Worcester is going to have one
Saturday. but in the meantime, what
is it?
, 1899-03-02
HEARD AT THE STATE HOUSE.
Supreme Court Appoints Board Of Law
Examiners.

The state supreme court held a ses-
sion at the state house yesterday morn
Ing. 1t appeared to the court that
under and by virture of the provisions
Of an act of the Legislature entitled AN
act regulating the admission of attor-
neys to practice in the courts of the
state" and repeating certain sections of
the Revised Statutes relating to attor-
neys at law, approved Feb. 16. A. d.
1899. a state board of land examiners is
created to consist of five members, such
members to be appointed by this court.
Now. therefore, in pursuance of said
act. it is ordered that the following
named persons. each of whom possesses
the qualifications prescribed by said
act, be and they are hereby appointed
as members of the state board Of law
examiners for the terms respectively
hereinafter stated:
For one year, John w. Lacey, from
the First judicial district; Charles E.
Blydenburgh,, from the Third judicial
district.
For two years, Benjamin F. Fowler,
from the First judicial district. and
Melvin Nichols from the Fourth judi
cial district.
For three years. Nellis E. Corthell,
from the Second judicial district
Cheyenne Tribune.
, 1899-03-02
THE ~ALBATROSS.
A bird of Majestic Aerial Velocity
and Unsuitable Appetite.

A bird of Majestic Aerial Velocity
aud Unsuitable Appetite.
Out of the blue void the albatross
comes urhasting on motionless pinions,
yet at such speed that one moment n
speck hardly discernible, turn but YOU
eyes away, and ere you al again look
round he is gliding majestically over.
head. Nothing in nature conveys to the
mind so wonderful an idea of effortless
velocity as does his calm appearance
from vacancy. Like most of the true
pelagic birds, be is a d~evourer of offal,
the successful. pursuit of fish being i'm
possible to-his majestic evolutions. His
appetite is enormous, but his powers Of
abstinence are equally great, and often
for days he goes without other nourish.
ment than a drink of the bitter sea. At
the Gargantnan banquet provided by n
carcass of a dead whale he will gorge
himself until incapable of rising from
the sea, yet still his angry scream may
be heard as If protesting against his in
ability to find room for more provision
against hungry days soon to follow.
Despite his Incompatible grace of
flight when gliding through midair
with his mighty wings outspread, when
ashore or ON deck he is clumsy and i'll
at ease. Even seated upon the sea, his
proportions appear somewhat ungainly.
while his huge hooked beak seems too
heavy to be upheld. On land he can
hardly balance himself, and the broad
silky webs of his feet soon become LAGER.
nted. Thus his visits to the lone and
generally inaccessible rocks which are
his breeding places are rs brief as may
be, since even conjugal delights are
dearly purchased with hunger and pain
full restraint. A true child of the air,
land is hateful to him, and only on the
wing does he appear to be really at
home and e%aseful. London Spectator.