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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
STATE QUAIL.
Uxbridge Covers Will Be Stocked With
Plumed Beauties.

Uxbridge, March 24--About twenty
five quais were received yesterday
from the Massachusetts Fish and
Game Association by George f. Day Of
the Uxbridge Gun Club. They will be
liberated in the surrounding woods.
They are from Georgia and are fine
birds about six months I'D Last year
the woods were stocked by the Gun
Club with quails procured from pri-
waite parties.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25

In Laurel Street Church Monday eve
ming, March q, Mrs. Annie E. Smiley of
Milford will give a lecture on "a trio 10
california Lecture will begin at T. IS.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
MEETINGS, ETC.
WORCESTER COUNTY INSTITUTION FOR Savings
WORCESTER COUNTY INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS

The QUARTERLY MEETING of the
Trustees Of the Institution will be held
at their Banking Rooms, No. - Foster
street, on SATURDAY, the 18th instant,
at four fortv-hve o'clock, P. NJ.
CHARLES A. CHASE, Treasurer.
Worcester, March IS. 1900.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
FIRST ANNIVERSARY.

Martha Washington Ladies' Society.
B. of L. f., will hold their first ami
versary April 13, by giving social and
dance at Stelnert Hall, S06 Main street.
a most delightful time is assured
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25

Miss Margaret Roys student Of
Brown University, is home for a ten
days vacation.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25

Avoid harsh purgatlve pills They make
YOU sick and leave you constipated Car
ter's Little Liver Pills regulate the bowels
and cure you.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25

The most efficacious stimuIant to
sharpen the appetite is DR. Sierart,s
Angostura Bitters. See that Won eet
the genuine. ~" SGT
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25

lighted the audience BY their almost phe-
s. ..-.-..s.. y4ay..-. me glrls were Literally
, Up audec for their efforts in passing and
eptifc manner possible. The lineup:
BRITOAART-1y. 2-ALETHEIA.
Miss Mary Kane, g....g. Miss Marion Taft
Bertha Brigham C...c. + lorenzo McIahou
Flora Whictemore,r RI r ( Margaret Lincoln
Marina FaEerstron,l FL Daisy Sherman
Katherine Sheridan, id Gertrude Childs
Gertrude Williams. ! 81 2, Minnie Regain
Miss Iunabcrg s....-..r 2, Winnie Jones
Referee William Mccormack; umpire,
Miss Frances Healey.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
A CHRISTMAS CHANGE.

When the Christmas tree has palled,
the stockings become a part OF the past
in which the mythical Santa Claus took
part and the displaying OF gifts on
the piano with the cards OF givers at
tached becomes a hackneyed GUS
tom OF declining interest. perhaps a
change such as has been adopted sue
cessfully in some households may find
favor In more. This idea is 10 hide the
gifts. Father and mother do this part,
while the other members Of the family
do the seeking. A letter presumably
from Santa Claus. appears on the man
tel Christmas morning and In IL are
discovered certain hints, carefully dis
guisod, however, as TO the whereabouts
Of the treasure. OF course. most un-
likely places are elected.
In one family an innocent looking
barrel Of apples that had stood for q
long time in the cellar was made to do
duty as gay decever. the layer OF
the apples on the top covering all sorts
Of gifts, from a typewriter to a tin
horn. Again, It having been boosted by
the youthful scion Of the house that
nothing could be hidden without his
knowledge his very bed was chosen.
and the hiding done while he slept. His
can be imagined when he
learned that he had been lifted bodily
in a sound slumber while all sorts Of
Christmas conceits found a
resting place under his mattress. Once
the dining room table was made 10 do
duty by having a supplementary shelf
built under 1t, In which the gifts were
lying, while the young folks wandered
everywhere else over tle house, and at
last sat down to breakfast hopelessly
discouraged, despite the very pointed
hints in the written guide that they
found on the mantelpiecc.
OF course, each person can formulate
IN individual scheme Of hiding, accord
ng to the furnishing and resources OF
The house. The novelty Of this plan
viii prove Its certain recommendation
70 those who have tired Just a wee bit
II the regulation Christmas celebration.
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1t was the metal of kings and high
| priests.
Franklncense was equally symbolic.
II was known throughout India and
Arabia and the Holy Land as the en-
blem Of prayer. II was a costly perfume,
drawn from rare tree, and when the
magi filed the little birth chamber at
Bethlehem with the sweet fragrance Of
this precious substance It was in a
spirit Of profound alteration,
Equally appropriate was the gift Of
myTh. Myrrh was a substance Of an
cient use and was burned in the tenn
pies during the sacred rites of worship,
Myrrh Is sort Of balsam obtained
from the bark Of tree-the tear drops
Of a wounded tree" In ancient times
II was used as a medicine and a fumi-
gator, and also, on account of its
poignant odor, as a perfume. At times,
too, 1t was made use OF in embalming
the dead. Like frankincense, 1t was a
rare and costly substance, and a gift
such as might appropriately be pre-
sented TO a king.
SO these mysterious wise men came
and made their gifts and departed
again. On Christmas morning they
rode silently over the hills to Beth
lehem, and, We are told, after offering
their gifts and alteration, departed
into their own country another way"
II is, today, a beautiful story for our
workaday world to remember when
busted men and women and children go
about on Christmas morning exchang-
Ing greetings and gifts. And so long
as that story is remembered and
Christmas day is observed the world
viii continue to be Christian world.
TRUMAN l.. ELTON.
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or cry, and sometimes they offer vio-
ence. The dealers do swindle, more
over, using waxed cards at monte and
a secret spring az the roulette wheel, by
which they can make the little marble
stop short Of the winning point. The
stakes are not large, seldom more than
81 on a single card or turn Of the wheel.
The Americans who visit the old town
and attempt 70 learn the mysteries OF
these Mexican games generally return
only with the usual experience.
The cooking mains are always largely
attended, women and boys forming a
large part Of the unselect audience. The
pit is arranged in amphitheater style.
the admittance price ranging from 10
cents to % cents for choice seats. When
the birds are brought into the. ring by
the fighters, the women FISH out OF their
pockets little wallets OF small coin and
begin to shout, Una paso" OF Dos
pasosw (s1 or s2) on their favorlte
chickens. The challenge is CALAMITY
taken by some young senior, or, perhaps,
by another woman. All are smoking
cigaritos, and the Amerioanos are
swelling the cloud Of smoke with their
Mexican made cigars. When some
reckless American offers to hazard $40
there is CONSERVATION in the pit. Mex
lean gaffs are used. They are as sharp
as razor and taper to a needlelike
point. When the gaffs have been fixed.
themasterof ceremonies announces with
the usual bombast that always precedes
anything Of public nature undertaken
by Mexican that the exhibition will
now begin, and he thanks the senors
and senoras for their gracious atten-
ton. As soon as the birds are released
they eye each other, as II taking their
measure, and, after a few passes, get
down 10 business. Usually the first
lick ends the fight. and also the bird. IL
delivered In a vital part. Then the pit
Is In an uproar, the winners shouting
over victory, while the losers hiss and
whistle In denunclation Of the van
qulshed rooster. Five or six mains are
pulled of, and the afternoons sport
ceases. The dead birds fall TO those
who handled them and are cooked for
a family feast the next day. II they
can be cooked TO an edible consistency
by that time.
In the evening there is gran fan
dango' at one Of the pulquerias--a gar
den saloon where mescal and pulque
are sold A fandango is a free for all
dance and is generally attended by the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
SOUTH AERICAN STATIONS.

The traveller on the Cape Colony rail-
road wonders when he comes to a sta
ton that there is no sign OF the town
or village from which the station takes
its name. An old timer in the country
viii tell him that the village IS from
five to seven miles from the railroad
station. This Is the case in scores Of
places, and the railroad engineers when
surveying for the road even went out
of the way to locate the depot miles
away from any town. II is a common
assertion in Cape Colony that this was
done through the influence Of the con-
tractors, who are said to have made a
large pile by the action OF the engineers.
Whether this Is true or not the writer
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

Z an all the world az Chrlstmestide,
found their first inspiration on that
sweet morning when the angels sang
together over the birth Of the Holy
Child IN a humble Judean manger The
spirit Of the pagan has been lost IN the
past, and today II is the spirit OF Christ
that dominates all our most cherished
and most beloved festivities on the
worlds greatest and most enduring
holy DAY,
Gift making is the feature Of our
modetn Christmas. Such a practice is
full Of beautiful significance when one
turns back to the gospel according 90
St. Matthew and reads the old familiar
lines about the wise men who came out
Of the east;
"And they came into the house, and
saw the young Child with Mary, his
mother; and they fell down and wor-
SHIPPED him; and opening their treas
ures, they offered unto him gifts, gold
and frankncense and myrrh."
II seems strange nowadays 10 think
Of those first Christmas presents and
the conditions under which they were
given. And 1t is worth noting that
there was a special significance in each
thing presented 20 the Christ Child.
They were gifts such as in olden times
were usually offered to a king. TO the
eastern mind Of the time gold was the
most precious substance IN the world.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
CHRISTMAS AS A TOKEN OF + r
r + THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY.

frost nlpped knees among the frozen
MUS OF long ago provided ample rea-
son for thanksgiving and merrymak-
ing.
Up TO the fourth century the eastern
church recognized the 9Th day Of jan
uary long known as Little Christ
mas, as the time for celebrating both
the birth and the baptism of the Christ
enid. The great majority OF the civ
llized world, however, has long since
unquestoningly accepted the 25th OF
December as established by the Ro-
man. church, as the day Of the savlour's
birth Since this has been done skep-.
teal historian or two has attempted TO
shake the popular belief in this date.
But through all the changing centuries
man has not allowed the day to change
and II viii be bold iconoclast indeed
who would today attempt to take away
from the world its firm belief In the
accuracy OF Christmas day.
II is well known that in Palestine
from the middle Of December to the
middle of February there is COM
paratiyely dry season between the early
and the later winter rains. and during
this season It was the custom for shep-
herds to tend their fiocks on the plains
Of Bethlehem. Those shepherds It must
have been who, 20 centuries ago, saw
the new star in the east.
While the church, after the birth Of
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
KRuGnR,s SONS AND enAypsoys.

1t is said that President Kruger has
sent seven sons and 80 grandsons into
the Boer army TO fight the English in
addition to taking the field himself.
Fritz Eloff, his great-grandson. bears
the courtesy title Of lieutenant" in
spite Of the fact that he is only 4 years
old. The little fellow is passonately
fond Of guns and horses and looks for
ward TO the day when he can march
and fight beside his father, Captain
saral Eloff. who is one Of the officers In
command Of the fortincations az Jo-
hannesburg. Lieutenant" Fritz has
been popular alike with the English
and the Beers In the Transvaal capital.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

hIarlty In honor Of the mythical king
Saturn who was later deifed. Saturn
was supposed to have ruled over the
golden age, that time looked back upon
by the Romans as a period Of universal
peace and happiness,
These games and rituals Of the sat
urnalla took place every year, begin
ming on the 18th Of December and last
Ing at first three and then later seven
Gays which would, OF course, carry
them through to that evening which
Is our Christmas eve.
During the saturnala there was not
only general jolllfcation, but, II must
be confessed a great deal of wine was
consumed by the Roman populace, and
much Of the merrymaklng descended to
fibaldry. All the usual order Of things
was upset, Slaves sat at table with
their masters, menlals were allowed to
make jests with or at their superlors,
and Il was a rule that the wealthy and
hghborn should wait upon their serv-
ants No one was supposed to take
The most outrageous conduct seriously,
and no one lost his temper whatever
The Joke or Jest might be. Wine and
song and laughter ruled the empire on
those days OF primitive merrymakIng,
ior II was, in short, an era Of good feel
Ing among all people. just as Christ
mas day, In a more refined sense, IS
among ourselves. What is still more
remarkable was that little clay images,
or In other words. dolls, and even toys,
were presented by Roman parents to
Their children. During saturnala week
nobody was so foolish as TO work, prep
aratlons being made weeks beforehand
ior the heightened festivities.
Historians have been able TO trace
Without much difficulty this December
celebration OF the Romans back to the
and Of the Greeks, where, In fact, the
Romans seem 10 have got all that was
best In their civilization. In truth II
goes back to still older peoples, and
mere is no means Of ascertalning today
Just how early in the childhood Of the
world the traditions embodied in our
annual merrymaklng first originated.
RON as far back as our knowledge
goes both the Celts and the Teutons
honored the same season as did the
Romans and with much the same fes.
uyl'les. II is generally accepted that
NE reason for this may be attributed to
me time Of the winter solstice occurring
last when 1t did, when all nomad and
I'll housed people were ready to rejoice
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
UNHRIsTMAs"-eyery one should
vi know the meaning Of the word,
~ vet how few ever think OF L.

UNHRIsTMAs"-eyery one should
'" know the meaning Of the word,
~ yet how few ever think Of 1t.
Christmas, "the mass OF Christ how
often one might ask. Is the day
thought Of as primarily one for the re-
uelous celebration Of the anniversary
Of the Saviour's birth?
II cannot be said that the religious
sgnihcance Of the day has been for
gotten: only In modern times a new
method has come about for celebrating
Il TradltlonS that jealous guardian OF
the past, has kept careful watch over
ibe day.. In fact Christmas day now
IL such a sweet confusion Of conflicting
traditions and historical associations
,hst il is hard to distinguish the pagan
from the Christian in the original
sources Of those forms and festivities
and beliefs that attach TO the 25th Of
december as Il is celebrated today.
Few people, when they behold the
Fasting and giftmaking and merrl-
ment of this season, are aware that a
great many OF the frolics and social
customs Of this holiday time are al
most wholly derived from pagan or
heather institutions, essentially Chris
tan as the spirit OF modern Christmas
tide may be-
Just at this season Of the year the
Romans had their saturnalia, which
we're holidays devoted to boisterous
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
Tie Quaint Christmas
Customs Of New Mexico

The Mexicans IN the old settlements
Of New Mexico celebrate Christmas IN
The most picturesque style. A Christi
mas at "Old Albuquerque" IL like a leaf
from the past when the spaniards held
the southwest. The customs Of the
earliest settlers on this continent have
been transmitted through generations,
and the picture remains the same,
though the characters change "Old
Albuquerque" or. "Old Town is about
two miles cast Of the new Albuquerque.
or the American town They are as
distinct In population end 40 unlike In
appearance as u they were q thousand
miles apart. The dividing line is Ike
that Of the mingling Of rivers Of diff
ferent colorcd waters. Americans rare
~ yisl. the "o.d town" except on cele-
bration days. Tho Christmas feast, as
Il IS termed lasts two or three days,
during which there are cooking mains,
horse racing monte and other games,
and a ,andcuGo each might on the day
preceding Christmas the old town Is
crowded with visitors from the nearby
Mexican settlements, who have arrived
carly FOR tho round Of sports. The
plaza has been inclOsed and all kinds OF
games are in full blast--n0ntc. chusa
(roulctte) and chuck-a-luck. The Mex
lean dealer wears a wide, bell crowned
hat braided with silver aud q buckskin
Jacket, also braided, but moro elab-
oratcly lie wears a large red sash
which supports his pantaloons, and pro-
truding from the sash is the inevitable
dagger. The tables are wen patronlzed
by men. boys and women. The women
are inveterato gamesters, and, while
they do not bet as large sums, they
make more noise over their losses. They
either accuse the dealers OF swindling
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

he Is a millionaire, owns the largest
Individual interest in the Calumet and
Hecla and other companies and the
largest private library and best collec-
ton OF paintings in Michigan.
James Lloyd, a prosperous old cit
lien OF Troup county, Georgia, was
photographed recently in the midst Of
a group Of his children, grandchildren
and great-grandchlldren, numbering 81.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

a holy and benencent plant. as in fact
its colloQuial name today Of 'al hear
still shows, and II was customary to
distribute it among the people as some-
thing which would guard and protect
them during the following u months
before the next ceremony took place.
But when Christianity became the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

such success with his Dooley papers,
is the managing editor OF the Chicago
Evening Journal.
At Belleville, Kan, a circus changed
its line OF parade in order that two
sick boys might look out OF the window
and see the procession go BY.
Not many years ago J. n. Wright Of
Detroit was a miner. Then he rose TO
the place OF superintendent. Today
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

the year they were made use Of on the
day Of the anniversary Of the birth Of
Christ. In this the pagan Druid Gus
tom and the imported Teutonlc custom
OF putting up the Christmas tree were
combined. and green became the pop
ular emblem at Chrlstmastlde.
The most beautiful and the mos!
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

Seven grandchildren were unable to be
present at the family union.
II is said that General Sir Redvers
Butler carried with him TO South AZ
RIGA the British flag which was hoisted
al Pretoria in 1881. Anothe- British
hag-the one which was hauled down
after Majuba-is buried In Pretoria be-
meath a tombstone on which Is lnscris.
co the single vera "Resurgam."
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

mere lad walked all the way to his
present home.
Finley Y. Dunno, George AIDE and
VIII Payne whose works have attract
ed much favorable attention, are Chi
cago newspaper men. All three began
their newspaper work on the Chicago
News. Mr.. AIDE is now on the Chicago
Record. Mr.. Payne Is editor OF The
Economist, and Mr.. Dunno, who scored
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW.

Journey TO Africa. which he predicts
will be the most successful for his the
DRY yet made.
Leopold, count Of Thnn-Hohenstein,
an Austrian nobleman who enlisted as
a private In the United States army,
has been made a second lieutenant
and assigned TO duty with the Forty
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

sixth volunteer infantry. He accom-
panles that regiment TO the Philippines.
Ex-senator John II. Reagan, the sole
survivor OF Jefferson Davis cabinet.
and the orator at the recent unwilling
OF the Davis statue at Richmond. Is 81
years old. but is stIll in good health and
active In politics. He is at the head OF
the Texas state railway commission.
He was born in Tennessee, and as a
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

=. theodore Crosby OF Canandaigua, ~
- has been voter for IS years. Mr..
..,osoy claims he is a descendant OF
Mlred the Great. One OF his ancestors
'e,.led at Cape Cod IN 1880.
=. Tiofessor r. l.. Garner, the famous
student Of monkey language. is about
" undertake another and much larger
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
JOHANNESBURG.

johannesburg Is a boom town, but,
unlike most cities Of Ike character. II is
solidly and permanently built, many Of
the residences being verltable palaces
Of granite and marble that would do
credit 10 any OF our American cities.