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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
cHEsTNUTs IN PLENTY.
Local Bicycle Men Raid the Trees ir
the Country.

Yesterday was not an ideal day for
the bicycle enthusiasts, and the ma
jority of the local riders were satisfied
with making short excursions into the
surrounding country roads after chest
nuts.
The sportively inclined club members
were out in force to see the interesting
event of the day, when two speedy
riders of the Century Cycle Club tried
theoretically to settle the question of
supremacy. Edward A. Parker and
William Brown, with all the club mem
bers, went to Tatnuck, and rode from
that place to the old Trinity cycle
works on Chandler street, a distance
of two miles.
The race was agreed upon as the best
two out Of three heats, unpaced. The
first heat was won by Parker, in Am
LIS. The second heat was a surprise
to the talent, as Brown took the bit in
his teeth and rode Parker off his feet
winning in Am. 9s The game was then
called on account of darkness, and the
riders returned to the Century Cycle
Club rooms, where the race was dis
cussed. The next will be pulled off
Sunday over the same course, providing
that the racing board does not put a
sup " H. NZulle d lOI OI money is
wagered on the outcome of Sundays
race.
The officials of yesterdays race were:
Referees, William Balm and H. N. St.
Martin; starter, Capt. John E. Brown;
judges at finish and timers, A. G.
Smalley and Edward Downs The
boys under command of Capt. Brown
went out to Holden reservoir after
chestnuts, in the morning. The COM
l.. u.
the rooms met yesterday, and decided
to have the work on the rooms started
today.
The Newport Bicycle club members,
under command Of Lieut.. K F. Smith,
went after chestnuts to Paxton. The
party included c. S. Macintosh, Otis
Shattuck, ]. T. Johnson, Ernest Lock-
wood and John McCorney. The latter
did not start with the rest of the party,
who left in the forenoon. The boys dined
at the Paxton Inn and later made raid
on the chestnuts in that vicinity They
reported chestnuts plentiful. The COM
mittee on the coming social to be held
Oct. 10 at Terpsichorean hall report
that sale Of tickets is gratifying and the
prospects are for great success, finan-
cially and socially.
The Worcester Cycle club members,
under Lieut.. Olin Davis, were after
cheStnutS and went on several trips.
The first trip was to Paxton in the
morning and later to the Summit In
the afternoon the two parties combined
and went to Millbury. where they re-
ported chestnuts in abundance
The Vernon Bicycle club raided the
chestnuts along the line of North Graf
ton and Westboro with good results.
The boys were under command of Capt.
F. S. Russell and they had all the pace
that GOULD be desired with Russell and
Kenniery, Welsh and Couture, Murray
and Hutchinson, Lee and Derosiers and
Dean and Hines on tandems. The boys
brought back enough chestnuts to last
them for some time.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
BOTH FOES EASY.

Chicago, Oct. 8. = Chicago won two
games today, Cleveland being very easy.
Louisville had Waddell in the box, and
was a hard proposition. although the Or
phans hit him opportunely. Lange's
homer in the second game was the fea-
ture of the day. Attendance 1000. Score:
FIR ST G A M e
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Earned runs, Chicago 4, Louisville g;
left on bases. Chicago ). Louisville 5:
two two-b ,gs hits, LANCE, Wssgner: three
flee hit Chance; stolen bases, Lange,
Mertes; struck out, by Griffith 8; passed
ball. Chance; bases on balls, off Grit
fifth 8, off Waddell 8; hit with ball, Grit
fifth. Time, 1S5. Umpires, Latham and
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
LESSONS IN FENCING.
Members of the Worcester Fencinq
Club Will Hold a Tournament.

Club viii Hold a Tournament.
The annual meeting of the Worcester
Fencing club will be held this evening
at its Sale d'Armes, 20 Chase build
ing. The class will receive it's first les
son from Lucien Fournon, who is con-
ceded to be the best maitre d'armes IN
America. He will come from Boston
this evening to give instruction to the
class, which has a membership Of 25
enthusiastic swordsmen, all of whora
have advanced to a greater or less de-
gree of proficiency in workmanship.
The members are planning a series Of
tournaments during the winter in which
cups will be- given to the most expert.
In the tournaments, each member # the
class will fence with every other mem
Der, which means that the tournament
will extend over several evenings The
plans have not yet been definitely ar
ranged
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
MANAGER sHARRoTT.
Worcester's Sun Fielder viii Be an
Assistant Boniface.

John Fl. Sharrott, right fielder of the
Worcester ball team, and having the rep
utation of being the best sun fielder" in
the business, will remain in Worcester for
the winter j j. Kennedy, proprietor of
where Sharrott had made his headquar-
ters since his arrival in Worcester, has
rendered the ball player a position as as
cepted. He will look after the interests
of the house on the hours in which Mr.
Kennedy is off duty
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
JOIN THE MACCABEEs.

At special meeting of the Hebrew De-
batting Society last evening it was voted
to join the Maccabee Society as body,
and in addition to turning over all rec
ords and other property of the organiza-
ton, $3.50 in cash will be given over to the
treasury of the Maccabee Society.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
CLEVELAND.

Earned runs Chicago Z; left on bases,
Chicago Z, Cleveland 4; two-base hits,
LANCE, Everett 2, Hughey; home runs,
Mertes, Bradley; stolen bases, Lange,
Everett. Mertes o. double plays, Magoon,
Mccormick and Everett, Everett unas
sisted Harley, Sugden and Kruger;
struck out, by Taylor l, by Hughey 8;
bases on balls, off Taylor /, off Hughey 1;
hit by bail Bradley. Time, LAO. UNI
pires. Latham and Connolly.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
MIDcETs WANT a GAME.

The Alton Midgets would like to play
the Vernon Squares at foot ball on Gar
veys field. The average weight of the
Alton Midgets is 95 pounds If the Yer
non Squares are willing to play, they can
arrange a game for Saturday morning at
10 o'clock.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
TEN ERRORS AND WON.

st. Louis, Oct s-St. Louis team took
the first game and tied the second with
Cincinnati today. st. Louis made ten
errors in the first. but was lucky and won
out by good batting in the ninth. At
tendance II, 100 Score:
FIR ST G AME.
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N.HICENER CUSTOM TAILORING, IS Pleasant ST

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FBatted for Young in the ninth.
cICINNATI.

Earned runs, st. Louis A. sacrifice hits,
Setback, Heidrick, Irwin, Cross Kahoe,
Wallace; two-base hits Schreck, Elber-
field; three-base hits, Beckley Heidrick;
home rum Donlin double play Cross and
Schreck; bases on balls, off Hawley 5;
Wallace. Cross, Irwin; wild pitch, Haw-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09

enables all to be well and well enact
their part of life's drama. When you
know it is made by the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing Assn, you are assured
Of its merit.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
LEAGUE PERcENTAeEs.
GAMES TODAY.

Boston at Philadelphia Brooklyn at
New York; Baltimore at Washington;
Cleveland at Pfttsburg.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09

Boys haven't always a great magma
ton, but most Of them have good deal
of tenacity. A man wishing to make
himself pleasant to the little brother Of
his betrothed, told him to wish for some
thing. and he would give 1t to him. "a
box of chocolates, said the boy. what
else?" asked the generous lover can
other box of chocolates" ION, but wish
for something else. Your little stomach
couldn't hold all those chocolates. ? well,
then" answered the boy, another stom,
ach. H Household Words.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
Registered IN NEW YORK.

G. F.. Orr, at the Park Avenue; r. M.
Marcy and M d. Marcy, at the st
George; j Worden, v. G. Golding, at
the Bay State.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
CHICAGO WINS TWO.
Windy City Batters
Lace Out Many
Base Hits.
MISFITS AND COLONIES EASY.
st. Louis Takes One and
Ties the Sec
ond.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

Chicago ID; Cleveland o.
Chicago q; Louisville 3.
st. Louis S; Cincinnati
st. Louis 4; Cincinnati
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
S f c o N D G A M E
ST. LOUIS,
CINCINNATI
Called on account Of darkness.

Cincinnati ................1 0 OIL
Sacrifice hit, Wallace; two-base hit,
Heidrick;- three-base hit Beckley; hit by
pitcher, McPhee; double play Heidrick
and Cross; base on balls, off Powell;
struck out by Powell 2, by Hahn q; wild
pitches, Hahn 1. Time, 1.O2. Umpires,
ODay and Mcdonald
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
MRS. sTAcEY's WAR RELICS
Hers Is Probably the Finest Collection
in New York City.

Every woman in New York has her
treasury of war souvenirs, large or
small. from a button to a musket,
bunch of cartridges to her heroes
shoulder strap. Probably no finer col
lection is to be found that that of Mrs.
May Banks Stacey, the well-known club
woman. Her peculiar advantages as the
widow of an army officer and mother of
two boys at present in the service-one
already a liedtenant-with hosts of
friends of high and low degree among
Uncle Sans soldiers, has brought her
a lions share of the spoils. Her series
Of daggers is a blood curdling exhibit
ton, from the curved blade with it's
carved hilt to the common knife, con-
verified by necessity into an implement
of warfare and slUng in a sheath of
bark on the belt. The blood stains have
rusted strange devices on their smooth
surfaces. There is a machete, a magni-
hcent sword in a silver scabbard, cap
tured from a Spanish officer, buttons
galore of both nations, but the gem of
the whole assortment is a Geneva watch
in silver with Spaniard's coat-of-arm
on the front of the case in gold repousse
work. Mrs. Stacey's unique fancy has
fashioned a watch chain from the twist
ed gold cords of an American soldiers
cap, and the pin which fastens it is the
golden eagle from All epaulatte.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
THE AUTOMOBILE FACE.
a New Kind of Expression That Strikes
the Fashionable Girl.

a New Kind of Expression That Strikes
the Fashionable Girl.
She was surrounded by bevy of ca
er, questioning ladies, and she enjoyed
it.
Eyes, it's delightful" she said, enthu-
siastically Il can't describe the SEN
sation, but imagine that it's very like
thatof sailing through the air on wings.
And 1t seems so odd to be moving ra-
pidly along without any visible motive
power"
Where DO they keep the motor?''
Il never thought to inquire, or in
vestigate. l just ride for pleasure, you
know"
I should think you'd be interested in
the mechanism, said the plain-faced
little woman.
mot bit Do you study the machin-
cry of a steamboat or of locomotive
when you travel? OF course not. 1t is
enough for me to know that l go
SWIMMING along lodging hither and
thither like swallow, and enjoying a
yanteexhilaration,
Puts on good many airs" said one
neighbor to another, as they walked
home after the rapidly disappearing au-
tomobie. You'd think she invented
the horseless carriage and owned the
only one il use, instead of taking a few
rides by special invitation. And did you
notice that she's getting the automobile
faee?'
II noticed she looked kind of queer"
Yes, proud and puffed up as if she
We're somebody bettern any other wo-
man. That's the way they all look
Golfers Weekly.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
ATHLETIC RINGS.
Golf, Rowing, Riding and Hunting
Have Each Their Symbols.

The jewelers. trays are filled with
curious little rings, which, at first
sight, seem to carry no meaning, but
which, upon a second glance, are most
suggestive in their symbolism. These
inexpensive little fancies are the fad
of the hour
For instance, here is a golf stick
twisted into a crisis, the gold being
corrugated to reproduce the heavy
leather covered band, while pear ball
ornaments the tip. What more appro-
pirate prize than this could be given
to the winner of a golf tournament?
Then for the rowing girl we have a
delicately fashioned loop, made of a
thin, curved spoon oar of the racing
shell. And the hunting girls heart is
delighted with a horn twisted into a
circle with a foxs head for an orna-
ment. In this connection there is also
shown riding crew with a horses
head.
OF course the expense attached to
these rings remain a matter of choice
with the purchaser They can be per-
fectly plain, or the devices with which
they are ornamented may be as ex-
travagant as ones purse will allow,
Many of them are shown heavily in
crusted with gems, but for the purpose
for which they were originally de-
signed they are certainly in better
taste for being simple and good mate
Inquirer.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
THE BEST HUSBANDS.
American Men Are to Be Preferred to
Englishmen.

1.-THE truth is that American men make
the very best husbands of any men in
the world" remarks Mrs. Frank Leslie
in "a Social Mirage" 1.-THE irresistible
Latin lover makes an extremely poor
husband. In fact, the honeymoon is
scarcely over before he resumes the oc-
cupation of love-making. The British
lover and the American lover are about
on par, although the Englishman, as a
general thing, assumes as soon as he is
engaged a certain air of authority and
proprietorship which the American never
dreams of at any period of his career as
a lover and husband. l feel sure that in
the English marriage service the obey
is spelled with big o. for it seems the
principal point of the brides new duties,
and the dancee is cheerfully ready to be-
gin to practise her obligations If she
tries to rebel, her mother and friends,
perhaps her betrothed himself, cali her to
account with the threat that If she
doesn't take care she will lose her OPP
portunity.
Every rule has its exceptions. no
doubt, but as a rule the American hus-
band is the best husband in the world -
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
Their YOUTH
American Women
Who Seem to
Grow Young.
THEY STUDY THEIR HEALTH.
Are Taken for Elder Sisters
of Their Grand
children.

A critical Englishman, who has been
making the tour of the states, has ac-
tually listed a number of women who
as he expresses it aptly, look quite as
if they might be the elder sisters of
their grandchildren, and who, unlike
the European women, resort to no ar
tificial aids for the preservation or
stimulation of their exquisite freshness,
says the Washington Times.
On his list of girlish matrons, Mrs.
William Sloan stands at the head.
Though she has had the life of an ave-
rage busy, conscientious wife, mother.
capable housekeeper and ardent lover
of social pleasures; though she has
married off two tall daughters, she re-
tains the appearance of a woman we'll
under thirty. Her richly abundant
red gold hair shines with all the glory
of great youthfulness, and with slim,
erect figure, and complexion as
smoothly pink as that of a Dresden
china shepherdess, it is quite impossi-
BILE to realize that she is in middle life.
Perhaps her nearest rivals in reten-
ton of youthfulness are Mrs. Belle Will
son and Mrs. Fred Grant When Mrs.
Wilson stands beside her daughter, Mrs.
George Renlp, there is not a line,
hair, tint Of skin, or curve of figure
to indicate that there is nearly twenty
five years difference in their ages. AL
most as striking a likeness exists be-
tween the future Princess Cantacuzene
and her mother.
In point Of true beauty, Mrs. Grant
is the fairer woman of the two, and
stranger at Newport was not even
laughed at when seeing the mother
and daughter together he asked which
was the betrothed Of the Russian
prince. Mrs. Henry Clews and Mrs.
Van Rensselaer, Cruger both came in
for first places.
Mrs CleWs is the mother of a daugh-
ter who has been four years in society,
and women who were Mrs. Cruger's
contemporaries as debutantes are the
proud grandparents of 10-year-old boys
and girls. For all that Mrs. Cruger
shows a complexion that an 1S-year-
old girl might envy and pair of shout
ders Greek Venus would regard with
approval. Though a younger woman,
Mrs. Clews is likely to retain her fine
coloring, her beautiful brown hair and
her svelt figure as long as Mrs. Cru
ger has. Quite as remarkable as
either of these ladies are Mrs. Henry
Poor, Mrs. John Widening and Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish.
The last l entioned lady is bringing
INTO society young daughter TINS sea-
son, and at first the Englishman fatty
refused to believe that a grown-up
daughter could call the slight viva
cious little lady mother OF all the
omen mentioned, not one but takes
care never to let her appetite get the
better of her, invariably to catch nine
hours sleep out of the twenty-four, to
spend three hours daily in the open
air, and to rely on massage, cold water
baths and physical exercise for the
rest
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
THE HIPLEss FIGURE.
Full Bust and No Hips Characterize the
Latest Partisan Figure.

If you are laboring under the de!usion
that padded hips are in fashion, you
must get rid of it at once. The newest
Partisan figure is hipless, and seems To
have been especially invented Tor the
clinging skirts. 1t calls for the full
bust, naturally placed, but no hips, and
this is the way in which it is secured:
Two sets of laces are provided one of
elastic, which begins at the waist lire
and continues to the top, where 1t is
left extremely loose to give fully bust
effect The elastic expands and con-
tracts with the movement of the cnest.
The other lacing, of linen or silk. is put
in at the bottom of the corset and ex-
tends to the waist line, bring the two
parts of the corset as near together as
possible. This gives a most fetching
figure. AS for pads, many of them are
seen, all showing plainly, and giving
grotesque appearance to the Wearer,
particularly when one or both have
been pushed a bit out of place. There
were two or three girls at the music
festival who wore hip pads When they
sat down the hips rose around their
waist, and their neighbors laughed.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
THE SAGGlNG HABIT.
Shoulders Are Often Neglected, but
Repay Attention.

A common form of neglect, says the
Cleveland Leader, is the shoulders. which
are allowed in childhood to grow Iop-
sided and take on an ungraceful stoop.
Often they are crowded so by ill-ftting
corsets that they seriously displace the
collarbone. Instead of such malforma-
tion, they should be level, large, erect,
insensibly descending and well poised
making the waist appear round and small
Massage and oils will do much TO tone
UP the neglected shoulders, and the skin
can be Whitened and made bea utifully
firm by this paste, which is of Spanish
origin: Beat the whites of four eggs in
rose water, adding few grains of alum
Beat until the paste is thick. Spread the
composition on a layer of old linen and
apply to the neck and shoulders at night
French ladies are so expressive with their
shoulders that they give them every ad-
vantage, as their 'shrug" Is a part of
this subject says "A difficult habit to
break is that easy. lazy, manner of sag
ging down when sitting. which, in addi-
ton to sleeping on high pillows. makes
$50 many round shoulders and sunken
chests. People should always watch
fault, straighten up; but it is so easy to
settle down in this way after wears of
indulgence in the habit, that many get
discouraged and prefer to grow crooked
Let me warn you, ladies, to be externally
yigilant in acquiring a good sitting pos
ture. The joints you possess were given
to you to bend with and it is almost a
crime to sag down as If you had no
lungs or other vital organs. Hold in the
backbone, throw the chest out, bend from
the hips only, and so contribute to the
perfection of your figure, your beauty and
VO11r health
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
VEGETARIAN PRINCIPLES.
Interesting Facts Unearthed by Con-
eress in London.

interesting points were brought out
at recent vegetarian congress in Lon
don. The st. Francis hospital in South
London has over 5000 patients and is
conducted on vegetarian principles. In
the Oriolet vegetarian hospital, at
Loughton, it is said that patients are
taken from other hospitals and cured.
Records are being kept there of the
effect of dietic treatment, particularly
with regard to cancer
The many vegetarian restaurants in
England are run on commercial lines,
and are prosperous. A hotel opened in
birmingham has been so successful
that the company is about to pay a
dividend of 10 per cent.
1t seems that there are vegetarian
athletes in cricket foot ball and other
sports, and that at the Thames Iron
and Shipbuilding Company many of
the worlImen are vegetarians. A vege-
tartan choir sang at the congress, and,
presumably, all the men present wore
the vegetarian boots, of which samples
were exhibited.
The real difficulty in vegetarianism,
according to one speaker, comes when
house is divided against itself, one
housekeeper says and part eat only
vegetables and part only meat In this
case, she believes it is only fair to let
the meat eaters have a choice, and
then, if they choose the meat, the veg
etarians dishes are denied them
Much nourishment is lost by boiling
vegetables instead of steaming Them"
says another vegetarian.
The congress also brought out the
fact that there have been civilized veg
etarian bears One in Berlin it was
necessary to kill after his diet had
been changed to meat. Another, in
Michigan lost all his good vegetarian
morals upon eating meat, and there
upon killed and ate a kind and harm
less dog.
Many physicians in America are
preaching a dietary with more vegh-
tables and much less meat. One Amer
lean vegetarian of So, who has been
sixty years without meat has for
breakfast porridge and milk, with one
potato; for dinner two or three vege-
tables, with rice pudding and fruit, and
for supper whole-wheat bread, cheese
and two cups of weak tea.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
PATRIOTIC LITHUANIANs.
Five Hundred Girls Prepare Royal
Welcome for Emperor William.

In the province of Prussia, five hun
dred peasant girls are forming into a
cavalry regiment to offer to Emperor
William right royal welcome when he
repairs to his summer hunting grounds
in Rominten prairie at the close of the
yachting season. They are Lithuan-
ians and the name style of the regi-
ment Is Imperial mountain women
volunteers" Its members are entitled
to the ordinary soldiers mess, but re-
ceive no pay The reviewing officers
all agree that they never met with re-
eruits exhibiting so much intelligence
and skill in the handling of horses and
in obeying signals Count Bismarck
says THE Lithuanians are a small
race, compactly built; they have linn
tied stretch of limb. men and women
being much alike in outward appear
ances. Yet these girls seem to ma
neuvre their horses at will, through
scorning stirrups and spurs and whip
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
ENTIRE WHEAT BREAD.

To one tablespoonful each Of shorten
ing and sugar, add one and one-half tea
spoonfuls of salt and one cup each OF
boiling water and scalded milk. When
lukewarm add one yeast cake dissolved
in one-quarter cup lukewarm water; then
add one cup white flour and enough entire
wheat flour to knead. having the dough
as soft as can be handled Cover and let
rise until II doubles its bulk Shane into
,,"ave.s cr biscuits, let rise again and bake
in hot oven.