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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-05

excuse. By the holy laws Of Supply and
Demand, in the absence of a particular
object to vent itself on. the spleen is
discouraged from secreting wrath, and
the midriff declines to swell and black
en-. And such is the evolution of the OPP
timist.-From 1.-THE Point of View" in
the November Scribners.
The term gentleman" always rep
resents the total sum of a few qualifi-
cations which experience has proved to
be most useful in the actual state
of social life, and today it represents
qualifications that, upon the whole, are
not natural artistic qualifications.
There are those who will refuse to adj
init that the conception OF what a gem
tleman is varies with different epochs
and conditions They will assert that
the gentleman Of a thousand years ago,
of hundred years ago, is a gentle
man TO-DAY and will be one tomorrow.
AS to large matters of ethics and con-
duct yes; as to minor matters of be-
havior, no. We decide that a man is
a gentleman by the manner in which
he wears" in daily existence; in its
hap-hazard and promiscuous compan
ionships and situations And social life
at present is an International affair.
It's stages where they would former
extended surfaces. The gentleman of
today, therefore, is the individual who
best adapts himself to prevailing cir
cumstances by not stopping the general
flow of things with an intrusion, when
not strictly necessary, of his own per-
sonality. He is the individual who puts
no over-sensitive valuation on his per-
sonal standards, interferes little with
others, has the silent courage of his
own conduct, but no itch to explain it,
or himself, or to impose either on
preoccupied world that has no time to
attend and less patience. This, in any
case, may pass as a definition of the
social side of what the Anglo-Saxon
calls gentleman; and as the Anglo
Saxon race has spread over the face of
the globe more extensively than any
other and been brought in contact with
the greatest number of peoples under
the greatest diversity of circumstan-
ces, it may fairly be considered no bad
judge OF the way to get through that
complicated thing, modern life, with the
least irritability on all sides and the
smallest friction. We of the English
tongue. in short, believe at present that
man most acceptable to his fellows sill
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-05

sides of the great presidents character
as he does in the more obviously heroic
aspects. 1t will be interesting to see
if this is the real life that we have
been waiting for.
The volume is well printed, and has
an excellent frontispiece, portrait.
Richard Carver has just run into
it's 18th edition, which means that 200,@
900 copies have been sold since juno
list. The Chicago Tribune, which is a
fair representative of western literary
opinion, a1Eudes totit as the most notaS.
BILE historical novel written in many
yearsg while the 'tNation, n which may
be said to speak for the east s8id5a few
days ago, when writing of another
recent famous American historical. nov
ell, which has just been brought out in
a costly edition, that it would appeal
afresh to admirers Of Richard Cars
vel.' efs3
The Bow-Legged Ghost and tsothes
stories. BY Leon Mead, The Werner
Company. ss s.e..s,7
Whoever likes short story for q
night-cap should secure these tales by
Mr.. Mead, for, really, they possess, un-
usual merit. and their gentle humor is
just the thing to place ones. mind in
refinement, and a genuinely artistic
touch displayed throughout, the book.
The story Of the man who married the
bearded lady presents a most whimsi-
cal picture, and. one is sureato laugh
mildly to himself when he reads about
the man who tried to retrieve his for
tune by dyeing sparrows yellow and
selling them for canary birds. AS
each story is brief, the book contains
a great number; but none too many,
for every slzit in the collection has its
own peculiar charm.
The Bronze Buddha.. BY Cora Linn
Daniels. Little, Brown and Company.
The scene of this novel is placed chief
ly in New York, though the plot has to
do with an Indian prince endowed with
all the mysterious powers attributed to
his race A bronze buddha which had
been stolen from its shrine in India is,
sought the world over by the prince.
and an American. girl who become ri-l
walls for the possession of the god. The
mystery, which keeps leading the
reader on, is well Sustained to the vsFSs
close. There is no end of startling aiEs
uations.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-05

round who least obtrudes in personal
intercourse, the insistent personal note.
From American Society and the Art
ist," by Aline Gorren, in the November
Scribner's.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-
Dish Dainties," by Janet Mckenzie
Hill, editor of 1.-The Boston Cooking
School Magazine. with frontispiece
and thirty-two illustrations of original
dishes. Little, Brown & Co., publish
ers, 254 Washington street, Boston. Dec
coated cloth, $1:50.
Salads and chaf1ng-dish dainties are
destined to receive in the future more
attention from the progressive house
keeper. In the past their composition
and consumption has been left chiefly
to that portion of the community who
cook to please themselves" But since
women have Recommendations to COM
pete with men in every walk of life,
they, too, are ueshous TO become
adopts in tossing flp an appetizing salad
or in stirring a creamy rarebit. The
Illustrations are designed to make
plain few of the artistic effects that
may be produced by Various combina-
lions of simple materials.
A western bookseller was recently
approached by a customer who called
for Eugene Aram. 1t turned out that
what she wanted was not Bulwer Lyt-
toms book, but the very recent and
widely read David Harum." Yes, =
she cried brightly, when the bookseller
offered this suggestion 81 said Eugene
instead of David. Give me a coupy of
David Aram
Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the
People, by Norman Hapgood. Pub
lished by The Macmillan Company
Cloth.
There has recently been some dis
cussion in England in, connection with
books of the past year. about the cor
rect principles of biography Abra-
ham Lincoln would never read bio
graphies, fond as he was of reading
and of information about human char
acter, because, as he explained to his
law partner, the heroes We're so con-
ventionalized that they were all alike.
In this life of Lincoln, this apollo
getic and white washing attitude is abb
sent. The author, Norman Hapgood,
was brought UP near Lincoln's own
home, and he dwells with as much
satisfaction in the rough but sterling
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-05

Herbert e. Hamblens railroad stories
are about as characteristic and Ameri-
can as anything in the world of books.
1--WE Win brings before the bows, for
whom it is primarily intended, a vivid
picture of the life of railroad man.
Needless to say, however, the story is
the main thing, and it's adventures, in
terest and reality centre about-a young
railroader who learns the business UNI
der exceptional circumstances, and
who becomes, by lucky accident, a
public benefactor to his townsfolk.
There are some capital pictures, and
the front cover forms a suitable intro
duction to the spirited, rollicking story
within. Doubleday, Mcclure Co. For
sale by Putnam, Davis & Coz
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-05

''The Trail of the Sandhill Stag" By
Ernest Seton Thompson, naturalist to
the government of Manitoba. Publish
ed by Charles Scribners Sons of New
York. Sold by Putnam, Davis & Co.
Cloth, $1.50.
This is one of the odd books of the
season so far as typography and style
are concerned. The designs for the IT,
tie page, cover and general make up
and literary revision were done by Mrs
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson. The
text is POLITICALLY as attractive as the
pages are artistically. 1t is a gem of a
book.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-05

Almost the whole difference between
an optimist and a pessimist can be
traced straight to their attitudes to-
ward soulless things and irresponsible
forces. In a meandering brook two drops
of water will come pell-mell against
some jutting rock; the one win take the
rebuff gayly, leap off and go on its way
singing; the other will stop and fret,
allow itself to be jostled out of the cur
rent of progress and stagnate Behold
the optimist, the pessimist.
Now if one uses a fountain-pen (''well
named, tool" 1 hear the ghost of Mr..
Boffin whispering over my shoulder for
fountain-pen either gushes or chokes),
and the pen spatters his fine writing,
what vanity it is to hurl the pen away
with a melediction! for evil as it's deeds
are, it's intentions are neither moral nor
immoral, but absolutely immoral. While
1t is capable of almost anything else, it
is quite incapable of malice. If one will
only pause to hunt back to the actual
cause that is to blame one falls into
such a labyrinth of causation and modi-
flcation and notification that anger is
dissipated from very lack Of definite
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02

nad not been too jealous l would have
been elected. There was a precinct
where l expected TO receive 100 votes,
and feared there would pe some fraud
in the precinct that would injure me-
so l got AN old man who had never par
ticipated in politics, but who had al
most paramount influence in the dis
trict to take charge of my interests
there, instructing him TO see that every
friend of mine voted and that the votes
We're counted.
when the returns came in, | had
not received a single vote in that pre-
cinct, and the next day bulky envel-
ope was handed me containing 1870 bal
lots together with a letter from the
man / had left in charge saying that he
had seen every friend of mine and taken
up their ballots so that none would be
missed, and as he wouldn't trust the
judges OF elections he had sent them to
me himself so | would be sure to get
them. Since then have seen to it that
men in charge of my interests were not
only honest. but knew something about
DOlitics -
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02
A VICTIM OF TELEPATHY.
Ills ,b-ura peiu-ion- rinn,,y Dam

Ills tbrurd Deiu-ionz Finally BAN
iSh-d ny the Hypnotic Route.
There came to me late one night a
stranger in widest despair resolved to
commit suicide that night if | could
not help him, SAYS Professor Munster
berg in The Atlantic He had been 4
physician. but had given up his prac-
tice because his brother ON the other
side of the ocean. hated him and had
him under his telepathic influence,
troubling him from over the sea with
voices which Knocked him and with inn
pulses TO foolish actions He had not
slept nor had he eaten anything for
several days, and the only chance for
life he saw was that new hypnotic in
huence might overpower the mystical
hypnotic forces.
soon found the source of his trou-
BILE In treating himself for wound he
had misused cocaine in an absurd way.
and the hallucinations of voices We're
the chief symptom of his cocainism.
These products of his poisoned brain
had sometimes reference to his brother
in Europe and thus the telepathic sys-
whole life. ! hypnotized him. and sug-
gested to him with success to have
sleep and food and smaller dose of
cocaine. Then | hypnotized him daily
for six weeks After ten days he gave
up cocaine entirely, after three weeks
the voices disappeared and after that
the other symptoms faded away. ItwaH
not, however, until the end that the
telepathic system was exploded.
Even when the voices had gone he
for awhile felt his movements controlled
over the ocean, and after six weeks,
when | had him quite well again, he
laughed over his telepathic absurdities.
but assured me that if these sensations
came again he should be unable, even in
full health, to resist the mystical inter
probation, 80 vividly had he felt the
distant influences.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02
Madam. Great B.rgoi..

II was in an auction store on Main
street, just before the auctioneer mount
ed the box. Goods were being sold pri
vately to those who desired to buy A
wel dressed woman was examining a
bit of iewelry.
What is the price of thisr" she
asked
THAT viii cost you 81. madam. re-
piled the salesman.
Cant you shade that figure a bit!'
"No: can't possibly take cent less.
But II tell you what III do-if you
will wait few moments the auction
sale will be started. and I'll place the
article under the hammer You may
then be able to buy it in for almost
nothing.
The woman said she would wait.
Ten minutes later on the auctioneer
began the sale. There were some half
dozen people in the store. The bit of
jewelry in question was placed on the
counter and bids invited. Some one of
fered 80 cents, then 81 was bid, 81
followed and then So This last bid
was made by the woman who had sought
to buy the bit of jewelry before the sale.
A gentleman came in, looked at the ar
ticle and calvily said; II like that. III
give you 81. " The woman quickly
shouted Five dollarsl' Then the bid
ding ceased and the bit of jewelry was
turned over TO the last and best bidder.
She had refused to pay 81 a few min
utes before, but she forgot that and
went home TO tell hubby dear what a
bargain she got at the auction store for
a 50 bill. Memphis Scimitar.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02
Joseph Jefferson.

Joseph jefferson was playing one
night engagement in a small town, ap-
pearing in the part Rip Van Wrinkle.
which he has so often and ably imper-
sonated At the hotel where he staid
there was an Irishman who acted as
general assistant. Judged by the great
interest he manifested in the hotel he
might have been taken to be the pro
prietor. At about quarter to 6 in the
morning Mr.. jefferson was startled. not
to say alarmed, by "A violent humping
on his door When he recollected that
he had left no orders to be called so
early, he was naturally indignant. His
sleep was banished for that morning,
however, so he arose and soon made his
appearance before the clerk
"Look here, l say, he demanded of
this functionary, why was l called at
this unearthly hour p
II don't know, sir replied the
clerk, but l Il ask Pat. " Pat was sum-
moned Said the clerk; "Pat, there was
no call for this gentleman. Why did
you waken him p
Pat led the clerk TO one side and said
in mysterious whisper: HE wor
snorin loike horse. sor, an Old heerd
the hhoys s,yin somethin about how
he wor wapst afther shlapin for twinty
years, so Oi says to mesilf. 1T a-comin
unto i'm ag in. an it's yer juty to git
the crayther ont o yer house at
wanst ledger Monthly.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02
ADor md n Telephone.

AT the Redhill railway station a pas
senger recently came to the station
master in great grief, saying that heI
little pet dog had been left by accident
on the platform at Reigate and would
likely be either crushed by locomotive
or lost. The courteous official telephoned
through respecting the poodle, and the
answer came Immediately that dog of
that description had just been brought
into the police station. The receiver
was put to the dogs ear. and the lady
was asked to speak to it, She did SO
The effect was electrical The dog bark
ed a cordial recognition of the voice and
by its antics expressed great desire to
jump into the apparatus and traverse
the wire in order to get TO its mistress
all the sooner Birmingham England J
Mail
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02
EGyptiau BurIRIs.

1t has hitherto been supposed that in
Egypt the practice of embaming the
bodies of the dead and forming them
into mummies was the most ancient
method of sepulture, but Professor
Flinders Petrie. the well known Egyp-
tologist, has by recent excavations
thrown quite new light upon this
question of the ancient method of dis
posing of the dead. At Deshasheh, a
place about 30 miles south of Cairo, he
has discovered series of tombs, in the
coffins of which he has found complete
skeletons from which the flesh has been
carefully dissected, evidently previous
to burial The coffins are OF admirable
workmanship are made of sycamore
and are in perfect preservation not
withstanding their 8, 900 years burial
in the sand. 1t remains to be proved by
further excavations whether the mutila-
ton of the bodies was performed as
ceremonial rite or whether this removal
of flesh from the bones points to canni-
balism on the part of the ancient peo-
pie. Chambers Journal
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02
Snn1YhnII ShnNxer..

More than one explorer in cold eli
mates has noted the curious phenome-
non of SNOWFALL shower. The balls,
it is true, are not very big, the average
being about the size of hem s egg but
they are true snowbalis for all that
compressed globes of snow, not little
Jumps of ice or hail,
A fall of the kind occurred in north
London in March, 1859. and at the time
it was observed that the balls seemed five
times as dense and compressed as ordi
nary snow and in no way to be told
from the usual handmade missiles
They had fallen during the night and
were strewn many layers thick over a
very large area.
No cguse-except a doubtful electric
al one-can be ascribed for the strange
phenomenon, and mountaineers are apt
to discredit the stories of SNOWFALL
showers told them by the old guides till
suddenly in the midst of an ordinary
storm they find themselves asssiled as
though by myriads of mischievous
schoolboys. London Standard.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02
Type. of Husbands to Avoid.

There are two distinct types of hrs
bands who do more harm thsn they
would be willing to admit-the man
who permits himself to become gen
erous fgurehead in his own family,
rarely holding conversation with ms
wife or children, good neture5iy re
spending to any extravaganza for the
sake of peace, and the man who, though
conspicuous in the church and com
munity, tyrannizes over his family in
small things until, for the .k ke of peace,
they deceive him on every hand. -
Frances Evans in Ladies Home jour
nal
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02
VOCAL CULTURE.
The First Step lis Keeping the Mouth
Shut. Asleep or Awake.

shut. Asleep or Awake.
Proper breathing is so essential in
voice production that it must receive
first attention, and the first requirement
is to keep the mouth shut, writes
Katharine L. Junkermann in The Wo-
man Home Companion.
"Of course no tone can be either
strong or pure if the lungs are cramped
so that the air cannot find room. In or
der to increase the size of the lung ca
pacity raise the chest and keep the body
well and strongly poised
$50 much harm has been done to
voices by allowing the mouth to become
the regular air passage that the need of
care cannot be too frequently empha-
sized Besides the injury done by the
unwarmed air entering the lungs the
mucous membrane is hardened by the
saliva being dried up, and the muscles
of the tongue and throat grow stiff and
less responsive. 1t is comparatively easy
to control ones breathing when awake,
but when asleep the harm goes on. To
remedy this involves a slight discom-
tort but one can endure it patiently
looking to the end. Cut court plaster in
% little strips about one-fourth of an
nch in width and paste several across
he lips, placing them up and down,
with the lips held naturally. If one ia
tempted to give up rather than endure
the discomfort this method involves, a
walk through an ordinary day coach or
night made hideous by the presence
of snorer in near berth will cause
solemn vow to be taken never to do
likewise -
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02

JUST so long as the great Euro
pean maritimepowers eXpend TWEEN
ty millions of dollars tvery year in
building up and sustaining their
merchant marine upon the sea, and
this nation does nothing fer Amer
lean ships whereby they can com
pete with the aided foreign ships,
just so long we shall remain weak
upon the sea-just so long we shall
be at the mercy of our foreign riv-
ais. So long as subsidies are paid
by other governments, and without
abatement indeed, they are in
creasing year by year-so long we
must do likewise, or we shall poss-
ess neither seagoing ships nor sea-
going seamen. And, if only for
naval recruitment purposes. we
need both merchant ships and mer-
chant seamen a-plenty.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02
Aa,-n,nr. with rix,r.

Colonel X. an English officer station
ed in India. met with singular adven-
ture while tiger hunting in which he
lost an arm. The colonel had wounded
a tiger from an elephants S back. The
tiger charged. and the elephant. taking
fright. bolted through the jungle To
save himself from being Drained and
swept off by oyerhsnging branches.
Colonel II. seized a stout limb and. rails
ing himself left the elephant to go on
alone through the forest. To his dismay
he found he had not strength and agil-
ity sufficient to swing himself mp to sit
on the branch. In vain he strove TO
throw leg owe, and SO raise himself.
Looking down the sportsman discov-
cred that the tiger had spotted him and
was waiting below. The horror of the
situation can be imagined the enraged
tiger and the helpless, dangling man
knowing he must fall into those cruel
jaws
How long he hung there he never
knew He shouted and shrieked in an
agony of fear. He eased one arm lit
tie and then the other. then hung de
spairingly by both-till at last tired ma
ture gave way and he dropped
He remembered thrusting one arm
into the tiger jaws and then conscious
ness left him His life was saved by the
arrival of friendly rife barrel held
close to the tiger head and through the
subsequent i.mputation of the mangled
arm by skillful surgeon. Youth 5
Communion
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02

The bulletin of the American
Iron and Steel association says the
total production of pig iron in lS9e
was IL ,733,934 gross tons, an in
crease of 2,l2l ,254 over the produc-
ton of 1897. The production il
the second half of the year exceed
ed that the first half by 34,52S tons.
The production of Bessemer pig
iron in 1898 was 1887, 1884 tons, an
increase of | ,54l 500 tons.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02
Tb. .r Doing Nothing.

One mark of the modern man is his
inability to idle. When he has 10 work
for his living. he will grumble lavishly.
telling you that leisure is what he
longs for; that an idle life is his unat-
tainable ideal But let him come into
a fortune and you will see. Does he use
his new sffluence in the only reasonable
way making soft places for himself
wherein he can idle happily Not he; he
runs to and fro about the city like the
Scripture dog, risking the portion of
goods that bHs come to him among the
outside brokers. or he tries the muscles
of his stomach on yacht. or he deliv-
ers himself, bound hand and foot, to
the tyranny of the racing stables. or he
becomes "A philanthropist, or throws his
unconquerab,e energy into amateur
photography.
To a dweller in the sheepfolds the
question comes urgent, insistent, When
does man come into this his birthright
of antlike industryr When does this
inability to idle grow on him2 In the
time of his lambhood he will do any
thing, every thing, TO insure his doing
nothing. To attain this object he will
spare no patent pains, no anxious
thought He will achieve his end even
in ''prep. with the eye of the shep-
herd upon him, and it will be perceived
that to do nothing when talking is inn
possible and staring about, an expensive
luxury, requires talent amounting al
most to genius. Pail Mall Gazette
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-02

From every section of the state
the word comes that the abundance
of snow will guarantee bank-ful
irrigation bitches for next season
and abundant harvests. Colorado
is not like the rest of the agricultu-
raj states 1t does not depend
upon one failure in every five years
on account of the frowns in the
seasons. Such a thing as total
failure is something unknown III
the history of agricultural pursuits
in the state There have been two
or three winters when the snowfall
has been so light that only partial
crops were harvested but part
ial crop in Colorado represents a.
large yield as a full crop in other
states where the farmer must dep
end upon the rainfall or summer
precipitation to properly mature
his crop.