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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
LAVENDAR FIELDS.
How EngIand's Crop
of Scented Flowers
Is Harvested.
PICTURESQUE BUSINESS.
Sprigs Are Plucked When
Wet With Morning
Dew.
PICTURESQUE BUSINESS.

There are few more delightful scenes
than field of lavender, with the morn
ing sun lighting UP the ever changing
colors of the swaying stems. As fleecy
clouds move across the sky, the blue
mauve of the field takes a darker tinge
and then, as the suns brilliant light
plays again without hindrance on the
great patch of scent-laden flowers, the
hue becomes almost a Cambridge blue
But only for a moment; the variations
der field has baff1ed the brush of many
an artist, and none that we can recall
have ever been able to catch these
wondrous shifting tints with anything
like truth. Just now the lavender cut
tiers are hard at work, deftly reaping
with sickle in hand, the fragrant crop
cutting in the early morning the bunch
es which find their way into shops and
the hands of the hawkers by way Of
Covent Garden Market, and devoting
what is literally the heat and burden
of the day to reaping for the still, says
London Globe. The lavender which is
destined for sachets and the linen press
will constitute but a small proportion
of that which is now being reaped with
quite feverish energy, for it is to the
oil of lavender that the grower looks
for his chief profit.
This has been a good season for the
lavender grower, and if he is now up
with the lark, and by no means to bed
when the birds go to roost, it is be-
cause of the necessity of making scent
while the sun shines, or, rather, eX-
tracing the essential oils which go to
the making of the scent. And if he
is reaping an abundant harvest he de-
serves it, for the cultivator of laven-
der be he pharmaceutical agricultu-
rist" or herb grower, suffers all the
risks and disappointments attending
the filling of the soil. The good rains
in May, coupled with the abundance
Of sunshine since that time, have re-
suited in a lavender crop excellent
alike in quantity and quality.
Spring frosts often do considerable
damage to the lavender plants, but al
though this year the frosts were keen
they seem to have spared the lavender.
enough to cut down the potato haulm,
The net result is that, while the punches
of so-called "Mitcham lavender" which
find their way to Covent Garden, are
full and we'll favored this year, the
yield of essential oils is also excellent,
for the long spell of sunshine has en-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
AFRICANS AND THE LOCOMOTIVE.

The children of the desert were filed
with awe when first the silence of the
primeval solitude was broken by the
putting Of the steam engine. Down at the
other end of the cape to Cairo line the
simple Matabele, when first confronted by
locomotive, .were certain that the
strange machine was worked by the labor
Of an indefinite number OF oxen. which
they assumed were shut up inside. Hence
when the engine stopped, they gathered
in curious crowds waiting to see the door
open and the oxen come out nor could
they for many days be persuaded that the
power of the locomotive could come from
other than the strength of the OK. The
Arabs Of the Soudan, more imaginative
than the Matabele, saw IN tho fire horses
of the railway one of the D1inns Of the
Arabian Nights harnessed by the magic
of the Infidel to the long train of cars.
The steam engine was to them living,
sentient being. OF which belief there ia
curious evidence in the fact that on one
occasion a Sheik made an impassioned re-
monstrance against the cruelty of making
so small an engine draw so huge a train.
Windsor Magazine.
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Pioneers Had a Bad
Time, But Things
Are Better Now.
FEMININE OPPOSITION.
Three Worcester Physicians
VI Discuss the Sit
s@9l uation.

An article appeared in the Sun not
long since which purported to present
the conversation Of three young wo-
men on the staff of a New York hospit-
al. These three young women were
asked what first led them to want to
be doctors. One said that she studied
medicine out of spite; another confessed
that she went into it for money while
the third claimed to have been born
with love for it. They all three Cos
sped jauntily about the business, as if
ut had been a college ice or a new BIZ
cycle.
Do all women doctors take that view
of their profession? Are they
ALL GIDDY, RATHER SILLY
THINGS?
And do. they "go into" medicine in the
hight way that other women drift into
telephone offices, and behind counters,
and beside the ivory keyed typewriter?
Not ALL if the women physicians of
Worcester are typical of the great body
of women physicians whose shingles
hang out through sun and shadow in
every large city in the United States.
A Spy representative called on several
of the women doctors of this city, and
he can testify that in personal appear
ance they are as
PROFESSIONAL LOOKING
in manner, as professional seeming, as
their brothers. What if one or two of
them do wear bangs and chatelaines
and such feminine impedimenta? Such
trif1es count neither for nor against the
professional acumen and
DISCRETION OF THESE LADIES.
The first one whom The Spy quizzed
was DR.. Helen A. Goodsoeed.
why did l take up medicine?" she
said. Because felt a strong liking
for it. l had taught some years when
began the study, and have now been
practising about 25 years, and it seems
to me that medicine is
"A DESIRABLE PROFESSION
for any woman who enjoys it, Did l
have a great deal to contend with
when 1 began? Yes. great deal from
my own sex. Twenty-Five years ago
most women wouldn't look at a woman
doctor, but they have liberalized since
then. There are many ways a woman
can make more money than in medi-
cine. She has to be a perfect slave to
conscience, and if she gets day or two
off a year she is doing we'll
Il can't imagine how any woman
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which is given off being condensed, ana

which is given off being condensed, and
the oil separated from the water.
Stripped to the waist the men work
night and day in the heat of the
barnlike buildings of two stories, with
the furnaces below and the distillery
in the floor above Carefully the boil
ing process is watched until the time
comes for securing the precious oil of
lavender, which makes scent for the
million. But that after all is the bust
ness and the least attractive side of the
calling of the grower over whose fields
one is roaming 1t is the growing Law
ender which possesses so many charms
for the visitor, The air is charged
with a faint scent of the flower, the
bees (black humble bees) buzz in thou
sands above the sprigs of blossom, and
butterfiies-the chalkhill blue, the
handsome sulphur tinted yellow and
many others-add to this scene Of
varied colors over which the reaper. is
passing with the swish of his sickle
Who would not envy the lavender
grower, who pursues his calling amid
such delightful surroundings?
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22

Grapes were in season now, and the
next morning I went down to the door
and chose great purple punches from
the basket on Paolina's back AS 1
did so, 1 hummed softly to myself:
Sweetheart, am going away
1t was unfair, and I stopped short as l
saw her flush even to her dropped eve
lids. l emptied the childs basket as
compensation, at the modest cost of
about a shilling, and sent her off
without trying to discover whether she
knew had been with her serenader
the night before,
The grapes are good now" l told
'Cenzini that evening as he rowed me
across the harbor to Valletta. Little
Paolina of the bay sells good fruit"
"Signor, si!' 'Cenzini agreed, but
fell to talking of fruits Maltese and
English, and we left Paolina undiscuss-
ed.
1t was on a fiesta in the Cathedral of
Saint John that l next saw Paolina and
'Cenzini. He knelt near me, smartly
dressed in a thin blue serge suit in
stead of the old dungaree trousers and
knitted jersey in which he rowed on
working days. His shirt showing to
the waist through the open waistcoat
was of the whitest, contrasting Vividly
with the gaudy scarf that wound
about his slim waist. His feet were
cramped in a pair of tight, high-heeled
shoes. He looked a young Greek faun
in disguise.
High mass went on it's stately way.
The richly ROBBED priests swept through
their functions to the sound of Grego-
rian chant, and the clank of the swing
ing censors, and clouds of incense rolled
from before the altar and stole upon
us sweetly But 'Cenzini was worship
ping at another shrine, and had eyes
for none but his own saint He must
have followed her closely, for / would
defy the keenest-eyed lover to detect
his mistress, if she knelt with her back
to him among the hundreds of other
women. all in black skirts, and each
in a black ghonella, which covers the
head and falls to the waist But he
had eyes for one little figure only, and
when the high mass was over and the
chairs Gathering as they were pushed
aside over the marble paving, Pao-
linas eyes wandered in our direction
for an instant before she followed her
stout mother homeward.
Soon after this. 1t was known to all
of us that 'Cenzini Of the green boat
had proposed to little Paolina of the
house of the bav. OF course it had all
been done-so far as the gossips knew
in proper fashion. Old Maria, the go
between and my landlady, had called on
Paolina's mother one evening after sun
down, and had introduced the subject
most discreetly, being reminded of
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22

PAIN-KILLER is the best, safest and
surest remedy for cramps, colic and diar-
rhoea. AS liniment for wounds and
sprains it is unequalled. Avoid substi-
tutes; there's but one Pain-Killer, Perry
Davis. 25c, and Soc
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22

the side of the boat, and saw, for the
first time, where We had drifted. We
were not 50 yards from the shore, to
which 'Cenzini looked, and that lonely
small house, with the single CLEAN of
light coming from a little balconied
window, was the home of Paolina's
people--and that was probably PaoIina
herself who slipped back like a shadow
from the balcony and closed the great
shutters-through which, remembered,
if she were so minded, she could stAl
watch us quite well.
l said no more and 'Cenzini sang no
more He turned to his oars again, and
took me swiftly across into the shad~
ows about Bighi Sally port
Good night and good dreams, Cen
zini," I said gravely, as touched his
shoulder in stepping out of the boat;
but | thought from his voice that he
was laughing under his breath as he
answered A quarter of an hour later,
as / drew the mosquito curtains about
me, heard the same voice rise from
the water beneath my window
Sweetheart, am going away,
l sigh that | take you not with me-"
'Cenzini was. keeping vigil after his own
fashion, and a light still shone from
the little balcony across the bay.
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Grapes were in season now, and the
next morning I went down to the door
and chose great purple punches from
the basket on Paolinas back. AS L
did so, 1 hummed softly to myself:
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-29

was emphasized by several develop
ments. There were renewed shipments
Of currency to New Orleans through de-
posits for transfer at the sub-treasury
and New York exchange at Chicago
weakened suddenly to 20 cents discount
compared with par yesterday.
The operations Of the sub-treasury
yesterday with the banks resulted in a
gain by that institution of $320,0OO iE
spite of the government bond redemp-
tons. Yesterdays receipts of revenue
by the United States treasury exceeded
expenditures by $2,154,097, more than
offsetting the total of bond redemptions
for the day.
The further rise in the Bank of Eng
land rate on Thursday arose from ap-
prehension that London will want
money from New York which is likely
to displace loans by Canadian banks
which have been placed here in large
volume. When these various symptoms
of money conditions eliminated in the
furry in the loan rate to 10 per cent
prices turned downward through the
list and the tone. at the close was dis
tinctly easy.
The bond market moved in sympathy
with stocks, early firmness yielding IN
the late dealings. Total sales, par value,
81. STE, 900. United States 5s advanced a
and the old As and new IS Is in the DID
price.
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THE MARKET ELSEWHERE.

New York, Nov. 28.-The furry in call
money in the last half hour induced a
selling movement which carried prices
in the majority of the list below last
night. Stocks which had advanced
strongly suffered from profit taking and
their gains were much reduced where
they were not entirely wiped out The
market was spotty and irregular
throughout and the maintenance Of the
price level was due rather to a cessa-
ton of yesterdays factors of weakness
than to any elements of positive
strength. London, which was a heavy
seller yesterday, was inclined to buy to-
day on the new account succeeding the
settlement.
The large profit taking in Baltimore
& Ohio stocks was so far digested that
those stocks resumed their advance.
United States Leather by compari.Sn
with recent performances displayed a
stable equilibrium and the increase in
the dividend rate on the preferred stock
did not move it over fraction. Yes
terday's aggression upon Sugar was
also discontinued and the stock was
strong for the greater part of the day.
When these conditions were developed
an attempt was made to inaugurate
bull campaign in the Iron and Steel
stocks, but it proved abortiYe.
The movement in Baltimore e. Ohio
Pennsylvania and New York Central
was the most conspicuous of the day
and did more than anything else to sus-
tain prices. Chesapeake & Ohio also rose
above its previous high level. There
were notable advances in a number of
obscure stocks including Peoria, Deca-
tur and Evansville, Duluth, South Shore
& Chicago and Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburg stocks and some OF the minor
industrials.
Manhattan lost all its gain before the
close. Enthusiasm over Saturdays
strong bank. statement was much di-
minished by the discovery that the
whole strength Of the showing was due
TO the operations of one bank. The re-
newal Of apprehension over the outlook
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-29
SOLD WASHED STAMPS.
internal Revenue Officers
Break Up a Lucrative
Trade.

New York, Nov. 2S.-A string of err
rand boys and Junior clerks employed
in the broker offices in the financial
quarter has daily for some weeks been
seen going in and out of the stamp
store run by David d. Badeau, at No.
II Broadway. Scrutiny of Badeau's
business by Internal Revenue Agent
Thompson has developed, it is alleged,
that the proprietor was buying and
selling washed internal revenue stamps
at the rate of between $4,000 and $4,000
a day.
Having secured the evidence neces-
sary to warrant Badeau's arrest,
Thompson late today visited the store,
arrested the proprietor and seized in all
about 5000 revenue stamps, worth from
81 to $50 each. Many of the stamps
had been washed, and the traffic in
them is a violation of the federal stat
utes. Badeau was taken to the gem
eral post-office, and there he said he
resided at East Orange, N. j., and that
he had been in the stamp business since
July, 1898. He was afterward arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Shields and held in $4,000 bail for exam
ination. Agent Thompson says that
during the time that Badeau was in
business, he had cleared about 100000
by the sale Of washed internal revenue
stamps.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-29
MARKET NOTES.

The ease of money is again contribut-
ing to buIish sentiment while 1t is
hoped that fresh stimulus will be
given to the bulls by the presidents
message and by action in congress IA
Vorable to sound currency measure.
watson & Gibson-There is generally
a hopeful feeling in the street and
among holders of securities outside of
wall street, the hope being based on
an array of bull factors such as rarely
occur in the history of American trade
The total surplus of the Elevated to
the credit Of profit and loss is now
S265,l76, 1t having been increased $51. 09S
oy operations of the year ended Sept.
50 last. The total addition to property
account during the year just ended was
Sl,424,936. Total current assets are 81
S93, 4OS, of which S3599, 1859 is cash on
nand. Total accrued liabilities are
$2,3l2,757; current liabilities $685.. 512
Total sinking and other special funds
$40, 222. ''-iN'
Buying Of U. p, which has been most
pronounced by the banking interests
identified with the management of the
company, is understood to be based
upon a prospective distribution IN the
common shareholders.
New York gossip says: Buving of
Union Pacific, which has been most
pronounced by the banking interests
identified with the management of the
company is understood to be based upon
a prospective distribution to the com
mon shareholders. 1t is likely that if
such an action were taken it would
occur between now and the middle of
december when the annual report of
the company will be made public The
actual figures for the year show about
b cent nTo ba
Which the shareholders at least claim
they should receive some portion of.
Inc report of the company would under
ordinary circumstances have been
ready by this time, but it was decided
to give a more lengthy report than
usual, with compilations of figures and
facts which have required greater time
In preparing. There is no time set for
action upon either the preferred or com
mon dividends but as the last payment
upon the preferred was ordered in Oc-
tober the natural course of events
would point to April as the next time
for a dividend declaration. This does
not, however, refer in any way to the
common stock upon which the directors
can order payment at any time they
desire.
The recent advance in the market
price of General Electric stock is now
very generally attributed by people who
are well informed to the probability
that the management will soon give the
stockholders the opportunity to take
stock at par and thus increase the
working capital Of the company, and
enable it to later make a larger distri-
button in cash of its earnings to share
holders. As both the common and pre-
ferred stocks are of the same character,
rights will accrue to the preferred
shares as well as to the common.
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RAILROADS.
NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND
HARTFORD RAILROAD.

NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND
HARTFORD RAILROAD.
eastern District Worcester Division. }
Commencing October e. 1899, passenger
trains LEAVE WORCESTER as follows:
FOR PROVIDENCE, WooNsoCKET.
MILLRgRY, WHITINs. UXBRIDGE,
P PAAFEHIck Er6 BhAGksT sz 40 A A
M; 12.37, %1.44, 4.37, Il. 10 (steamboat ex.
press, 6.T. 7.55, 955 p. m. Sunday
trains leave at 7.S7, 1870 a. m, and 4S7
p. m.
FOR NEW woRK-via stonington Line
except Sun lays-*6.OS p. m. Return
Leave New York 500 p. m. daily except
Norwich Division.)
FOR NoRWRH-6.40 9.25 a. M; / 90, 445.
FOR WEBSTER-6.4 40 9.25, Ii 20 a. M.
100 Ans, $40, $500 p. m.
FOR soUTHBRIDGE-6.4O, 9.25, 1.2O a.
M; 4.45, 800 p. m.
FOR PUTNAM. WILLIMANTIC AND
dHoAARTFORD-64 9.25 a. M; 100, 4. As,
FOR NEWBURGH-9. 25 a. m.
FOR NEW LoNDoN-64O, 9.25 a. m. ; 100,
Express trains.
7FStop on signal.
For connections and time of trains at
informed stations see local time ia
bles, furnished at ticket office
NEW YORK-Via Norwich Line. Ira n
leaves Worcester at 800 p. M, connecting
at New London with steamer due New
York at a. m. Returning, steamers
leave New York from new pier &c, NORTH
river. at $50 p. m daily except SUNDAYS
For ticket staterooms and further in
formation apply at Union station or AZ
City Ticket Office, o. +. RAWSON, agent
39l Main ST.. Worcester Mass
A. G. KENDALL, General Passenger
Agent
c. PETER CLARK. General supt.
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(Howard Crosby & Coz BOSTON I.etter

Boston, Nov. 28.--LiyerpooI wheat
opened steady and I'd higher and closed
firm A@15d higher. A private cable says
that the steadiness at the opening was
due to the indications that Russian ship
ments may soon fall off, owing to cold
weather in the vicinity of the Sea of
Azoff. Following Liverpool, Chicago
opened steady at about last nights prices,
but with the December-May spread a
trif1e wider at 45sc. There was a fair de-
mand for wheat but the trade was not
noteworthy and large proportion of it
was changing over into May.
Later in the session there was a good
demand from shorts on the rumor that
seaboard clearances would be large.
There was no important local or foreign
trade. Bradstreet's weekly statement
shows an increase in the worlds stocks
of 1,S5S,OOO bushels of which amount Eu-
rope decreased one million bushels and
the United States, east of the Rockies,
increased 2, 35S,00O Prime says, LAS the
season advances, winter wheat millers
find much difficulty in procuring wheat
for milling purposes and are buying from
hand to mouth" The northwest receipts
today were 1895 cars, against 222O same
day last year and 1923 last week
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-29

Chicago Nov. 2S.--Alonzo j. White
man, former state senator Of Mime
sofa and reputed millionaire, now a
prisoner in the central police station,
charged with swindling, has been Wis
tied by many of his old friends since
he was brought back from New York.
He is under sentence of two and one
half years in the house Of correction.
In a statement in which he declares
he will take his medicine, occur the
following epigrams:
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TREAsURY sTATEMENT.

washington, Nov. q. = Today's state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, 1926, $685.
$40, 174,87O; United States notes in the
treasury, $15 915, 246; treasury notes of
1890, s1,O5S 1856; total receipts this day,
$1,095, I'll; do. this month, $44, O44 us; do.
this year, 1894 944, $50; total expenditures
this day, 1906, 900; do this month, $780,
$4,000; do. this year, 1928, 305, 1852; deposits
in national banks, $82, 1892, 462.
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in TROUBLE, STAND PAT.

A man has only to be arrested to
learn his honors and dishonors.
Any man that is good enough to
speak to socially is good enough to
lend money to.
Be liberal in prosperity; it brings
good returns.
never knew a man to win a pot by
laying down his hand.
When you see that trouble is inev-
table, meet it half way, and you have
it half beaten.
When you get into trouble stand pat;
go to the length and clear your slate.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-29
YELLOW FEVER ABOARD.
Another Plague Ship Casts Anchor in
New York Harbor.

New York, Nov. 2S.-The United
States transport Burnside arrived this
of yellow fever on board. The patient is
P. E. Reider, aged 81 years, a discharged
soldier of the United States hospital
corps.
Reider was discharged from the ser
vice Nov. % from Los Animas hospital,
Havana. His home is in Reading, Pa.
Reider was taken sick on Nov. "a and
was transferred today to Swinburne is
land hospital. The transport is held at
quarantine for disinfection.
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BONDS.
THE MONEY MARKET.

New York, Nov. 2S = Money on call
firm, SOLO; last loan, 5 p. G. Prime mer-
camille paper. 51zQ6 Sterling exchange
for 60 days Posted rates, 4.S2@A and
4.S7 Commercial bills, 4.SO. Silver GER
tificates, SO. Bar silver, ISIS. Mexican
dollars, 47A Government bonds strong.
State bonds easier. Railroad bonds
ca Sier
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THE COTTON MARKET

New Yorw, Nov. 2S. = Cotton futures
closed steady; November, 7.4S; Deem
April S.5o; May, 7.62; June, 7's2; july 'iiy,
Z. SO; August, 7.65.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-29

Miss Grace E. Monahan's pupils will
appear at Assoc. Cycle Clubs fair.
Thanksgiving evening.
Great Fire. Smoke and Water Sale. to-
day. Sawyer's, 532 Main street