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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
NEW FICTION.

Mary Cameron: A Romance of Fish
ermans Island. BY Edith A. Sawyer.
Sanborn & Co., Boston.
This is pretty story of love and
the sea, filed with poetry and the ro-
nance of nature. Therei more sentiment
| in it than most modern novels contain,
but this win please many readers.
Mary Cameron is a lovely American
girl who deserves all the good fortune
that comes to her in the shape of a
| husband, although the pain and agony
IL cost her to be made love to are some
what strained. Miss Sawyer, whose
first book this is, we take 1t, is 70
be congratulated upon the charming
style she Yields, which pleases indie
pendently of the development Of IT,
plot. Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford
prefaces the whole with an app;ecia-
| tive "foreword," in which she gives a
superb description of nature along The
Maine coast.
In Vain. BY Henryk Sienkiewicz. Lit
tie, Brown & Co.
That this book, although written at
the early age of II, has never before
been done into English, seems to offer
some reason why it should have been
| allowed to remain untranslated. 1t IS
crude, dull in parts and depressing,
and might have been written by q man
UNNECESSARILY the inferior of the au-
thor of Fire and Sword" and "Quo
Vadis." Yet glinting through it, one
detects that intensity of high emotion,
the subtlety and breadth in character
drawing, and the sublimated phil0so-
ply of living that illumine his later
and well-known works. I'm Vain" IS
a love story of student-life in Kieff,
where the author himself studied; the
atmosphere is that of a Polish univers-
ity, unfamiliar and unattractive to the
Anglo-Sa reader. The characters
even the hero and fantastic heroine
| seem to go to bed in their clothes, amid
the remnants of their latest meal and
other queer, smelly things, and to find
their only use for water as an Access
sorry of the landscape. Mentally they
are less unclean, but life with them
| seems a sordid, turbulent, disappolnt-
| ing business. The hero goes up to K eff
| to study medicine. He attracts the at
| tention of the half-crazy widow Of q
former student, but remains Indifferent
to her until forced to pay court to her
| by a friend who loves her himself, but
wishes to sacrifice himself for her best
happiness. No sooner has he proposed
and been accepted, than he falls in
| love with another, contracts typhoid
| fever, and RECEIVERS, to find that he no
! longer loves either. All his and their
sufferings have been 'in vain" The
novel derives it's chief interest from
| the fact of its authorship and its rela-
ton to the later works in the august
procession.
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BOOKS FOR SCHOOL USE.

Andrew j. George of the department
of English in the Newton high school,
has edited "Childe Harold's Pilgrim
age" and ''Comas.' Lycidas," and
other poems of Milton, for the Mac
milan edition of pocket English class
les. Mr.. George has written an excellent
Introduction to each volume The Mil
ton contains also Matthew Arnold's adj
dress on Milton delivered at the I'M
yelling of a memorial window presented
to st. Margarets church, Westminster,
by George w. Childs of Philadelphia.
"Silas Mariner" has been published in
the same edition. 1t is edited by Edward
l.. Gu1ck; master of English in the
Lawrenceville school, New Jersey.
.KenilWorth," abridged and edited by
Mary H. Norris, dean of women and
assistant professor OF English literature
in Northwestern University, has been
published in cloth binding by the Amer
lean Book Co One of the most delight
full of Sir Walter Scott's historical ro-
mances is here given in a form suitable
for school or home reading
rhe house Of CHM & CO. has pub
lished the twelfth book of Somers
odyssey" edited for the use of schools
by r.. A. Mlnckwitz of the Kansas City
high school. With the exception Of a
few unimportant changes, the text is
that of Ameis Hentze, published by
Teubner, Leipzig. Cyrus w. IRISH head
master Of the Lowell high school, is the
author of a book on cumulative analy-
sis for secondary schools, published by
the American Book Co. The same firm
has issued Graded Work in Arith-
metic," by s. w. Baird of Will1esbarre,
Pa, and 1.-THE Story Of the Great Re
public" by Fl. A. Guerber In this book
the author aims TO make the history of
our country from the framing of the
constitution down to the present day as
interesting and instructive to children
as possible Although primarily de-
signed as a supplementary reader, the
book Is admirably adapted for use as
an elementary textbook in history. II
may also supplement with excellent re.
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cHILDREN's BOOKS.
A Valuable Library That Has Recently
Been Brought to Boston.

The treasures of the private collec-
tons of the city of Boston have recent
ly been augmented through the acquisi-
ton, by Mr.. D. c. Heath, the well
known publisher of that city, of the
library of children's books and educa-
tional works issued by the house OF
Newbery from 174O to 1900, which was
brought together by Mr. Charles Walsh
when he was writing the biography OF
John Newbery-Oliver Goldsmith s
friend and publisher, and the founder
of the famous publishing house which
for nearly $50 years was at the corner
of st. PauPs churchyard. London. These
are the books to which Washington r.
wing referred in his preface to Brace
bridge Hall, when he said:
Nor was it without a recurrence of
childish interest, that l first peeped into
Mr. Newbery's shop, in st. Pauls
churchyard. that fountain-head of liter
allure Mr.. Newbery was the first that
ever filled my infant mind with the idea
of great and good man. He published
all the picture books of the day; and,
out of his abundant love for children. he
charged nothing for either paper or
print, and only penny halfpenny for
the binding
At the end of his bookseller of the
Last Century" Mr.. Welsh brought to-
gether catalogue of the chief publica-
lions of the house of Newbery which is
of immense value to the photograph,
the student of books for children and of
the educational literature of the last
century. Many of the little books there
enumerated have disappeared entirely
for nothing vanishes so completely as
the chidren's books of bygone days,
which were thumbed until they were
worn out and useless. But the collection
which Mr. Heath has acquired and
which is now being catalogued and ar
ranged is as fully representative as any
collection is ever likely to be. 1t con-
tains some unique treasures and forms
an instructive object lesson in the evo-
luton of children's literature and of the
school book.
Besides a collection of chap-books
for children--several battledores (the
successors of the Horn books) some
rare primers--a thoroughly representa-
tive collection of fiction for children, of
early toy books and of those books in
which the pill of information is gided
in a fashion, which is very curious to
those who are familiar with present
day methods of conveying instruction,
there are in the collection first editions
of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, y
1.-THE Traveller and the Deserted VII
lage" and other works by Goldsmith
and DIR. Johnson, as well as many
other rare treasures. Most of these
books, 1t is interesting to know, were
reprinted by Isaiah Thomas.
| Mr.. Welsh is the "Uncle Charlie" Of
numerous boys and girls books, which
have been published by II. p. Duttor
in New York and by Griffith, Farrar
& Co. in London. Mr.. Welsh has also
written largely to current periodicals
on the subject of the history of chill
dren's literature, and has edited some
curious facsimile reprints of popular
childrens books Of the olden time
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
A NEW MAGAZINE.

Number 1, volume 1, of the Sphinx,
monthly magazine devoted to astrol-
ogy, has been published by the Sphinx
Publishing company Boston. Bound
in crimson and black, and comprising
over 60 pages, it is striking both in
appearance and contents. The index
contains articles by Gabriel, Sepharial,
mothiel, Hermes, Hazelrigg, Ceres and
Aston, and the advertisements are
equally outlandish. From these the
reader learns that Kymry and Hermes
have their headquarters in London
that Gabriel hangs out his single at
White Plains, N. Y; that Sepharial,
who also practices in London, is pre-
pared to give private delineations of
horoscopes (typewritten) at S. each
while his market forecasts. on wheat
petroleum, cotton and sugar Options a
speciality will cost you from 81 to 800
After gasping at such advertisements
as these and others of the astrological
life spectrum" "Ephemeris of Uranus
and Neptune" The renewal of his
tory, 'Eochaidk the Heremonn-the
Scarlet Thread, and 1.-THE fact of
history The deluge and the advent
proof and guarantee" and so on, the
advertisements of rubber collars. we'd
ding presents, Nine. Dille's private cor
set parlors and Partridge's athletic
outfittings, on the back pages, look
positively homelike, and even LIQUID air
has something pleasantly familiar in
its aspect.
Kymry predicts that Dreyfus will be
Vlndlcated in December of this year;
that he will be restored to his family
either then or in June, 1900, and that he
Will not live long; and Ceres forecasts
that it will be advisable to sell short
on all advances in the July market
until about the 25th, and that between
July 20 and 81 wheat will be strong.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
Al SECOND READER.

Child Life in Tale and Fable: A sec
ond reader. By Eta A. BlaIsdell su-
pervisor of schools in Brockton, ard
Mary Frances Blaisdell.
Here are presented in language
adapted to the childish mind such IA
miliar stories as "Silver Locks" "Tom
Thumb" Little Red Riding Hood. "
and "Goody Twoshoes," and some of
Anderson's and Grimms tales. There
are also poems by Robert Louis stew
enson. Tennyson, Blake, Kingsley and
Jean Ingelow Each piece has its pic
ture, and several colored plates are in
terspersed through the text. The con-
tents have been wisely selected, the
more difficult words being placed at the
head of the lessons, marked for pro-
nunciation, and key to these marks
is given and is intended to be carefully
studied. This second reader in the
Blaisdell series is attractive, conven-
lent, well indexed, and admirable III
Aun"s rAReAat-
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United States history row in use
A pamphlet has been published by the
American Book Company for school use
upon our New Possessions" 1t con-
tains information and maps of Cuba,
Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philip
pines
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

James ]. mclaughlin Of rs Front
street will take his annual vacation at
Monument beach the latter part OF
July. Mr.. mclaughlin intends also
to visit the White Mountains.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

Alderman George f. Wall will take a
vacation if he can spare the time, but
thinks a day or two at time will be
all he can give from business.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

Richard F. Powers of so Front street
will take a three weeks vacation dur
ing the month of August He intends
to go to Bangor, Me. and later take a
tour through the northern part Of the
state, and also visit the lakes.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

Alderman Carberry may take a couple
of weeks off later in the season, but
has no definite plans as yet.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
JEWELLERS SIGNS.

A New Yorker who takes a keen inter-
est in sign advertising observes that
watch sdials which advertise a ieweler's
store are invariably set at is minutes
past 8. The explanation is given that a
represe NATIVE New York sign painter
signs on the morning of President Lin
coins death He heard the news at Sis
o'clock, and, with his brush indicated
that hour on the dial. His act, 1t 10 said
was tie birth of a custom that became
general with local sign painters.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
TO LET Store or Warehouse
ON TRACK in Heart of City.
H. A. WHITING & SONS,
1913 Summer st.

cation, but will confine his outing to
short trips to places of interest.
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THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

such as the 1866 edition of "Goody Two
Shoes" and the 1892 edition Of THE
Looking Glass for the Mind"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

F. J. Charbonneau, Front street
will not take his vacation until the lat.
ter part of August, when he will go Il
Rutland, VT.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

John Fl. Sullivan, proprietor of the
newsroom at 95 Front street, will go to
Maine the latter part of September, on
a fishing trip. He intends to camp near
the Rangeley lakes
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

Walter B. Weston, 141 Front street
Will start Aug. / for Block Island
where he intends to remain two weeks.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

Very small. action perfect.
CARRIERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

II. nj. Waite, proprietor Of the hard
ware store at 1S9 Front street, has post
poned his annual vacation until the
later season. when he will take a trip
TO Maina for two weeks.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

Elisha D. Burlington, president of
the Burlington Drug Company, left this
city for a European trip, June l, and
will remain across the water for an
other month before he returns home.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

Henry Brannon, president of the
board of aldermen, takes no regular
vacation. but instead a series of short
vacations during the summer months.
Mr.. Brannon has a summer home at
Pigeon Cove, where his family remain
during the warm weather, and where
he joins them over Sunday each week,
going down Saturday afternoon and
returning Monday morning.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

Alderman Thomas j. Barrett has not
decided that he will take a regular va
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promise of our eastern possessions
field that will take the handling of two.
thirds of the cotton of the world and
which will distribute the product all
along the Asiatic coast without paying
toll to the Liverpool middle men or
the Manchester brokers. Asia has two
thirds of the cotton consuming power
of the world, and with the transporta-
ton and handling in American hands,
billions of dollars will be saved to the
cotton growers of the United States.
This is but another form of asserting
that the Philippines will be the great
gateway for an enormous American
commerce in all the Orient. The English
have predicted the same thing and not
without expression of grave fears that
the English market was to suffer in
consequence of our great gain. Mr..
Bryan will find difficulty in contesting
this question with Senator Morgan, for
our commercial interests, our merchant
marine and the extension of our trade
in the Orient are all to be promoted
through a gateway of our own, and that
gateway is to be, is now, indeed, the
Philippines which have come to our
hands legitimately by purchase, by ces-
sion from Spain and by our occupation
of the commercial capital and the chief
ports of the archipelago.
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Senator Morgan of Alabama, concern
ing whose devotion to the Democratic
party no question can be raised by any
one, does not take to Mr. Bryans
scheme to commit the party to Atkin
sonation. He declares that the party
in the South viii not be led in that
direction. He believes in retaining the
Philippines and in upholding the hands
of the Administration in it's determi-
nation to maintain the supremacy of
the United States in the archipelago.
More recently Senator Morgan has de-
clared that expansion will be the sal
walton of cotton interests. He proposes
TO preach that doctrine in the South,
for he forsees in Manila and its trade
area the greater cotton market of the
world, one that will cast Liverpool in
the shade. Mr.. Morgan sees in the
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all our citizens who have flags to float
them from the house top or over their
lawns or other premises during the State
Fair weeks. The period is in a sense a
gala occasion and the citya at such times
should be adorned by the floating Of the
flag. 1t is at once a tribute to the
national banner and a dressing of the
city. Let Old Glory kiss every breeze
this and next week all over the city.
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Really it keeps prominent men very
busy these days denying the food of
lies that are poured against them. The
latest instance is that of Mr.. Blair.
counsel for Captain Carter, who is out
denying with emphasis that he has pre-
ferred charges of perjury against Cen
eral f. S. Otis. He says that in the
appeal of the defense to the President
it is set out that. judged by a CONVEX
sation between General Otis and an
other the former was prejudiced
against Captain Carter. But Mr.. Blair
is very explicit and indignant. in his
denial that he attributed perjury to
General Otis or any dishonorabIe or
unmanly thing. He thinks he was
prejudiced against his client, but
he does not even say that such
prejudice was insincere. He denies
also that the President has said
to him (Blair) that his charges
against Otis would neeessitate the re-
call of the latter. On the contrary Mr.
Blair declares that he has never talked
with the President about his affidavit,
nor has the President made any such
declaration as is attributed to him
However, Mr. Blair believes Captain
Carter to be innocent. the victim of
men promoting a canal scheme con-
corning which Carter had resolved to
go to the bottom. thus melting the ami
mostly of the promoters of the scheme
Blair insists that Carter's case bears
strong resemblance to that of Drey-
fus in France, in that he is the victim
of persecution and unwarranted prose
cution. However that may be, Mr.
Blair nails the lie concerning General
Otis and the President. and so another
yellow correspondents yarn goes to the
wall.
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THE MEMORIAL SERVICE.

In the memorial services for the sol
diers who died in the Philippines for
the cause of the flag, held Sunday in
San Francisco, there was eloquence Of
tribute to valor and patriotic devotion
that has scarce been equaled. 1t was
not only made manifest in eloquent
orations in touching and fearful tes
timony borne by Chaplain Father Nc
widows. and by the tears of mothers
who have lost their sons in the heat
of battle, the disease laden atmosphere
of hospitals or the sick bays of trans
ports, but in the presence of the com
rades in arms of the dead soldiers; in
the vast throng which filled the audi
torium where the services We're held,
and in the voice of eloquence which fell
from the lips of Rev. Dr. Mckenzie.
Before such tributes to the dead
heroes, creeds fell away and denomina-
tional differences disappeared. 1t was
a service in which patriotism was the
religion of the hour, and recognition of
gallantry and service to the nation the
one article of faith.
we have paid the price, said Dr.
Mckenzie. rs it worth the price,"
And then he added words which will
live in the changes Of all time, and
confound the Bryans and Atkinsons:
T-
is or not the price has been paid-it is
surely paid and is ours. Nor fear, nor
selhshness, nor diplomacy, nor gold, nor
argument can induce this great people
to sell or forsake a soil made red by the
blood of her sown and made American
by their graves. All this would be a
confusing horror, if there were not a.
God, If God had not stood in the
shadow watching. These graves are
not mistakes, and in gathering up the
confusion of history it will be written
that these men We're not victims. but
heroes.
1t was a splendid tribute, that me-
mortal service, to American soldier
dead; service in which Jew and Cen
tile, Catholic and Protestant. scholar
and singer, soldier and civilian, atheist
and believer, teacher and student, stood
upon a common platform speaking
words of eu1ogism and honoring the
patriotic dead in common throbs of
noble sympathy.
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Weekly


Is a t2-page family and business
newspaper issued every Friday
morning. Thus, for the very small
sum of ST its subscribers receive no
less than GA pages of choice read
ing and news matter IN a year.
This reduction has been made
that we may afford the people In
these times of stringency the fullest
opportunity to have the Weekly
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ernment, and that you wrote the bor-
dereau.
Great applause in court, mingled with
the polite invitations to "conspuez" and
''bas everything and everybody, and
followed by few cheerful assassina-
tions on the oukside.-Memphis Com
mercial Appeal
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Judge-You hesitate. You look con-
fused. / note the fact that you un-
crossed your legs when I asked this
question. That is proof of an uneasy
conscience. What have you to say?
: Dreyfus-I can't
Judge-He can't. This is a confession.
He is guilty. (Sensational.)
Dreyfus-No mon, Colonel, I am in
nocent.
Judge-If you are innocent, perhaps
you Will tell where you were night be-
fore last at fifteen minutes past 10?
Dreyfus-In Jail.
Judge-Where were you on January
H. 1896?
Dreyfus-In jail.
Judge-Where We're you on the night
of March 3, 1897?
Dreyfus-In Jail.
Judge-Where We're you when the
Suburban was run in 1898?
Dreyfus-In jail
Judge mphantly)-Always in Jail,
yet this canaifle claims to be innocent.
Once more. where were you on the
29th of February 1899?
Dreyfus-In jail
Judge-Sacre bleu! You convict your
self. There was no 29th of February,
1899. We shall see. You wrote the
bordereau?
Dreyfus-No. mon. Colonel, I am in
nocent.
Judge (sternly)-How long have you
known William Patterson?
Dreyfus-I do not know NJ. Patterson
at all.
Judge-Are not you the man who
struck him?
Dreyfus-I never heard of him.
Judge-He never heard of Billie Pat
dissembles. Do you smoke cigarettes? :?
Dreyfus-Yes.
Judge-Is the tariff tax?
Dreyfus-It is.
Judge-You are a traitor to France.
France imposes tariff, and you say it
is a tax. Have you ever felt like 80
cents?
Dreyfus-Yes mon, Colonel. I feel
like % cents now.
Judge-Do you still deny that you
wrote "Curfew shall not ring to-night?'
Dreyfus-I never denied it, because
never heard
Judge-You see, he claims that he
wrote "Curfew shall not ring tonight" :"
Dreyfus-But, mon Colonel, I know
nothing about "Curfew.'' I do not
claim
Judge-But you don't deny. Perhaps
you also wrote The Beautiful Snow"
Dreyfus-R mon Colonel, you do
not allow me to explain.
Judge-You see, he cannot explain. Do
you use Blanks soap?
Dreyfus-I do not.
Judge-The reporters will observe
that he does not use soap. Do you be-
lieve in the free coinage of silver at
is to 1 independent of any nation on
earth?
Dreyfus-I am afraid that
Judge-He is afraid to speak. He is
opposed to sound money. Whom do you
consider the greater military genius
Mercier or Esterhazy?
Dreyfus-I cannot say. Both Of them,
pos@sply.
Judge-Have you not been in corre-
spondence with Jack Chinn and Dead
horse Jake since this trial began?
Dreyfus-I have not.
Judge-Do you deny that you re-
ceived a cipher cablegram from Hinky
Dink yesterday morning?
Dreyfus-I do.
Judge-You change color. Your guilt
is now established. You can explain
nothing You claim the authorship of
poems which were written by Mile.
Ella Wheeler You are always in jail
and you can't even prove an alibi on
the Doth of February. 1t is therefore
established that you communicated
secret documents to the German Gov
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Weather Forecast.

For Northern California-Cloudy Tues
day; brisk southeasterly winds, changing
TO westerly; rain in extreme northern por-
ton.