The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09

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THE SPY SHOULD HAVE THE EYE OF ARGUS: He
is HONORABLE IF He DO But LOOK TO The VEL
FARE OF The COMMONWEALTH"
SUNDAY, APRIL 0. 1899.
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The Boston dog show is understood
to have been a bowling success.
This beef believing business hasn't
hurt where it was meant to. Most Of
the spring elections went republican.
An anti-expansion meeting in Boston
to hurrah over the name Of Herr Rose,
the insolent German consul general at
Samoa, is now in order.
The license commission must be con-
sidered an anti-imperialistic board as
it refused to establish king Connie
in the Barleycorn dynasty.
To have s8.o0oOOo distributed fairly,
with no toll taken by the government
as in the good old days, will be start
ling enough to give the Cuban army
heart disease.
If Bryan has any enemies, now is
their opportunity. The Boy orator of
the Platte has written a book of plati-
tudes. "Oh! that mine enemy would
write a book"
An emotional Italian, convicted of
counterfeiting in Boston the other day,
and sentenced to ten years in the peni-
Tertiary, forthwith began tearing up
his hat and eating it. He may have
trouble in his midst.
The report that Loie Fuller, the
American dancer who has had such
remarkable success in London and
Paris, is becoming hopelessly blind as
a result of the strong lights turned
upon her in the dance, reveals a new
terror of the modern stage.
Representative Mellen is another
democrat who prophesied a clover pc
Rod in 1892 if Cleveland was elected,
and found hay a necessity. But this
doesn't trouble Willard Pond so much
as the fact that Mellen doesn't feel
that it is necessary to pay for it.
People who think Friday an uncanny
day will be firmer than ever in that
opinion when they note that the last
fire horror in New York and the Wind
sor hotel disaster were both Friday
events. Thirteen was the suggestive
number of lives lost in the latest ca
tastrophe.
Compressed air is probably an effect
i've and useful motive agent, with a
good future. But it may be doubted
if there is anything about it more
buoyant forcible or expansive than the
able legal Worcester gentleman who
has promoted it so airily to its pres
ent degree of success.
Iowa's state debt will be entirely ex-
tinguished before the present month is
out. Few commemorative will be
able to tell her what her sensation will
then be. but it must be peculiar. In
most of them there would be a dispo-
sition to plunge Immediately into ex-
travagance and get back to normal
conditions.
Whether the proprietor of the restau-
rant in the State Mutual building gets
his license or not. he win at least have
the satisfaction of knowing that he has
been a well-advertised man. Even
those who have opposed granting the
license most vigorously go out of their
way to speak good words of the man
and his establishment.
Three months of American admins
tration in Cuba have yielded a gross
revenue of S3,5OO,00O and a surplus of
81, 400 900. Here is an indication of
$4,000, 900 of revenue for the year, and
there is every reason to expect more
than that, with the gradual settlement
of business conditions and the better
acquaintance Of Americans with the
local problems presented.
It turns out that the Filipinos hold
four American soldiers who We're taken
prisoners before hostilities began last
February. All wandered into the in
surgent lines in defiance of orders, and
one of them was armed with a re-
volver and camera. two very suspicious
weapons. At last accounts, they were
alive. and Gen. Otis still believes them
to be. but there is no certainty of their
fate after the insurgent flight from
MaIolos.
All but twoof the volunteer regiments
in the Philippines belong to western
states, but the east gets a share Of the
glory through the officers of the regular
army. Like Gen. Miller, the captor of
Ioilo, Gen. Macarthur, who has won
the most distinction of all the army
| leaders around Manila, is a Massachu-
sets man, and with Dewey and several
officers of the fleet, will help to even up
the account as between the two sec
tons of the country.
The story that Lillian Russell has
quit the Belle Helene" company and
may perhaps-with a capital P-retire
from the stage, because Edna Wallace
Hopper got most Of the applause in
Philadelphia, constitutes an excellent
bit Of advertising for Mrs. Hopper. It
is said the latter is to be reunited to