The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-29

An associate member of the Worces-
ter Y, W. c. A. pays S. year but takes
no active part in the work of the assoc
4 citation. She prefers to help by her IS
fee. Glass members join the association
for the purpose of benefiting by at
! tending its classes. Such are called
association members elsewhere.
1.-THE Worcester Y. w. c. A. has also
active members who pay 81 year and
take part in the management of the
association, and sustaining members
who pay 81 a year, but, like associate
members, do not take part in the work
Of the Y. w. c.. A. They feel that
they can better afford the 81 fee than
the larger sum and become members,
thus aiding by their smaller contribu-
ton in the good work of the organiza-
ton.
1.-THE duties of active members are
not light, as may be seen from the fol-
lowing:
1T shall be the duty of active mem
bers to extend the work of the asso-
ciation-by increasing it's membership,
by cooperating with the executive
committee, in accordance with plans
which it may present, in seeking out
young women taking up their residence
! in Worcester, and thus endeavoring to
bring them under moral and religious
influences; by introducing them to the
members and privileges Of this associa-
ton. 1t shall be their duty also to eX-
ert themselves to interest the churches
| to which they respectively belong, in
the objects and welfare of this associa-
ton, and to use all practicable means
for increasing its activity and useful
ness"
Owing to sewer construction which
will obstruct car traffic on Foster and
Summer Streets the Marlboro and
Lake line will, beginning tomorrow,
shift ends at City Hall, and return by
| way of Front Street.
| The first Kneisel Quartet concert of
a series to be given in Boston this sea-
son, was in Chickering Hall last night
before a large and select audience.
These concerts are considered social
and musical events in Boston and the
| patrons are from the best known peo-
pie in town. The first concert by the
quartet in Worcester will be in Horti-
cultural Hall tonight at s O'Clock and
already the management is assured
of large house.
The millenary anniversary of King
Alfred is without controversy the mos
| remarkable commemoration of tbs
year A thousand years have passed
and still Alfred remains an unquestion
able part of our modern life. Theodor
| ic the Great who founded the Ostra
gothic italian Empire passed the thou
sandth anniversary of his death in 152O
| Charlemagne in 1914, but what nation
of Continental Europe could celebrate
these anniversaries as a nations trlo
ute to a national hero without doinI
violence to history and tradition. HIS
4 torians have called the ninth centur!
THE century of the beginning of nations
France, Italy, Germany and SlaVl
Russia showed the copmencements o
! adhesive national life. In England
II there began the unification of two con
1 hicting elements, the Saxon and Ator
eign, alien element who were eager U
rule or ruin. The period Of begin
nings is usually time Of suffering
and distress and when King Alfre'
was born, $40, the political skies wer
ashen and sober. 1t was a time o
mental and spiritual poverty and men
hearts failed them for fear. Alfred
mother, Osberga, was religious wo
man noble by birth and nature" Sh
died in her 10th year. When scarcel
five years old he made journey t
Rome in charge of Bishop Swithan nj
spiritual guide and tutor. During hi
two years residence in Rome his beau
ty and intellectual promise made hin
A great favorite. Pope Leo ~. adopt
ed him as his own son. The death 0
Alfred's four brothers gave him tn
kingship, 81. Thirty years later n
Idied King of England. The year of hi
accession to the throne was a time o
peril. Battle followed battle in quicl
| succession, and the Danes were eve
victorious. During the winter OF 30
S7S. the young king wandered fugitive
in the County of Somerset. Says Bish
CD Arsur: HE had none of the neces
saries of life except what he coult
forage openly or stealthily from th'
Pagans or even from Christians who
had submitted to the rule of the Pa
CANS" Later in the year he gathered
| his followers together and their sue
cess in arms brought in time the treaty
of Wedmore. The heather King Gut
tran received baptism and divided the
country with Alfred We of the 20tf
century can little realize the sanguina-
nv determination and cruel potency OF
the Mortimer so years before Charlie
magne had\ barred their progress
southwark. IN Denmark st. Anger
was successfully intoxicating peace
Harold Fair Hair was forming ma
tional monarchy in Norway. Tne
heather affairs of the Danes were IAN
ing. The Norwegian was compassed
about with legal restrictions. Hence
the middle Of the ninth century saw
fleet after fleet sweep down from the
North Sea manned by warriors VINO
displayed valor and scorned death, Who
sailed forth not for plumber only but
in search of new lands wherein to
build new homes. After the treaty OF
Wedmore, Alfred devoted himself to the
gentle arts of peace. His greatness d.
a legislator is best manifested by COM
| 1T. 1aUa1 with the laws
of imperious Germany, decadent Spain
tickle. inconstant France and turbulent
Slavonfc Russia. His strenuous eHorts
in matters of education made possible
/ Cbaucer and the literary splendOr OF
Flizabeth's reign The good king was
a clever musician and played winsomelS
on the harp Not long before the peace
of Wedmore, greatly desiring TO know
the condition of the Danish camp, hS
disguised himself as a harper and Sc
delighted Prince Guthrum that he re-
NAMED several days his foeman's guest
/ His domestic life was singularly sWee1
and pure. The year of his marriage
seS was one of the darkest in Eng
lands history. He and his faithful
wife the beautiful Aelswyth, were OTTER
4 compelled to wander amid the mofasse'
of Athelnv An old chronicler writes
"And when night came the King wenl
to bed with Aelswyth. his wife. Anc
the lady slept, but the King lay awake
and thought of all that had come t'
mass that day." 1.-The lady slept, thF
sweet innocent sleep of truthful love
No marvel that the same night st
/ Cuthbert appeared in luminous visior
on this scene of conjugal fidelity anc
assured the weary husband he should
be king of England and overthrow MS
| enemies by 1.-The will of God and his
Datron saint" The contemplation OF
noble and sanity lives is a greater
force for righteous living than the pro
mitigation of dogmas." King Alfred