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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22

faculty of Lancashire Independent COL
lege in England. The work in question
is an attempt to show that evolution
does not apply where reason is at work.
When this is more generally applied,
he says. we shall see a return of mems
minds to the rejected authorities, and
religion, conscience philosophy, even
intentionalism, will all come back.
Method in Education: A Text Book
for Teachers" by Ruric n. Roark, dean
Of the department of pedagogy in the
State college of Kentucky attempts to
develop in detail the applications of
psychology in the work of teaching, and
is to some extent a sequel to "Psychol-
ogy in Education" by the same au-
thor The teaching of reading, SPELL
ing, history, civics, physiology, arith-
metic, etc, is discussed in detail; drills,
reviews and examinations are discussed
and physical culture and character
building are included, as worthy the
most serious attention of the teacher.
(American Book Company
Little Novels. By Maurice Hewlett.
Duodecimo. PIP. 943 The Macmillan
Company. Cloth, $1.50.
The title of Maurice Hewlett's new
book is Little Novels of Italy. che
titled 1.-THE madonna of the peach
tree" which has been so eagerly
waited for by those who admire Mr..
Hewletts work 1t is not often that
two such Well-known writer's as Mr..
James Lane Allen and Mr.. Hamilton
Mabie think it worth while to speak
so enthusiastically about the work of
a fellow craftsman as they have in the
two following quotations from their ar
bn on
former says I'm the matter Of style
alone, it is an achievement an extraor-
binary achievement; in the matter
of interpreting nature, there are pass
ages in this book that / have never seen
surpassed in prose fiction" while Mr..
Hamilton w. Mabie says: 1.-THE plot is
boldly conceived and strongly sus-
tanned; the characters are vigorously
drawn and are thrown into striking
contrast " /" 1t leads the reader far
from the dusty highway it is touched
with tho penetrating power of the i'm
agination; it has human interests and
idyllic loneliness"
More Pot-Pourri from a Surrey
Garden, by Mrs c. w. Earle. Pub
lished by the Macmillan Co, London
This is a work very similar to its
predecessor. 1t is a marvelously odd
mixture of useful and ornamental
thoughts. The book cannot be ade-
quately described. The author is in
| imitable in her way drifting with the
| hour, the day and the season from
one theme to another as one drifts in
| infancy. Her ideas are rich with COM
mon sense, frank and honest in ex-
preston.
1.-THE Insect World" compiled and
edited by Clarence Moores Weed. D.
| Sc, author of Life Histories of Amer
lean Insects, Stories of Insect Life, Ten
New England Blossoms and Their In
sect Visitors Published by d. Apple
| ton & Co., New York, in the Home
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
THE WORLD OF BOOKS

1t is fitting that the quaint PERSONAL
ity of Aunt Minervy Ann, which has
delighted the readers of Scribner's
Magazine for several months, should
be reprinted and given the permanency
of book form. The old colored woman
is "a character" An "AffilSin fun
way back yander TO de flood, an fun
the word 60" she believed herself to
have sprung from royal race, and
perhaps 1t was consciousness of this
aristocratic relationship that gave her
bad temper, accompanied by heart
as tender and a devotion as unselftsh as
any mortal ever possessed or displayed.
But there are other characters in the
little group at Halcyonhill in middle
Georgia. There is Maj. Tu'nlin Perdue,
and his brother-in-law, Col. Bolivar
Blasengame, and Hamp. the husband of
Aunt Minefvy Arm, who, upon being
elected to the state legislature by the
negro republicans of the district, col
lapsed with the weight Of his new dig
nifty joel Chandler Harris knows the
south Of early post-bellum as few men
know it. THE Chronicles of Aunt
Minervy Ann" has all the charm, in
diYiduality and Tacy hurnor of Mr.. Har-
ris' earlier tales.
"From Comte to Benjamin Kidd, the
Appeal to Biology or Evolution for HUI
man Guidance" is the title of a book
by Robert Macintosh to be published
Immediately by the Macmillan Com
pany The subject of the work is
historical sketch and criticism of the
appeal to biology which was outlined
by Comte, and has been newly defined
and emphasized by Darwinism and still
more recently stated by Mr. Kidd in the
most extreme form logically possible.
Prof Macintosh is a member of the
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
cRoQUET VS.. TENNIS AND GOLF

Crouuet wherever it's played,
Must render a mother with daughters
No gam game '' could serve BETTER her plans to
No game anne could give Hymen likelier
Why, in croquet you know, couples
And dawdle and daily much NOR. than
There's no no reason for haste, no occasion
There is nothing to cause an unlady-lilSe
In the the daintiest toilettes a damsel can
And the. neatest of ankles demurely dis
She can wander at will, she can smile,
she can pout;,
Then in croduet man can his partner
And to her can an aid sympathetic ex-
He can help her along if her efforts re-
He can stoutly defend her from rivals
He can give her his counsel, and She in
To assist him in moments of danger may
learn.
Can encourage, condole with, instruct and
advise.
For mother whose aim is to husbands
No game can be better than croquet, I'm
But in tennis! All mel
No chance to converse, not an opening for
Much less for firtation-there's no time
for that
1t is ali hurry-scurry when once they be-
Little cupid has not the least chance to
To daily. poor urchin, in vain he inclines;
He can't get foothold within the base
And when the sets over. whoever may
You know what state all the players
NY daughters especially suffer a lot,
And invariably look most unpleasantly
hot
Too breathless to talk, they instinctively
chafe,
For they know that they have not one
hairpin that's safe.
The more they have proved at the net
their renown,
And how. with so dread foreboding pos
sest
How, how can girl, let me ask, look her
It is not without reason I very much fear
That love" counts as nothing in tennis,
my dear!
I esteem tennis little. but golf even less.
The man who plays golf is a terrible bore,
Persistently selfish right through to the
core;
To all feminine charms he is totally blind.
He can only talk shop" of the dreariest
kind;
'Tis absurd to suppose that he thinks of
a wife
To drive and to putt" are the ends of
his life
And that girls common sense must be
woefully dim
Who imagines by goling she'll ever catch
him. London Truth.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
SQUIRRELS TAKE A BATH.

3 officer Lovelace made discovery of
some interest yesterday morning in
reference to the state house squirrels.
Every morning, just before daylight,
since the extremely hot weather began,
he has noticed a troop of six to eight
sometimes more, of these alert little
creatures going down State street tow
ard the west on the big telegraph ca
BILE. The officer was Interested and
concluded to watch them TO see where
they were going and for what pur-
pose About $50 o'clock eight of the
little animals crossed the street from
the capitol grounds, ran nimbly up the
big pole which supports the cable and
in a line about five feet apart, as usual
they started west, the officer following
at safe distance so as not to alarm
them. When the squirrels arrived at
the State street bridge they ran down
the pole at the east and, chasing one
another down the river bank, plunged
in for a bath. After disporting them
selves for about ten minutes in the
cool water they returned to the capitol
in the order in which they had come, as
nearly as the officer could judge.-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22

ding and clothing is thoroughly steri-
lized. One room is cut off completely
from other parts of the building, and
1t is from this apartment that all arti-
cles are placed in tanks containing a
chemical solution or placed in the
steam sterilizer before coming into the
laundry proper.
This building also contains a small
chapel where funeral services are held
as occasion requires Persons who
have occasion to visit the wards, other
than the nurses, don caps and gowns
completely covering the hair and cloth
ing before venturing in, and battle such
portions of their anatomy as are eX-
posed in a chemical solution Immediate
ly after leaving the ward. In fact, ev-
cry precaution possible is taken to pre-
vent contagion.
In the administration building is the
office of the resident physician, a lab
oratory where all the culture tubes
used in the city are prepared in addi-
ton to the regular work of the institu-
ton the dining and sleeping rooms of
the attendants and rooms where proba-
tionary patients are kept. This last
portion of the building is separated
from the rest of the building by a spa
cious corridor and is as effectually cut
Off as the wards.
Few visitors are allowed except in
critical cases, and even then due pre-
caution is taken against contagion.
There have been instances when the
regulation as to visitors has been hard
for relatives or friends of the patients
to understand, and on several occasions
mothers have exhibited considerable
temper and alleged all sorts of things
against the administration because
they were not allowed to visit their Off
springs as often as they saw fit.
The building is heated by steam and
lighted by electricity. A private tele-
phone system is in operation providing
constant communication between the
wards and the resident physician at all
hours.
The recent purchase in the neighbor-
hood of the hospital building gives
about six acres of land and prevents
more buildings being erected in the
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
CUBA AND PORTO RICO.

Street & Smith, publishers, New
York, have just issued a book on Gu
ba, Its Past, Present and Future" and
Porto Rico, Its Products and Pos
sibilities." The author is Mr. A. d.
Hall, a writer of some distinction upon
these two countries, and both stories
are unusually entertaining and inter-
esting particularly in view of the com
mercial facilities which present them
selves just at this time.
In dealing with the History of Cuba.
he begins unlike many other authors,
at it's discovery and early history, pass
ing through the British occupation, the
Ten Years War, the Virginius en-
broglio, and with a remarkable fidelity
for detail, writes the story of Weylers
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
THREE HUNDRED AND TEN
THOUSAND.

The three hundred and tenth thou
sand of David Harum is now on press
The average sale of David Harum for
every business day in August was
thirteen hundred and six copies, while
the average rate in September was fif-
teen hundred and twenty-One copies.
1t is of course obvious that no book of
recent years has approached the record
already made by David Harum, and
the future, judging from present sales,
promises even more remarkable results
President Hadley, of Yale college,
one of the best authorities on the sub
iect in the country, and man whose
opinions have the value of deliberate
observation of actual conditions, has
written an article on THE formation
and control of trusts" for the Novem-
Der Scribner's. OF their future he says:
The question of state ownership of in
dustrial enterprises, instead of becom-
ing an acute national issue, as SO many
now expect, will tend rather to become
relatively unimportant, and may not
improbably be removed altogether
from the field of party politics.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22

that few cities in the country have an
institution of the sort more carefully
or thoroughly appointed.
The buildings are pleasantly situated
on a hill commanding an excellent view
of the surrounding country, and so ar
ranged as to admit of every part of the
institution receiving all the sunlight
and air possible The buildings are
constructed expressly for the purpose
intended. There is nothing in the way
of ornament, but in>its place an atmos-
phere of cleanliness and quietude that
is refreshing in itself. The laundry
and sterilizing departments combine the
latest ideas in this line, and every pos
sible precaution is taken against dis
tribution Of germs. The institution is
under the immediate supervision of Dr.
May s. Holmes, whose work since she
has been connected with the hospital
speaks in the highest terms of her
ability.
Since it's establishment, Nov, rs, 1885,
the institution has been growing stead
lily in public favor. The thorough man
ner in which cases of this sort are
handled gives much better results
many times than can possibly be at
tanned in the home, even with the best
of care and medical attendance.
Last year the number of patients
to the present time this year, 1872 cases
have been treated, which goes to prove
that people are gradually coming to the
belief that the contagious disease hos
pital is the best place for patients suf
fering with either of the diseases treat
ed.
From an economic standpoint the in
stitution offers exceptional opportuni-
ties. In cases where patients can af-
ford it charge of $40 a week is made,
which includes medical attendance,
medicine, food and the best of care.
Aside from financial standpoint a
scarlet fever or diphtheria patient is
far better off in the hands Of expert
enced nurses who are thoroughly ac-
ouainted with every phase Of the dis
ease than would be possible in the
home.
Although authority is vested in the
board of health to remove all cases of
contagious diseases to this institution,
the authority has never been exercised
except In cases where am epidemic
seemed imminent or the case was such
as TO make it manifestly evident that it
was dangerous to allow the patient to
remain at home.
The administration building is situat-
ed in the center of the group of struct-
ures which comprise the institution At
either side and connected by covered
vaults and underground passages are
the scarlet fever and diphtheria wards,
separated by a space of 40 feet, which
Is estimated as the zone of contagion.
Each of these wards is provided with
20 beds and provided with steam alto
mixers which are used with good effect
especially during the winter months,
when steam heat has the effect of pro-
ducing an extremely dry atmosphere.
TIE nurses come from the city hospital
ashley are needed, in fact, this branch
is included in the present course of
training. In the rear of the admins
tration building is the laundry and dis
injecting department, where all bed
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
THE COMPANION FOR THE REST
OF 1898.

The principal attractions offered by
The Youths Companion for the remain
ing weeks Of 1899 will make the readers
mouth water for the good things to
be served up in the new volume for
1900, In early issues of November will
appear Hints on reading" by James
Bryce, author of "rho American Com
monWealth" also a droll story byFrank
r. Stockton, entitled, THE wolf and the
wheelbarrow." III the issue of Mo-
vember 10th will begin w. D. Howells
serial story, "a pocketful of money,
and this will be followed by another Sc
rial by Jane Barlow, the celebrated
Irish story-writer; entitled, "Dinnie and
the Dams" In the same issues con-
tanning these serials, or following them
will appear Some remote post offices,
by eX-Postmaster Gary; an excellent
article on The growing child by Dr.
Mary p. jacob of New York; rem
iniscent sketch by Bret Harte, of his
early California experiences, under the
title. GLOW / went to the mines; a
story of the good old times, "Sereny
Maria at school," by Mary e. Wilkins;
and under the head of For life and
liberty" the narrative Of a bloOd-curd-
ling adventure in Darkest Africa, by
Henry NJ. Stanley. Those new sub
scribers who send in their subscriptions
now for the 1900 volume will receive
all this years November and Decem-
Der issues from the time of subscrip-
tion free, and then the 50 issues of the
new year to Jan, !, 1901.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reached the diseased portion of the ear.
and that is by constitutional remedies
Deafness is caused by an infamed condi-
ton of the mucous lining of the eusta-
chan tube When this tube gets in
perfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed deafness is the result. and unless
the inflammation can be taken out and
this tube restored to its normal condition
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh
which is nothing but an inhamed condi-
ton of the mucous surfaces.
We win give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars. free.
f. j. CHENEY e CO., Toledo o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
PRIDE OF THE CITY.
Isolation Hospital Is
Splendidly Ar
ranged.
PRECAUTIONARY METHODS.
How Contagion is Prevent
ed at the Institution
on the Hill.
PRECAUTIONARY METHODS.

Reference to the isolation hospital
sends an involuntary SILVER down the
backs of most people. The general
impression is that an institution where
scarlet fever and diphtheria cases are
treated must of necessity be a sort of
pest house swarming with germs of
oontagion and breathing forth an at
mosphere communicating in itself.
But the reality presents a decidedly
opposite condition of affairs. OF the
many excellent public institutions of
which Worcester has reason to be proud
the hospital for the treatment of con-
tagious diseases stands we'll up toward
the top. Members of the board of
health under whose department the in
stitution comes, take pride in the fact
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
BOOKS RECEIVED.

eeThe Law of Private Companies, Re
latfng to Business Corporations Orga-
nized under the General Corporation
Laws Of the State of Delaware by j.
Ernest Smith. Published by L. d j.
". Johnson & Co, 535 Chestnut street,
Philadelphia. Paper, Sl.5O.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22

infamous mismanagement, going all
through that brutal campaign. Then,
at the close, he tells of the suffering
Cubans in the last days of peace
Any one DESTROYS of acquainting
themselves with the topography and
resources of Cuba should not fail to
read Mr.. Halls story,
In his History of Cuba, he follows
much the same style and system, run
ming from the time of the aborigines in
that island up to the time that it comes
into the possession Of the American re-
public Its struggles, topography,
climate, resources, manners and Gus
toms are all told with the greatest
care, and he very properly devotes a
fair portion Of the story in reviewing
our claims to Porto Rico and what the
possession of that island will mean to
America.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22

immediate vicinity. There is a cottage
house included in the sale which will
be utilized as residence for the jan
itor and his family.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-12-08
Thc shamming Foe.

A fox will counterfeit death in q
most extraordinary manner. 1t will
sometimes allow itself to be taken by
the brush, or tail, and flung out upon
the ground and after some time jump
up and take to it's heels. On one occa-
sion man going to his work came up
on a fox lying stretched out under
some bushes. He drew the creature
out by the tail and swung 1t to and fro
and then threw it upon the ground,
but not sign of life did 1t show. He
then took the fox by the tail and swung
it over one shoulder, hanging his mat
took over the other, and so trudged
along the highway The fox had sham
med death to admiration, but the mat.
took rendered his present position in
tolerable, for the point Of it came
against his ribs. So at last he gave a
snap, or bite. which penetrated the
flesh at the lower part of the mans
back and forced him instantly to throw
his load. At first he could not imagine
what had happened; but, looking round,
he saw the fox. which he had imagined
to be dead making off for the nearest
thicllet at the greatest possible speed.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-12-08

HEADQUARTERS of the Norris County
III Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty
TO Children and to Animals. - Becker Build
ing. in Mr.. Thomas Martins Store Agent.
Mr.. ROBERT VAN DYKE
1881 Telephone No. POI.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-12-08
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

There are, it Is estimated, about
5000 doctors in London.
Day county S. D., has produced two
crops of oats this season.
A feather of an eagle shot by Dewey
has been turned into a pen by Cincin-
natl man.
The consumption of alcoholic drinks
in France seems to be greatly on the
increase, in spite of the fact that her
population, if not stationary, shows
but an almost imperceptible increase.
Card playing has increased of late in
Britain. The number of new packs
brought into use last year exceeded
2,250,000, an increase of 250,000 on
the year before and of 100000 on 1896.
Australia offered a prize of f25000
to any one who would rid the country
of rabbits, but after several people had
tried their hands no more satisfactory
solution was found than that of eating
them.
According to a London journal, the
number OF stamps now current in the
world is 1881. England has 131 and
her colonies 3,S43. The United States
has 26S different kinds and the repub.
lie of Salvador 272.
In 1915 the decadence of Ireland be-
gan in earnest, and it has kept up ever
since. In that year the population was
S,295,061, the highwater mark. On the
Both of last June it was 1881, O51, the
lowest ever known.
In Germany the capital for carrying
on the pawnshops by the municipal au-
thorities is derived either from the
city treasurer or the city savings bank,
which is usually operated in connec-
ton with the shops
AS dieting is considered one of the
most efficient aids in modern medical
made arrangements with two schools
where medical students can take les
sons in the culinary art.
The czar has revoked the law which
since 1865 has forbidden Poles to ac-
quire real estate except by Inheritance.
They will still be restricted. however,
both in Poland and in western Russia,
to 65 hectares for one family
One of the laundry trade journals re-
Gently noticed new antiseptic which
is intended to sterilize clothes when
being Numbered, thereby preventing
contagion. A formaldehyde solution Is
solidified, and this is used by laundry
men.
A new kind of embroidery used by
fashionable dressmakers is said to be
the invention of the queen of NADIA
gascar. 1t is of many colors on dark
ground, and it appears to meet with
great approval from searchers after
novelty.
A German psychologist attacks the
prevalent notion that sugar is injuri-
Gus to the stomach. He considers il
one Of the most wholesome and nour-
ishing foods admitting, however. that
dyspeptics should not eat sweet dishes
IN the evening.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-12-08
.sWhnt would You Dor"

For a jolly company the game of
grievances and remedies affords
much amusement. Each of the play
ers whispers to the person sitting on
his right a question beginning, what
would you do it, adding any funny
grievance he would like remedy
for. Then to those sitting at the left
hand side they all mention some
strange remedy, something to do or to
take. which they may think Of
When all are ready, the leader asks
any one he chooses the question he has
been asked and will be given the rem
edy that was suggested to that player.
Sometimes the answers are very suit
able and very amusing. The player
who answers the first question then
puts the question given him TO some
other person, and so each question is
answered, the fun. of course, being in
proportion to the wit of the playerI
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-12-08
LEGAL BLANKS.

DOR SALE. Legal Blanks in ali forms ii
L use In Morris County Courts, III any quaint
tty desired. Apply Counting Room.
CHRONICLE PRINTING HOUSE.