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


weak and bleeding lungs, bronchitis ana
obstinate cough which, If neglected or
badly treated, lead to consumption.
There is no alcohol or whisky contained
IN the discovery nor any other intoXt@
cant. 1t has in 1t no opium or other mar
cottc, neither sugar nor syrup. Without
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vor and healing properties in any climate.
There IS nc. stimulation or false strength
in Golden Medical Discovery" 1t works
with nature along natural lines to build
up the waste places OF the body. 1t heals
the stomach, puts the organs of digestion
and nutrition in sound working condition,
and increases the action of the blood
making glands. When this is done the
stomach begins to properly nourish the
starved and diseased organs, and as these
acquire strength from nourishment they
begin to fight against disease, to throw II
off Thus weak lungs are nourished until
they become strong lungs, and strong
lungs have power to eXpel disease.
If you are sick and doubling you are
invited to write to DR.. Pierce, without
fee or charge of any kind. DR.. Pierce has
for over thirty years been chief consulting
physician of the Invalids Hotel and
Worlds Dispensary at Buffalo, New York.
In that time he has treated half a million
cases. with the result that only two out
of every hundred have failed Of a perfect
cure. and even many of these have been
greatly benefited If you belong to the
ninety-eight per cent of cases which Dr..
Pierce has proven to be durable, you can
do no better than to ask his opinion OF
your case Ask It at once, for in disease
delays are very dangerous. Every letter
is held as strictly private and sacredly
confidential. Write without fear as with
out fee
There's no law to prevent any dealer
telling you that something else is Just
as good" when you ask for Dr.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery There's no
law against it, but there ought to be, be-
cause it is not true. There is no medi--
cine known that has such record OF
cures as the discovery"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09
NEW WORKS OF FICTION.

How Hindsight Met Provincialatis.
BY l.. Clarkson Whitelock. Copeland x
Day, Boston.
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco.
By Frank Norris. Doubleday 81 Nc
Clure Company, New York.
A bizarre and uninteligible title is
the part most to be criticised in Miss
Whitelock's collection Of short stories
of the rural north and south in ante
bellum days. ProVincialatis, it must be
explained, is one of those favored towns
in the sunny south which are still I'M
spoiled by the newly imported rush of
universal improvements. The hustle of
business activity that is effectually
waking uD the drowsy cotton states
hurries by and leaves those enchanted
spots much of that primitive tranquil
lily which gives their people the repose
of gentlefolks, even though often beg
CARED of their inheritance and forced
to eat the bitter bread of self mainte-
nance Hindsight, on the other hand,
| is the unlikely name of one of those
| melancholy little places where the
stern traits of the Puritan grandfathers
and the serious mindedness of Puritan
grandmothers still exist. That almost
pathetic unWorldliness, which is in
truth but an inability to reach the COM
pensations of modern life, seem to lin
ger about these inhabitants, even though
they be shreWd, hard working, and
capable. 1t gives to the men folks a
certain hard crust which often conceals
many gentle virtues; while the women
kind are possessed of a dread of making
themselves too agreeable, which many
times bellies the inner-kindness of their
hearts,"
Undoubtedly, society in Provinciala-
tbs is to be preferred, at least as the
author presents it. She is at her best
among the faded bellies and elegant
nothings of that old, broken-down
slave-holding aristocracy. One of the
most pathetic bits in modern fiction is
| the Vignette of Miss Girondelle, once
the beauty of three counties, now a
faded woman of sixty. In the war
! which deprived her of father, mother,
brothers and lover, her home was
burned to the ground, but at cost of in
finite pains she managed to save a lit
| tie trunk with the letters of dead
sweetheart Henceforth she was cast
upon the charity of those relatives who
had not lost all, and it was 30 years be-
| fore she could rescue the beloved
trunk from the storage house, where it
had long been detained for back pay
ment. 1t is a wonderful day when
with an old friend, she pokes about in
the cObwebby, dim attic, searching for
! the trunk which, when found, con-
tains only some old gowns and a few
books. Three times Miss Girondell6
/ turns over the worthless articles. Then
she lifts a white face with a wan
ghost of her bright smile. 1T must
have been a mistake, Hetty. The let
tiers were not with these things They
must have been in another trunk, and
they were burned. Oh, my daring's
letters! o, Hetty! I nearly lost my
| life trying to save that trunk-and il
was the wrong one! They were
burned Now I feel bereft indeed
There is nothing left to me out of my
beautiful lost youth-nothing-noth'
ingl"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09
CONDEMNED BY JUDGE IGNORANCE.
A Grand Jury Sets Aside the
Verdict.

A man stands on the scaffold. He is
innocent of crime, but ignorance has
linked him with criminals in such way
that evidence is against him. He turns
to look his last on the sun and the sky.
Somehow there comes back to him the
thought of how the sun shone in his bed
room window in boyhood. With a smile
he turns to meet his fate. Stop! There is
cry; a growing roar as the sound of
many waters. The great sea of humanity
about the scatfold breaks into tumultuous
waves And through that sea a rider
wades holding on high parchment, while
about him grows ever louder the glad cry
of one word-"reprieved The man can
hardly realize that he is to live and not
to die. He has for weeks been watching
the slow advance of death, a step nearer
with every tick of the clock, with every
beat of the heart, He has prepared him
self for the fate from which there seemed
no escape, and now he is to live, to be a
part of this active, busy world again
from which he has been so long shut out.
Never did the sky seem so blue the sun
so bright, or the world so fair as at this
moment.
That scene is rare though it has been
enacted more than once. But there is a
scene enacted every day somewhere in
this world-yes, every hour of every day,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09

never before vouchsafed to their ad-
mirers. 1t is more than biography, 1t
is the story of a most romantic love
told in the poets own words, and has
has all the fascinating elements of a
novel of the old letter-writing school.
The first thing to be noted about the
letters is that they are worthy of their
authors. They are such as one would
expect from the author of "Sonnets
from the Portuguese" and Aurora
Leigh" from the author of "Pippa
Passes" and 1.-THE Ring and the Book. "
Throughout two volumes of some 200
pages we find much thoughtful com
ment on literature and life, but 1t is,
after ALL rather incidental to the main
subject Above everything else they
are love letters, and their writer's show
that their chief interest lies only in
their love for each other and for each
others work
AS the commentary on the immortal
work Robert Browning and Elizabeth
Barrett have given to the English Ian
guage, their letters will be indis-
pensable to every American who has
learned 40 know and love them.
OF special interest are the comments
made from time to time on American
authors Says Miss Barrett, referring to
james Russell Lowell: He has a re-
fined fancy, and is graceful for an
American critic, but the truth is, other
wise, that he knows nothing of English
poetry, or the next thing to nothing,
and has merely had a dream of the
early dramatists. The amount of his
reading in that direction is an article in
the Retrospective Review, which con-
tains extracts, and he re-eXtracts the
extracts, requotes the quotations. How
a writer of his talents and pretensons
could make W his mind to make up a
book on such Slight substratum is a
curious proof of the state of literature
in America. Why, lecturer on the
English dramatists for young ladies'
academy here in England might take it
TO be necessary to have better infOrma-
ton than he could gather from an odd
volume Of an old review. Altogether the
fact is an epigram on the surface liter
sature of America. AS you say, their
books do not suit US"
sa0n Edgar Allan Poe Miss Barrett is
not quite so severe. Il send you" she
writes, "a most frightful extract from
an American magazine sent to me yes
terday on the subject of mesmerism,
and yQu are to understand that the Mr..
Edgar Poe who stands committed in it
IS my dedicator; so while l am sending,
you shall have his poems with his mes
lneriC experience, and decide whether
the outrageous compliment to Elizabeth
Barrett Barrett or the experiment on
NJ. Valdemar goes furthest to prove him
mad. There is poetry in the man,
though now and then seen between the
gaps, Of pathOs. 'POlition' will make you
laugh, as the Raven made me laugh,
Z Though with something in 1t which ac-
counts for the hold it took upon people
c,teh-ac Willis and his pppTS Some
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09
MY DAUGHTER LOUISE.

In the light of the moon, by the side of the
My seat on the sand, and her seat on my
knees,
We watch the bright pillows, do and my
NV sweet little daughter, Louise.
We wonder what city the pathway of
That broadens away to the limitless
Leads up to-she minds me of some pretty
And says-".To the city that mortals
Then Il ! say: ut must lead to the far
The beautiful city of rest"
In the light of the moon,by the side of the
Stand two in the shadow of whispering
trees,
And one loves my daughter, my beautiful
NV womanly daughter Louise.
She steps to the boat with touch of his
And out on the dlamonded pathway
they move.
The shallop is lost in the distance; it lin
1t waits, but I know that its coming
will prove
That it went to the walls of the beautiful
The magical city of love.
In the light of the moon, by the side of the
water.
I wait for her coming from over the
seas;
wait but to welcome the dust of my
daughter,
TO weep for my daughter, Louise
The path as of old, reaching out in its
splendor
Cleans bright, like a way that an angel
has trOd;
1 kiss the cold burden its pillows surren-
der,
Sweet clay to lie under the pitiful sod;
But she rests at the end of the path in
the city
''Whose builder and maker is Cod"
Homer Greene
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09
APRIL MAGAZINES.

Arts For America for April opens
with an article on Portrait photogra-
ply as a fine art" amply illustrated.
Elijah latter is the subject of a paper
on pioneers in American pottery"
and prints of several styles of plates
and pitchers made by this transplanted
Englishman, give additional interest.
Poster art glass" Is treated sugges-
lively. while the abuse Of the human
form in advertising and the resolutions
against it adopted by the Illinois Fed
Grafton of WOmen's Clubs, are sympa-
thetically set forth. The illustrations
are numerous and good, and the letter
press of interest to all who are arts
tically inclined. Published at Fine Arts
building, Chicago.
Havelock Ellis, the distinguished
psvchoIogist, contributes to the Popu-
lar Science Monthly an entertaining
paper entitled THE stuff that dreams
are made Of, in which he refers sew
eral times to DR.. G. Stanley Hall and
his work Prof Ellis says that in
dreams we are taken back into an ear
Iier world which is mora like that or
the savage the child, the criminal, the
mailman, than is the world of our re-
spectacle civilized waking life, ana
that through dreams we may realize
our relation to stages Of evolution that
have long been left behind Dreaming,
it seems. is seriously studied not only
by religious sect which constitutes d
"Dream church" in Denmark, but by
such carefully inquisitive investigators
as those who have been trained under
the inspiring influence Of Prof. Stan
lev Hall" Edward Atkinson, the ia
nous economist, writes Of the wheat
problem. and Martin W. Barr, chiet
physician at the Pennsylvania training
school OF Predetermined children, IS
the author of q sadly interesting paper
illustrated on Mental detectives aIo
fhe social welfare" Imbecility. he con-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09
THE GOLFER.

See the golfer on the links
Muddy links.
See him raise his driver high
For a careful. mighty try,
That will split the azure sky
So he thinks.
See the club plough up the ground
Frozen ground.
Hear the profane golfer roar,
For he knows his bloomin score
Is increased by just one more
In that round
See him make another stroke
Careful stroke.
See the slender driver fall.
See it hasten toward the ball
But-he's missed it,, that is all
Holy smoke!
Did you hear the golfers speech
Hasty speech?
See him hit # this time-wough!
He's advanced it ten yards now,
But ten beats nothing, anyhow.
More rash speech.)
Now he takes another stick
Pretty stick.
Strikes a vicious, heavy blow;
Club stops short-mOre earth, you know
See him take his bag and go
Cowardly trick.
See the atmosphere turn blue
Very blue.
Hear him rend the ambient air;
Smash his clubs and rant and swear
That he'll quit the game for Ger
Wouldn't you?
See his caddie Ieer and grin
Cursed grin!
See the smirk upon his face
When they start to leave the place;
To murder him in such n case
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09
TETE-A-TETE.

can smell the scented snOWhakes
Softly falling at my feet:
Hear the bees that sip the honey
From the cherry blossoms sweet.
] but shut my eyes to see them,
Orchard, meadow, brook and well;
! can hear the cattle coming
Down the lane with tinkling bell.
See the clouds go swiftly sailing,
Summer Zephyrs fragrant blow,
Where the sunset and the river
Meet and fade in golden glow.
There are moss encrusted pebbles
Where the robin dips his wings
In the brook whose ripping music
OF my boyhoOd ever sings
Happy boy. whose careless whistle
Echoes through the vanished years.
Now "A dreamer in the cleaning.
Looking through a mist of tears.
That the light and this the shadow.
DAYS like passing visions seem.
TIN / whisper in the twilight,
That the real. and this the dream.
N. N. Roe in Donahoe's Magazine
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09

high that they do willingly overlook so
vulgar thing as a rafting good plot.
He who gets no satisfaction from
Treasure Island or Kidnapped is a
rarer bird than the Dodo. 1t is one Of
Stevenson's merits in such books that
he administers either to the critic who,
boylike, loses sight of technique in
pleasure, and, coming later out of the
swoon, finds his proper joy in tasting
quality and detecting the fine art Of
the performance. The sense of litera-
ture is forgotten for the nonce in the
sense of the joy of life"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09
'THE BROWNINCS.
n 1er-.+
Charming Letters of
This Wonderful
Couple.
WORTHY THEIR AUTHORS
,1t H.
American Writers as Seen
by Miss Bar
rett.

!, 1t is safe to say that every one who
,reads the charming letters of this Won
derful man and woman will agree with
Miss Barrett that letters are indeed
the most vital part of biography; Ger
tainly these volumes give an insight
into the personality of two great poets
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09
SPANISH LETTERS
Are Written by Hired scribes Along
the Streets

llE ollEHAHs
In nothing is the illiterate condition
Of Spain shown as in the numerous
writing booths which line the streets OF
Barcelona. Spain has preserved mucn
Of the picturesque life Of past ages and
even at the present day in many OF its
towns may be seen the Waterman with
pike and lantern, going his nightly
rounds not far from a fine street brill
liantly Illuminated by the electric light::
In the Rambla. the principal street or
Barcelona, may be seen several or
these writing booths of the public
scribes There. for small considera-
ton. the illiterate or any one else may
have anything indi-ed, from the poetry
Of a love epistie 10 the prosaic appA-
cation for a situation The 'front.' OF
each booth is placarded with the name
of the scribe and the services me is pre-
pared TO render to his customers some
scIfbes combine tine art OF painting
with that Of writing, and all aeu 20
their activities the business Of registry
Offices for servants. - Cincinnau H.
quirer
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09
a LIFE OF GENERAL MEADE,

Life OF General George Gordon Meade,
t.ommander of the Army of the Pc
tomac BY Richard Meade Bache
Coates & Co. Philadelphia.
Strange to say this is the hrst dog
g raphy to be published of the man VINO
for nearly two years commanded the
army CO the Potomac and under Wholh
! fought that battle which saw the
V>ning Of the power of the contederd-
cy. A new generation has arisen since
he completed his life work, and the
pNblisaers are justified in believing
that thev are supplying real need Oh
the part of the public The author is a
nerheV ci the dead commander. anu
! having been intimate with him from
boyhoOQ Cp. would seem to be espec-
ia'lN Nnll fitted to portray the private
and pubic phases of his career. But
/ while the facts in it regarding his civil
life are all derived from the author :
] personal knowledge and observation
MS military life, as circumscribed by
the civil war, is drawn entirely from
!. other sources. This Life viii DC
. welcomed not only by the friends OF
! General Meade, but also by the young
reader, who viii find it replete with
Interest, and by the adult who will be
i pleased by the untechnical treatment
Of the subject. An exhaustive index OF
about 20 pages and a complete table OF
contents of the % chapters enhances
its usefulness. Three portraits of Gen
eral Meade are reproduced, the 'front.'
ispiece- being a photogravure of TIE
statue on the battlefield at Gettys'
burg
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09

Said the missionary to the can
nibal:- why not lay up treasures
where the moth"
Said the cannibal to the missionary,
interrupting- Because have not YET
m Stered the secrets of the process of
Gaining things" Chicago Post.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09

II means that Golden Medical Discov-
cry" cures such cases Of throat disease,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-26
THE NEWS AT LEAvENWORTH.
Municipal Campaign Increasing in
Warmth-JOhn Watson Back
Q From onOlul

LEAvENWORTH. KAS.. March Co.
Especially From row or until election the
municipal campaign will increase in
warmth. The registration, over :,NN. is
considerably III advance. of any former
record This is but an index of the inter-
est manifested. So far. the work has been
along quiet lines. but sometime next week.
probably Thursday nigi4 Il rousing Re-
publican meeting will be held, at which
Senator Bake Will speak.
Last night the Good Government Club
held an enthusiastic meeting in its head
quarters, Farren's hall. F. b. Dawes and
Colonel u. r. Anthony were called upon
for addresses.
By a vote of the club. any one found
guilty of fraudulent registering will be
prosecuted to the extent OF the law. +.
b. Dawes. H. E. Michael and other Repub-
!ican lawyers offered their services graf
uitously for the prosecution Of any such
offenders.
The Labor Chronicle. a weekly sheet pub
,lished by Bob Davis. has Commenced a
fight upon H. E. Michael. Republican can-
didate for city attorney. An attempt is
being made to oppose the clerks union
and other unions against Mr.. Michael. a
few months ago an attempt was made by
the Commercial clerks union to prosecute
two merchants for keeping open Sundays.
Mr.. Michael was retained by both mer-
Davis is not a member OF the clerks
union. and that organization Is in no man
ner responsible for the attack.
1t will DE found that when the local
union was organized Mr.. Michael was one
of its greatest friends. and while not a
clerk. did what he could to assist In its
organization.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-26
independence News Notes.

The home of Jackson Corder was bur.
Slarized Friday night, and a rifle was stolen
from the premises.
The city council has ordered a grade to be
established on Pleasant street from Maple
avenue TO Blue avenue.
The Journal is delivered to all parts OF
the city for a cents per month. Branch
office. National Bank building.
The ladies of the Christian hurch will
give a supper Tuesday evening in the build.
ing formerly used for a postofice.
terday that his aged father was very Ill
at Lexington. and left for that point yes
terday.
r. F. Parker has been ordered by the
city to remove the large hedge fence on
Noiand street, between College and Waldo
streets.
Mrs. Woodward of Lexington, Ky., and
Miss Dousherty. of ST. Joseph. are the
guests of Mrs. Fleming Pendieton.o ION South
Main street. -I
Rev. Mr.. Reser. formerly pastor Of the
Delaware Street NJ. E. church, will leave
tomorrow for Pleasant Hill, where he takes
charge of a church.
The wedding of Miss Iva Baldwin to Mr..
]. WOodfin Kerr will be solemnized Thurs
day evening of this week at the Baldwin
home, near the Alton depot.
The funeral of S. L. Davis will take
place to-day at IL O'Clock from the resi-
dence in Walnut park. All Masons are re-
Quested to meet at the lodgeroOms a IL
o'clock.
Contractor Randall has been ordered to
crossing. near the postOttice, within eight
days. b work has been delayed by rea-
son of a change in water hydrants at this
point.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-26

ELEVEN nEwAPHYslclANs.


At the examination for diplomas held
Friday night by the examining board Of
the College Of Physicians and Surgeons of
Kansas City. Kas.. eleven students gradu-
ated. Out OF the class two were women.
The stud.Ets who are now full fedged doc
tors are: Miss s. II. Fogarty. Miss Anna
J. Scott. J.. Q. Ward. F.. NJ. Tracy. A. J.
Cannon. a. W. Scarlet, E. N. Walker. W.
+. Elewitt. ]. +. Hasslg. 7. o. Sours and
f. W. Groeniee.
Mr.. r. NJ. Tracy. who was one OF the
successful Students. is coroner OF Wyan-
dotte county. He began the study OF medi-
complete course In medicine and surgery.
He Is widely and favorable known In Kan
sas City. kas.. and WyardOtte county. and
his graduation will be very gratifying to
his many friends.
The graduation exercises will he held
Tuesday evening at the Peoples Methodist
Protestant, church. on Nebraska avenue.
gramme will be rendered:
Master OF ceremonies. DR.. J. W. Day.
dean.
Invocation-Rev. Mr.. ". I. Davenport.
Music-Orchestra.
Faculty address-Professor ]. w. kyger.
Annual a~ddress-Rev. W. p. George, D..
d. LII. D.
Music-Orchestra.
Comforting desrees-Professor w. H.
Brown. president: assisted by Professor
f. NJ. Hethesington. secretary.
Benedicticn-D. S. Stephens, d. D..
Observation-Disclosures.
cheStra,
At the conclusion of the exercises n BAN
quet will be given the yOurg doctors at the
limo hotel on Minnesota avenue.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-26
Home From Honolulu.

John Watson. until recently a private in
Company c, Twentieth Kansas, arrived
home from Hololulu last night. where he
was in the hospital. On the trip from San
Francisco young Watson was taken with
typhoid fever. When the transport ar
pital. The records at the hospital show
that he was one of the illest patients with
typhoid who lived to be discharged from
a hospital as cured on record.
Private Watson occupied a cot adjoining
that on which Private Raymond Dawes
died.
Watson has entirely recovered and looks
remarkably well.