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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28
DOING GOOD WORK.
Words Of Prise for the
State Normal
School.

In the SD annual report Of the state
board of education, just issued, e. B.
Stoddard and J. D. Miller submit this
report for the board of visitors of the
state Normal school of this city:
At no period in the history of this
school have there been manifest more
signs of healthy progress than during
the past year. The teaching staff is
ample, capable and faithful; and the
graduates are in active demand as
teachers, and are successful and accep-
table in a gratifying degree.
The school has entered upon its 25th
year with a well established character
and reputation. The visitors believe
that it has contributed its full share
not only to the maintenance, but also
to the advancement of the standard OF
teaching in our commonwealth, and
that it has done this with a strict econ
omy of the means annually placed at
its disposal by the legislature.
This is particularly apparent in its
unique system of apprenticeship whore
by, at little more than nominal cost.
it has afforded to all its students what
we believe to be unsurpassed oppor-
tunities for practicing under competent
supervision in the public schools Of the
city of Worcester so that our gradu-
ates have entered at once upon their
work with an unusual acquaintance
with the everyday details of school
keeping. The recent extension Of the
period Of apprenticeship to a full year
is bearing excellent fruit; it more than
doubles the value of the practice.
The visitors also note that in the adj
ministration Of the school there have
always prevailed high ethical stand
ards. a healthy and happy social spirit
and a tendency toward originality
and self-reliance that has made itself
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28
oENuImE mEpIcAL ADVICE

cannot be eiven bv a man or woman who is not
physician Remember too that there are grades IN
medical experience and skill, and that DR.. Pierce
with his staff Of nearly score of trained special
lists his more than thirty years experience, and his
record of over half-a-million women treated, with
ninety-eight in every hundred cured offers you free
more s1ful service than money can buy outside the
great cities, where such skill can be bought, but
only by the wealthy. The proof of DR.. Pierce's
special skill lies in the fact that large part of his
cures have been performed in cases where the local
physicians had utterly failed to give help.
I write you to let YOU great benefit have received
your medicines and by following your advice regarding
Rice Street St PAUL Mimi When first wrote you had
oct bette ton going to the hospital for an operation
just and cried and said If have to die will die
NAY s Ie wa Vet t nm and walk to the Kitchen and back
% w I ii ~ bed o dav or sometimes two days Last
August picked up of DR. Peree pamphlets and read of
ceived an answer within days the day wrote adyis
Iaorte PIesntiou and six Of the Golden Medical Discov-
cry and the result is just wonderful did not tel the doctors
day received the first from Dr. Pierce and feel as good
asd to have some one by my side ali the time even in day time
and could hardly eat anything took treatment from doc
but quit all doctors and began taking medicines
fogr months Weighed RS he began taking your medi
cines Gin August and now am up to usual weight Io
wish every success in the treatment OF other cases as you
have had in mine am as well and feel as good as ever
HAg-F BELAION WOMEN
could be put on the stand to testify that Favorfte
Prescription y takes away the sadness of mind and
pain of body which waiting mothers so often suffer
that it makes the baby's coming natural thing,
and. therefore practically painless; that it gives
strength to nurse and nourish the little one into
robust childhood, and makes a happy household
chime for weans and wife.
Write to Dr. Pierce, and so avoid the unpleasant
questions, indecate questions and offensive local
treatments generally considered necessary by the
average practitioner. Your letter will be read in
private answered in private and itscontents guard
ed as private confidence All letters are answered
promptly, each reply being sent in plain envelope
bearing no printing upon it. Write without fee
and without fear. Address DR. R, v Pierce,
Buffalo, N Y
Free. Dir. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adj
WISER containing 1908 pages is sent free on request
This great work discusses questions OF vital interest
to every woman, married single 1t is sent abso-
1utely free on receipt Of stamps to pay expense OF
mailing onlp. Send Fl .one-cent stamps for paper
covered edition, or 81 stamps for the same edition
in strong and handsome cloth covers. Address Dr.
Pierce as above.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28
A BIKING BALLAD.
fRlanehe T. Heath, in the Detroit Free
Press.)

Press.)
Lord scroggins he rose from his balmy
And he saddled his horse Of steel.
He muttered VOW of import deep
As he sprung on his piunging wheel;
.sVVilI speed me east and will speed me
Nor ever cease from my ladye's quest,
Till I find her. for woe or veal.
The ladye stepped from her sliNen power
And she was a gay ladye.
T7o1. naught but a great composite mower
Gould rival her bravereei
with her boomers red and her Knockers
tan,
and man,
As she HE'D her over the lea!
Lord Scroggins he saw that ladye ride
Astride in her naughty state;
And he airily cried, as he scorched to her
side
."Do j find thee at last, my Fate?''
But she wrinkled her nose with scorn
..sir Fossil. avaunt from path Of mine!
For the wheel that I ride Is a go,
While thine is '9S
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28
IT CONTAINS NO NARc0TIcs~-
AND NO ALCOHOL in ANY FORM!

felt for good in the after career of many
of the graduates.
Especially noteworthy, too, is the 10y
atty and attachment almost universally
shown by the graduate body-a senti-
ment that seems to increase rather than
fade out with the lapse of years.
The buildings. after the substantial
Improvements recently made. are found
altogether convenient and serviceable.
and the grounds are. growing more
beautiful and attractive year by year. =
The primary class has fairly out
grown its somewhat limited aecommo-
dations and provision should be speed
lily made for enlarging its present quar-
ters.
The subjoined statistics give in CON
densed form the usual facts upon which
this report is mainly based:
Number of students for the year, 1870:
number admitted in September, 1898, 81:
number admitted since the opening of
the school in 1874, 1517; average age Of
the pupils admitted, 10 Years. 2 months.
Residences of pupils admitted: Wor-
cester county, "a; A1iddleseX county, /:
Bristol county. 1; Franklin county, /;
New Hampshire, i: Connecticut, j;
Vermont, /; Iowa, 1; total ST. Occupa
lions Of pupils parents: Mechanics,
IS; agriculturists, IL; merchants, s,
overseers. 6; laborers. 6; contractors,
s; policemen. ,: publishers 2, coach
men. 2; undertakers, ?; clerks, ?:
moulders, .; optician, matchmaker,
painter manufacturer, payer, conduc-
tor, expressman, teacher, draughtsman,
insurance agent. ] each; total, 81.
Numbers in graduating classes in Janur
airy, 1898. 30; in June, 1888, IS: total,
So Average age of graduates: TT jan
uary. 1898, p years. Q months; in June.
1898. % years, { months. Library: Re-
ference books reported last year, 1880:
volumes added this year, 1885, tot6s
5le6 Text books reported last year,
sos: volumes added this year, S97; to-
tai. sac Whole number of volumes in
the library. 1875
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

Is not the relative physical suffering of woman
an injustice? From fifteen to forty-fve-that is
from the dawn of womanhood until the change OF
life the average woman spends Just one-th1rd OF
that thirty years in suffering more or less great
Ten years taken out of her life. Ten years taken
out of the powers the pleasures the possibilities OF
life and ten years of and pain added to the nor
NAL burdens of life that fall alike and woman
IS Ut FAIR9
How many a woman, aching and miserable
moaning in the loneliness of her darkened chamber
has asked that question: " Is 1t fafr?" But there
is a more important question to be asked before that
question which arraigns impartial Nature at the bar
Of reason, and that great question IS:
IS SUCH SUFFERING NECESSARILY
If it can be proved beyond doubt that women
who have suffered in this way have been cured
made sound and whole their pains batshed never
to return then it is proved that such suffering is not
necessary for some women And if again it can be
proved that ninety-eight women out OF every hun
bred without regard to age or the gravity OF their
disease have been cured by DR.. Pierce's Favor1te
Prescription, of irregularities, n1ammatons, ulcer
atoms, female weakness, and facilitating drains,
then it is also proven that such suffering nneces
sary to most women. These facts have been proved
and are being proved every day i'll the practice OF
DR. Pierce and his staff of nearly score of assist
ant physicians Such letters as the following are
features of the daily mails of the Invallds' Hotel
ana SuTg1Cdl Institute DuudlO IN. ~ WllSAC IL
R. V. Pierce presides as chief consulting physician.
az wrote you for advice February 4h 1896" writes Mrs
Iona Hastead of Caremore, Cherokee Nat Ind ~ was
racng with pain the back of head down heels
Had hemorrhage time and was unable to sit
minutes time answered my letter, advised
your valuable medicines viz Dr. Pierces FavoTite
Prescription Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pei
lets gave advice about injections baths and diet To my
surprise the time began your treatment
was and have had the backache since, and
put in sixteen hours day at hard work"
1t is to be noted that Mrs Halsteads cure began
with letter written to DR.. Pierce for advice In
tens Of thousands of similar cases the cures
BEGIN WITH a LETTER
seeking advice, which is given absolutely without
fee or condition Free medical advice, is what Dir.
Pierce offers every sick and ailing Any
one can make that offer Only physician can
make it honestly and carry out its promise. The
very trusting nature of woman makes her mark
for the schemes of the man who invites the cores
pondence of women Disgusting himself as a woman
to win woman's confidence. Does any accredited
doctor need to put on woman's clothes to win
woman's confidence? The very fact that such dis
guise is used and women are invited By man to
write to woman, shows that the one offering
advice is not qualified physician, and assumes
womans dress to cover up the fact
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

Fifty-two years after the death of
Timothy Bigelow, Sampson Vryling
Stoddard Wilder the man who would
heve saved Napoleon from exile al ST.
Helena. and thereby perhaps, changed
The destiHies of Europe, was brought to
Worcester jail, voluntary prisoner,
willing to yield himself a sacrifice if it
would lead to the abolition of the law
respecting debtors.
MI. Wilder could truthfully say: Il
know what it is to tread in the courts
Of kings and in the courts of prison."
His life experience was truly marvel
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

and storm-tossed craft of every de-
scription, from fishing smaeks and col
Tiers to ocean steamers.
Off Queenstown there Is an ocean ter
ror named Daunt's rock, on top OF
which the fl st City of New York
perched herself twenty years ago, and
remained there until the smashing seas
had loosened her every rivet and sent
her massive hull, plate by plate, to-
Davy Jones locker But Daunt's rock
is not feared so much by the naviga-
tors as the Manacles or Goodwin
sands. The huge rock, which lies with
its ugly head almost awash with the
sea, is well guarded by a lightship and
besides, there is plenty of space be-
tween it and the Maryland for safe
passage of shipping. Years ago the
Cork harbor commissioners decided to
have a survey made of Daunt's rock,
with the view of blowing it up. The
engineer that made the plan of the rock
was Jerome Collins (who afterwards
Host his life while a member of the i'll
| fated Jeanette expedition which Jas.
Gordon Bennett sent looking for the
| North Pole. He reported that Daunts
| rock was too big to be blown to pieces,
| and the project was abandoned. But
many things have happened in the
world of science since Collins time, and
the electric current and the newer ex-
| plosives would form a combination to-
| day which would take pretty stout
| submarine Gibraltar to withstand
without tremor.
Justin Mccarthy is hard at work on
his "Reminiscences" The book is
pretty sure to get as warm and remu-
nerative a reception at the hands of the
English speaking public as was accord
ed to the History of Our Own Times.
Few men now living in the realm of
letters can be as Interestingly reminis-
cent as Mr. Mccarthy. No better proof
of this can be afforded then by reading
his charming recitals of his meetings
with Ternyson. George Eliot and
Browning, and of his impressions of
Eenry Ward Beecher, whom he knew
well. as he told the stories recently in
the columns of the Youths Compan-
ion.
C. O'CONNELL CALVIN
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

s.rsn.nvmede Club" is absolutely pure
,,,bieE- Distilled stored, aged and bot
lied under supervision Of q 5. govern
ment.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

az don't see why you should talk about
A.iae worried by any investigation. You
t se,.,9 never done anything. You have no
reason TO be apprehensiv.s,.. - - =
,,.,scfed to ask the questions and take
Sssl< falk. "-Washington Star.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

EXPOSURE to sudden climatic chanUe
produces cold in the head and catarrh Il
9pt TO follow. Provided with t2iy's Cream
Balm YOU are armed against nasal
cstarril Price so cents at druggists. or
FClr Brot hers. IS Warren street. New
York. viii mail it, The balm cures with
out pain. does NOT irritate or cause sneez-
ing. II spreads itself over an irritated
and angry surface, relieving Immediately
the painful Inflammation. cleanses and
cures. Cream Balm quickly cures the
cold t-----.-1---fssz
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28
QUEEN VICTORIA,
Has Shared in Her
Last Func-
ton.
CHANGE IS NEAR.
Albert Edwards Wisest
Course = DR.. Wiley's
Statement.

In the failure Of the attempt to pop
ularize the Sunday newspaper in I on
don, the expected has come to lass.
Exeter hall was too strong. for the
journalists who essayed the tasL Of
educating the London masses against
their will, and the result is discoln-
future and defeat for the Fourth IS
tate. 1t is hardly likely that the Sun
day newspaper can ever be made q
success in London this side of the ?13t
century, while the promoters adhere to
their purblind policy of offering the
people, not what they want, and what
they most certainly would read if they
got 1.-THE news, but what they do not
care a brass farthing about-the long
drawn out and laboriQusly conveyed
opinions of distinguished" contribu-
tors on the questions of the hour. Jul
liar Ralph diagnosed the situation
with scientific accuracy in the rather
scathing condemnation of the fossilized
methods of British and Irish neWspa-
pers almost without exception. News
as it is known and treated in every
American newspaper office. is almost
an unknown quantity with then. and,
consequently. when a progressive in
novation makes it's appearace the pon-
ular Indifference and failure of appre-
citation chill the progressive innov;t-
tor out of existence. All important in
ternational news will continue, as
heretofore, to find its first readers in
the U. S. A. 1t is not eXaggeration to
predict that if the death Of queen
Victoria, or of Pope Leo XIII, occurs
on a Saturday night, the people of this
country will have read not only the
news of the event itself, but several
columns of obituary in addition "a
hours before the people of the united
kingdom shall find the "intelligence'
in their favorite papers-metropolitan
and provincial.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

An investigation of the circumstances
of the case reveals the fact that Bige-
low was committed to Jail in default of
payment Ct sums due certain creditors,
who employed the first Levi Lincoln as
counsel, and some censure has fallen
upon the latter for his share in the
business. But he undoubtedly proceed
ed simply ir his legal capacity lin be-
half of his clients. 1t has been further
ascertained that Colonel Bigelow was
taken in his last illness from the Jail
to his hcEe nearby, and died surround
ed by members of his family. The Jail
records state that he was discharged
by deth."
In eNtenuation of the action of his
creditors. It is claimed that Colonel
Bigelow was naturally mprovident,
careless of his obligations, and habitu-
ally Eeglectful of business matters.
These shortcomings do not necessarily
prove moral delinquency, and many a
hero with graver faults has received
ample reward and honor from his
grateful country.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

tory '''i - an NO
The first brings to mind that winter
march through the northern wilderness.
which, as Lincoln says. mad it been
the exploit of a Grecian phalanx, or
Roman legion, the narrative of suffer
lngs and dangers, severe as were ever
endured or encountered, would have
been celebrated in song and story"
The grandest triumphs of American
arms, and hardship and valor almost
unparalleled in military experience
are indicated in the other lines on the
stone. In the glory of the heroic acts
OF the Revolution, Colonel Bigelow had
his part from the first encounter at
Lexington and Concord to the final
scene at Yorktown.
This noble patriot and soldier the
public-spirited and self-sacrificing citi-
zen, the man of affairs, the founder of
Vermont's capital city, Montpelier re-
turning to Worcester with broken for
tunes, found himself in his last days in
the power of the law, and died prison
er for debt!
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

In most cities of the United King
dom there is. a municipal official
known as the city analyst. he IS
chosen for his ability as a chemist
! primarily, and also, of course, pc
cause of his kindred qualifications for
| the office His duty is to make, every
week, analyses of food, liquid and SOLID,
| that he finds offered for sale in pubic
markets The purchases necessary Tor
| his purpose are procured for MIN at
unexpected times and in unexpected
quarters by trustworthy agents, ana
the moment the purchase is made the
dealer is informed that the goods are
| being bought for the city analyst. The
report of the analyst to the city coun-
Gil, in cases of adulteration, is speedily
followed by criminal prosecution In the
courts, with it's accompanying damag-
ing exposure, to say nothing OF the
penalties that follow. The effect of
this vigilance, from a public stand
point, is decidedly re-assuring and
wholesome.
We have heard a great deal of late
about embalmed beef, and the alleged
use of preserving fluids" by people
who are public purveyors of food. AT
| pure food investigation, in Chicago
recently, DR.. H. w. Wiley, chief chem
list of the United States department of
| agriculture, made the astounding as
I
articles of food and drink manufac-
tured and used in this country are
frauds" And he added that the art
of adulteration has been brought to
such perfection that only an expert can
detect its presence"
If this high government officer knows
what he is talking about, is it not time
| every city and town in this country
had its public analyst?
The Mara cles will yet be the undOing
of Southampton as a rival of Liver
pool The terrible Mohican disaster of
some months ago, and the recent acct
dent to the Paris. added to the circula-
! ton of tie interesting theory that com
passes are affected by the magnetic
properties of the rocks that form the
/ frawning cliffs of that particular sec
ton of the south coast of England, will
make captains of the big liners prefer
to stick to the old-fashioned route,
which calls for a stop at Queenstown
to land the mails and such passengers
as desire to embark there, and then tbs
steam up the channel for $50 miles to
the great port of Liverpool. South
amptcn is ambitious and has spent mil
! lions in recent years to provide docks
| for tn. great American mail boats f"
| but two such affairs as those alluded
to will arouse a prejudice and dread
diitHS AA<aN iSeieoi > 'idt VIII iHipei tuSAli
to Ike. Z away from the place If they
possibly can avoid going there. The
| ILL olnened Goodwin Sands that lie in
the track of vessels hound for London
have been the terror of shipmasters for
generations. and a great hindrance to
Loudon as a port No skipper would
dare tc leave the bridge in charge of
his first officer while his vessel was in
the neignborhood of those fatal shoals
int. whose pitless bosom are engulfed
every winter the wrecks of fog bowed
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

! stone of the Masonic Institute in Lon
don last week, the venerable sovereign
| performed the last public function of
her historic reign Indeed, so feeble
was the queen that when the lofd
MAYORS address was read 10 her as
part of the ceremony, she simply
| handed the manuscript of her brief re-
ply to one of her aide-de-camps, max
| ing no attempt whatever to give 1t Vo-
cal expression Her altered looks since
her last public appearance on the oc-
casion of the diamond jubilee, excited
| general comment. 1t is easy 10 see
how this natural decline is pointing
towards the approach of the lneVltaDle
change in the sovereignty Of the great
est empire of the world. II, when II
comes. it finds the Prince of Wales
| urelI enough to assume the CROWN the
| transition of the seeptre will not be
noticeable. Albert Edward is fully
alive to the spirit of the times, and he
is wise enough to see that there is out
one road for him to follow; he must
adhere unerringly to the broad policy
of nominal rulership to which the Brit
ish people have grown accustomed
during the past 60 years Any KAISER
like antics on his part, assuming that
he were weak and vain enough to in
dulee in such. would simply precipl-
tate a revolution. He will swim with
the tide of political progress and not
attempt to breast it, if he would wear
his crown in peace. But there is no
ground for fearing anything cratic
from him when he takes charge Of
things at Windsor castle. The British
| masses know him for first rate GOOD
| fellow. a role he has filled with sue
| cess since his childhood, and he will
not be expected to alter his lines of life
very much when the time comes for
him to drop his title of royal highness
and be heralded to the world as king
of Great Britain and Ireland and EN-
peror of India"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28

On the 18th Of April. 1861 a monu-
,,,e1t erected by kindred hands on
Worcester's common was DEDICATED 20
~. ~ - 5,e,norv of Timothy Bigelow.
Utmost AT the very hour that the blood
., Massachusetts soldiers hastenlng 70
The defense of the national cspisoi We
t.a.s.s ~ baltimore. on this monu-
ssnt which is to be the object OF es-
decoration by the
lR,,-,' tors. Of the Revolution the COM
"a sSs.ssnaoriai day. are engraved the
lil .,,s sss ouebee. Saratoga, Valley Forge:
Monmouth and Yorktown-naires %
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-05-11
Appropriate Yell.

The initiative qualities inherent. in
mana legacy from his slmian ances-
tors, some philosopher asserts-.re-
ceived humorous illustration in
Philadelphia the other day. There IL
college" in that city for the edu-
cation OF youths who intend pursu-
ing the "tonsorial profession and at
a meeting Of the students. held 20 dis
cuss matters pertaining to their inter-
ests, it was unanimously resolved to
have a college yell" Af.er much con-
sideration the following was evolved:
'Rah! 'Rah. 'Rah!
We's scalpers. by gum
Hair cut, shampoo, shave. bay rum!
Next! Next! Next!
This yell has at least the merits of
perspicuity and sanity, which cannot
be said of the college yelr' in gen.
eral.