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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
CARD.

We desire to announce to the patrons
Of our Retail Store, 328 MAIN STREET,
that MISS A. LYONS, from B. ALTMAN
& CO., NEW YORK, is now in charge
andswith competent assistants isprepared
to give prompt and careful attention to
all who may favor US with their patron
&c. sf..a BE-. ag
Especial attention Is called to our new
line Of I" SAPPHIRE Corsets.
Miss Elizabeth T. DAILY Is now con-
neeted with our store and will be pleased
to meet her friends there.
HI 4 WORCESTER CORSET co.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
THE MEMORIAL TABLET.
Dedication Exercises to Take Place at
City Hall Morning of July q.

The Worcester brass band will assist
in the dedication exercises of the me-
mortal tablet at the city hall on the
morning of July 4. 1t is planned to
have the band stationed on the roof of
the balcony just outside the window in
the office of the mayors clerk. The
speakers will occupy the balcony proper
overlooking the plaza. The exercises
will take place at 8 o'clock, and will
be under the direction. of Fred L.
Hutchins, president of the Society Of
Antiquity, and will consist of addresses
and music in addition to reading of the
declaration of independence.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
GAVE ICE CREAM.

Donations of ice cream were made to
the bszar Of st. yincent's hospital, last
week, as follows: Tuesday and Wed
nesday, Mrs. Rebboli; Thursday, Miss
Crompton and Mrs Wood; Friday af-
ternoon. for the children, the Boston
Store; Friday night, M. ]. Whittall and
Stephen Salisbury.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
A BUSY WEEK.
Many Committee Meetings Called il
Order to Clear Up the Work.

The week coming will be busy one for
members of the city council. Several COM
mittee meetings have been called already,
and more will follow, in anticipation of
clearing up the work so far as possible be-
fore the summer vacation. These meet
ings have been called for this week: Fire
department, 7.90 Wednesday,; police, Z 80
Wednesday; education, Wednesday;
claims, 7.30 Friday. The committees on
finance and water will also hold meetings
this week ':4 af
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
SEVERAL FROM WORCESTER.
All Told, 2I2 Applicants Take the Bar Ex-
: animation at Boston.

Two hundred and twelve applicants
for admission to the bar took an ex-
animation before the state board CT bar
examiners in Boston, Saturday. The
examination was wholly written. The
result will not be known, until Septem-
Der or October. About half a dozen
went down from Worcester.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02

See Boston Store advertisement of
Roper Bicycle stock, on page 4.
Those who suffer from nervousness and
dyspepsia use
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
LEAVE TO WITHDRAW.
That's,ths7Probable Recommendation on
n the Franchise Question.


{ The feeling voiced Friday by mem
Der of the board of aldermen that the
Worcester and. Webster Street Railway
Company will be given leave to with
draw on its petition for franchise in
College street, Is generally agreed to
by other members of the board. One
Of them said yesterday unless "a posi-
Bile contingency arose, leave to with
draw would be recommended, bur that
in any event the franchise would not
be granted at the next meeting.
Another inducement to have the road
enter the, city by the Southbridge route
10 that 1t has been stated by respon-
sible men that new industry will be
located alter near Southbridge street,
providing some sort of accommodation
can be secured forsworkmen to set to
and from their work.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
GRAND RUG DISPOSAL.

Handsome new design Smyrna
Rugs, as follows:
Size. Regular. July Price.
26x5o inch, $500 $1.35
3oxoo " $3.50 S1.60
36x72 T " $3.50 $1.98
Figures which nobody can deny,
Figures which ''never can tell le.
Handsome Welt Scanned Carpet Has
socks--New stock and the very best
$I.oo grades,
July price 49c
Clearance of all Remnants of Straw
Mattings, irrespective Of grade or color,
any length Of or under IL yards,
Your choice for l5c yard
The Rush will be considerable for these
Bargains, and 1t need not be advsed--the
FIRST purchaserswillh have the hAst ehacne.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
-: THE $50:
JULY SALE \

in THE CARPET HALLS.
GRAND MONEY SAVING may be
effected by buying some of the Ster-
ling first-class grades of Carpets and
Rugs mentioned below.
"No money in it except for the
Customer; of that you may be as
sured. Only Money Realization is
aimed at.
A line of 5-frame Body Brussels
with or without Borders), in first
class design and color. Positive
SI.oo goods.
July price zoe yard
A line of Elegant Tapestry Car
pets, in A No. I styles and colors
to suit your taste. Actual soc goods,
July price soc yard
Magnificent Line of
Handsome VelvetS.
Velvets are on top today, and these
are real beauties. Positively SI.oo
goods,
For 60c yard
Yard Wide Extra Supers, heavy
weight, flrst-class styles, all wool.
Our CSC carpets,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10
VIGOROUS ARGUMENT.
sage Recently Issued by the Cow
ernOr of Vermont.

The recent message Of Gcv. Smith, of
Vermont, 20 the state legislature, dealt
largely with good roads. Their present
law, he asserted. is entirely wrong, as
over $4,000 are annually collected and
then distributed among the towns TO be
spent by 245 highway commissioners
in repairing the roads of their respect
tive towns. while not Il cent of ii goes
into permanent work or furnishes any
lasting benefit to the state. The money
is spread out SO thin that it is practi-
cally thrown away. s
The idea of the law was that the
smaller towns would receive from the
state. in the annual distribution more
than they had paid as their share of the
tax. but the increase proves to be too
small to be of any material benefit. On
the contrary, the small towns would re-
ceive far greater advantages if the tax
were used toward building permanent
roads and they were connected by them
with the railways to which they are
obliged to carry heir produce.
Statistics had been prepared by the
governor "to show the cost of trans
portation of the products of Vermont
from various towns which lie away
from the line or the railroads, to the
railroads. as compared with the cost Of
transporting the same article from the
railroad to market. From these sta
tistics it appears that on butter lum-
ber, granite. lime. brick. cement and
hay the rate is from $3.50 to 81 per ton
by team from the point Of production
to the railroad, while the rate to haul
the same articles from the railroad
station to the point of consumption is
but from $40 down to $1.66 per ton.
In none of these instances does the haul
by team exceed 12 miles; in none Of the
instances is the haul by railroad less
than 140 miles"
THE rates by railroad" said the gov
ernor. will never, in my judgement, be
higher, so thai whatever can be saved
by improved roads out of the cost of
teaming these products ought to 90
into the pocket of the producer of the
hay or the butter or the lumber or gran
lite or whatever is teamed. The stand
ard authorities give the saving in cost
of teaming over good roads as compared
TO ordinary dirt roads to be from so to
IS per cent. so that there is from ST rs
to So for every ton of freight teamed
to go into the pocket of the producer
in Vermont, if only good roads are made
where bad ones now exist"
The governor. therefore, urges that
the Massachusetts highway law, modi.
fed as required, be adopted in Vermont,
and that the tax of $S6,000, now annual
ly collected for road REPAIRS be turned
over to state highway commissioners,
who shall control its expenditure under
the provisions of the law.
In respect to cost of hauling by team
TO the railroads, the figures given by
Gov. Smith show how heavily the farm
ers suffer from bad roads, not alone in
Vermont, but in nearly all states in
which similar conditions obtain. New
Jersey. Massachusetts and New York
are working out remedy for these
evils, and the other states cannot do
better than act on Gov. Smiths sugges,
tion and follow their examples.-Good
Roads.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10
WEDDING GUESTS.
They Were Supplied with Car Fare
from New York TO the Coun-
try House.

Each invitation to an out-of-town
wedding few weeks ago contained a
card providing the guest with railway
fare from New York to the country
house where the ceremony took place."
remarks an up-to-date writer In the
New York Sun. after the invitations
had been issued, however, the hostess
discovered that this card failed to in.
clude the three-cent ferry fare from
New York to Long Island City, so on
the day of the wedding a number of
small boys were stationed on this side
OF the ferry with the object of way
laying wedding guests and relieving
them of the necessity of paying fare.
One man, who, like the other guests,
was ignorant of the situation, was
somewhat taken aback when an urchin
suddenly accosted him with Wedding
guestP | thought so. Well, come along
with me, and I'll pay the fare But
gasped the guest, gazing long and
hard at this Ancient Mariner in juvenile
form, how did you know | was going to
the wedding?' Easy enough was the
answer. Anybody kin tell de men by
der hats. but tell ye wot, it's tough
TO pick out de wimmen wot's going.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

1t is said that the electric cabs H.
New York city did a record business
during the blizzard and proved their
entire efficiency.
According 20 the Electrical Review
Prof, Henry A. Rowland. the distiu-
guished physicist of Joins Hopkins
university, believes he has perfected
a 12-message telegraphic system-a de-
cidcd advance on the quadruplex so
universally used.
According to a recent compilation,
Germany has I'll miles of electric rail-
ways, equal to those Of all the rest of
Europe together England is credited
with only 9S nles. Most Of the larger
towns of Germany g,aya, electric lines,
and the whole system OF Berlin will by
the year 1901 be converted to cleo
tricity.
A press dispatch from Little Rock.
Ark. says that an extraordinary long
distance telephone test has been made
by Charles j. GIidden, president of The
Southwestern Telegraph d Telephone
company. Mr.. Glidden held distinct
and clear conversation over the wire
with Frederick g. Farrar, Of the firm
of foor g. Greenough, Boston. The
distance from Little Rock is / 300 miles
Mr.. Glidden says this is the longest cir
cult in the world
Az important discovery which may
revoiutionize lighting by electricity has
just been made. This is incandescence
iu air. An aluminium tube three.
twelfths of milimeter receives the
current through two'small platinum
wires, the tube becoming effuIgent on
the passage of the current. No glass
bulks are needed, and the light. it is
claimed is much more effulgent, while
the cost of manufacture is apprecidbly
less.
There has just been brought for
ward a portable electric safety lamp
for use in special cases when an open
flame, or even one safeguarded. as in
the miners lamp would prove danger
Gus. The combination consists Of a dry
battery, arranged to be carried i'll a
holder at the belt. or in the pocket, the
battery being controlled by a small
lheostat. maintaining an even supply
of current TO the lamp and allowing it
to burn with the same briliancy dur
ing the life of the battery.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10

braid. The skirt hugs the hips closely
and is guiltless of either gathers or
plaits, the seams being gored until they
are the measure of the belt.
black silk collar finishes the neck
of the waist, which, ii may be said,
fits skin tight all around the figure.
Baby wears perfectly plain slip of
pink dotted lawn trimmed with hem
stitching and the little girl is allowed
to have a wrapper made grown up like
mamma s." while the oldest, lad Of
four, wears a lounging robe of striped
flannel to initiate the one owned by his
father.
Nothing makes children happier than
this sort of amusement and the gar
ments can be gotten up at little or no
rost. In fact the little girls wrapper
may be made from one which has done
Tbs mother service.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Some men can't understand why the
foolkiller doesn't call next door.
A tailor is sometimes able to mend
everything but his ways.
A man is apt to drink mineral water
when he feels rocky.
In politics and courtshipa a third party
is usually undesirable,
It's probably the loudness of his ap-
parel that makes the bowling swell.
It's unlucky TO have your affairs at
skies and sevens-they make thirteens.
1t isn't vanity that makes man go
out between the acts and look in the
glass.
The tongue is about the only muzzle
loading weapon that hasn't been dis
carded
Poets often affect carelessness In
their garments for the same reason
that tramps travel in freight cars.
The better half of the family never
knows quite as much about how the
other half lives as she would like to
know.
Great wit may be akin to madness,
but the relationship isn't to be COM
pared to the madness of the small wit
whose contribution is declined with
thanks. Chicago Daily News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

Pruning the grape may be done at
any :ime now, when the vines are not
frozen.
Long stable manure makes "a good
E.ulch for the strawberry bed. but the
objection is that it contains tCo many
weed seeds
1t is claimed that liberal dressing of
salt under ounce trees as far out as
The roots extend will help to induce
bearing.
Moss-covered trees will be benefited by
a whitewashiug of lime and wood ashes
in equal parts, wet up to proper CON
sistency with water,
The greatest enemy Of house plants IS
dust. Mucn of this may be avoided bv
covering before commencing to sweep.
Wash the leaves occasionally.
If proper work in pruning is done at
tte time of planting the tree and for
tie next four or five years little time or
labor will be needed afterwards.
In raising trees or plants from cut
tlngs the important point is to have the
callus formed as soon as poss ible, SO
that the emission Of roots Will be a
Hitle aha cf the unfalding of the
leaves.-St. Louis Republic.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10
UNLUCKY DAYS AND HOURS.
A German statiStician Has Figured
Out Just when Accidents
Are Most Likely.

Only painstal;ing plodding German
investigator would so to the trouble of
trying to find out by statistics on what
day of the week most accidents occur
and at what hour Of the day. This is
what has been done by Dr. Wolff, of
Strasburg
He bases his conclusions on 1,071
cases of accidents among the working
classes. 1t thus appears that Monday is
not less unlucky than Friday when il
comes TO accidents. and for this fact he
accounts by the statement tha, the
drinking shops are most frequented by
workmen in Germany on the days pre-
vious, viz, Saturdays, Sundays and
Thursdays.
Fewer accidents happen on Tuesday
than on any other day of the week, be-
cause or no day are drinking houses so
empty as on Monday.
He has also discovered the remak-
able fact that the hours after breakfast,
dinner and the afternoon rest, are sig.
naized by most accidents.
He attributes this to the lassitude
caused by the work OF digestion. and
to the use made by men OF intoxicants
during meal times
He also establishes the fact that in
factories where the meal hours are
greatly curtaiIcd there is an excess Of
accidents over the factories where the
men are more literally treated in this
respect.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10
BORDEAUX MIXTURE.
In the snrn>i"f: of Pears of All Kinds
and ipYics 1t Has Proved
Cuitc Effective.

At Green's fruit farm we have found
by the present years experience THAI
pears are greatly benefited by spraying
with Bordeaux mixture. The spray
Should be applied three times. The
first time at once after the trees have
blossomed and the next time few
weeks thereafter The Seckel pear is
particularly inclined to be imperfect
unless sprayed, but where sprayed the
Stckel was smooth and beautiful. The
blemishes on other varieties of pears
can be largely removed by spraying
and the quality OF the fruit is greatly
Increased. In apple orchards buyers do
not care to go far to see orcnaI DIS that
have not been sprayed, knowing that
the fruit of such orchards cannot be
trst-class, One spraying is not enough
for apple orchards, since frequent
showers are liable to occur at the sea-
Son of the year when spraying is done,
which is at the close of bossoming. We
have also sprayed our peach trees with
partial success, but the spraying not
entirely preventing the peach leaf curl.
There is no question whatever that the
orchardist must have a spraying equip
ment in order to market the finest speci-
mems of fruit.-Grcen's Frul: Grower.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10

accompanied by typical dairy form.
THIS COW has lr.1,d herself 10 be one
Of the grcatts; dairy cows living. and at
tie same time slccapiiyatcs the eye by
her wonderful Beauty OF form. She
has the general wedge shape Of body,
the round barrel the loose, soft skin
and golden color, the cleau-cu; head
and WaNy horns, and, above all, perhaps,
a wonderful development of udder--
not so remarkable in size as in splen-
did shape, particularly in the forepart.
Note the exceeding fullness in the fore.
part of the uddcr in distinction to the
p'nched appearance so often seen in
that part Her toats are large and finely
paced, and in general there is the look
of the almost perfect COW about her,
take her where you viii.
Perfection of form will not guarap-
tee excellence at the pail AMI churn,
but the possession of il gees a long
way toward giving confidence that ths
pCssessor of it has the best dairy quail
D. as well as the possession of dairy
shape. On the other hand, have rare
" seen n COW with an absence of the
outward marks which are accepted as
Indicating quality that has proved to
he OF any particular merit. Others NAV
have found merit occasionally in cows
t?at are without dairy form or feature,
but this surely has been exceptional
In buying dairy cows the wise course
is to consult the ancestry o: the ami
mails, meanwhile comparing the cows,
Point by point, with the ideal butter
c"w-an ideal form that to me, at least,
IS not far away from the shape of Sig
naIs Lily Flag, which is here delin-
eated.
One has only to 20 about, even
Il rough what are called our best dairy
districts, to note the great prevalence
Of cows with small. pinched udders.
small. irreguarIy-paced teats, fiat
sides and Light hindquarters. Some
herds seem hardly to be relieved by the
presence of even one cow that carries
in her body the signs of excellence al
tie churn. II is small wonder then that
We find such herds averaging 200 to 25O
pounds of butter year, with some OF
the cows probably not producing more
man $50 pounds year-if as much as
that There are thousands of COWS in
every state that are being kept at an
actual loss, the owners not knowing it,
h' cause they never test their COWS,
either scientifically with Baboock
tester, or practically by setting the
measured milk Of each COW by itself
fo1 seven days, or even for one day, and
tCiing the result in cream and butter.
THIS would show at once the COWS that
are "qaeefiug" The dairy business. And
when ;he owner of a herd has thus
"'eded out the poor COWS am quite
sure he will find that practically all OF
these discredited animals are markedly
deficient in the accepted DAIRY form"
Webb Donnell, in Country Gentleman.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10
Accident or Strategy?

1C1T WAS their first New Years
II dinner, and naturally a very
II Ii Important affair When they
first spoke OF it she asked his
opinion as to the menu and then vetoed all
his suggestions.
And neithe" of us have relative within
a hundred miles, SO we can just invite people
We really like she said, finally.
Good! | should like
"The Swellstyles? So should |; Then, as
you say, the Hauttons."
Did | mention the Swellstyles and the
Hauttons?"
You were just about to, dear, when / in.
terrupted you. ism it nice that we always
think alike, Rodney?"
'Do we? Now. in the matter of the hall
carpet We"
"Oh, well, dcarie, even you are wrong
sometimes. So. then, our little dinner is
arranged
You forget the Smiths, Gear. was at
the first New Years dinner they ever gave.
Let me see-that was in go
"humph! the same year in viii Mrs.
smith got her last new dress, wasn't it? Yes,
as you say, re will have them some other
time"
q didn't say some other time; | SAID on
New Years day. | promised them that
they should dine with me on the first New
Years day after was married. Why, what
are you crying about, Ophela?"
'B-because that ism t the eason YOU w.want
tfem; You want them because that horrid
johnson girl you used to 20 to'see when We
quarreled lives near them, and y-you want
to ask after her and find out if-if she took
cur marriage to heart; that's why"
Il had forgotten that the Smiths lived
near her; honest, had, Pheele. Look here,
you write and ask ,hem tc dinner on New
Years day, and I'll not mention Miss John
son to them. and I'm get you that cut
glass salad bowl YOU want SO much"
"Wih yor, Rodney? Then I'll try to for
give you. and ! Il write the invitation. But
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-10
WHAT ARE YOU CRYING ABourr'

you must not forget to buy the dish; you
know how torgetful you are.
Half an hour later, as he was gong out,
she said Are you going to wear that shah
ty old csat, Rodney"
Yes; it's showing. You can give it t,
q tramp some OF these days"
"All right, dear. And will yo. mail these
letters for me? One is to the dressmake.
asking her the amount OF her bill and say
ing that | want another lew gown The
other is to mamma; want her to run over
fol- few days and help me to select you
some neckties that will wear. The third"
IAN right. I'll take them"
After he was gone his wife sent the house
maid out to post two other notes; then she
rat smiling into space.
1t was New Years day at last, ana the
'dinner table was all ready, the new cut glass
bowl rejecting Mrs DE Wits smiling face
Even the ook was in good humor, and it
seemed that marriage was great sui cess
just as Mr.. De Witt was ready te come
down his wife came into his room "Oh
Rodney" she said, may . give you: old
coat to tramp!'
MIR. De Witt burst out laughing ten min
utes after his wife had taken the garment
away. Those letters to her mothc- and
the dressmaker were in the pocket" hs
said, to himself. What Joke!"
Halt an hour later the Swelstyles and the
hauttons had arrived, and Mr.. De Witt
began to grow little nervous about the
nonappearance of the Smiths. at isn't like
them to be late, he said.
Perhaps Mrs. Smith has new gown, and
It took her long time to put it on, sug
Gcsted his wife.
They waited 90 minutes; then Mrs. De
Witt said: Strange they haven't come.
You mailed my invitation, of course. Rod
ney?"
W-when?" asked her husband, turning
pale.
The evening we planned our dinner.
dear" whispered his wife. They we're IN the
bItler's pantry at the time, and the fiat was
SO modern that whisper was necessary lest
the guests in the parlor hear.
You remember that you were going out,
and | asked you to mail my letters? One
was to ANNA, one to the dressmaker and
the third to the Smiths Rodney, look at
me-did you mail those letters?'
What al. absurd question, dear. Per.
haps the Smiths were detained by street
car blockade. At any rate. we might as
well have dinner now"
True" said his wife, sweetly; they can
Icin us if they come in later"
And not until the dessert was on the table
did Mr.. De Witt notice that the table was
only set for six.
That evening after the guests had left
Mrs. DE Witt said: Il must go over to see
Mrs. Smith tomorrow and find out why
they did not come to dinner to-day"
mir, DE Witt made no reply. He was busy
writing line in his note book:
Resolved, Always to look at the addresses
on my wife's letters before forget to post
tHem! ELISA ARMSTRONG