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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

BY soft showers and sunlight led,
Natures art discloses,
Pink and white and royal red,
A world Of blushing roses.
Wandering at their own sweet will,
They paint the dullest places,
Or lean across the window-sill
With loye-compelling faces.
Such grace about them clinga,
Such an odor hovers,
That these wild and Maynard things
Count us all their lovers.
Bloom, o roscsl rank AMI sweet;
May no worm o'ertake you
June is only half complete
Till the sunbeams wake you.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

WATER AND Om.--Will water burn ?
And if so, can burning water be used
at moderate cost for fuel ? The public
mind of Peoria, Ill, has been of late
much exercised upon these questions
A stranger, and q Yankee, came to the
city and claimed that, by burning mix
ed water and oil in it, he could heat a
common cooking stove red hot in five
minutes. The proportions were four
gallons of oil to five gallons of water,
and with this quantity the inventor de.
claired that he could run steam engine
for thirty days, heat twelve furnaces, or
light whole city with gas. The oil
was worth fifty cents barrel, and the
cooking, heating and lighting were thus
to cost almost nothing. A stock COM
pay was started to push the enterprise,
and it was found that "by the aid of
twelve gallows of oil, two gallons of wa
ter could be evaporated." 1t didn't
promise overwhelming dividends. The
corporation disembodied itself as fast as
possible, and the inventor, packed up
his gas pipes and oil cans, left Peoria to
enlighten and warm some other region.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

The MANUFACTURE OF BUTTER. Per
haps there is no article Of food of which
we hear such extraordinary, and indeed
alarming, facts as butter The com
modify itself, so universally popular, is
supposed to taste almost literally of
Flora and the country cream, to be an
honest preparation from the pastoral
daisies. But we are told that London
butter is triumph OF the wicked chem
istry of adulteration. 1t has its basis in
Thames mud at one time, at another in
hogs lard, and it appears that its latest
origin is horse-fat. A confectioner &c.
cused q rival in the same business the
other day of using the last-named mate
rial instead Of butter, and although the
charge was denied, the notion may rem.
der admirers of confectioners' goods un-
comfortable. 1t may be, however, q
sort of fanciful accusation on the part of
one sweetstuff dealer towards another.
The horses that are led from the cabs to
the knockers would not furnish very
much of the raw material mentioned in
the transaction to which we have re-
ferred. Our best safeguard from the
horse-fat butter lies in the simple fact
that no fat horses are killed. London
PAPER.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED.-In these
latter days, the above heading appears
i'll the daily papers with startling and
impressive frequency. There seems to
be no part of the country which is eX-
empt from the sudden visitation of death.
In the remotest hamlets, as well as in
the most crowded cities, people who at
evening retire to rest in seeming health,
are found dead in their bed in the morn
ing. 1t ia little cause for wonder that
one whose bed is heap of rags in the
basement of tenement house III the
slums of New York, should be found
dead in it. The wonder is that any one
should ever DO found alive in lair that
so reeks with the atmosphere of death.
But it is startling and incongruous that
one whose couch is spread beneath the
roof of q farmhouse among New Eng
land hills, or on some breezy prairie OF
the West, and who had gone to rest full
of robust life, should be found dead in
his bed. But so it is. The end cometh
in an hour that no man knoweth, on
the hill side and in the valley, as well as
in the crowded mart, and in the abodes
of virture as we'll as in the haunts
of vice. Orators often thrill their hear
ers by picturing the power of the Caesars,
who could lay their iron hand upon a
fugitive though he fled to the uttermost
parts OF the earth but Death has long
er and surer hand than was vouchsafed
to the Roman emperors, and a touch
beneath which the last of the Caesars
was himself long since found dead in
his bed. ledger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06
While She SIeeDS.

Tired Of jest,
Kissed to rest,
Fled like a bird TO it's nest
To my breast
Softly pressed,
Love is a gentle guest
Sleep and rest!
Breathing low,
Love shall grow
All its dear charm to know.
Flowers 30
Hours thro'
Sleep i the bud and grow
Sleep and grow.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

OBsTRUCTING A RAILROAD TRAIN. The
Des Moines (Iowa) Register says: A sin
gular case of railroad obstruction, and
one for which no remedy is provided for
by the statutes, occurred few evenings
since on the Valley road in Greene Coun-
ty. Conductor Liyingston's train, when
about three miles this side of Grand
junction, in passing through some low
country and near pond, ran into an
immense flock Of swan, brandt. geese,
and other wild fowl. The birds were
just about to alight on the track rs the
train drew near. Their number was so
great that the sky was completely filed
with them, and those above pressing
down on the lower strata forced them to
alight on the car tops. The engine, ten
der, and cars were covered with the
fowls, and some even chung to the bars
of the COW catcher. One stately swan
had a wing injured in the crush, and
found resting place on the headlight,
from whence he was taken by the engi-
neer. Tho bird, however, managed to
escape from custody near Perry, and
Jumping from the tender where he had
been tied, disappeared in the grass. The
raid continued several minutes, quite a
number of the aerial army being run over
by the train, and some half u dozen be-
ing captured by passengers and employ
ecs. As soon as the birds on top of the
flock began to realize the situation they
scared away, followed by the entire covey.
Livingston says it was the biggest crowd
of dead, heads that ever tried to board
his train.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

How THE LITTLE ONES FARE.-It does
seem that in q large city like New York,
a better method should be taken to have
the children who daily stray from their
homes returned. A child is lost, say at
the extreme end of the Twenty-ninth
ward and instead Of taking him to Police
Headquarters, where it is known they
are eventually taken, the policeman who
finds the child has to drag the poorlit
thing to the station house, where he
must be content to stay until six o'clock
p. NJ, and then be removed to hcadquar-
tiers, where he is kept forty eight hours,
and if not called for in that time handed
over to the tender mercies of the Com
missioners of Charities and Corrections.
a few days ago kind hearted Officer
OByrne picked up no less than three OF
these little waits, one of whom he had to
walk and carry to the Twenty ninth pre-
clint station house, a distance Of quite
two miles, and when the poor little fell
low reached the house, he was so eX-
hausted that the good natured doorman
had to make him pallet on two chairs,
and with the cry Of mother on his little
quivcring lips, he fellasleep. When these
children are removed to headquarters
they are kindly cared for by the matron,
and washed, fed and put to sleep in little
cots, and there is no reason on earth
why they should not be taken there in
the first place; it would save much incon-
veniencc to both officers and parents,
and the children who are so unfortunate
as to be lost would fare much better Oh
if this cannot he done, why not erect q
house expressly for the purpose Of ac,
commodatlng the poor little creatures, land
make it publicly known that all of them
found straying in the streets will be
taken there.--N. Y Paper.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

. WE hear terrible calamities have oc-
CURED in India, which we sincerely trust
have been exaggerated. The telegram
says that accounts of the recent floods in
Vellore show the number of casualties to
be very much the reverse eff exaggerated
in the original statement No less than
q thousand lives are said to have been
lost. Twelve thousand persons are house
less and three thousand destitute.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

Practice does not always make perfect.
Curan, when told by his physician that
he seemed to cough with T'ore difficulty,
replied, That is odd enough, for have
been practising all night,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

The Bangor Commercial says that at
prayer meeting held in q church not far
from that city, recently, gentleman
placed his hat in the aise beside his seat,
and was greatly surprised upon seeing it
take q start and follow lady down the
aisle, being caught in her dress. He
Immediately got down on his hands and
knees and went for the hat, but every
time he put his hand out to get it the
lady took a step forward and it was kept
Just out of his reach, and he did not get
it till he had gone the full length OF the
aisle; by this time the audience were in
a utter, and he took his stove pipe and
went out in hurry.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

AN ABSURD Custom. If [ could per-
suade all the young people of EImira
never to treat each other. nor be treated,
| think one half of the danger from our
strong drink would be gone. If l can
not get you to sign the total abstinence
pledge, binding until you are twenty-five,
| would be glad to have you promise
three things: First, never to drink on the
sly, alone; second, never to drink social
ly, treating or being treated; third, when
you drink, do it openly, and in the pres.
ence of some man or woman whom you
respect Now, boys, if you wish to be
generous and treat each other, why not
select some other shop beside the liquor
shop? Suppose, as you go by the post
office, you say, "Come, boys, come III
and take some stamps These stamps
will do your friends real good, and will
cost you no more than drinks all round,
Or 90 by the tailor's store and say:
"Boys, come in and have box of col
lars" Walk up to the counter, free and
generous, and say, "What style will
you have ?" Why not treat to collars as
we'll as treat to drinks? or go by con-
fectioner's and propose to treat to choc-
olate drops all round? or say, "I'll stand
a iack-knife all around?" How does it
happen that we have fallen into a habit,
almost compulsory, of social drinking?
You drink many a time when asked to,
when really you do not want to, When
a man has treated you, you feel mean
and indebted, and keep sort of account
current in your mind, and treat him.
And so in the use of just that agent,
which at the very best is a dangerous
one, you join hand in hand to help each
other to ruin instead of hand in hand to
help each other to temperance. X.
Beecher,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-06

CRIME IN NEW YoRK.-The carnival of
crime, it is hardly exaggeration to say,
never ran so high in New York as it has
done for the last month. The police
calendar is fairly filed with murders and
suicides. A jealous husband in Orchard
street, whose wife had deserted his bed
and board stabbed her fourteen times,
with fendish malignity, plunged his
knife into the side of her paramount,
and finally killed himself in the same
way. A shooting ARRAY in Christie street
fortunately terminated without any
fatality, while man was beaten to death
in Houston street by gang of murdercrs.
Letters by various unfortunates who
have taken Paris green, jumped into the
river, or otherwise wound up their
careers tell the same story of restitution
and desertion.- Y Paper,
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-12-12
NEW YORK TRIBUNE.

Now, ~ heretofore. The Tribune strives
to be frst Of all and crs-eminenlly nerve
paper
France . Rspublie--Eneland and Ger.
many gradually permsated with Republic
can ideas Spain swaying in the nsrvslees
grasp Of ruler too good for King and too
weak for = Republican, who il unable to
govern the greet Island that blocks the On
trance 10 our Gulf VI Mexico, and equally
unable ID give it up-ths Gsrman-spsakins
peoples sgitated BY new Protesta ntism,
separating from the See Of Rome on the
dogma Of Papal Infallibility and assuming
to recognize the "Old Catholiss"-th whole
Continent pervadsd BY the intellectual fer.
ment that comes Of the conflict between old
idsss. philosophical, theological, material,
and the advances Of Physical Science
Russia and Great Britain running . race
for the final gains that shalt determine
Asiatic suprsmacy-China seeming ready
to abandon her advances and reoioss her
halfopensd gatss-Japan abolishing feud-
slism and inviting Western civiliss zion to
irradiate Western commerce 10 enrich her
long. hidden emlire-such are phases Of the
news from abroad which the mails over al
Continents and the wires Under 81 Seas
are daily bearing to W. !, With able and
trusted correspondents in. the leading eapi.
tails, and vherever great changes are ia
progress, Tns .TrItUxs aims, 81 Whatever
cost, TO lay before ito readers the. most
prompt complete, and popular presentme Mt
Of these diverse and conflicting movements
:,~ihronsh oil Of phich, - II fondly truats,
ths toiling masses are sverywhere strug
Cling up toward larger recognition and .
brighter future.
At home the struggle for freedom seems
over. Tie last slave has ling been ciii-
zen the last opposition to emancipation
snfranchisement, equal civil rights, have
been formally abandoned, No party,
North or South, lonssr disputes. 1.-The result
Of the War for the Union; I'll declare that
these results must never BE- undons and,
with whole. people thus united on The
grand platform OF All Rights for All,
whsreto our bloody struggle, snd tho pro-
longed civil contests that followed, have
led US, the Republic closes the records Of
the bitter, hateful Past, and turns peace
fully, hopefully, to the less alarming DO.
cause less vilsl problems Of the Future.
To- whatever may elucidats the general dis
cussion or actien on these, Tms TaIBuNu
gives amPlest space and most impartial
retsrd. Whatever parties may propose,
whatever political leaders may asy, what.
ever officers may DO, 10 fairly set down ia
it, columns. whether this news helps o.
the right TO an honest sts tcihsnt II The facts.
snd this they always get.
But % 70 ito own political principles, ths
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-12-12
thought and feeling. What a work

thought and feeling. What q work
it will BE- to weed ont and expurgatc
all Chistr:an utterances from our text.
books? Ana what work when done?
Worse would this be than that OF
tie Catalogue and expurging in.
dexes," described by Milton, THAT
rake through the entrails Of many an
old good author, with . violation
worse than any could be offered to
his tomb =,
Shall rights OF conscience be
pleaded for making our schools pure.
ly secular Shall We for this invcigh
against the tyranny Of the MAORI
ty! But is this worse than the tyran.
ny OF the minority? II somc con.
sciences must be obeyei, WHY is it
worse that they should be those OF
Christians and those like minded
who are in this land large major.
tys Let them not tyrannixe over
the consciences OF others, bu: let
others beware Of tyrannizing over
them. Let our education be
thoroughly secularixed, and Christ.
ian men will look elsewhere for edu.
cation. They will refuse to send
their children where God is not hon.
ored. Secularism in education will
greatly multiply our Christian schools
and colleges, Tor many Ct our best
citizens do, not wish 10 give thcir
children IN education with no re.
llgion in it.
The changes proposed by the Sc.
cplarist would give us an entirely
pew class Of educators. From the
forming of our nation, Christian
men and ministers Of the gospel have
been tho foremost promotera,of edu-
cation. They have formed nc small
part Of the force by which the edu
cation Of our people has been car
ried on. The Presidents and Pro.
fessors in our higher institutions cf
learning are largely Christian minis
ters. Shall we seek to bar their. lips
against all utterances of religious
thought and feeling Sccular,sm
would banish these. aud supplant
them by men who, having no such
inner impulses, would find the pro.
hibition not irksome. Are we
anxious to make this change How
much would our education gain in
power to train useful law-abiding
citizens by al this?
Another article will consider the
proper place, .! the Bible and reli.
gion in our school. III
Dec. End, 1872.
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always suffer in the public Judgment.
II was not until wv. II. iSswARp
had lett us that facts came 10 the
surface proving low grievously he
had been misjudgcd in only one i'm
portant matter and how entirely at
fault il. apt to be contcmporaheous
judgment.
Thus is preached TO us, aim ost
daily, the duty OF charity in. dealing
with men, and how carefully the
public press should be in ,mpu,ing
to men, Of even less character than
Horace ,.GhSELky had, unworthy
motives, without, adequate.,proof
When> a. member OF l,RkslbsNr
GRANTS Cabinet was charged with
some illegal act, Haps-::' Weekly
promptly met the charge with the
sufficient response that the Cabinet
officers character was above re.
proach and was. in itself, n good
enough answer. The character OF
HORACE GREELEY, however, did not
restrain that paper from placing him
on level in Its pictorial pages with
Tweed, and others Of the Tammany
Ring. Precept and practice SO sell
dom 60 in partnership.
We look forward to the day when
tho lesson this late campaign and its
immediate following have taught us,
will be needed, when political dis.
cuseions will be tempered with due
decorum, when it will not be the rule
for ali candidates tor office 10 come
out OF the canvas covered with ohio.
guy, and when politics will rise to
the level OF gcntlcmanly vocation.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-12-12

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ESTRdYCOLTS.

TAKEN up BY Wesley A. McAnultyx of
i Howard township, Tama county, Iowa,
on the 23i day Of November 1872, two
sstray colts, described ~ follows: One
sorrsl mare colt, light name and tail. sup-
posed to be three years old past, has been
shod. One dark bay horse colt ' ith left
hind foot whits, star in forehead, supposed
to.bs one ,ear old past. Appraised At
eighty i've dollars, before Hugh Snodgrass,
J. r. L. y BLlN N,
Clerk District Court, Tena Co., Iowa.
BY J. D. Newcome- Deputy.
Toledo, Iowa, Dee. z, 1872.
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BANKRUPT NOTICE.
INSTRUCT COURT OF THE UNITED
~ States, for the District Of Iowa.
IN the matter Of

~ States, for the District Of Iowa.
smith r.,,.r On, In Bankruptcy
Bankrupt.
Warrant in Bankruptcy has been issued
against tine estate Of Smith Patterson, Of
lama, in the county Of Tama, Of the State
Of Iowa, in said district, adjudged Bank
rupt, upon the petition Of his creditors. and
the pay ment Of any debts and the delivery
ofany property belonging 10 said Bank
rupt, 10 him or to his use and the transfer
OF any properly by him, are forbidden by
law.
A meeting Of the Creditors Of said Bank
rupt to prove their debts, and choose one or
more Assigness OF his estate will be held ~
Court Of Bankruptcy, 10 b held 1t Du-
buque, Iowa. in said District, on the 27th
day Of December, A. d. 1872, at 10 ocleck
A. H., at the Office Of B. W. Poor, ESQ.,, one
Of the Registers in Bankruptcy OF said
Court. PETER MELENDY,
IT,. Marshal.
BY E. Il. SuAXKLAND,
Deputy U. s Marshal,
50-5l1 Messenger.
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