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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18
WOODSTOCK, VT, THURSDAY, SEPT. lS, 1873.

contests of the Democratic party is
that of their war against monopolies
and class legislation. Our olden read,
ers have not forgotten tho struggles
which in 1889 resulted in the declara-
ton by the Legislature ct New Hamp-
shire of the important principle an
nounced in the first resolution we have
quoted above; that all corporations
are, and of right ought to be, subject
to Legislative control. 1t becomes us
now to look steadily at the great
questions of the day, which touch so
deeply the vital interests Of the peo-
pie. By bold denunciation and vigor-
Gus action against the great evils of
the day, we shall displease and prob
ably throw off from us some nominal
or false friends whose interests are
with the monopolists; but we must
remember that our cause is the cause
of the pc ople, and with us the masses
eventually must be arrayed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18
Facing an Angry Husband.

An Iowa editor, recently, to keep
up with styles, ran away with another
mans wife. He did not get off so
easily, however, as he imagined he
would. The man followed him, and
overlook the truant pair. The editor
got behind the woman and prepared
to sell his life as dearly as possible
He was uncertain as to whether the
outraged husband would shoot him, OF
murder him with a carving knife
He stood there, like a boy upon the
burning deck, and calmly awaited the
result. The outraged husband came
up within two feet of the editor and
said i: "Cuss your impudence. l
want you to stop my paper That
was all. The editor recovered himself
and said he would have the matter at
tended to at once. During all the
trying scene the woman stuck to the
editor like sand burr to a girls
stocking. Some people get mad and
stop their paper for almost nothing
1t beats all.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18
Curse Ye MerOz.

What has poor Mcroz done that
she must be cursed? Done? 1t is
because she has done nothing. She
occupied a position where she might
have been of great service to the Lords
people, but instead of cooperating
with them, and rendering Efficient aid,
she undertook to be neutral. She
stood still when she ought to have
acted, and ought to have acted on the
side of right
Meroz represents great many peo-
pie in this world, some of them in the
visible church, and some outside of
the church. They profess to be friend
" to religion. They would feel them
selves slandered to he called opposers.
They are like Pliable in Pilgrims
Progress. They are one thing with
one class of men, and another thing
with another class. They often at
tend religious meetings, and pay re-
spectful attention while there. They
don't want to take a decided stand for
the Lord, nor for the devil In revi-
walls, they don't believe in going too
fast. They are afraid ministers will
trighten the ungodly. They don't be-
lievc in preaching about hell and
damnation, nor in calling on sinners
to ask prayers. They patronize the
opera, and encourage dancing parties.
They show a dislike to the Puritan
method of keeping the Sabbath. 1t
does not hurt their conscience to walk,
or ride out, towards evening, on the
Lordss day. They don't believe in
being righteous over-much. Religion
is very well in its place, but they
don't believe in thrus'ing it into peo-
pies faces in the streets, or in the cars.
Trey don't want to be annoyed by
religious conversation. In q word,
they want religion confined to the
sanctuary. Now, do you wonder that
the angel Of the Lord was disguised
with such people ?-"Curse ye Meroz,
saith the angel of the Lord; curse ye
bitterly the inhabitants thereof, be-
cause they come not to the help of the
Lord, to the help of the Lord against
the mighty God wants every man
to show his colors, and take q stand
on his side.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18

| had a bottle OF whiskey in my pocket
at the time: when out Of town |
smashed it, and washed my face in a
stream by the roadside, and resolved
never to touch liquor again. 1t was
hard to keep my resolve for the first
week or two; but / stood it, and soon
my taste for drink disappeared. |
care nothing for it now, and would
not touch it if it ran in streams
Now, Nettic, if you love me as ever
and God knows l love you the same
let us get married over again, and the
bitter experience of the last few years
will only enhance our happiness
Nettie, dear what do you say?'
She could not answer; she was cry
ing as if her heart would break, and
her head was pillowed upon his breast.
1t was a more eloquent eyes than
her tongue could speak.
The moon was raising as he walk
ed home with Nettie to her fathers.
So Harry Rogers and Nettie Ray
were married again, and there is no
divorce that can part them now.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18
WHOLE NO. 1926
Appetite.

At certain seasons, as in spring and
summer, the appetite of even the very
robust is apt to fail, and the relish for
meats and heavy food to wane. This
is all right enough, for animal diet in
warm weather heats the blood, tends
to headaches, and is generally un-
wholesome, unless sparingly used
On the other hand, fresh vegetables,
berries, fruit and bread are cooling,
corrective, and what the palate most
Graves. Don't be afraid to 60 with
out meat for a month or so, and, if
you like, live purely upon vegetable
regimen. We will warrant that you
will lose no more strength than is
common to the time, and that you
will not suffer from protracted heat,
as when dining on the regulation
roast.
Many persons regard hearty de-
sire for food as something unrefned,
indelicate, and to be constantly dis
couraged. This is a greater and more
harmful mistake than that of coaxing
the appetite. 1t is just as necessary
for the man who works only with his
brain to eat beet and mutton, as for
the man who labors solely with his
hands. The stomach and the brain
are twins; the former being the elder,
and having prior right to care. Let
that be well provided for; and it will
sustain its brother. The people who
strive to check wholesome and
natural appetite are the people who
regard dinner merely as a feed, hot
the center of an agreeable social GUS
tom and as the domestic event of the
day. We are sorry for them, as they
must regard eating at all as prosaic
duty, obligatory on them because they
have bias in favor of living. We
all know that we must eat to live but
we by no means live to eat simply be-
cause we enjoy what we eat. We are
not gourmands because we relish
chops, nor are we invalids because we
want straw berries.
A good appetite is good thing;
but not if it is to be worried by urging
or neglect. -"Home and Society,"" in
Scribner's tor Augnst.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18
SPIRIT OF THE AGE
Thursday Sept. 18, 1873.
The PsaImist's Rest.


20 that I had the ,oi,ags of doue, that 1 NIGH
flee a,cay and be at rest."--Psalms iv. 6.
So pray'd the Psalmist to be free
From mortal bonds and earthly thrall
And such, or soon, or late, shall be
Full oft the heart breathed prayer OF all |;
And we, when Life's last sands we rove
With faltering step and aching breast,
Shall sigh for wings that watt the dove,
To flee away and be at rest
While hearts are young and hopes are high,
A fairy scene doth Life appear;
Its sighs are beauty to the eye,
Its sounds are music to the ear,
But soon it glides from youth to age,
And Of its joys no more possessed;
We, like the captive Of the cage,
Would flee away and be at rest.
Is our fair woman's angel smile,
All bright and beautiful as day'
So of her cheek and eye the while,
Time steals the rose and dims the ray
She passes to the spirits land
And we with speechless grief oppressed,
As er the faded form we stand,
Would gladly share her place Of rest.
Beyond the hills-beyond the seas
Oh for the pinions Of dove,
Oh for the mornings wing to flee
Away. and be with those we love.
When all is fled that's bright and fair,
And Life is but wint'ry waste,
This-this at last must be onr prayer,
To flee away and be at rest
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18
DIVORCED.

"Of course he will.'
"By all means. Only see how he
acted when his wife lived with him !
Now that she's left him, and all re.
staint is removed, he'll 60 the rest of
the downward way in no time"
Hll give him just one year to be
buried"
"Pshaw! Half that time will finish
h im."
"Well, Ipity him, too, but I pity
her more.--He brought the misery on
both"
Such was the gossip of half a dozen
villagers, who stood in front of one Of
the principal stores one summer even
ing, while the subject oftheir remarks
went staggering along on the opposite
side.
1t was evident that he was trying
to walk straight, but such endeavors
always seem to make adrunken man
walk more crooked. However, it
proved he was not lost to all sense of
shame, and still retained an aversion
to being ridiculed and despised.
But Harry Rogers had carried on at
a fearful rate for year or two past.
He had just one vice-drink; but that
was enough. He had married a
worthy farmers daughter, Nettie Ray,
only few years previous, but such
had been his conduct during more
than year past that she had been
obliged to cut him loose to pursue his
profigate course alone, and legal
separation had just been effected.
Hawy's home was on little farm,
a mile from town. He owned it, but
then it was heavily mortgaged, and in
another year foreclosure was certain.
1t was not likely his creditors would
spare him when he made no effort to
meet his obligations.
A week passed after that summer
evening on which all had agreed in
predicting his early ruin-two weeks
"A month or two. What mystery is
here? To the utter bewilderment Of
the prophesying sages, Harry discon-
tinued visiting the tavern, and was
rarely seen in the village. When he
did come to the store he speedily
transacted his business and then went
home-sober
Wonders never cease when they get
start. He was next reported as ac-
tually at work on his form. Had but
one man told this in the village, he
would have been marked as lacking
veraclty but as several ladies vouch-
ed for the feet, it was worthy of Gre
dence. The little farm began to look
healthier as the summer wore on. The
fences Strengthened up, the weeds dis
appeared; the animals looked fatter
and happier, and the little cottage
looked neater.
Time wore on, and the great change
was more remarkable every day.
Harry's charitable creditors called and
told him he might have his own time
to pay off the mortgage. The fall
came; and the farm yielded an abuu-
dance of crops, and Harry found him
self beginning to drift along with the
tide ofprosperity.
And Nettie had begun to live her
young girlhood over again. as it were,
under her her fathers roof, but some
how it was not like the happy, joyous
girlhood of memory. 1t was sober
and quiet now, and she fell into the
train of musing; and every now and
then there passed through her mind a
certain thought-she was neither maid
nor wife.
She avoided the vicinity of her late
home, nor had she once seen Harry
since the separation; but she had
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18
The Democracy and MonopoIies.

The Farmers throughout the coun-
try are now engaged to some extent
in organizing so as to protect them
selves against the various moneyed
monopolies which exist all over our
land-yea, all over the world. The
States and Union, published at Ports.
mouth, N. H., in giving the resolu-
tions (condenced) adopted, at an anti
monopoly State Convention, held by
the farmers of Iowa, makes the follow
ing just remarks thereupon.
The history and professions of
the Democratic party substantially
identify them with the promotion of
the above resolutions. With slight
notifications they might be adopted
as the declaration of any Democratic
convention. They have the merit of
calling attention sharply to real exist
ing issues. For the battle which the
people have to fight, now as in jack
sons time, is against moneyed COM
binations and monopolies. Already
the prosperity of the masses of the
people is witbering in their grasp.
Taxes have become ruinous, while
rich combinations and corporations
notoriously beara very small proper
ton of them. Trade and the mccain
cal interests languish and agriculture
threatens to become entirely unprofit-
able, while banks and money lenders
are obtaining rates which annually be-
come more and more usurious. The
people are paying eight and ten per
cent. interest to private corporations,
for the greater part of the paper cur
rency which mandates the country.
Capitalists grow rich from the i'm
mense profits of money lending, while
industry and enterprise find all their
profits absorbed by the tribute they
pay to the money lenders, and the ex-
travagant taxes and expenses which
also serve to enrich the same monop-
olists.
The whole tendency of the present
state of things is to make the rich
richer and the poor poorer; and the
call for a reasonable but radical re-
form which shall place labor and capi-
tai in just relation to each other, is one
to which the people can no longer be
deaf, fthey do not mean to be i'm
poverished and bound hand and foot
by the most heartless of all tyrannical
powers. Redress or reform can never
come from the party now in power.
1t is the humble slave of the money
aristocracy. The President owes his
election and reelection to the controll-
ing influence of the money power.
His thousands of office-holders live
upon money wrung from the hands of
an over-taxed people. Tariff monopo-
lies, internal revenue denominations,
prohibitory laws, useless offices and
wasteful establishments, and all the
engines of pecuniary oppression, are
maintained by the Republican party
as the means of supporting the army
of Office holders which is quartered
upon the people. The money copora-
tions favor and support these abuses
(the expense of which falls lightly
upon them) as the means of maintain
ing the monopolies, which are the
source of the great expressions of the
people.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18

"A pious yonng man paid Sis for
a pen-wiper at a church fair in Brook
lyn, N. Y, recently; and though he
smiled sweetly on the girl as she took
the money, his roommate says he Gus
sed like Capt. Kidd that night after
he had retired to his couch.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18

"A healthy man who consents to
live upon others doesn't deserve to live
at all.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-18
FIy-Time

We need not say that this is the
height Of the fly season, nor should
there be need OF impressing upon
wives the necessity Of keeping dining
rooms darkened until dinner is ready.
No man likes to sit down in a glare of
light, and a swarm of flies, to eat a
hot dinner. And he won't do it either.
He will seize the first thing he can get
hold of, and 90 for those flies. 1t
may be towel, or it may be a linen
coat, but it is more likely we are pain
ed to say, to be q table cloth, whose
loose ends are constantly dropping
out, and creating unexpected means
Of destruction. And when he has got
those flies up to the window for the
sixteenth time, and for the sixteenth
time sees third of them float out
through one window and Immediately
sail back through another, with ten
new acquaintances apiece, and the
rest go back over the top of his head,
that man will drop the balance of his
sanity as if it were a hot iron, and
steellng his heart and binding his
eyes to the better and holier things of
our nature, will dash in among those
flies like maniac, and inside of two
minutes the long ends of that table.
cloth will have Tapped all the SCOT and
dust from the stovepipe and door
frames, denuded the mantal of its trea-
sures, filled the air with hot soup and
ice-water, and broken the backs of
five flies. Then the miserable wretch
will grimly seat himself in the ruins
and as grimly eat what is attainable,
while the wife of the miserable wretch
will 90 into the bedroom, and close
the door after her in such "a manner
as would make the foreman of boil
er factory jump. -Danbwy Neos.
BALLoUs MAGAZINE FOR OCTOBER.
A very nice number is Ballou's for
October 1t contains remarkable
quantity ofreading matter, all divided
into stories and poetry, engravings
and useful reading, such as any one
likes to get hold of to pass away an
hour or two in a pleasant manner.
Terms Is cts number or S1.50
year. For sale at all the periodical
depots in the country. Address
THoMEs & TALBOT, SO Bromfeld
Street, Boston, for back or current
numbers.
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HartIand Business Cards.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-11-14
OLEsTEEED'S
EXC 1sior. Pump


7 7 SIIOFI NUIICP.
Always on hand all kinds of Pump Fix
lures, of the very best quality.
Common Wooden Pumps made on the prem
Uses where they are TO be placed, when desir-
ed, at 80 cents a foot.
All Pumps constructed by the subscriber
are warranted for one year After the first
year. they viii be kept in order by him, for
ten years. for the moderate sum of 81 pr year
All Pumps putin and not proving saisfac-
tory, will be taken out and the money re-
funded.
Orders by mail, or in person, attended to
with promptness and at moderate prices.
Dzs- For any further information, apply to
Mr.. !. BYERs, Montgomery House, Rockville,
Maryland.
WIN. OLDFIELD,
PUMP MAKER.
apl9-ly Fountain Green, Hartford Co.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-11-14

No one remedy is louder
called for by the necessities of
the American people than II
sure and safe cure for Fever
and Ague. Such we are now
enabled to offer, with a perfect
certainty that it will eradicate
the disease. and with assurance.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-11-14
LIQUORS.

THoMPSON'S Pure Old Rye WHIsKEY !;
Il Kentucky Bourbon Whiskev, 4 years old;
X, Xxx, xxx Old Rye Whisky;
Clabaugh's Old Rye Whiskey;
Pure French BRANDY;
Pure Holland Gin;
Pure Jamaica Spirits, N z. Rum;
Port Sherry, Madeira, & Malaga Wines
Blackberry Brandy. &c;
All of which am selling at reduced prices
A. GAEGLER,
deco lis High St, Georgetown, d. G.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-11-14
NoTICE.

TIME undersigned hereby notifies sill per-
sons owing him TAXES TO pay the
same on or before the ist day OF October,
1873. as after that date he will enforce collec-
ton by due process of law.
WIN. MULLTCAN,
sep 5--tf Late Collector.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-11-14
M CIV aEd Cheap.

n
7 HAVEjust receved large stock of Spring
4 and Summer Goods, bought for cash,
and will be sold to cash or short aud prompt
paying customers as low as they can be had
in the District Of Columbia.
Ny stock embraces in part the following
DIR GOODS.
Black French Cloth, Black and Fancy Cas-
simeres, Tweeds, Kentucky Jeans, Cot
tonades, Linen Drills, Brown French
Linen, Black Alpaca, Mouslin DeLaine,
French Lawn, White and Colored Elan
nels, Bed Ticking Gingham, Plaid Cot
ton, Bleached and Brown Cotton, Swiss
Muslin, Cambrics, Nainsook and Plaid
Muslin, Pique, blue, green, brown and
drab Silk Tissue and Berage for Veils.-
Large stock of Calicoes.
NOTIONS IN VARIETY
Pique Lining, Ruffing, Edqing, Suspend
ers, Needles, Pins, Tape, Gloves, Combs,
Pader, Envelopes, Hosiery of all kinds,
Hair Brushes, Tooth and Nail do, &C.
Large stock of Queensware and Sloneware.
Best Steel Spades, Shoycls, Forks, Hoes,
Rakes, Grass Scythes, Whetstones, &c.
GROCERIES.
Best Lubricating Oil, Coal Oil, Vinegar,
Syrup, Molasses, Mackerel and Labrador
Herring, Salt, Meal, Flour, &C.
Superior Old Whiskey Wines, Rum and
Brandy. Java, Rio and Laguira Coffee.
Brown and White Sugar, Rice, Soap, &c.
All Of which will be sold at the Low EST
CASH PRICES. Give us a call before pur-
chasing, as we do not consider it trouble to
show goods.
WILLIAM JONES, Jr.
may 3l-tf Rockville, Nd.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-11-14
WINES AND LIQUORS.

MY STOCK OF OLD RYE WHISKEY,
WI Imported Wines and Brandies, is now
complete for the season. | name a few of the
choicest Brands:
Thompsou's Pure Rye Whiskey
Moore S Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey
Zeigler's Pure Rye Whiskey
Maryland Rye Whiskey
Cogniac Brandy
Pallivoison Brandy
Jamaica Spirits
Wroe's New England Rum
P. Martins pure juice Port Wine
Crown Pale Sherry Wine
Madeira Wine
Holland Gin, &c.
For sale by
A. GAEGLER,
lls High Street, Georgetown, D. G.
dec Ia
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-11-14
Ayers Ague Cure,

For Fever and Ague, Intermittent Fever,
Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb
Ague, Periodical or Bilious Fever, &c.,
and indeed all the affections which arise
from malarious. marsh, or miasmatic
poisonS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-03

@This motto stands at the editorial head NJ
the Albany. Georgia, News:
SIT Is not rank, nor birth, nor state
But the get-np-and- get t.st makes men great,
0Eh Perkins, who is having new suit of
clothes constructed on long time, viii soon de-
liver a series of Lectures N London, by special
request of the Queen, who leaves town during
fltiI Gsi.EtTy--Ss. Lssis LsM6SrQf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-03

The English Medical Press saws: The atten-
ton OF our readers may be adyantageously d.
rected TO the subject OF increm OF the dead
preached by Prof. Poll. He repeats some of
the arguments that have been used against the
process, but nowadays, when sanitary science
mas made such advance, when every inch Of
ground almost has become OF value-fn q coun-
Try such as Great Britain, where the population
10 out OF proportion 10 the area OF soil, and
where the Infection of water by the percolation
OF decaying animals, situated, it may be, even
Al considerable distance, has been proved to
occur frequently, and TO give rise to sickness In
An intense degree, IL really becomes a question
OF considerAt alton as to how far burial In the
sarth II hygienieally correct or convenient
hao and association Of ideas have Injured rs
10 the practice OF earth burial, - that il seems
alarming even to discuss the possibility OF such
method being displaced, vet the incre M alton
process, could 10 be carried out 50 a not 10 hurt
the senssbility OF our nature when bidding
afieu ~ the last vestiges of our fellov-creatnres
offers certain advantages. By the prasent
procedure we lay the body in the earth TO re-
solve itself into Its original elements, hy the
slow and (could we witness it, the revolving pro-
cess OF decomposition. We preserve no traces
Of the material once 80 loved and precious in
our eyes; we rear monumental slabs, and COM
me morste the intensity OF our feelings by in
scripfions. Would IL not be more reasonable to
decompose the body by incinera alton, and retain
IN monumental urns. IL 80 desired, the ashes of
our friends and relatives? The question is one
OF increasing Importance, viewed from a ny
CREME and social point Of veiw.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-03

The NEW HANPsHIRE Youth who sent his
dollar for ''wonderful discovery for enticing
fsh 10 bite, received BY return mail hthoaraph
representing an ancient fisherman asleep on a
log, with the simple word s.Patience'' i'm large
letters upon his hat Underneath, s.nfty thou