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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-02-10

A miscellaneous company of
guests were dining at the Van Ness
House, in Burlington. Among the
number was high. bred, would-be
lady, and a farmer, who understood
his business, but not of the starched
up order. During the exchange OF
different courses of food, pie was
brought on, but the farmers knife was
missing whereupon he called loudly,
"Waiter, l want my knife to eat my
pie with" The lady exclaimed, 20
what countryman, to eat pie with &
knife !" But he got along in silence
ate his pie well enough. Not so will
the lsdy. She took her fork and try
ing to cut her pie into pieces it wa:
soon lying upon the floor at her side
whereupon the farmer exclaimed, 30
what a lady to eat pie with fork !!
1t brought down the guests on PLAN
of good feeling and loud laughter, and
when the farmer went to pay his bill
the landlord replied, "your bill il
paid; and when you want a Dime
in town again call at the Van Mes
House"
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An Irish legend.

A writer, speaking Of the Castle of
Howth, near Dublin, says: "The
steps to the front door are very grand,
extending across the whole front of
the building. Tie wings are covered
with ivy The main entrance used to
be left open during the dinner hour
until a very recent date. The origin
of the custom is thus related About
800 years ago there lived in the west
of Ireland celebrated female chief
tain named Grace OMalley, of Grana
Vile. She owned a vast territory
and had castles to defend it, and ships
and men. So renowned was she that
Queen Elizabeth invited her to her
court, whittier she went, accompanied
by large retinue, where she doubtless
was Toasted in accordance with her
rank. On her return she was forced
to land on the east coast of ireland to
procure provisions, which had fallen
short. 1t happened that she landed
at Howth, and, walking up to the
castle, made known her wants. The
servants refused to comply with her
wishes at once, telling her that she
must wait because the family was at
dinner. Indignant at such treatment,
she returned to the shore to re-em-
bark. There she saw little boy
playing. Whose child is this 2 1T
is the son of the lord of the castle,
was the reply. Thereupon she order
cd him to be seized and carried on
board her vessel, and away she sailed
to her home in the West. Here the
young Prince was Kept polsoner for
some time, but finally Grana yielded
to the petition Of the father and re.
leased the boy, on condition that ever
after the door should stand open dur
ing dinner, to welcome all Corners.
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flas'per's Magazine.
ILLUSTRATED.
Notices Of tie Press.

The ever increasing circulation Of ,ms cx
ceIent monthly proves its continued aAapta
ton to popular. desires and needs. Indeed
when VIC think into how many homes il
peneiraes every month, we must consider il
as one ef the educators az well as entertainers
of the public mind, for It's vast POPULARITY has
been won by 10 appeal to stupid prejudice $
or dcpraved tases.--IiOs,OD Gl0be.
The character which this Magazine poss-
esses for variety, enterprise, artistic wealth
and lHcrary culture that has kept pace with.
if it has not led the times, should cause its
conductors to regard it with justfable com :
pIlaccncy. 1t also entities them to great
claim upon the public gratitude. The Maya
Of its ife.--Broohlyn Eny,e.
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How ID Feels TO be EEOgged,

The English papers record recent
cases of the use OF the lash in criminal
punishment, which was cruel bat eff
Gent, 1t is great mistake to sup
pose that the whipping post is obso
lete in Great Britain. 1t is not. The
scat still plays its part in suppress
sing savagery. At Manchester re
porter has interviewed man who
was whipped for robbery with VIC
lence, and the proceeding was not a
peasant one, although calculated to
inspire wholesome fear. The man
himself is the narrator:
The first stroke went across nv
shoulders, and il was something aw-
full. I'd never felt anything like it
before, and howlcd out sharp, and
roared as loud as I could Just where
the lash went it seemed to burn right
into me, and the skin felt as if it had
swelled up and was going to BURST
1t went through me like, and if hot
iron had scorched me 1t wouldn't have
been half as sharp. 1t was slow time,
for counted thirty before I cot num-
Der two, and that came as sharp as
the first, The doctor stood close by,
and pointed out where every stroke
was to drop, and the screw (warder)
put it down just where he showed
He was a bad 'un, that doctor, for
every cut was as bad as the others,
and the pain was like dying over and
over again.
The hardest phil was trying TO make
out where the next would drop. The
doctor would point, and waited til
| heard the whip coming, and then
cried out louder every time. Some
times it would drop on one of the cut.
that had gone before. I could hav,
sworn my back was as big again as i
should be, for after the cat was pulled
sharp back the flesh went after i. ant
rose up til l knew / was bleeding
and the skin burst. The blood raj
down into my trousers thick, n,
cheese (mistake) about it. How die
it hurt me? Why every now ant
then the cat Tapped round my chest
and that was worst of ALL
knocked me out Of wind, my breat
as if I'd jumped into cold water, chok
ing like, and my mouth as dry a
could be. I'd nothing to chew, so
hung on to the rings with my hand
as hard as could and this only pulle
my chest across the wood and mad
my back the tighter. The last wa
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-02-10
The Old Red Cent.

AS the old fred cent" has now pass
ed out of use, and, except rarely, out
of sight, like the "old oaken bucket,
its history is matter of sufficient in
terest for preservation. The cent was
first proposed by Robert Morris, the
great fiancier of the revolution, and
was named by Jefferson two years
after. 1t began to make its appear.
ance from the mint in 1892. It bore
the head Of Washington on one side
and links On the other. The French
Revolution soon created n rage for
French ideas in America, which put
on the cent, instead of the head of
Washington, the head OF the Goddess
of Liberty-a French Liberty, with
neck forward and flowing locks. The
chain on the reverse side was display
ed by the olive wreath of peace but
the French Liberty was short-lived,
and SO was her portrait on our cent. 49,
The next head Or figure that succeed
ed this-the staid, classic dame with
a fillet Iaround her hair, came into
fashion about thirty or forty years
ago, and her finely chiseled Grecian
features have been but slight alter
ed by the lapse Of time,-[PhjIadelphia
Ledger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-02-10

Colonel Ethan Allen of Revolu-
tionary fame, though roughly reared,
was very courteous by nature, and
made every possible effort to improve
his manners by observing those Of
other people. When he was prison
er Of war in New York City on pa
role, he was invited into the best so
ciety of the city, and one one occasion
attended a large and fashionable din
ner party. Olives werepasscd around
during the feast, and, following the
general example, Colonel Allen tool
one He Was unable to overcome tht
disgust it caused his palate, and taking
the half-chewed fruit in his hand
said, with a low bow to his hostess
MADAME, with your permission II
put this God damned thing on TIL
table"
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THE GLOOM OF AUTUMN,

Written by DR.. selah Gridley during
winter of 1866, while teaching school
South Woodstock, Yermont.-[Rutland Gil,
Hail, ye signing SONS of sorrow,
View with me the autumnal gloom,
Learn from thence your fate to morrow
Dead, perhaps, laid in tho tomb.
See all nature fading, dying, .
Silent all things seem to mourn;
Life from vegetation flying, ..-
Brings to mind tho mouldering urn.
Oft the Autumn's tempest rising,
Makes the lofty forrest nod
Scenes of nature how surprising,
Read in nature, natures God.
See our sovereign, soul creator,
Lives eternal in the skies
Whilo we mortals yield to nsturc,
Bloom awhile, then fade and die.
Nations die by dread Belona,
Through enrased tyrannic kings,
Just like plants in pale Ramona,
Fall to rlso in futurs springs.
Mournful scenes, when vegetation
Dies by frost, or worm devoured,
Doubly mournful when nation,
Dies by ncighboring nations power.
Death and war my mind dcpross,
Autumn shows ME my decay
Calls to mind my past distress,
Warns me Of my dying day,
Autumn gives me melancholy,
Strikes detection through my soul;
While mourn my former folly,
Waves of sorrow DER me roll.
10, hear the air resounding
With expiring insect cries
Oh ! their means to me how woundins,
Emblems Of my wicked sighs.
Hollow winds about me roaring,
Noisy weather around mo rise;
While sit my fate doploring,
Tears fast streaming from mino eyes.
What to mo are autumu's treasures,
Since ! know no earthly joy,
Long I've lost all youthful pleasures,
Time must youth and health destroy.
Pleasure once fondly courted.
Shared each bliss that youth bestows,
But to see whore once sported,
Now cmbitters all my woes.
Age and sorrow long since have blasted
Every youthful pleasing dream,
Quivcring age with youth contrasted,
Oh how short their glories seem.
As the annual frosts arc cropping
Leaves and tendrils from the trees.
So my friends are yearly dropping
Through old age and dire disease.
Former friends how oft l sought them,
Just to cheer my dropping mind,
But they are gone like leaves in autumn,
Driven before the drcary wind.
When few more years are wasted,
When few more springs are Ger,
When few moro griefs I've tasted
shall fall to rise no more.
Fast my sun OF life's declining,
Soon vii! set in endless night,
But my hopes, pure aud refining,
Rest in future life and light.
Cease this fearing, trembling, signing,
Death will break the sullen gloom,
Boon my spirit, Auttering, flying,
Must be borne beyond the tomb.
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One of the greatest foes to the
illltera'e, unthinking farmer is him,
selt-his lack of knowledge of bust
ness--not simply of producing crops,
but OF the laws of commerce involved
in the disposal of them.
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g'o'$ ail t'eShncSS Of y0ntA. Thin
hir Is hicAencd, falling hair checked,
and badness often, though not always,
cured by it, use. Nothing can restore
the hair where the iollicles are de-
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Charles Lamb said of one of his
critics s'The more I think Of him
the less I think of him"
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w /. GOODS & GROCERIES!
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has on hand and is receiving every few DAYS
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pronounce ''reciprocity" without trip
ping, the police let hinge. InMainc
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PLAIN sauce An interview with
q Saratoga hotel clerk.
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number of second hand Cook and Paror
Stoves oil hand cheap. Also u number of
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Stoves for Woo and Coal.

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respectfully asks for Il continuance Of the
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Those evening bells! those evening bells
How many tale their music tells,
OF youth, and home, and that sweet time
When last I heard their soothing chime ~
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Ay S
ct air / vi igor,
EoE restoring to Gray Hair its
Natural Vitality and Color.

4 dressing
which is at
once agreeable,
healthy, and
cfl,ectual for
preserving the
hair. 1t soon
restores taded
o. gray hair
to its original
c0Lol., 1riM the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-07-01
4 Starving Family.

An account Of a starving fulnily> i'll IL
country 81 wide as this, and especially in
Il fruitful rcGion like the West, read;
strange, almost incredible. 4 Kansas City
paper tells that a man lately entered &
flour store at Lees Summit and asked the
storc-kceper to sell him Il sack Of -four on
credit, as his family were starving and he
had no money. The mar Of the store re-
fused t. acccdc TO the terms. That was
business. The customer turned to leave,
and s~rizing a sack Of -four hastily carried
i, out, threw it into his wagon and drove
rapidly of to his home in the country
An officer WIS dispatched after the thief
The farmer beat his p,lr>ucr home. The
officer went into The farm house, and there
he SAW III cnaciuted woman and three ol
four little starvlings sitting around the
,ck tatin. raw flour. And there sat the
:yf looking at them with tears Of joy III
ewes. TIL" officer left without making
arrest, returned and tod The storckeep
that he would Fave 80 get somebody
:, to 10 thai job if hc still wanted ii done
c flour merchant thought he would trust
1T man. That WAS charity. Grassllop-
rs.-St. Louis Republican.