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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-05-19
THE EDITORS SONG.

The editor sits at his table,
Writing as well as he's able
Paragraph, leader and puff,
His scissors beside him are lying,
While he is in agony trying
OF copy to furnish enough.
Toll toll toll
What weary life is mine,
Wasting the precious midnight oil
In leader and column, and line
Working from morn till night.
Working from night till morn.
Oh ! why was the steam-press made?
Or why was the editor born
Toll toll toll
And whose is the game when won?
Whose are the trophies we achieve?
And from whom are the laurels won?
TO stand in the foremost rank
OF each hard fought party fray
TO share the toll, and only get
Abuse and neglect for pay.
Toll toll ! toll
What thankless task is ours
TO bake the bread and press the cheese
That Senator Jones devours.
TO sit on three-legged stool,
While others have hair-sutfed seats,
TO prepare the hash and cook the stew,
But never to taste the meats
Toll toll ! toll
As the constant drop on the stone,
So this ceaseless, endless work,
Wears away body and bone
Though the poet splitter and write.
Though the orator bully and bawl,
If it were not for the editors pen,
What were the use of it all ?
Toll toll toll
Christians, Mormons and Jews,
Is there man on this weary way
But grows richer by reading the news ?
Richer, richer. richer,
AS they read it by sunlight and taper,
And there isn't soul of them all
But grudges to pay for his paper.
Toll toll toll
There's a row in the very next street,
Somebody's going to murder his wife,
And must be off TOUT SUIT.
Yesterday, just at this time,
Two policemen got choked in riot
And so it goes on from morn till night,
And an editor never knows quiet.
Gets up, knocks his hat over his eyes, a
rushes out in state Of distraction 'to pit
up an item"
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n; FOR SALE

THE Subscriber, wishing to leave town, of.
1 fers for sale his House, and Lot attached,
consisting of one Story Brick House, 2Sx2i
feet, inside newly finished years ago-cellar
under the whole also, an L 22x4O with Kitch-
en- Dining-room, Pantry and Woodshed below,
ago. Barn 24x24, in good repair. Large
Garden attached in which there are several
bearing Apple-trees, Currants, Blackberries,
Raspberries, Grapes, &C., and one of the best
Vegetable Gardens in the village of Wood
stock, good Well Of Water and 70 Dbl Brick
Cistern. Price low. Part of the money can
remain on mortgage if desired.
ii. V. FRENCH.
Woodstock, April Is, 1876.
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Going home few evenings since,
a resident of Detroit heard the voice
ola boy in stable, and looking
through a broken window he saw Il
lad about ten years old reading from
a book to group composed ofhalf a
dozen boys about the same age.
"Now isn't that nice" chuckled the
gentleman to himself; ''these boys
crowded out of school are still deter
mined to secure an education y
He took another look through the
window, and then placed his ear to
the broken pane, and heard the boy
read
'lt the persons who deals makes a
misdea), the cards may lie on the ia
BILE only by the consent of all---"
'Gracious !" exclaimed the citizen,
as he sprang away from the window.
''that boys reading from Hoyle p
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"a skin game the fur dealer

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creams, Charlotte Russo, blanc mango, etc.
Sold by all Druggists and Grocers. CYL
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ERRORS OF YOUTH,

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years
II from Nervous Debility, Premature Decay,
and all the effects of youthful indiscretion
will, for the sake of suffering humaniti, send
free to all who need it, the recipe and direc
ton for making the simple remedy by which
he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by
the advertisers experience can'do so by ad
dressing in perfect confidence,
JOHN B. OGDEN, ~ Cedar St., New York.
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No Onions this Spring.

A little bit Of Il man, wearing 4
bilious looking plug hat and speaking
in chlld,lik tones, was conducted out,
and his honor looked up and inquired ::
"Why for, thou Seeding ?"
"Im prisoner, but I'm entitled to
be treated with respect !" squeaked
the little man standing on his ii p-toes
and growing red in the face.
"Respectfully, your obedient ser
want, replied the court, waving his
hand around and letting it gently
drop upon a seek-no-further
Il won't be made fun of tell
YOU | won't !" squeaked the prisoner,
"Fun fun !" repeated his honor
"Sir, this is n serious word, with foul
pounds of heart-achc to one old-fash-
toned grin. No, sir-I see no fun
here. The charge is being drunk and
raising great row-a very serious
thing"
"Who says got drunk ?" squealed
the little man "who says | raise a
great row? 1t is conspiracy to get
me out Of the neighborhood,"
'Prisoner at the bar" said his
honor when the evidence was all in
snow is the time to make a Fourth
of July speech if you are ever going
to make one. If you have any evi
dence hurl it at me !"
Silence.
"nn":. -. Jo,o,r an
sumed the court, after waltz, T.. i ~;
answer you are chalked for sixty
days, You won't set out any onions
this spring, and you won't be around
when the first circus strikes Detroit.
May-day will find You making chairs,
and June berries will have ripened
and vanished before we gaze upon
your face again" Detroit Free Press.
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Some mothers, writes i physl-
clan, think when their chill lren get
beyond two or three years OF age the
frequent entire bath can be dispensed
with. lfsome of the main facts Of
physiology were well known and I'M
derstood every one would perceive
that cleanliness OF the skin Is one of
the conditions of good health. 1t
happens when bathing is disregarded
that the lungs, kidneys or bowels
have more than their appointment OF
work. If these are strong and healthy
they may bear the tax with little ap.
parent injury, but in most cases Il low
ering Of the vitality and tone Of the
system cnsues Large bath-tubs are
pleasant and convenient, but not indis-
pensable to the proper cleansing OF
the skin. a speedy sponging of the
body in pure water, followed by tric-
ton in pure air, is all that is neces-
sary.
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Windsor County Mutual Fire
Insurance Company.
NOTICE or ASSESSMENTS.

1lfIE Directors of said Company have laid
L the following assessments payable June /,
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a GEM.

A solemn murmer, in the soul,
Tells of the world to be,
As travellers hear the pillows roll,
Before they reach the sea.
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Making 3-f "
assessments for the year ending March 81,
1875.
The bills will be placed with a collector in
each town and members must see that they
are promptly paid.
This Company has been issuing policies
during thirty'tive years its assessments have
averaged only TWO AND THREE FoURTHs per
cent, and 1t has a surplus over all liabilities.
II. S. SOUTHGATE, Treasurer.
Woodstock, VT, April 6, 1875.
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"A heavy business-importing ell
ephants.
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REPRODUCING

II! IL prlce "Itnin me popular reach, ngln
wings never before offered ~ less than five
times the amount.
Ihrsc pllteS have heeu ,hc attraction If
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ScrOfilla. or Kings Evil. w

ScrOflla or Kings Evil, White
Swellings, Ulcers, ErysipelaS, Swclled Neck,
Goitre, Scrotulous Inlammations, Indolent
lnfammations, Mercurial Affections, Old
Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, ETC.
In these, as in all other constitutional Dis
eases, WALKERS VINEGAR BlTTERs have
shown their great curative powers in tho
most obstinate and intractable cases
National Republican., 1875-11-19

is isstagnated by the disturbance Of the pub
lie confidence in the future. While they
are aware that they never get their pay in
advance, but are obliged to do their
work fully week or month
before they receive their wages, they
are ranked by initiation demagogues as be-
longing to the debtor instead of the cred
itor classes. This sail wrong. The laborer
is creditor from the moment he begins to
work until he is paid. The more frequent
his payments the nearer he comes to receiv-
ing cash for his labor. If he receives cash
in hand for his work, he can pay cash for
his supplies. If he is paid once week, he
can, by economizing SO as to get q week
ahead, pay cash for his family supplies, and
thereby gain an advantage in making his
purchases. And then his merchant, having
the cash in hand with which to replenish
his stock, can also buy wherever he can
find the cheapest goods, and therefore be
able to sell him the next week still more
advantageously.
Such methods of payment would keep
our currency in constant circulation, meas
uring the labor of our country and its fruits.
Merchants in their useful avocations of
effecting exchanges of the fruits of labor
cannot be expected to take the risks Incl
dental to the credit business without ex-
acting additional prices for goods to COM
pensate for those risks. The credit system,
therefore. is chargeable with our present
high prices. 1t is the inevitable result OF
this system that those who pay must pay
enough to indemnify the merchant against
such losses as accrue from bad debts, or
the merchant must fail. OF course. this is
q foul injustice to the honest man, but it is
one inseparable from the credit system and
only admonishes those who intend to pay
at last to so arrange their finances as To pay
as they go and take advantage of cash
prices, look around and choose the run oi
the market.
To place it in the power of Government
employees to do this, let them be paid, al
the least, every week. If Government
will but set this example, 1t viii be fol
lowed by all contractors upon the public
works, and shortly after by manufacturing
companies, railway companies and by pri
vate individuals. The result of such 6
course would be to accelerate the genera
circulation of the currency, and infuse 6
life and activity into all commercial ani
industrial communities, which would &C
far to the restoration of public confidence
in our financial affairs.
National Republican., 1875-11-19
A HEALTHY CIRCULATION.

The currency question will necessarily
be the subject of discussion during the ap-
preaching session Of Congress. The quietus
1t received from the people at the late cleo
tions was not pronounced by majorities
sufficiently decisive toprevent its reproduc.
ton in the Congressional debates. The
elections only served to show that while q
majority of the people were opposed to an
unlimited issue of irredeemsble currency,
there was a very large and respectable
minority in the country who still labor
under the pleasing hallucination that credit
is just as good as cash so long as the day Of
maturity can be put far away. There is
also good reason to fear that this minority
is made up chiefly of that portion Of the
masses who fail to understand that the
laborer is made TO pay all the shayes or
discounts upon paper issues. The laboring
classes do not seem universally and fully TO
comprehend that while the purchasing
power Of paper money Is constantly on the
decrease, the wages Of labor are also being
continually reduced. They fail to see that
the circulation Of what currency we have
National Republican., 1875-11-19
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rFrom the et. Louis Journal. Nov. 1o.1 4
The names signed to the six-year- old letters
of Endorsement of General Mcdonald, printed
by the Globe this morning, are as follows:
Hon. E. W. Fox, then chairman of the Repub-
lican Committee of Missouri; VIM. NJ. Nc
Pherson, W. T. Sherman, General of the
Army; j. W. MeClurg, then Governor Of
Missouri; A. Mcdonald, United States Senator
from Arkansas; Columbus Delano, then Com
missioner of Internal Revenue; Mckee, Fish
back & Co., then proprietors of the Missosri
Democrat; E. o.. Stanard, then Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri; Nathan Cole, then mayor
of st. Louis; Irwin q. Smith and James s..
Farrar, then judges of st Louis County Court;
George II. Rea, then president of Second Ma
tional Bank, ST. Louis; Thomas c. Fletcher,
Ex-Governor of Missouri James B. Eads,
Francis Rodman, ex-Secretary Of State; Thos.
j. Daily, then presiding justice OF st. Louis
County Court; Alexander Crozier, John j.
Mitchell and E. H. E. Jamison; Charles P.
johnson, then prosecuting attorney for this
district; William A. Pile, Governor of New
Mexico; Thomas Boles, Congressman from
Arkansas; Bartholow, Lewis & Co., bankers,
and Logan 81. Roots, Congressman from Ar
kansas.
It will be remembered that reports have
been circulated to the effect that Mcdonald
was appointed by the President simply because
he was personal friend. The truth of the
matter is that he was scarcely known to the
President and was appointed upon the recon-
mendation of such. gentlemen as above named.
When the case now in court is decided we shall
feel at liberty to present such facts as will put
this matter at rest, and also such other facts
connected with McDonald's past history and
now well known in this community as will
place him in proper light before the whole
country. For the present we refrain as we do
not wish to prejudice his case. 1t is enough at
this time to simply state that he deceived the
men who indorsed him, and attempted to in
jure the man who appointed him.
National Republican., 1875-11-19
From the syracuse Journal. ]

IT IS something quite entertaining to see the
New York Tribune praising the raid of the
Treasury Department upon the Whisky Ring;
comparing it to the raid of Governor Tilden on
the Canal Ring, to the disadvantage of the
Governor; and yaunting Secretary Bristow as
being the right kind of a reformer, whose
accession to the Presidency would be national
benefit. All very good and true; but how
much pains the Tribune takes to give all the
glory to the head of the Treasury Department,
and to slight the head of the National Govern
ment, whose ringing order to his subordinates
was that ano guilty man should escape" The
Tri6une's method is singularly methoiical. The
Whisky Ring revenue agent, Joyce, goes to
prison for three years and q half. His accom-
plices in crime are indicted and their trials ap-
pointed. This is reform secured by the Re-
publican administration of the General Govern
ment. How pitiable are the results of reform
undertaken by the Democratic administration
of the State government! The national authori-
ties move on to the sure punishment of the
culprits; the State authorities are at warfare
among themselves, through which the culprits
are pretty sure to escape justice. Republican
methods and Democratic methods are thorough
ly illustrated in these matters.
National Republican., 1875-11-19

THE New York Herald, after having de-
voted two editorial articles daily for the
past few days to prove that the President
was provoking a war with Spain as q
''Third Term" project, and warning the
people against the Vaccinations of this
Caesar, now coolly informs its readers that
the President has no war-making power
and cannot do anything of the kind without
the aid and cooperation of Congress. We
hope its readers will accept this apology,
although the Herald fails to express any
regret for its false and malicious attacks.
National Republican., 1875-11-19

IT WILL BE seen from an article in an
other column from the st. Louis Journal
that the charge which has been frequently
made by the press to the effect that General
Mcdonald, late supervisor of internal rev.
enue, and now on trial for conspiring to
defraud the revenue, was appointed by the
President solely upon the score of personal
friendship, and that he has received pro-
lection and been kept in Office upon the
same grounds, is utterly exploded by the
publication of the names of General Nc
Donald's indorsers. Many of them are Of
the highest character,
National Republican., 1875-11-19

THE Washington correspondent of the
New York World has ''gone and done it,
again. He has exposed all the inner work
ings of the Republican managers in Wash
ington, and all that sort of thing. The
question is, what Republican manager has
been making confidant of this CORE
spondent, or has this correspondent simply
drawn upon his Imagination for his facts
National Republican., 1875-11-19

SENATOR SHERMAN expresses his conf
dence in the stability of the Specie Re-
sumption act. No doubt the Democratic
inhationists in the next House viii attempt
its repeal; but the Republican majority In
the Senate win serve as an obstacle to pre-
clude the possibility of the success OF such
an effort
National Republican., 1875-11-19

IT is PROBABLE that some of Postmaster
General JEWELS friends who are defending
him against an alleged attempt to procure
his removal from the Cabinet think they
are rendering good service to deserving
official. But inasmuch as no such attempt
has been made it is also probable that they
are the victims of cloves labor lost"
National Republican., 1875-11-19

Nor ONLY the commerce of the United
States, but of all the treaty-making Powers
Of Europe is injured by the unsettled con-
ditlon Of affairs in Cuba. 1t is, therefore,
impossible that any of those Powers should
object to any policy on the part Of the
United States intended to restore peace
and prosperity to the island.
National Republican., 1875-11-19
DIED.


HAVENHER.-At Uniontown, d. c., on the
th Of November. 1875, of heart disease and dropsy
FRANKIE eldest daughter Of Kittie A. aud the late
months and eleven days.
BRENT.-At Pensacola, Florida. on the morning
of the 10th instant, At his residence Capt. THOMAS
W. BRENT (late Of the United States and Coast
Survey Nayy,) eldest SON Of the late Colonel VIM.
seventh year Of his age.
GRAY.-On the I7th instant, at O'Clock 8. m. i,
Mrs. MARY JANE GRAY, wife Of Rev. DIR. Gray.
Funeral will take place on Saturday, at O'Clock
p. m. from her late residence, No. rs Grant Place.
VINSOH.-In Baltimore, Nd, on Tuesday, the
18th instant Mrs. MARY VINsoN, relict OF the late
Col. T. i. W. Vinson, and mother OF the Auditor
OF the District of Columbia.
Her funeral will take place at Oak Hill cemetery
on Thursday, the 18th instant, at 12:0 p. m, to
are respectfully invited.
GUVERNATOR.-On the morning Of the 18th
OF November, CHRIsToPHER 6UvRRNATOR, In the
twenty-sixth year OF his age.
Funeral on Friday, the 18th, at Q O'Clock. from
ances are respectfully invited to attend.
National Republican., 1875-11-19

Is IT NOT about time that, in justice to
themselves and their readers, those jour
mails which denounced President Grants
orders-that the whisky firing should be
destroyed-as buncombe, should retract
fheir charpes9
National Republican., 1875-11-19

Now THAT the Cuban: furry is over,
what will the Idiotorial Depairtmint of the
New York Herald do for sensational sub
jects For several weeks its idiotorial col
umns have been filed with arguments to
show that q war with Spain was threatened
by President Grant in the interest OF