Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18
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Don't forget the Dickens Tea
Party at the Town Hall tomorrow
evening Thursday, the 10th,
Windsor County Fair will be
held here Sept. 2Sth, goth and 3oth.
Doggy weather Wet, cloudy
and hot.
Il do not wish to eXtenuate or set
down aught in malice, but if | can
''point moral" in these few lines, my
object will be accomplished. A
gentleman left this village yesterday
morning who has been the subject of
calumny for month or two past, but
he goes out owing no man, and he
wishes he could say as much of those
he leaves behind, or those who may
90 out to morrow, next week, or a
year hence. The poet says, "an
honest man is the noblest work of
God" Let us set this down on the
credit side of the ledger for the
disciple Of Vulcan. That he was in.
dustrious and horest before he come
into the possession of plenty of the
"dross of this world" |, for one, can
testify to, and | have never heard
anything to the contrary. That he
properly and tenderly cared for the
remains of his wife and child, by i'm
proving and identifying their final
resting place, and removing the re
mains of the child from a distant
village cemetery so that it might
sleep beside its mother. Let us give
him credit for this also. He has set
his sou up in business, and given him
fair chance in the world. This is
well. He has lent money to parties,
has hammered dollars out on the
anvil for parties-parties who wear
fine clothes and fare sumptiously every
day-but he has them not These
parties were among the very first to
SANDER him But as Marcus Antoni-
us said of Brutus and Cassius, the
conspiritors, in his speech over the
murdered body of his friend, julius
Cesar, "these are honorable men y
Small minds are always treacherous
and tricky, but we are glad the honest
blacksmith is not at their mercy
He has money enough and he will
have to step around lively 20 spend
the interest of it while he remains on
this mole-hill. Yet he knows the
value of dollar hammered out on the
anvil or obtained in some other way,
and people who don't think he does,
will find themselves mistaken. Many
stories were started here by gossips,
(and this place can boast of as great a
number of them as any place we
know off, about his extravaganza, etc.
have known rich men here to in
dulge in similar Extravaganza" but
there was not whisper about it.
0, no they belonged to the supper
crust Of society. The knight OF the
anvil has plenty of money and he has
the same right to spend it that other
mortals have, Sin the enjoyment OF
life, pursuit of happiness" etc, and
wish we had more such men here.
Some narrow minds are always dila-
ting upon the evils that men do, but
never a word on their virtues. /
hope society here will rise above this
some day. There are but few charac-
tiers that can stand the test of analyza-
ton, and "rigidly righteous" folks and
"gossips are not among them. t
The Highway Surveyor of the
Village District and his "Keely
Meters" have commenced work on
that long talked of sidewalk on River
Street to-day. Good.
The "Green Mountain Ministries"
gave an entertainment at Bridgewater
last evening to full q house. All say it
was good. Our Bridgewater cor.
respondent speaks of it more at
length in another column.
E. B. Adams, Esq, and wife of
St. Louis, Mo-, have been spending a
few weeks in town visiting friends
They leave this morning on trip to
the White Mountains, etc.
Some 1000 people visited Quechee
Gulf Friday Of last week to see the
cars cross the the highest railroad
bridge in New England, and Wood
stock furnished her full quota. -Four
hroas hands Woodotock Windsor