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was not the least particle of greenness
about me, how long before the second
bell would ring. The stupid man
didn't appear to fully comprehend my
meaning, and I thought he hardly ap-
preciated the fact ofmy arrival. l
consoled myself, however, as we'll as
could, by the reflection that on ac-
count Of the large crowd of people all
eager to register. quite possible he had
mistaken me for some other boy -
Presently heard most unearthly
sound, different from any thing I had
ever heard Sin all my born days.
The people all rushed in one direction,
and | decided to follow them. was
sure the roof had fallen in, and that
every looking glass and all the dishes
In the house were broken to eternal
smash. When I left Syracuse on a
packet boat on the "Raging Erie Kan
awl,' some forty-eght hours there
AFTER had so far ''pelfected my edu
cation" as that ] knew the difference
between first class earthquake and a
Chinese gong!
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-06-27
The Fuel of the Future.

Mr.. Charles Barnard, in an Article
on Gaseous Fuel, IN the July Serb
ner's "W W York; says
The abundance of coal IS question
able. Its cheapness is only apparent
and not real, and the question now
raised is whether coal is either scien-
ti6caly or commercially the best fuel.
The question involves matters Of the
widest interest both in trade, manu-.
facture and domestic life, and it is the
most important question in the i'm
mediate future. Coal has been tried
and has been found wanting. 1t is
not cheap fuel, and cheap fuel is
one essential factor in our civilization.
The fuel of the future is gas, cheap,
non,luminous, heating gas, delivered
in pipes at every shop and house.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-06-27

SOUVENIRS OF TIE SWAMP AN.
GEL" DIR. Shepard pointed out to me
the position Of General Gilmore's
swamp angel battery, and said tha
only the other day his workmen dug
up one of the unexploded shot in the
medical college yard. 1t was rather
large for a war souvenir, and about as
dangerous as a rattlesnake. The cap
was perfect, all ready for the light tap
that would explode it. No soaking
would ruin the powder filling, and so
after looking it over he had it careful
ly and deeply reburied, he hopes be-
You'd resurrection. A negro some
time ago found one of them, and he
thought be would break it up and
sell it Tor old iron. He got a sledge-
hammer and struck it Oh the point, II
exploded. blew the roof Of the house
off and dealt destruction in every di
rection, but strangely Sambo was not
injured beng stunned by the concus
sion. He reused himself, looked
wildly around, and exclaimed, "Lordy
massy ! whar's dat iron ?"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-06-27
He Went Fishing.

Several of the Clevelanders who
went to Kelley's Islands, by the way
of Sandusky, last week, after black
bass, reached home night before last.
One at them, Brown, rushed into his
house, and, in his joy at meeting Mrs.
Brown and all the little Brownses, at
tempted to clutch them all % his DO.
som in one wild embrace.
-"Go away !" yelled Mrs. Brown.
"But my dear"
81 amt your dear | never saw
you, My Leonidas never had that
ugly red all over his face, and never
smelt like a beer garden police !"
The baby began to yell, the oldest
girl started into the back yard after
the dog, and the hired girl tainted
dead away in the pantry.
~ am Brown swear 1t Listen,
Mary Ann. Your upper teeth are
false your switch cost two dollars
and a half; you demolish cloves for
the benefit of your breath f; you keep
Il bottle OF brandy in your wash-stand.
Hear me for my cause. What stran-
ger could have learned all this! What
man"
Me love! me love! It's he !!
'Tis thee y And she collapsed into
his arms, and thus prevented the gath
ering neighbors from learning any
further particulars about the internal
economy of the house Of Brown.
"And now" says Brown, II am full
ly determined to BRAN tho first man
who says black lass, and especially
when the sun is hot enough to turn
one into q Hotcntot ora Fiji Islander
in twenty-tour hours. - Cleveland
Herald.
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Our Other Selves.

The influence of constant compan-
ionship over character is immense. 1t
we have dear friend, that friend I'M
avoidably exercises certain power
over our thoughts and actions. Yet
there is an intimacy more close, con.
slant, and powerful in its effects than
that OF an acquaintance or friend,
however near or dear. We are all
conscious at times of a sort OF dual
ourselves, we prove or condemn our,
selves. The very words, self-acquaint'
ance, self.loye, self-respect, self-ds
fence, self-control, all take for granted
this quality. Who and what then !:
this boon companion, this familiar
friend, who is conversant with every
secret of our souls, whom we can new
er deceive, and from whom we car
never escape? The influence of al
other associates, however great, sink:
into significance before the all-prevail
ing sway OF what may be described
as selt.hood-what many term con
science.
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Result of Superstitious Terror.

TO couple OF ladies (slsters), in
Norfolk, the following distressing in
cidenl come time since occurred
One night the door of the dormltory
opened, and, by the sound Of light
footsteps, they wer" satisfied of the
entrance OF some person into the
chamber. The curtains at the foot OF
the bed were hastily undrawn, and a
female figure, resembling that OF a
servant who had been i'll in the house,
appeared, and throwing up her arms,
with u groan, OF strange gutteral
sound, Immediately vanished. Ex-
ceedingly alarmed, the Misses G. On
ly sought to shut out from their sight
Il repetition of the vision by conceal
ing their heads beneath the bed
clothes and so they laid till morning,
when, upon rising, they were shocked
to behold, lying cold and dead at the
foot of their bed, the unfortunate in
valid, who, without doubt, finding
herself worse in the night, had made
her way into the ladies chamber, and
then, unable to ask for the medicine
and assistance she required, had ex,
pired in the attempt. Blame, how,
ever, must not be attached to the
Misses G., for snperstit;ous terror
having in this instance prevented
their rising to aid the presumed ghos;
of their servant, since their humane
dispositions are generally known anc
appreciated and, as it does not ap
pear that they heard anything of bel
after she had seemed to vanish, it il
probable that when the poor woman
sank down at the beds foot the ark o
life was already extinsuished.
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PASTIME.

On the rocky shore an urchin stands
His bare brown feet on the wave swept sands
His trousers rolled Der his chubby knees.
And his tanned brow barred to the cooling
breeze;
He bends to launch to the favoring gale
His single boat with paper sail.
Freighted with tonder hopes than his,
Wealth, never sent forth her argosies.
All boy in thy happy careless play
There's lesson for many ripper day.
You may perchance in your manhoods prime
Set many sail on the sea of time,
1t may be, some, with burden sweet,
Shall come again to your waiting feet,
Or watching you wait with tears and pain
For the venture that never comes back again
While the beating spray leaves many trace
In your whitening hair and furrowed face.
God grant, my boy, when life is DER,
You find them safe on the better shore.
Republican Journal, Belfast, Me.
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Murder Will Out.

A few years ago august Flower
was discovered to be a certain cure
for Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint,
a few thin Dyspeptics made known to
their friends how easily and quickly
they had been cured by its use. The
great merits of GREENS AUGUST Flow
FIR became heralded through the
country by one sufferer to another, I'M
till, without advertising, its sale has
become immense. Druggists in EV.
cry TOWN in the United States are
selling it. Nop.rson suffering with
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, cos
tiveness, palpltation Of the Heart, In
digestion, low spirits, etc, can take
three doses without relief. Go to
your Druggist, o. G. Kimball Wood
stock, Vt, and get bottle for Is
cents and try it. Sample bottles 10
cents.
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"joIIy" People.

They may not amount to 50 much,
in some ways, as their graver neigh
bors but they ill a useful place In
the world, Notwithstanding. The
truly merry mau knows nothing of
care. Life itself is a joke to him.
What a happy disposition it must be
that can thus bid defiance to all the
painful vicissitudes of the world, and
smile even at pain as nothing but q
relief from the monotony of perpetu-
al ease We envy such people. And
yet constant laugh cannot be so en-
joyable as one that comes occasionally,
well matured, and in all the luxuri-
ance of a heartfelt appreciation Of hui
NOR. "Too much Of a good thing is
good for nothing" says the proverb /;
and why not too much mental quie-
tude AT any rate, it is we'll 10 con-
sole ourselves that if we are sometimes
wretched, it is only because that
wretchedness enhances the requisite
enjoyment of those hilarious moments
that follow after it. That's true phi
losophy!
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"A minister was once riding
through a section of the State of South
Carolina, where custom forbade inn
keepers to take pay from the clergy
who staid with them. The minister
in question took supper without pray
err, and ate his breakfast without pray
err or grace, and was about to take his
departure when ''mine host" presented
his bill. "Ah, sir" said he, 81 am
clergyman !" "That may be-" re-
sponded Boniface /; ''but you came
here, smoked like a sinner slept like
a sinner, and ate and drank like a sim
ner and now, sir, you shall pay like
a sinner
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They have bestowed more labor on thi.
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The Mormon TheOCray.

A writer in Scribncr for July main
tains that the cause Of the conflict be-
tween Mormonism and American
civilization lies deeper than the insti-
tuition of polygamy. We quote as
follows
Not a few have made haste to as
sumo that polygamy is the sole cause
of trouble. But the record excludes
that idea the Mormons had more
trouble with the world before they
adopted polygamy than since. I'm
disputed facts show that the beginning
of polyga:ny in the Mormon church
was by accident rather than design, to
relieve a few men Of their social en-
barrassmcnts that the church soon
after repudiated it and denied it for
niue years, and in 1872 formally pro-
posed to Congress to abandon it for
ever ou condition that Utah should
be admitted as state. Polygamy
will do for a scape- goat but the
trouble is far more radical than that :
the same results would soon overtake
the Methodist or any other church, if
it should concentrate its forces in one
state, every man voting, w. ether as
citizen or juror, at the command Of
the bishop.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-06-27

1t is a maxim worthy of being
written in letters of gold, that there is
no method so certain of defeating the
plots of wicked men against us as by
acting uprightly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-06-27

James Freeman Clarke says that
those who love others are themselves
full of sunshine, but we believe that
in case she loves the other fellow the
best it don't always work that way.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-06-27

The growing custom of putting
the choir at the pulpit end of the
church has the very serious drawback
that it prevents man from turning
around and looking up at the organ
in n critical manner just before the
contribution box approaches his pew.
- Baltimore Bulletin.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-06-27

AN Indiana farmer recently put
up notices on his farm which, read !:
"No hunting on this farm" A short
time afterward he read "No. ]
hunting on this farm
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-06-27

--Four-year-old to his mother hold
ing the baby: "Say, mamma, say
Eat squaling little baby seems to sink
'ee's the only chile you got I! I'd give
him back agin y
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POET "
CROW-WHICH I?

CROW-WHHCH?
BYA. s. MILLER.
A CABINS side,
At eventide:
The traveller seeking shelter there -
"Keep you all night
sartin, ledge, light,
Sech as we hev we share.
Zones are our name
Squire Jones p "The same.
You quainted much this way?
Sal, fetch chair;
You Bill out thar.
Give that yer boss some hay"
Of rooms but two
Has Jones, and few
His household goods, and poor
Two chairs, one bed
His guests instead
Have "shakedowns" on the floor.
Yet here, foresooth,
This man uncouth
Has pictures twenty-three
Cheap prints and small
Save one, are all
A chrome that, of Lee.
The traveller says,
With wondering gaze
you're fond of fine arts, Squire "
"Pictur's? Oh, Sal,
My eldest gal,
Hez hankerin' for them thar"
"That chromo's fine
If it we're mine
I'd deem myself quite rich,
AS doubtless you,
My friend, now do"
"Bes parding, Jedge, crow-which 2"
Chrome, that one
The South's true son;
OF course you hold that dear"
'Chro-mo !" says he,
"That's old Bob Leo
/ fit under him four year !"
"Bric.a-Brdc Scribner for jul
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- One tea spoonful of Paris green
ted to potatoe bug morning, noon,
and night will make him awtully sick
if his blood isn't in the best condition
- Fulton Times.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-06-27

Andrew Jackson was acused of
bad spelling, but John Randolph de-
Tended him by declaring that "a man
must be a fool who coul1 not spell
words more ways than one"
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Commissioners Notice.
PATRICK DALY'S ESTATE.


The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Probate Court of the Distric: of Hart
ford, Commissioners to receive, examine and
adjust all claims and demands Of all persons
against Patrick DAILY late of Sharon in said
District, deceased, and the claims of the de-
ceased exhibited in set.otf to the claims Of the
creditors, hereby give notice that we will
meet for the purpose of examining aud allow
ing said claims at the store OF Josiah Wal.
bridge in Sharon in said District on the 23d
day of October, A. d. 1877, from o'clock, A.
NJ until o'clock L. NJ, on each of said days
and that six months from the 30th day Of A.
pril, A. d. 1877, is the time limited by said
Court tor said creditors TO present their claims
to US for examination and allowance.
Dated at Sharon this Sd day OF May, A. D.
1877.
VIII. H. wALBRIDaE, siOusr..
CHAS. N. LAMB, Administrator.
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Hard but Honest !

Opposition and Necessity induces me to
a still lower reduction in the prize of few
EXTRA FINISHED
Tablets and GravestOnes,
which have now on my handc, all finished
from NEW DESIGNS. Also, one
GRANITE MONUMENT
of entirely new and elegant pattern which
will not be quite
GIVEN AWAY
but must be cold soon, as I haze no place TO
keep them, having my family move in my build
ing occupied last season as Il shop, owing to
hard times and high rents.
This Stock must he sold at less than cost
OF stock as | need the money and room, for
the erection Ola new shop.
Call earl, aud get the best designs before
they are gons.
Having hal large experience in the
Marble business rs a practical workman for
q years past, and having no other business
on my hands, am therefore ready to execute
Ill OF ders in prompt and uncqualed man
ner, and at lower rates than any shop in New
England.
Look at my prices for the present season {:
will furnish Grpvestone all lettered ana
set in Il Granite Sockc. for from Sl3 TO $50
the stone, to be 3 inches thick, 20 inches
wide, usual height the price beng according
to quality of stock and workmanship; other
Sizes in same proportions
REMEMBER my New Marble Works were
removed in 1876, to the head Of High Street,
Woodstock, VT, where | can now be found.
All information by mail promptly answ er-
ed. Hoping for share Of your patronage l
remain your humble servant,
FRANK. u. ARCHIBALD.
Woodstock, VT,
Anil 2nd 1871
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To al who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretons Of yoath, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood, &C.. will
send rec pc that will cure you. FREE OF
ed by u mi ssionary in South America. Send
a self-addressed envelope to the REV. JosEPH
7. INMAN. Station d, Bible House, No,o York
City. l7S4m6
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hdCe Flower and Garden Seeds,
New Sorts By Mail.

New Sorts BY Mail.
Plants of the newest and finest improved
sorts, carefully packed. My collection of
Strawberries took the first premium for the
best Collection, at the great show of the Mass,
Horticultural Society, in Boston. grow over
100 varieties, the most complete collection in
the country, including all the new, large
American and imported kinds. Price de.
scrptive Catalogues, gratis, by mail. Also,
Bulbs, Fruit Trees, Roses. Evergreens,
Choice Flower, Garden, Tree, Evergreen,
Herb, or Fruit Seeds, % packets Of either for
$l,O0. by mail,
n n The True Cape Cod Cranberry, best
w sort for Upland, Lowland, or Garden.
n by mail, prepaid. 81 90 per 100, 81 90
". per 1000. Wholesale Catalogue to the
Trade. Agents Wanted.
IL. Nj. WATSON, Old Colony Nurseries
and Seed Warehouse, Plymouth, Mass. Els.
tablished 1912.
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Dr.. A. J. Flagg's
and Ay}MGgE
SYRUP.
A Safe and Sure Remedy.
The Cough and Lung syrup

The Cough and Lung syrup
Is the remedy that during the past fifteen
We qrs has won for DIR. FLAGG an extended
reputation as a SPECIALIST for THROAT
and LUNG Diseases. After so many years
trial it can be truhfully said that it has
NEVER FAILED, even in the WORST CASES.
1t is purely Vegetable, and its effect upon the
system is at once Soothing and ionic.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-06-27

Value the friendship of him who
stands by you in a storm swarms of
insects will surround you in sunshine.
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$50 Reward !

T OFFER reward Of $4,000 for infor-
l nation which will lead to the conviction of
the 'copdrdy uilldin" who stole trout from
my ish-house, situated back from the resi-
dence Of VIM. Clark on the bridgewater road,
between the 7th and 18th days of March last
also offer a reward Of $1,000 for infor-
nation which will lead to the conviction of the
"contempible thief" who at various times dur
ing the past year has stolen Poultry from my
farm opposite the Wyman Kettle on the
Bridgewater Road.
GEO. Ii. FRENCH.
Woodstock, w., April 10, 1877.
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VIM. M. LADD, M, d.

CLAREMoNT, N. H., September, 1875.
DIR. FLAGG-My Dear Sir: Your Congh
and Lung Syrup has proved great benefit to
me, giving relief from severe Coughs and
Soreness Of the Lungs, when all other reme-
dies and physicians had failed. have never
taken medicine more pleasant to the taste
or more satisfactory in its results.
Mrs. LYDIA WILEY.
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A the CHEAT CAUSE
OF
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Errors of Youth.

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years
from Nervous Debility, Premature Decay,
aud all the effects of youthful indiscretion
will, for the sake of suffering humanity, 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. ll795m6l
JOHN b. OGDEN. AZ Cedar st.. New York.