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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-10-31
The SchOoI-House Tragedy.

The scene is laid within half a mile
Of the City School. Twenty,one Of
the largest boys gathered in solemn
council in one corner Of the yard and
decided that they were too big to be
licked by any schoclteacher walking
the face of the earth. After arriving
at that decision conspiracy was en-
tered INTO. The biggest boy in the
crowd was to bring on a conflict with
the teacher as soon as possible, and
the other twenty we're to back him.
"Death to towards !" shouted one,
as the plan was all fixed.
"No backing down-no hesitation !!
cried another.
"a rush together-one wild yell
one mad struggle, and victory will be
ours !" yelled the smallest of the lot
1t was desperate plan.
The school.housc was not defended
by even Calling gun.
1t might be the commencement of a
rebellion which would not end until
every school house in the land was
turned into an establishment for the
sale of mourning goods.
Scene second came on fifteen min
utes later. The innocent teacher
looked around upon her scholars with
out the least suspicion that a fierce
rebellion was brewing. The clock
ticked the same as ever The boy
across the street pounded on an old
tin pan, the same as ever. The big
conspirator was suddenly seen to
throw paper wad across the room.
He was ordered to come forward.
He said he didn't want to.
1t was moment of peril, but the
teacher didn't realize it. She walked
down the aisle, took the big conspira-
tor by the collar, and in ten seconds
he wondered whether he was down
cellar or up in the garret, while twen
ty other boys grew white around the
mouth, bent to their lessons with re-
newed energy, and mentally whisper
ed:
"Be still, thou wildly. beating heart
wait till | grow foot or two
more !"
The big consplrator is now thresh-
ing them in solemn succession. He
reached number eighteen yesterday
Detroit Free Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-10-31
WHOLE NO. 1886

earth's, there are great masses OF ice,
insomuch that it ID very doubtful
whether any inhabitants Of Mars have
been able to penetrate to his poles,
any more than Kane or Hayes or
Mares Or Parry, despite their courage
and endurance, have been able to
reach our northern pole, or Cook or
Wilkes or James Ross our antarctic
pole.
In the summer or either hemisphere
Of Mars, the north polar SHOWS become
greatly reduced in extent, as is natu.
raj, while in winter they reach to low
ATTITUDES, showing that in parts OF the
planet corresponding 10 the United
States, or mid-Europe, as to Latitude,
bitter cold must prevail for several
weeks in succession.-[Prof r. A.
Proctor, ST. Nicholas for November.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-10-31
Sulphur as a Cure for Diphtheria.

A correspondent Of a Victoria paper
writes: Should you or any Of your
family be attacked with dlphthera, do
not be alarmed, as it is easily and
speedily cured without doctor.
When it was raging in England few
years ago | accompanied DR.. Fields
on his rounds TO witness the so-called
"wonderful cure" he performed, while
the patients of others were dropping on
all sides. The remedy to be so rapid
must he simple. All he took with
him was powder of sulphur and a
quill, and with these he cured every
patient, without exception. He put a
teaspoonlul of flour of birthstone into
q wineglass Of water, and stirred it
with his finger instead of spoon, rs
the sulphur does not readily amalga-
mate with water When the sulphur
was we'll mixed, he gave it as gar
Gle, and in ten minutes the patient
was out of danger. Birthstone kills
every species of fungus in man, beast,
and plant III few minutes. Instead
of splitting out the garsle, he recon
mended the swallowing of it. In ex-
IRENE cases, IN which he had been
called Just in the nick of time, when
the fungus was too nearly closing to
allow the gargling, he blew the sui
phur through quill into the patients
throat and after the fungus had shrunk
to allow of it, then the garglipg. He
never lost \ patient from diphthera.
If patient cannot gargle, take a live
coal, put it OH a shovel, and sprinkle
alspoonful or two Of flour Of birthstone
upon it at a time let the sufferer in.
hale it, holding the head over it, and
the fungus will die. If plentlfully
used, the whole loom may be filled
almost to suffocatlon the patient can
walk about in it, iuhaling the fumes,
with the doors and windows shut
The mode Of flmigating room with
sulphur has often cured most violent
attacks of cold in the head, chest.
etc, at any time, and is recommended
in cases Of consumption and asthma.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-10-31
WOODSTOCK VT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1872.
knowing very we'll that now the lady's
real husband was coming, and that /
was in rather bad fix.

knowing very we'll that now the lady's
real husband was coming, and that |
was in rather a bad fix.
Well aware that it would not do to
remain in the closet, and convinced OF
the danger Of meeting a man who
might fall into the vulgar weakness OF
being jealous, I was trying to collect
my scattered senses in the dark recess,
when the lady rushed to me and whs-
pered in a wild manner:
"What shall | do? If you do not
90 he will kill me y
"Oh--but consider -"
The laundering at the door drown,
ed her voice. She flew to open the
door. AS the wrathtul husband burst
into the loom, | thought felt a little
cold, and crept under some garments
hanging IN the closet.
A gr,lff voice roared and stormed.
A tender, silver voice demonstrated.
Othello was jealous and revengeful !;
Desdemona innocent and distressed
then | heard an Ominous sound, as OF
some one looking under the bed.
81 know he is here /! | saw him
come INTO the house with you! I'll
have his heart out !"
"Hear me! Hear me l will ex.
plaln'"
AS | was listening very attentively
for the explanation, the garments m-
der which I was concealed were quiet
ly lifted, and fancy my feelings, dis
covered in such situation by such a
u husband
"Well, B." we cried, deeply
interested, 1or we knew lnat every
word of the story was true, chow did
you get out of the sc,are ?"
used a violent remedy Tor so vio-
lent complaint. Driven in corner
-my lite in danger-perceiving at a
glance that Othello was not so strong
as l vas l threw myself upon him,
fell with him to the floor aud held him
there, until | had given him full ex-
planation of the error, made him hear
reason, and tanned him to be as quiet
as lamb. Then left, rather un-
tremendously, and | nave never seen
Othellv or Desdemona since.
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An Eloquent Passage.

1t cannot be that earth is mans on
ly abiding place. 1t cannot be that
our lire is a bubble cast by eternity,
to float a moment upon its waves and
sink INTO nothingness. Else why is it
that the high and glorious aspirations
which leap like angels from the ten-
pie of our hearts are forever wander
ing unsatistied ? Why is it that the
rainbow and cloud come over IL, with
a beauty that is not OF earth, and then
pass off to leave us to muse on their
loveliness Why is it the stars which
hold their festival aronud the mid
night throne are set above the grasp
of our limited faculties, forever mock
ing us with their unapproachable glo-
ry? Aud, finally, why is it that
bright forms OF human beauty are pre-
seL,ed to our view and taken from us |;
leaving the thousand streams OF our
affection to flow back in an Alpine
torrent upon our hearts
There is realm where the rainbow
never fades where the stars will be
spread out before us like the islands
that slumber in the ocean, and where
the beautiful beings which pass before
US like shadows will stay forever in
our presence George d. Prentice.
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Retry.
NV Little Woman.

Would the diamond seem such peerless gen
If it measured one foot around
Would the rose leaf yield such sweet per
fume
If it covered yards of ground
Would the dewdrops seem so clear and pure
If dew like rain should fall ?
Or the little woman be half 30 great
If she were six feet tall {?
'Tis the hand as 80 It as the nesting bird
That grips with the grip of steel;
'Tis tho voice as sweet as the summer wind
That rules without appeal
And the warrior, scholar, the saint and sage
May fight, and plan, and pray,
Tho world will wag to the end Of time
In the little woman's way.
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Seated on the extreme end of
narrow bench in the Central Market
yesterday, was boy who seemed to
have made up his mind that life was a
sham and happiness myth. He was
solemnly and lnteutly gazing st COL
lection OF tour cabbage heads, six
beets, peck of onions and three Gu
cumbers, when along came a young
man and asked
"What ais you?"
"Struck y was the solemn answer.
"Have, eh? How'd you come
out =
Il was working for dad at fifty
cents a day." sadly explained the boy
on the bench. 81 was the only hand,
and thought if struck for dollar
a day he'd have to shut up shop aud
be busted or come to my terms.
"And did it turn out that way 2
quelied the other.
"Not quite. The old man didn't
seem a bit terror stricken, but he
bounced me through a window and
hired another boy to do my work at
three shillings Il day"
What are you going to do about
it T.
"We!I, | s'pose I'll have to go
around telling the boys that capital
has ground me into the DUST" was
the fearful reply.-DetrOit Free Press
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-10-31

1t is remarkable fact that we
cannot explain, that the boy who does
not know the gun is loaded is never
theIess always to be found at the safe
end of gun. Providence ought to
look after this little arrangement and
reverse it occasionally.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-10-31

"A young lady, on leaving a con-
cert recent, expressed her delight at
the excellent music, and said she was
particularly pleased with "that piece
from the "Twelttb Massachusetts,
meaning Mozart's "Twelfth Mass
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-10-31

During recent thunderstorm
near Memphis, Tenn, a negro was Sc
verely kicked by vicious mule, aud
Just as he was picking himself up,
stroke of lightning hit the mule and
killed him dead on the spot. swell,
dar Z" exclaimed the negro, "ef dis
chile ha,n't got powerful friends to
'venge his insults, den dare's no use
tryia' to bab faith in anyth'ng!"
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Woodst0ck OnadriIle Band.

This Band is rcorganized for the season Of
1s77-s and in better condition than ever be-
fore to please the dancing public. Orders
solicited and all communications promptly at
tended to if addressed to E. N. ORDwAY or
FRANK MARSH, Woodstock, Vt.
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When man gets so low down
that nobody will lie about him he had
better turn over new leaf. Il [Easton
Free Press.
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p m pie S i!

will mail (Free) the recipe for preparing
a simple VEGgTABRE BALM that will remove
TAN, FRECKLES, PIMPLES, and BLoTcH-
Es, leaving the skin soft, clear and beautiful !;
also instructions for producing u luxuriant
growth of hair on bald head or smooth face.
Address Ben. Vandelf K Co.. Box 5l2l No 8
Wooster st., n. J
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Johns Wife.

A young wife stood with her hand on hel
broom,
Ard looked around the little room.
"Nothng but toll forever" she said,
From early morn till the light has fled.
If you only wore merchant now,
We need not live by the sweat of our brow"
Pegging away, spoke shoemaker John,
'We ne 'er see we'll what we're standing on"
A lady stood by her husbands chair,
And quietly passed her hand DER his hair
"You never have time for mo now" she said,
And tear-drop fell on the low bent head.
'If We were only rich, my dear,
With nothing to do from year to year
But amuse each other-oh, dear me
What happy woman should be -
Looking up from his ledger, spoke merchant
John,
"We ne'er SEQ we'll what we're stan ding on"
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HartIand Business Cards.
+ G. | l. b L Il r

T. GIL b Z II r,
Manufacturer of and Dealer in
PlOws, CultiyatOrS, Cottage and
Box Stoves, CauldrOn Kettles,
SINKS, HOLLOW WARE, ROLL BAKERS,
Door Rollers, Door Roller Tack, Corn
Shelters, Sugar Arch Mouths, Crates and
Bars, Sap Pans, Arch Tops, Mouths End
Runners, Slide Yoke Irons, Boot Jacks.
Registers, Door Scrapers, Empire Stove Black,
Guards and Doors, Bedstead Castings, Gas
Castings, Birdsnest Tuyer Irons, Sleigh and
Sled Shoes, chilled and common, Cart and
Wagon Boxes, Gr.mes's improved Smut Mills,
Howes Standard Scales, GIBBS Cylinder Plow
Shares, lIarrows, &c.
~ Orders solicited.
ITartland, VT, May l, 1871. l4S4
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A stately form, in velvet dressed,
A diamond cleaning on her breast.
Nothing but toll for fashion, she said,
"'Till sometimes wish that was dead.
II 1 might cast this wealth aside,
And be once more the poor mans bride y
From his easy chair spoke gentleman John,
"Wo ne'er see we'll what we're standing on.
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The Cossack and His White Scarf.

The Cossack cavalrymen are all COM
paratively young men and have young
wives. Whenever they set out on o
campaign, they buy white scarf or
handkerchief to take with them. At the
close of their period of service, they re
turn to their villages and are met by the
whole population. Now wife who has
been unfaithful to her lord, kneels down
before him in the road, puts her face IN
the dust, and places her husbands foot
upon her neck. This is a confession Of
guilt, and at the same time prayer for
forgiveness. If the husband then covers
his wifes head with the white scarf, it
means that he forgives her and agrees to
forget her fault. If the white handker-
chief is not produced, the woman returns
straight to her fathers house without
again entering her husbands dwelling,
and divorce is pronounced. A war cor
respondent recounts tragical story
which soldier told him on the Danube.
A returning Cossack was informed by a
malicious neighbor before he reached
his home that his wife had been unfaith-
full. His comrades perceived that he had
all of sudden taken to drink and dissi-
patton, although he was not man given
to these vices. When he reached his
village his wife, as he feared, came for
ward, knelt down, and put her face in the
dust at his feet. The spectators saw him
look at her as she lay in the dust for q
long time. Two or three times he put his
hand in his breast for the white hand
kerchief as if be were going to cover the
repentant woman's head-two or three
times the movement was restrained.
Finally, as if driven by sudden impulse,
he drew his sword, and with one stroke
severed her headfrom her body. The pun
ishnent for the crime was two months
imprisonment, while the malicious neigh
bor who had taken the trouble to inform
him beforehand of his wife's misconduc
was sentenced to Siberia for thre
years.
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Farmers Needs.

Mind must be the emancipation of the
farmer. Science, intelligence, machin-
ery-these must liberate the white bond
men of the soil from their long slavery.
When look back and see what has been
done for the farmer within my brief
memory, I am full of hope for the future.
The plow, under the hand Of science, is
become a new instrument. The horse
now hoes the corn, digs the potatoes,
mows the grass, rakes the hay, reaps
the wheat and thrashes and winnows it /;
and every day adds new machinery to
the farmers stock, to supersede the
clumsy implements which once bound
him to his hard and never-ending toll.
When farmer begins to use machinery
and study processes of other men, and
to apply Ills mind to farming so far as he
can make it take the place of muscle,
then he illuminates his calling with new
light, and lifts himself into the dignity
of man. If mind once gets the upper
hand it will serve itself and see that the
body is properly cared for. Intelligent
farming is dignifed living. For a farm.
er who reads and thinks, and studies and
applies, nature will open the storehouses
of her secrets, and point the way to Life
full of dignity and beauty, and grateful
and improbable leisure.-J G. Holland.
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Marriage Under Difficulties.

At Belchertown, Mass, ON Amherst
couple, named respectively Fry and
Boil, were married under rather exciting
circumstances. The girls father didn't
want her to marry the man. so the latter
took her to a place where her sister was
employed till the wedding could be ar
ranged. The sister, however, was also
opposed to the match, because the same
fellow had previously made love to her,
and so she locked tue bride expectant in
her room. After q nights incarceration
she jumped from the window and joined
her lover at the hotel. The clerk Of
the house drove off furiously for e clergy
man, and the Methodist pastor was just
beginning the ceremony when the sister
appeared at the window to forbid the
bans. The certificate was all right,
however, and the minister concluded to
20 on, but in his excitement he read
most of the baptismal service, begin
ming: "Whereas, all men are born in
SIM and repeated the names OF the
couple he last married. The clerk held
the door 80 that the sister couldn't come
in. On the following Sunday the girls
father came to the church door and
called the minister from his Sunday
school class to demand of him why he
married his daughter, at the same time
admitting her legal age. Meanwhile the
groom has lost his place at Amherst, and
left for parts unknown.
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German Cremation.

It appears to be fact that the Ger
man society for the introduction of Gre
nation has paid the sum of fifteen thou
sand marks to the town of Gotha to coV-
er the necessary expenses of erecting a
cremation apparatus. Strict regulations
have also been published by the police,
ordering the examination by competent
medical officers of all bodies submitted
to he burned, so as to prevent cremation
in all cases where the causes Of death
have not been properly ascertained. In
order to still further guard against
abuse, bodies sent to Gotha from abroad
are to be subjected to the same, or even
more stringent, rules before being re-
ceived for the operation. At first, no
corpse is to be burned unless the deceas-
ed had expressed n wish to that effect,
and the relatives have approved.
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Black Hills Waits.

The following items are compiled from
the Black Hills newspapers. They are
characteristic of the new land of gold:
Rumored advent of English capitalists
to make Deadwood alive.
cam Sick, for sale, " was the notice on
an immigrant wagon recently driven into
Deauwood.
Deadwood Sunday services are held
over the post-ofice.
Deadwood emigration equals Dead
wood immigration.
Miners wages are four dollars per
day.
Real bears prowl about the mining
camps.
The prominent Deadwood hotels ad-
vertise "All languages spoken" Have
they conquered Russian?
Potato Greek pays 800 men well.
Rich specimens of copper ore are
found on Box Elder Greek.
The Deadwood sheriff wants on owner
for span of mules.
Bear Gulch is yielding large quantities
of gold.
Thirteen hundred advertised letters in
the Black Hills Pioneer. The capitals in
the font gave out and the Pioneer is
spelling the Jones with little IS"
The beautiful panorama Of nature be-
tween Spearfish and Deadwood is ma'red
by the suspicion that an Indian and rifle
lurk under the dense foliage. There
every prospect pleases and only man is
vile.
The poll tax is due and secondhand
sewing machines are already for sale at
Deadwood. So advances civilization.
The Black Hills Times will sell an
account of $1.25 against one Smith very
cheap.
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Fashion Notes.

Holbein work is as fashionable rs ever.
Robin's-egg blue is the fashionable
shade for tissue wells.
Colored flowers are used in the COM
position of funeral decorations.
The Corisande and the Sidonie arc
the leading overskirts this summer.
Red peoni, as natural ana large MS
life, are among the fashionable artificial
flowers.
Silk purses are fashionable again,
and ladies arc crocheting them for sum-
mer pastime.
Many rows of machine stitching are
seen on some of the handsomest summer
costumes.
Pansies are used in immense quantities
for funeral wreaths and menlcnto mori
designs.
A novelty for umbrella and sunshade
handles is to have n small spy glass Mt
the end of the handle.
The newest styles of parasols have
pagoda tops, and measure from eighteen
to twenty-four inches from the top to
the end Of the ribs.
Little girls under twelve wear princess
robes of white cashmere trimmed with
Clovis lace, and bows and ladders of
white or colored ribbon.
The Venitian women of the fourteenth
century wore dresses almost precisely
like the scarlet skirts and "pnll backs "
Of the present moment.
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Wasted BeneyOlence,

The benevolent old man looked out
from the window of the car, and whis-
tied to newsboy. Three dashed in at
the front door, and four in the back.
The benevolent old man bought paper
of the smallest boy. In making change
the lad dropped two cents. He went
down on his knees in an instant and soon
found the money. However, he did not
cease searching. Suppressed sobs were
heard, while he dug his fingers in the
holes Of the mat. The passengers be-
came interested. "What's the matter,
my boy" said the benevolent old man,
lowering his glasses and peering over
their rims. GIVE gone and dropped
dime, an I can't find it, whimpered the
boy, as he thrust his hand under the
seat. "Dad'll wallop me when / gets
home" "Never mind, let it CO." said
the benevolent old man. "Here's an
other one." The boy took the coin
meekly, and. as he passed the conductor,
remarked "sold again"
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Women Farmers in the West.

Numbers of strong, healthy, and able
bodied women are earning good liveli-
hood, and laying by competency for the
future by farm life on the plains OF Ne
braska. Many of these female farmers
have taken up their farms under the
Gland laws" which are applicable to
both men and women, and, notwithstand-
ing the grasshopper scourge which has
afflicted the State, many widow with a
dependent family is to-day cultivating
her farm, raising her herds, tending her
dairy, and thus providing for her family
and securing for herself competency
that cannot be gained in the factories or
salesrooms of the East, not even in the
school-rooms or "behind the foot-lghts.