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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-03-06
A Great Evil.

The foe of American social life is in
the tendency to luxury and etfeminacy
among the well-to.do young women
of our American cities and large
towrs. They do not realize how this
dreadful mania for expensive pleas
ures, and a life of alternate ldleness
and amusement, is destroying theil
health, abolishing true marriage,
feeding the fame of gross sensuality
and intemperance among young men,
and saddening the hopes of the best
parents in the land. Some of them
will never know it in this world. But
most of them have no real purpose to
waste their lives in this wretched
way. AnG it is a high crime in moth
ers, teachers, ministers of religion and
the public press to pander to this in
sanity. Thousands of good hearted
young girls are sacrificed every year
when little wise and loving guild
ance could save them. But we feel
that they should be told that unless
they change this life they will pass
away like the flowers Of June, and a
more hardy and resolute class occupy
their places.
American society will shed every
class Of trifers, male or female, that
does not do its work, as TIE
forests shed their withered leaves
Let them awake from their dream Of
social indulgences learn to live out
of doors to build up their health to
cultivate more simple tastes in dress,
and more moderation in pleasure
study domestic economy study social
skill and tact fit themselves for the
noblest positions ever yet offered to
their sex, and learn that woman is the
soul of American life, not the tinsel on
its garment.-[Universalist Quarterly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-03-06

spot, looking up at the window
strains Of solemn music reached my
car, which sounded rs II they CANT
from one Of the gloomy vaults aroun(
me, walked on TO discover II pos
sible, whence the music came, aud
saw, in the nave Of the Abbey the
Dean Of Westminster conducting Q
service, assisted by his choir boys,
seated myself until tho ceremonies
were over and | thought II was q
very odd place TO hold church-among
80 many graves
After the Dean aud his choir boys
had disappeared ! commenced my
walk again, and saw many fine old
monuments. One Of these waa IN
memory Of Sir Isaac Newton, and ]
am sure | need not tell you who he
was, Prominent among the monu'
ments In this part Of the Abbey Is
that 10 Major Andre, the fine young
officer who was executed during our
Revolutionary War.
| next visited the south transept,
better known as the "Poets Corner
which think is the most interesting
part OF Westminster. A hundred,
aud more, monuments TO hcmemory OF
great men eau be seen here but !
can only tell you OF n few Of the most
important, The one | thought most
Of Is erected to the memory OF VIII.
lam Shakespeare, although his bones
reposc far away, in the little church
at Standardization Then ! saw
the tombs Of David Garrick, tho great
actor and delincator OF Shakspeare's
characters George Frederick Handel,
the eminent composer, the author oil
that beautiful anthem, II know that
my Redecwer live;h !" the great Mil.
ton 4; rare old Ben Johnson Edmund
Spencer, author of the "Facry
Queeene !" and those Of Southey,
Dryden, Addison, Gray, Campbell,
and other well.known English poets.
Then, among tho names Of the
dead OF our own day, saw those OF
Dickens, Bulwer, Macaulay, and DR..
Livingstone.
Kings, queens, statesmen, soldiers,
clergymen, authors and poets here
have equal station, Some may lie
under richer tombs than others, but
rest beneath the vaulted roof Of West.
minister Abbey, the place OF highest
honor that England can offer her de-
parted sons [Charlcs W. Squires,
St. Nicholas for March.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-03-06
His EIopement and What Came of
II.

l am an old man now. Folks uset
to be more romantic when ! was
young. They used to fight duels in
stead ofgoing to law, and they used
to elope instead of waiting and watch
ing until they got Sick OF waiting, OIL
giving up and marrying to suit the
old folks.
1t wasn't so curious about Miranda
Bates elopipg, but the things tha,
came of it were funny.
You see, Grandfather Bates wouldn'
have anything to say to Jeremiah
Jones when he asked him whether OF
nor be couldn't have Miranda. And
80 she just packed up her bundle, and
he was 10 have the carriage waiting
at the gate at twelve o'clock to carry
her of to the parsons.
Well, she was all packed up, and
ready in big cloak and hood, and
was creeping down stairs when she
perceived another person stealing
down before her.
1t was her grandmother, old Mrs.
Batts, going out to pick herbs. Some
herbs which folks knew in these days,
wouldn't do any good as medicine If
they weren't picked at midnight.
So that was her idea but, of course,
Miranda was scared back, and hid be-
hind the door, and old Mrs. Bates
went pottering about looking tor her
herbs, and up drove the carriage. She
didn't hear it she was as deaf as a
post but 1t SO happened Grandfather
Bates did. and up went his window.
"Who is there 7" beloved be, and
Jeremiah Jones, scared to death, and
taking old Mrs. Bates for Miranda,
jumged out, caught her by the waist,
crammed her into the carriage and
was driven away like mad.
Miranda saw it all, aud 80 did Bates.
Miranda shrieked, old Bates beloved;
down stairs he rushed and met Miriam
da coming up.
"Nho was at the gate y he yelled.
"Oh, grandpa !" screamed Miranda.
Jeremiah Jones has carried off grand
ma"
Now Mrs. Bates had been very
pretty, and old Mr.. Bates had been
very jealous, and it all came back. He
He stormed and swOre and got his
pistols, and wouldn't listen to q word
that Miranda said, and mounted his
horse and rode after the carriage.
Inside it was pitch dark, and old
Mrs. Bates was as deaf as post, and
robbers had carried her of.
jeremiah kept her wrapped in her
cloak, and called her his sweetest, and
his duck and dove, and all the while
she thought he was threatening to
kill her, and didn't dare to speak, but
only sobbed and cried and when
they got out on the road apiece, clat-
ter, clatter, came o horses heels be.
bind them, and.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-03-06
WOODSTOCK VT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 0, 1878

Aud with that the old maa offered
hls hand 10 jeremiah, aud there was q
wedding before Christmas day,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-03-06

ANOTHER YEAR,

1
ny JOHN W, CHADWICK,
That this shall DO better year
Than any passed away,
| dare not, at It's open door,
To wish, or hope, or pray,
Not that the years already gone
Were wearisOme and lone
That 80, with hope too long deferred,
My heart has timld grown,
Nay, rather that they all have been,
So sweet to me, aud good,
That " for better Ishould ask
Twould seem lngratItude,
And so, with things fur OF and strange
l do not care TO cope,
But look In memory's face aud learn
What largest I may hope,
Another year OF setting suns,
Ofstars by night revealed
OF sprlnglng grass, OF tender buds,
BY Winters snow concealed
Another year Of Summers glow,
or Autumn's gold aud brown
or waving fields and ruddy fruit
The branches weighing down.
Another year Of happy work,
That better Is than play
or simple care, and love that grows
More sweet from day to day,
Another year OF baby birth,
And childhoods blessed ways,
Or thinkers thought, aud prophets dream
And poets tender lays.
Another year Of beauty's feast,
At every moment spread
or silent hours, when grew distinct
The voices Of the dead.
Another year to follow hard
Where better souls have trod
Another year Of life's delight,
Another year Of God.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-03-06

rs there danger of the supply of
fuel becoming exhausted?" asks a
scientific writer. If he lives in a close
neighborhood and don't keep the
wood-house locked, we should think
there is.
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When man has business that
doesn't pay, he usually begins to look
around for apartner to share his losses
With him.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
Value Of Oversight.

The time of commencing to farm in
the United States is altogether wrong,
as anyone may see by few minutes
reflection. This time is the spring, and
the farmer who commences must work
stantly on his farm. If he wants seed,
grain, or tools, he goes to the village
store and obtains them from the store
keeper; if he wants a mich COW, an
other horse, or a yoke of oxen, there
will be drover or trader recommended
to get them for him, and thus he is en-
abled to continue on the farm and labor
all the while. If the customary time
of entering on farms was in the autumn,
the farmer could 90 around and look up
the kind of animals he needs, and by
attending auction sales, and witnessing
the buying and selling and the weigh
ing of cows, sheep, etc, he would be-
come posted, and would save good
deal. Thousands of farmers make
slaves of themselves doing as much as
two laborers would do if left to them
selves, and by working with the men
get deal more labor out of them. The
middlemen, who handle his produce,
and the men who buy and sell what he
ought to purchase and dispose of him
self, take great deal more than is
gained by the extra labor and constant
oversight.
1t is easy to avoid the necessity for
the undated vigilance considered so es-
sential by having all the work done by
the job. Corn can be cut up at so
much per acre, husking at so much per
bushel, etc, and then farmer has
only to see the work is done in proper
manner, and he can go about his bust
ness whenever he finds it profitable to
go. By looking after his stock closer,
noting the everyday wants of his sheep
and cattle and other animals, and
watching how circumstances require
changes of pasture, and perhaps some
which are fattening may be found to
pay for extra food, and in short, watch
ing the condition of everything at home
and the tendency of the market abroad
much more can be done for prosperity
than by hard work. This is not in.
tended to countenance those who lounge
| around taverns, or who sit in stores by
the hour, or who are continually visit
ing or receiving visitors. Country Gen
| Ue3}3nn
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

right shocking. You shouldn't feel so.
Who is it you want to kill?"
Anybody-everybodyr'
"And me, toop Are you mad at meP''
go no, not you, of course, but every
body else. l just want to do something
desperate. l feel as though | could eat
up dozen men. Oh, if / only had
somebody here now that l could pound,
wouldn't l give some starving surgeon
a job, though?'' And Schrobiker glared
savagely as he kicked over a chair.
That night, away along about the
small hours, there was a noisy CHATTER
in the next room, and Mrs. Schrobiker
clutched her husband by the arm and
said:
Thomas! Thomas wake up-the
house is full of burglars! Get up and
drive 'em out, and give the doctors
something to do. The chance you
wanted is right here in the house now"
But Mr.. Schrobiker, having recovered
from his mad spell, had changed his
mind, and no longer thirsted for gore; so
he got out of the bed and crawled under
it, and told his wife to tell the burglars
if they came into the room to help
themselves to whatever they could carry
and clear out in peace. Mrs. S., how
ever, didn't propose to see her property
taken away without a fight, and, paying
no attention to her husbands chatter
ing entreaties to seek safety by his side,
she struck light and marched boldly
into the adjoining chamber, with blood
in her eye and an iron boot jack in her
hand, to drive out the robbers.
A few minutes later Mr.. Schrobiker
scrambled out from under the bed with
a very sheepish look, and declared he'd
kill that cat if she wasn't kept outdoors
hereafter. This thing of having cat
providing around in the house of nights,
rolling pitchers and things off the la
bles and disturbing the rest of a hard
working man, had got to be stopped or
somebody would get hurt.
But you'll let somebody else take
that part of the contract, won't your
asked the wife with tantalizing smile.
He only muttered in reply, as he got
back into bed, that woman never
could appreciate prudence.-Breaktas t
Table.