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fused to he held responsible, and the re
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had said what ne knew and thought and
suspected, his wife was put on the stand,
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"Botts." was her prompt reply.
.-""Are- you. sule2"..
yes, sir."
"Wasn't the beast choked to death
With some fish bones you gave him with
his slop7 :" 'ftl1
mo. sir. We haven't had 4 fish in
the house for Q year"
WASN'T Il possible that he might have
sws!lowedl 4 hair pin 7'"s f.lE frs I
mo, sir. I've counted my hair pins
and none are missing" S,s
"Do you ever buy poison to kill tie
Frat.7" .-...
I tNever."
"Were you a. home when the mule
was first taken ?"
~ was" .
"And YOU knew that his ailment was
bottsf"
| ss.Yes, sir
| i"And you told your husband so?"
sf-tifd."
"Mrs, Smith, do you cali yourself a
horse OF mule doctor ~ ~
"No, sir" 80 =
"WeIl, how are you certain that this
\ mule died Of bottsi" >
"Because / am"
~ want plain answer. How are you
90 certain that the mule died of bolts p
"Well, I looked him all over, aud he
.Edidn't have the measels, chicken pox,
whooping cough or dumb sgue. Ny
husband looked him all over, and be
didn't have poll evil, collie sweeny or
blindestaggers, then We knew it must be
botts."
"How did vou know 2"
allow did kuow?" she echoed 10 IN
indignant voice. "Do you suppose I've
kept house for thirty.two years aud been
the mother of eleven children and moi
know what the bolts are? Why, I've
had 'em dozen times myself, and the
old man here would have died with 'em
in March if / hadn't pat on mustard
poultices and drawn 'em out Of his sys-
tenn by way of his feet! Bolts! Why
I knew 'em from Dan to Bersheeby!"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1881-10-18
Tuscarawyas branch.

Trains leave Baysrd At II, ,2orm and 4, ,55pm
arrive Dover 3Spmi and 7lopm, New Phil
adeiphia l,50pm and 7.25pm. Returning
leave New Philadslphis at Sam and a,40pn
Dover At s,35am and 2.s0pm Rayard al Ii, ,05
am and 4,l0pm,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1881-10-18

Leeve 1.5s ~ sesi f.rtt8
Pittsburgh. e liam 52pm 4oepm
Allegheny 80 27am o2pm 4l2pm
Arrive
Rochester. 10 ooam 245pm 45opm
Beaver >. 10 o5amr 2 26orp 4 s6pms
4, Liverpooll0 45sm 25pm S S6pm
Wellsvi,le 10 66an 5 S5pm 54spm 'zsss
Toronto -. II Sam 4 20pm 6s7pm
SteubenvillelI 64am 40pm 5:pm Z Scam
Mntin'sF'ryl2 47pm S 32pm 4spm 46am
Bridgeport. ;. is 58pm S 3spm 7s5pm Siam
Bellairs. ...l 05pm 50pm l0pm 8 O5am
RIVER DIyIsIoN7-GeINa EAST.
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
IOWA LANDLORDS,

An extensive and novel form of land
lordism has been established i'll Iowa.
Mr. Close, representing some English
capitalists, bought 10000 acres of land,
divided it into farms of 100 acres each
brought tenants from England, and now
has it all under tillage. "Our SYSTEM
Mr.. Close says, sis not to hold virgin
land on the chance of rise in value,
but by building houses and plowing the
sod, to improve the property we buy and
make it productive of income, wherein
we conceive lies tie distinction between
Legitimate business and speculation in
land.
"Each 100 acres is let, as a rule, to one
tenant who provides labor and machin-
ery, paving us rent for wheat lands in
kind. on the half-share system, and for
Indian corn lands at about 81 per acre.
The tenants own labor, with one assis-
tant, usually son, is enough, except at
harvest time, to cultivate 100 acres, If
divided between wheat and Indian corn.
Thus our laborers are directly interested
in the yield, and we think we combine
the economy of large holdings with the
efficiency and productiveness OF small.
In 1880 and for 1881 we could have let
our farms twice over. Every forty farms
or thereabout are placed under the su-
perintendence of steward, who is con-
trolled directly by ourselves
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
COUGHING UP A BULLET.

On July 80, 1864, Gen. Bolton of
Norristown, Pa, then colonel of the 5lst
regiment Pennsylvania veteran volun-
teers, stood on mound before Peters
burg, directly after the famous mine ex-
plosion, watching colored brigade who
were making charge. While thus
exposed and awaiting orders, n ball
struck the general Immediately under
the right jaw, in precisely the same spot
that he had been wounded in the battle
of Antietam in September, 1862. The
wound was considered very dangerous
and for long time the life of the colonel
was despaired Of
Surgeons probed for the ball, but
were unable to find it and concluded
that it had descended to the region of
the shoulder. The commander was sent
home in due time, but could find no re.
lief. Returning to the front, second
operation was performed, but with as
little success as attended the first. Since
that time the ball has often caused Its
victim considerable annoyance. ltwas
known to be somewhere in his anatomy,
but its location could not be found.
During the past few years the general
experienced more inconvenience than
formerly, and very recently, after retir-
ing for the night, he felt as though a
heavy weight was pressing against his
throat. While attending to customer
in his paper store recently he was com.
PEELED to cough, when he discovered
that he had coughed into his hand the
rusty bullet covered with saliva. The
bullet which is cast iron. weighs 273
grains troy, and is of the class known as
canister shot. 1t has projecting and
ragged protuberance received in mold
inU
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
GRATITUDE.

The claim of James II. Fuller, OF
Coleville, N. j., to legacy of Sl7 900,
bequeathed him by Thomas Hartwell,
has been satisfactorily proven. The
legacy was token of gratitude for
frien ship shown many years before.
Fullers father was in those days super
intendent of the Wayayanda iron works,
and Hartwell, then a boy, applied Tor
employment, saying that his parents
were wealthy, and living III England,
but that he had run away from home for
some political offense. He was EN-.
ployed, and an intimacy sprang up be-
tween him and young Fuller. After
Hartwell left they never met again.
Fuller learned Of the legacy through an
advertisement that recently fell into his
hands by accident,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
PLANTS SLEEPING,

The so-called sleep of leaves consists,
in the main, of the fiat leaves of plants
assuming, toward evening or night, a
vertical position upon their footstalks,
or of the leaflets of compound leaves
folding themselves vertically together
into similar although inverted) posi-
ton to the one assumed by the wings of
the butterfly when the insect is at rest
upon flower. All the leaves which
perform this movement have cushions of
soft cellular texture, known as pulvin-
uli, upon the footstalk Just beneath the
blade. 1t has been long known that
these soft expansions of the footstalks
are the efficient instruments Of the
mechanism. The action is periodical,
and dependent upon the alterations of
darkness and light. The designation
"sleep of plants was in the first in
stance given to this movement because
it was conceived to be really a kind OF
lassitude or exhaustion resulting from
the long-continued strain of diurnal il
Elimination.
DR. Darwin has shown that this night
bending movement of leaves is itself
only one form of circumnutation. 1t is
a large orbital movement in vertical
direction, having period oftwenty-four
hours, and brought about by the un-
equal action of light on opposite sides
of the pulvinuli, or cushion-like en-
largements of the footstalks. The
turgescence and growth are so modified
or opposite sides by difference of illumin-
alton, that the leaf is bent upon the soft,
easily Welding swelling of the footstalk,
as upon joint.-Edinbm'yh Rerier.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
SEASIDE NOTES.

Quite breeze has been created at
Newport by the promised encampment
of the Seventh.
The Isle Of Pines reached by the Bos-
ton, Revere Beach n Lynn narrow guage
road, is destined to be the finest resort
around Boston,
Boston will he as well and as strongly
represented at Swampscott this as dur
ing any previous summer, and the prep
arations made for their reception are
said to be unusually elaborate.
II has been decided that the annual
ball Of the New York yacht club shall
be held at New London, and new fea-
ture will be the lashing together of two
yachts with n platform between, on
which dancing will take place.
Now is the time when doctors who
have difficulty in securing patients in
town make arrangements with some
summer resort hotel keeper to have the
medical business of the house and di-
vide the profits.
Cape May is to have a "blue glass pa
vilion" in which real and bogus invalids
can sit and imagine that a wonderful
cure of some kind or another is being
worked upon their sensitive systems.
About a ton of faith is to go with every
pane-of blue glass.
OF all the New England seaside re-
sorts more activity prevails at Mt. Des-
ert than at any other, and even the
croakers are free to guarantee a "long
and successful sea on" The rental of
cottages has been something extraordi-
nary, and at last accounts none were to
be had for love nor money.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
A POWERFUL TENOR.

Asparagus is now the vegetable OF the
season. Whether you live at the Bar
riere dEnfer, or at the Batignolles, at the
Palace du Trone, or the Trocadero, you
are pretty sure, toward nine o'clock in
the morning, to be aroused by the long.
drawn out Ma bott' d'asperg's! Ma bott
dasperg's! which some stout-lunged wo-
man is bawling under your window. One
morning Berton, the director OF the
academy of music in l7GS, was startled
at hearing the traditional Ma bott d'as-
perg's sung out, not in the ordinary re,
but several notes higher. He ran to the
window, looked out and saw and heard
a tall, well-built, intelligent looking
country fellow shouting the familiar
street cry. He called him. "Do you
know, my boy, that you have 1emarka-
bly, powerful voice. Are you never
tired?" "Tired?' calculated the vender
of asparagus. "Well, now! Why it's to
unbend bit that 1 sing out so loud"
"Do you wish to be engaged at the OPP
era?" 81 have no objections" "Io.mor-
row YOU shall have masters" The hum
bic street crier became the famous Etien
Lainez, who charmed the ladies' OF
ITO rs much as SELLER does the ladies'
of to-day.-7he Pn'isim.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
A CRITICS INGENUITY,

NJ Albert Wolff of the Paris Figaro,
the hero of many ingenious journalistic
adventures, is reported to have added to
his renown rs an irrepressible purveyor
of "primeurs" for his journal by an ex'
plot peculiarly sympathetic to the Par
isian public. II appears that the man.
aging committee Of the last salon had
announced its resolve not to admit, rs
before, any art.critics to the exhibition
of paintings before the official opening
day. Finding the committee inilexible
on this point, M Wolflput on the blouse
and cap of an ordinary street-porter and
persuaded an artist friend to allow him
to assist in the transport to the salon Of
Il picture painted by the artist and ac-
cepted for exhibition by the hanging
committee. Thus disguised, he was adj
mitted without hesitation to the rooms
in which the pictures were displayed,
and, once insi1e the building, easily
contrived to inspect all the works col
lected within its walls.
Nobody paid any attention to aloung-
ing ouvrier rs he strolled through the
apartments, with his cap well drawn
over his brows, casting apparently idle
glances at the pictures. Little did the
officials suspect that the man in the
blouse loating about with his hands in
his pockets was one of the ablest critics
ard most brilliant writers in Paris.
Their surprise and modification may be
imagined when the Figaro came out, on
the morning of the opening day, with
three columns of graphic description of
all the leading works in the salon. 1t is
stated that M VOLTS clever feat was re-
warded by the proprietors of our viva
cious contemporary with "gratifica,
ton" of five thousand francs. One and
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
HAUNTED TREE.

An elm tree upon the main drive IN
Prospect park, Brooklyn, near tho battle
path, has been marked by q polished!
plate, which bears tho word "Nellic."
IL is u shapely tree, and stands in n
favorable position to attract the atten-
ton of those driving through the park.
The tree is the favorite in the park OF
Mrs. Howard, of Columbia nights, whose
husband was Of the firm of Howard,
Sanger n Co., and she obtained the per-
mission of the park commissioners to
have the plate put upon its trunk, in
memory of her daughter Nellie, by
whom il was also much admired. Mrs.
Howard and Miss Nellie took morning
drives to the park, and always stopped
their phaeton beneath the shade OF this
elm. They became attached to the tree,
and often spoke Of it, and when they
separated wrote of it to each other
Miss Nellie, who was Is years OF age,
and girl of many attractions and
charming manners, was seemingly eX-
travagant in her affection for the elm,
which she often pronounced to be one
of the most beautiful objects on earth.
Last summer she went to Europe.
She died in Rome of the fever Her
mother was almost heart broken. When
her mind was fixed upon her daughters
memory she felt drawn toward the elm
tree in the park, and whenever she went
there she told her friends that she
seemed to come nearer to her lost child
than at any other spot. 1t is said that
Mrs. Howard began to believe that the
spirit of her daughter came to that tree
to meet her, and that she now ap-
proaches the spot in full expectation
each time of being placed in communi-
cstion with the spirit. Wishing to set
apart the tree from the Others, she
caused it to be marked with the plate,
and now it has become known by the
park laborers, as the "Nellie tree"
Since the tree has thus been marked,
it has been struck three times by light
ming, fact that arouses wonder among
some of the superstitious laborers, but
J. Y. Culyer, the chief engineer of the
park, says that the tree is exposed so
that it attracts lightning. 1t was, how
ever, never struck before it was marked.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
KEEP STRAIGHT,

~ take pleasure an satisfaction said
tho president an he held up q parcel,
sin iniormin' you q worthy citizen OF
Detroit, who does not car TO have his
name menshnn'd, has presented dis TO-
ylsed edislun OF do Bible to do Lime
Kiln club, We 10 not open our meetins
wild prayer, nor DO we close by slngin'
do doxology, hut neberdeless ] am snah
dis giit will be highly Appreciated hy
all, Dar has been eonsiiuble talk IN
dis club about dis revised ediahun'
Some Of you hab got do ideah dat pnr,
gatory has all been wiped out an
lloaben enlarged twice obeb an ] have
heard oddera assert dat II didn't forbid
lyin, stealin' an pasSin' OF bad money,
Ny friends, you am sadly mistaken
He'll II list ~ hot ~ ober, an lieaben
hasn't got any mo- room, In l0okin'
ober some Of do changes las night J
aelected out q few paragraphs which
have a gineral b'arin, Fur instance, II
am list ~ wicked 10 steal water'mellyona
nv Il was las var or do var bcfo an
do skcercer do emp debiggcr do wicked
moss.
"No change has bin made in regard
to loahn' aroun' do streets, do loalcr
am considered jist m mean an low as
cher he was, an | want to add my belief
dat hc will grow moancr In public osti'
maslun all de time,
"De ton commandments am oil down
heah widout change, Stealth an lyin'
an coyctin' an runnin' ont nights am
considered jist as bad as cher.
~ cant find any paragraph IN which
men am excused from payin' doir honest
debts and supportin' dcir families,
81 cant fin whar' poo man, or q
poo mans wife, white or black, am
'spected TO sling on any perticklor
style,
'Dog fights, chickcn'liftin', polyticks,
playin' kccrds fur money an hangin
aroun' fur drinks an all sich low biancss
am considered mcaner dan cber, Fact
is, ] can't fin any change Iwhatcber
which lets up on man from bcin'
plump up an down squar' an honest
wild do world, Dcy have changed de
word He'll to 'Hadcs,' but ut do same
time added to the strength of de brim-
stun an do size oh do pit, an We want
to keep right on in dc straight path if
We would avoid it. Doan' lot any white
man make you believe that wes lost any
Gospel by dis revision, or dat Peter or
Paul or Moses have undergone any
change of speerit regardin' dc ways
of libin respectfully an dyin' honor
ably"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
~ STRAW BIRRIRA n

II IL likely that this will be q famous
year for Strawberries, We shall soon
have berries from the southern portion
Of Maryland, where great care Is taken
with tile strawberry, Excellent berries
will be coming from Delaware and all
PARTS oi Maryland as we'll a. Norfolk,
The North Carolina crop II at itA hight
though this II not the hest Some more
sunshine has been wanted TO ripen that
luscious. refreshing fruit, our beHt be-
loved strawberry =
Where Il hangs on the tender loush
DrOOpHg and l0Wi
Where i hide. under tho green leaf
I.usoi1us aRd sweet
Where Il lines the lopg garden bed,
Costly redl
There i grows under mans care,
Ills danlle.l fare
Who has not good word to say for
tho strawberry, that fruit which bring.
with II the scent Of sprlnE tho desire Of
summer, the great blg.heartcdnes' OF en
eyor,renewing bOuntiiul naturcY And
when wo put the poetry aside, Is the
strawberry at fault in giving us the true
clements Of nutrltionY Can the chem
ist find fault with ~ What does
Freaonius say II contains In chemical
analysis ? Water 7 IL, sugar 7 l'9
acid l Ii, heterogeneous matter l'9'
poctoua matter Ii, salts IL, We have
only given tho rough Of It.
This IL q delightful combination, Just
such ~ wo require for real refreshing
food, when the appetite demands some
thing else than the stale winter things
Onr strawberry, coming to us no
luscious and sweet, asks for appreciation,
II wants to bo told that il does is best
for our delight and pleasure There IS
by its side the fine white sugar bowl
and the thick cream jug, or tho milk
basin; aud surely IN ambrosial meal
can bo made with this and the light
wafer biscuit.
But, hold Not for all is this rich
dish there is that little voice OF warn
ing which says; "Strawborios and
cream That is too rich It will not
agree" And 80 the poor dyspeptic has
TO push aside the cream and content
himself with the pure aroma OF the fruit,
which ought to be enough, or add
something that will make it quite digest
iblc. =,
Well, lemon is by his side and,
wonderful TO tell the juice OF that
lemon accords with the luscious straw
4 . .,,,, o,, 4 ,,o taa IA liUaqtiblp.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
IMpgRyIOUs BRICKWORK.

According to the Industrial World,
to make brick masonry impervious to
water, there may be employed two
washes or solutions for covering the
surface, the one CASTLE soap and water,
the other alum and water, the proper.
rions being three-tourths of a pound OF
soap to gallon of water and pound
of alum to four gallons of water, both
being we'll dissolved. The wall must
be perfectly clean and dry, and the air
at least fifty degrees Fab. The soap
wash should be laid on boiling, with a
fiat brush, and so as to form no froth.
After remaining twenty-four hours to
become hard the alum wash is applied
in the same manner, but at the temper
ature of sixty to seventy degrees. After
another twenty.four hours second soap
wash is put on, this being repeated
until the walls are impervious.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
PUGILIsTIC REPORMER.

London paper tells us that the ser
geant alarms and his assistants had
some misgivings in tackling Mr.. Brad
laugh on the floor of the House. The
honorable member is one of the most
stalwart and muscular men on either the
liberal or the conservative benches, and
in physical struggle which he chose to
put forth his strength would be match
for any half dozen of the "waiters" whom
the sergeant can call to his aid. MIR.
Badlaugh dragged a couple of these
walters along the floor of the House the
other night with the ease with which
n transatlantic liner under way may oc.
casionally be seen dragging couple OF
diminutiye steam tugs.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
KISSING.

Eight basial diversities Of kisses are
mentioned in the Scriptures: The kiss
Of salutation, Sam. xx, Al; valediction,
Ruth ii, O.; reconciliation, 2 Sam. xiv,
33; subjection, Psalms ii, 10; approba-
ton. Proverbs ii, alteration, Kings
xix, 1s; treachery, Mat. XVI, 40; aifec-
ton, Gen. xiv, 10. There are some
other kinds Of kisses, which young
ladies receive over gates O. moonlight
nights, which the Scriptures do not men,
tion-neither do the young ladies'.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
DYING WORDS.

TIE memorable incident noted by
those who were present with Lord Bea-
conslield in his last moments, when he
raised himself from his pillows, threw
back his arms, expanded his chest, and
moved his lips as if about to speak, with
his well-remembered gesture md man
ner of reply in Parliament, is another
instance of the ruling passion flashing
ont on the very confines of mortal
existence. William Pitts last words
were "Save my countryr Napoleon
was heard to murmur, "Tete d'armee !"
Rabelais ended life with q jest; Mon
taigne with an apophthegm. Charles
XII of Sweden clapped his hand to his
sword when falling at Frederickshall /;
and vespasian exclaimed, at is fit
that an emperor should die standing y
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
uoRTICuITuRAL CHANGE,

A revolution in horticulture is an
nounced in France by means of which
flowers can be grown and developed
without any earth. The inventor OF the
new system, Alfred Dumesnil, cele-
brated horticulturist of Rouen, keeps
secret the process. 1t is only known
that he prepares the plants in some way
that they continue to grow without any
earth around their roots. Thus flowers
can be sent great distances in small OF
large packages and preserve their odor
and beauty in freshness, and even grow
during the journey.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
PRECIOUS WORDS.

A friend of mine said to me yester.
day -
'All the money you ever handled
couldn't buy that little piece of paper"
With that he handed manifold soiled
scrap on which 1 could at first see
nothing At length I deciphered in
rude disiointed letters the two words,
Dear Papa" He had discovered it in
the playhouse Of his little daughter,
who died only few days ago. Some
time when, in the midst of play. her
little heart had turned toward lhim
she had scrawled these two words
then having borne testimony of her
love, threw the paper away.-AHn'td
Constitution.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
BI RIBOLUTR,

Have you failed to-day, Good Heart '
Ills no cause ior sorrow,
10y againi the clouds may part
Perhaps may part Tomorrow
II you are y brave strong man,
You will do the besl you can,
DO your hest, and leave the rest
Reller may come Tomorrow
Have you lost your land or goldi
That's no cause Tor slghlngi
one bright hour 10Th OH lnloli
Many u years denying
iie not weary or downeaHli
"lallence holds the gate ut last"
DO your host and leave the rest,
And never give NJ your trying
Rich or poor, be oil n maui
Wear 10 golden letter
DO the very best you can,
And you'll soon do better
Every day you do your best
Isa vantage Tor tho rest
Don't complaint every gnln
IL making your hest still better