Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-03-14

We see by the St. Johnsbury paper
that our enterprising shoe dealer, A..
c. Prior, has purchased a boot and
shoe establishment in that burg.
A good woman, down at Taftsville,
whose husband is an Adventist, went
to church last Sunday eve to keep
peace in the family, and on coming
out slipped and fell. Help vas near,
but as she tips the beam at nearly 200,
it was thought at one time that der
rick would have to be brought into
requisition. However, she was right
ed without it, and shaking the snow
from her dress she exclaimed, "There
shan't go to meeting again"
We have received the Weekly Her.
AID. 1t is o handsome, well edited
paper, about the size of the Land
mark, and is all printed at Bismark,
d. II. Col. Il. M. Brown is the editor.
We are in health again. However,
there are disadvantages to good health,
lots of them. If we were all slowed
full of it, about the only chance we
should have of dying would be old age,
and no one wants to die of that-to
wear all out, get loose and rickety, and
finally drop to pieces. We prefer to
go ont of the world in some kind of
style. A person who really dies of
sheer old age don't know whether he
is dead or not, which is placing him in
a very embarrassing position. We
have seen lots of people wandering
round who were really dead, only they
didn't know it. OF course ia these
90 ahead times other chances would be
left us to flicker out besides old age
The kerosene and boiler explosion is al
ways handy. The more wealthy could !
so by railroad or steamboat disaster,
while others could fill up with hotel
conAagrations and Fourth of July
celebrations. In the South and West,
where the mule is largely cultivated,
1t keeps the death-rate about even..-
The instant that disease could be eradi-
Gated from the world. that instant we
should lose that most exquisite pleasure
of watching the faltering foot-step and
pallid cheek of the rich relative of
whom we were the immediate heir
We should no more cast his horoscope
and mentally reckon, up how many
more moons would probably occur
before his will would be admitted to
probate. "Whcre there's will there's |
a way" and if some of the old million
aires who have been ferried across the |
river could look back, they would see
that there were lots of ways that they
never dreamed of, which their heirs had
discovered. And here another thought |
presents itself to our cOnsider ation.-I
The doctprs-what would we do with
out them, it every one was possessed
of sound health? OF course the sick |
would not care what became of the
doctors, if they were only well. This
is natural the minority always want
to rule. But think of the doctors and
druggists, those happy, light-heatcd,
jovial fellows, who really seem to en-
Joy sickness and pain-in some one
else We have so many friends in
those professions that we would be the
last one to wish their calling destroyed,
and we hold ourself ready and willing
tn bear our share of sickness and take
our proportional part Of their medicines,
rather than have them become an ex-
tinct species. On the whole, it is not
probal lie that disease will ever be
wholly eradicated, and full and perfect
health hold sway, and on many ac-
counts, as the late Lemuer Spooner
would say, ..this is right and proper"