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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1884-02-05
wDear girls, look before YOU leap.

w Dear girls, look before you leap
look at the young mans bank account.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Very foolish advice. Better inquire
whether he has a good reputation for
honesty and integrity. Whether he has
sound body and good mind, and is .
stranger in the saloon. Whether he is
kind to mother and sister. Better marry
any young man with these virtues with
out dollar than any fortunate youth
with bank account with the vices cour
sing through bis veins and shaping him
for future misery - Chicago Inter Ocean
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1884-02-05
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GIVE HIM A LIFT.

GIVE HIM A LIFT
Give him lift! Don't kneel in prayer,
Nor moralize with his despair;
The man is down, and his great need
Is ready relief, not prayer and creed.
'Tis time when wounds are washed and healed
That the inward motives be revealed;
But now, whate'er the spirit be.
Mere words are but mockery. -.
One grain of aid just now is more
To him than tones of sanity lore.
Pray, if you must, in your heart,
But give him a, lift, give him a start.
The world II fun Of good advice,
OF prayer and praise and preaching nice;
But the generous souls who are mankind
Are scarce as gold and hard to find.
Live like Christian-speak in deeds,
A noble life's the best of oreeds;
And he shall wear royal crown
Who gives them lift when they are down
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1884-02-05
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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1884-02-05

A Coop INVESTMENT One OF our
prominent business men said to US the
other day: 'In the spring my wife got
all run down and could not eat any
hing passing your store | saw pile
OF Hoods Ssrsaparilla in the window;
and | got bottle, After she had taken
it week she had q rousing appetite,
and did her everything. She took three
bottles, and it was the hest three dollars
I ever invested. G. /. Hood & Co..
Lowell, Mass. =,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30

From money to love is an easy
transition, says the Boston AdrcrtcSer
Love was never yet won by impor-
tunitv, and yet it is the nature of men
and women to care little for what can
be easily won. Maidcns Of all nation
alities should think of this; and if love
chains them, let the letters be well
hidden. The perfection of esteem is
love, provided the esteem has time TO
grow; but in numbcrlcSs cases love
comes Of a glance, touch, tone Of
the voice. Appian tells us that An
tony no sooner saw Cleopatra than he
was enamored Of her; and she, who
had before enslayed the heart of Pom
pey, subsequently, for time, con
quered the all-conquering Caesar.
Nine Recamicr, the contemporary Of
Nine dc Stael, was SO cNQuisilely
lovely that those who Deheld her could
not take their eyes off her, but con-
tinucd gazing, as it da2cd with her
beauty of her face and form This by
way of Introduction to what Ruskin
has inst been writing Of love in the
latest "Fors.' Very queer things have
been said Of the grand passion, and
nobody knows exactly what to think
If it; but all human thought is worth
expressing, provided it DC decent.
But when Mr. Ruskin speaks al cul-
mre listens. He has been trying to
persuade English girls that it is their
privilege, if they are beautiful, to keeE
half a dozen SuitorS at their heels ~
probation for seven years, and thcr
marry the worthie5t young man Of Tho
lot To this course parents object
and so do the suitUr5, and 50 do Tho
young ladies, who wish to get marie,
IN a moderate hurry. And besides
what are the plain girls TODD? "Trur
ioyc," says 'o!sn Ruskin in his lates
.ssay, us Inconsistent with railways
with joint-stOcI banks, with tic land
ed interest, with the parliamentar,
interest, with grouse-shooting, witt
Nwn-tcnnis, with monthly magazines
With spring fashions, and Christine
cards" After that, what Can be sale
about lovc? 1t is the most diilicul
,0biect III the world.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30

Ina large ediIice of the church of
England, the sleepy clork, a some
what old and not over-intclligent man,
sat directly beneath the high pulpit OF
the rector, and responded the amens
to his reading, as was his custom.
Now the clerk very often fell asleep
during the service, and the rector in
vented the plan of dropping a pea (un-
noticed by the congregation upon his
bald pate with the mutual understand
ing that this was to be the signal for
an amen"
This worked fairly for while,
when one day the rector in his gestures
knocked the whole box OF peas over
the pulpit upon the clerks head; and
lie, being sound asleep, jumped W
wildly and yelled:
amen, amen, amen, amen"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30

Isssrs. Edftorsr"
The above is good likeness Q. Mrs Lydia r. Ptrs'
ham, of Lynn Mass who t5ove al! other human beisss
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"A como Of her correspondents love to call her. She
IL zooousy devoted to her work. which is the o1teome
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am satisfied OF the ruth CT this.
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Ono avs. Fl. works lko O charm and caves mncn
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Mon.tr7,aton, al Ovarian Troubles, Inflammation ono
liberation, Floodings all D7pacoGents ana the con-
sea,ent spinal weakness and is especially adapIoa W
the Change of Life"
I,rorncatcs ever ror Ion Of tho system and gives
nav life and vgcr It removes fa.nEess ilatalsncy'
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ness of the stomach. u cures Dloaing, hcadnehee,
Nervous Prostitution General p9rilty, eIeeplesStes''
Depression and Indigestion. That feeling OF bearing
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tcosts only 81 ror bottle oraix for ST. and ia cold ~
druggists any advice required as to snee'a .'cs aho
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For Kidney Complain q c'''rrs9- tbs cofnP'uh'H
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,b,t.st IA The ,rorll for the euro OF Consultation
pyiou.ncss and Torpidity Of tho hveF' nv
o,,s yvonders in its special line and bids TAI
to equal the Compound in !ts popularity
All must respect her as an Angel OF 1eEeY whose SOL
,mbltion IS 10 good to ctse5.
n,r.,.,,ht, 70 r> f-r ". n.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30

Beside the clear, crystal waters Of q
running stream and surrounded with
lilies, we noticed on our way up Tuli-
Yama, the japanese sand mountain,
what we thought to be school house
and our curiosity prompted us to ask
admittance. There were some fifteen
children in the room, which was fur
nished with long, plain tables. There
appeared to be no check upon the chill
dren, who were moving about and con-
vegsing with each other. The master
was teaching the smaller ones the char
acters Of the written language by writ
ing them on the blackboard and re-
curing them to repeat the sounds in.
dictated by them. Some were engaged
in writing upon their states, others in
arithmetical calculations and others in
reading or committing to memory from
text books. There seemed to be an en-
tire freedom from restraint and we
were surprised at the happy and con.
tented manner in which they pursued
their studies. Bright and intelligent
little fellows they looked, and from
what we have seen of the youth Of
Japan we are convinced there is much
to be expected from them.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30

We are often asked where, in the
great Empire Of China, power really
resides, and we believe the best short
statement is this. Subject to certain
immovable customs, the Emperor, in
his capacity Of father of the people, can
in theory give any order, and can in
practice punish with decapitation or
exile any official or person who dis
obeys it. lie is, in all serious affairs
however, obliged to consult, though not
to obey, rather large group of princes
of his dynasty and great mandarins,
who divide the departments and the
great viceroyalties among themselves.
The dynasty, however, being foreign,
is obliged to respect the army to some
extent; while this armyis, for financial
reasons, so limited in number that it is
difficult to garrison the empire, and
impossible to hold it down for an hour.
1t is the tradition of the court, there
fore, never seriously to offend either
the army OF the people in such a way
as to provoke cme~te$, more especially
in Pekin. At present the emperor is a
boy, only just - years of age, and ali
real authority belongs to a widow Of
hellst full-grown emperor, Hen Fung
who is called the Emprrss-Mothcr,
bat is not the mother Of the emperor
to Prince hung, Ii Hung Chang, the
fayoritc OF the native Chinese, and two
or three less known high officials.
they can send out any orders they
please, and are oboyel, lut they cannot
afford to risk tic instructions which
would follow any great attront to the
pride Of the people, such as the ccSsion
Of Tonquin would be. China, in fact,
isa more solid Turkey, will. Sultan,
ra5has, army, and mob sharing power
inuncQual degrees. A8in Turkey, too,
| all four arc bound in the chain o. a law
which cannot be modified.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30
SCIENTIFIC SCRAIS.

The Japanese are seriously consider
Ing the utilization of the Hot Springs
near Toxic as a means of producing
heat and power.
There is a novelty in the latest
speculative venture in Mexico An
American house has boughta volcano
1t is intended to drive a tunnel into
the side of Mount Popocatapctl for
the purpose of mining sulphur,
The whale fisheries, that were over
worked on this coast one hundred
years ago, are now being revived, the
animal having appeared again. WITH"
in ayear several new species of whale
have been discovered by the liIeboais
men of the Jersey coast.
1t is said that at the Court Opera
Vienna tiny incandescent lamps, sus
pended by fine swinging wires, give
the effect Of firetles flashing and fit
ting about in a tropical forest. by
switches the current is turned off and
on at the pleasure of the operator, and
the effect is electrical in other than q
literal sense.
The duke Of Argyll considers tina
the fact that some Scotch hills have
gravel and no earth on their SUBMITS
shows that Scotland during the deluge
was 1000 feet underwater. Darwin
considered the same fact to be due to
earth worms. Between these two
opinions there is plenty of room for
discussion.
In speaking of railroad accidents
and the earth's rotation, r. Randolph
shows that the defective force arising
from the earth's rotation is entirely
too small to determine derailments
and also that, as an excess of right
handed derailments has been credited
solely to north and south tracks, this
proves it to be wholly imaginary, for
the defective force at any latitude is
the same for all directions.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30
Making Change,

81 recolleCt an instance" and the
conductors face lost It's look Of injlig-
nation and a smile crept over It, IN
which | completely curol fat, fussy
old woman OF her efforts to beat her
way. She would invariably tender me
either a $50 gold piece or a bill for the
same amount. We don't generally
carry enough change for such large
denominations, and it SO happened that
was cnught u half dozen tim 5, and |
guess she began to think she had Il soft
summers snap, an be,lm3 Il regular
patron OF my car. enc day | fixed my
self. | Literally loaded myself down
for the occasion, and laughed about it
to myself 50 often, that my driver
wanted to know if thought | had
mashed the pretty girl who sat in the
corner on a previous trip. Well, at
the proper corner stood my small
monument of flesh waiting my coming.
| stopped the car with cheerful alac-
rity, AMI assisted the old woman on
board with such a beaming countcn-
anco that really feared might give
myself away. Atter she had fairly
settled herself | started in to collect
her fare. She looked up 50 Innocent
~ at me and said, Really, have moth
! ing smaller than this $40 piece, at the
same time handing me shining
double eagle. Well think [ can
change it for you this time, says |, and
| did.
II reached down in a pocket where
there was a good sized leather bag, un-
tied the string, ana held it upside
down over her lap. There | said, as
the contents jingled downward, you'll
find Just 1895 cents in that pile, !
guess-yOur exact change 'O,' says
she, Il believe have nickle in my
pocket All right; you'd better keep
it, or else I'll take it for some of the
fares you owe me- At first she was
disposed to make row. | was so per-
fectly Independent and thopassengers
were all laughing, that finally she took
her handkerchief, made sack and tied
up all the money she could, filled her
purse, her pockets,and then had a re-
spectacle little pile to shovel into hei
handbag. You may think I'm stretch
ing this, but man who works on
princely salary has no inducement tC
lie for few paltry pennies" said thu
innocent-looking conductor, rs he jerk
ed the bell cord and took on a dude
starting the ear 50 suddenly us to lam
TIE misrepresentation Of humanity in
, to the,ap OF Il spinSter who sat in tn
farther corner.-NeD York Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30
Women and Cosmetics.

1t is stated in the columns of a
medical journal of recent publication
that the use of arsenic as a cosmetic
is attaining dangerous popularity in
fashionable circles both here and
abroad. There are many women, says
the New York EUenjng Post, who
consider good complexion one Of the
chief desideratums life can offer, and
one to be obtained at almost any cost.
1t Is no secret that the poison, when
taken in specific doses or quantities,
has the effect of clearing the skin and
rendering it soft and exquisitely trans
parent, but the after-consequences Of
its prolonged use ought to be seriously
considered, for they are sufficiently
weighty and alarming to deter even
the greatest aspirant after loneliness
from tampering with so deadly a
beautifer. 1t is presumed that no
woman would be rash enough to de.
liberately swallow arsenic except under
professional supervision, and it is said
that some medical advisers in this and
other cities, at the request Of their fair
but foolish patients, give arsenic un-
scrupulously in the form of prescrip-
tons, which the unsuspecting chemist
makes up, unconscious of the object
for which the dangerous mineral is
administered. This is a very lament
able declaration, yet, if it is true, as an
outspoken but very sensible physician
of experience lately remarked, "Thcse
fair fools will not only purify their
compilations, but they will eventually
purify the world by getting out OF it.
They will soon lie forever at rest from
all the vanities OF this world, with
cOuntenanccs as white as the most
fastidious could possibly desire
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30
A Suit for Il Song.

Farnclli, the italian opera singer
whose voice and abilities seemed to
have surpassed the limits of all ante
gior vocal excellence, having ordered
superb suit Of clothes for Il gala at
court, when the tailor brought 1t home
he asked him for his bill. 81 have
made no bill, sir says the tailor, "Aor
even shall make one Instead Of mon
cy," continued he, Il have a favor to
beg. know that what | want is in
estinabe and only lit for monarchS'
but since | have had the honor to work
for person Of whom every one speaks
with rapture, all the payment shall
require will be song" Farlnelli tried
in vain prevail on tho tailor to take
his money. AT length, after long de
bate, giving way to the humble en-
treaties Of the tradesman, and fattcred
perhaps more by the singularity OF the
adventure than by all the APPLAUSE he
had hitherto received, he took him into
his MUSHROOM, and sang TO him some
of his most brilliant airs, taking plea
sure in the establishment of his ravished
nearer, and the moro he seemed sur
prisel and affected. the more Farinelli
exerted himself in every species of eX.
celiencc. When he had done, the tailor
overcome with ecstasy, thanked him in
the most rdpturous and grateful man.
ner, and prepared to retire. no" said
Farinelli, Il am little proud; and it
is perhaps from that circumstance that
Ihave acquired some small degree OF
superiority over other singers l have
given way to your weakness; it is but
fair that, in your turn, you should in
dulge Inc in mine;" and taking out his
purse, he insisted on MS receiving
sum amounting to nearly double Tho
worth Of the suit of clothes.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30
Thn NiiEn'S MnlcnmN.

4 well known clergyman in the
north Of England entertained recently
a brother clergyman from some dis
lance. The evening being unpropitious,
he asked him to remain for the night.
At dusk the clergyman asked his guest
to step into the manse while he gave
orders to have his conveyance ready in
the morning. As the visitor entered
the manse the clergyman's wife mis-
took him in the dusk for her husband,
and, selling the pulpit Bible which was
on the lobby table, brought the full
weight of it across his shoulders, eX
claiming cmphatically, "faks that fol
asking the ugly wretch 10 stay al
night"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30

Miss Emma Strait0n, of New York
city, writes letter from Seville de-
scribing the government cigar factory
of Spain, 700 feet long and almost as
wide, very dirty, and in the vestibule
$50 young girls making cigarettes, all
talking as loud as they want to; 100
girls in the next room doing the same,
and on the next floor 5000 women rs
close as sardines in box, in Il single
room, making cigars, some having
their babies with them not a month
old, and dogs lying on the tobacco
stems. The women were divided up
into sevens at each table, three on a
side and the mistress at the top
Around each table were shelves against
stone Pillars, on which lay children's
Shoes, socks, and clothes. There were
stone jars Of water here and there for
drinking, and the air was Siding, and
the buzz of conversation only broken
~ the wall Of the babies. The floor
ing was diIapidatcd and it was possible
Tor an incautious visitor to fall through
Two other side apartments 100 feet
long were both packed with lahorers.
The factory consumes lo,GO0 pounds
Of tobacco a day and employs over
5000 persons, who receive 50 cents u
day for twelve hours work, The ma,
tron at each table gets her pay from
the women she commands. The girls
and the superintendent had very little
manners.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30

A writer in Women at lForh ad-
tises girls, if they would be happy in
Inc married life, to marrya gentleman.
lie thus defines what he means by the
term:
4 true gentleman is generous and
unscllsh. lie regards another's hap
pincss and welfare as well us his
OWN. You WILL see that trait running
in all his actions. \ man who is q
bear at home among his sisters and
l!scourteous to his mother is just the
man TO avoid when you come to the
great question which is to be answered
yes OF no.
. \ man may be ever so rustic in his
early surroundings, if he is a true
gentleman he will not bring a blush tc
your cheek in any society by his absurd
behavior.
There is an instructive politness in
hcront in such a character, which
everywhere commands respect, ant
makes its owner pass for what he il
one of natures noblemen.
Do not despair, girls; there are sucl
men still in the world. You need no
AL die old maids. But wait until tn
princes pass by. No harm in delay
You will not be apt to find him il
the ballroom, and know he will neve
be seen walking up from the liquo
saloon. Nor is he champion billiard
player, either, for lie has had too mucl
honest work to do.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-30
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
A New Idea Tor weddings.

Among the new features at we'd
ding receptions is to have pieces of
weddlng-cake put up in neat little
boxes, having the initials of the bride
and groom engraved up on the top. The
boxes, which are very elegant as well
as expensive, are placed upon table
in the hallway in charge of an usher,
who gives one to each lady as she goes
out. This is done to prevent people
from taking more than one box each,
and, as it is, the gentleman who dis
penses the cake is frequently pestered
by ladies who insist on having more
than their share.