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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-11-12

This Rooster is for the ''Sold
South New Jersey, Indiana, Con-
necticut, and New York--lS electoral
votes more than enough to elect Cleve-
land. New York is close, but Mr..
Cleveland has clean plurality of the
votes cast, as certified to by the town
clerks of the State. However, the
Republicans will keep up "bluster"
for some time, to the detrimcnt of the
business Of the country, but it will be
Cleveland q Hendricks in the end
The Board of County Supervisors met
yesterday (Tuesday) to recount the
votes, and it will take several days
perhaps weeks-to wind up the worst
ed. But it is now conceded by all honest
men that our candidates are elected. -
| Let the dance 90 on.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-11-12
Hodern.SCienCe
md SkeP1iciSH=

What has Skepticism done for the world?
Nothing but to suggest doubts. II has even
suggested that Rheumatism cannot be cured.
Skeptlcsm Is rs bad rs Rheumatism
What has Science done for the world?
A good many THINGS for instance, 1t has
shown that rheumatism can b. cured
1t has shown that Neuralgia can be got rid Of.
Modern science hasprovedth that Rheumatism Is
n blood disease, and has provided ATHfoPH0R0S
as the remedy which can completely cure IL.
Il has proved that although the old doctors
failed t00vercOme Neuralgia, ATHLoPnoRos can
reach 1t, and eradicate 1t from the system.
1t has proved that though these tormenting
diseases were 80 slow and obstinate, they can
be overcome In little while by means OF
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-11-12
SPIRIT OF THE A G
Woodstock. w.t., Nov. IL, "a.
Especial to the Agc.l
Latest by Telegraph.

@osSSS ~ S~S'~Hs
New York, Nov. u, 1922 II, M.
WIN. ID. McMAsrER, Woodstock,
Vt.--Otlicial count is progressing as
rapidly aspossible may require several
days yet to complete it in the cities,
but there is no reason to apprehend
any unfavorable results.
A. =. GoRMAN, Chairman Of the Ma
tional Democratic Executive Com
mttee.
Rev. A. II. Webb returns this week
and will occupy his pulpit next Sunday
as usual.
Here is chance for some of our
old bachelors. a young lady in SO.
Georgia, VT, inserts the following
advertisement in II local paper -
Wanted, by young lady not thirty,
husband, be he bachelor, widowcr,
or dude. ! am good looking, weigh
40 pounds, can cook, wash and iron"
At Il meeting of the Cleveland and
Hendricks club, last Saturday evening,
II committee was appointed TO raise
finds to celebrate the election of
Cleveland and Hendricks. A meeting
of the club will be held this evening to
decide what kind of celebration it is
best to have. We say divide the
money among the poor, and let every
democrat rejoice by taking supper at
some public place next Saturday eve.
The funeral of Mr.. Pratt Holly, who
died on Wednesday last after u linger-
ing sickness for some time, was attend
ed on Saturday last at the residence of
l.. w. Carlton, where he had made his
home. There was large number of
friends and acquaintance from this
village in attendance. Rev. Moses
Kidder ofliciated. He was jG years of
age.
PENCIL MARKS. The Democrats
will commence to paint this town red
about four O'Clock Saturday next
Have you mailed that letter your wife
gave you week ago yct?-Purple &
Nutting have a new advertisement in
to-day's AGE; they have new and use
full articles; "read, if you please. -
Mrs. A. w. Winslow, son and daugh-
ter, and Mrs. Addic Reed, started for
California yesterday.-L. Gillngham
has leased his blacksmith shop on Cen
trail Street, to Healey & Thomas, and
they have taken possession. --Philo
Kidder has gone to Boston to clerk in Il
retail grocery. r. Gates took pic
lures of the scholars in the various vii
lagc schools Tuesday. Dreadful job
to shave y Republican since the cleo
tion.-NIrs. Jason l.. Darling, on
Hartland Hill, has cactus which had
l15 blossoms on it this season. PAS
chal Lakin is quite low with consump-
ton, and is confined to his bed.-W.
II. Wilkins, who is travelling for a
house in Boston, was in town last
week he has moved his family back
from Boston to Lebanon, n. H.--C.
II. Rood, lately in the furniture bust
ness here, is now clerkmg in Il dry
goods store in Barre.-H. Swan, who
is now running a stage line between
Strafford and Pompanoosuc, made us IL
brief call Tuesday.-Hon. Frederick
Billings and family started for their
winter residence in New York City
Tuesday morning.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-11-12
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How Lost, How Restored /!

just published. new edition of DR.. Cul.
verwIrs Celebrated ESSAY on the rddi l.
cal cure OF Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Weak.
ness, Involuntary Seminal Losses, lmpo-
tency Mental and Physical lncapacity, I'm
pediments to Marriage. etc. also, Con-
sumption, Epilepsy and Fits. induced by
sslf.indulgence, or sexual extravaganza, &c.
The celebrated author. In this admirable
essay. clearly demonstrates from n thirty
years successful practice, that the alarming
consequences Of self-abuse may be radically
cured pointing out mode of cure at once
simple, certain, and efrectual. by means OF
which every sufferer, no matter what his cou-
dition may be, may cure himself cheaply,
privately and radically.
ca This Lecture should he in the hands
OF every youth and every man in the land.
Sent under seal, in PLAN envelope, to any
address. postpaid, on receipt of four cents or
two postage stamps. Address
THE CuLVERWELL MEDICAL CO,
IL Ann ST, New Work. n. W.: Post
Office Box, $50.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
AS q Vigilance Committee.
MINERS BIND TRAMP TO TREE AND
LEAVE HIM ALONE TO DIE.

A letter from Pottsville, Penn, says
For some time past the mining towns
in this region have been overridden by
tramps of professional character, who,
after being rendered the hospitality OF
the miners humble homes, plumber and
commit other depredations. Their Of
| lenses became unbearable, and it was
resolved by some of the miners that an
example should be made of the n XXI
tramp who put in an appearance. Last
Wednesday disreputable-looklng tramp
visited ghomaston, q mining patch,
eight miles from this city. He wan
dered about all day, and at nightfall he
was seized by party OF men who met
for that purpose. He was hurried into
the woods, where, after brief consulta-
ton, the self-styled DISCRIMINATING
committee wired him to q huge tree
and left him alone to die.
A party of hunters were passing
through the woods, and they were hor-
rifed to find the form of man securely
strapped and fastened to tree. They
approached the man, who proved to be
the luckless tramp. He was more dead
than alive, and in feeble voice tried to
relate the story of his cruel treatment,
and the suffering he had endured. 1t
took the hunters more than an hour to
free the tramp. who was bound from
hand to foot with strong coils OF wire,
which sank deep into his flesh. He
presented most pitiable sight, almost
starved, and so exhausted that he could
scarcely utter O word. After taking
some nourishment, and gaining suffi-
cient strength, he implored his deliver.
ers to protect him until he reached
place of safety, and in short time he
was out of sight, firmly resolved never
to visit the coal regions again.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
Potatoes in Their Jackets.

''Should potatoes be peeled before
cooking, or should they be boiled in
their jackets? 1 say most decidedly il
jackets" writes Professor Mattieu Viii.
liams, "and will state my reasons. From
fifty-three to fifty-six per cent. of the
saline constituents of the poteto is pot
ash, and potash is an important constitu-
ent of the blood-so important that in
Norway, where scurvy once prevailed
very seriously. it has been banished
since the introduction of the potato,
and. according to Lang and other good
authorities, it is owing to the use of this
vegetable by people who formerly
were insuficiently supplied with saline
vegetable food. Potash salts are freely
soluble in water, and find that the wa
ter in which potatoes have been boiled
contains potash, as may be proved by
boiling it down to concentrate, then fl
tering, and adding the usual potash
test, platinum chloride. 1t is evident
that the skin of the potato must resist
this passage of the potash into the wa
ter, though it may not fully prevent it.
The bursting of the skin occurs only at
quite the latter stage Of the cookery.
The greatest practical authorities on the
Observation-Disclosures to be unani
nous; [ do not remember to have seen
a propelled potato i'll Ireland. I find
/ can at once detect by the difference of
flavor whether potato has been boiled
with or without its jacket, and this diff.
ference is evidently saline"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
A Collapsed Millionaire.

A Colorado letter in the New York
WO'I6 says Senator Fl. A w. Tabor
has probably figured the most con-
spicuousiy as Il sIlycr King. HIS wealth.
Is believed by many, even here, to be
vast beyond computation. and when he
served ont his celebrated thirty DAYS
term in the United StBtes Senate the
newspapers were filled with stories
about his $500 night-shirts and big dia-
mond rings. His career has been. in
deed, marvellous. Seven years ago he
ran little grocery store III the gulcA.
He ''grub-staked" successful prOspect0rs
and his y.slth began rolling up. The
most i'm mt of his present property
consists of On interest in the Matchless
Mine at Leadville, the Tabor business
block in Denver, the Tabor Opera House
in the same place and the Tabor Opera
House here. The output of the Match
less has dropped eff 70 per cent, part
of 1t is in litigation and q suit is dragging
IN the courts for ore heretofore taken out
The opera. house and block at Denver
are covered with mortgages and the in
terest ON borrowed money is simply
enormous, eating up a large percentage
of his high rents. The opera house here
is small two-story brick building with
two store-rooms in front and saloon in
the rear. They probably pay an average
rent of $50 a month. AS to the opera
house portion, the entertainments in it
do not exceed one every two weeks.
The entire building is mortgaged aud it
can be readily seen that no very enOr-
nous interest can be derived from it. In
addition to what is mentioned, Mr..
Tabor owns one-haIf interest in the
Clarendon Hotel, large frame building
in this city. On this he recently bor-
rowed $4,000. OF course. he has q
large amount of mining property both i'll
this State aud New Mexico, but it is
nOnproductive, and so largely |
must hope enter into its valuation that |
it cannot be fixed upon a commercial
basis.
The most sanguine of Tabor's friends
say if he "cleaned up" what he has lie
would be worth $500, roo. Others say
he would be worse off than nothing. .
One thing is certain-be IS not a million
aire. Heis at present making the canvass
Of the State for Governor which will
reduce his pile considerably. A man
who had talk with him the other day
thought he saw EOme of the pathetic
of q general breakdown in
bis conversation, and those little in
tangible something's that hover round Il
man in his decline, however he will
conceal it, /
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
Watching the Children.

Each mother or teacher is an agent of
Divine Providence, says a clergyman.
Now, what is said of Moses holds
good of any child. Each child is
a great trust, and "she who guards
and preserves one soul saves q whole
world" Each mother and teacher, each
tender guardian OF child ought to act as
a messenger of Divine Providence, and
who knows what influence she may be
destined to WELD by the task assigned
her? Who can tell but she NAV be des-
tined to mould the soul of a genius who
is to flood humanity with new light of
Heaven, or to kindle fl 4me which is to
reveal to the world new SUBMITS of bliss
and rectitude? In order to perform their
duties parents and educators ought to
manifest two chief angelic qualities.
First-Patience in waiting and watching
the child's progress, and, second, kind
ness and sympathy in penetrating and
following up the nature of the child.
Few mothers know how to deal with
their children. The more love they feel
for them the less patience they show.
They want to mould and fashion them
as though they were piece of wax and
had not a soul, an image of God, with
an individuality of its own, which re-
quires to be studied and found out.
The chief fault in training lies in over
doing, in having rules and prescriptions
ready to shape character, life, purpose
and destiny of the child. Your cast
iron moulds harm and ruin all genuine
greatness.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
A FEMALE WHILST.
Goodness of the Girl who Attempted TO XIII
Captain kHtansky.

In the case of Captain Katansky, the
Russian officer who narrowly escaped
assassination at the hands of a woman,
there is no doubt or mystery about the
motives of the would-be murderess, and
there is no attempt at concealment on
her part. 1t was evidently case some
what similar to that of Vera Sassulitch.
The girl Mary Kaloojny is merchants
daughter, barely nineteen, but ap-
parently younger, and is a native of the
province of Kharkof. She is described
as being of middle stature, not very good
looking, with a narrow forehead, dull
gray eyes and with the appearance gen.
orally of belonging to an Eastern rather
than a Russian race. The CORE
spondent of the NoUoe Vrenaya main
tains that she is dark, looks like Tartar
and is extremely ugly, with narrow
black eyes. Her great misfortune, it
seems, was to be led into the Nihilist
csuse out of sympathy with or revenge
for a brother sentenced to penal servi-
tude in Siberia. For the last twelve
months or more she had suffered all the
torments of a political suspect, under
the strict supervision of the police. Her
brother, Stephen Kaloojny, a mipship-
man in the Black Sea feet. was tried by
the Odessa court martial in 1879 and de-
ported to Siberia. He was accused of
participating in the attempt to kill the
late Gear. On the Both of December,
1882, the sister, Mary Kaloojny, was
arrested in Odessa at the house of the
assassin of Colonel Soudaikin, the now
notorious Degaieff She was found
living with Degaief- rs his cook, with
the passport of peasant woman named
Zesenko, and in her apartments were
discovered a secret printing press and a
quantity of papers and ciphers. The
of Odessa sent her to st.
where she was imprisoned
in the fortress of st. Peter and ST. Paul
for ten months, after which she was re-
moved back to Odessa, and there set at
liberty last year under the supervision
of the police. Since that time she has
there earned miserable subsistence by
irving lessons
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
How Slang is Used in Boston.

'Dear, dear, where have you been,
girls 2 said a Boston mother to heI
daughters who returned late from an
entertainment.
I'VE have been carmining the munic-
ipality,"* giggled the eldest.
"And observing the pachyderm, II
laughed the second.
"And vociferating the female to an ex-
traordinary elevation, u chimed in the
third. VIZ
dear, dear, dear p exclaimed the
mother in expostulatory tones.
There's no harm done, mamma. "
ptouted the fourth; Everything is ami
able, and the fowl, whose cackling was
the salvation of Rome, is suspended at
an altitude hitherto unknown in our ex-
perience.
Explanatory chart-*Painting the
town red. tSeeing the elephant,
tWhooping her up SEverytbing is
lovely and the goose hangs high.-.SoDa-
erVitLe Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
THE FALL FASHIONS.
Combination Dresses for the Ladies.

Combination dresses for autumn and
winter, says Harper's Bdzar, are being
made Of three different materials, two of
and this third fabric is usually of a
different color from the others. OF the
two wooden stuffs one may be smooth
cloth, or plain twilled vigogne or serge
of a solid color, while the other is rough
surfaced, and may be figured or frise,
and may combine the colors of both
the serge and velvet used. This gives
a tasteful ensemble when the third color
is chosen of harmonious tint and not
in striking contrast. Red plays a con-
spicuous part in such combinations, and
is seen both in vivid and in dull hues,
in dresses that are in the main blue,
green, gray, or brown, the red being
chosen for the velvet accessories which
really give character to the dress, and
will make the most difficult and trying
of the new colors becoming to almost
any complexion. Brunettes of clear
complexion can wear the dull Venetian
red shades or the bright coquelicot,
while for the delicate tints of the blonde
these shades are made changeable with
blue in the sweet-pea colors now IN
vogue, or else the red velvet or cloth is
merely a background for many close
rows of blue soutache, or of the braids in
which bronze, dull gilt, or silver appear.
The vest, high collar, cuffs, and either
borders or panels remain the parts of
the dress where velvet is most effect
lively used. In combining three such
fabrics-plain and figured wool with
velvet-a tasteful French plan has the
skirt of frise cloth in a melange of colors
(red, olive, brown, and orange) with the
basque and drapery of diagonal serge OF
a plain maroon shade, while the bias
folds around the skirt and on the basque
are of darker maroon velvet. Some
times the velvet is figured, and in such
cases plain velvet may take the place OF
the figured wool, or else there will be used
a new fabric that has wool ground
with velvet figures; this is very effective
in st ripes, as, for instance, reseda, or
nankeen, or Egyptian brown cloth has
narrow half-inch stripes of velvet show
ing several bright colors, and this velvet
may be frise, or uncut, or with short
pile, or else with long pile like that of
plush. Large moons, slender crescents,
bars, and blocks of velvet are seen on
cloths in the same coloring as the stripes.
In other fancy figured woods and velvets
gilt, bronze, or silver threads are largely
used either for border on the over-sknt
or the pleated skirt, and in some in
stances the entire basque is made of the
figured fabric
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
A Mothers Hope and Anguish.

Did you ever see q baby die in its
mothers arms? The little lips ivid
with the sluggish blood; the little nose
pinched and white; the dimples on its
cheeks and chin drawn into long, hard
lines, all tell the father it is dying, and
he puts it in its mothers arms, and
dashing tear from his eye, saws:
Mother, 1T is not for long. The death
dew is on its brow and we must give it
up" But she cannot give it up. She
says it must live, and she presses it to
her warm bosom and prays in silence
once again, and breathes upon its pur-
pie fingers, and rocks it to and fro, and
chafes its feet and sings, so low you
scarce can hear it, some sweet lullaby,
hoping against hope to WOO it back to
health and strength. Alas I! She can
not stay the hand Of death. It's breath
comes short and difficult, then ceases
and the father says, "'Tis dead" but
she, stunned and hoping yet, raises it in
her arms. 1t gasps, and she cries that
it will live; but no, that faint gasp was
the final Struggle, and though she again
raises it, it breathes no more Mothers
baby is dead,-R J. BURDETTE
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
Advantages of Rank Growth.

With rank growth we usually expect
bountiful harvest. Also, it helps very
much to suppress weeds. Another adj
vantage Is, rank growth seldom suffers
from drouth, severe and protracted
enough to nearly ruin lighter crops
which did not shade the ground. Again,
rank growth has power to resist depre-
datlons of insects. Colonel Curtis lately
noted That ''the rankest growing pota-
toes received very little injury from the
bugs" / was impressed by the same
fact this season daily seeing a neigh
boris crop on rich land, planted thick in
drills, and then growing so rank as to
completely cover the ground while
standing, or before they lodged down.
There came apparently about as MANY
bugs to these potatoes as we would
have found on the field even with one
fourth the amount of growing tops.
Nothing was done to kill the bugs, and
yet one could scarcely see any damage
they were doing, and now, as the crop
is just matured, it does not look to be
any the worse for the bugs.
A leading horticulturist in town ma
nures his plum orchard heavily, and tills
thoroughly to obtain as rank and strong
a growth as possible, and this, he says,
will cause such an over-abundance of
fruit to terminate that what the curculio
will destroy OF it only thins out the
crop to about what is proper for the
trees 20 bring to maturity, and following
this plan of forcing a rank growth, he
every year gets large yield of smooth
and perfect fruit from these trees.
Partly TO secure shading of the soil the
farmer uses double quantity of seed TO
the acre, for his sowed spring crops, so
that nearly all the growth at the first
start of his oats, barley and the like.
shall be of the grain desired, in order
that it shall preoccupy the land instead
of its starting half grain and half
weeds, as would be the case by only
using one-half the amount of seed.
Were it not for the desire in the above
case to thus occupy the ground at once,
less than half the seed would suffice, as
that is all that finally survives to make
the crop. Rankness in any crop is
known to be so favorable for subduing |
foul growth, that farmers will often SOW
such fields to rank growing crops, such |
as buckwheat or sowed-corn, for the |
purpose of cleaning them of the foul |
weeds or grasses they might be infested |
with, and as rankness tends TO mulchiDg
and shading the soil, and as this in its
turn helps to add to its fertility, it is
worthy of note that no very rank crop
seems to exhaust the soil it grows on,
but that any field after growing such
crop will give better promise for another
good crop to follow it than a field would
from which only light or medium crop
had been taken.-HEERY IVES.