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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Sweet is the breath of praise when
given by those whose own high merit
claims the praise they give.
TO be mans tender mate was woman
born, and in obeying nature she best
serves the purposes of Heaven
Every day is little life, and our
whole life is but day repeated.
Therefore, live every day as if it would
be the last
A smile may be bright while the
heart is sad. The rainbow is beautiful
in the air while beneath is the moan
ing of the sea.
1t is certain, that either wise bearing
or ignorant carriage is caught, as men
take diseases one of another; therefore,
let them take heed Of their company
A brave man think no one his supe-
rior who does him an injury; for he
has it then in his power to make him.
self superior to the other by forgiving
it.
There are few things in life more
interesting than an unrestricted inter
change of ideas with congenial
spirit, and there are few things more
rare.
1t is love, it is faith, it is hope, that
men hunger and thirst for; and, get
ting that divine wine, the shape of
the cup that holds it is Of small
accOunt
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16

Where there is surplus moisture to
dispose of, as, for example, a cesspool
to keep dry, large eucalyptus will ac-
complish not a little, and a group of
them will dispose of vast amount CT
house sewage. But if you have
water which you do not wish to eX-
haust, as in a good well, it would be
wise to put the eucalyptus very far
away. Daniel Sweet, of Bay Island
farm, Alameda county, recently found
a curious root formation of the eucal-
yptus in the bottom Of his well, about
sixteen feet below the surface. The
trees to which the roots belonged stand
fifty feet from the well. Two shoots
pierced through the brick wall of the
well, and, sending off millions of fibers,
formed a dense mat that completely
covered the bottom of the we'll Most
of these tibers are no larger than
threads, and are 50 woven and inter-
twisted as to form mat as impenetra-
bic and strong as though regularly
woven in loom. The mat when first
taken out of the well was water-soak-
ed and covered with mud, and nearly
all a man could lift, but when dry it
was nearly as soft to touch as wool,
and weighed only few ounces. This
is good illustration of how the eucal-
yptus absorbs moisture, its roots going
so far as to find water, pushing them
selves through brick wall, and then
developing enormously after the water
is reached. Mr.. Sweet thinks one of
the causes of the drying up of wells is
the Unsuitable thirst of these vegetable
monsters.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16
a HAPPY FAMILY.
BY MRS. ". J.. RAYNF.

1t was Sunday. Mr.. Skinner was
tired, and thought he would lie down.
on the sofa in the back parlor and rest.
People never learn by experience, and
he was no exception to the common
rule.
lie lay down and crossed his feet
with a parade hardly justihable under
the circumstances. His wife came in
and saw him.
"Why, Lot Skinner" she exclaimed.
"lf | ever heard of the like Lying
down on that new sofa with your boots
on, and oh, my goodness ! your head on
that lace tidy | had done up only last
week. You are the most inconsiderate
man | ever saw in my life ."
Mr.. Skinner got up and his wife
smoothed out the tidy and rearranged
1t.
"The idea of anybody putting a head
on that tidy" said Mrs. Skinner, who
had no intention of using slang. Il
did suppose you had more sense"
81 used to have" said Mr.. Skinner
good-naturedly. "Ya-a-h. / could take
u nap if | could find place to drop
down. Ya.a-h."
you had better read your Bible"
said Mrs. Skinner. She was good,
uncomfortable woman, so clean and
neat and orderly that she made her
family wretched with her domestic
drill.
Something called Mrs. Skinner off
then, and when she came back Mr..
Skinner was gone, She sat down and
took a book, when thought struck
her, and she bounded from her chair as
If it had been cannon ball.
Yes, it was just as she feared her
husband had gone up stairs, and she
found him stretched out on the bed, on
top of a white counterpane, his grizzly
gray head sunk deep into white,
starched pillow-sham, with these words
embroidered in the center:
"Sleep sweet, beloved"
lie was not only asleep, but snoring,
with look ofsweet content on his wide
open mouth.
"L-o-t Skinner!
lie got up in manner that would
have done credit to gymnast, and
stood staring at the fearful hollow in
the bed and the wrinkled dent in the
pillow-sham.
8" declare forgot" he said, looking
very foolish. Alice, haven't I got a
place where can lay my head?"
Don't talk nonsense" said his wife
sharply. The idea of sober man 60
ing to bed with his boots on"
"Nould you rather I'd get"
"l'd rather you'd get some common
sense" she said, "If you must sleep
Ia the daytime, why there's en oil
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16
How lie Proved 1t.

A convict at a French penal settle
ment, who was undergoing life sem
tence desired to marry a female con-
vict, such marriages being common
occurrence. The governor of the col
ony had no objection, hut the priest
proceeded to cross examine the prisoner:
Ibid Won marry in FraDce?" asked
the clergyman.
"Yes.'
"And your wife is dead?
"She is.
"IIave yon any document to show
that she is dead?"
mo"
Then must refuse to marry you.
You must bring some proof of the
death of your wife"
There was pause, during which the
prospective bride looked at the anxious
would-be-groom. Finally he said;
al can prove that my former wife is
dead
"IIow will you prove it?'
a was sent here for having killed 4,
he''" ..... g. g.:
San Francisco will put up buildings.
nnStjno 81 O00 600 IN Golden Gate Park
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16
The Economical Dinner Party.

A willy Crocodile,
Who dwelt upon tho Nile,
Bethought himself one day to give dinner
Economy" said he,
as chief of all with me,
And shal! considered bc-as Pm sinner"
With paper, pen, and ink,
Hc sat him down to think,
And first of all, Sir Lion he invite
The northern Wolf, who dwells
In rocky Arctic dels;
The Leopard and the Lynx, by blood united
Then Mr.. Fox, the shrewd--.
No lover he OF good
And Madam Duck, with sober step and stately
And Mr.. Frog, serene
In galb of bottle green,
Who warbled bass, and bore himself sedately
Sir Crocodile, content
The Invitations sent
The day was come his guests were all as
sembled;
They iancied that some guile
Lurked In his ample smile;
Each on the other looked, and somewhat
trembled.
A lengthy time they wait;
Their hunger wakes great,
And still the host in conversation dallies;
At last, the tables laid
With covered dishes spread,
And out in haste, the hungry party sallles
But when--the covers raised
On empty plates they gael,
Each on the other looked with dire intention
NIram Duck sat last OF all,
And Mr.. Frog was small,
She softly swallowed him, and made no men
ton,
This Mr.. Fox perceivcs,
And saying: "By your leaves
Some punishment is due for this transgres
He gobbled her in hlstc;
linen much 10 MS dlsaSe
BY Mr. Lynx was taken in possessio
The Wolf, without q pause
In spite If teeth and claws
Lett nothing the Lynx TO tell the story;
The Leopard, all irate
AT his relations fate,
Made mincemeat Of that wolfsh monster
hoNry.
Tho Lion raised his head
"Snce l am KING" he said,
'It i'll BELTS the King to lack his dinne"!"
Then on the Leopard sprang
With might ofclaw and fam,
And made Il meal upon that spotted sinner.
Then saw in sudden fear
Sir Crocodile draw near,
And heard him speak with feelings CT distrac
tion, q
"Snce all OF you have dinel,
We'll suited to your mind
You surely cannot grudsc me satisfaction"
And sooth, deal of guile
I.urlSed in his ample smile,
And down his throat the roaring Lion has.ed
"Ec 2nomy, with me,
Is chief OF ALL said he,
"And am glad to see there's nothing wasted.
E. 7. Blake.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16

Skinner was at heart q woman Of sense,
and when she realized that one hair of
that grizzly-gray head was worth more
than all the pillow shams in the world
to her, she put the last one away in the
company of demented assortment of
superlluous tides. And they are re-
ally and truly, and not in any zoologi-
cal sense, "happy family now.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16

An exchange contains an editorial
entitled modify tho age" but it
would entail too much labor. Ninety
nine out of every hundred women who
have passed their 25th birthday would
want their age modified so they might
tell their friends they were only Is
years old without lying about 1t, The
schome Is not practicable,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16

San Francisco will put up buildings.
costing $l,000,000in Golden Gate Park
foE hey worlds faN In 1857,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16
A Typical Mexican City.

A correspondent writes that Chihua-
hua is fine and typical Mexican city
of 10000 inhabitants, of which number
perhaps 2000 are Of foreign birth
Germans, Americans and some Chinese.
was told that there was probably not
half dozen stoves in use by the entire
Mexican population, nearly all of their
cooking being done over an earthen
vessel in which few sticks or bits of
charcoal are placed, or more rarely in
an open fireplace. Coal has not been
found in Northern Mexico, and all of
the wood is in the form of faggots of
pinon or liveoak, brought from the
mountains on the backs of burros,
each load of which about three or
four armfuls) costs 60 cents, and must
pay municipal duty on entering the
city. Even at the leading hotel, only
the kitchen and Gne other room Occur
pied by the family of the proprietor
has stove or any provision for fire.
In the office the only heat was derived
from a small earthen vessel set in the
corner, in which some charcoal was
burning Glass windows are also a
luxury in the city, and in all Mexico.
A few of the stores and better dwell
ings have recently placed glass win
dows in the street-fronts, but by far
the greater portion are closed with
heavy wooden shutters behind grated
iron bars, and when light is required
either the entire shutter is opened or Il
smaller one set into the larger. As in
the city all houses are built on the
street line, and are rarely over one
story in hight, person walking along
the narrow sidewalks can easily look
in through these openings and observe
the domestic economy of the occupants.
The houses all have one main entrance,
with large double doors leading
through a passage to the plazita, or
inner court, and through this access is
had to all the apartments. These
plazitas are universally open to the
sky, and nearly all of them are filled
with flowers and trees, such as the fig,
pomegranate, orange, ETC., which, be-
ing sheltered from the windows, grow
luxuriantly. Few of the rooms, ex-
cept those fronting the street, have
any windows, all light coming in
through the open door, which fact l
mournfully comprehend, as I am now
occupying such room, and am COM
PEELED, for light, to sit with my doors
wide open, and my chilled fingers can
with difficulty guide my pen.
Fortunately these spasms of cold
are rare and of brief duration Ex-
Gov. George T. Anthony, of Kansas,
tells me that two weeks ago he could
have given me luscious Strawberries
and cream, the fruit picked from his
own vines in the open air, and even
now his garden is bright with roses
and fragrant flowers. He says that
many of the small fruits bear two
crops year, the first blossoming in the
early spring and again in the late fall.
Roses are almost perennial, and we
picked flowers to-day by the roadside
even while the snowAakcs were falling
upOn them,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16
VI. H. JOHNSON.

General Repair shop. Watches, Clocks
Jewelry, Sewing Machines, 90. in fact, all
kinds Of light repairing and light jobblug
done promptly and in a good and workman
like manner. ! also sell the light running
sCro,vn Household and american N
SEWING MA CHIMES,
At prices from 25 to 40 per cent. less than
any othor concern in this section OF the c0un.
ry, Remember the plaoe-Center street.
opposite Bakery
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-16
Rutland Business Cards.
BERWICK HOTEL.

Q r RICHARDSON, Prop'r,
RUTLAND VERMONT
Heated Throughout by Seam.
Good Sample Rooms, Billiard Room aud
Livery Stable connected with the Hotel.
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And all points in the Great West.

Elegant Day Coaches, Parlor Cars, with Re.
clining Chairs (scats trCcl, kmg Cars with
Revolving Chairs, Pullman Palace sleeping
Cars and the famous e. Il. q @. Dining Carr
run daily tOGnd from Chicago and kansas CITY
Chicago and Council Bluffs Chicago and Dcs
Moincs, Chicago II. Joseph, At hison ana
Topeka without change. only through line
running their own trains between Chicago
Lincoln and Denver and Chicago, Kansas
city and Denver. Through cars between
indianapolis and Council Elutl~, via Peoria.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11
THE WAGES OF SIN.


A Degraded White Woman and Hcr Col
ored Husband Murdered by a Burly Negro
Ruffian In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Oct. minnie Brooks, low
white woman, and her colored husband,
Giles Hunt keepers of low dive near the
corner of Polk and Dearborn streets, were
stabbed Saturday evening by Joe Will
iams colored visitor at tho
house. Hunt died twenty-four hours
later from the effects of his
wounds and the woman breathed her last
yesterday morning. Williams Is I'M
der arrest He claims that the stabbing was
done in self-dcfense, as Mrs. Brooks had
drawn revolver on him before he attacked
her The quarrel resulted from an at
tempt to eject Williams, who, after stab
bling the mistress of the house, attacked
the husband iiercely, and when found
by the police some hours later was still in a
murderous mood. Minnie Brooks gained
notoriety two years ago by suddenly re-
forming and setting up a refuge for fallen
women, which she called the " Rehoboth
Home" For year she was consistent in
her change of life, then, pinched by power
ty, she suddenly married her former col
ored paramount Hunt and resumed her old
ways.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11

WAUsAU, Wis, Oct. 9.-The present
year has been the most unfortunate for
lumbermen during the last decade Low
water in the spring left many logs in the
woods, but of late there has been no com
plant for want OF water. Since September
over fourteen inches of water on the level
has fallen. The result has been that the
Wisconsin River has been at flood Logs
have been swept into the woods booms car
red away, lumber submerged, and bust
ness interrupted. During the last two
weeks it has rained nearly every day. Lum-
Der could not dry out nor shipments be
made. All the mills in this city are idle,
the high water preventing the asserting Of
logs. The boom company has probably
been the heaviest loser A string of boom
sticks nearly seven miles long has been dis
placed and carried away, and the boom
sticks are damned among the logs in hope
less confusion The loss along this river,
counting loss of time with injury to prop
erty, is over S25O,Oo and the end is not
vet
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CATTLE FOR EXPERIMENT.
Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, Decides to
Have Practical Course Of lnvestigS-
ton Established.


SPRINGFIELD, H., Oct San important
consultation occurred yesterday between
Governor Hamilton and DR.. Paaren, State
Veterinarian, on the status of pleuro- pneu-
monia In tie State. The proposition of the
Chicago Livestock Exchange to fur
nlSh healthy cattle to be exposed to in
fected herds, for the purpose of making
investigations, was discussed, and
the Governor thinks the State should
avail itself of a knowledge which can be
thus Obtained. Ii was determined to strict
~ enforce the present existing quarantine,
and also to take advantage of the above
proposition. 1t is proposed 10 take, say ten
cattle, only two of which are to
be of the same breed, and when
the State Veterinarian finds an in
fcctcd herd he is to notify the Live
stock Exchange Committee to produce
the animals for the test The conditions
are then to be drawn, the time of exposure
to be not less than six or eight weeks, at
the expiration of which time the cattle are
TO be killed in the presence of skilled ex-
pertS and the carcaSSeS carefully examined.
After that they will be buried in the ground
where they have been confined. The Gov
ernOr is anxious that the test shall be made,
but insists that the State shall not pay any
expenses further than for the services OF the
State Veterinarian.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11

WAsHINGToN, Oct. S.-Mr, John II. Nc
Lean, editor and proprietor of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer and Miss Emily T. Beale,
daughter Of General Edward f. Beae, were
married yestcrdaymorninga at the residence of
the brides father, in Lafayette place. The
ceremony was performed at nine
o'clock, Rev Dr. Leonard officiating No
cards were issued and no guests We're pres
ent, the ceremony being witnessed by none
but the immediate families of the bride and
groom. The bride wore travelling dress,
and Immediately after the ceremony Mr.
and Mrs. Mclean left for Philadelphia,
whence they will 90 to the groom's home in
Cincinnati, which will be their residence
hpnccfOTth
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11

aCANroN, Ohio, Oct, Mr., Blaine said
today in reply to an inquiring newspaper
reporter that the assertion of Warren
Fisher that he (haine) had offered sum
of money for the "Mulligan letters was
utterly untrue. twas mere malicious
invention. Mr.. Blaine added that there
was never a time when he would have paid
"A single penny for the letters, though he
always maintained that it was a gross inya-
sion of his private rights that the letters
should be hawked about and published.
But both Mulligan and Fisher, over
their own signatures, state explicitly and
pointedly that Blaine did offer Mulligan
$4,000 for those letters and to pay their
expenses for summer trip to Europe be
sides, Now as this raises square ques-
ton of veracity between Mulligan and
Blaine, and as twenty leading business
men of Boston, and Mr.. Blaine himself be-
fore the congressional committee at Wash
ington, swore that Mulligan's character for
truth and veracity was unimpeachable, and
as Blaine has been caught in cases without
number in uttering the most shameful lies,
which Is to be believed, the "unimpeacha-
BILE" Mulligan, or Blaine the champion liar
Of the age?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. "a secret
conference of paper manufacturers was held
here yesterday. After hearing reports of
the short supply of rags all over the country,
owing to the Government embargo on i'm
ported rags from the East, it was deter
mined to call meeting to be held in Clcyc-
land on October IA. A determined effort
will be made to force the price up an aver
age of two cents pound. The supply of
rags in port and the water will only keep
the mills going until December 1.
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BENEATH A BURNING MINE.
Two workmen Killed and Many Impris-
oned by Flames LOO feet Under
ground.


MARQUETTE, Mich, Oct. AT three
o'clock yesterday afternoon the fire at the
Calumet & Hecla mine was still burning,
although somewhat under control, as the
men on the surface had succeeded in bat
tering the shafts and wines in which the
flames are raging. At this hour also fifteen
men were taken out alive through the main
shaft, but all efforts to reach the remaining
fifty men had SO far been of no avail.
The fire started eleven hundred feet
below the surface, and is supposed to
have been started by an explosion of pow
der There are no dangerous gases in this
mine and no fire could be fed by them ac-
cordng to the statement of copper miners.
Thomas Gribble and John Rapson are the
dead men, identified. Gribble has family
living here. All work is suspended at the
mine for the first time in its history. The
exact loss can not at this time be estimated,
but will be very heavy, as some of the main
supports are destroyed.
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Illinois Masons,

CHICAGO, Oct. 9.-The Grand Lodge OF
A. +. and A. NJ. of Illinois, in session yester-
day at Farwel Hall, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: John 4
Thomas, of Metropolis, Grand Master; A.
T. Darrah, of Bloomington, Deputy Grand
Master; John c. Smith, Springfield, Senior
Grand Warden; John NJ. Person, Godfrey
Junior Grand Warden; Wiley NJ. Egan
Chicago. Grand Treasurer, and l.. l.. Mum
Freeport, Grand Secretary.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11

Persons whose lungs are impaired or have
throat diseases should not 90 TO the seashore,
a the air Is always poisonous to such trou.
5les. Use DR.. Bigelows Positive Cure; II
cures coughs, colds, Group, bronchitis, asth.
ma, Influenza, and all throat and lung dis.
eases. Montgomery & Co., druggists, De
corah, Iowa, say: 1--WE are having run OF
Positive Cure. 1t gives universal satisfac
ton" Price 80 cents and one dollar. E. Y
Griggs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11

New YORK Oct AT the annual meet
ing of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany yesterday President NoUin Green's
report for the year ended June 80 last
showed the capital stock TO be $50, 900 COO
bonded debt, S7,214.0OO; surplus July /,
1888. S3,65s, 900; revenues for the year end
ed June 80, 1881, Sl9,632 600; expenses,
Sl3,O22 600; profits S6,6l0,OOO; surplus
June 30. 1884. 81, l57,OOO.
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Three Thousand Men Lock Out.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, oct. S.-The lockout
in Oliver Brothers e Phillips rolling mills
began yesterday morning, and 3, 900 more men
are added to the already large number out of
in this city. The men posi-
lively refused to accept twelve and half
per cent reduction, and the firm gave no
orders to light the fires, so that instead of .
strike it is lockout
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11

NEW YORK. Oct. 9-Canadian Pacific
officials and the japanese Steamship Com
pany are negotiating for line Of steamers
between China, Japan and British Column
bia. and if established freight for London
and Liverpool will be carried over the Cana
dian Pacific Road.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11

c. NJ. Forbes, the druggist, is always look
ing after the interest of his customers, he has
now secured the sale of DR.. Bosanko's cough
and lung syrup, remedy that never fails to
cure coughs, colds, pains in the chest and
lung affections. For proof try free sample
bottle. Regular size 30 cents and 81 90.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11

CHICAGO, Oct a.--Tickets from Chicas-
70 New York sell at Si4 net, to st Louis
for 81, and To kansa, City for $3.50.
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Valuable Property for Sale.

desire TO sell immediately the following property,
situate in the city of ottawa
No l. \ Twostory Brick Building 25XdO IT., with a
l-stOry iron clad 20N5O in the rear The buildings
This property is on Clinton street, one block di.
rectly west of court house; and bargain.
No 2 My Residence. situated on Illinois Avenue
the best residence street in Ottawa. The ground con
tains about Of an acre. House has 10 rooms closets
bath and cellar artcsa, well and clstern water:
good barn. coal and wood houses abundance of shade
and fruit trees all in rstca,s order Parties Conten-
plating buying building will ind to their advantage
TO look at this property. Time will be given part If
desired Inquire at my residence Or of Or j O. Harris
mari GEORGE JEK YLL.