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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
A Curious Sect.

Chicago people have almost forgot
ten the commotion caused some year
ago by an evangelist of the Mood.
type who suddenly abandoned the or
thodox theories of a heaven of golt
and sapphire and began to preacf
Christs' reign upon earth. This man
Mr.. II. G. Spafford. who lived at Lak'
View and who had been lawyer o
some standing, gathered about him
congregation of tourists amounting
to 40 or 50, who subscribed to hi
strange belief. In accordance witt
their theory, Christ was to appear foI
his final residence upon Mount Calva
ry, and in order to be there on hand a
the time of His second coming Mr.
Spafford and his little band converted
all their spare money into cash an,
sailed for the promised land. A trav
eler who recently visited Jerusalem iT
the interests of one of the missionar.
societies of the East states that sht
visited the house in which the Lake
View community lived, and that sh'
found them in good health and spirits
still firm in belief, and waiting will
hope and resignation for the judg'
ment day. This young woman, sent
out from Boston, returned to that city
few weeks ago, and has written let
ters to friends in Chicago describing
the way in which she was received,
having been sick for several weeks al
the house in which these people lived
Their dwelling is described as large
and commodious-a neatly but not
elegantly furnished housc--and fitted
out with all the conyeniences which
the best civilization of the country
can furnish. She says that about ~
persons are living under the same roof,
and that all property is held in common.
The house itself is perchel upon the
side of the mountain just within the
walls of the Holy City and presents a
most striking'y picturesque appear
ance. Mr., Spafford, the leader of the
community, s nearly 6Oyears of age,
but is still hale, hearty and happy.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
WHOLE NO. 2lS9.

made Of, nor can drop of it be found
anywhere to analyze. The money
made in patent medicines and "proprt
etary articles is so enormous that
one is hardly surprised that there arr
so many people in the business. ! heard
it estimated the other day that nearly
$2O0,0O0,000 year was made in these
things. When an article is once a sue
cess the profit is enormous, because
the cost of manufacture is very little
Some of these patent medicines are
made popular by enormous advertising
know of one firm that spends all ol
$1,O00,00O a year advertising a cure-all
A friend of mine met a woman whom
she had known a good many years ago
when she was very poor, and was sur
prised to see her glistening in dia
monds and rustling in silks. Sht
thought that she noticed an expression
of curiosity in my friends face, and she
at once unburdened herself and told
her Just how she had come by hel
money. She said that her husband
when she married him, was a pool
country doctor; that there were good
many other doctors in the same town
and that his practice was not su1icien'
to pay for food and clothing. So rht
said to him one day: "Why not get W
some patent medicine, and see Nha'
you can do with it," He thought thu
idea good one, although against thu
code of medical ethics, and he set t
work and invented some article that
struck the popular fancy. "Now,
said the woman, "we are making 81
much money that we don't know wha
to do with it. We have no children
and we just spend our time in tryin!
to think how we can get rid Of tn
money that keeps coming in every day
We travel all over Europe. and we bu,
the finest diamonds and preciou
stones and live in the most costly man
ner, but we cannot get ahead of our in
come"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
How Kitty saved Caroline.

II was great many years ago,
about eighty, when Caroline who is
now an old lady, was a little girl of
three summers Her father and
mother lived in new country, where
there were bears and wolves ard pan
theirs in the great woods around their
home.
Carrie and Kitty were great friends.
They were always together,
One day Caroline was missing, and
Kitty, too. Her anxious ma searched
the long house above and below, but
could not find her. Then she went
down to the river which ran in front
of their home. What if she had gone
there and fallen in, But her mother
could not believe this, for Caroline had
always been afraid of it. She must
have gone to the woods, and haste
must be made to find her. as it would
soon be night. With an anxious
heart she hurried to the field where
the men were haying and told them
that little Caroline was lost. They
threw down their rakes and scythes,
and went at once in search of her.
All along the edge of the woods and
among the bushes they looked care
fully. But they did not find her, Then
they called and called, but got nc
answer.
isn't that the cat?" cried the
mother, almost joyfully, pointing to
something white on a black stump
down in the fallOw.
al think SO" said the'father.
"Then Caroline is not far off, I'm
sure:" and Mrs Rae hurried to the
place.
There she found the old kitty very
carefully watching something just the
other side of the stump.
"It must be mouse or Bird
she said to herself. Then she ca!lel
"Carolinel' and looked about her n
vain. With Il heavy heart she was
turning to go away, when she thought
she would go nearer the stump and
ste what Kitty was watching so in-
intently. And what doyou think she
found?
Her owa little Caroline fast asleep
on the ground. The little checked
sun-bonnet was by her side, full of
berries and flowers her little hands
had picked.
Wasn't it a sweet picture? And
don't you believe they all loved kitty
very much after this?
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01

The Chinese farmhouse is a curious
looking abode. Usually it is sheltered
with groves of feathery bamboo and
thick spreading banyaus The walls
are of clay and wood, and the interior
of the house consists of one main
room extending from the floor to the
roof, with the closet looking apart,
ments in the corner for sleeping rooms
There is sliding window on the roof
made out of oyster shells arranged in
rows, while the side windows are mere
wooden shutters. The floor is the bare
earth, where at nightfall there often
gathers together miscellaneous family
of dirty children, fowls, ducks, pigeons
and litter of pigs, all living together
in happy harmony. In some districts
infested by marauding bands houses are
strongly fortified with high walls, con-
tanning apertures for firearms and pro.
tected by mote crossed by rude
drawbridge. With grain, swine and a
well under his roof the farmer and his
men might hold out against years
siege.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
Effect OF Great Wealth.

A New York correspondent dis
courses as follows: Charles F. Wall
of Brooklyn recently inherited S5O,OOo
and was so elated by his good fortune
that he became insane, and is now
locked up in an asylum. The sudden
possession of money seems to have
strange effect on some mems minds.
A dealer in druggists sundries was
telling me, the other day, of man who
invented a certain lotion that attained
great popularity, and money came i'll
so fast that he did not know what to
do with it. He spent it as fast as he
could, but it still kept increasing as
the popularity of his article increased
Then he took to drink and to |, aiding a
very fast life, and finally his mind le-
came effected by his excesses. and he
lost his reason, and was locked up in a
madhouse, where he died, and, what is
more, the receipt of his lotion died with
him. No one knows what 1t Was
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
Drink MS Hogs.

Mr.. w. Mattieu Williams once wit
messed display of drunkenness among
800 pigs, which had been given a bar
rel of spoiled elderberry wine all at
once with their swill. "Their beha-
vior," he says, "was intensely human
exhibiting all the usual manifesto
tions of jolly good fellowship, includ-
ing that advanced stage where group
were rolling over each other aud grunt-
ing affectionately in tones that were
very distinctly impressive of swearing
good-fellowship all around. Iheli
reeling and staggering, and the express
sion of their features, all indicated
that alcohol had the same effect on
pigs as on men; that under its iniiu
ence both stood precisely on the same
geological level." ."-Phtladelphta Rec
ord
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
IV.--NO3 WOODSTOCK w. WEDNESDA4' OClObhn l004

retaining the hand that Beryl woulo
fain have drawn away. This young
lady has promised to be my wife, and
when you go to Leicester she will ac-
company me to my manor house in
Kent"
"I hope you won't be vexed, Aunt
Wilhelmina," said Beryl, half expect
ing to be scolded, as Of yore.
The fortitude of woman is proven
bal, and although the report OF can
non could not have electrified Miss
Wilhelmina Bruce any more than did
this occurrence, she rallied promptly.
I-Pm sure l congratulate your!
said she with little gasp.
The house was let that afternoon to
a widow who wanted to take fcw
gepteel hoarders,
Beryl was married the next week,
and went to a superb old mansion
which seemed like a palace to her un-
sophisticated eyes.
And Aunt Wilhelmina sorrowfully
took her way to Leicester.
I'm afraid I've mismanaged mat
ters." said she. 'If I'd sent Beryl tc
Cousin Fred's at once. perhaps Mt
Wedderburn would have proposed tt
mep'
And even this dubious perhaps
was comfort to poor Aunt Wilhelml
na who still has a Heart to Let
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
Men and the BABY.

Neptune lives next door to our house.
| mean DR.. Lanes dog. He is half st.
Bernard, and is s years old. Some one
gave him to the doctor a few months
ago, and he soon made himself at
home. The butcher comes three times
week with meat, and Nep found out
about this in very few days. When
meat day comes he trots down to the
corner of the road and waits for the
butcher Other days he stays at home.
lie is very fond of the doctors baby,
who is 2 years old. He takes care of
him almost as well as nurse. One
day Mrs. Lane was roasting oysters in
the kitchen, the baby was playing
about the floor, and Nep was looking
on. Just for sport Mrs. Lane snapped
the tongs at the baby. Nep sprung up
at once, with deep growl, and showed
all his teeth to Mrs. Lane. He seemed
to say: "You shall not hurt this baby
if he is yours" The baby's mamma
feels sure that her pet is safe when he
is in Nep's care.
But the strangest thing is, that Nep
is fond of picture-books. He will
stand up, with his fore feet upon the
table, and paw open the leaves of
Mother Goose or some other little book.
When he finds the picture of dog he
will wag his tail and say "Bow-wow"
Sometimes he pulls the book upon the
floor. Then he lies down and turns
over the leaves, and he and the baby
look at the pictures together. 1t would
make YOU laugh to see them,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01

A Chinese nut or fruit called Ii
Che is becoming popular 1t is the
size of a walnut, and has a skin about
as thick as writing paper, Within is
a fine rasin in flavor and consistency,
and in which contains in turn a small
oval seed. Li-Che costs three cents
per pound in Hong Kong, twenty
cents in San Francisco, and forty cents
in New York.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
The Utility of Grumbling.

Grumble, grumble, grumble on
Old hNbits you easily can't lay by,
Nevertheless, old Farmer John,
read the truth in your bright brown eye;
Weather and markets have all gone wrong,
Year upon year you heaped complaint,
Your past produced but doleiul song,
Your faith in the future, alas! is faint.
0 Farmer john you're truthful type
the land you live in and love so much;
Your smile cnnnot make the crops grow ripe
Or send up the markets to such and such
o serious, serious Farmer John!
lis that old, deep ioelins of discomfort
That through plenty and famine has moved III
Oh
For grumhlinS brings good government.
Horace Lennard in London Society.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
The Dancing Mania.

~
contains the following account
of O strange mania which spread
through Europe in 1874; A large as
semblage of persons, pilgrims apparent
" from different parts of Germany,
made thsir appearance in the neigh
borhood Of AK la Chapelle, and there
commenced their extraordinary per-
formances. Joining handin hand they
formed large circles, and began simul-
taneously to dance, losing more ana
more the control of reason as they
went on, until their enthusiasm
merged in delirium, and they fell to the
ground completely exhausted. They
then complained Of acute tympanltes
which could only be relieved by tight
bandages round the chest. After the
application of these they remained flee
from pain or irritation, unless they
provoked a return of the malady by
again engaging in the dance. Thosf
who for any season failed to find per
sons able or willing to swathe them In
the manner above described, found
some mitigation of their pains by tht
ruger process of having the part:
affected violently thumped or stamped
upon.
During the paroxysm of their ex'
citement they were insensible to al
that was passing round them. They
fancied themselves surrounded by SUI
pernatural presences, and frequently
shrielled out the names Of spirits, with
whom they imagined themselves to be
en- rapport. The insanity spread with
incredible rapidity through the neigh.
borhood, reaching the Dutch and Bel
gian capitals on the one side, tn
Cologne and RheniSh cities on the
other. In Liege they excited so much
terror that the magistrates forbade the
manufacture of any but square toed
shoes, the fanatics having conceived
a great horror Of such as had sharp
points to them, which were the gene.
raj wear at that time. For the same
reason it became necessary to interdict
the wearing of red colored garments,
which inaamed the fury of the dancers,
as they are known to do that of mad
bulls.
At Cologne and Metz the mania ran
to greater height than in any of the
cities previously attacked. The streets
of these towns were filed with hun
dreds of these dancers, the inhabitants
everywhere fastening to join them,
unable, as it seemed, to resist the in
fatuation. As in the instance of the
Flagellant frenzy, the laborer left his
plough, the artisan his woodwork, the
tradesman his shop, to swell the band
of devotees, and these great centers of
industry and commerce became for the
time scenes of the widest and most
lawless disorder. Groups of idle vag-
abonds, beggars and thieves pretended
to be seized with conyulsions of those
really affected, and initiated their de-
meanor so successfully that it became
impossible to distinguish the true from
the false. The governors of the
Rhenish cities were at last obliged to
employ an armed force to drive away
these troublesome visitors.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
Queer Things In New Zealand.

The queerest thing | have seen out
here, is tho so-called "bulrush caterIil-
lar" or vegetable caterpillar The
natives name it "Aweto Hotete,' but
have two specimens found in Tas-
mania. The plant is a fungus, a
sphHria, which grows seven or eight
inches above the ground, generally in
Il single stem, round, and curving at
the end like a serpent. This end is
thickly covered with brown seed for
some three inches. 1t grows near the
root of particular tree, the rata"
When pulled up, its single root is
found to be solid wood. Every detail
of this grub is preserved.
The spheria always grows out of
the nape of its neck. 1t is supposed
that when this grub (that of large
moth, burrows in the ground one of
the seeds gets between the scales OF the
neck, strikes root, and completely
turns the interior of the creature into
its own substance. Only the shell is
left intact, no smallest rootlet appear
ing anywhere. The aborigines also
eat this pure white grub, and friend
tells me, that, taken raw, it is delicious.
The New Zealanders also burn the
caterpilar-root and rub it into their
tattoo wounds. A good many white
people, it is said, believe that the plant
actually develops the caterpillar form,
and if this be true, we cannot laugh
much at those who believed in the veg
etable Scythian Lamb, and the Man
drake Man, of which specimens are
preserved in the Surgeons Museum at
London.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
CHflDREN'S COLUMN.
A story.

STORY.
I'll tell you story, mamma,
III "make it up" you know,
There once was little princess,
Lived years and years r
Her mother loved and loved her,
And never made her mind,
And lot her cat the cookies,
And--oh, was awful kind.
She stayed up late like grown folks,
Her mother liked her to,
And-won't you make this story
Come just exactly true2
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01

The Germans aro steadily increasing
their navy. They have lately added
twenty-five torpedo boats, and many
larger vessels are now in course OF
construction.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01

Queen Victoria has another elc,
plant MS gilt from King John of
AbysyiNia. -.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-10-01
Rutland Business Cards.
BERWICK HOTEL,

@ T. RICHARDSON, PrOpr,
RUTLAND VERMONT
Heated Throughout by Steam.
Good Sample Rooms, Billiard Room AMI
Livery Stable connected with the Hotel
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-24

TRAINS PAss DALLAS
soiHG E4GT Ct. 4 p. DEroT.)
No. 50t 81 Louis Express. ......... bfo q 9.
Leaves Union depot. ............... 6:l0 n
No. JOG, Local Passenger. .,......... 9.Sc a. ~
soIr0 wEsf UNION DEPoTl
No. s0I, California Rxpross, en-. 625 ?. 10
No s0l. California Express lve..... Gas p IN
Leaves T & 7 depot. ................,. coo 10
No, S05 Loo.l PGsHenger, AIM. 5b1n &c
No sos Local Passenger, lve.....t.... GlO y IN
Leaves 4 d Z depot. ........,.,..,,.... 3:29 IN
M 8O7 Local Passenger ........ ..,, GAO q m
n n tlepot ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. ..... $50 ~
Nos. sos aud JOG run between Font worm enc
Marshall daily, except sunday:
Nos S0T and sos run beiv cen DEllas ana Col.
orado daily. except sunday. Nos. 3Oi sol and
gus take meals at the Union depot.
solid Trains NJ Peso TO St Louie fast TINT
hrst-olass equipment, sure connection.
Sec that your ticket reads Wis M Texas . th
Cifc Railway.
FOR Mnp1' Time Tsbies TioLeta, Rstcn snd J
-a1uirol Inflammation Cnll on Or address
E.P, TuBEEP,
Ticket Agent. 5oi Main street Dellsh Texas.
IA H. HUGBfb,
Tass. Agent HOuaCg N1'
- W. McOUTLpDoE
Ass asuo4A GGsa Aseat lIreg Oh, F--
W. II, NEWMAN,
Traffic Manager, Galveston, rexa1'
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-24
FUTURES.

WHEAT Spring wheat shows no quotable
change at Chicago closing to-day, June 3.s
and July % IL. Chicago receipts are 10 50o
bushels, against 152 Az shipped. At 81 Louis
No closed cent lower, at s.0s'-S June, and
95 3-4 July.
Corn-Rec,ip,s Of corn at Chicago to-day are.
ca 2b5 bushels against Il. 40 shipped. Chicago
corn closed unchanged, 81 rs June, and 70 rs
July. ST Louis corn closed unchanged, 81 l.2
June and 80 3-iJuly.
Oats Receipts OF oats AZ chicago To-Day were
1906 bushels. against 1i3, 5i5 shipped Chicago
oats not quoted. b. Louis oats closed fr&ctonaily
higher Mt % 3.4 June. and 81 lis July.
Hog Produces Mess pork per barrel ut CHI
cago closed T12 and cents hisher; June
SIS GO. and July same price. Lard closed l-2
and cents higher; June, es.2l IL, and July,
stocks-Norihwestern broke badly to-day,
opening SO of, selling 96 3.s lowest at fore
noon call regciing little, but closing % is, n
loss on previous close of Bel cents Lacka-
wanna opened IL Off, sold % is
lowest ut third forenoon call, nuctHnted
ali day and closed 90 3'S n loss OF 4 l-2 cents.
Texss x Pacific was 81. adler than the other
stocks, closing 2.s lower at IL 1-S Western
Union closed yesterday 533-i, opened to-day
% is sold 81 IL Lowest reacted little ana
closed 527.S aloss OIL cent
Cotton-New Orleans closed quiet unchanged.
sales smaller. New York closed higher all
months above IL cents; gain land points; qui:
eli: sales 1000 bales over yesterday. Liverpool
reporss, at close fine weather and steady;
sterling points higher.
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p, IlI AIs. lMARBIAGE GUIDE. / pfRSSl2.

Elegant cloth and gilt binding. Scaled ior.tJ
cents In 10 stage or currency. over nitysWon-
derful pen pictures, true 90 lie, articles on tne
following subjects; Who may marry Whonot;
WhyY Proper age TO marry, VINO marry nrsL
Manhood, Womnuhood. Physical decay, Who
rhould marry. How life and happiness may Do
tncrenspd Those married or contemplating
marrving should read IT, II ought 90 be read
by all adult persons, then kept under locR an1
-, i0rr1'~ edition snfuo 7e above, hut ntncr
cover and 200 pages, % cents by MAIL IN mone1
or pO1tagg.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-24
COTTON.

FLOODS In the Mississippi. the BRACES Y IN
nearly ali the river valley. Of the south, ave
placed the next crop in jeopardy, TO exprj,ne
case mildly. "A three.weess set-o ,ss Yes
OF force It demands. Crops wlou,
number that would have prdced
nj the ratio OF bale 10 lacn
acre are swept away snd In many instanciney
crop will exceed that of this crop OO0. coolies.
The effect OF this state OF things IL spparf a.
ready In the marEcts A cable sent irorti AL
change ofthe floods OF the Brazos the Trink the
Leon and the Little rivers caused an a9ncc
to-day OF Lied. New York also advancI lilo
cent In the after case, and heavy sales o4rred
ding uplands. 6 s-sd at LIVERPOOL, audi 5-s
cents at New York. New 0Leans and Gaeston
continue at IL IL cents. which Is qrela-
lively higher than New York and Iitpooi,
and when the differences are admitted pther
advance must occur at New York and silver
pooi. for a decline cannot occur at the sfherH
ports As the HERALD has labored to Ite the
situation before the farmers. 1t will be M fsult
4 they DO not icpl I;,1 and gdrcs as ios as
r rSmr the lost acreage, for u
can be done and also foster all that iitloods
have spared To-day. at New York, spSiators
March cotton, the most distant posi!io1uoied
81 the Dallas exchange. and Liv.
erpool operators are. purchasing next
crop - sterling polnts apoveo penhle 5vu n
The need OF cotton Is growing. EgyH feila-
leen are conscripts employed la thPudan
war, and India IL plagued with drou The
statis tical position OF cotton to-day Is longer
than Il has been kincs General Lee s1rrfered.
Let the farmers etrite now. for II everportu-
nifty smiled upon them II is at the prep sea-
son.
The absolute benefits OF the Philsdel a Cen
tennal celebration 10 the commerce aundus-
try OF the nation are beyond calculbn. IL
stimu a,ed every branch OF humsn emtyment
and gave an Impetus to our export DC that
no other eff5rt c'ud have impaired. a now
proposed to celebrate at New Orleanhe ono
buad redth anniversary OF the drst lpment
OF cotton from a United States -por4o cot.
ton we owe primsrily the vide cdhercial
distinction We have acquired t1ghout
the world. In 1854 Engisnd's tradf cot
sop YVES IL $50 COO mounds consum d ajmsuu-
fsciured The production OF cotton NE UNI
ted states IN that year was merely tflmen-
tai. and q lev hags were thip 3ed io4e hrst
tine 70 England. In '7sl ssu'h c.r4s tro
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-24
pkLLAn SPOTS.
This Year. La

ToaK-Cloie, liverpool, good dsm lnd; New
YORK qu,sE few '.leAns, steady; Galveston
steady.