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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

One day golden-haired child, who
-Sed where no trees or flowers grew,
was gazing wisttully through the open
gate Of a beautiful park, when the gar
dener CHANGED to throw out an armful Of
dry cuttings. Among them the little
girl discovered one with q tiny bud Just
starting. perhaps 1t will grow" she
whispered to herself, and, dreaming Of
wide, cool boughs and Autterng leaves,
she carried it carefully home, and planted
1t in the darksome area. Day after day
she watched and tended it, and when by
and bye, another bud started, she knew
that the slip had taken root. Years
passed and the lowly home gave place
to pleasant mansion, and the narrow
area widened into spacious garden,
where many green tree threw its shad-
ow. But for the golden haired child,
now grown into lovely maiden, the
fairest and dearest of them all was the
one she had 80 tenderly nourished. No
other tree, she thought, cast such cool,
soft shade; in no other boughs did the
birds sing so sweetly.
But while the tree lived and flourished
the young girl dropped and faded.
sweeter and sadder grew the light in her
blue eyes, till by-and-by Gods angel
touched them with a dreamless sleep.
Loving hands crowned the white brow
with myrtle, and under the branches she
had loved laid her tendcrly to rest.
But from that hour as if in sorrow for
the one that tended it, the stately tree
began dropping. Lower and lower bent
the sad branches, lower and lower, until
they caressed the daisied mound that
covered her form.
"See!" said the young companions,
"the tree weeps for her who loved it,"
And they called it the weeping willow.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
The Monk Deatll.Bell.

An Oriental traveller, who became
much interested in the "monks of Pal
estine," gives the following as charac-
terlstc of them, though he copies the
story from the account in the Italian
papers:
1t was about three months after the
time of my leaving Jerusalem that
Plague set his spotted foot OH tho
Holy City. The monks did not shrink
from duty, but for its performance
they choose plan most sadly we'll
fitted for bringing upon them the very
death which they were striving to
ward off. They imagined themselves
almost safe SO long as they remained
within their walls; but then it was
quite needful that the Catholic Chris
tians of the place who had always
looked to the convent for the supply of
their spiritual wants, should receive
the aid of religion in the hour of death.
A single monk therefore, was chosen,
either by lot or by some other fair ap-
peal to Destiny; being thus singled
out. he was to 60 forth into the plague
stricken city and to perform with ex-
actness his priestly duties; then he
was to return not to the interior of
the convent, for fear of injecting his
brethren, but to detached building
belonging to the establishment, but at
some little distance from the inhabited
rooms.
He was provided with bell, and at
a certain hour in the morning he was
ordered to ring it, If he could; but if
no sound was heard ut the appointed
time then his brethren knew that he
was either de.irous or deal, and
tnother martyr was sent forth to take
lis place. In, this Way tmepty-one Of
=, W f..-S
The monks we're CARED Off,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
Importunate Milliners.

Clara Belle, in one of her New York
letters, writes: "The clothing dealer
who stands on the sidewalk in front of
his store and grabs the passer with
outcrles concerning the excellence of
his wares, is a character of the past.
l haven't lately seen single survivor
in the city, though lam told that there
are some connected with the second
hand concerns of Baxter street. But
| have once more walked through Di-
vision street, where several blocks of
millinery stores still maintain female
solicitors outside The passageis about
as much as ones cloak is worth, for
that garment isplucked at by the eager
touters in manner destructive of its
fringes and other decorations. These
audacious tormentors are girls, some
of them handsome, but got up in the
East Side style of distorted fashion.
Come in wheedled one; we've got
some hats that will justsui your pretty
face
oh, I say exclaims another gush-
ingly, we've line Of shades in rib
'bons that'll exactly become your com.
plexion.
And so they pestered and pottered,
much to my amusement; but what
would stranger think on getting into
that queer street,"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25


a Newark laly writes TO the New
York Sun as follows:
"Many people are deceived by optical
illusions. Ona recent morning looked
into my brothers. room, and saw him
standing at his dressing case. Then l
remembered that had heard him 90
down stairs, and said to myself, This
is an optical illusion Knowing that
it was such, looked at the figure I'M
til it slowly faded away. Let me add
that l am in good bodily health, cheer
full, and, believe, sound in mind. A
friend, who died lately, said in her
last hours, when apparently she was
rational, that she saw her dead parents
and brother in her room. She eXclaim-
ed, addressing the friend who stood at
her bedside, There they are, right
there. Can't you see them?' repeat
that, as far as any one could judge, she
was thoroughly conscious. But We
will pass over her case, for it is not
exceptional, and while we cannot say
she was delirious, neither can we affirm
positively that she had her senses.
"But here, / think, is an unusual
form of optical illusion, if it was an
illusion at all. A few days ago well
known business man Of New York
passed away. His widow is clear
minded and educated aly,without any
morbid or Superstitous faint in her
nature, or any belief in spiritualism,
While bending over her husband short
ly before his death she observed that
the expression of his face. was chang
ing, and the next moment saw there,
instead the face of her dead brother,
Tie two men were entirely unlike in
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

Not long ago an English government
agent in a remote district in India re-
ported that the inhabitants of the d s.
lrict were panic stricken and helpless
under an actual siege of man-eating
tigers. The siege had lasted five
months, during which time over forty
persons had been devoured, men, women
Vnd children. People could not stir
out after dark. In daylight groups OF
persons had to keep together to work
or walk. The fields had gradually
been neglected. and the whole country
side was being depopulated by degrees.
A man and his wife were carried off
by two tigers, almost at the same mo-
ment, from their own door-yard and in
broad day. Three constables lost their
lives. AS for cattle, there was hardly
a head left in the neighborhood. The
secret of the situation was the want
of any firearms, or Englishmen to Or
ganize hunt.
The affair was becoming unbearable,
so, in despair of raising the siege by
the unaided efforts of the natives, the
English agent applied to the govern
ment for assistance. At last the gov
eminent sent men and arms to the
suffering district. AS Mr.. Turner, the
agent, says, at is horrible to contem,
plate the feelings of poor laborer
going out for his days work to a field
afew hundred yards from his house.
with the knowledge about him that
there is an even chance of his being
carried away from the side of his
plough, or that his wife may be seized
when she is bringing him his midday
meal."-Harper'S Young People.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
Colonel WashingtOn's Death.

Col. John A, Washington, who had
inherited Mount Vernon and sold it to
the Ladies' Association, was well
known in the social circles of the city
which bore the name of his distinguish
ed ancestor. lie accepted a commission
in the Confederate army early in the
war and was killed in September, 1861,
while out on reconnaissance with
two other officers. Secreted in bush
by the roadside were a number OF the
Seventeenth Indiana Regiment, and as
Washington and his companions came
up the road the Indiana boys arose
from their place of concealment and
fired, Washington fell from his horse
on the first round, having received
three bullets, two of which passed
entirely through his body, entering at
the right breast: and one of the quartet
was also hit, but the two remaining
unhurt managed to get him away by
supporting him on his horse. The
body of Washington was conveyed to
the quarters of Col. Waggoner. He
lived for the space Of half an hour, and
never spoke save to utter once, "Oh,
my God" The next day his body was
sent to the rebel camp under flag OF
truce. In the pockets Of Washington
was found 800 in United States gold
currency and splendid gold watch.
His dress was new and of the most
elegant make, broadcloth coat and
|. pants and a white satin vest,--Ben.
PrleY PQore
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
Stability of the Washington Monument.

Colonel Casey, the engineer, says
81 do not suppose it is possible for man
to make anything that will endure for.
ever. There is no substance in nature
that will withstand the ravages of
time, and the marble and granite of
which that shaft is composed are no
exception to the rule l believe it will
stand as long as there is anything left
of it. How many hudreds or thou.
sands of years it will take the frost
and storm and sun to wear away, par
ticle by particle. that great mass of
stone,tt would be idle even to conjecture
IL will be so far in the future that |
do not think there is any occasion for
us to feel distressing apprehensions.
Yet | believe that if the world and
this nation shall endure so long, the
memory of Washington will outlive
the monument. That cannot be for
gotten while we exist as a people; but
the people must sometime yield to de-
cay The effects of time are already
discernible on the old section of the
shaft, built thirty-iive years ago True,
it is only slight, but you can plainly
see it here and there on the external
surface. 1t only enables us to imagine
what will be the result of the beating
and scorching of the elements through
centuries of time. OF course no en-
cheering skill can provide against the
contingency of earthquakes or other
extraordinary commissions of nature,
but l am absolutely in the belief that
the broad and deep foundation on which
the column stands will be firm and en-
during, and that years will only make
more perfect its stability"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
The Power of Abstraction.

According to one Of his friends.
Victor Hugo wrote "Notre Dame"
during the revolution of 1880, while
bullets were whistling across his gar
den and barrlcades were being erected
almost at his door. "He shut himself
up in one room, locking up his clothes
lest they should tempt him to go into
the streets, and spent the whole of
that winter wrapped up in big gray
comforter writing against time to COM
plete his work for the first of Februa-
ry, 1881" The author Of work on
French political leaders tells us that
Victor Hugo wrote that terribly pa
thetic drama, 'Le Roi S'Amuse," dur
ing the instruction. The first act
was written in four days. As he lived
near the Tuileries garden he was ac-
customed to walk there under the
trees and to compose his verses as he
walked. One day, when hard at work
on monologue, he was interrupted
by riot, whose angry waves penetra-
ted almost to his peaceful retreat and
compelled him to take refuge in a
neighboring arcade, The tide Of bat
tie followed him, and the poet, forget
ting his verses, had to get behind some
columns for protection.
Mrs. Somerville had, to some extent,
the same power of concentration, and
became so absorbed in her task us to
be unconscious of what was going on
around her. DR.. Somcrville told Har.
riet Martineau that he once laid a
wager with friend that he would
abuse Mrs. Somervlle in loud voice
to her face and she would take no no.
tice, and he did so. Sitting close to
her, he con6ded to his friend the most
injurious things-that she rouged, that
she wore wig, and other such non.
sense, uttered in very loud voice
Her daughters were in roar Of
laughter, while the slandered lady sat
placidly writing. At last her husband
made dead pause after her name, on
which she looked up with an innocent,
"Did you speak to me?"-AU the Yea'
ROuu1.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

appearance, one being light and having
a blonde bead, and the other very
dark. Shortly afterward the lady saw
on her husbands face the expression
of another deceased friend, and little
later that Of a third. Her morbid and
overweight fancy deceived her, some
one says. Could two persons be de-
ceived at the same time and in the
same way? l ask this because three
years ago this lady and her sister
watched beside the dying child of the
latter. The little girls face suddenly
changed. One of the ladies saw that
the other observed this, and said:
";Emily, who was itp'
"Adelaide, was the answer.
"'Yes, Adelaide
"The two ladies have told me that
they saw Enthusiastically the face Of
their dead cousin, a woman, shining
out through the face of the dying
child. offer no explanation of these
phenomena, and present them only be-
cause tome they seem very interesting
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
A Monaghan Millionaire.

In beautiful portion Of Honolulu,
Hawaiian Islands, empowered in tow.
ering palms and luxuriant ferns, lies
hidden from the vulgar view of the
pedestrian the pretentious residence
of Mr.. Along From its roomy balco.
ny, through the interstices of the
tropical forest, glimpses of the famed
Nuiana Valley may be caught-tha
valley of which it is truthfully said
that it is never without rainbow.
TO the far right the towering noun.
tain ridges, with the PunchbOwl, an
extinct volcano, in the front, may be
seen in all their beauty, while the hum
of the busy town floats up with nc
discordant sound, Mr., Along, who is
vouchsafed this elysium, is a full-biood
Chinaman, who, with his native island
spouse and his numerous family OF
little oues, leads an ideal life. Mr..
Along is solid merchant, with a
stone-front store on Chinatown's chief
business street, and is credited with
the possession of a million or two, &C.
quired in honest trade with his nu-
merous countrymen on Oahu and its
neighboring islands. He adheres tc
the characteristic Mongolian accoutre-
ments, although mingling himself
with the most important and wealthy
of Hawaii's merchants, and disdainins
to interfere in the varied changes in
attire which Honolulu fashion dictates
to his family. Mr.. Along has five
daughters, ranging in age from about
seventeen years to five. The mother
and the daughters maintain a rigid ad-
herence to the rules of fashion, and
appear in the dress of white ladies
and girls. When occasion demands
the lady and her older daughters are
clad in as elegant raiment as is the
wealthicst lady on the islands, and the
demand, it may be explained, is not
by any means infrequently made, as
the family is received cordially into
the best society in Honolulu. The
family has its private carriages driven
shades of the sand-lot-by white
men, and a close observer of the merry
quintet in their afternoon drive could
not tell that they were not the off
spring of some wealthy Caucasian.
The children are all receiving tuition,
and the eldest daughter, a modest and
not unattractive young lady, has pro-
crossed so rapidly as 70 be considered
well educated. The Along family is a
curiosity in its way to the unprepared
visitor from San Francisco, and, al
though there are many wealthy chi.
namen in Honolulu and on the other
islands it remains the sole instance of
Chinese progression in many respects.
San Francisco CqH.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

London consumes 100000 worth Of
milk daily.
A lively air on a violin will some
times set whole flock of geese wild
with delight.
In some regions of Africa girls
must be six feet high before they are
allowed to marry.
No woman in Corea has a name,
She is always known as some mans
daughter, sister. wife or mother.
The highest price ever paid for a
work Of art was $l23,000 in 1852. for
picture of the Virgin, by Murlllo.
Insurance is not an invention Of
the 10Th century. The assurance Of
ships, at least, was practiced as early
as the year As, A. D.
Serpent stones were supposed by the
Indians to grow In the head of SER
penis. They were more probably a
composition of some kind made up of
drugs.
A recent traveller in Asia maintains
that in the mountains of Thibet
he has lived for months at the height
of more than $4,000 feet above the
ocean.
A teamster in Maine says he can
start the worst balky horse by taking
him out of the shafts and making
him 60 round in a circle till he is gid.
dy. If the first dance of this sori
don't cure him the second will.
The Greeks held garlic in such alb
horrence that any who partook of it
were regarded as profane. The
Romans, on the contrary, gave it to
their soldiers with the idea that it ex-
cited their courage, and to laborers to
strengthen them.
An exchange says of the festival
celebrated st. Valentines Day: "The
day is named in honor of st. Valen
tine, a bishop or presbyter, who WAY
beheaded in Rome in 270, A. d., dur
ing the Claudian persecution. Wheat
ey says that st. Valentinus was a man
of most admirable parts, and so famous
for his love and charity that the Gus
tom OF choosing valentines upon his
festival took its rise from thence"
A fish auction in Holland is one of
The oldest things in the world. AS
soon AS the boatman reaches port with
load of fish, the fact is announced
by the sounding of gong. Those
desiring to make purchases repair to
The beach, where the fish are piled up
In little heaps. The owner then pro-
ceeds to auction them off. Instead of
Lifting the purchasers do the bidding,
rs is done in this country, he does j
himself. He sings out price '
price at which he will sell the lot.
If no one takes it, he comes down by
Easy stages till within what the pur'
chasers are willing to pay.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
Quaker Testimony.


Mrs. A. NJ Dauphn, Quaker lady, OF
Philadelphia, las done a great deal to make
known to ladies there the great value of Mrs.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as cure
for their troubles and diseases. She writes
ms follows: "a young lady of this city while
bathing some years ago was thrown violently
against the life line and tho injuries received
resulted in an ovarian tumor which grew AMI
enlarged until death seemed certain He
physician finally advised her to try Mrs.
Pinkham's Compound She did so and in
short time the tumor was dissolved or caused
to slough off, and she is noW in perfect
health | also know of many cases where
the medicine has boon of great value in pre-
venting miscarriage AMI alternating the pains
and dangers Of childbirth. Philadelphia la.
dies appreciate the worth of this medicine
and its great value
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25


the corset cover and short petticoat
taking their place.
Long redingote polonalses Of wool.
len brocades have sleeve caps, sleeves,
neck and front edged with chenille
fringe.
A pretty velvet dog collar has a row
of pear-shaped beads on the lower
edge, with three rows of beads around
the collar.
Jersey silk corset-covers come In
light shades of color, and are finished
with a frill of lace around the neck
and armholes.
Short mantles defining the form
with jacket-like effect, and with high
shoulders, are to be the leading spring
wraps.
Marabout. it is said, is now so i'm
proved in making that it will not rub
off, and can endure rain. 1t is very
popular trimming.
Even mantles of wool are trimmed
with gold, silver, and steel braids,
while jackets glitter with metal but.
tons, braid and cord.
The old chine silks arerevived, with
rings of dark color on light grounds,
and the new raised weaving is also
seen in changeable grounds.
Suit jackets are prettily trimmed
with braid around the high collar,
sleeves, edge and down the fronts. The
skirts are also trimmed with braid.
Belts are worn wide or narrow, &C
cording to the wearer's figure Some
are fastened with a rosette toward the
left side. But buckles are universal.
Khayan suitings are canvas-woven
camels hair novelties, that come in
both plain colors and bars and plaids,
suitable for combinations in costumes.
Ribbons are used in general profu-
sion on dressy and home costumes. A
new design has network thrown on
silk foundation and outlined with
gold,
An absurd fashion prevails in some
circles of having the name of ones pet
dog engraved on a miniature card and
leaving it at the house of an intimate
friend along with ones own.
Those square-crowned Fanchon bon
nets that appeared last summer are
revived, given a poke or capote brim
according to fancy, and trimmed in the
pyramidal, steeple-crowned style IA
vored by fashion this spring.
Black cashmere dresses for plain
wear should be made as plainly as if
of cloth, and simply stitched or else
ornamented with rows of narrow sou.
tache; to make them more dressy they
may have rows of silver braid or Of
gilt that is mixed with black.
Surahs will remain in favor for
Summer silks, and may be had in plain
colors or in the new glace effects that
promise to be fashionable in various
goods; thus, the twilled silk surah ia
shown changing from black to cardi.
nal, black to gold, blue to brown, or
green to red.
At late fashionable London we'd
ding the bridesmaids wore original and
very pretty costumes of cream-colored
satin and lace, with cof-shaped head,
dresses, edged with pearls and flowing
tulle. Their red shoes were the only
bits of color, save the red flowers in
their bouquets, which were rendered
the more effective by being mixed with
beautiful white blossoms, the whole
being tied with red and white rib
bons.