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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14

During the year, 100 Mormon con.
yerts have been landed at New York
from Europe,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14
mT' CAPITAL skIxE, $4,000. GSl
Tickets only SIS. Shares in proportion
louisiana State Lottery Company.

"We do hereby certify that we super
wise the arrangements for all the Monthly
and semi-Annual Drawings Of the Lousi-
ana State Lottery Company, and In per-
son manage and control the Drawings
themselves, and that the same are con-
Quoted with honesty, fairness, and in good
faith toward all parties, and we authorize
the Company to use this certificate, with
fac-similcs of our signatures attached, in
Is advertisements"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14

A man in this city claims to have a
wife so hot-lempered that when she is
angry DO can light his cigar from the
fire that flashes in her eye.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14
Teas, Teas.

1t is an indisputable fact, that the first
pickings' of Teas are the most desirable,
having as they do delicacy and rich
ness of flavor which the later gather
ings do not contain.
In view of this fact, we
have secured for our coming
years. trade, an invoice of
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14

A new native Indian journal has, ac-
cording to the Madras AthenGun,, been
started for the express purpose of ad-
vocating the remarriage of Indian
widows and the reduction of the we'd
ding expenses, which Indian custom
renders costly. In recent number of
the new organ We are told seven Hin
doc widows announce their readiness
to re-enter the marriage state. In ono
case the widow is only u years of age,
and her father is anxious to betroth
her to a Bengal gentleman.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14
SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
Wednesday, Ian. IA, 1885.

Entered at the Post-Oflce rs second
class matter.
VIM. d. McMASTER, Editor 4 Pro'r.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14
MONEY CAN BE MADE

MONEY CAN BE MADE
by any man or woman, girl or boy who will
organize clubs for TIE WEEKLY WORLD.
The great farm and home newspaper, COM
plete in all its departments.
subscribers 4gsab5s p' at IN CASH. 81 For c1 100
S25 will be paid: for 80 subscribers, Sl2 for
70 subscribers, 30; for 10 subscribers, 3d. for
~ subscribers, 81; for subscribers, 81.
Agents wanted in every town and village.
Circulars and sample copies free. Send for
them.
THE WORLD Is the Banner Democratic
Newspaper of the Union. Every Democrat
shVpll read 1t.
Daily, So; Semi-Weekly, 80; Sunday, $3.50.
Weekly, 81 per year. We will furnish this
paper and the Weekly World to new sub.
seribers for 1885, for 81! post-frce.
TRY IT!
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14

The Detroit Free Press Is unable to
decide whether this winter is last fall
or next spring.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14
Make: HENS LAY

Hog Cholera, &c Sold everywhere OrSent by man Tor 2 m
stamps Furnished In larpC cans, price SlOO byma Si2U
Circulars free /. $. JOHNSON d CO., Boston, Mass
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14
Kerosene.

We have at Woodstock Depot a
car load of 1870 and 100 test Boston
OIL, and in Bbl. lots, and are selling
at the 10 VEST PRICES.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-14

II Is n well-known fact that most Of the X
Horse and Cattle Powder sold In this coun- X
try ia worthless; that SherIdans Condition X
Powder Is absolutely pure and very valuable n
Nothing on Earth will make hens
lay like Sheridan's Condition Pow
der. Dose, one teaspoOnful to each pint OF
food, II will also positively prevent and {
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
'sTin."

They said the train was an hour be-
hind time, and that information made
us all feel put out and annoyed. There
fore, when boy of about IA, poorly
dressed and having a trampish look,
came along the platform asking for
financial aid to get him down to R
on the train we were waiting for, it
Was but natural that one and all re-
piled:
''If you want to 60 to R take the
dirt road! You look as if you were
used to trampingH
He had no saucy word in reply.
When he went and stood in the light of
The window, and saw how he shivered
in the cold wind, and how worried and
anxious he seemed to be, l grew
ashamed of my gruff words. l saw two
Or three others look him over as | had
done, and had no doubt that they felt
as did. l ought to have walked up
to the boy and said:
Here, my lad, if you really want to
go down to R, I'm willing to help
you. Take this half-dollar How
happens it that lad of your age is
cold, ragged, hungry and away from
home and friends?''
But didn't. edged towards him,
ashamed, and yet not quite ready to ac-
knowledge it to him, and all of sud-
den he disappeared. | reasoned that
he had gone up the hill to the village,
and that his pretending to want to go
to R was all trick to beat honest
men. When you reason that way the
heart grows hard pretty fast, and you
feel a bit revengeful. We talked the
matter over-four or five of us-and
the conclusion was that the boy would
die on the gallows.
Well the train came along after a
while; and it was moving away, after
brief stop, when a piercing shrek,
followed by shouts and calls, brought
us to stop.
Somebody's been run overr' called
O voice, and in a moment the coaches
were emptied.
Yes, somebody had been run over
had aleg cut off above the knee by one
of the cruel wheels. Who was it?
How did it happen? 1t was our boy
the lad who was to end his days on the
gallows- He had crept under the
coach to steal a ride on the trucks.
There he was, having only a few min
utes to live-his face as white as the
snow-banks-his eyes rowing from face
10 face-his lips quivering as twenty
men bent down and spoke words of
sympathy.
..Who are you?" asked the con-
ducter
"Timr'
-"You shouldn't have tried it
'But l wanted to get to R so
bad! l was up here to find work, but
nobody would have me, and yesterday
1 heard that mother was deadr'
but anybody would have given
you sixty cents to pay your fare" >"
''Oh, no they wouldn't. l asked lots
and lots of men and they said l ought
to be in Jail. wanted--T
There we were-the half dozen of US
who had repelled him with insult
wrung his young heart still more-sent
him to this horrible death under the
wheels! We dared not look into his
face-we even Stunned each other.
If it could only come to pass again
if heaven would but send him back to
earth and let him stand before us as he
did that winters night-but it is too
late!-Detr0tt Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
CellulOid Versus Linen,

'fCelluloid cuffs and collars are worn
more generally now than ever before, :"
said wholesale and retail dealer on
Broadway to a reporter.
'How do you account for that fact?"
at is simply question of economy.
Washing now is high. 1t costs almost
as much to launder a pair of linen
cuffs and collars as it does to buy them.
The celluloid articles can be cleaned
perfectly at no cost within two min
utes- When celluloid cuffs were first
made they were too thick and ratified
too audibly when they came in contact
with any hard substance. This was
quite Objectionable. But now those
manufactured are so thin and pliable
and SO much like linen that few people
could detect their quality unless they
felt them"
DO you sell them principally in
New York?'
"a great celluloid trade is done in
the west. The washerwomen out there
must be either bad or hard to get, so
the men wear celluloid cuffs and collars
and save time, trouble and ANNOYANCE.
You would be surprisedif | told YOU
some of the high-toned men about town
who wear them. They don't disguise
the fact, and swear they have gone
back on linen collars and cuffs forever.
Celluloid goods always appear laun-
dered, and never melt down in hot
weather The big celluloid cuff and
collar trade begins in the summer
months. Youths going TO Coney Island
with their sweethearts want them and
old men too. They are becoming so
popular that 1 predict that within ten
years they will altogether supersede
linen for collars and cuffs IN Y
MatI and ErDreSS
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
What She Sacrificed.

George Eliot can neither be defended
on the plea that every man must be
tried by canons he assents to, nor cen
sured on the plea that virtue consists
in constant submission to variable
opinion. The first would absolve fana-
tics and the other would supersede con-
science. 1t is equally certain that she
acted in conformity with that which,
in 1854, she esteemed right, and in
contradiction to that which was the
dominant and enduring spirit of her
own work. She did not feel that she
was detracting from her authority by
an act which gave countenance to the
thesis that associates rigid ethics with
rigid dogma, for she claimed no
authority and did not dream of setting
an example. The idea of her genius
had not dawned. That she possessed
boundless possibilities of doing good
to men and of touching hearts that no
divine and no philosopher could reach
was still, at 35, secret to herself. At
first she was astonished that anybody
who was not superstitious could find
fault with her. To deny herself to old
friends, to earn with her pen an in
come for her whose place she took, to
pass among strangers by name which
was not her due, all this did not seem
too high price for the happiness of a
home. She urged with pathetic gravi-
ty that she knew what she was losing.
She did not know it. Ostensibly she
was resigning small group of friends
and an obscure position in literature.
What she really sacrificed was liberty
of speech, the foremost rank among the
women of her time, and a tomb in
Westminster Abbey.-Ihe Nineteenth
Centurg.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
: She Was Good To Him. II

/ '.But, after all, she used to be good
Go u.s." 1t was a son who said this OF
q mother whom some nervous malady
had overtaken and who was certainly
a very serious trial to her family.
The young mans life, too, was a
weary one. He was hard-worked
through the day, and it was depressing
to 60 home at night to fault-tinding
and fretfulness-
Harder still was it to sleep, as this
son did, week after week and month
after month, with all his senses half
awake that he might hear his mother s
footsteps if they passed his door, and
hurry after her to keep her from wan
dering out into the night alone, as her
melancholy half-madness often led her
to try to do.
Strangely enough, she had turned
against her own husband and her
daughters. Only this one son had any
power to persuade her for good. His
work by day and his vigil by night
wore on him sorely, but he never COM
planned.
One day his sister asked him how he
could bear it and be always patient,
when she-mother though she was
was in the house only as presence OF
gloom and foreboding and unrest. And
the answer came:
''But, after all, she used to be good
TO u.s."
And then the thoughts of all the
group went back to the years before
this nervous prostration came upon
her, when she had nursed them in i'll
ness and petted them in childhood
when she had been "good to them"
one and all.
81 know" the boy said, thought
fully. THAT was nervous, uncom-
Portable child myself the first three
years of my life. Father said he
thought they'd never raise me. but
mother said: Yes, she would and
she tended me day and night for three
years, till l began to grow strong like
the rest of you. / owe her those three
years, any how, and she shall have
them"
And so he girded himself afresh fol
the struggle. 1t will not last forever
There are signs which the doctors car
recognize that the cloud is lifting some
what, and no doubt before long she
win be her old self again. And ther
will come her sons reward. He will
feel that he has paid little of the deb
he owed to the love that watched Owe
his weak babyhood.
To many mothers, worn by lons
care, such years of melancholy ant
nervous prostration must come. Ant
the sons and daughters who find thei
homes saddened by such sorrow
should lovingly remember the days il
which they were helpless, and mothe
was ''good to them. San Franctsc
CaH
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
The Teeth of Immigrants.

The reporter of tho Utica Observer
has been Investigating the teeth OF the
immigrants, with the following inter-
esting results:
The immigrant train on the Central
this morning was half an hour late, and
consisted of one solitary car, in which
were forty-seven passengers. Come
with me and take a walk through the
immigrant car; | would like to show
YOU the differences between foreign and
domestic teeth" The speaker, adj
dressing the Observers reporter, was
an old and well-known dental surgeon
of this city. 81 have come down here
| for the express purpose of noting for
myself the teeth of our newly-arrlved
| cousins" said the dentist, as he led the
way to the train, which was just pulling
! into the yard. In the car were Ger
mans, English, Swedes, two Danes and
four Polish Jews. Look at that fel-
low in the third seat there getting away
! with that bacon; see those beautiful
! grinders, said the knight OF the for
ceps as he intently watched a sturdy
German who, with huge Jack-knlfe,
was cutting alternate slices of schwarz-
brod and bacon which he was putting
under his vest with marvellous rapidlty.
His teeth were indeed magnificent
specimens of sound grinders, milky
white. evenly grown and regularly set.
Passing two seats further on were
mother and two children. The woman
was English, and when spoken to dis
played very beautiful worries. In an
swer to a question of the dentist as to
whether she had ever had any trouble
with her teeth, she laughed and said,
mo, don't know what toothache is, "
Behind her was group of several per-
sons chatting together, and while talk
ing they all displayed perfect teeth.
"How do you account for these people
having such handsome teeth?" was
asked of the dentist. After speaking
of the difference between the thick and
musty odor within the car and the
pure ozone outside, he said: 'The
whole difference is in the food that is
eaten. These people at home We're
wont TO eat the coarsest kind of food;
they never touch sweetmeats or delica-
cies of any kind, and consequently the
acids which are in all fancy tidblts do
not touch their teeth. Therefore, de-
cayed teeth are something utterly un-
known to them. have not the least
doubt that some of these people never
saw a tooth brush. They don't think
of their teeth at all, and yet they look
as pearly and round as if dentist ex-
amined them every day."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
After Gettysburp

After the battle of Gettysburg, when
the baffied confederates, worn, weary,
heartsore, were recrossing the Potomac
at dusk, many We're groaning, some
were cursing, while the majority felt
too unhappy to express themselves
boisterously. Finally they went INTO
camp, cooked their frugal meal, and
settled down to a grim quarrel with
fortune or lasped into sullen silence.
All at once, swelling melodiously
through the summer air, came a noble,
resonant tenor voice singing .'Give Me
a Cot in the Valley | Love- - The SOL
diers listened with rapture and the
dear vision of home turned the bitter
ness in their hearts to sweetness and
peace. All blasphemy, anger and un-
utterable anguish ceased. By the
power of song Heaven descended upon
the raging hell in their bosom, and
when the ballad lulled into an echo,
dying plaintively away, it was as if an
angel had passed and touched the
valiant men in gray with the healing of
his wing. r. X.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
True Merit.

Will always meet with success, and
that Speer's Port Grape Wine is an
article of true merit, is a long estab
lished fact. 1t has been endorsed by
the leading physicians of New York
Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San
Francisco, and all the large cities OF
the Old World. 1t is produced at the
model vineyards, Passaic, N. J. 1t is
for sale by all druggists and grocers
throughout the United States,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
SMUGGLER. JR., =,
AND
ROCKET.

Will make the season of 1875 at the stable of
PHI BEAN, RAVENNA. D.
The Hambletonian Stallion ROCKET is a
half brother to BELDING'S HLMBLETONTAE.
Pedigree Rocket was bred by F. w. Hui
derkoper. Esq of Meadville. Pa. and sired by
Robert homer, the sire of Lady DAlhman, rec
ord o 2s; he also was the sire OF Ledger the
sire o5 Adele Clark-2: 26L Robert Bonner
was sired by Rysdick's HambetOnian; Robert
Bonner's dam by Long Island Rlark Hawk,
grand dam OF Abdallah. Dam of Rocket un-
traced.
DESCRIPTION --Rocket Is a rich mahogany
bay; stands III hands high and CHS ll75 lbs /;
of grand stN lie, powerful tOnn and trntting ac-
ton having Tapped Willie Golddust out In
three heats trotted in "a. .: a. and 9; 33 over
the Ashtabula track.
1ERMs For Rocket. SIS to insure, and $40
for the season
For smuggler, Jr, $40 to insure.
Great care will be taken to prevent accidents,
but will not be responsible for any that m ight
occur.
Good pasturage for mares from a distance at
reasonable rates.
Quite nun ber of Smuggler. Jr'S colts suck
iings, yearIngs. and two-year Olls-will be at
my stable for examination, thus giving the
patrons an opportunity to see and judge of
Smuggler Jr as a sire. For full paI ticuIars
of SNUG ggler, Jr's breeding, and description
send ior circular at once.
P.S-s careful investigation of Smuggler
Jr's and Rot ket's breeding. and of their indi-
good stock. will convince good Judges and
breeders that either or both stations are Sec
ond to none in This section.
S7I p III. BEAN
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11

A kiss is a paroxysmal contact be-
tween the labial appendage attached to
the superior and inferior maxiliaries
respectively of a man and woman or
two women. The younger the parties
are the more paroxysmal will be the
paroxysm, and in case it be observed
by the fond father of the paroxyzed
young lady, there is also likely to be
perigee between the paroXyzer' $
pedetic junction and the phalangeal
extremities of the metatarus and other
bric-a-brac depending from the lower
end of the old gentleman's right leg.
The kiss itself is not the paroxysm. 1t
is merely the vibrations of the super
incumbent atmosphere, resultant from
the expulsion of sweetness from each
of the pairs of lips engaged in creating
it,-BQstoaa IrGsascrtpt.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
PILESI PILElIIPILES!!I

A sure cure for Blind, Bleeding.
Itching, and liberated Piles, has been
discovered by DIR. William, ian Indian
remedy )called DIR. WILLIAMS S INDIAN
OINTMENT. A single box has cured
the worst chronic cases of twenty-five
years standing. No one need suffer
five minutes after applying this Won
derful soothing medicine. Lotions and
instruments do more harm than good
Williams Ointment absorbs the tu-
nors, allays the intense itching, (par-
ticularly at night after getting warm
in bed,) acts as a poultice, gives in
slant and painless relief, and is pre-
pared only for Piles, itching of the
private parts, and for nothing else.
For sale by H. Waterman, and mail
ed on receipt of price. S1-00.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
OFFICE OF
Rockford Watch Co..

ROCKFORD, ILL, May 18th, 1884.
Referring to the fact that we have
appointed WAIT BROTHERS, of
Ravenna, Sole Agents for the sale OF
our Quick Train Railroad Watches in
Portage County, Ohio, we desire to say
that no parties other than WAIT Bros.
or their employees, are authorised to
offer these Goods for sale in the terri
tory indicated and that no warranty
whatever attaches to our goods when
offered for sale by others than our duly
authorised agents. Our goods are sold
directly from the factory, and only
through competent and we'll known
dealers.
AS the movements leave our hands
carefully adjusted and regulated fer
immediate use, we hold ourselves di-
rectly responsible to the wearer of the
watch for its satisfactory performance,
BUT ONLY WHEN SOLD BY OUR CHOSEN
AGENTS. We understand the extraor-
dinary guarantee of excellence made
by WAIT BROS, and given out by
them to the public, and are prepared
to make good the assertions of our
representatives in that particular.
Very Respectfully,
ROCKFORD WATCH co.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
The Superintendent of Educatio

The Superintendent of Education in
New Haven came to the conclusion
recently that many of the lady teach
ers wrote SO carelessly that they were
not fit to teach writing. The result
was an order that they attend on Sat
urdays (their weekly holiday for an
hours practice. This has provoked a
perfect tempest, and the mildest epithet
applied to the superintendent by pretty,
pouting lips is THE mean, horrid old
thing" They claim, too, that they
write better than he does, which is
more likely.-Hargord Times.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
.Ah. Miss Paul. said a lank to

''Ah, Miss Paul." said a lank to a
sarcastic girl to whom he had Just been
presented, 81 believe you know my
fwicnd Fitzclaiwence. "Oh. yes 1
met him at Saratoga last summer"
''Ah, Miss Paul, Fitz is a chawming
fellow, don't you know? Weally. now,
Miss Paul, don't you think he is noah
delightful fellow than these Cincinnati
tee men?" ''Oh, he's very NICE" she
answered, stbut think he told me a
story" ''No! Why, Fitz is the verwy
son of twooth, Miss Paul. What could
he have said?' ''He said you were not
nearly as big a fool as you looked. -
Cincinnati Merchant Traveller.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
LEGAL NOTICE.

NHARLEs F. LEWIS will tske notice that
on the nth day of April 1888. Ella NJ
Lewis died her petiton in the Court of Com
mon Pleas of Portage county, Ohio. charging
him with, three years willful absence. and
praying TO be divorced That custody of mi
nor child be decrecd to her. ami change Of her
n 1me to that of Harrison
Said petition will stand for hearing after g
weeks from the first publication hereof or alter
June 4th. 1885. ELLA NJ LEWIS,
S69.6W by /. L. SIDDALL, ATTY
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
No11TCF

IN oIIC-h-
ID OSABELI. LICAN Jacob Il. Lycan James
III Lycan, minors under the age of II years,
and Jacob q. Lycan, their father, who reside
in Dalson, Clark County, in the State Of Illinois,
heirs ut law of Martha o. Lycan, deceased. will
take notice that William PauluS administrator
OF said estate. on the eth day of March, 1885,
filed his petitition in the Probate Court OF said
County, alleging that the personal estate of
said decedent was Insufficient to pay her debts
and the charges of administering said estate /;
that said decedent di d Se.L Lcd in Zee simple Of
the undivided one-fourih of the following de
scribed real estate: Situate in the Township
of Suffeld, County of Portag', and state of
Ohio, and known as being part oG lot No. 40,
bounded on the east south and west by lot
lines. and on the north ny lands of Joseph and
Benjamin Mishier. containing l01 acres of land
That Martha NJ, Fry has dover estate in said
premises. SAID persons above named will take
notice that they are made parties 10 said action
in said Court. and are required to answer the
same on or before the 25th day of June. A. ID.
1886 WILLIAM PAULUS,
Administrator of said estate.
W. B. THOMAS. Atty. s7?-6w