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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21
HOPE,

We sailed and sailed upon the desert sea,
Where for whole days we alone seemed tope'
At last we saw dim, vague line arise
Between thelonely pillows and the skies,
That grew and grew until it wore the SHAPE
OF cove and inlet, promontory and capei
Then hills and valleys, rivers, fields an'
woods,
Steeples and roofs, and village neighbor
hoods,
And then thought, "Some time shall EN-
bark
Upon sea more desert AMI more dark
Than everthis was, aud between the skies
And lonely pillows shall see arise
Another world ont OF that waste and lapse,
Like Wonder land. Perhnps-prrhnps-
perhaps"
w. D. Howells, in Harper's Magazine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21
NEWSY CLEANlNCS.
New York is the wealthiest State.
Afrca kills 90. 900 elenhnnts nnnunlly.

Afreo L;lls 80 oOo elnnh,,ts ,rrn,Ily
-, ,,'.,,. 49,,
heru'ns shcop Oh d o'csc'o Is I'LL ihho'a'
'0A -
An i ,I' cal'' no" TWO months o'u, HIS
noola iiho II horSe.
England loses Too,o'o,ooo worth oil prop
erty each year ny IRE.
Ten thousand persons have applied for
licenses to hunt deer III Michigan.
Half dozen once wealthy "iorty miners"
are in the San Frlucis,C amShOuse.
A pus well has been discovered on the
farm OF Henry Evans. B,rwick, Iowa.
An oi,,htv-vr,r-oII thief has inst bean sant
70 thn nrnii.3tinrv frnm II charles Nh
49, 90, -,,,.,. -.
ooin,,',oI i ,,', I,,i,,i S,at.,, io,t ,.,',
'o7"'' ~
Spain $ revenues lrontaXe5 nave latieh OF
over sbOo,'o] as compared WIN 'a'l year.
what Is probably tho largest apple ORCH
ard in the world covers 1881 acres IN FAR
mont, Kan.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Little, OF Austin, Texas. claims
a large part OF the land on which Columbus,
Ohio is built.
A New York man won temporary fame
the other day by eating ninety apricots
without stopping.
Dairy cnttle Of ST. Louis are diving by
scores from anthrax. which is also raging in
Randolph County, Missouri.
mr., ,,c,,;., Gu .,o,oI .-orr1
a., &c. Wn n. IT. 49, ',p WV, ' sn. $3.50 IaI,a
Snoorior bns h,nn or,.n,, for No
Nav Er,,,,d oottn, manufacturers ron.
noH S,""" uu,o,' itI y, sa,r ooo
n noo ,'.,,, ~" as ,,I',t, q, o,,,h,r
ooo' VIII meet 1T A'""'"' '"'' III o''ooo''
or seventy deaths from lShthihS IN
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

a packing and Strengthening house
where horse meat is prepared for the
European market is one Of the thriy-
ing industries ut Chicago.
There one hundred ringboncd aud
spawned horses, bought Mt auction
for prices ranging from 81 to So n
hend are slaughtered and packed in
bur Is every week, A new addition
to the slaughter house indicates that
the business is growing.
Richard Martin is proprietor of
this plnce. In answer to questions he
said-.
II buy the horses all around nj
auctions, and generally give $3 head
for them. They are of all ages some
three years and some thirty. They
are all in poor condition, but they
are healthy and sound. Yes, that one
has an ulcer as big rs silver dollar
on his shoulder, but that is nothing,
it came from pulling,
81 sell my horse meat in Europe.
nave Deeh SettlnS three cents hpOuud
for it, but now consign it to Ant
werp and expect to get four cents II
pound or more for it.
"My family eat some of the meat
but we do not live on it. Iwould not
know what sort of goods / was selling
if | did not eat some of it. All Of it
is alike, and you cook it just like bee
you cook it any way. An extract
similar to that out of which beef tea is
made is produced from the necks.
This industry has been in operation
about two years, and when it is under
stood that the horses slaughtered there
are emacated and broken down uni
mails, necessarily infected with disease
1t will be seen ut once that the matter
is one of considerable importance to
humanity in general and the people OF
Chicago in particular. New York
Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21
Wanted TO Steal Cars OF Steel Rails

A Chicago man undertook to steal
eight car loads OF steel rails, which
were stacked up at Grand Island, Neb.
He chartered the cars and began to
load tue rails in the night, but the
station agent soon found what was 60
ing on, and the game was up. If the
man had succeeded in getting the rails
away from Grand Island he woulc
have had an elephant on his hands, foi
he never could have found purchas.
er, and would have certainly been
caught. Such things are too easy TO
trace. One can hardly believe that
Chicago has such fool. New Or.
leans Picayune
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21
Manufacture of Watch Glasses.

In the manufacture of watch glasses
balls arc usually blown to the size OF
about two feet in diameter, and Mt the
Exhibition Of 1889 there was shown q
ball of considerably over II yard IN
diameter, arrived ut by system in
which compressed mir is employed.
No less than 5000 watch glasses were
obtained from this bubble-San Fran
cisco Examiner.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21
NEW YORK LETTER,
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. |

The Police Commissioners, in re.
solving not to appoint my man rs an
election inspector this year who is not
both honest and intelligent, are rem
dering more important public service
to the whole body of our citizens ire
spective of party. Under provision
OF the new constitution, registration
and election boards are required to be
non-pnrtizan, except mt town and vii
lage elections, and the two political
parties which polled the highest and
the next highest number of votes at
the preceding election are entitled to
equal representation on these boards.
In accordance with the law the Off
cial organizations of these two parties
are empowered to name the inspectors,
but it is made the duty of the Polica
Department to see TINT the persons SO
named are duly qualified before certi-
ticates OF appointment are issued to
them. The standard Of qualification
this year is the highest we have had
in many years, but it is not
too high, The Chief of the Bureau
of Elections insists that the per.
sons offering themselves as cleo.
ton officers shall know the law in the
administration OF which they are to
take part, and that in addition they
shall be men of good character. These
certainly are not harsh requirements,
but 50 far rs | can remember they
have never before been exacted, ex-
cept in degree that made the thing
mockery. Commissioner Roosevelt,
in an address on the subject the other
evening said: "We think poll clerk
should know that two and two make
four, and not minus one. We think
that a person should be able to read,
80 that he will not declare that the
votes were unanimously cast one way
when, as matter of fact, half of
them were cast the other way. We
also think it right that no person
shall be appointel an election off ser
who has been previousl y convicted of
crime. We want men appointed in
whose proximity we can sit without
keeping our hands in our pockets lest
they should be picked or our watches
stolen.
There are in ali II, 900 of these Off
GERS to be appointed this year, and if
the old order of affairs obtained it is
certain that a large percentage of this
great army of election officials would
be made up of the dangerous
classes" In hundreds and thousands
of instances political heeers were
placed in these positions because they
could be depended on, if the exigen-
ces of Tammany requrcdit, to falsity
returns or to perpetrate any other
electoral iniquity they were ordered
to commit. They added to or they
subtracted from the honest vote cast.
They destroyed ballots or stuffed
the boxes with bogus ones. They
bulldozed timid citizens suspected
of being opposed to their masters and,
in word, made mockery of our
elections. 1t is n great gain for the
cause of good government that these
political braves will not have anything
to do with the next election. The
Police Commission is resolved that it
shall be, as far rs possible, in the
hands of men who are honest and in
telligent and who will faithfully per-
form their duty.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21
The Greatest nediCal Discovery
of the Age.
kENN EDYS
Medical Discovery.
DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBUUY, MASS,

Has discovered in one OF our common
pasture weeds remedy that cures every
kind of .lumor from the worst Scrolula
down to common pimple.
He has tried it in over eleven hundred
eases, and never failed except in two cases
doth thunder humor). He has now in
his possession over two hundred certiti-
Gates of its value. all within twenty miles
OF Boston Send postal card for book.
benefit is always experienced from the
first bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted
when the right quantity is taken.
When the lungs are Affected it causes
shooting pains, like needles passing
through them the same with the Liver
or Bowels. This is cause by the ducts
being stopped, and always disappears in
week after taking it. Read the label
II the stomach IL foul or bilious 1t will
cause squeamish feelings at first.
No change of diet ever necessary. Eat
the best you can get, and enough OF it
Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed
time. Sold by all Druggists.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

or the plants used in mauuf curing the pleas
ant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has permanently
benz fetal effect ON the human system, while
the cheap v, getable extracts and mineral soIu-
tions, usually sold as medicines, are perma-
nenlly injurious. Being well informed, you
will USE the true remedy only. Manufactured
10y the California Fig syrup Co.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. I here is only .
way to cure deafn ness, and that is by conStitu-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in.
famed you have Iumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when il is entirely closed
Deafnessis the result, and uncs the nfiam-
nation can he taken ont and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by cltarrh, which is nothing bu an in
famed condition If the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness lcaused by catarrhD that can
not be cured By Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
FL. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
sB Sold by Druggists, ,jc.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21
Comforting.

A-Why so downcast, doctor?
D-A patient whom | began to treat
yesterday has just died.
A-Oh, don'tworry about that; he
might have died anyway. -Fliegende
Blaetter.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

The words have different meanings to n spir-
itualist, Il Kentuckian, and an average man.
good digestion. How to insure good digestiont
Ripans Tabule after each meal that's all.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21
ABBlE C0LEMANS NEPHEW

BBIE COLEMAN
was strangely des'
titute OF kith or kin,
So far as she knew
there was only one
person in the world
whose veins ran red
with enough gen.
uine Coleman blood
to entitle him to be
called a relative of
hers, and that was a
half-uncle of her
fathers, who had
long since passed
the allotted age OF
three SCORE md ten
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

In my humble opinion Dunraveu
has done the very proper and true
sportsmanlike thing, in giving M
Tuesdays contest and refusing to race
in New York waters, besides taking
exception to what Bret Harte would
call peculiar treatment at the hands
of the regatta committee in
general and the great public in par
ticular. The trouble with most New
Workers and I'm ashamed to admit it,
is, that those who do not want the
earth want decidedly too much
for their money, even when it
comes to fair play in sport.
Certainly some little degree of consid-
Grafton should be shown n visitor who
come to our shores, bringing yacht
embodying tho best skill of England,
and engages IN II friendly contest
with a boat, the result of the
highest talent America can produce.
Yachting is one of the noblest sports,
and while happily free from such con-
Eliminating influences that surround
the track and land races of most
kinds, it is painfully apparent that its
great popularity is in good way to
be destroyed by the disgraceful and
contemplate conduct of very
greedy public, Dunraven comes here
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

Exports of oranges from Palermo,
Italy, to the United States were in
creased eight-fold last year because OF
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

A feature of the new ballot will be
n circle printed at the top of each reg
ulur party list of candidates, looking
very much like the wheel of n pneu.
matte. tired bicycle A mark made
within this circle will suffice to give
one vote to every man on the straight
ticket. Eacn party will have to
adopt some pictorial emblem to be
printed directly over this circle.
These emblems are to be selected by
the State conventions of the several
parties. In other States the Repub-
lican party has frequently adopted
the screaming eagle and the shield OF
the Union, while growing rooster
has been favorite Democratic de-
vice. New York, however, should be
be able able to produce something
more original and suggestive. 1t is
time to be thinking about it.
kNICKERBOCKER.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

The Louisville and Nashville will inaugu-
rate a steamship service for freight between
Pensacola Florida and Liverpool England.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

be traced by the lines in the wonlan's face.
Dull eyes, the sallow or wrinkled face and
those feelings of weakness have their
rise in the arrangements and irregularities
peculiar to women. The functional de-
Tangements, painful disorders, and chronic
weaknesses Of women can be cured with
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. For the
young girl just entering womanhood, for
the mother and those about to become
mothers, and later in e the change of life, ="
the Prescription is just what they need
these events. It's a medicine prescribed
for thirty years, by DR.. R. V. Pierce, chief
consulting physician to the lnvalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

eff the enforcement of the excise law
is continued 40 percent of the saloon
keepers in this city will be without q
livelihood before the legislature can
convene aud afford them any relief, "
said man recently who is informed
on excise matters. The statement
made by lawyer House before Recor-
der Golf, to the effect that nine -tenths
of the liquor dealers are bankrupt,
is true. The business was never in
such demoralized condition as it is
now. The swell saloon keepers can
not hold out much longer, and will
90 to smash altogether. Even the big
saloon keepers, who are popularity
supposed to be prosperous, are car
ried along now by the brewers, who
are even paying their rents. The
Sunday trade has gone to other towns
and people who want beer on Sunday
get their dinners out of town, too.
The butchers and bakers are feeling
it. The saloon keepers and small
tradesmen together are losing on an
average $500, 600 week. 1t is dead
loss and can never be got back. The
records of the county clerks Office
will prove the bankruptcy of the
saloon keepers OF the 10000 licensed
places in the city, 5000 are mort
gagged to the brewers, and ut least
1000 are unable to keep up the III
terest Oh the mortgages, The records
of the registers office show that over
81, OOO,O 900 worth of mortgages on
saloon fixtures have been filed since
June /, on saloons in various parts of
the city.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

Idaho has the least nominal valuation,
being only SG,44O,S16 NE3S
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

Deans Rheumatic Pills are "A sure cure 'orali
forms of Chronic a lntlamnatOry rheumatism
q Neuralgia. Entirely vegetable Away safe
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

We are less than two months from
the next election day, which will be
famous, among other things for the
introduction of the new form Of
blanket ballot, as we'll as for an i'm
proved body of more intelligent and
honest election inspectors. 1t will
not be necessary this year for the
average voter to spend ten minutes or
more in voting booth puzzling over
a dozen different ballot papers, select
ing the one he wants to vote, and
folding it as well as all the rest in just
the prescribed shape. That sort of
thing made voting burden and a
nuisance ut the last election. The
blanket ballot will have the candidates
names ruled off in separate columns,
and each column will be plainly en-
titled "Republican Ticket" "Demo-
cratic Ticket" and SO on for all the
other tickets. There will be besides
a final column, with the title of each
office to be voted for printed therein,
and blank spaces left in which the
voter can write in the names he pleases
and thus vote complete ticket of his
own choosing.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

II afflicted with sore eyes Use DR.. Isaac 'ihun =.
sons Eyc-water Druggists sell at BE. per bottle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

No more wnsteful or unjustitiable
misuse of public money has been just
ly chargenble to the present city adj
ministrution than the item of 500, 900
for the alleged extra expenses of the
Commissioners of Accounts. 1t has
been included in the budget for this
year. The recent legislature, by
chapter 1908 of the Laws of 1895, au-
thorized the Board of Estimate and
Apportlonment to increase the former
appropriation for the Commissioners
OF Accounts from S32, 500 to Sl32, 500.
No public exigency and no revealed
benefit justified such an unusual in
crease. This department at 1872, 500,
now costs the people more than the
Mayors Office and the Common Coun-
Gil combined. 1t costs more than is
appropriated by the city in year for
the maintenance of the Registers Of
flee for all the title deeds OF property
in New York, more than than the
Sheriff's Office costs, more than twice
rs much us the Coroners' Office, and
more than the city pays annually in
satisfaction OF judgments recovered
against 1t.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

and learning about and seeing the
beauties of nature. Here is what II
distinguished writer says of the
magnificent st. Lawrence River, the
shores of which are skirted by the
"The Popular Route" the lnterco-
lonial Railway: "There is in North
America mighty river, having its
head in remote lakes, which, though
many in number, are yet SO great that
one of them is known as the largest
body of fresh water on the globe,
with flow as placid aud pulsel ess MS
the great Pacific itself, yet MS swift in
places as the average speed of rail
way train. Its waters are pure and
azure hued, no matter how many tur-
bid streams attempt to detile them. 1t
is river that never knew II ireshet
nor any drying up no matter how
great the rain "A river 50
rapid and yet so placid rs to en-
chant every traveler-sO great and yet
SO lovingly beautiful rs to enthrull
every hppreclatlVe SOUL WHICH IlSi5
in fresh water sea- and ends i'll the
great Atlnntic-some places sixty
miles wide, ut others less than mile !;
river that never has yet had II re-
spectacle history, nor scarcely more
than an occasional artist to delineGte
its beauties.
i.Jt lioe for n thousnnl milnC hetwnun
two great nations, yet neglected by
both, though neither could be as
great without it; river as grand as
the In Plata, as picturesque es the
Rhine, as pure as the Lakes of Sw,tz-
erland. Need we say that this Won
derful stream is the st. Lawrence, the
noblest, the purest, most enchanting
river on all Gods "beautiful EARTH"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

after spending thousands Of dollars on
his yacht and is really unable to make
fair start or get free wind on ac'
count of the vast fleet OF
small craft and excursion steamers
that have persisted in crowding the
racers and obliging them to run IL
gauntlet OF boat that kick up sen
and take all the wind. And these
people, mind you, have only paid
their fifty or seycnty-hve cents to see
the race, but apparently are not salts.
fed if they cannot sail alongside
the yachts over the entire course and
still "howl" the loudest about "fair
play" the sporting spirit and all
that sort of thing. This international
yacht race has been perfect farce, II
fasco, grave reflection on the fair.
ness and honor of the American public,
and glory in the spirit that Dunraven
has shown and the sand he displayed
in turning his back on the crowd the
other day and refusing to race. am
sorry to see him go home in huff, but
l hope he or anyone else will not re-
turn until the yachting enthusiast"
on this side have learned lesson or
two in politeness, fairness and what
constitutes fair play.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21
\ VXIOMEN'SFACES

like flowers, fade
and wither with time;
the bloom OF the rose
is only known TO the
Ii e alth by woman s
cheeks. The nerv-
Gus strain caused by
! the ailments and
pains peculiar to the
sex, and the labor
and worry of rearing
"a family Cail often
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-21

T. 7. VHkNEY &c Co, TUIeuO, ..
sB- Sold by Druggists, 1jc.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1895-03-29
oREeoN's PENlTENTIARY.
Nearly Four Thousand Prisoners Have
Been Registered There.

SALEM, March 2l.-The total number
of prisoners received at the Oregon
state penitentiary since its opening is
now nearing the 1000 mark. Since In
dian Charley, the first human being
that ever donned stripes in the name Of
Oregon, there have registered 1894,
John Gay, of Eugene, being No. 1896.
The number now in prison is 359, OF
which two are women. There is not
work enough to keep the convicts en-
ployed half the time. The stove foundry
ia run three days of each week-Mon-
days, Wednesdays and Fridays-em-
ploying on these days 165 men. The
aim is to manufacture stoves only for
the demand. The capacity of the plant
would furnish work for 225 men every
day of the week. There are thirty-two
TRUSTEES, who are allowed to work on the
farm and few inside men find employ
ment gardening within the walls. The
remainder, except the few used in the
kitchen, are kept in their cells, except
about two hours each day when they
are given what is known as the "bull-
pcll utllls IDlc 10 aObOihbCIy hONCccesAy
Tor the health OF those who are afforded
no other means Of exercise. The aver
sion Of doing the bidding OF others is
very noticeable, even among convicts.
Many Of them, il left to their own pleas
ure, will spend half and some the entire
day walking in the yard between the
shops and the main building, but when
called on to fall in line and march for
exercise they tire and want rest before
an hour has passed. The oldest inhabi-
tant OF the prison is A. r. Stoughton, IN
his ,89th year. who was committed for
life from Columbia county in 1892. AL
bert Hoyt has served the longest period
of any one now in prison, having been
committed in August, 1881. Hoyta
crime was rape, for which he was given
twenty years.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1895-03-29
rhs Allered Mint Robberx.

CARSON, New, March 2l.-The chief
topic of conversation here is the alleged
robbery OF the United States mint in
this city of over $4,000 worth of bull
lion. There are no new developments,
as the mint officials and employees re-
fuse to give any information and neitEer
admit nor deny what has already en
made public. Various theories ~ to
how the bullion might have BEEN waken
from the mint are advanced by ex-em-
ployes, but no definite conclusion has
been reached.