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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17
MADE NO BONES OF 1T.
This Bridegroom Didn't Care if the
Whole World Knew About 1t.

"For yourself and wife,
As the hotel clerk uttered these words
the newly arrived guest, a tall, spare
man of 40, with side whiskers, looked
up from the register with Il confident
smile as he said:
Eyes, sir, for myself and wife, and
not only that, but | don't want Il room
on the seventh floor, several blocks
away from the fire escape, and where
1t will take the call boy all night TO
reach. want the bridal chamber, and
If there is choice of bridal chambers,
| want the best one. | make no bones
of it. No, sir" he went on. with an
authoritative wave of his hand. 81 was
married at noon to-day, and am bound
to face all the consequences, and l
don't care who knows It, We had
house wedding, at which there We're
present 30 guests Of the family, ana all
sent presents, which in array and mag
nifcence are not equaled anywhere
We arrived on the o'clock train, and
my blushing bride is now in the ladies'
reception room, waiting with quiverlng
heart for my return.
"As you will observe, there Is some
rice on the brim of my hat, and our
name is festooned in bright red letters
on the end of our new trunks. | am
wearing brand-new suit of clothes,
bought especially for the joyous occa'
sion, and you would know my bride was
genuine q mile off by her light gray
travelling costume, her spic-and-spaD
new hat and her general air Of timidity.
We have been out only four hours, but
! | have already addressed my wife as
dearest" five times in the presence or
| total strangers, and she has responded
+ with darling" in each instance and we
propose to keep this up during our
wedding trip, which will last six weeks
and cover Niagara Falls, Washington,
the Natural Bridge of Virginia and
+ other principal points Of interest.
my name is Amos X. Able, and l
am out on my wedding trip with the
dearest, sweetest little woman In the
world. | have money to burn, there Is
no deceit in my heart, | want the best
of everything, and | want the whole
world In general to know that am the
happiest man alive. Now is there any
thing more you would like to known
Nothing, SIR" replied the clerk, as
he closed the ledger, took down key
from the board and rang the gong for
the hall boy.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

The steamer Moose, which could
not be run on Crane Lake because she
drew too much water, went over
Kettle Falls, which are eight feet
high, few days ago. IN making the
descent she struck several powders,
and would have gone to the bottom Of
Rainy Lake Ind she not been run
ashore at once. Captain Trengrove
and w. G. French were the only ones
to make the fearful trip. The cngin-
eer refused to g., and So the captain
worked the valve in the engine room
by wire from the pilot house, ana
sent the boat over the falls at full tilt,
shutting off the steam as soon as he
was over. Several boats with ropes
were stationed below to save the two
men in case of wreck. Minneapolis
Times.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17
SELECT SlFTlNGS.

A whale when struck by harpoon
cannot swim faster than nine miles an
hour.
The Persian Empire in its palmiest
days comprised about !, 700, 900 square
miles.
Most of the land in the Republic OF
Mexico is held in almost feudal tenure
by 1000 families.
Austria has a tax on all sorts of do.
nestle animals but cats, and now it is
proposed to tax them,
At Helensville, Wis, recently, a
number of COWS attacked turtle
basking in the sun and killed it.
In the gardens around London there
are more specimens of the cedar of Lee
banon than on Mount Lebanon itself.
1t is said that the fossilized remains
of an Irish giant, about twelve feet in
height, are lying unclaimed at Lon
don railway station.
A Boston police captain is response
BILE for the statement that not one
murderer has escaped the police of
that city in the last year.
The late John Thomas Talbot, an
old and wealthy citizen of Cleveland,
Ohio, was the owner of pocket knife
which General Washington gave his
father
The natives of Madagascar have
taken n great liking to European
musical instruments, and many OF
them have supplied themselves with
pianos and organs.
Maryland's contribution for Utah's
Mosaic table is piece of the old null
berry tree under which the first mass
was celebrated ON the landing of the
colonists, March 27, 1881.
The white rhiuoceros has become
nearly, if not quite extinct. There
are two stuffed specimens in England
and one in the Cape Town museum.
1t is the largest species of the genus.
A genuine mountain trout measuring
twenty six and half inches long and
weighing nine pounds was caught near
Durango. Col, u few days ago. 1t
was caught with n seven ounce rod
and No. 6 hook.
Lake Erie was named by the lro
ouois Erike, from fierce tribe living
on its shores. The French called il
Raccoon Lake, and on various old
maps it appears as Lac de Comfy, Lac
Herrie, Lac Erie, Lac Erocoise OF
Eriez.
One of the smallest men in Maine
and doubtless in the country, is John
H. Robbins. of Belfast, a native OF
Deer Isle. He is thirty-one year:
old, is thlrty-six inches high, anc
weighs thirty-seven pounds and siz
ounces.
Walnut shells are in demand II
London for the purpose of adulterat
ing ground cinnamon, and bring NOR,
than whole walnuts. The powdered
shells are not distingusshable unless
the microscopic examination is an un
usually careful one.
Citizens of Taylorsville, Ky, ar
iubilating over the good work of
reform commission of street cleanin
in successfully clearing the streets O
hogs, which have been permitted b
former administrations to pasture q
large in the highways of the town.
Watert own, Mass, is soon to hav
one of the finest wild park reservation
in the vicinity of Boston. BY vote G
the town the Park Commissioners hav
been instructed to purchase about 81
, acres for park site. This land
one Of the most picturesque tracts ]
y the metropolitan district
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

and pinker, as she viewed her sur
prised relative, who soon found voice
to demonstrate:
"Do you mean to say that you,
whose sole ambition should be the en-
HANGING of woman's chief virtue, re-
firing modesty, are really proposing
to enter my mill as bookkeeper? If
SO, you are either very ignorant of
what would be expected of you in that
capacity, or you are forgetting what
is due your own womanhood. Hen.
rietta McDougall, am ashamed of
you'll"
The subject of this TRADE merely
gave her decided chin little lift, aud
made answer:
"You need not hatter yourself that
you are going to extinguish me with
your heroics, Harry, for L most GER.
tainly do intend to 60 into an office,
even if the shock should prove serious
to your conservative organization. As
you refuse my offer, shall take a
position with the Big Salt Lumber
Company; but | thought it would be
pleasant to work with you.
The young man cleared his throat
two or three times before he found
voice for expostulation.
"But, Henrietta, it is not a woman's
place. Contact with men in business
life disarms woman of her best weapon,
and withal her greatest charm. She
wrecks her own matrimonial chances
for, you see, when men marry, they
do not choose the girls who have
thrust themselves forward, but tie fol-
lfe to the home girl. Then, too,
continued he, with atouch of pomp'
osity, "woman's brain is OF such diff
ierent calibre that she is never sue
cess in the business world. While
esteem you very highly as frient
and cousin, l could not give you {
place in my Office. must have tn,
broader outlook of man, and do no
feel that could trust any woman will
such n responsible position as that hell
by my bookkeeper."
This time there was no mistakin
the real indignation in the girls fac
and voice.
"Harry, l should be very angr,
with your insinuations, but l real,
only pity one who holds such warpe
views. Iwant you to understand tina
girls nowadays are not compelled t
20 about on tiptoe and with bate
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

The deepest mining shaft in Amer-
en- is not on the West COast among the
celebrated gold aud silver Iodes, MS
one might expect, nor in the coal
regions Of Pennsylvania, or among
the "Mines of the Monteznmaa' in
Mexico.
tits u common everyday copper
mine at Opecchce, Micn, which, ut
last accounts, was far below three
quarters of mile in depth, The
mine in question is called til" "rnma-
rack" and is reputcd 10y experts to
tap the richest copper lode in the
world. New York journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

The disposal OF the garbage of New
York and Brooklyn by dumping it in
the ocean just outside of the harbor
is II relic Of ignorance and barbarism.
Other cities have found more salts
factory ways of disposing of all street
refuse, and the cremutory method
seems to be the best. Still it must be
borne in mind that the recent investi-
CATION OF the subject undertaken by
the Board Of Aldermen was not en-
couraging, and it must also be re-
membered that crematory in the
centre of thickly settled residence
district may be IL failure. No crema-
tory has been invented that is in any
danger of being mistaken for manu-
factory of altar of roses, and We do
not want to exchange the nuisance OF
the garbage scow for nuisance on
land.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

Assistant Secretary Curtis, of the
Treasury-'W Wondering Willie, some
call him-is back again, He went
to London, you know, to deliver
those 4 per cent bonds to the Roth
schild- Belmont Morgan syndicate, and
it took him six weeks exactly to COM
plete the job, although he had young
Logan Carlisle, the Secretary's hope
ful, to help him. Great personages,
like large bodies, move slowly. There
is one thing about sending Curtis
away from the department, however !:
| it makes no more of vacuum than
keeping him there does.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17
ONE ENJOYS

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
TEN efiectually, dispeIs colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 80
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAY FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, H. NEW YORK. MI
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

Personal liberty includes the right
to think as we please, to eat and drink
what we please, and to do that which
pleases us if, as Herbert Spencer puts
it, we infringe not the equal freedom
of any other man." This liberty is in
vaded and abridged when the law, or
an arbitrary and oppressive execution
of the law, prescribes that large bodies
of the people shall not be permitted to
drink on one day in the week the bev-
erage which not custom alone but the
law sustains them in drinking on the
other six days The state has law
full right to obtain revenue from the
liquor traffic by means of excise laws.
1t has right to impose such restric-
tions upon it as are required for the
maintenance OF order. 1t has to right
to say that the customary beverage OF
citizens shall not be sold MT all
on Sunday. Especially has it
no right to add insulting discrim-
ination to injurious iterference in
saying that members of clubs and
guests at hotels and restaurants may
buy and drink what they please, but
that the hundred times lnrger and less
favored class of citizens shall go
"dry." President Woolsey sums up
the whole matter in saying that 'if
there is any such thing rs inst state,
one of its Offices consists in protecting
personal rights. Personal rights are
not protected in New York when a
Police Commissioned, for the sake of
"discipining the force" assumes TO
dictate to IL majority Of the people
what they shnIl drink ON Sunday.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

Livery day we meet the man with shabby
clothes, saIlow skin andshambiinG footsteps,
holding out tohacco-palsic hand for the
charityquarter. Tobacco destroys manhood
and the happiness Of perfect vitality. Mo-
To.Bac is guaranteed 10 cure just such cases,
and it's charity to make them try. Sold
under guarantee to cure by Druggists every
where. Book free. Adj. Sterling Remedy Co.,
New York City or Chicago.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

1t is not generally known that the
bronze coin issued from the London
m1nt in addition to being coins of the
realm, will serve as weights and meas
ures. A penny is oue-third of an
avoirdupois ounce, the halI-penny
one.ffth, and the tarthing one tenth.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

FAIR SAILING through life for the person
who keeps in health. With a torpid liver
and the impure blood that follows it, you
are an easy prey to all sorts of ailments
That "used-up" feeling is the first warning
that your liver isn't doing its work.
That is the time to take Dr. Pierce's Cold
Ell Medical Discovery. As all appetizing,
restorative tonic, to repel disease and build
up the needed flesh and strength there's
nothing to equal it 1t rouses every organ
into healthful action, purifes and enrichess
the blood, braces up the whole system, aud
restores health and vigor,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

81 see that Johns apraAin ont he
financial question.
"Oh, yes"
"Whnt's the old man doin'?"
"Eurnishin' the finances
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17
NEW YORK LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

A somewhat remarkable strike is
coming to IN end in New York, and
its outcome is no less decidedly in
favor of the strikers than on the side
Of social and sanitary reform. In
striking against the task work and
sweating systems 5000 tailors of New
York and its neighborhood have APP
pened very strongly to the sym
pnthies Of their fellow-men. In re-
iusing to make any terms with the
tenement house contractors they have
dealt fatal blow to an abuse
which legislation has been powerless
to abolish. The combination between
the sweating system and the nat
urnl evils of crowded tenements WIS
productive of oppression more fla
grant than that which Charles Kings
ley revealed to the last generation in
"Alton Locke" New York tenement
houses have furnished, perhaps, the
foulest refuge of poverty and toll
known to the civilized world. They
have demonstrated how, i'll the midst
of free institutions, and side by side
with some of the most brilliant achieve
ments of human progress, there may
exist conditions Of the most abiect
wretchedness and squalor. No human
abodes more unwholesome can be
found in the London Whitechapel, in
the Josefstadt of Prague, or the rue
Sainte Marguerite Of Paris than in the
lower tenement house district Of New
/ York.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

Col. Waring is getting all the money
he wants for cleaning New York's
streets, and his wants are not partic-
ularly moderate either Besides $50,
63S. 6G for use in August, the health
board has given him S2S, O95. 50 to
make up deficiency for July. 1t is
costing New York pretty penny to
be clean. kSGCKERBOCKER
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

A Russo-Jopanese exhibition will
he opened in Odessa with II view to
promoting Inrger industrial and
commerciaI intercourse between
Russia and Japan under the new
treaty.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

The law passed by the last legisla-
ture forbidding the opening of barber
shops on Sunday except in New York
City and Saratoga, where it is per-
mitted until one p. M, is meeting the
fate that might have been predicted for
it. A barber in Rochester was arrested
for violation of the statute, but the
jury refused to convict him. A barber
at Alexandria Bay was brought into
court for shaving n man on Sunday
morning, and was acquitted by the
jury. Two BARRIERS in Buffalo were
arrested for keeping their shops
open, and they were brought
before Police Justice King, magis-
trate noted for his common sense, he
discharged them and said: THAT law
was passed by a lot of crazy politicians.
No copy of it has been sent here.
We've asked for one, but we couldn't
get it." Here we have case of new
law Just put upon the statute book
which is treated with contempt by
judges and juries alike. 1t is
no small wonder that this is
the case. treason is the life of the
law" wrote Coke three centuries ago !;
"the law" he said further, sis per-
lection of reason" But every citi-
zen sees that there is. no reason what
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

David A. Newmark Of Chicago, i
suing the Illinois Central Rlilroad for
twenty-five cents, which he paid for II
seat in chair car which he failed To
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

ever in law which makes a thing
legal at the west end OF the bridge
across the East River, but illegal at
the other end; legal at Saratoga but
illegal ut Richtield Springs, Alexan-
dria Bay or Niagara Falls. The re-
suit is that nobody has any respect
for the statute; juries refuse to con-
Wet men who have plainly broken it,,
and a Justice does not hesitate to
characterize it correctly as the work
of "crazy politicians.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

The city hall in San Francisco is to have
the third largest dome in the world. 1t VIII
rise 800 feet above the sidewalk.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

THE Public Awards the Palm to iiaic's
Honey of HOrehound and Tar for coughs.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17
HARRY'S CONVERSION.
BY BELLE FIELD.

7 h e astonish.
ment in the word
was simply indie.
scribable, as Harry
M C d o IL G a |
droppedhis paper
and regarded his
cousin in dignifed
amazement.
A prettier cousin
than usual she wus
just then, her blue
Q es and pinl
cheeks q little blue,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

It is forty years since the over
crowding, the insufficient light and
ventilation, and the bad sanitary ar
engagements general Y which prevailed
in the housing of the laboring people
of New York began to attract legisla-
tive attention. A commission sitting
in 1856 has left on record descrip-
ton of tenement house evils as
graphic as that which lately aroused
public attention. A large body Of
restrictive legislation has been enacted
from time to time to provide against
the worst abuses Of overcrowdlng and
other unsanitary conditions. But the
real difficulty in the way Of permanent
improvement is with the people them
selves. As the president Of the health
department of eight years ago pointed
out III II communication to Mayor
Hewitt, the typical New York tene-
ment house changes character with
Kaleidoscope facility 1t may be
thoroughly overhauled and put in per
feet order on the lst of January, and
by the 1st of March be in condition
dangerous to life or detrimental to
health. The tenants are ignorant and
Indifferent, and often seek immedl-
ate convenience ut the expense OF
safety aud deceucy. 1t is not at all UNI
usual to find the waste pipes solidly
filled with ashes, which are thrown
into them by people unwilling to take
the trouble Of carrying them to tho
ground floor.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

We exported in 1894 el,7l4.OoO worth OF
vegetables. Moo
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

No great change for the better can
be effected in the physical surround
ings of such population until there
is an improvement in their tastes and
habits. But neither are likely to be
refined while they continue to be tho
slaves Of the sweater" and the
rooms where they live are made to
serve also MS the workshops in which,
by toiling night and day, they can
earn bare subsistence. The prompt
and complete success Of the tailors'
strike is an encouraging evidence TINT
the time WAS ripe for change, and
the sudden inversion of the relation
between the contractors and the work
people indicates the dawn Of better
day for the tenement house population
more clearly than the drafting of
reams of new statutes. Conditions of
life amid which 80 per cent of all the
babies die in their first year suggest
evils more obstinate than any that can
be reached by Legislation. however
drastic.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

What do the Brook yn trolley man
ayers care about the verdicts Of the
coroners' juries that were returned
against them as a result of inyestiga-
ton into the recent killing Of three
person beneath the wheels of their
murderous conveyances? Nothing.
The official pigeonholes in our sister
city are bursting with documents of
this kind, together with presentations
Of grand juries but it makes no differ
ence to the trolley slaughterers. They
laugh at the law, and do Just as they
please in grinding out dividends on
millions of dollars of watered stock.
They decline to compensate the
parents they have robbed of
their children, and the chllden
they have made fatherless and
motherless. They object to equip
ping their cars with proper life-saving
apparatus; and, in word, they act as
if they owned Brooklyn, and the peo-
Pile had no rights they are bound to
respect. This shamful condition OF
affairs in our sister city is due to the
I Facilitating, incompetent Schieren nd
ministration. II the mayor were a
man of pluck and determination, he
could bring the trolley corporations
to their knees in II week. He could
tie them up until they obeyed the law
and lived mp to the obligations of their
charters. Trolley will be king i'll
Brooklyn as long as Mayor Schieren
is mayor. His administration, fortu-
nately, is coming to II close, but |
fear many more trolley murders will
be added to the crimson record before
he gives place to IL Republican who
will see that the law is enforced.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

Somebody has written an ode in
praise of the tnilor's strike in New
York. A distich would have been
more appropriate, although there is
rot wholly intelicitous connection
between tailor's bill and owed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

Purroy has again taken charge of a
rammany Hall district. He gave up
being district Lender several years
ago, but has retained his control on
the two trans Harlem dlstrictA and
generally one down town. He has
kept his place i'll the Tnmmany Exec
utive Council as an eX-ollicio member.
For the first time since shortly after
he reached his majority, Richard Gro
ker is now ont of Tnmmany Hall. BY
his own request his name this year has
been left off even the General Commit
tee or District Committee lists. He has
said repeatedly that he had no intention
of returning to the leadership OF Tam
many or to any participation in poll
tics, except that which is incumbent
upon every citizen. His more judicious
friends take him at his word, and
have urged that if this is true he stay
on the other side for the present and
not add to the perpleXitles OF the sitna-
ton by coming home Just now, when
even his presence here will lead thou
sands of democrats opposed to him
personally to waver in their determlna'
ton to drop factionNl feeling this fall
for the good of the party.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-08-17

AGENTS Best thing in the world. Don't wait,
Samples Doc. Circulars free. New aud great seller.
Iwnit n representative, lady gentleman In every
town, Write to me and III tell You all about it..
H. NALETTE LEACH. 81 Ashton st., Worcester,
Mass Mention this paper.