Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03
A Letter from Tennessee.

is our experience, also extreme care
and diligence in the postal service.
! cagery glance at your local coll
umns for familiar names. Their
connection with incidents which to
Your local readers may appear of
little moment. yet to one long absent
are fraught with intense interest.
The editorial columns of all publica-
tons arc especially attractive to me,
as ! realize that the press wields the
scepter that controls i'll Il great meas
ure the opinions of the masses. And
upon these opinions is dependent the
destiny of our great nation. Consc-
uuentlv the editorial columns of The
Age are always of interest to the
writer. noted with great pleasure
the position Of The Age in the late
financial struggle, which at one time
threatened to shatter the honor and
integrity of this grand country of
ours maintained from the date OF its
birth down to the present. Old Yer
mont stood as firm for honor and
Gre lit in this financial battle as her
brave Green Mountain Eoys have
always stood from our first struggle
for independence to the closing scene
at Appomattox in the late civil strife.
While am not in full sympathy
with the political opinion, advocated
by The Age, they are entitled to
careful consideration by the opposi-
ton upon the hypothesis that both
sides OF every question should nave
due consideration. without which
unbiased and unprcj JUDGED conclu-
sions are unattainablc. Therefore,,
preach your democracy, Mr.. Editor:
no doubt YOU are placing in type
your honest convictions. You have
my sympathy, knowing you to be
overwhelmingly in the minority. |
can appreciate your position, having
published a republican paper in
democratic Tennessee.
| spoke of long absence from those
whom | look to see mentioned in
your local columns. Tw cntv-ninc
years ago | left Woodstock. Three
years after visited that section an
with the exception of correspond
cncc and the press | have known
nothing of the place and the people
since. Tennessee was and has con.
tinued to be my adopted home.
What changes have been wrought IN
these years. pick up The Age,
newspaper familiar to me in NY
boyhood, published in Woodstock,
VT, only two miles from the farm
house where my eyes first bchcld the
light; where my heels got their FIRST
stonc-bruises, where ! caught NV
first spcckled trout.
OF course knew every man,
woman and child in and about
Woodstock, and, without noting the
lapse of time, | run down the local
columns. | find the people are on
the hustle; they are buying, selling,
improving town, house and
farm, holding neutrality-suspicious.,
social and religious. But who are
these people: Surely this is not The
Spirit of the Age, published at
Woodstock, VT: look again.
Yes, it Is the same paper. This
time my eye catches the date, 1897,
then am brought 10 realizing
sense that from 1868 to 1907 is
period in which infants become
fathers and mothers, brides and
grooms grandparents, while the mid
llc-agcd, with few exceptions, will
nave passed into the great beyond. I
1t is Il matter of no wonder that
he instances are few in any copy of
'our paper that my eyes rest upon Il ,
amiliar name. must mention one. (
however, in Il recent issue that was 6
striking, and should this ,
meet his eye he will appreciate the
ituaton. | refer to your mention
If the reorganization of the Wood ,
took band, with &. NJ. Cobb us di- :.
ector. How well remember \
harley Cobb and the sonorous tone
c produced with his tuba. In fact
HARLEY was Il fine musician and =,
master OF several different instru-
hents in IS; shall give the date, Y
HARLEY: You will remember it
vas when commenced to wrcstlc
18th an alto horn. And what
a nd Woodstock had at that time, a
18th Johnnie Marsh leader. Lucian il
est, O. \. Whitmorc, Charley :,
Obj, Owen Marsh, Charles Andcr-
on. Sim Durham, Rufc Richard. 7
on with numerous other lesser
ghts, the whole making Il combina- IN
on that acquired an cnvlablc repu- ?
ton. Yes, that local item was
lrticularly interesting. was de W
GIFTED to know that c. NJ. Cobb is II,
ill enamorcd of the art of music. b