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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-24

The Age and Tri-Weekly World,
$I.5o a year.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-24
A. 3. SPEAR,

Proprietor of Maple Creamery,
Hartland, Vermont.
p. | will furnish milk
cans at a less price than the reg
ular retail trade to those who
desire to buy.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-24
DANA BROTHERS
New York Cash Store.
Hosiery.

Ladies' Fast Black in oar
usual good values, l1c.
lVc. 25c. Misses Plain
and Ribbed; Boys Extra
Heavy Ribbed Hose for
knnckahonl wear, - c.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-24

;.@th and East, 10. Is A.
I ind. $50 A. NJ, and
, &x18 fclchvillc, 800 p. NJ.
'iolJ 1bO \. NJ.
,, Jxn 30 4. NJ. to . l.. NJ
T DMcMASTER, p. NJ.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-24
COrsets.

Medium. long and extra
| ne waist to fit all forms.
Our showing of Corsets
both in the regular and
summer goods was never
better.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-24
'rYcli NOTICE

-. PORTER. Sup't.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

willing to share fortunes with her for
mer lord after he has proved himself n
poor fighter.
The hunter has on one side of the
cage a light net bound about by a light
frame, and t. the center of a light i on
rod stretched perpendicularly across
this frame is attached in swinging po--
sition a short rounded stick about six
inches in length. This gate of netting
is opened and kept in. that position by
the wooden trigger attached to the sides
of the cage wherein is the call bird.
This connection of the two triggers is
very delicate, and the slightest touch
will suffice to throw it, whereupon the
netting frame door is quickly closed, by
a spring against the sides of the cage.
This is what holds the redbird captive.
As soon as the hunter has set the
trigger of the cage he hangs it to a
limb somewhere or places it on the
ground and goes away some distance TO
await results. The imprisoned redbird
soon begins to sing. and presently, if
there is n redbird anywhere within
hearing distance, there is q flutter of
wings, a series of sharp cries. and be-
fore the hunter can say 'scat" the wild
bird flies headlong at his supposed enc
my in the cage, throws the trigger and
is captured 1t takes very little longer
to capture a redbird than 1t does a fish.
If once the Gagged redbird is placed in
the right spot within the territory of
the other redbird and he hears it sing
ing the rest is very easy, for, regardless
Of all personal safety and everything
else, he rushes madly to the fight
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

regular line fol his sort of trade be-
tween Crystal City, n town or the line
of the Canadian Pacific road, and Wood
bridge and Hannah, along the northern
edge of this county. The receipts of
opium in the county are said to amount
to several hundred pounds a month.
Crystal City is the home of Premier
Greenway, of Manitoba, and has been
the seat of long-continued smuggling
transactions by reason of the fact that
it is the nearest point on the Canadian
Pacific line to North Dakota. The con-
struction of a line of railway from
Langdon to Hannah and Woodbridge.
and the employment of hundreds of
men at this time, aid materially in pres
ent smuggling operations.
The last unique smuggling operations
carried on in this section were brought
to a sudden end some four years ago
by secret service officials. An unusual
~ large number of cattle were being
driven across the line to the North Da-
kota markets. and the officers deter
mined to investigate the matter. For
some time they looked in vain for I'M
lawful operations, but finally an acct
dent revealed the fact that the nostrils
of the cattle were stuffed with opium
wrapped carefully in tin foil, thus con
siderably more than doubling the value
of each steer in the bunch. Hundreds
of animals had been driven across be-
fore the discovery was made, aud it was
estimated that some $4,000 had beer
made by the transaction. The origin
ntors of the fraud got safely away.
The Manitoba government pays very
little attention to the collection of Gus
toms along these exposed boundaries,
and last fall hundreds of farmers living
south OF the line, but nearer to the
Canadian Pacific than to any other rail
road, hauledtheir wheat and oats across
to Crystal City and nearby markets for
sale to Winnipeg merchants, and did
not have to pay any import duty to the
Canadians either. The government was
generally supposed to know of the
transactions, but the cost of collection
would have left little profit to the in
terror department, and it made business
for Canadian railroads.-N. Y. Sun.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
NEW FRONTIER DIFFICULTY.
Serious Question Whether These
ucns Arc Natives or Altens.

Serious Question Whether These
Hens Arc Natives or Aliens.
Louis Choteau owns n small farm in
New Brunswick, bounded on one SIDE
by the American line. He also owns a
| small triangular piece of adjoining land
in Maine. On this he has erected u COM
modious henhousc.
He feeds his hens on the Canadian
side, but they resort to the house in the
United States to deposit their eggs, and
also to sleep there from sunset to sun
rise. Louis sells these eggs in Maine
without paying any duty, claiming that
they are an American product. The
question is complicated by the fact that
some of the hens are American born,
while other are raised in Canada and
owe allegiance to her majesty Victoria,
by the grace of God of the United King
dom of Great Britain md Ireland queen,
defender of the faith. empress of India.
! Louis contends with some show of rea-
son that an egg is not a product until
it is produced; that the nest and the
roost govern the domicile in the case
of domestic fowls, without reference to
the nationality of the owner or the
original birthplace of the fowls them
selves.
On the side of the department of the
treasury it is urged hat the eggs are
manufactured in Canada from Canadian
raw material-grain grown in New
Brunswick, supplemented by the pau
per worms of that province-and SNUG
gled into the United States by the hens
in a finished condition; that if they can
bring in eggs free of duty they might
also bring diamonds, which could be
forced into heir crops and removed on
this side of the line by painless vivi-
section-a proceeding which would be
clearly in contrsvention of our event
laws; and that hens who cross the lin
every day in search of n livelihood, ac-
companied by their husbands, and in
some cases by large families, are clearly
foreign hens-no matter where they
sleep.
In some quarters there is a disposition
to pooh-pooh the whole matter as be-
meath the notice of a great republic and
a case to which the maxim 'de minimis
non curat lex' is clearly applicable.
But nothing is unimportant where the
principles of international law are in
volved. Besides, our line is over 1000
miles long, exclusive of Alaska, and the
number of eggs which could be clan
destinely introduced by a body of hens
extending from the Atlantic to the Pa
ciic ocean is simply enormous Nor
could any force of custom house officers
prevent more than a small fraction of
this smuggling of unlaid eggs.
Anyone acquainted with the cunning
and persistency OF a hen seeking her
nest knows that the attempt to "shoo"
millions of them back into Canada
would be futile. The expense of erect
ing a wire netting the entire length of
the line is not 10 be thought of in the
present unpleasant state of our nation
al finances.-Hartford Courant.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
A EEArHEREo FIGHTER.
The Red BIRDS Readiness to Fly at
emil

Enemies.
The redl,ird, when it has gotten down
hard to honemaking, develops a re-
markable tendency to fight. At all 9th
err times of the year he is as docile and
gentle as any in the Woods-ipdeed,
rather inclined to take a deal from
other birds-bnt as soon as In nest is
completed and. Mrs. Redbird is installed
queen thereof he gets on his war paint
and will fight anything that comes
along. 1t is by taking advantage of the
bravery of the redbird hat the hunter
IS enabled to snare it. The trap used
is a wire cage. Within the cage is u
tame bird, one which has been in cap
tiyity a year or two and sings freely.
The hunter wanders into the woods and
slowly makes his way through the
swamps until he reaches a dense poF-
ton, when he halts.
Pretty soon the bird in the cage-de-
lighted, doubtless. at being again in Its
native woods, even II bars stand be-
tween 1t and liberty-begins to sing
with all its might. If there is a red
bird within sound of the callers voice
II hastens to investigate. One of the
peculiar habits of the redbird, hunters
say, is that there seems by common con-
sent to be q division of the woods
among them-each bird having n GER
tain allotment Of woods. Sometimes
other birds. either by mistake or for the
purpose of acquiring more territory, in
wade the domain of another. whereupon
there is u fierce fight, which is called
off when only one or the other of the
birds conquers, in which case the victor
becomes the possessor of the territory
of the two, together with the defeated
birds mate who it seems. is no longer
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
ST. Lnnis EXnositinn.

From September Sth to October 23rd the
Wabash will sell tickets to st. Louis and
return for one and one-third fare. Tick
cts on sale commencing September 9TH and
on each OF the following Thursdays aud
Tuesdays during the continuance OF the
exposition. Tickets good for return pas
sage not to exceed five days from date of
sale.
p. w. Carter, Agt. Wabash,
Lexington junction, Mo.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
POINTS ON TROUT FIs HING.
Don't Despise AnElevvOrms and Aide
Poles IL You Want Sport.

Done Despise AnRlewOrms and Alder
Poles II You Want Sport.
If you are a'novelist you will doubt
less essay to invade the domain of the
early brook trout with four-ounce rod,
hat stuck full of fancy flies and head
stuffed with the fine theories of the un>
sportsmanship of numbering trou by
bait fishing, but you will soon discover
that if you wish any sport or fish you
must descend to soiling your fingers
with angleworms.
There are two reasons for this latter
course. One is that many of the best
trout brooks are so overhung with
bushes that it is impossible to fish much
of their length with a fly, and the other
reason is that the early trout prefer
bait. Later in the season you may whip
the pools of the larger brooks with your
flies and have fine sport.
If you are to fish a small brook, take
my advice and do not carry a rod, but
cut an alder or white maple rod at the
place you begin to fish. You can throw
1t away when you get through fishing,
and will find it better than a jointed rod
to drag through the bushes.
On a large stream, where you need a
rod owe Is feet long. take your jointed
bait rod if you object to the weight of a
green sapling. Do not use a fly rod for
bait, as it is too elastic; nor a bamboo
rod, as it is too stiff. A reel is not need
ed. You can haul in the biggest brook
trout that comes to your hook without
the aid of one, and you would find it a
nuisance in getting through the bushes.
A line 20 feet long of gray linen, or,
what Is better, braided silk, is all you
need. Fasten it to your rod a few feet
from the tip, sc If you should break a
piece of the rod you would not lose the
line, and wind your spare line about the
tip. For the smallest brooks you will
need but three or four feet of free line.
Spring steel hooks, like the Limerick,
are the best. The size depends upon the
size of trout you expect to catch. For
the smaller brooks use a hook three
eighths of an inch in width from point
to shank; for the large brooks one-half
inch will be found about right. What is
called a straight hook is better than one
which has the point bent to one side,
and if the point is bent slightly outward
1t will secure more fish. Iprefer a hook
with a short shank having an eye to tie
through.
IT is a little better to fish down
than up, for various reasons
Shooting and Fishing.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
AN OPEN LETTER

To the Citizens Of Lexington and Tesnsty-
We take this means OF announcing
that mills are now In operation.
grinding out the very best grades OF
Flour. Meal and Bran. We have located
u mills here as q permanent Lexing-
ton institution, and expect to make It
one of u objects, to build up and add
to Lexington's commercial interests.
We shall not attempt to do business
solely on a local pride" basis, but pre-
fer that our products shall be judged
solely by the standard OF merit. Appeal
ing to your local pride we ask you 10
give our goods a fair trial. Should they
prove as good as other mills are making,
we hope and feel that you win be our
patrons.
To the Farmers:
We will do an exchange business with
you and guarantee satisfaction.
Thanking the citizens for the encour-
agement given our institution, and hop
ing to merit your confidence and patron
age, we are respectfully.
GRAVES BROS.
N. B.-Our goods for sale by all gro
GERS in city.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
PiTh N POINT.

She is a decided brunette, isn't
she?" Very. They say her husband
can't call his SOU his own."-Puek.
Bobby (admiring the Indfa-ink tat
tooing on Dickey's arm)-"Did it hurt
muchP" Dickey-"Not till my mother
saw it."-Boston Transcript.
Impossible People.-"whom were
you just now walking with, Edith %
"Nobody, mamma" "That's what ]
suspected. You must drop him at
once."-Detroit Journal.
-"Does your wife object to your
staying put SO late of nightA?" "a
little; but what really raises her wrath
Is for me to come home SO quietly that
she doesn't know when I get in."-In-
dianapolis Journal.
-HusbandL"T've some bad news for
you, my dear; that old bachelor
brother of mine has failed-lost his
entire fortune" Wife-"Oh, John, how
dreadful and just as We had named
the baby after him.'-Tit-Bits.
More Information
teacher wants us to give a definition of
3 patriot" Mr.. Figg-"Well, q patriot
10 q man who does something for his
country or does his country for some
thing, I'm not just sure WILHELM.
dianapolis Journal.
Parts We Play.-"It may be true
that all the worlds a stage" said the
gloomy man, "but the statement that
the men and women Il players is
gross hettery in most cases." What
would you call them?" "Supes. About
999 in every 1000 are just plain, ordi-
nary. everyday supes, who + not
even entitled to be enumerated among
the members of the company support
ing the ar,"-Chicago Evening Post.
Aunt Ada was trying to teach her
f~our-year-old nephew the value of pa
thence and the futility of crying on the
slightest provocation or without any
provocation at all. Herbert" she said,
"once there was a little boy who cried
and cried until there was nothing left
of him but a t~ear-drop, and presently
that drop dried up, and there was moth
ing left of that little boy" The small
listener looked at the narrator of the
story with large, round eyes, and asked
in a solemn voice, What became Of
his soul2"-Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
Labor I'm Russia.

While Emperor Nicholas has declined
until now to endow his people with a
constitutional form of government, yet
it cannot be denied that he is introduc-
ing many reforms which show that he
is possessed of al enlightened and
broad-minded sense of his responsible
ties. Thus he has just promulgated a
ukase prohibiting, nnder severe penal
ties. any form of labor on Sunday, or
on the IA principal Russian feast days
of the Muscovite calendar. This prac-
tically assures the laboring population
CO legal days of rest in the year.. Chill
dren are not permitted under any cir
cumstances TO work more than eight
hours a day, while II are henceforth to
constitute the maximum working day
of grown men. On Saturday the work
ing day is limited to ten hours.-Cin'
cinnati Enquirer.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
TRUSTEES SALE.

whereas, Charles o.. Grimes and Talitha b.
Grimes, his wife, by their deed Of trust.
of the recorder of deeds in Lafayette county.
Missouri. on the eighth day of May. lssA, la
signed trustee the following described reai
estate. situate, lying and being In said Lafay-
cite county. Missouri, to-wit: Beginning ~ a
point in the southern boundary line of thu
first addition to the original town (now cify)
OF Lexington, said point being Ave hundred
and seventeen (hlO feet and ten nol inches
owned by one T.. w. Pomeroy on June 4ist,
1850. and adjoining the southern boundary
line OF said FIRST addition 10 the city OF Len
ington lsaid northeast corner OF said trncf so
owned by said Pomeroy. being at the intersec-
ton of the south line OF South street On said
| city. with the west line of the "old Indepen-
dence road, and running thence from said
beginning point west eight degrees variation
half Cd degree east three hundred C3u05 feet:
thence east one hundred UO0l feet; thence
(sO0l feet to the beginning, being 4 part OF
northwest quarter OF section thirty-f0ur GA.
IN township nityTone %. In range twenty
together with other real estate, so conveyed
to me in trust to secure the payment OF u GER
tain promissory note In said deed OF trust
described (said other real estate not herein
described having been heretofore released
from the lien Of said deed OF trusg; and
payment OF said promissory note, aud
the same is due and unpaid; now,
quest of the legal holder OF said note, will.
in accordance with the provisions OF said deed
OF trust, sell the above described real estate
Mt public vendue, TO the highest bidder, for
casn in hand, at the court house door, IA the
city OF Lexington. in Lafayette county, Mis-
souri,, on
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER "a. 1857.
between the hours of nine O'Clock In the fore
noon and Ave O'Clock in the afternoon OF that
day. for the purpose of satisfying said note
and tue costs OF executing this trust
s-sl-td Trustee
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
STRAW PLATING DECLINING.

Ancient Tuscany Industry Must Sur
render to Competition of Orient.
A report has just been published by
the foreign Office at London from the
British consulate general at Florence
In regard to the straw hat industry in
Tuscany. The industry is of great
antiquity. 1t has attained con
siderable Importance as early as the
sixteenth century, when it was carried
ON at Sigma, a village near Florence,
the straw being imported. In 171s at
tempts were first made to grow the
wheat in a particular way so as to pro-
cure fine white straw suitable for plait-
ing. These were successful, and DUR
ing the period when the Leghorn hat
was fashionable the trade became high
" prosperous. In 1922 it gave en-
pIoyment TO $4,000 persons.
In 1926 it suffered greatly by the In
PRODUCTION in England of the manufac-
ture of a particular style of straw hat
with the Florentine braids, but it re-
vived with the discovery of the system
of IL straw braids, by which IL straws
or ends were Joined together, SO as
10 form an extended sheet of plated
work. Various improvements led to
the invention of the once-famous ca
pote, or Leghorn hat in 13 braids, in
the shape Of a sugar loaf, and made of
1875 or 200 strips of braid. These hats,
when in fashion, sometimes cost from
$50 to $165 each. In 1870 the industry
reached it's zenith, and of late years,
owing to competition from China and
Japan. it has declined and it is now In
a very depressed state.
The report describes the methods of
growing the best straw and of prepar-
ing it for plating, as well as the diff
ferent kinds of piaits n processes
of bleaching and dyeing. The total num-
Der of hands employed in the industry
in the province of Florence is s4,558, of
whom over $4,000 are females. The Ital-
ian, like the English, Belgian and
straw patterns. must accept the
inevitable, it is said, and give place to
the cheaper labor and the cheaper mate
Observation-Disclosures.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
OPIUM STRUGGLED ON BICYCLES
A New Trick Said. to he Practfced ON
ahe EEantIa. In Moth naI-oa

A New Trick Said. to he Practiced ON
the I'm North Dakota.
The smuggling of opium and small
and valuable articles has been carried
On across the International line near
here for many years, and large sums
have been made in the operation. OF
late years the United States officials
have been SO careful that the business
las greatly languished. From reports
along the line it is now evident, how
ever, hat a new scheme for defrauding
the government has been put into prac-
tice. 1t requires the aid of the bicycle
In its execution. The frame tubing of
a wheel is found by smugglers to be a
most convenient hiding place for small
articles. 1t is a very simple matter to
remove h seat post, stop the lower
end of the big central tube with a cork
to which is attached a long string, and
fill the space from cork to seat with
opium o. other v~aluables. This space
will hold several pounds. and the ma
chine can be ridden across the line from
town to town in a few hours, and the
profits secured. There is said to be q
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
A DimcuIt Problem.

'What kapes ye shtill SO long, Do
Ian ?" inquired Mr.. Rafferty,.
"Oi'm arguin' wild meself."
About what?"
"Gf'm thryin' ty convince meself
that it's no harder to push a wheel
barrow on the level than to push me
bichicle up hill, an Oh can't do it,
Washington Star.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

Small precautions often prevent great
mischiefs. DeWitt's Little Early Risers
are very small pills in size, but are most
effective in preventing the most serious
forms of liver and stomach troubles. They
cure constipation aud headache ana reeu-
late the bowels. Day q Shelby, Leading
Druggists. s-2s-tf
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

Judge-After this you ought to keep
Sway from bad company.
Prisoner-Yes, your honor. You
won't see me again for some time.-Up-
to-Date
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

In order to avoid the dangerous
pitfalls of the uncertain future, and to
seize and improve the opportunities for
rising to the pinnacle of the Monument
of Success, need the help of a