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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The most easily digested meats are
cold mutton, mutton chops, venison,
sirloin, roast beef and chicken.
Green vegetables and good fruit
contain certain salts and acids which
may be called natures medicine.
A boon for vegetarians is peanut
butter, which surpasses the best dairy
butter in purity, and is found to be
especially well adapted for use in
gravies and for shortening. An ex-
tensive demand is expected.
Street lamps can be mounted OH a
new telescope post to make them easy
10 reach for trimming and filling, a
set screw engaging the central shaft
TO hold it in position with pulleys and
weights set in the post to counter
balance the lamp.
The aurora borealis, according to
the theory of Herr Gustav Wendt,
may be regarded as an electrical
phenomena arising when oxygen and
other paramsgnetic matter--or matter
assuming polarity under the influence
of the earth's magnetism lis continu-
ously drawn down from the higher re.
gions Of the atmosphere, thus setting
up electric currents.
Medical authorities appear to be
becoming convinced Of the efficacy of
alcohol, in the treatment of cancer
1t is used in hypodermic injections,
and its strength has been gradually
increased from ten per cent. solution
until the puro alcohol is often used.
The injections are repeated after five
to seven days. The cancer cells are
destroyed, tine growth gadually be-
coming smaller. and finally leaving
hard mass that may be ignored or cut
out.
A floating scientific station was the
novel suggestion made to the inter
national geological congress by Pro-
fessor Andrussow. 1t would consist
OF ship fitted with apparatus and
laboratories for geological and biological
study of the ocean bottom, and would
be kept constantly exploring the diff
ferent parts of the world, the expense
to be met by international contribu-
tions. The scheme was warmly APP
proved by DR.. John Murray and other
scientific leaders.
During the Zulu war DR.. George
Stoker observed that wounded natives
quickly recovered in mountainside
places 10 which they were carried.
This led him, on his return to Eng
laud, to experiment with oxygen as
dressing for wounds, the result being
the establishment OF home where
the oxygen treatment is carried ont.
The application is made by enclosing
the injured limb in suitable case,
which is kept charged that the gas.
The dressing irritates less than others,
is stimulating and oxidizes bacterial
poisons.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
The Smallest City.

John De Saline bears the unique
distinction of being Mayor Of the
smallest city in the world. He is the
chief executive of Fenton. beautiful
little hamlet on the picturesque Mera-
mec River, fifteen miles to the south
and west of st. Louis. There are less
than 100 people in Fenton, yet it has
been an incorporated city for more
than twenty years, and during that
time it has grown considerably. When
it was first incorporated there were
less than forty-five inhabitants in the
place. 1t is the only city of it's size,
in all probability, in the world that is
incorporated and has Mayor-snd q
full quota of city officials..-St. Louis
Republic.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
TWO BRIDES.

The Man who Lowell the Soul Of Things
Went forth serene and glad,
Aud mused upon the mighty world,
And people called him mad.
An unseen presence walked with him
Forever by his side,
The welded mistress of his soul
For Wisdom was his bride.
She showed him all this mighty frame.
And bade him feel-but named no name.
She stood with him upon the hills
hinged by the azure sky,
And shamed his lowly thought with stars
Aud bade it climb as high
Aud all the birds he could not name,
The nameless stars that roll,
The unnamed blossoms at his feet
Talked with him soul to soul;
He heard the Nameless Glory speak
In silence--and was very meek.
Sam Walter Foss, in the Independent.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

The framer of the civil service bill which
has Just been pronounced constitutional by
the supreme court is John W. Ella. When
he drafted the bill he was president of
the Chicago Civil Service league. He was a
iatinchcr of the merit system and worked
early aud late in It's interest He studied
civil service in all the cities of the world
where 1t is n vogue and extended his obser.
vations from municipal to national public SER
vice. lie may be truly said to be an author
ity on the subject. Mr.. Ella is native OF
New Hampshire and product, in legal lore,
of the Harvard Law school After his studies
he returned to New Hampshire and worried
with the law until the war broke ont. After
a year and Il half of service he was made a
provost judge ot the gulf department and
i!lled that position until the war was over.
After the war he chose Chicago as his home
and he il recognized aS one OF the best law
ycrs in Illinois.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
MOWRY TRIAL ON.
Alleged Murderer of Reynolds Fam
ily mt Hurrillyjlle. II.

PROVIDENCE. Il. l.. Jan. l3 Tho trial
Of Martin L.. Mowry, charged with ihcsm smur~
der ot the Reynolds family in the town Of
Burrillvilr, April il last, has just begun.
IN" story OF his crime is familiar Reynolds.
IA poor carpenter, his wife aud l5-yeur-oli
adopted daughter were murdered in their
beds aEu the house set on fire with kerosene.
Only the charred rrmaiuS of two Of the
bodies were found. The suspect wa,
MOwry who lived in the other part Of
the houst. who had lived there for
80 years. and who hal hrcn the farm hand
OF an eccentric old man who owned the
place and who had lately died. Mowry WAS
later found Il few miles away with his clothes
wet and II shot in his ear. He said robbers
had purloined his money and tried to kill
him. 1t Is suspected that after the murder
he tried to commit suicide. but the lit
tie % calibre bullet failed to do its work
then that he jumped into the river to
drown himself. but his nerve failed him.
Real motive for the crime is abscat. but it is
thought that he is demcnted and that he
connected the Reynolds with what he con
sidereh wrongs done him by heirs of hi:
longtime employer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Ii Hung Chang's Woman Physician.

Ii Hung Chang has appointed as
first physician in his private house
hold Chinese woman, Miss HUI King
Eng, NJ. D., who was graduated from
an American medical college. Previous
to this appointment she was an attend.
ing physician at the Women's Hospi.
tai in her native city of Foo Chow, and
also practising missionary ply sicisn,
for early in life she adopted the Chris.
tian religion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
That the curiosity seeker sometimes

That the curiosity seeker sometimes
finds more than lie wants is shown by
recent experience of Mark Twain.
Mr. Clemens has been viewing from the
gallery with artistic appreciation the
performances of the Austrian Reichs-
raths. When the show broke up in a
general row, he was violently welted
over the head by Czech deputy. OF
course it was n case of mistaken lden-
tty and an apology followed. but 1t is
safe to say that the humOrist will be
satisfied to gather his further impress.
sions of Austrian legislation at long
range.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

The Man who Loved the Names Of Things
Went forth beneath the skies,
And named all things that he hclclh,
AMI people called him wise.
An unseen presence walked with him
Forever by his side,
The welded mistress Of his soul
For knowledge was his bride:
She named the flowers, the weeds the trees
And all the srowths Of al! the seas.
She told him all the rocks by name,
The winds and whence they blew:
She told him how the seas We're formed,
And how the mountains grew:
She numbered ali the stars fer him:
And all the rounded skies
We're mapped and chartered for the Sa2e
OF hi, drvouring eyes.
Thus, taught by her he taught the crowd;
They praisel-und he was very proud.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

paper money Is in the highly unOrna.
mental notes of the Bank of England.
The engraving is such that any Ordi.
nary engraver could duplicate 1t to per-
fection, yet the notes have rarely been
rounterfeited with success. The safe
guards are In the paper and the ink,
and not in the engraving. The history
of counterfeting shows that there are
always pngravers as skillful as other
enHruvers.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Military Circles.

$50 you are going away, Mrs.
Rusher?"
eyes; we are going to move to Ken
lucky for few weeks until my hus.
band gets to be called Colonel and
then we shall go to Washington to
live. Chicago Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
DisObediencc.

"O.o.o.ohr' groaned the glass-eater,
in pain. "I.I'll never again eat any
hand-painted Dresden chinaware.
Never again"
"I warned you," said his wife,
severely. "But it serves you right for
eating those fancy dishes against the
doctors ORDERS"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
,Justiflable Shooting.

Mr.. Brown-"Terrible tragedy at
bargain counter. A woman who had
secured the last five yards of cheap
silk was shot by another woman who
had been waiting from midnight with
out having chance to get any,"
Mrs. Brown-"Poor thing! Surely,
they won't do anything to her, will
they, John?'-Harlem Life.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

Mrs. Yeast-"Didn't you say your
boy got more like his father every
day?"
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-"Not exactly.
I said he was getting more like hia
father every night; he comes in about
midnight. "-Yonkers Statesman.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
ALL EFFORTS FRUlTLESS.
Durrant Hangcd-t:mbraccs Catho.
lie Faith.

SAN FRANCISCO Cal. Jan. l3 All the eff
forts Of murderer Durrants counsel proving
fruitless the former was hanged ut the time
set. His professions not suiting Protestant
clergymen who knew that in his protesta-
tions of innocence he was lying, Durrant in u
him innocent declared himself believer in
the Catholic faith and received the last rites
OF the church Il few moments before his
death. He did not weaken on tine gallows.
His father saw him killed. while his mother
waited in an adjoining room. The dead
body is an elephant on his parents hands.
Neither Protestant nor Catholic cemeteries
will receive it and all crematories have re-
fused it Serious thoughts of giving 1t u
"a burial are entertained.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Didn't Want the Whole Famil,

Her parents Ito prospective son-in-
law)-"Is your financial condition
such as will enable you to support
family?"
Young Man (timidly)-"Why, Ter
that is, I was-er-only figuring OIL
suppol ting CLARA. ."-Chicago News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Society has nothing better to talk

Society has nothing better to talk
about now than the fact that Willie
X. Vanderbilt has reappeared at the
dances of the select few who rule the
social roost in this town. He is very
welcome, to he SIRE; but one does not
see any necessity of writing so many
columns about it. His daughter, the
duchess of Marlborough, has been re-
citing some doggerel at II charity en-
tertainment in England, and it is
thought worth while to burden the
cable with it. So the public goes cot
tOning to handful of WEALTHY peonle
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Lines to BE Consolidated

PENNINGTON, Me-, Jan. l3-The Frank.
lin, Somerset l. Kennebec Railroad company
and the Franklin 4 Kennebec are to BIZ con-
solidated and o narrow guage road built
from here to Augusta. The plan OF building
to Lewiston, SO as to secure connection with
the Grand Trunk, has been abandoned.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
All the Talk He Wanted,

'Don't you think if Robinson
Crusoe had been married man he
would have been a great deal lone,
lier?"
ooh, I don't know. He had par
rot, you remember. ."-Cleyeland Plain
Dealer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Her. Motive.

"That Bascomme woman is always
making her husband tell her that he
loves her, right before folks
Eyes; she knows that it is an awful
evaporation to him to say it."-India-
napolis Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
johnnie Put 'sm Away.

Mistress Ito servant )-"Bella, where
are those berries told you to put
away?"
Servant -"Johnnie came in while
ago, marin, and he said he'd put EN-
away for me-"
Mistress-"Youn needn't search any
farther for them, Bella"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Absorbing His Fathers Experience.

'That boy O. mine ought to be as
sharp an KNOWN as they make 'em."
TRAINED him to it, have you?"
Trained him to it? Why, for four
years that little shaver set at the table
on a gold brick That cost his dad
S2OO0!'-Cleveland Leader.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Perseverance Always Wins.

Smith--"After trying for ten long
years, I have at last succeeded in con-
vincing my wife that am perfect"
lBrown-"Are you sure of it?"
Smith-"Of course I am. It was
only this morning that she said was
o perfect idiot. ."-Chicago News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Force of Habit.

"Did you ever notice the queer,
rotary gesture Mr.. Chilkoot always
makes when his wife rings for the
butler?"
eyes; you see, he used to be a
motorman before he went to Klon-
dixie. boston Traveller.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

The Vanity That DestrOys-Cupid's Big
Hiils-New hut Elective MethOt-Ail
the Talk He Wantcd-Changed-Mi
tnry Cirrles-Justitiable shooting, Etc.
"There ure no birds in last years nests"
The poet says, aud the cause OF that
l. because they've all been gathered in
TO adorn the gorgeous winter har.
Chicago News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
"John Reed" Arrested,

fHlIADELPHIA. Pa. Jan. 13 George
Spencer, an alleged bunco man. has ius.
been arrest ii here at the Recalling railroa
station, charged with being fugitive from
Justice He Is wanted. under the niia, of
.i0hn Reed, In Lowell. Gardner aud other
Massachusetts, cities aud towns FOR syind-
ling. having jumped his uail. amounting in
all 10 about SIS 300
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Changed.

"Well, Newfadder, are you ard
your wife living in unity now?'
"Er--not exactly. Trinity, 1 guess
you'd call tits ten-pound girl. -
Cincinnati Tribune.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Came to Bangor Young.

BANGOR, Me-, Jan. l3-Daninl NJ. West
colt, one OF the oldest railroad men In the
state, is dead at his home in this city, aged
62. He was born in Brooksville and came
here when a young man. He was member
OF several railroad societies, and was also
an Odd Fellow. widow aud two children
survive him.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
The Thrifty Explorer.

"Do you know why it is that so
many explorers seek the arctic and SO
few the antarctic regions?"
"Well, think I could make pretty
good guess.
"Why?"
"The arctic regions are not quite SO
far away from the headquarters OF the
managers of the lecture bureaus. -
Chicago Post.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
Cupid's Big Bills

"Love laughs at locksmiths, you
know
"That's all right, but you never
satch Love laughing at the florist. -
Chicago Record
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
New But Effective Method.

"How did her father strike you
when you called on him."
First with his left and then with
an umbrella. Detroit Free Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
sHE Grange was a

large rambling old
house. And it had
need to be so, for
the Marriots were q
numerous family.
and at Christmas OF
in the summer holi-
day season, when
the married sons
b brou g h t tn eli l.
wives, and the mar
ried daughters were
ace o IN pa II e d by
their husbands and
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
MOODY IN NEW YORK.
Back From Manitoba and Winnipeg
Begins Work In New York.

NEW YORK. Jan. l3-Evangelist Moody
has returned to New York and is at work
with his old time zeal. lie has been on an
evangelistic trip to Manitoba and Winnipeg.
The series of services has just begun to con-
tnue for eight dRys
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15
The new administration is going to

The new administration is going to
be very costly, as Tammany means to
spare no pains or money to keep it up
to concert pitch. But whatever is
good is dear. The only thing that
really concerns the taxpayers is
whether the tiger doesn't eat his head
off. If we get the equid pro quo, if our
big city is model for other cities to
follow, civic pride may sugar the tax
pills. However, let's wait and see!
The new broom is always an angel of
efficiency. KNICKERBocKER.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

As to Mayor Van Wyck's appoint.
ments to the heads of the depart.
ments of Greater New York it is TO be
said that they do not disappoint expec-
tations. Acting under Richard 9 O.
ker's orders, the mayor has made
clean sweep, and has appointed in the
places of the decapitated officials set
of partisans, whose merits have been
measured by their political influence
and activity and their devotion to Tam
many Hall. All this would furnish occa-
sion for deserved criticism were it not
for the fact that it carries out the plat
form on which Mayor Van Wyck was
elected, and the people have got just
what they voted for. 1t now remains
10 be seen how these politicians who
have no special qualifications for their
duties will acquit themselves and how
the people of our great city will like
the results. The outlook for anything
resembling good government here is
anything but encouraging.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

one moment and denouncing them the
next. The very young people of the
rich are getting up sort of cadet
corps to be an adjunct Of the
militia. They are to be called
"rhe Knickerbocker Grays.'
Here is something that prom.
ises TO he a little better than
ornamental, but Mr.. Populus takes
it into his head that it is something to
be sternly reprehended. and so the in-
cipient organization is bitterly mt
tackled. On what ground? Why,t that
the young fellows are to be trained up
to fight the working classes. Such
asinine stuff never fails OF popularity
in certain quarters, and it is regularly
purveyed to them. Nothing that APP
peals to the idea of the solidarity OF
the people-rich aud poor isallowel.
The chance to set class against class is
never missed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

According to the report of Presi.
dent Wilson of the health board. the
death rate for the year just eaded is
the lowest of any year in the history
of the city. "Ihe death rate for the
year is not only the lowest in the his
tory of the city," President Wilson
says, "but the number of deaths itself
is the lowest since 1886, eleven years
ago, when the population was nearly
500, O0) less than it is today.
The marked decreases urein liphtheria,
Group, measles. diarrhral diseases,
phthisis, or consumption, bronchitis,
and pneumonia. The use of anti toxine
serum in the treatment of diphth heria,
the careful inspection and permit sys-
TEN for regulating the sale of milk, the
treatment of consumption as an infer-
tious disease, the medical supervision
of schools, the inspection of tenement
houses and the destruction OF the
worst OF the tenements, the cleanliness
of the streets, and the general i'm
prOvement III the sanitary administra-
ton, account in large part for the
great decrease in the number of deaths
and the death rate"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

Senator John Raines makes no con-
cealment of his purpose to oppose with
all his strength Thomas G. .Platt's bill,
soon to be introduced into the Legis-
lature, opening the saloons on Sunday
in all the cities of the state. eff the
Republican party passes that bill,"
says Senator Raines. ''it will be beaten
so badly that there will not be enough
tombstones to cover it's grave.
Why, what do the liquor dealers
want? Do they want the earth? They
have six days now to sell liquor, and
they have trade of $500, 600, 900 n
year. Now they want to take the
seventh day, devoted to rest and re-
ligious observance. They want to
sell liquor on day when the work
ing-man has his weekly wages in his
pocket, and, if possible, to take all he
has. The people of this state will not
stand such legislation"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

The esteemed Tribune referred to
an esteemed contemporary recently in
this delicate way: "The Evening Sun
lies. So does its morning degenerate.
If you see anything in either of them
about anybody Or anything they could
have any motive for lying about, the
presumption always is that they lie."
The Sun way Of putting it was still
more pungent: 'You lie, villain
and you are scarcely worth the trouble
of saying it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

The park commissioners distin-
guished their last regular meeting on
Monday by naming lot of small parks
after eminent New York statesmen
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, DE
Witt Clinton, William H. Seward and
Hamilton Fish. There was a small
protest against using the full name
in each case but the argument pre-
vailed that we want to know what
particular person of the name was
honored. And indeed who would
know what was meant by "Fish park,
for example? There ought to he east
iron signs put up on each park.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

The police authorities here have
taken up for action the policy of en-
deavoring to keep down the weight OF
policemen. There is something in the
character of the service performed by
the police which tends to the produc-
ton of adipose tissue. A thin, wiry
man goes upon the force, and after u
series of years is apt to develop an
enormous girth, which is not muscle,
but simple fat. For this reason the
police board has taken into serious
and practical consideration the en-
forcement of gymnastic exercises
among the members of the force, exer-
cises which will have adirect tendency
to keep down that weight which is
caused by superabundance of fat.