Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-02-25
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

nc HluNllluiu VI result WIFI
minimum OF expense is the way Gov.
Roosevelt characterized the work of
Chairman Fellows up to the present
time in the Investigation of the sur
rogntes' office. The surrogate against
whose methods the investigation was
Immediately directed has resigned un-
der fire, and Gen. Jas. NJ. Vurnum has
been appointed in his place. Gen. Var
NUNS high character professional at
tainments, judicial temperament and
unassailable integrity are known to
every citizen. Not only will he faithfully
perform the duties of the flee, but he
will doubtless give material assistance
to the Assembly committee in probing
farthc: into the conduct of the Office,
ns it proposes to do, in order to enable
it the better t. recommend remedial
legislation t, cure the evils of which
complaints have so long been made.
Ambassador Joseph II. Choate
started for New York on the day of
the big storm, leaving Boston at !
o'clock in the afternoon. The train
he was on became snow-bound and
Mr. Choatc found himself with moth
ing to eat. There was IL long haired
passenger on the train who also COM
planned of being hungry. The two
decided to pool the hunger issue,
after learning that the train could
not be moved for some time. A
messenger boy was found who volun-
teerrd to get peanuts and apples for
the hungry men, and when the apples
were brought around Mr. Choate and
his conpanon, between bites, learned
each others names. Mr.. Choate made
the discovery that his long haired ac
quaintance was Israel Zangwill, the
English critic, who was ON his way to
Philadelphia to delivers lecture. They
were snow bound six hours.
Governor Roosevets new civil ser
vice act, just introduced into the Leg
islature, not only has the stiffest kind
of starch in it, but it appears to have
the polished finish, too. The laundry
establishment at Albany is in quite as
i'll the neighboring city Of Troy. BY
the way, the governor has way
of doing the right thing at the right
time, and looking up the law on the
subject subsequently. In the midst
of the big storm here he ordered all
the armories in the city to be thrown
open for the use of the poor and home
less as long as the cold weather con-
tinued He doubted if he had the
legal right to order this use of the
armorieS, but he was willing to take
the risk and suffer the consequences
of his raShness.
The new automobiles came to grief
here in the storm and the horse
came to his own. Vehicles propelled
by storage batteries AMI kerosene
motors could make no headway in the
heavy snow and once in drift, it
was almost impossible for them to get
ont. Time and again would they
butt into n big drift, and finally
the motorman would give up in despair
and seat for II horse or II team to drag
the horseless carriages to their stables.
In the uptown residence districts the
trale'mcn made experiments of all
kinds in delivering their wares. Sleighs
were of little use, and the wagons
would not bulge in ths deep snow.
Then some of the wise ones put their
boys on horseback and sent goods out
III that way.
AT a banquet here the other night
Nh Depew took occasion to remark |
tina; General Distrust had not only
been deposed and executed. but like.
wise embalmed. Whereupom every
body applauded and cheered for sew
eral minutes, while General O. o. |
Howard. who was sitting at General |
Miles right. took the lead and waved
his handkerchief in the most spirited |
manner. This looks rs if the em-
balmed issue wasn't settled yet.
At last We have n case of Il man tell |
ing Il lie to shield his wife. 1t hap |
penet here, where Il wife attacked her
husband in his sleep and cracked his
skull with an axe. He recovered con.
sclousness later on long enough to
tell the police that inuries were the
result of his attempting suicide. That
sort ot prevaricatiou is common enough |
among injured wives, but it is some
what rare among Injured husbands,