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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19
Two Small Ocean Vessels.

Says the Philadelphia Record: 1.-TWO
of the smallest foreign vessels that
have ever visited this port recently
arrived here for cargoes. One
was the steamship Elliot, and the
other the schooner Roberts and Rus
sell. The former came in ballast to
load anthracite coal for Newfound-
land, and the schooner, which brought
pineapples from Abaco, loaded on out
ward general cargo for the Bahamas.
The Elliot's carrying capacity is less
than 500 tons Of coal, and the gross
tonnage of the Roberts and Russell
only reaches 100 tons. Both vessels
fly the British flag. The Elliott is
Que of the few British steamships seen
nowadays which was built of wood. I"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Various attempts have been made
10 reckon the amount of money spent
III summer travel. 1t is said that not
ess than so, 900, 600 is spent in At
antic City alone in the course OF Il
single year. Something like 81, 00o, 000
week is distributed among the small
'armhouses by boarders we are told.
Certainly there are many country
owns that owe their material pros
1erity to the vacation habit, and some.
lines they owe other advantages as
we'll. -Providence journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19


At this time, when all Philadelph-
ians are consulting new clock face,
it is interesting to read Of n clock that
has been the cynosure of many eyes
for over 400 years. There stands at
the head of the Piazetta or Little
Square in Venice clock tower known
as La Tore del Orologio, which was
built in 1896 by Pietro Lombardo.
Thus, shortly after the discovery OF
America this tower arose, and has
shown the hour to the gay Venetians
ever since. 1t bids fair to continue its
good work for years to come.
The tower spans the entrance to the
Merceria, or principal business street
in Venice, and thus, as in Phila.
delphia, stands where it does the most
good for the business section Of the
city. On the platform above the clock
stand two giants in bronze who strike
the hours on huge bell, which stands
between them. Other statues adOrn
the tower, representing various church
emblems,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper wi be pleased t.
earn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all ILL.,
stages, and that Is atarrh. Halls Catarrl
ure is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. tatarrh being n constitu.
tiOnal disease, requires Il constitutional treat
acting directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the institution
proprietors have so much faith in Its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
COR any case that 1t fails to cure. Send for list
If testimonials. Address
r. j. tmE>EY Il Co, Toledo, ..
sold by Druggists, .jG.
Halls Family Fills are the best.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

clear, hard, blue sky, with scraps of
white cloud tearing across it, and every
pool in the street frozen with clinking
ice. The lake had not begun to
freeze yet, save for q little crusting
by the shore We could see the dark
gusts go racing out across it, and the
white crests leaping, and knew that a
few miles from land terrible sea was
running.
My wife had sent me to the store to
get some milk for breakfast,
and as T stood waiting while it
was being measured, in burst
Andre Muir, all out Of breath with
running. He was always grim
looking man. but have never seen
such glover in any mans eyes as I
saw then in his, and his face was pale
as death.
whats this they tell me-" cried
he, "of flare off the pier last night?'
81 don't know what they've been
telling you, Mr.. Muir" said Billings,
the storekeeper, little frightened by
the look of the man, "but saw it my
self-the flare of two.mast schooner,
off yonder, just before the wind
turned" And he said this calmly,
for, being landsman, he did not I'M
derstand what that turn of tie wind
signified.
At that Andrew turned paler yet
and seized him by the shoulder. 'In
the name of heaven, man." he said,
"why didn't you tell me? Then he
stopped, and faltered, and cried,
"Where is my son? Where is John?"
And leaving the storekeeper shaking
with fear, out of the store he rushed.
and down the clustering street; and
followed to see the end of it.
At the turn OF the street he met Will
Harding, one of his sons chums.
could not hear what passed, but I saw
him set off on n run for the piers.
Chris Larsen was in the cabin of
tho Sallie B., and he told me what
passed there. John, he said, lay
asleep till he felt the huge grip of his
fathers hand on his shoulder. Then
he started to his feet. The boy had
been drinking, but the sight of his
fathers face that moment would have
sobered any man.
"What is it, father?" he cried, and,
manly as he was, there was fear in his
voice.
But he need have feared no violence.
Andrew Muir looked at him in calm,
white passion. "Couldst thou not
watch one hour?" he said, and his
voice was grave and awful. "Couldst
thou not watch one hour? Boy, you
have slept away the life of brave men,
and maybe of you and me Us we'll.
Come!"
John rose and followed. 1t was
then that I met them, as they walked
straight on, Andrew leading to where
the Defiance lay. Already men had
gathered, somehow the sense of
news had filled the air-and they
watched in dull silence, as at funeral,
as the two men went on board the lit
tie vessel.
John stepped to the engine room,
Andrew to the wheel. Without o
word Olsen, the third of the crew,
joined them. although Andrew shook
his head. But he was stolid fellow,
loyal as dog, and it would be useless
to turn him back from sharing any
danger that they and the Defiance
were to face.
The crowd murmured. They knew
what it signified to put out into the
lake on that day, but no one raised q
voice to object.
As the lines were being cast of, q
woman came pushing through the
crowd. 1t was Andrews wife. I
could see her reach out her hands to
him. ANDREW" she cried. spare
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19
Bills of All Kinds,

"Did you ever think what variety
OF meanings many of our words have"'
saws Bill of Perth. '"Take for exam
pie, the word Bill. There's
"Bill-Short for William.
-" A shopkeepers account.
An act OF parliament.
" --Beak of bird.
4" Instrument Of war, mattock.
" "A list, bill of fare, play,
bill.
"A written promise to pay.
" In law, true bill, or bill of
Indictment.
" To caress; bill and coo. -
London Answers.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

A miniature telephone to take the
place of the ear trumpet for deaf peo-
pie has just made its appearance, ac-
'ording to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A tiny receiver is placed i'll the passage
Of the ear and connected by fine wires
With transmitter worn on the breast
and battery carried in the pocket or
other convenient part of the dress.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Clean blood means u clean skin. No
beauty without 1t. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving ali i'm
purities from the body. Begin today to
Danish pimples boils, blotches. blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets-beauty for ten cents. All drug
Gists, yatisfac ion guaranteed, l0c, Csc, soc.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19
DO Your Feet Ache and Burn:

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot-Eas",
powder for the feet. 1t makes Tight or
New Shoes feel Easy Cures Corns. Bun,
ions, Swollen, Hot. Callous. Aching and
Sweating Feet. Sold by all Druggists
Grocers and Shoe Stores Zoe. sample sent
FREE. Address Allen .. Olmsted. l.eRoy
n Y
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19
FRESH TRADE DEVELOPMENTS.

The United States Commercial
Agent at Bamberg says that the ex'
ports of fancy soap and perfumery by
Germany is coming to be consider
able item. The value of toilet soap
sent abroad in 1896 exceeded that OF
1897 by nearly 800, 900, and the ex.
ports of perfumery, amounting to u
tritle over 1000, 900, showed all in,
crease of S250,000. Germany sends
fancy soap to Russia, China and the
Dutch East Indies, and perfnmery to
Belgium, Holland, Austria, Russia,
British East Indies, Dutch East
Indies and China.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Bertha -The papers used to say
she had countless dollars. They never
say it now, though.
Hilda-No; she's married count
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

The Colorado Historical Society has the
original deed of Brigham ioung's mill, the
first erected in Utah. NE33
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use Of Dr. kline's Great
Nerve Restorer.$ ~ trial bottle and treatise free
DIX. X. ii. KLINE, Ltd, y3l Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19
Don't Tobacco Spit aud Smoke Your Life Away.

To QUIT tobacco easily and forever, be mag
Bac. the wondcrwur. e, that makes weak men
strong. All druggist j1". or 81. Cure guar
anteed. Booklet and sample free. Address.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the
most obstinate coughs. - REV. ID. BCCH-
MUELLER, Lexington, Mo-, Feb. "a, 1894
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Seversl methods of purifying blast
furnace gas before it is used for power
purposes in gas engine have been
tried. One that has given satisfaction
in French ironworks is to force jet
of the gas against water surface,
where the dust particles are caught
and removed, while the gas itself re.
bounds and proceeds along an in.
closed passage to suitable recep-
tacle
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. 1t
is the one perfect strengthening laxa.
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome hAbitual constipation per-
manently. Its perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and sub
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from SIENNA and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRJP
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. N. 2.
For sale by all Druggists. Soc. per bottle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure consti patton forever.
&c. :5c. re &. Z. fai ,druggis,s refund money,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Mrs .Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reducing inAamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie 225c. II bottle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

A ton of water is supposed to con.
tain about fourteen grains of gold.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Government inspectors sent to this
country Ivy Russia report that Ameri-
can rail mills are wonderfully equipped
from mechanical point of view, but
the inspectors are doubtful whether
American manufacturers understand
the art of imparting durability to
rails,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19
A Faithful Clock.

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. To- or BIC,
II g. Q. Z. fail to cure druggists refund money.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

hS Soioio VI CAO PStui' va ~ W ca .
are due to mixtures of the different
kinds of coloring matter already men,
toned, the petals being nothing more
than colored leaves"
could you make lawn of red
grass?"
"Grass could only be made red by
converting the chlorophyll which it
contains into erythrophyll. The tint
of grass often changes. Sometimes it
is almost yellow, at other times deep
green, again almost blue, and now and
then red tints appear. 1t would not
be possible, however, to make a red
grass without changing the biological
functions of the plant in some way,
and this would be slow process and
practically impossible.
'"The horticulturist and the garden
or understand the possibility of varia-
ton in plant colors, and exercise all
their arts for changing the natural
colols which plants present. These
changes are produced by propagating,
also by changing the quantity and
quality of plant food, and also by ex-
posing plants to different intensities
of light. 1t is we'll known that the
green chlorophyll does not develop in
the dark. Chlorophyll when kept in
the dark changes into leucophyll, or
white coloring matter. Plants grown
in the dark are said to be etiblated.
The green color is not developed, but
such plants are not perfectly normal,
and often develop chemical constitu
ents which the normal plant does not
possess. BY taking advantage of
these principles the horticulturist and
the gardener produce fantastic colors
and seem to change natures method
of painting plants. All unusual, pc
culiar colors must DO regarded to q
certain extent as abnormal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19
WHY GRASS IS GREEN.
A SCIENTIST TALKS ENTERTAIN.
lNclY ABOUT NATURES COLORS.

Professor Wiley, of the Department OF AG-
riculture. Washington. Explains the
Chemistry OF Pinnts-Why Roses Are
He'd and Violets Blue.
asked Professor Wiley, the we'll
known chemist of the Department Of
Agriculture, some time ago why grass
was green instead Of red or blue. writes
w. +. Curtis, in the Chicago Record.
"The green color of grass" he re-
piled, sis due to substance known
to che mists and botanists as chloro-
phyll, coming from two Greek words
meaning green leaf Formerly it
was supposed iron had great deal to
do with coloring the chlorophyll, but
the green coloring matter itself does
not contain any iron, although iron is
an important ingredient in the proper
development of plants. The red and
yellow colors of leaves and flowers are
produced by oxidations of the chloro-
phyll. When this change has gone to
the yellow stage the substance is known
rs xanthophyll. When it has gone to
the rcd stage it is called erythrophyll.
All the changing colors of the leaves
in the spring and autumn are due to
the presence of these same coloring
matters in different degrees of oxida-
ton.
"The coloring cell is the most i'm
portant part of the plant from biolo-
gical point of view" continued Pro.
lessor Wiley. SIT is not generally
known that plants take nearly all their
nourishment from the air. What IL
plant gets from the air and from the
water which it abstracts from the soil
forms about ninety five per cent. of its
lightweight in dry state. 1t is in the
chlorophyll cells where this green col
oring matter is found that these raw
materials are elaborated into plant
food. All the woody fiber of plants,
all the starch and sugar they contain,
are made in the chlorophyll cells by
the condensation of carbonic acid and
water 1t is thus seen that the bust
ness of the chlorophyll cell Is not only
to beautify and adorn them with at
tractive colors, but it has practical
function which is of the utmost i'm
portance to plants and to animals.
Without the biological and chemical
activity of the chlorophyll cell animal
food would entirely disappear from
the earth and universal starvation
would take place.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

And when he lay safe in the cabin of
the Defiance, the danger was not over.
To return in the teeth of that gale, in
the face of those furious seas, was i'm
possible.
So they steered to the east, and
came, after mad, terrible strug-
gle. of which they will never
speak, to Manistee, on the farther side
of the lake. There they found shell
ter, and there the doctors did what
they could for Andersen. But that was
little. He would he q cripple for life,
unable to earn his own living, Of no
use in the active world of men.
It was he that you saw sitting in
the stern OF the Defiance. He makes
his home with the Muirs, and they do
their best for him. With his savage
temper, they have no easy time of it,
but they never complain. They feel
that the duty. is theirs. Perhaps it is
we'll for John. He is a steady lad
now, steady and sober. No wonder!
1t was bitter lesson--and to have to
remember all his life that it took five
strong lives to teach him.
For long time it seemed to
me unjust-fiv men all to teach
one careless boy! But at last
I reasoned 1t out. You see, it is not
John only that has been taught. All
his friends, all the people of this
town, all the men that sail this lake
have learned their lesson, too-a les
son that may save many life.
We sat silent for moment; then
the clear whistle of tug called us to
our senses. 1t was the Defiance
bound in, with stately "three-
master" in tow. As she passed, the
cripple on the stern lifted his hat
from his gray head and waved
cheerful greeting to the spectators on
the pier.
''Lively as ever" said my new &C.
quaintance, Except when his fits of
savage temper take him. One finds
it hard to pity him, for oil his suffer-
ings seem to have taught him moth
ing. 1t is the others that have
learned. YOUTHS Companion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Although the discovery of rich iron
ores in Minnesota has thrown some
other deposits into the shade in this
country, good deal of interest is felt
in those of Virginia. An expert de-
clares that the proportion of metal in
the ores around Roanoke amounts to
from forty-three to forty.six per cent.
The amount of phosphorus found
various from O.o0 to 900 per cent.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

they inherit from ancestors many gen.
erations back. Plants, like animals,
also tend to revert to primitive forms,
so that the beautiful carnations, roses
and chrysanthemums, if left to nature,
would gradually revert to primitive
aud less beautiful forms. All these
changes in plants are largely infu-
enced by the food that is fed to them
hence the chemist has quite as much
to do with it as the botanlst or biolo-
gist. Grating and culture from cut
tings rather than from seeds also adds
to the variations"
"Conld you make blue or green
carnation?'
cit would be possible to make a
blue or green carnation. So far no
limit is known to accidental variation.
The most unexpected freaks occur in
plant life, as among men. and if such
an accidental variation should occur
by cutting, grading or other methods
OF propagation the tendency to pro-
duce it may be developed. 1t is not
an impossible problem, although it
depends largely upon accident. The
variegated colors of foliage plants are
due to the distribution of the coloring
matter above mentioned, namely. the
different phyllis in segregated locali-
ties and in mixtures.
"Why are roses red and violets
blue?"
Crosses are red because the coloring
matter is of the erythorphyll variety,
and violets are blue because the color
ing matter absorbs other rays and re-
fleets the blue one. In fact, all col.
ors are due to the power which GER
tain bodies have to absorb certain
rays and reflect others. The leaf is
green because all otner rays of light
are absorbed and green is reflected.
All colors look alike in the absence of
light, because in that case there is
neither reflection or absorption. Why
the rose is red and the violet blue,
except for the explanation I have
given, is beyond human knowledge,
and / must refer you to the Creator
for better explanation
"There are accidental variations
which go beyond the power of man to
explain, and some of them have been
developed by careful culture aad Sc
lection on the part of man.
"Fruit trees which belong to the
same genus can be made to bear diff
ferent kinds of fruit by grating. For
instance, different kinds of apples
can be made to grow upon the same
tree, and pears and other similar fruits
may grow upon the same stock by
grating. The principle which deter
mines the character of the fruit is in
the extreme tip or bud or leaf, and
not in the trunk or root. Why and
how the principle propagates itself
and embraces every branch that may
grow from the original graft is one of
the secrets of nature. The sap has
nothing to do with it, mineral mat
ter has nothing to do with it, but the
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Nearly all parts of a telephone are
made in Japan now, and only the
springs are imported. The factories
are slow in filling orders, however,
and this fact gives foreigners little
chance, even yet, to sell telephones
in the great island empire of the
East.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Guara ntced tobacco habitcurc makes veal
men strong. blood pure. SIC, 81. All druggists
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

Russia is rich in raw skins, but
lacks good tanning material. 1t has
been customary there to use willow
leaves, which contain only four per
cent. of tannin. Recently the Rus.
sian Government has authorized the
admission of quebracho, duty free, to
promote the tanning industry. This
wood contains about twenty to twenty.
five per cent. of tannin.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-08-19

England's recent developments in
electric railway construction have
been so great as to induce the capital
lists of that country to establish big
plant for the production of the ma
terials, most of which are now i'm.
ported from the United States. The
technical director of the factory will
be an American engineer, and Ameri.
can methods will prevail throughout.