Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-11-09
EDWARD G. DAN a.
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The sale of Mr.. Marshall l.cfIert's
very valuable collection Of books and
manuscripts last week To a dealer was
said to have been prompted by the
owners desire to be free from the re-
sponsiblity of caring for such valua-
bic library. Some of his single folio
editions judged by recent market
prices, would be worth $4,000 or $4,000
each. and the total value Of the coller-
tion is difficult to estimate. The num-
bers Of book collectors has increased
enormously and iheir demand for valu-
able first editions has sent prices up
by leaps and bounds. Mr.. I.cfferts not
only had a very representative col
lection of English writer's, but an
Americana that was we'll selected and
valuable. Just at present there are II
New York half dozen wealthy men
each of whom is bent on gathering
everything in the shape of old bol..s
and pictures referring to this city's
history, and the market for such thing,
which was well supplied few years
ago has been pretty thorough
cleaned.
Because of the general interest in
his personality that has been aroused
by his campaign, all sorts of stories
and "reminiscences of William 7. Je-
rome are now listened to with interest.
and among those told there is the
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appeared in the Carlyle Harris case,
whore so many expert medical wit
nesses came to grief, he displayed in
cross-eXamnation more thorough
knowledge of chemistry than could be
acquired by a lawyer who had simply
Crammed on it in preparation for his
case. 1t was of great value to him in
tangling up opposing witnesses. Mr.
jerome, when at Amherst college, was
student under Prof. Harris. who be-
lieved and probably still believes that
liberal education consists of a knowl-
edge of chemistry and whose course
has long had the reputation of being
the stiffest in college A large pro-
portion of his class each year finds it.
self conditioned in this subject and
forced to work it off with much extra
labor Mr.. jerome has strong bent
toward such things, however, and he
showed in this trial that although he
had been out of college for more than
q dozen years, he had not forgotten his
chemistry.
In many of the busy downtown Of
fees have appeared recently signs di
recting all canvasSers. sellers of tick
cts for benefits and applicants for char
ity to make their request to a certain
investi eating company whose address
is given. A visitor to a banking Office
who noticed this sign asked a member
of the firm if it was merely a scheme
to shut off such callers. Not bit
of it," he replied. I'VE are not only
willing. but anxious to give discrm-
inatingly a certain sum each year for
worthy benefits and to worthy indi-
viduals, but our experience has been
like that of many other Offices down
here We have given money to men
and women whose pleas for worthy
cases were plausible only to learn later
that they We're frauds. Agents for al
legged advertising mediums have fooled
us in the same way. We cannot af
ford the time to investigate each case
and when this company offered to do
it for us we subscribed to their SER
vice. No applicant not recommended
by this company may now expect any
thing from us. Wall street has long
been noted for reckless charity and
much harm has been done in this way.
With general clearing house for
such applicants our time is saved and
all worthy requests are granted"
Onion soup cooked for an hour or
two is one of the stable dishes at the
Hoffman House during campaign times.
This famous hostelry is the headquar-
ters for the Tammanyites and their
friends. Onion soup may now be had
at the Hoffman House under the man
agement of the Hon. John p. Caddagan
at any time. 1t may be had for break
fast, for lunch and for dinner. What
does onion soup do for these Tammany-
ties? Why it is a precious restorative
to wrecked nervous systems The odor
is not always agreeable, but between
the Scotch whskey and the Bourbon
whiskey and the champagne and the
beer and the porter and the gin and
the liqueurs onion soup to these Tam
manyites is great gedative. So onion
f.nr nnnip ON ha
sdered as the first and last diet of
Tammany politician.
A young man walked into the Ten
derloin police station one night and
said, i've come here for advice. To
tell the truth, I'm having little
trouble with dad. don't s'pose he
means anything wrong but it's put me
in very embarrassing position. He's
been opening my letters, and he not
only opens 'em, but he goes right ahead
and answers em. | get a good many
letters from young ladies, and several
time lately | have met one or another
note you sent me- Then |, not know
ing what she meant, would say, What
note? and she'd saw that | ought to
know and then I'd ask to see it, and
when | got hold of the note I'd find
my father had written it. Say SER
geant dad oughtn't to do that, do you
think so? What'll do about it?" The
sergeant said he'd better go to court
and get summons for his father.