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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31

She stands among the lilies
That line the garden wall.
(What can the child be doingD
How fair she Is and tall!
The lilies bend to kiss her:
They-(bloss me, do you see?
She's broken off my rarest
And Is bringing 1t to med
Mary A. Lathbury in st. Nicholas
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31

A man at Winchester, Conn, has
hen when has been laying eggs in
trees. The Boston Globe stands
sponsor tor this story, but neglec's
to state whether the hen builds a
nest or balances her egg on branch,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31
SIR T n S

In East Barnard, oct. 10, II daughter to
MIR. and Mrs. Edwin Moore.
In Bridgcwuter, Oct %, n son to Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Hawkins, weight l pounds.
In Woodstock, Oct. H. a daughter to Mr.
and Mrs. Charles ID. Lockwood
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31
DEATHS.

In Barnard, Oct. 10, John +. lloar, aged
80 years, 10 months.
In Tuftsville, Oct. 20, Miss Lizzie NJ Gill
bert, aged 45 years.
GIN Woodstock, Oct. 20, Owen Il. Marsh,
aged G8 years.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31

AS yet no reports come from Bel
grade of life insurance agents troub-
ling King Peter and having been
forcibly elected from the palace.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31
TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS:

THE AGE will be sent from now un-
til January |, 1905, for ONE DOLLAR.
THE AGE also offers to new subscrib-
ers The Age and New York Tribune
Farmer for one year for One Dollar.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31

Whom Queen N;ets-i~ W.. . eh,id- -
Among the many stories told OF
the childhood of Queen Victoria is
one of a visit made with her mother
at Wentworth House in Yorkshire.
While there the princess delighted
in running about by herself in the
gardens and strawberries.
One wet morning soon after her
arrival the old gardener, who did
not then know her, saw her about
to descend trcacherous bit of
ground from the terrace and called
out:
"Be careful, miss; it's Shape" a
Yorkshire word for slippery.
The ever curious princess, turn.
ing her head, asked, whats slape%'
and at the same instant her feet
flew from under her and she came
down.
The old gardener ran to lift her,
saying as he did SO, "That's slape,
miss. youths Companion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31

A nugget of gold worth S327C
was recently found on Anvil creek,
near Nome.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31
Baby White"

Here IL my little lady,
Her name IL Baby White.
Her face Is like an apple flower.
Her eyes are soft and bright:
Her hands are rosy snowfiakes;
Her head OF flaxen fun
Is nodding IN the garden like
A dandelion pun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31

c. A. Southland, employed at the
International Paper Co.'S mill at
Bellows Falls, was caught in the
shaiting Tuesday morning and was
instantly killed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31
FOR THE LITTLE ONES.
The Charming Black Eyed Baby 0lrls
Of japan.


A recent book on the children OF
various countries says: "a baby
japanese girl is the most delightful
creature you can possibly imagine,
radiant, happy, beautiful butterfly.
She is rarely known to cry, for she
is rarely slapped. What mother
could have the heart to touch so
dainty blossom as the child flower
of this land of flowers? The baby
girl loves fun, she loves toys, sweets
and tea in little cups, she loves to
smoke, with funny pipe made OF
brass and kept in her sleeve, and,
above all, she loves her big round
headed doll. She is wonderfully
playful and gentle, this child, al
ways ideally dressed and always self
possessed. She has the loveliest
mouth and teeth and twinkling
black eyes, and she knows it too.
The smallest japanese wants to be
beautiful. Each baby has her dain-
ty lacquer box of rouge and powder.
She is like some wonderful fantastic
tropical blossom, some dear little
dragon fly. And her hair-how
black it is, with blue lights, and
shining where it is stiffened and
gummed in loops and bands till it
seems to reflect the gold lacquer and
coral tipped pins that bristle round
her head. Great competition goes
on between girls as to whose hair
shall be most becomingly arranged,
whose the smoothest and most
glossy, whose girdle shall be the
most gracefully tied and whose dress
shall possess the most harmonious
ofioct -
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-10-31
Little Bobbv's Position,

Little Bobby--Mamma, the boys
is going to have a circus. May l
act?
Mamma-Oh, l suppose SO. What
IRE you going to do?
Little Bobby - Nothing much.
They is going to have pyramid Of
sixteen boys, an all l has to do is
to stand on top.-London Tit-Bits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
LORD KITCHENER'S ISLAND.
A beautiful Spot Near the First Gaia.
ract of the Nile.

London Sketch.
is Lord Kitchener to turn Crusoe? The
means for his doing So should he desire
are available. He is the possessor of one
OF the loveiiest little islands that spring
from the surface of the Nile. In that
stretch OF the great river which sweeps
past Assouan are two islands. The larger
or these is the Island Elephantine. reach
ing along, approximately, the center of the
river. Beyond, stretching away toward the
western shore, is an island which few will
observe as such. Not one in a thousand
suspects that this is the island home of
Lord Kitchener.
The island forms an ideal spot in which
TO build oneself a retreat far from the
madding crowd. Thirteen acres of nara
dlse, wnere every prospect pleases. and
where wars and rumors of wars cannot
enter, nor the tiresome continue to trouble
A pile of colossal granite powders forms
the up-river extremity of the island From
here the view il toward the first Cataract
with Philae beyond. one of the flares,
scenes. the Nile affords. The luxuria nj
palms of Elephantine shut out all possibjI.
Ivy Oh prying eyes from Assouan. East
and west there rises steepIy the mountain
that confines the river and forms the cat
aract
The northern half is gorgeous picture
Oh pomegr S oranges. citron oleanders
roses and every conceivable growth OF
beauty and sweet scent, Towering shrubs
and rich fruit trees that flourish in this
perfect climate.
VI the lSldflQ Is an arDOY
enveloped In riot of the pale blue blooms
OF magnificent convolvulus Here stands
a Greek pedestal of chaste and exquisite
design 1t tells tale of a distant pa st
for 1T was found buried deep down in tbT
SOIL overturned for the work that was In
hand. "
A large portion of the center of the island
is devoted TO the growth of vegetables
Here are peas, French beans, lettuce egg
plants and other such welcome foods. All
OF which ind ready market in the lux
urious hotels OF Assouan. This portion OF
the estate is not the least carefully cult.
waited. Nothing is left to chance
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
AMERICAN BAD MANNERS.
A Story Which Goes to Prove What 1t
Is Not Meant to Do.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
I'VE are often reminded of the crude man
ners of Americans" said a man who studies
the niceties of social relations. I'VE are told
that our people are blunt, uncouth and lack
polish. On the stage we have seen their
laundering, clumsy antics pictured in con-
tradistinction to the suave, refined manners
OF the foreigners. To some extent Americans
can plead guilty 10 these criticisms. The
people OF this country are democratic In
their natures, and too sturdy and strong TO
be effete. But their sentiments are refined
and their thoughts are lofty and noble. new
ertheless. And they are as sensitive any
OF the trained men and women OF the old
world, and are quick as any people TO
feel an offense against their sentiments.
only recently distinguished French jour-
nalist visited New Orleans and he had an
opportunity of realizing just what have
said. i have in mind NJ Huret, editor OF
the Figaro, published in Paris, who was
here only short time ago. be was enter
tanned and feted while here. and no more
so than he deserved. He is a scholarly man
and the consideration he received at the
hands Of American families VINO had the
pleasure of entertaining him was not more
than was his due. Yet while he was the
guest of a New Orleans family he made
mistake which he will remember for long
time because of its educative value. M.
Huret had not carefully considered the SEN
sitiveness OF the Southern people on the race
problem. He took the broader view which
places the negro on an equal footing with
the white people, the view of the theorist
and philosopher. Hence ii was that he fell
into grievous error which he was some
days trying to blot out He was asked by a
young lady of New Orleans for his auto
graph. He readily consented to write some
thing in her album, which contains the
names of many distinguished men. Taking
the little book he wrote about as follows:
My trip to America will not be all that I
wish until have met Booker T. Washing
ton. M. Huret." The young lady's face
turned crimson and then paled. In an in
slant she tore the leaf from her album and
crumbled the paper in her hand. Throwing
1t at the feet of the French journalist she
reminded him that the Southern people were
kindly disposed towards the negro, but did
not hold him in such esteem as Nj. Huret
seemed to. The journalist endeavored to cor
rect the mistake he made, but he left New
Orleans without his autograph adjoining
the pages of the young ladies' album
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
EFFECTS OF MONEY ON FAMILIES.
Interesting Study of Results of In.
herited Wealth.
Harper's Weekly.

Harper's Weekly.
An interesting contribution to the study Of
the effects Of money on families can be
made by any person of statistical inclina-
tions who will take the trouble to trace
out for few generations the history of a
score or two of our very rich families, and
learn what effect the requirement of a big
fortune by any individual American has
had on the divorce record of that individual
and his descendants. 1t is early yet to get
results that would prove much, because
pretty new; but already tendencies seem
to be showing themselves which it would
be worth while to trace back. There are be-
lieved to be about 1900 millionaires in the
United States; enough to give a statistician
an ample field to work in. fortune suffi-
Gent TO make life easy and comfortable is
probably promoter Of domestic happiness,
but still it seems likely that rich people or
their descendants get more divorces than
poorer people do. In the first place, heirs
and heiresses are more exposed to the wiles
of the designing than the scions of poverty
and for that reason are somewhat more
likely TO make unwise marriages. Again,
the rich, as rule, have more leisure than
the poor, are not so steadily and effectively
disciplined by work, are less safeguarded
by wholesome routine, and cast about
more widely and continuously for pleasures
Satan, as heretofore, finds mischief still for
idle hands to do. and some of the mischief
results in divorce. Moreover, the rich are
somewhat more used TO self-indulgence and
having their own way than the poor and
less inclined, if they find themselves in un-
comfortable matrimonial case to grin and
bear 1t. They can meet the expense of d.
vorce, which is often considerable can go
as FAR as Is necessary and stay there as
long as is necessary, to gain divorce on con-
venient terms; and they can afford to break
UP families without fear of want. Many a
wife sticks TO a bad husband because she
and her children need his support many a
husband puts up with an unsatisfa Glory
wife because he cannot afford to try a new
one Divorce, like the appendicitis opera
ton, is a luxury, and comes high
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

New Orleans Times Democrat.

New Orleans Times Democrat
IF all the judges would follow the exam
pie of one / know here in New Orleans. -
said an old reporter, they would not only
accumulate a record that would be of in
estmable value, but they would be in much
better position TO deal intelligently with
offenders in cases where they considered IL
proper to make recommendations Judges.
you know, frequently make recommended
tons one way and another when called
upon to do so, in cases where they feel JUS
titled in interposing. Sometimes, / may say
very often, IL is that an offender be par
doned. The judge / have in mind-I have
not the liberty to call his name-has gone
about the thing in systematic way When
ever he makes a recommendation. or re-
fuses to make one, he will do so with all the
lights before him. He has brief history OF
every case that has come before him He
has little book for that purpose He lots
down the salient points. very much as a
newspaper man would, for and against the
offender If there are mitigating circum-
stances, If there is anything in the record
in case of conviction which tends 10 miti-
gate the offense, he knows II. The result OF
the method is that the judge In question
will have. when he leaves the bench, COM
plete and valuable record. and one. which
may be of much use 10 him. IT is a good
reference record. and. besides. enables him
to act inteiligently the matters which
come before him IN the meantime"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
THE BINDING OF BOOKS.

Philadelphia Ledger.

Philadelphia Ledger.
Bookbinding may be revolutionized There
is decided movement against sheep"
which has for many years been regarded by
experts as the proper thing in binding. The
Washington has pronounced against
sheep" as binding and in favor of can
vas or other cloth, and he quotes from Ii
brary officials to show the rapid deteriora-
ton of leather bindings. Probably the real
cause of the deterioration is the revolution
which has occurred in recent years in the
process and methods of tanning. 1t has not
been so long since in some countries the pro-
cess or tanning consumed eight years, and
in all countries considerable time was re-
quired to make leather.
Leather tanned in this way had wonderful
power of resistance against the encroach-
ments of time or the attacks of dust, in
sects and the like. To-day it is often tanned
In Few hours and the longest period is
only few weeks. The chemicals used in the
process must necessarily impair the lasting
power of the article and hence it is stated
that sheep bindings in room where gas
go all to pieces.
Leather tanned by the modern process is
good enough for all purposes. except book
nindins. Times have changed; with them
the necessities of the people. No one now
wants pair of boots to last four or five
years The fashions change rapidly, and the
SHOES OF to-day may be antiquated a year
hence. Half dozen pair of shoes can be
bought for the price of a simple pair of
boots forty years ago, and it is much the
same with other things made of leather.
Lovers or books, however, want bindings
that will last forever, If they can get them
or course, they can't. but it is reasonable
to expect bindings that will last out their
lifetimes, and the librarians say that leath-
er will no longer do this and must be sup
planted by something more durable. 1t
sounds heterodox to assert that canvas or
cloth OF any sort is superior to leather
but it is fairly certain that book lovers and
librarians will eventually have their way
in this matter. The great public takes little
account of the binding of book so il is
neat or pretty, the concern being about the
contents instead of the outside If experts
hold steadily to their purpose they will win.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
OLIVE OIL
Is the Best Remedy for Cuts and
Bruises of Any Kind.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
Every one knows how frequent bruises
are in children and adults. Children fire.
quently get them by falling, and adults in
the course of their days work. These
bruises, which are formed by the filtration
of blood into the network of the tissues,
often assume the appearance of blackish
ecchymosis, which is treated with Goulard
water and resting the confused part, COM
bined with a light pressure of strips or
wadding or with stronger pressure by
placing a coin over the spot. The swelling
quickly turns to violet, then to blue-green
and yellow, and loses its color by degrees,
until the blood in the tissue is absorbed.
To all these methods NJ. Camescasse of
Arnoult has added another, which is said
TO be greatly preferable TO any. 1t consists in
simply covering the bruise with olive oil.
swelling subsidies, and the subsequent
ecchymosis is avoided. 1t renders any sort
of massage entirely superfluous; an anoint-
ing with The liShtest and softest woman 8
hand is all that is necessary. The only in
convenience of this method occurs when the
bruise is broken, and even in such case it
is efficaciouS provided that ii is preceded or
followed by an antiseptic washing. 1t is best
that the amounting should take place as
soon as possible after the bruise, but even
after lapse of several hours there is no
reason to despair of effecting complete
cure.
In what way does the oil act? NJ. Games
casse himself declares that he has not the
slightest idea. He confines himself to the
CdHiiiS to iliiuu llidl, III TIE Hlluule ages,
amounting with oil was regarded as sover-
eign dressing for the battered bodies of
poor knights and that athletes anointed
themselves with oil both before and after
entering the arena-a clear proof of the
curative properties of olive oil, known for
many centuries. Olive oil, moreover, is not
the only topical remedy for bruises. Fresh
butter has long been used by mothers to re-
lieve the pain and cure the bruises which
occur on the foreheads of their young chill
dren. The action of butter can no more be
scientifically explained than that of oil.
But in any case the fact Is beyond ques-
ton; it is, therefore, as well to recall to
mind the good effects that can be obtained
from these fatty substances in the treat
ment of bruises, Of whatever nature they
may be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
OLD MEMS DARLIyGS,
Interesting Statistics and Reflections
on This suggestive Subject.
New York World.

For the Wellesley graduate. aged twenty
Marquis of Donegal there is the excuse
admittedly valid by even cautious members
OF her sex, that she married a title For
the elderly bridegroom, apart from senti-
mental considerations, there is the in
ceiltive or longevity: the statistics prove
that old men live longer if married than If
single.
DR.. Zilz's figures for Europe indicated
that among men past seventy the death
rate is forty-five per thousand for the mar
ried, as against seventy-one for the single
DR.. Schwartz, instancing the fact that of
fifty centenarians examined by him not one
was a bachelor or spinster showed that of
men VINO live to be ninety the ratio is nine
married to three single. Among individual
examples of matrimonial longevity thar of
James Nicholas Lam, of Goshen N Y
may be cited. This doctor-prea cher-author
married thirteen wives and lived TO he
ninety-nine. To what extent did each of his
helpmeets contribute to his length of years ?
Presumably an amiable wife would add a
year where a Xantippe might cut one off.
IL is a normal act for man to marry a
woman younger than himself. Statistics
collected in Germany show that of one
thousand bridegrooms only eighty-nine
chose women older than themselves. A diff
ference of sixty years is, OF course, wholly
abnormal. In New York city in one year
the number of couples married in whose
ages there was "a disparity of twenty years
or more was SIS: but among these were
very few In whom the difference exceeded
forty years.
Doubtless the controlling impulse with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
LOW SHOES AND VANITY.
Evidence to Prove that One Attack ON
Women Is Not Well Founded.
Chicago Inter Ocean.

chicago Inter ocean.
Miss Keary contends that women who
wear low shoes sacrifice health to vanity.
She must be mistaken. Women may be
found by the tens of thousands who wear
low shoes, and among these the vast ma
jority are women who have passed the stage
of vanity. They wear low shoes for COM
fort.
1t is yet to be proved that women who
wear low shoes are more subject to colds
than those who wear high shoes. AS yet 1t
is to be proved that those who are con-
stantly on their guard against what is
called exposure live longer than those who
do not care. When women not only survive
a tickle climate, but come out of its most
trying changes in clothing of weight that
men would hardly feel, it is difficult TO see
how their health can suffer because they
wear low shoes.
Now, take a man-take the average man.
He puts on five thicknesses of clothing on
a Geld day. He is not. content If the tenn
perature is below IS in his Office. He would
not think of stepping across the street with
out putting on his overcoat. In most cases
he would not venture out without his
muffier and overshoes. And take that man
wife. She wears two or three thin thick
nesses Of clothing. She doesn't mind the
weather She will meet the blasts of winter
with unconcern. In her home she will allow
the furnace fire To get low. She will follow
a caller TO the door, out on the veranda.
and talk, and talk, entirely unmindful OF
wraps.
Her husband takes colds-all kinds of
colds-every kind that is going. He wonders
why he takes cold. His wife is good enough
TO wonder with him. and tells him he must
be- more careful of himself. Maybe she will
insist that in addition to all of his other
precautions against exposure he shall wear
n chest protector or porous plaster. But
she takes no colds. That IS, she seldom
does, and, if she does, she attributes the
cold she takes, not to carelessness, but to
the fact that she has inadvertently under
taken to be too careful of herself.
If sheer any other woman-hnds greater
comfort in low than she does in high shoes
why blame her for wearing the former
Even If she wears low shoes and open
worked stockings from pure vanity, why
blame her? Are not the women of America
healthy? Are they not stronge Are they not
harder than the men-as a rule? Then why
not let them have their own way about low
shoes, open-work stockings and everything
else that gives them comfort or pleasure?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

women who marry men greatly older than
themselves Is money; an examination or
some sixteen cases reported In the World
indicates as much. Yet there have been
important sentimental exceptions. Sentt-
ment was the motive that led Ida Kriebel.
SIXTEEN, of Allentown, Pa, to marry Jacob
Dorsey, sixty, though by doing she be-
came her own grandmother. Agnes May.
twenty, VINO married William Cheney. sew
enty, of Bowling Green o.. was the grand
child of his first love, and for that reason
economically inspired toward him. Nellie
White, twenty-five, who became the wife
of Zerah Pomeroy, eighty-nine, of Meriden.
Conn, was a grandchild of his first sweet
hearts sister. The way of the man with
the maid in these cases was an appeal to
the romance in her nature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
The Heart.
southern California Practitioner.

Southern California Practitioner.
The human heart is practically force
pump about six inches in length and four
inches in diameter. 1t beats seventy times
per minute, 400 times per hour, 100 500
times per day and Sc. 1900 times per year
and 2515. Az. O00-say, two thousand five
hundred and seventy-five million four hum
years, which is mans appointed three
score years and ten" At each OF these
beats II forces 2is ounces of blood through
the system, 115 ounces per minute. 656A
pounds per hour. or 705 tons per day. All
the blood of the body. which is about thir-
~ pounds, passes through the heart every
three minutes. lis little organ pumps ev-
cry day what Is equal TO lifting 10 tons
one foot high or one ton I22 feet high-that
Is, one ton TO the top OF a forty-yard mill