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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22

We are used to look grave when
young man takes wife unto Eimselr
with what seems to be undue precipi-
tation, and if presently we see young
family growing up punctually around
him maybe we wag our heads pit
and say 1t was a pity that young BuX-
ton didn't wait until lie had got
round or two further up the ladder,
the Metropolitan Magazine declares.
We say we don't like TO see likely
Young fellow overweighted at the start,
and we know Of men Of promise VINO
incurred domestic blessings so early
in life and in such numbers that all
their lives they never did better thah
TO stagger OH under their load. we
say they never had n chance to get
where they belonged, and we fear II
is going to be so with that young BuX-
ton But IL Buxton has got his start
md seems to be the right sort, and IL
hat demure young Lucy seems to have
ONE hard sense and due constancy,
whatever disguise, under her RID
bons and munlins, lets not croak I'M
duly nor forecast lot of bogy troubles
that are not actually in sight. Keep
ng body and soul together is not quite
so desperately complicated task as
some Of us have grown to think II
Lots Of people don't stsrvs to death.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
MANY Nalner.

SWELL" said the pro-Jap triumphant
ly, II guess you'll agree now that the
Russians won't stop short of Mukden"
"Oh. | don't know" replied the pro.
Russian. I'm sure they'll make
stand at Shenking."
WHAT"
"At Shenking. If not there-ccrtain-
ly at Shenyang."
Pooh" responded the pro-J"p.
"Thcy'll go right to Mukden.
"Well," insisted the .)ro-Russian. "l'n
wager they make stand at Fen-Ticn'
fu. anyhow"
These names were all new to the
pro-Jap, so he didn't take the wager.
And it was well lie didn't for when
he went to the library and consulted 4
map of Manchuria he fodnd that Fen-
Tienfu, Shenyang, Shenkins and Muk,
den were all one and the saline place.
PHILADELPHIA Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
WHOLE NO. 4070.
Further Fighting.

Mukden-Delayed in transmission)
The continual vigilance of the COM
batants and especially the serious ac.
ceptance by the Japanese army of the
Russian advance promises further
fighting, although there has been al
ready nine days of unprecedented and
exhaustive conflict,
The Japanese have alternately test.
ed the Russian center and right flank,
holding the Russians in a monotonous
and bitter day.today resistance on the
line of contact.
The japanese apparently feared
that the Russian advance would de-
velop a superior force of reserves.
The duration Of the contest already
prophecies, as il was believed that
neither side was capable of such eX-
penditure of men and munitions,
which already is in excess of all the
previous fighting within 25 miles Of
Liaoyang,
The roads south and southwest OF
Mukden are filled with refugee native
families trailing homeless toward the
sorry streets of Mukden. The floods
have subsidized. The army is so near
that that 9 Rs he GS TdSSds hare ae
crowded with army traffic.
The fighting on Oct. l6 was most Sc
we're. Fifty wounded were counted in
one hour passing point on one coun-
try pathway. Already the casualties
reported are so great as to confirm the
| declaration of the leaders that the
present conflict would be the bloodiest
| in history. 1t is not possible today to
| make any close estimate of the Rus
| sian casualties.
The Russians appear to hold posi-
tions in the plain along the Shakhe
river, extending from the railway to
Da Pass, beginning at the mountains;
| but the bitterness and tenacity of the
| fight indicates an intimate relation
| with the situation of the eastern army
about which little is obtainable.
| After threatening day the Japan
ese at l. o'clock on the night of oct
16 rushed the cilage Of Linchenpo, on
the north bank of the Shakhe river and
west of the railway, precipitatlng a
laundering cannonade and fusilade
which continued until midnight, the
rifle fire continuing until dawn.
The japanese now occupy the raised
temple quadrangle near Linchenpo
the only eminence for miles around
and which affords an unusual advan
tage for observation and artillery fire
against the Russian right. Several
attempts to dislodge them have failed
Today Japanese shells are falling al
Chanchiapo, near Patapo, showins
that the heavy and continuous Russian
| cannonade has been ineffective.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
G O N % F. n S T. D
NEWS WEEK W 1a7


FRIDAY, Oct. IA. 1904.
Kuropatkin reports the abandon.
ment of two positions, but concludes
his report witt statement that he has
ordered the PORTIONS now held to be
stubbornly defended today.
Unknown three-master schooner
driven ashore off Chatham outer bar;
life-savers unable either to reach her
by boat or to get line aboard.
Twenty.one robberies in Boston
since Oct. l.
Woman murdered on streets OF
Charlottetown, p E. L.: Michael Pow
er, from Boston. arrested. and, Is
thought insane.
Boy and girl lovers kill themselves
together at Ashland, Va.
Duke of Connaught thrown from an
automobile near Edinburgh and hurt
about the head.
Arlington, Mass, citizens hold mass
meeting on gypsy and brown-tail moth
determination.
Brig. Gen. Burton urges the can
teen; says discipline and morale is
better with it than without.
Pittsfield, Mass, barber fined for re-
fusal to shave negro.
Whitman. Mass, people puzzled at
pond that refuses to hold water.
Chicago girl punches footpad and
gets away unharmed
Ex-senator Hill at Wheeling. W..
Va, advocates jury trial in govern.
ment by injunction" cases.
Brunswick fur club loses two foxes
at Barre, Mass, hunt.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
HARDSHiPS OF WOUNDED.
Taken to Hospitals Through Cold
Rain, knee.Deep In Mud.

With the Russian Centre Army
BY courier to Mukden. via Pekin.
The fighting which lulled for time on
Oct. 10. was renewed on Oct. IL,
when the Russians holding positions
on the north bank Of Shakhe river
continually exchanged an artillery
fire with the Japanese.
The hardest fighting was in the cen
tire, where two regiments OF Russian
infantry made a desperate attack on
the night of Oct. 1G. capturing two
Japanese batteries of eight guns each.
1t was an expensive undertaking,
however, as the Russians lost a great
many men. The colonel commanding
was dangerously wounded. The Jap
anese were compelled to destroy their
ammunition. The fighting all that
night was most severe. both sides
suffering heavily, During the prog
ress of the infantry fight the artillery
kept up a bombardment.
On the morning Of Oct. II the Rus
sian centre held positions II miles
south of Mukden. on the main wagon
road, while the left had fallen farther
back to the northeast.
Just before noon the Japanese
guns found the main road and a vii
lage, shelling them with shrapnel
shimose powder contact shells. but
without doing any great damage.
Toward evening the battle lulled,
but during the night the Russian Gen.
tre made two combined infantry and
artillery attacks, which resulted in
the securing of new positions about
half mile in advance.
These attacks were made during a
downpour of rain and were successful
in giving the Russians possession OF
small stretch of the ground over
which they retired last week.
Today long line of wounded is be,
ing taken to the hospital at Mukden
through a cold and drizzling rain and
over road which is covered with
mud knee deep.
The Japanese have confined them
selves to throwing occasional volleys
of shrapnel at the Russian batteries
which kept UP a continual combard
ment.
While the battle still continues. II
is small affair compared with that
of last week The fighting now Is en-
tirely on the plain.
The Japanese apparently are sat
isfied with having stopped the Rus
sian advance and with having brought
their own line to the Shakhe river.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
Conference on Moths,


The Civic League of Reading be-
lieves that very grave and wholesale
danger threatens the trees of this re-
gion of Massachusetts by reason OF
the presence and depredations of the
brown-tail and gypsy moths. 1t Is
convinced that recent experiences,
and especially that of the past sum-
mer, have shown conclusively that it
is impossible successfully to fight
these insect pests single-handed, and
that the only plan which promises ef-
fective results is to be brought about
by the voluntary cooperation OF all
the citizens of all infected and adjoin-
ing towns and districts.
Thus believing the Civic League
suggests the need and wisdom of hold
ing a meeting for public conference on
this important matter, for the full and
free discussion of ways and means for
the removal of this increasing insect
plague. To this conference each town
interested will be invited to send rep
resentatives. This means the plan
ming and carrying out of definite
campaign of work within this district
for the repression, and if possible, the
determination of these insect enemies.
If the above suggestion meets with
your approval, you are hereby invited
to send one or more representatives
from your town, or local improvement
society, to meet others for mutual dis
cussiOn and consultation upon this
very important matter at the Reading
High school building on Tuesday even
ing, October %, 1904, at 7.3O o'clock
Prof. A. H. Kirkland. consulting en-
tomologist of Boston. will be present
and give an illustrated practical tall
upon these two insect pests which are
now threatening the life and beauty o
our ornamental and forest trees. This
will serve as a helpful introduction t(
the discussion to follow.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
Russians Shifting Forces.

London.-A dispatch to the japanese
legation from Toxic says:
Field Marshal Oyama reports that
Tuesday the enemy seemed gradually
decreasing his force in the direction OF
the right army, only small detach"
ments continuing activity. The enemy,
beaten at Bensihu, is retreating north
eastwards.
In the direction of the central army,
the enemy made assaults. but they
were all repulsed, and since then there
have been only occasional exchanges
of cannOnades.
I'm front of the left army, the enemy
Is occasionally firing
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22

Providence-Miss l.. Ada Matteson
of Apponaug has been appointed ru-
raj letter carrier in that town. and
she will begin her duties Nov. Is. The
selection was the result Of an exam
ination several weeks ago.
Miss Matteson is a sister of one Of
the highway commissioners. She is
a graduate of the East Greenwich
academy and the state normal school
and she had business training in a
Providence commercial college. She
has also been an assistant in the post
office in Apponaug when her brother
was postmaster, in 1896 to 1899. Har-
old G.. Matteson has been appointed
substitute carrier.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
INDICATED VEGETABLES.
now an Excess of Any Medicinal SUBJ
stance May he Stimulated.


stance May Be Stimulated.
Will the doctor of the future, instead
of prescribing some unpleasant drug.
order a course of medlcated vegcta.
bles? This may be the result Of the
present attempts to cultivate plants
containing abnormal quantities OF GER
tain medicinal substances. 1t is well
known that the amount of any charac'
teristic element in plant varies with
its richness in the soil, and 1t Is also
known that the assimilation OF mineral
elements Of the body is much more
readily accomplished when these are
partaken in the form Of food. In the
past, If the body needed an excess OF
iron it has been supplied by tinctures
taken through glass tubes. The mod
ern idea is to supply this want by such
vegetables as medicated spinach. Ex-
periments with plants grown in soil
enriched by hydrate of iron proved that
they contained q much larger percent
age of iron than those grown In nat
ural soil, This opens whole vista OF
interesting possibilities. The iron. the
potash. the manganese. the nitrogen
needed by the system can be supplied
more effectively through vegetables
than through medicines. Already many
| vegetables are known to have curative
properties Celery is generally held TO
be good for rheumatism and nervous
disorders; lettuce for insomnia; pea
| nuts for indigestion; onions for liver
complaints; carrots for scurvy; toma-
toes for the liver; blackberries for diar-
rhea and apples for nervous dyspepsia
and rheumatism. Certified milk, with
its stated proportion of fat, sugar and
solids, would have seemed improbable
some years ago. Will the future see
certified vegetables? - American aas.
dening. iE
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
BARGE Load of Provisions Lost.

Halifax, N. S.-Advices to owners
say that the steamer Havana from
Halifax towing a barge to Hamilton
inlet, Labrador. laden with 800 bar
rels of -four, 100 barrels of pork, and
other merchandise, was struck by a
gale in the straits of Belle Isle on Sat
urday and the cable parted. The Ha-
vana sheltered at Chateau. but the
barge became wreck, breaking in
two parts, which drifted ashore on
Sunday at Powers cove. Everything
was lost. The freight was for lum.
ber concern on Grand river.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
The Pelican's Visit.

A Westmoreland citizen was read
ing about midnight, when he was
startled by seeing through the open
door a big white bird alight on his
porch. He got shotgun and was
about to shoot it, when his wife (the
women are always steady headed in
tremendous emergencies of this sorn,
stopped him and said they could cap
ture the alive. So they got behind
It and gently "shooed" it into the par
lor, after which they got a rope around
its leg and had 1t safely captured. 1t
Is presumed that the pelican was at.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
Man Gives Life for sweethe arts.

McKeesport, Pa.-James l.. Curley,
q, a craftsman at the East Pittsburg
works of the Westinghouse Electric
company, recently sacrificed his own
life to save that of his sweetheart.
Curley and companion named My
ers were escOrting Misses Walters
and Kesler to their homes. and while
crossing the Baltimore & Ohio tracks
a switching locomotive bore down up
on them.
Curley gave the alarm in time for
Myers and Miss Kesler to reach safe
ty, but he and Miss Walters were a
step or two behind, and Curley seized
Miss Walters and threw her clear of
the track. Before he could recover
his balance the locomotive cut him
to pieces,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
No Pay, No Cure.

mister" said little child to the
herb doctor, or root doctor" as they
are sometimes called in some parts
Mister, mamma says them las pills
you sold her didn't do no good, and
she told me to ask you to send her
some other kind this time" and say
ing which, she placed the empty box
on the doctors rickety desk.
"Lemme see," said the doctor rs he
adjusted his glasses and looked over
his book. After inspecting the book
for few moments he looked up and
said:
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
Scared Him.

Did Harwood buy the cottage ut
Swampy Glen?"
mo"
"What caused him to change his
mind?"
"Why, he started to buy few Quinine
pills in the drug store and they SAID
they sold them only by the quart
Chicago News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22

A new wrinkle in three cars just de.
liyerel to the Lake Shore Electric
hallway. of Cleveland, by the Stephen'
son Company, is speaking tube eX-
tending from the motornans S can 10
tho rear patform. so that the motor
man and conductor can be in constant
communication. The idea was origin
ated by Warren Bicknel, President Of
the Lake Shore Company.
Radium inflames the skin and de-
stroys various kinds Of life, but its
place in medicine is yet to be deter
mined. When it shall have been found
useful. DR.. T.. s. London, Russian
physician, proposes to make Its energy
cheaply available. Experimenting with
various substances, lie has shown that
wool absorbs large quantity of the
ladium emanations, and that the "elna-
mated" wool produces physiological ef-
fects similar to those of radium itself.
The WOOL moreover, can be applied to
any part Of the body.
The gliding boat OF Count de Lam
bert, which has given such surprising
results an the Seine, is serviceable only
in the absence of wave motion. ii
consists of two skiffs, each about c.sn-
teen feet long, which are coupled side
by side, and which have fiat bottoms,
with y series of five transverse planes
slaning downward from lore 10 AT At
an angle Of about thirty degrees. AS
the propellor-which is between the
two sterns-drives the boat forward.
the inclined planes raise the boat to
the surface. over which it glides. With
a motor of fourteen horse power,
speed of seventeen and One-half to
twenty miles an hour was reached, q
rate that ordinarily requires two or
three times as much power.
The latest system Of transmitting
pictures by wire-that Of Professor
Korn, of Munich-claims n vacuum
light receiver as an important advance
Two hollow cylinders, one at the trans
mit,ing station and one Mt the recev.
ing station. are rotated spontaneously
The film carrying the picture to be sent
is placed on the first cylinder and a
ray of light concentrated from Il
Nernst lamp is PASSED through 1t to d
selenium cell in the interior. The fine
pencil of light describes spiral o'
short pitch, the light and shade OF the
picture causing the selcni,lm cell &c
produce variations in an electric eur
rent passing to the receiver. The cyl
inder at the receiving end IL covered
with Photographic film, and pencil
of light from vacuum lamp-fuctrht
ing with the variations of the electric
current-describes a spiral registering
the light and shade of the original pic
ture. photograph is transmitted II
half an hour. 800 words of writing IL
about an hour.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22

tracted by the light. 1t was noticed
that when one of the household car
ried lamp from one room to another
It would follow as though fascinated
by the flame. The bird measures s
feet from tip to tip and stands 3 feet
6 inches tall.-Kansas City Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22

"Humph, humph! | see where the
trouble is. You tell your nanny that
she never paid fur them las pills she
got, an tell her she can't spec fur
them to do her no good 'cep'n they's
paid fur"-Silas X. Floyd, in Lippin-
cott'S
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
Ambassador. Meyer Returns to Rome.

Rome-The American ambassador,
Mr.. George Won l.. Meyer, arrived
here Oct II and resumed the direc-
tion Of the embassy. He was detained
a day at Turin, the duke of Aosta. a
cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, hav-
ing invited him to spend the day with
him.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
A Poser.

at is getting to be a problem with
me-" said the noisy politician. "how
to keep the wolf from the door,
"Stand on the steps and make one
of your stump speeches when you see
him coming. Detroit Free Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
More Troublesome.

ITS pretty hard to be worried by
n lot of debts you can't pay"
"Nonsense! That's nothing to be-
ing worried by lot of debts you
simply have to pay. ."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22

Lace and tulle to the value Of Sl2,-
OOO, 1000 We're exported from Calais to
England last year. The manufacture
Of these goods in Calais is largely in
the hands of Nottingham people, who
introduced the trade in the French
port.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
Skinned a Few.

YES" said the clerk at the Skin
mem House I'VE have 1900 servants.
Well" replied the departing guest
81 must have overlooked four or five,
I'm sure haven't tipped that many" J"
Houston Chronicle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
Monte Carlos Winnings.

The winnings of the bank at Monte
Carlo amount to about $G,25O,00O
wear. Nearly 80 percent of the money
staked is lost by those who risk 1t: yet
the fools continue to enrich the pro.
prietors of the gambling resort.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
Curious Tree Of Tibet.

In Tibet there is q most curious tree.
known as the tree of the thousand
images. Its leaves are covered with
well-defined characters of the Tibetan
alphabet.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
SATURDAY.,
Oct. is, 1904.

Battle of Yentai still in progress,
and the result yet hangs in the bal
ance: impression in st. Petersburg
that the day has gone against Gen.
Kuropatkin.
Mrs. Louis Lipshitz trails husband
through Europe and United States to
Springfield and has him fined.
Symphony orchestra opens its oath
season with new concert master and
first violin and its devotees in new
gowns and in their accustomed places.
B. e. Scannon and his wife fall
three stories at st. Paul while expert
menting with patent fire escape and
both may die of injuries.
Atty-Gen. Moody thrown from his
horse, but was not hurt at all seri-
Ously.
Mail pouch addressed to U. s. cruis-
er Cincinnati. which was on the seized
steamer Calchas, was opened by Rus
sian officials, resealed and sent on to
its destination.
Railroad paymaster at DUBOIS,
Penn, attacked by five highmaymen
and robbed of $4,000 after putting up
a fight.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22

1t takes three nations to make the
best gloves-Spain to produce the kid.
France to cut it out, and England to
sew 1t together,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22

Jane Cheesman, aged ninety nine,
who died recently in Somerset, Eng
land, had never spent n night out OK
the cottage in which she was born and
died.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
THURSDAY,

I'OnSCA'S wv. 6o, 'oS'
Heavy rains stop the fighting in the
far east; evidences of shifting of forces
or potn armics; battle TO hoeir
after breathing space.
Trolley pole sweeps through electric
car at Oxford, Mass; four people bad
ly injured.
Josiah Burce, a deer hunter, neal
Jackson, N. H., shot and killed by mis-
take by member of his party
James l.. Curley of Mckeesport
Penn, sacrifices his own life to save
that of his sweetheart.
Men of the schooner Syanara takeI
off by the steamer Apache and the yes
sci abandoned.
Secretary Taft proposes to take large
party with him to Panama, including
house and senate canal committees.
Timothy Sweet of Amesbury, Mass.
believed to be of unsound mind, at
tempts to entice 5-year-old nephew
of Hon. Salem d. Charles, at Exeter
N. Fl.
Sir Thomas Upton says it is utter
ly incorrect to assume that he ha.
abandoned idea of challenging for the
America cup; has given Watson carte
blanche.
Roger Stevenson Wilbur of Boston
too young to win her fathers consent
wins Philadelphia bride by a run
away match.
Slight increase in registration a
Yale.
Meeting at Boston of the Old Plant
ers' society, composed of descendant
of earliest settlers of Massachusetts
Matilda Amory of Boston, who wa
really taking the part of bride whel
she supposed it was only busines
agreement, has her marriage annulled
Seven drowned in the wrecking O
the schooner Melrose in the fearfl
gale on the Florida coast.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22
ii. G. JACKSON
Physician O. Surgeon
WOODSTOCK, VERMONT.

ONCE in the Hatch Block, formerly oc.
cIpied by DR.. Chandler. Office hours
until 8 am, ! to 3 and To 8 PIN.
Residence No. IL Union Street. Night
cali, received at office. Tel. conn.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22

Football and many other outdoor
games are played by the blind certain
changes being made so that IN each
game the sense Of hearing takes the
place Of sight.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-10-22

Having previously borne 10 e"l'
dren. the wife Of shoemahei ."
Wraz, In Bohemia. has now hau 'o"'
at a birth. of whom three are living