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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
FORESTRY ASSOCIATIONS
WORK.
Every Town in the State May Have
a Speaker if Desired.

The Forestry Association of Yer
mont has issued a circular letter,
signed by w. ]. Van Patten, of
Burlington, as president, relating to
work accomplished during the first
part of its existence, just completed.
Future plans were referred to as
follows: During the coming year
the association desires to decidedly
extend its work. 1t would be glad
to hold public meetings in the lar
ger towns and cities of the state to
be addressed by the best talent OBJ
tainable. 1t would like to be able
to send its local speakers to every
town in the state, where Oranges,
nature clubs, or other local organiza-
tons would fui nish hall and an au-
dience. 1t would like also to in
crease public interest and add TO
public knowledge through the press
and by the distribution of bulletins
and other printed matter extensively
through the state. To do these
things requires money.
ave believe there is no direction
in which the material interests of
the state can be so certainly and to
so large an extent improved as
through the dissemination of practi-
cal ideas in respect to forestry. The
woodlands OF the state are now pro-
ducing something like $40, 900
per year. Without improved meth
DDS OF handling wood and timber
lands this product must rapidly di-
miuish. BY correct methods the IN
dustry may remain permanent
one. 1t is entirely possible that the
state should add to its annual in
crease Of wealth millions of dollars
simply by properly utilizing lands
now largely or wholly unproductive
of timber and which are useless for
agricultural purposes.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
Drauons' Teeth.

A well known German scientist
DR.. Max Schlosser, has made the re-
markable discovery that the fossil
teeth known throughout China as
dragons teeth" and valued for
their supposed curative powers are
the remains of many species of ex-
tinct animals, such as the ancestral
forms of camels, saber toothed IL
gers, three toed horses and other
creatures Of ancient times, some of
which were supposed to have had
their original home in America and
in Africa. Judging from the quanti-
ties of these teeth sold, DR.. Schlosser
thinks they must exist in enormous
numbers in some parts of the Chi
nese empire.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
Woodstock, VT, March a, 1905

The Burlington Clipper allows
that Vermont ought to celebrate the
anniversary of the discovery of Lake
Champlain in 1909 and that it isn't
too early to begin preparations for
the event. This is a good sugges-
tion-there ought to be leaf stir
ring in 1909. Vermont has never
done anything of the kind and if the
state wakes up, shoots off some sky
rockets, gets lot of people here to
help shout, and gives them a royal
celebration, the country will learn
more about us and what we have
than it ever did before. We should
omit most of the usual worlds fair
features, not try to do too much, and
c;va an oriori,aal- lr:--l --r-----A------'S'-'-
visitors would appreciate it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
An Arizona Champion.

The Tombstone Epitaph is conf
dent that Arizona is bound to have
a front seat in all the world competi-
tons. 'Last Friday" it says, "Clay
McGonagil at the steer tying tourna-
ment at FL Paso roped and tied his
steer in twenty-eight seconds fat.
Our Arizona cowboys, like all other
Arizona institutions, are strictly in
the lead. They may not have that
quality Of stove polish on them that
distinguishes eastern society, but
they simply have the STUFF in them
to get there"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
Death Of ]. o. Sanford.

Justin o. Sanford of Stamford,
VT, dropped dead in the street at
Clarksburg, Mass, Feb. %, from
heart failure. Mr.. Sanford was one
Of the best known experts on high
way construction in Vermont and
from Dec. 1, 1900, until Dec. 1,
1904, was state highway commits
sioner. He also served at one time
in the state senate and for IL years
was a member of the Vermont state
board Of agriculture. He was born
in Readsboro, but lived practically
all his life in Stamford. He was 10
years old and leaves a wife, two sons
and one daughter.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
vermOnt's Oldest Couple.

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel A. Wright
Of ST. Johnsbury, probably the old
est couple in Vermont, had pleas
ant celebration last week in honor Of
Mrs. Wright,s goth birthday. Mr..
Wright was born February IL, 1915,
and Mrs. Wright was 90 years old
last New Years day. They were
married January 3, 81 years ago, at
the home OF Mrs. Wright's sister,
Mrs. Nathaniel Goss, of St. Johns
bury Center.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
FIRST TIME TABLE.
The Very Modest Beginning Of the
Railway Guido.

Railway Guido.
It was in 1889 that George
Bradshaw, the Quaker engraver and
map maker of Manchester, was first
inspired to publish his ''Time Ia
bic" 1t was a tiny pamphlet bound
in green cloth and was nothing more
than a collection of the monthly
time tables issued by the seven rail
way companies then in existence in
England. OF this volume there are
now only four copies in existence,
but they are worth their weight in
gold.
So encouraged was Bradshaw by
the success of this time table that in
1910 he published his Railway
Companion" a volume of thirty
eight pages with maps which sold at
shilling. These early guides we're
published rather irregularly because
of the difficulty of learning the
changes in time from the railway
authorities. They resented Brad
shaw's interference and put every
obstacle in the way of his obtaining
information. At last, through the
Quaker's perseverance, they finally
agreed to adjust their time tables by
the beginning of the month. There
after it was smooth sailing. The
guide continued to grow and pros
per and to make itself a necessity.
These early railway guides make
interesting reading. The trains are
described as first class, second class,
mixed, fast and mail. Third class
froual---- LII 4l-s-o4TO:Oo Or sitting On
the roofs or in open wagons resem-
bling cattle trucks. Gentlemen rid
ing in their own carriages were
charged second class fare. Baggage
was carried on the roof, and passen-
gers who sat there were cautioned
to wear their overcoats and provide
themselves with gauze spectacles.
First class fare between London and
Birmingham was nearly double what
it is today, and an annual subscrip-
ton ticket from London to Brighton
and back cost 9100.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
Well Behaved.

J. D. Benedict, the superintend-
ent of the Indian Territory schools,
indicated sturdy and grave young
Indian girl. "She is a maid" he
said, Gin the house of a friend of
mine, and the other day she was left
in charge of the children while her
mistress went for long drive. The
mistress on her return said to the
maid: How did the children behave
during my absence, Caroline2 Well,
l hope Beautifully, madam Car
oline answered, and at the end they
fought terribly together why did
they fghtP' the mother asked. TO
decide said Caroline, which was
behaving the best
The Age and Delineator for one
Year $I.55.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
SOUTH RoYALToN

o. S. Curtis was knocked down
by team and badly hurt Saturday.
He is deaf and did not hear the APP
proach of VIM. Campbell's fish cart,
which struck and ran over him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Sanborn's
young son died Saturday night of
pneumonia.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
BIRTHS.

In Bellows Falls, Jan. "a, son to Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Rice, and grandson to Mrs.
Peter GObie of Woodstock
In Barnard, Feb. 20, a daughter to Mr..
and Mrs. Robin Lewis.
In Felchville, Feb. 81, a son to Mr. and
Mrs. Prosper Root, Jr.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
An EXCLAMATION.

Yeast-It's hard to keep a good
man down.
Crimsonbeak - That's why they
put such heavy monuments over
some of them, 1 suppose.-Yonkers
Statesman.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
No Joke.

Funny how marriage separates
a man from his cronies, isn't it?"
eyes, but it's not at all funny
how 1t separates him from hts
wages" =Houston Post.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04

In Woodstock, Feb "a, Mrs. Sarah c.
Harding, aged 7S years.
In Windsor, Feb 20, Carl G. McMahon,
aged 20 years, months.
In Barnard, March /, Nelson Howard,
aged 70 years, months.
In Sharon, Feb. q, Mrs. Lucia avery
Turner.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04

Kansas is now kicking about the
snow because it shows the dirt so
easily.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
MARRIAGES.
DEATHS.

In Windsor, by Rev. W. Henry Hayes, c.
M. DUMMY and Miss Alice Alexander.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAII
ROAD COMPANY.


To all who own land:-C Cultivate
the soil, manufacture and do business
in the g. 6 s. l. r. r. Territory
which embraces South MI ississippi
It may not be generally known but
at 'the Corn and Cotton Carnival" at
Jackson last December the G.. 6 s I.
R. r. display took the first grand
prize on State Exhibit, and Is first
prizes on individual products.
These prizes were surprises to the
older settled portions of the State, and
especially so to the old trunk lines Of
R. R. who say, 1--WE can never do 1t
again."
'The Mississippi Industrial Expo
sition" for 1905 will be held again at
Jackson, November 20 to December
End. What do you say?
This practical way Of advertising
Country is the best in the world and
now is the time to do it.
By order Of the General Freight
Agent exhibits consigned to J. Fl.
Bouslog, I. & I. Agent, Jackson,
Miss, will have free transportation
both ways and should be shipped not
later than the 18th.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23

mer. She can mend pair of hose and
sew on a button right where it belongs,
and she IS the very kind of girl that the
sensible youth wants one day to be the
queen Of his heart and the mistress of the
home.
There are some girls who are spoiled by
little education. AS soon as they get a
little learning in their heads they i'm.
mediately begin to figure on the emanci-
patton of women. And they emancipate
themselves so far as home IS concerned.
Mothers hands are already coarse and
red, and 1t is better that she should do the
menial work about the premises while the
daughter INDUCES In some of the fads she
acquired at college on money that the
poor old mother helped to earn through
toll and Self'denial. ltmakes no diff
ference to her that the tired old eyes are
daily giving more evidence of being
weary, and that the calloused spots on the
dear old hands are growing larger. 1t Is
only mother, and she has had her day.
A girl cannot be young but once and
mother has been girl. Thus it continues
until the tired and loving old mother is
gathered to her reward, and when the
girl sees the pallor of death upon: the
Sunken cheeks and realizes that the end
of it all has truly come, it is then that
her heart is filled with remorse and she
would give the world to call the loved one
back that she might demonstrate to her
that she really did not intend to be un-
kind. But it is too late now. Mother
has become happy girl again.
The woman who is making a happy
home in today is the womanly woman,
and the womanly women is the house
wifely woman. We do not mean by
this that a woman should be made
newer of wood and drawer of water in
any home for she has nobler mission to
perform, but we do not mean that it is a
great mistake for our daughters to become
the heads of happy homes, when they are
not qualified for the duties of the po-
sition.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23

right near me, where he has An ex.
cellent wife, nioe homo, and Il rec
as pretty children a. ever played ont
doors. Smith Is pretty respectr hle
sort Of citizen; never drinks or
CANDLES, and thinks the world Of his
family. Well, he went homo one
afternoon last week. and found his
wife ont shopping. He went through
the house into the back yard, and
there under the apple tree were the
little fellows playing They had .
bench and some bottles and tumblers,
and were playing keep saloon He
noticed that they were drinking
something ont Of pail. and that
they acted tipsy. The youngest, who
was behind the bar, had . towel tied
around his waist, and was setting the
drinks up pretty free. Smith walked
over and looked in the pail. It was
beer, and two Of the boys were SO
drunk that they staggered. A neigh
boris boy, two years older, lay asleep
behind the tree. Boys, you must not
drink that!' he said, as he lifted the
six -year-old from behind the bench.
Yves playin' s'loon, papa; an was
sellin' it just like you, said the little
fellow. Smith poured out the beer,
carried the drunken boy home, and
then took his own boys home and put
them to bed. When his wife came
back she found him crying like q
child. He came down town that
night and sold out his business, and
says he will never sell or drink
another drop of liquor. His wife
told mine about it, and she broke
down crying while she told it. .
This was true story, but the name
was not Smith. christian Scotsman
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
Home Circle Column.

lf.you cannot love your mother anc
make her happy, you cannot truly love
and make happy the heart of any wo
man.
THERE'S nothing in life's experience
that SO quickly and effectually awakens
in the heart those better elements that
ally us 'to angels and to God" as the
sacred memories of home.
Dear to US all are the friendships we
formed during the period of our school
life, and hard was the breaking of those
ties, yet we cherish no such memories of
our schoolmates as we do of home and
mother.
Labor is divine. The son of God was
an industrious carpenter. Every man
needs to have something to do. 1t not
only makes him safe for his life; it is a
divinely appointed means for making him
safe for the life to come. Character is
perfected, the divine possibility discovered
only by labor. Labor saves the man
and saves the world. In Holman
Hunts noble picture we see. Jesus, the
carpenter, saving board at the bench;
the sun as it streams in from behind is
caught by His figure at its toll and there
. is cast on the work-room floor the
shadow of Himself, of His cross. AS we
do our days work we are bearing the
worlds burdens, are helping to save the
world unto the Divine carpenter.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
Gulf 4 Ship ISlandRy
PASSENGER SERvIO E /.

PARLOR CAR BETWEEN JACKSON AND
GULFPORT.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department Of the interior, land
Office at Jackson, Miss, November 4.
1905. Notice is hereby given that
the following named settler has filed
notice Of her intention to make final
proof in support Of her claim, and that
said proof will be made before the
chancery clerk OF Rankin county, at
Brandon, Mississippi, on December IS,
1905, viz: Drucilla Emma Patrick,
widow of William L. Patrick, Decd,
Fl. E. No. $685. for the swI Sc a
section %, township 4 north, range 4
east of Choctaw meridian, A. F. to
seA seI section % and VIZ swI
section "a. She names the following
witnesses to prove her continuous
residence upon and cultivation of said
land, viz: D. A. Kersb, g. L
Collier, w. L. Marshall, J. A.
Warren, all Of Patrick, Miss.
FRED w. COLLINS Register.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
THE HOME GIRL.

Is the home girl becoming extinct
Are we no more to have the old-faSh.
ioned girls who knew how to cook and
sew and make beds and sweep and wash
the dishes if necessary?
Are the girls of the future to know
none of these useful occupations that
made their mothers and grandmothers
such good housekeeperS and WiveS1
1t seems that as rule in this day girls
do not learn to do the work of the house.
Instead they learn to weave baskets and
do pyrogaphy and to paint badly on
china or in water colors, and to dance
and play rag g-time on the piano. Some of
them learn to CAD about the streets and
to drink more ice cream soda and eat
more candy than is good for them.
Now If one has genius for basket
weaving and can turn it to some good
it is alright to weave baskets. Or if
one can do easily artistic typography,
that is alright too. But time in doing
these things when your mother is wash.
ing the dishes r'cooking the dinner or
making your bed, is time worse than
wasted.
There is no doubt that many unhappy
marriages and many divorces result
from the inability of young wives to
properly perform the ordinary duties of
the household. There is no more pitiable
object than the wife who cannot per-
form the duties of a housekeeper through
ignorance.
What a humiliating position young
wife is in who is forced to confess to
her husband, probably at the end of the
honeymoon, that she cannot cook his
food or mend his clothes. She NAV
never have to do these things, because
her husband may. be rich, but riches
sometimes takes wings, and if they do,
the wife should be prepared to take up her
share of the burden of poverty.
Foolish mothers are too often to blame
for the tragedies in the lives of their
daughters. They try to protect them
from what they are pleased to call menial
work.
Don't do it mothers.
Teach your daughters to cook and sew
ana mend and make beds.
You will thereby minimize the danger
of your daughter being an unhappy wife
or a graduate of the divorce court.
No, the home girl, God bless her, is
not being extinct. She has only been
temporarily crowded from the front rank
by the girl of the period and will come
to the front again in due time. The
average girl can even go down into ths
kitchen and make the same kind o1
bread THAT mother used to make.n She
knows that the family COW gives sweet
milk and that butter milk comes from the
churn. It's barely possible that She
knows how to set hen and can drive !
nail straight if you give her good ham.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Depart ncat Of the interior, land
Office n .I.sukson, Miss, October %,
1905 Notice is hereby given that the
followir~--rmed settlev has fled
notice Ul - intention to make final
proof n Import Of his claim, and
that said rroof will be made before the
chancery 'erk, Rankin county, at
Brandon, Mississippi, on December 6,
1905, viz: Luke franklin, H. E. No.
86924, for tie seI SEA- section 10,
township loith, range east Of the
Ohoctaw nj ridian, A. F. to neI se1z
section 10. He names the following
witnesses to prove his continuous
residence upon and cultivation Of said
land, viz: W. G. Thompson, J. H.
Upton, Of Patrick, Mississippi, q. N.
Huff and Henry Walters of Rufus,
Miss. FRED W. COLLINS.
Register.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23

FRESH MEAT EVERY SATURDAY.
Twill be in Brandon every Saturday
with the very choicest beef and pork
Orders left with me will be carefully
attended to, all meats being delivered
at 6 and cents pork at 1Oc.
TOM WILLIAMSON.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
FOR SALE.

200 acres, Is acres in cultivation,
good branch land; balance stumpage.
Good 4-room residence, good farm, all
necessary out houses; plenty Of water
spring and we'll; ten miles from rail-
road. Price $l2 per acre cash.
Address or call on this office.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed bids will be received at the
chancery clerks Office up to noon on
1st Monday in December, 1905, for
leasing the conviots Of Rankin county.
The board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
SOL DOBSON, CLERK.
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
FOR SALE

A fine, 5-year .old short-horn bull,
cheap. No bad qualities. Address
P. o. Box 2O3. Brandon, Miss
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
WHY SMITH SOLD OUT E
SALOON.

4 hear that Smith has sold ont
his saloon, i" said one Of couple Of
middle-aged men who sat slipping their
beer and eating q bit Of cheese in an
American saloon. "Yes, responded
the other, rather slowly. What WAS
the reason? thought he was just
coming money there" The other
nibbled cracker abstractedly for =
moment. and then said: Smith, you
know, lives on Mount Warrington,
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23
W.C.T.U. and Mission Column
THE SALOON BAR.

A bar to heaven, door to hell
Whoever named it, named it we'll!
A bar to mapliness and wealth,
A door to want and broken health.
A bar to honor, pride and fame,
A door to sin and grief and shame;
A bar to hope, bar to prayer,
A door to darkness and despair.
A bar to honored, useful life,
A door to brawling, senseless strife;
A bar to all that's true and brave,
A door to every drunkard's grave.
A bar to joy that home imparts,
A door to tears and aching hearts:
A bar to heaven. q door to he IL
Whoever named it named it we'll!
The Brandon news., 1905-11-23


Who hath woe? who hath sorrow ?
who hath contentious? who hath bah.
bling? who hath wounds without
cause? who hath redness Of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine /;
they that go to seek mixed wine.
At the last it biteth like serpent,
and stingeth like an adder.
Woe unto him that giveth his
neighbor drink.
My son, il sinners entice thee, con.
sent thou not
My son, give me thine heart.
Prov. 23: 30. 80, 81; Hab.5:15; Prov.
1:10; 1926.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-01
Came TO Life.

Union, Feb. 10 "A remarkable case
of coming to life after his body had
been PARTIAL, prepared for burial oc.
carTsa in West End late Friday after.
noon, when an old veteran named
Robs. Butts, apparently died, his body
seeming to become rigid.
The neiehhors and his children, whc
work in the Union cotton mills, were
immediately summoned, aud go sure
we're they that he was really dead tha,
his body was taken charge Of, dressed
and carried into another room. A few
moments afterward, as they sat by
che Ere, they heard sudden move.
ment, and looking, the supposed corpse
was sitting upright, and sharply
ordered: Take me back to my own
bed"
He bad been partially paralyzcd be.
fore and it is thought that he had an
othei. stroke, which might have proved
fatal but for the reviving effects Of the
water and the manipulation Of the
body incidental to dressing it. Mr..
Butts is ove- 70 years old, and mad
been sick recently, but is now better
than before his seeming demise.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-01
Was Not Blgeted.

TIE late Bishop Elder of Cinciu.
natl, tried vegetarianism for some
months during his residence in Nat
chez, but soon abandoned the prsstice,
finding that it did not agree With him,
saga the New York Tribune.
Bishop Elder dined with one Of his
parishioneys one night in Natcbez at
about this time. Vegetables in pro.
fusion were on the menus buS the
bishop disdained them all. He had had
about enough of VEGETABLES for long
time. He found the meat much more
to his taste.
His host, who did not know that he
had abandoned vegetarisnism, said 10
surprises
why, Bishop, I thought you were
a vegetarian, aud here 1 see you eat.
ing mutton"
Bishop Elder laughed.
81 am not bigoted vegetarian" he
said. 81 allow myself to eat the
meat of such animals as live on vegeta
bic food only
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-01
The Ens!:sh ssrvani.

The English servant requires to
be studied. The worlds other serv-
ants are ,ne7e amateurs; the English
servant te, a trade. As an Ameri-
can I proceeded to treat mine q
pAmericaine, and I made by first
blunder. A sensible American is,
If not friends with her servants, at
least friendly. The English woman,
Il she is sensible, presents to her
servants q surface OF perfect indif-
ference, and then she has peace. FOR
the English servant despises a con-
eiderate and kindly mistress as not
knowing her place. The most diff.
cult thing for a stranger to learn is
that impalpable line between the Diff
ferent servants duties. If one does
not enumerate what one expects Of
them when they are hired, afterward
it is too late. They have, however, O
rough sense of honor, and they gen.
orally do what they agree to.-Mre.
John Lane in Harper's Bazaar.