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done. We have IT on the impregnable
testimony of Mr.. j. ]. Morton that it
has been done.
Mr. Morton tells US that they trav-
eled with their own river" when he was
In the '1egft." He did not say what
river. Probably. however. with trav-
cling company they would have to draw
the line at-for example-a Missis-
the enormous expense involved In the
carrying Of even a small stream like
the San Joaquin from city to
city. Consider, again. the admirable
devotion to art 1T connotes, the pains
taking and tireless regard for detail
IT was, too, a property very difficult 10
look after, Mr.. Morton assures US. How
they carried IL, canned or Gagged. he
neglected to- say. But once, when the
river was in the cast the child was
slated to sit on it's banks-by the way,
could Mr.. Morton's river by an chance
have been the Wabash itself? One has
heard of the Wabash having banks 1
heard myself, I think. at the Tivoli-
some one. probably Teddy Webb, was
asking why they had built the river
so close to the banks But there's an
idea. II it were the Wabash, and the
evidence seems to point that way. why
could not the Central buy 1t upf Or
course a secondhand river would not be
so good as a new one. but 1t might De
refined and painted over 70 suit Mr.
Morton would probably know where IL
is and am sure would be honest
enough to say IL it were likely to be In
good enough condition to USE One OF
course wonders what efecr long
course Of one-night stands would nave
even upon the strongest river. osiii'
the Central mechanics are famed IN
their craft, and would doubtless soon
be able to put 1t into running order.
But to the story. Mr.. Morton says me
chf,d was sitting on the banks OF their
river By the child sat the faithful dog
The villain lurked In the distance. BUT
the dog got thirsty and carelessly drank
I'm the river, and the villain came down
right center and pursued the child. There
seemed to be no hope, but the noble oog
was not thus to be thwarted- Win .
presence Of mind phenomenal In tns 0f-
cumstances. says Mr.. Morton, tho w1ss
h.ast nut his paw In his throat. cougned
nm the river and drowned the villain
This all goes to show, however, rnar IL
q not the easiest thing to run your own
river.
Dorothy Morton has been msnuoneo
among the '1prima donnas nkeiy 20 sue
ceed Lillian xussell In the part OF Lazy
Tsaz,e In the comic opera OF the name
the fair Lillian has just signed vau-
deville contract which Is vartously esti-
mated at from 5000 to 5000 week as to
salary, and is indefinite as to time.
Miss Morton should do well as Lady
Teazle. She did very good work az
Fischer's during the ouriesque era. ana
has since been engaged In several good
,-oductions. She is now appearing as
n Mirnosa San IN The Geisha et the
chester park Theater In Cincinnati II Is
rather time, by the way, for The 9ei-
sha' to reappear here. only 1t viii not be
easy to get another Mimosa Ike the last
the piquant and dainty Helen Merrih.
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Gossip Of Plays
and Player Folk

Wilton Lackaye, who will appear in
the near future in The Pit" ''Trilby"
and Pillars of Society,"" will produce a
new play in New York next February.
Jean Vatican" is Mr.. Lackaye's own
piece, Les Miserables." 1t will ruu on
Broadway for the rest of the season.
Alexander Won Mitzel has been en-
gagged by Manager John Cort to play
the leading male role In support of
Florence Roberts In Ann La Mont"
the new problem play by Paul Arm
strong. the author of THE Heir to the
Hoorah." Mr.. Mitzel succeeded the late
Joseph Haworth as leading man for
Blanche Walsh in Resurrection" and
also in 1.-THE Kreutzer Sonata" which
was produced in Chicago two years
ago. Miss Roberts begins her season
at Salt Lake City on October 2, rehear-
sails having been called for September
A. Besides Mr.. Won Mitzel, the cast of
Ann La Mont" will include Max Fig
man, Robert McWade, H. s. Northrup,
Clifford Leigh, Wilbur Hudson, Norah
Lamison, Merceita Esmonde, Lucille
Yorke, Florence Robinson and Lillian
Armsby.
Wilton Lackaye swears he will have
q permanent stock company in New
York in another year, and he Is will
ing to play old men or leading char
acters. He does not like the road, al
though he has made O. fortune with
1.-The Pit and is now fairly established
as the real thing from the box Of
flee standpoint
The new Belasco play for Blanche
Bates will be laid in the far West, and
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foregathered at the Alcazar should give
good account of the rest Of the parts.
This is the last week Of Rob Roy" at
the Tivoli and the last week of Kate Con-
don. Miss Condor leaves the Ttvoli to
star, and will doubtless have much god
speeding this week from her large CO.
terie of admirers here. And by no means
should Rob Roy" be missed, by those
loving good fun, good acting, good mu-
sic. Following Rob Roy will be Err
minie,'' another Max Freeman produc-
tion.
The popular rural drama, "On the Wa
BASH" will be the bill at the Central
this week, with all the most up-to-date
rural sensations.
O'Brien and Havel with new sketch
by that excellent skitster Will M Cres-
sy, will be at the Orpheum this after
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Reflections Anent
Realistic Staging

Has the Central met its Waterloo at
last? 1t IS the boast of the highly In
genious and generous management Of the
theater that 1t can produce anything
from volcano to a piledriver at a mo-
ment's notice. 1t has never failed TO make
good It's boast. We want to know IL this
weeks Is going to be another story
The current bill is "On the Wabash" To-
morrow evening they put 1t on Now, are
they going to produce that Wabash?
And If not, why not? For II has been
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noon. A French farce. Mile. Ricci,'
will be presented by Emil Hoch and Jane
Elton, and the Millman trio Of aerial
gymnasts will supply the sensation of the
new bill.
Herbert B. Chelsey and company from
Proctors Twenty-third Street Theater.
New York, will be the chief attraction Of
the Chutes Theater this week. They will
present a new playlet, The Third Cen
Grafton"
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ignorance" and did astonishingly well.
Now, first night will find her fright
ened to death" Very temperate, very
modest. she was in discussing Miss Rob-
sons recent successes, that have been of
quite extraordinary character.
Before left she had given very kind
~ word to Frawley-as a manager, and
in speaking of Mrs Ffske's Mary of
Magdala evolved this: THE great things
OF life come in moments
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There are $4,000 travelling men In the
United States: this means. says tbs ST
Louis Globe-Democrat, an output OF LSoo.-
900 new funny stories each month
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
SOUTH POMFRET.

Mrs. E. A. Tribou of Detroit
Mich, a cousin of Mrs. Samuel Paul
and her son, J. H. Tribou, have beer
at the Woodstock Inn and recently
visited their relatives here. Mrs,
Tribou is the widow of Alonzo Tri,
bou, whose father, Isaac Tribou
built the old miller" house, land
mark recently taken down.
Mrs. Elbridge Perry recently fell
from the foot bridge near her place
to the bed of the brook, injuring her
somewhat.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. johnson, who
have been boarding at Geo. Phelps
for several weeks, returned to their
home in Fitchburg, Mass, Thurs
day.
Miss M. H. Perry, Mrs. f. L.
Wilde, Ethel and Perry Wilde re-
turned nome wednesday.
Miss Dora Phelps visited her
brother here this week.
Miss Lois shipman is at her
brothers here this week.
Win Porter, wife and daughter
Ruth of White River junction re-
turned home Thursday.
Henry Howe and Willis Wheeler
started Friday morning for Fitch
burg, Mass.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02

STATE OF VERMONT At Probate
DISTRICT OF HARTFORD, IS. Court held at
Woodstock. within and for said District
on the 9lst day of August, A. D. 1905.
Present, Hon. THOMAS o. SEAvER, Judge.
In the matter of the estate of Sarah
Moore, an insane person of Pomfret, in
said district.
whereas, M. H. Miller, guardian of said
Sarah Moore has presented to said Court
his petition in writing, praying for license
70 sell all real estate of which said Sarah
Moore is seized and possessed, situate in
this state, representing that such sale will
be conducive to the interests of said ward.
Thereupon, the Court appoints the 18th
day of September. A. D., 1905. as A time.
and the probate Office in said Woodstock as
place for hearing and deciding on said ne
tltlon; and orders that notice of said nett
ton, the reason for the same, and of said
time and place of hearing, be given to all
persons interested in said Sarah Moore's
estate, by publishing copy of the record
OF this order three weeks SUCCESSFULLY In
the Spirit of the Age, a newspaper pub
llshed at Woodstock, in this state, which
circulates in the neighborhood of those in
terested in said estate, the last of said
publications to be previous to said time of
hearing, that all persons concerned in the
premises may appear before said Court and
show cause, If any they have, why the
prayer of said petition should not be
granted.
A true record. Attest,
z. o. SEAvER. Judge.
A true copy of record. Attest,
Il. o. SEAvER Judge.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
Sure Cure.

Charles F. Gore, New Hamp-
shire judge of the last century, was
very nervous and irritable, but SO de-
termined that he usually found
means of enforcing his desires.
While he was holding court in one
Of the northern counties he was
much annoyed by the coughing of
the spectators in the courtroom.
He referred to it again and again,
with increasing asDerity, and finally
directed the sheriff to remove from
the courtroom the next man who
coughed. This had marvellous eff
feet in stilling the audience.
That evening stranger afflicted
by an incessant cough appeared at
the village hotel.
81 can tell you how to cure that"
said a bystander. "You just go
down to the courthouse. There's a
little wizened judge there, and he'll
put stop to that cough of yours
III Iess Than nve minutes. sure
curep
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
FREE TO BUTCHERS.

We are in receipt ola communica-
ton from c. S. Page, Hyde Park,
VT, which authorizes us to say to
those of our readers who are engaged
in the Rutchering Business, that il
they will send him a postal card
with their name and postoffice adj
dress thereon and that they saw this
notice in The Age, he will enter
their names on the list of customers
and send them free, postpaid, from
time to time as issued, his Hide
Bulletins, which give the ups and
downs of the market on Beef Hides.
Calf Skins, Horse Hides, Tallow,
Bones, Cracklings, etc. Mr.. Page
has been in the Hide and Skin trade
for more than fifty years and has
the reputation of being responsible
and reliable.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
CHURCH SERVICES.

! Christian--Rev. e. A. MacDaniel
pastor. Morning service at 10. go
with sermon. Sunday school at II
O'Clock. Junior Z. E. at S o'clock
and Y. P S, c. E. at 7 o'clock
Mid-week service Tuesday evening,
7.3o. Welco me to all.
Universalist-Re H. L. Garfield,
pastor. Morning service at 1870
Sunday School at 1850. Y. P. C.
U. Tuesday evening at 7.3o o'clock.
Congregational-Rev. F. Z. Put
nam, pastor. Morning service at
1890, Sunday school at 1850, YES
per service at S. Tuesday evening,
prayer meeting at 7.3o.
Methodist Episcopal-Rev. Joseph
Hamilton, pastor. Morning SER
vice at 1890; I1.45 o'clock, Sunday
school $50 p. M, Epworth League /;
evening service, 7 p. m. f; Tuesday,
mid-week service 100 p. m.
Catholic Rev. E. c. Drouhin,
pastor. Mass at II a M. evening
service at 7.3o.
Services will be held the fourth
Sunday of each month at Village
hall, Quechee, at 9 o'clock, and at
Barnard, at the town hall, on the
second Sunday of each month at 9
o'clock
st. James-First Sunday OF each
month Holy Communion and SER
mon at 1890. Evening Prayer and
address at 500. All other Sundays:
Holy communion at :. 80 a. M, morn
ing Prayer, Litany and sermon at
10 80, Evening Prayer and address
at s. c. H. Wells, rector.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
When People May Marry.

In France the minimum age fol-
the man to marry is eighteen; fo1
the woman sixteen. In Spain the
man must be In his fifteenth year,
and the fair maid must have
"turned" twelve. Practically the
same law obtains in Switzerland. In
Austria, both "man" and woman
are of age to marry when they have
attained fourteen summers. In
Turkey there are two preliminary
conditions stringently required in
the case Of marriage; both parties
must be able to walk properly, and
both must be able to understand the
necessary religious service.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
Historx In Tapestry.

The "Bayeux tapestry" called
Bayeux from the place where it is
preserved, is a pictorial history on
canvas, more minute in some par
ticulars than written history, of the
invasion and conquest of England by
the Normans in 1866. Tradition
says it is the work of Matilda, wife
Of William the Conqueror, and the
ladies Of her court and that it was
presented by the queen to the Ca
thedral of Bayeux as a token of her
appreciation Of the services rendered
to her husband by its bishop, Odo,
at the battle Of Hastings. The
tapestry Is web of canvas OF linen
cloth GA feet long by 30 inches
wide. There are on it 1919 figures,
only three of which are those Of wo-
men.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
PLYMOUTH UNION
Miss Eva Kavanagh is at home.

Miss Eva kavanagh is at home.
The Wilder House is being paint
ed. MYron Dimick and Clarence
Blanchard are doing the work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sawyer are
in Ludlow this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson visited with
Sarah Hall last week.
The ladies who have been board
ing at Carlos Johnson's for several
weeks, returned to New York Mon.
day.
Mrs. Harriet Earle is visiting rela-
tives here.
Mrs. Cyrus Johnson was taken Sc
riously i'll Monday night; was a lit
tie better yesterday.
The concert given by the Misses
ellison Tuesday evening for the ben
eft of the Ladies Aid Society was
well attended.
Will Royce and family of Ascut.
NEVILLE are visiting at Alba Royce's.
The Pinney family hold a reunion
today at the Notch.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
She Got ths Insorn,..i0.

She ran breathlessly out of the
Palace hotel and boarded a Haight
street car. "Will this car take me
to Haight and Fillmore streets p''
she asked the conductor. "Do YOU
want transfer to Fillmore?" asked
the conductor. "That is not an an
swer to my question:" said the lady
passenger. "Does this car 20 to
Haight and Fillmore?" "Goes right
out to the park" said the conductor.
Now, see here" said the exasper-
ated passenger. "What Is the rea-
son you cannot answer my question ?
The clerk in the hotel told me that
red car going in this direction
would take me to Haight and Fill
more. / don't know anything about
your cityand haven't bought a guide
book. Now, can't you kindly conde-
seend to answer my question? VIII
this car take me to Haight and Fill
more?" at will" SThank Won
very much. San Francisco Chron-
icle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
DANCING HORSES.
They Brought Disaster 10 Their Own
ere In Time Of War.

They Brought Disaster 10 Their own
ere In Time Of War.
There is an ancient Roman lamp
among the treasures of the Louvre,
in Paris, and on this lamp is pic
ture Of a horse that is being taught
to stand on its hind legs. The Ro-
man horse trainer is using formi-
dable looking whip. The dancing
horse figures in that medley of an
tique learning, the 'EDeipnosophists,
or Banquet of the Learned" Of
Athenaeus. Athenaeus tells that the
Sybarites chad carried their luxury
to such a pitch that they had taught
even their horses to dance at their
feasts to the music of the flute"
But disaster came to this effeminate
horse training, for the Crotonians,
being at war with the Sybarites and
knowing the air to which the Syba-
rite horses were accustomed to
dance, played the same melody on
the battlefield, "and as soon as the
horses heard them playing on the
flute they not only began to dance,
but ran over to the army of the Gro
tonians, carrying their riders with
them"
Dancing cavalry horses appear
again in greater detail in the can
mails of Charon of Lampsacus," like
wise quoted by Athenaeus. Charon
says that the general Of the army of
a people named Bisatae lived as
boy in slavery among the Cardians.
There he learned that the Cardian
horses were taught to dance at feasts
to the music OF the flute, standing
on their hind feet and dancing with
their fore feet in time to the airs
which they had been taught. So
when war broke out the general Of
the Bisatae secured a Cardian fe-
male flute player, who instructed his
own musicians.
When the flute players of the gen.
eral Of the Bisatae were sufficiently
trained in the music of the Cardians
he gave battle, ordering them to
play the airs which they had learned
and which the horses Of the Car
dams knew. "And when the horses
heard the flute they stood up on
their hind feet and took to dancing.
But the main strength of the Car
dams was in their cavalry, and so
they were conquered" - Chicago
News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
THE HORSE WARNED HIM.
Audubon's Description of a kentucky
Earthquake In 1912.

Audubon's Description of a kentucky
Earthquake In 1912.
This vivid description of an
earthquake was written by Audu-
bon, the naturalist. 1t occurred in
the year 1912: "Traveling through
the barrens of Kentucky in the
month of November, | was jogging
on one afternoon when / remarked
sudden and strange darkness ris-
ing from the western horizon. |
had proceeded about a mile when |
heard what ] imagined to be the
distant rumbling Of violent tor
nado, on which | spurred my stecd,
with a wish to gallop as fast as pos
sible to a place of shelter. But it
would not do. The animal knew
better than what was forthcoming,
and instead of going faster SO near
ly stopped that remarked he placed
one foot after another on the ground
with such precaution as if walking
-ea a'smooth sheet of ice. | thought
he had suddenly foundered and,
speaking to him, was on the point of
dismounting and leading him, when
he all of sudden fell, groaning
piteously, hung his head, spread out
his four legs as if to save himself
from falling, and stood stock still,
continuing to groan.
81 thought my horse was about to
die and would have sprung from his
back had minute more elapsed. But
at that instant all the shrubs and
trees began to move from their very
roots, the ground rose and fell in
successive burrows, like the ruffled
water of a lake, and / became be-
wildered in my ideas, as l too plain
ly discovered that all this awful com
motion in nature was the result of
an earthquake. The fearful convul-
sion, however, lasted only few
minutes, and the heavens again
frightened as quickly as they had
become obscured. My horse brought
his feet to their natural position,
raised his head and galloped' off as if
loose and frolicking without rider.
"Shock succeeded shock almost
every day or night for several weeks,
diminishing, however, SO gradually
as to dwindle away into mere vibra-
tons of the earth. Strange to say,
| for one became so accustomed to |
the feeling as rather to enjoy the
fears manifested by Others. The
earthquake produced more serious
consequences in other places"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
Woodstock High School.

Mr.. Arthur D. Wiggin, principal
of the Woodstock High School and
superintendent of Woodstock schools,
is just issuing through the Age
Office, a pamphlet descriptive Of the
courses of study in the High School
The pamphlet-twenty pages with
cover-includes the years calendar,
the names of the school directors and
teachers, an explanatory introduo-
ton, detailed description of the
courses of study, the courses them
selves and a list OF the textbooks
used. Mr.. Wiggin says the book is
intended to be a convenience to stu
dents and teachers he hopes it will
also help to enlighten parents and
frieDds''of the school in regard to the
work it is dong. Woodstock schools
have long maintained high degree
of excellence. To any good public
school system, high school is most
essential. 1t is to all the grades be-
low it, a stimulus and example. Mr..
Wiggin is to be congratulated on his
evident purpose to keep the High
School up to the highest standard
possible. Friends of the schools
should acquaint themselves with the
work through his pamphlet and give
him intelligent cooperation and sym
pathy.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
THE WIFE HE WANTED.
Queer Matrimonial Advertisement That
Appeared In 1887


Here is a curious matrimonial adj
vertisement, published in an Ameri-
can newspaper in 1887. Whether
the gentleman Of "easy temper"
whose only mode of restraint was
"stinting" - which every woman
knows is of all schemes the most dia-
bolical-found a lady possessed of
all the enumerated projections who
was willing to hide them cannot at
this late date be ascertained:
ga middle aged gentleman barely
turned sixty and as yet unmarried is
DESTROYS Of altering his condition.
He has a good estate, sound consti-
tuition and easy temper, and having
worn out the follies of youth will be
determined by reason in the choice
of the lady he intends to make hap
by. She must be upward of fifteen
and under twenty-five. Her size
must be moderate, her shape nat
ural, her person clean and her coun-
tenance pleasing. She must be live
ly in her humor, but not smart in
her conversation; sensible, but ut
terlySunaffected with wit; her tenn
per without extremes, neither too
hasty and never sullen. Then she
must invariably observe all forms
of breeding in public places and
mixed company, but may lay them
all aside among her acquaintance.
She must have no affectation but that
of hiding her perfection. which her
own sex VIII forgive and the other
more quickly discover. She shall
be restrained in nothingA the gentle
man having observed that restraint
only makes good women bad and
bad women worse. In some things
perhaps she may be stinted, which
is the only method he will take to
signify his dislike to any part of her
conduct. Any lady whose friends
are of opinion Cher own opinion will
not do) that she is qualified as
above and has mind to dispose of
herself may hear of purchaser by
leaving with the printer hereof a let
ter directed to G. D."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
NapoIeon,s Attsmpt at suicide

The most startling of all Con-
stant's revelations is that describing
Napoleon's attempt at suicide when
Marmont, Berthier and the rest left
him naked to his enemies. Con-
slant in one Of his earlier volumes
described talisman wrapped in silk
and leather which ever since the
Egyptian campaign Napoleon wore
around his neck. 1t contained, ac-
cording to Constant, the poison
which the emperor took Immediate
ly after his signature Of the deed Of
abdication. He then sent for Con-
slant and thus addressed him: "Con-
slant, am dyingl l could not bear
the torture any more and the hui
initiation of seeing myself surround
ed by foreign agents. They have
trailed my eagles through the mire.
Marmont has given me my final
blow. That Berthier should have
forsaken me cuts me to the coreI
My old friends! My old comrades in
armsW However, either the weak
ness Of the poison or the skill of
IVAN, the doctor, saved his life
T. P.'s Weekly, London.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-09-02
cornIshmen and Tails.

Natives of Deyonshire, England,
in past centuries used to say that
Cornishmen all had tails, asserting
that it was sign of the divine dis
approval Of their infamy in cutting
off the tail of Thomas a Becket's
horse. A sixteenth century writer
says: $50 hath England in all other
lands perpetual infamy Of tayles
by theye wrytten legendes of lyes,
yet can they not well tell where to
bestowe them truly. An English
man now cannot travayle in another
land by way of marchandyse or any
other honest occupyinge, but it is
most contumeliously thrown in his
tethe that all Englishmen have
tayles."