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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
COVER INTENT LIGHT.
HlsToRlS cHlcNAMAucA PARK
A6LkZE WITH ILLUMINATION.

United States Svatem OF Lighting Mill
tary Post Pronounced GrAHylngly
suCcesaTul-SiN aud One-HRlr Miles
ot Mains sixty-Five street Lights.
ChiCkamauga Park, Ca, May 3i,-The
United states Government has here
I'm operation one Of the largest acety-
lcne gas plants in the world, The mill
itary post ut the entrance OF the his
torlcal Chlckamauga battlefield, where
thirty thousand Union ana Confederate
soldiers were lost In the memorable
battle of September 10 and 20, 1863,
contains about one hundred buildings,
the sCventy-lve principal ones Of which
are lighted with acetylene. 10 accom-
pllsh this six and one-haf miles of
mains ana two miles Of service pipes
are I'm use. while slXty-five street lamps
brilliantly illuminate the avenues or
the post
In 1908 the War Department in.
stalled test Ocetylene plant at Fort
Meyer, Virginia. The results were so
gratifying and the superiority Of the
ilmmnant so evident that the Govern
ment, March 20, 1904, placed the con-
tract for the ChckamauGa plant in
which every citizen OF the United States
should have his pro rata Of pride.
But the Government has not confined
its acceptance of acetylene to this mill
tary post. Since becoming satisfied OF
the efficiency, superiority and econom-
zeal advantages of this particular H.
luminant, the United States has in
stalled a number of plants in Indian
schools and other Government insti-
tutions.
AcetyIenO gHs ia one of the simplest
as we'll as the most perfect of artificial
lights. 1t is made by the contact OF
water and carbide IA manufactured
product for sale at a nominal price,, is
absolutely safe and gives beautiful
white light soothing to the eyes and
nerves. 1t can be produced anywhere
in the farm home, the village store,
the town hall, the church-and is so
easily maintained as to be practical for
all classes.
1t is a matter for national congrAtu-
lation that in Identifying so historic
a spot as Chickamauga, nothing but the
best, including the lighting system, has
been deemed good enough for the
American people.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
UP IN VERMONT.
Delightful Resorts for Those who Love
Life in the Country.

Delightful Resorts for Those who Love
Life in the Country.
The genial summer time Is here and
the Vacation question is uppermost in
the minds of all who believe in the
yearly respite frum the cares of bust
ness and housekeeping. Persons who
are wise will consider the claims of all
the various regions which invite the
summer visitor and in so doing they
cannot fail to become aware Of the fact
that Vermont offers unequaled induce
ments to those who love the country,
and the Out-Of- door life which is becom-
ing SO popular. The Central Vermont
Railway has Issued this year beauti-
fully illustrated handbook of the de-
lighttul summer country reached by
the Green Mountains Route. This is
Omething that every family should see
1efore making any definite plans for
the summer. IL describes the charms
of the villages nesting among the green
hills, the famous WinoOski Valley with
its comfortable farms, Lake Cham
plains picturesque islands and shores
and the resorts Ia the Green Mountains
where pure air and magnificent views
are yearly attracting thousands from
the close and crowded cities. This book
is sent for six cents in stamps enclosed
to ~. II. HANLEY, Central Vermont
Railway, $50 Washington ST., Boston.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
WAX DOLLS OBSOLETE.

Simeon Ford tells of little girl Of
his acquaintance who constantly car
ried about with her big wax doll that
the hotel man had given her.
Recently there arrived in the house
hold to which the little girl belongs
another youngster. During the after
noon following this interesting event
Mr.. Ford CHANGED to encounter his lit
tie friend on the street. He at once
observed that she was without her
usual companion, the big wax doll he
had given her. "Why, Marie" said he,
"wheres your nice doll?"
Whereupon the little one elevated
her nose to an unwonted angle. Said
she: 81 don't have any use for wax
dolls now. We've got real meat baby
at our house, and that takes up all my
time"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
The Music of the Storm.

During one of Mr.. CleVeland's west
ern trips, says the Argonaut, in which
he was accompanied by Secretary o.
ney, he arrived during a severe storm
at a town in which he was to speak.
AS they entered their carriage and
were driven from the station the rain
changed to hail. and immense stones
battered and ratified on the roof Of the
vehiolo. A brass band, rather demon
allied by the storm. stuck bravely to
its post and played.
"That Is the most realistic music /
have ever heard" remarked Mr.. Cleve-
land.
What are they playing?" asked the
secretary of state.
"'Hail to the chief'-with real
hail"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
Blind Mans Buff.

At the Hotel Montreuil, in Paris,
four rogues not long ago treated them
selves to sumptuous dinner in
private room, and had no intention Of
paying for it. Having called the wait
er. and asked for the bill, one thrust
his hand into his pocket, as If to
draw out his purse; the second pre-
vented him, declaring he would pay;
the third did the same. The fourth
forbade the waiter taking money from
either of them, but all three persisted.
AS none would yield, one said:
1.-THE best way to decide is to blind
fold the waiter, and whoever he
catches shall settle the bill"
This proposition was accepted, and
while the waiter was cropping his way
around the room, they slipped out Of
the house, one after another, and bolt
ed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
nc as a sIeepIna Potion.

'If people would eat plenty Of rice
they would not need drugs to make
them Sleep" said the drug clerk, paus-
ing for a moment in putting up
sleeping potion for woman. There
is much said just now about rice as
a strengthening food, but few Amer
leans know that it has soporific pow
ers. If properly cooked it has. Rice
should be washed many times, until
the water no longer appears milky.
1t should then be soaked few hours,
sailed and boiled rapidly about thir-
ty minutes. When cooked in this way
it can be eaten each day with relish,
and the person who eats it sleeps, and
dreams not at all.'-New York Sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
PELVIC CATARRH WAS
DESTROYING HER LIFE.
PE-RU-MA SAVED HER.

Miss Maria Ducharme, 1872 St. Elizabeth
street, Montreal. Can, writes:
81 am satisfied that thousands OF women
suffer because they do not realize how bad
they really need treatment and feel
natural deiicacy in consulting physician.
II felt badly for years, had terrible pains,
and at times was unable to attend 70 my
daily duties | tried to cure myself, but
finally my attention was caused to an ad-
verbi0ement of Peruna in similar case TO
mine, and decided to give it trial.
"My Improvement began as soon as
/ started 10 use PeruHG aud soon L
1Vas a lpeU lVOmGn. IIeeL that L 0lCe
mn life aud my health to your tCO1l-
derftiL medicine and gratefully &C
knowledge this fact. ~ Maria Dhch-
Irnte.
Address DR. Hartman, President Of Ihe
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio, tof
free medical advice.
All correspondence strictly confidential,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
Home and the World.

There is no real home in which the
cry of the unhappy is not heard, nor
is there any true heart beside which
the sorrows of the world do not sit.
This is at once the pathos of life and
it's richness as WE'LL for the joy of
personal happiness, untouched by the
sorrows of the world, is a vain and
heartless thing. In every home the
wide world lies reflected in its mani
fold relations, its varied occupations,
its diverse temperaments; and, as the
high-walled garden is but a part of
the wide landscape under sky which
knows no earthly boundaries, and
shines alike on the rarest orchid and
the commonest weed. so the fortunes
of the home are bound up with the
fortunes Of humanity
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
sEAslcKNEss Of ANIMALS.
The Eject of ships Rolling UpOi
Some Familiar Beasts.

lhb GHecg OF n SIlp's lNolihhE cpoH
Some Familiar Beasts.
Speaking of animals getting sick at
sea-" said a man who has had some
experience with the dumb brutes on the
briny deep, 81 can tell you that they
do get sick, and sometimes they get
very sick, too. OF course, they do not
manifest the sickness in the way that
human beings show it and for reasons
which will suggest themselves on n
moments reflection. But they never
theless get quite as sick as members
Of the human family. Seaslckness in
human beings will manifest itself in
violent vomiting. A seasick person can
not retain anything in the stomach.
The old rule that whatever goes up
must come down is, in the case OF pro-
nounced seasickness, reversed. What
ever goes down must come up. But
when we come to deal with horses and
cows we find a different condition to
deal with. Horses and cows never
vOmit. They cannot. So right here at
the beginning of the matter we find a
reason for difference in the way this
peculiar sickness shows itself in man
and beast. / have had more experience
with horses than with any other kind
of dumb animal and consequently
know more about the way the horse
suffers during seasickness. 1t is a
rather curious and interesting fact that
the horse is more violently attacked in
the feet than in any other portion of
the badly. 1 Rave seen the feet Of
horses at sea swell until they could
scarcely stand on them. OF course, the
stomach of the animal is affected to
some extent, but this is not Sc serious
a matter as the attack in the feet. The
effect of these attacks is sometimes of
a lasting kind, and the usefulness Of
horses is seriously impaired. The fact
that seasickness attacks the horse in
the feet is mainly due to the peculiar
influence a vessels motion has on the
kidneys of the animal. At any rate
this is the generally accepted view Of
the matter. We cannot say definitely
just why horses get knotty feet Mt sea,
but the popular view of horsemen who
have studied the matter is as stated.
AS to COWS, do not know a great deal
about them, but l understand the chief
trouble with them at sea is that they
lose their taste for food and quit eat
ing."-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10

1t took the girl the greater part Of a
day to fully decipher the hlerogIyphlcs;
but toward evening she brought the re-
suit Of her labors to her employer.
II think l have made out most of
It," she reported, hesltatlngly, "but l
hardly like to tell you what II is"
Read 1t at once" the other ordered,
eagerly, II am old enough to judge
for myself"
ut Is addressed in your name"
Madge, thus instructed, proceeded,
with blush. ITO Miriam, the we'll
beloved, the searcher, seudeth greet
ing"
"Go onw cried Miss Morgan.
my heart panteth as does Syrian
ass under burdens. Name the nuptlal
day. Then shall the teacher fly to the
taught and the searcher seek his be-
loved "
Miss MorgAns face was study Of
smiles in color.
How pOetlcal" she exclaimed.
How characteristic. What a dear
man to express 1t In such an uncom-
mon way, shall answer him at once"
Whereat Madge was discreetly silent,
but at the same time that she sent
away a letter from Miss Morgan to
Professor Kruse she posted one to Dun
ton from herself.
The result was startling. Some weeks
later came a cable from the professor
to say that he was returning, and
shortly after, he arrived, accompanied
by his nephew. His first call was upon
Miss Morgan, who received him alone.
~ had your letter." he began awk-
wardly, as soon as the first greetings
We're over; land to clear up the obvious
misunderstanding, came home at once
acting, 1 may say, partly on my
rephew's advice"
MISUNDERSTANDING repeated the
lady. sharply.
at is plain that | had-ah-no inten-
ton in-ah-sendng you tablet bear
ing proposal of--ah-marriage 1000
years Notwithstanding its sentl-
ments"
Miss Morgan drew herself erect.
"ln Mr.. Duntons presence, before
you left. you told me exactly the re-
verse" she retOrted, with acerbity,
and your attentions otherwise, Pro-
fesso. Kruse, have been extremely
marked. You have placed me in very
false position"
""rhe error may not be irremediable,"
he stammered, clumsily. II have al
ways said, Miss Morgan-Miriam, that
no woman has ever interested me as
you do, and that none had taken such
concern in my researches"
And in you" murmured the lady,
encouragngly.
Then suppose we let the tablet
stand as expressive of my feelings, Its
language is fiorld but"
You can try to keep it up" she sug-
gested boldly. Il have lov--liked you
all along, Professor, and now my
money, as well as myself, will be able
to assist your Investigations"
The door opened to admit Madge
MargetsOn and Philip Dunton, who
paused as they saw the attitude of the
others But the professor called them
in.
LET me introduce you" he said,
blithely ito the future Mrs. Kruse."
Congratulations" returned Philip.
you said that when you married l
might do So!'
His uncle rrovned-the contingency
had not occurred to him.
who is the lady?' he demanded
cvasively.
Here she is-the translator of the
Tarka tablet. New York News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
NO PAJAMAs For HIM.

Governor Chamberlain, Of Connect
cut, tells Of an old friend who, because
Of his deafness, makes some ludierous
and at times embarrassing mistakes.
Recently he was at dinner party
where the lady seated next to him
tried to help him along in conversa-
ton. AS the fruit was being passed
she asked him: "Do you like bananasp
mo" said the old gentleman, with q
look Of mild surprise. "The fact is"
he added in confidential tone which
could be heard in the next room, ~
find the old-fashioned night-shirt is
good enough for me-"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
A RIRLICAL lOKE.

A Chicago minister asserts that some
times the most common statement Of
fact comes to an ignorant person al
most as revelation. Once, after n
Thursday morning address n worship
or remained behind to thank him, and
said you always give me something
new to think about, and, until | heard
you this morning, l thought that So
dom and GOmorrah were man and
wife"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
PUT DANIEL IN FIERY FURNACE.

PUT DANIEL IN FIERY FURNACE.
A clergyman recently engaged with
another of a different belief in a con-
troversy regarding some question OF
religion sent to newspaper office an
article supporting his side Of the ques-
ton. The article in question con-
tanned about 1000 words, and had been
prepared at the expense of much mid
night oil. The manuscript had been
received at local newspaper office
and set up in type for the next days
issue. About midnight the telephone
bell rang furlously, the minister at the
other end asking for the city editor
II am sorry to trouble you at such
late hour" he said, but am in great
trouble"
what can do for your" was asked
"In the article | sent you to-day |
put Daniel in the fiery furnace. Please
take him out and put him in the lions
en."-Baltimore Sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
Time FIien.

A small boy who was waiting with
his mother in a twelve-story office
building OH Chestnut street the other
day, watched with fascination an indl-
Gator which showed, by a pointing
hand on a dial, where the mounting
car was. Mamma" he said, now
know why everybody here hurries so.
Just look how fast that clock goesp-
Philadelphia Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10

We cannot always charge it to old
age when we find our foreheads are
crossed with a distressing network of
tiny lines. 1t is not always age that
makes those disagreeable rows across
our fOreheads and around the eyes.
There are some grandmothers whose
faces have hardly a wrinkle and some
granddaughters whose brows are as
scanned as they might be at sixty.
Time is not responsible for these vex
ing little lines. A good many of them
may be charged up against worry. If
one gets in the way of fretting over
everything that has gone wrong and
everything one thinks likely to so
wrong, the record upon one face will
be a mark which is hard to erase and
is. far uglier than the lines the happy
years bring.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
FBARED THE WORST.

Friday Vizer, familiar negro about
town in a certain part of Mississippi,
had been found dead, and he being a
member of no church or lodge-very
unusual for a negro-there was no one
to pray for his soul in the great be-
You'd. A few old intimates, however,
carried the body to the cemetery in a
rude pine coffin, and Bob McRaven, one
of the number, an old "befo'-de-wah
darkey," was called upon for a few
remarks. Bob removed his hat and
stepped reverently and sadly toward
the open grave, and in solemn, funer-
cal tones said:
Friday Vizer, you is gone. We
hopes you is gone whar we spects you
ain'tw-Lippincott's Magazine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
FOR CHEAPER LIFE INSURANCE.
How Rates Could Be Cut from Guar.
ter 20 a Third


ter 10 a Third.
II is only natural that a system OF
business that is so new as modern
life insurance-in It's present phases
only quarter OF century old
should have many crudities, inconsist'
encies and faults in management, The
principle is right and the business is
bound to expand and grow to be
worldwide and interest nine-tenths OF
the human race. The methods Of con
Quoting 1t must be overhauled. intel
ligently studied, reconstructed, re-
duced to uniform practice and the
whole system placed under such rigid
root-searching and constant superVi'
sion as will insure true economy, the
strictest honesty and soundness OF
investments not heretofore fully real
lied by any organization. have al
ways believed that life insurance com
panies should employ no agents nor
solicitors and pay no commissions
Convenient offices in different cities
or pOpulous centres with reasonable
clerical force ut rational cost should
be maintained. Through printed ar
guments, educational in character
coupled perhaps with lectures, setting
forth the desirability of persons in
health and having income or ability
to earn, making provision for the fam
lily in case of death cutting off the
bread winner, general disposition
to take out life insurance policies
would be gradually awakened. The
man would go to life insurance Of
fee and ask for blank to make his
application, and for examination by
the physician, just as he now takes
his savings and goes to some savings
bank and asks for the privilege OF de-
posting and opening an account. Ten
percent Of the money expended by
life insurance companies in commits
sions to agents and solicitors, used In
proper efforts to educate the public
to the advantnges-in truth, the nee
essity-of life insurance, would in ten
years time insure to the companies
greater patronage than could be Sc
cured through agents. The 80 per-
cent saved would enable the rates for
life insurance to be cut from a quar-
ter to a third, without the solvency
Of the company, the security Of the
insured, being impaired.-Town Top
les.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
Collector Found "Father Not Out"

Collector Found "Father Not Out"
A bill collector called several times
at certain house for a little account
and was informed on each occasion
that father was out"
He noticed that as soon as he turn
ed the corner into the street a small
boy playing in front of this particular
house invariably ran in. Next time
he approached the house from the OPP
posite direction, surprising the young
ster on the doorstep.
"Now, my little man! "he remarked.
Father out as usual?"
For some seconds the youngster
didn't reply. Then he suddenly blurt-
ed out the truth:
''No e amt! An shan't ketch it!
Which way did you come, mister?"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
To BE Handled WIN Care.

Little Willie had head something
about dynamite" One day he struck
his smaller brother, and his mother
said:
ooh, Willie, you mustn't hit brother.
He's only tiny mite"
AN will he etsplode?" Willie cried.
Elizabeth II. Crttenden, in Little
Chronicle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
EVERYTHING CANNED.

A missionary bishop of the Episco-
pal church was in the habit of intro
ducing among the Eskimos many
things to amuse them, in order to gain
their attention to his preaching. But
these sons of the arctic regions We're
impressed by the white mans canned
food more than by anything else he
brought. One day the bishop decided
to spring a genuine surprise on the
natives. He had with him Il talking
machine, with records in the Eskimo
tongue. He gathered his charges all
around him in the little meeting house.
and started the machine. Everybody
was puzzled. At last smile broke out
upon the face of one.
Canned white manW he said in glee,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10

Testifying before the Senate Com
mittee at Washington, Interstate Com
merce Commissioner Prouty said in
discussing the proposition to give that
commission the power to regulate rail-
way rates:
II think the railways should make
their own rates. think they should
be allowed to develop their own bust
ness. | have never advocated any
law, and am not now in favor Of any
law, which would put the rate making
power into the hands of any commits
sion or any court. While it may be
necessary to do that some time, while
that is done In some States at the
present time, while it is done in some
countries, l am opposed to 1t. The
railway rate Is property. 1t is all the
property that the railway has got. The
rest of its property is not good for
anything unless it can charge rate.
Now it has always seemed to me that
when rate was fixed, II that rate was
an unreasonable rate, it deprives the
railroad company Of its property pro
tanto. 1t is not necessary that you
should con6scate the property of
railroad; 1t is not necessary that you
should say that it shall not earn three
per cent. or four per cent. When you
put in n rate that is inherently I'M
reasonable, you have deprived that
company of it's rights, of it's property,
and the Circuit Court of the United
States has jurisdiction under the four
tenth amendment to restrain that. l
have looked at these cases a great
many times, and can only come TO the
conclusion that railroad company Is
entitled to charge fair and reasonable
rate, and if any order of 4 commission,
IL any statute of State Legislature,
takes away that rate, the fourteenth
amendment protects the railway c9oM-
nany"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
pI1RE1.Y CnMMERc1Ar,

A prominent New York manufac-
turer Of sporting goods has a daughter
who, during a recent trip abroad,
made an effort to be presented at the
royal court Of Italy. After due lnvestl-
CATION, she was refused admittance on
the ground that her father sold mer-
chandise. She cabled at once to her
father, and the next day received the
following reply: Absurd 1t isn't
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10

teen years | suffered
with terrible pain in
my back. | did not
know what it was to
enjoy a nights rest
and arose in the morn
ing feeling tired and
unrefreshed. My suf-
fering sometimes was
simply indescrlbable.
When l finished the
first box of Doan's Kid
ney Pills | felt like
a different woman. l
} continued untHt ] had
taken Ave boxes.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-10
skvscrnpers In BerIIn.

skyscrapers are forbidden in Ber-
lin, but the architect, Professor Sleg-
mund Muller, after his recent trip
to America, delivered n lecture in Ber-
lin, in which he spoke strongly in their
favor declaring that they offered great
business advantages and were safer
in case of fire than any other build
ings.