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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-27
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Boston, New York. North and East, 10. 90 A
M, S.OOP. NJ. 8.SOP. M.
Bridgewater, Rutland, and Ludlow 6.l5
A. NJ, and 3;OOP., NJ.
south Woodstock and Felchville, 800 p. NJ
Barnard and Bethel, 6.15 A.. M.
Office hours from @. 80 A. NJ. too p. M
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-27
BRIpGEwATER JUNIORS.

The Deweys Mills ball team with
the assistance of Fitzmorris, Cush-
ing and Flushey defeated the I'd
team on Davis field Saturday, % to
5. The game was much better than
the score would indicate, as in only
one inning did Dewey run away
with the game. The kids were in
good shape excepting at third base,
where five errors were made in one
inning
The score:
Dewey, doom 5 0 3 0 3-22
Br. Junior, 0 90 3 0 90 / 5
The Dewey team play at Bridge
water again on Davis field Decora-
ton day, May 30. This will be a
good game.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-27
MEMORIAL DAY.

Exercises will begin at 9 a. m.
Tuesday. The Bridgewater band
will be in attendance and the pro-
cession will form at the Congrega-
tional church park, marching to the
Riverside cemetery, thence to the
Hilltop cemetery, decorating the
graves, then to the village hall,
where an address will be given by
Prof. Campbell of Hanover, and re-
marks by ex.Gov. S. E, Pingree and
Rev. H. M. Springer. Appropriate
music will be rendered by Mrs. A.
E. Leighton of White River juno
ton, assisted by the choir.
Memorial service at the Congre-
gational church Sunday morning and
at the Methodist at 2.3o p. m.
The Changers will attend the
morning memorial service in {
body.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-27

The Age and Delineator one
Year $I.s5.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-27
LUDLOW Q, BRIDGEwATER D..


The Bridgewater ball team played
their first game of the season at Lud-
low Saturday, losing it on errors.
The weather was more like football
than base ball, as ii was a cold, raw
day, unpleasant for spectators as
well as players. Both pitchers were
hit freely, but Ludlow played in
luck, as the balls were nearly all
batted direct to a fielder. Errors
we've plenty on both sides, the cold
making it impossible to field per-
fectly and also impossible for the
pitchers 10 get N~oveaOd up enough
to get the kinks out OF their arms.
Score by innings:
Ludlow, 5000 o3 3 90
Bridgewater, oooo oI3 %
The Bridgewater ball team play
their first game on the home grounds
today Saturday with the Ludlows
as opponents. Game called at $50.
An exciting contest is looked tor,
as the locals want to even up and
will make a try for the game.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-27
wHITcoMB HIGH SCHOOL.

Whitcomb High school defeated
Spaulding High of Barre at Bethel
May 20, 6 to 5; defeated Randolph
Normal at Bethel May %, 5 to 4,
and was beaten by Randolph High
in a ten-inning game, Z to 6.
Whitcomb High plays Randolph
High at Bethel today; Mortified,
May 30, at Bethel; Montpelier June
2, at Bethel; Rochester June 3, at
Rochester; Spaulding June 9, at
Barre; June 10, Montpelier at Mont
pelier.
The Bethel town team plays South
Royalton May 30, at Bethel.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-27
Memorial Sunday.
QUECHEE.
w. {. Vaughan,
Sergt. Major.

Ira LittIe6eld of New London, N.
Y, is spending several days in
town.
Mrs. Strong and Miss Grace are
at home again after spending the
winter in Wauwatosa, Wis.
Zoe Cataw and Annie Of Spring
field, Mass, are at home for few
days.
Miss Regis Keith of Springfield
is visiting her grandmother, Mrs.
Frink.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Woods and
daughter spent Sunday with Mrs.
Amanda Allen on their way to War
vviol,, Canada.
Charles Swazey & Co. of Barre
placed two monuments of their
Barre granite in the Hill Top ceme-
terry the past week.
A PAINFUL ACCIDENT.
Walter Cataw met with a painful
accident in the factory Tuesday af-
ternoon. In putting on belt his
clothing was caught and he was car
ried over a shaft several times. His
clothing gave way and he fell IS
feet, cutting bad cash in his head
and breaking one arm and rib, be-
sides badly bruising him. DR.. V. M.
Rogers and trained nurse are in
attendance and he is reported as do
| ing well.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-27
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.


The following program will be
given Monday afternoon in the hall,
a special invitation being extended
to veterans and members of the
Relief Corps:
Singing: Columbia.
Glass Exercise The Blue and the Gray. ;,
Fis| song First Grade Pupils
Recitation: Our Departed Heroes,
Inez Waite
Flower Exercise.
Recitation: Graves Of the Patriots,
'''''"' Maude Slayton
El.c Exarcise Second Grade Pupils
Defamation: General Grant, Ruth Slayton
Song: Hurrah for the Flag
Deciamatiom A Tribute to Mckinney,
Roger Montague
Glass Exercise: Our Flag
Defamation: Our Heritage IRON WASH
ington and Lincoln, fhhP Nahson
Glass Exercise: Peace.
Defamation: Abraham Lincoln,
Harold DunsmOol
Recitation: Extract from L0WolFs Com,
incarceration ode. Flora Hamilton
Patriotic Quotations.
Singing: America.
The annual spring examination o
pupils who propose to enter the mgr
school or the preparatory class mex
fall will be held in room . OF th'
new building on June 10. All pu'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
WORK IN HAReoR BUILDING.
Construction of a Big Deep Ocean
Breakwater at San Pedro, Cal.

Construction of a Big Deep Ocean
Breakwater at San Pedro, Cal.
San Pedro, Cal. is about 100 miles
north of the Mexican boundary and a
few miles south of Los Angeles. When
California had 30 have a new harbor
somewhere a board OF government en-
gineers, IN 1897, decided that San
Pedro had the best natural advantages
for constructing one. The result OF
their work shows that harbor can be
built almost anywhere If enough mon
ey is expended. Congress Appropriated
100000 for the San Pedro break
water, extending $500 feet In length
in the ocean, and for dredging behind
it.
The breakwater is n sort of continu-
atien Of Point Fermin, TO the east
yard. 1t was planned to comprise two
straight arms, connected by a curve,
1880 feet long. OF 1910 feet radius,
the we erly arm to be 1000 Seet long
and tie easterly arm 300 feet long.
A gap OF 1000 feet was left between
1t and the shore. but this gap was
crossed by railway of tremendous
strength. to enable the contractors to
dump rocks for the breakwater.
The total amount of rock required,
according to the government specifica-
tons, Is 2,2o6.9sS tons. OF which IT IS
estimated 10000 are yet to be put in
place. For some time the contractors
have been dropping the rock at the rats
of 5000 tons a month. or four tons
q minute, at cost OF S0.S44 a ton. At
the beginning the dumping took place
in twenty feet of water; to-day the
contractors are making bigger splashss
In fifty-two feet of water. The rocks
are often so large that only two of
them can be put on one car. There Is
year and half of dumping ahead,
but already a harbor OF refuge is
formed, where vessels can lie IN safe
ty In all sorts of weather, behind a
rock line above high water.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
Selecting Egg Producers.

A serious mistake Is often made in
selecting fowls for breeding purposes
and in selecting eggs for Matching. A
correspondent of Farm Home says: On
many farms the custom Is to select
eggs for Matching during the spring
months, when nearly all of the fowls
are laying. No matter how poor lay.
er hen may be, the chances are that
most of the eggs will be produced dur.
ing the spring and early summer
months. A hen that has laid many
eggs during the winter months is quite
likely to produce fewer eggs during the
spring and early summer months than
one that commenced b lay on the ap.
proach of warm weather. Springtime
is natures season for egg production
All fowls that produce any considera'
bic number of eggs during the year are
likely 20 be laying at this time 1t IL
therefore plain that whenever eggs are
selected in the springtime from flock
of mixed hens composed of some good
layers and some poor ones a larger
percentage VI eggs VIII De ODJAlneO
from the poor layers than at almost
any other season Of the year A seri
Gus mistake is therefore made in
breeding largely from the improbable
fowls. Whenever it is possible fowls
that are known for the great number
of eggs that have produced during the
year should be selected for the breed.
ing pen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
Prevention of Tubercu1osis.

Taking advantage of the interest
liz the disease of tuberculosis among
cattle. a firm Of New York druggists
has been sending out circular all
tempting to introduce ON a large scale
a proposition for the vaccination OF
cattle supposed 10 be based on the
method of the German professor, Won
Behring. The method of protection
against the disease by vaccination
has been investigated with great care
by DR.. Leonard Pearson, State vet.
Urinary of Pennsylvania. Inquiry OF
DR.. Pearson brings the following reply
THE claims In relation to the works
OF Won Behring are exaggerated and
in part they are without foundation,
There is not the slightest evidence to
show that by means OF II cattle may
be immunized for their lives or for
a length of time sufficient to make the
process at all valuable. What has
been proven is that by means of
certain method of vaccination much
more prolonged the two inoculatine
methods referred to in the circular,
cattle may be immunized TO a certain
and also to great extent against ar
tificIaI infection by direct incubation.
How long che protection will last, and
whetber it is of practical importance
By such a short method as Won Beh-
ring now recommends remains to be
proven. Experiments with a view OF
settling these points are now In prog
ress In this country under the State
Live Stock Board of Pennsylvania.
Personally, am strongly OF the be-
lief that a practical and safe plan,
for immunizing cattle against tuber-
culosls VIII soon be available II
should be made clear, however, of the
plan CT Won Behring that Is recon-
mended by the druggists is insufficient
so far as 1t has been tested. Alto
gether the tone Of the letter and its
claims are of the patent medicine va
r1ety and furnish support 10 the argu-
ments OF those who believe that the
production and sale Of vaccines. antf.
toxtnes, etc, Cor animals as well AZ
for man should be under more strin
gent State control. "-Aassachusetts
Pboughmsn-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11

a "heat catcher" an illustration Of
which is shown here. 1t is adapted to
be inserted In a furnace or stovepipe
to catch and distribute the heat pass
Ing therefrom. It is cylindrical In
shape, mass of refracting material
being placed in the interior, through
which the heated products Of combus-
ton pass. An air pipe for distributing
the heat passes through the center of
the refracting material, being connect
ed with the outer air. A CRATE placed
ear the bottom holds the refracting
material in position. Chambers top
and bottom are provided, which are
connected with inlet and outlet pipes,
respectively. A perforated plate placed
near the top of the upper chamber
serves to distribute water over sub
stantlally the entire cross-section of
the refracting material, pipes top and
bottom supplying and removing the
water, the latter acting as cleanser.
Obviously, all wasted heat can be COZ
lected and used by such a device.
George Thomson, of Elizabeth. n. ],
Is the patentee.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
amount of snowfall and conditions Of

amount of snowfall and conditions Of
the snow beds are eagerly sought.
II the snowfall is reported to be
light every farmer hastens spring
work as much as possible in order
that the fields may be all planted By
the time the high we ter runs, so that
all the good possible may be obtained
out of the limited water supply while
it lasts. III such cases farmers rather
hope for cool, wet spring, as this will
give the crops time to start and will
hold back the supply of irrigation wa
ter ~ reason of the cold weather In
the upper altitude. When they hear
that the SHOWS are falling early In the
mountains so that they will become
packed against the coming of late win
ter and spring xnows, there Is feeling
OF comfort and an assurance of good
supply of water. When 1t is known
that the snous lie from four to six
feet deep in the timber belts and high
mountain slopes the farmers do not
lie awake nights worrying about MAX
ing good crops for the coming sum-
mer.-Denver Field and Farm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11

overcrowded, is shown in the iliustra-
ton. 1t can be used only In combina-
ton with bench or pew having box
seat, the extension being slidable end
wise in the box seat The outer end
OF the extension is formed into de-
pressed seat with folding back and
arms, and when so folded can be push
ed into the box seat SO as to be out
Of the way when not wanted. A sprilg
Is arranged so as to normally retract
the extension AMI hold it in position.
1t would require only few seconds to
withdraw the seat from its normal po-
sition, catch preventing it from re-
turning until released Many church
es would find this 'extensible pew"
as the inventor calls it, of great adj
vantage when the ordinary seating ca
pacity of the church is not sufficient
to accommodate those who attend.
John p. Kline, Of Reading, Va, ia
the patentee.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
NEW CANAL COMMISSION.
Shonts Heads Body Which Is to Build
Big Panama Ditch.

Big Panama DttCn.
The personnel of the new isthmiai
canal commission is as follows:
Theodore T. Shonts, chairman.
Charles e. Magoon, governor of canal
zone.
John f. Wallace, chief engineer.
Rear Admiral NJ. T. Endicott, Z. S. n.
Brig. Gen. Peter G. Hams, L. S. A.,
retired.
Col. Oswald NJ. Ernst, corps engineers,
u. S. A.
Benjamin NJ Harrod.
These names were announced at the
War Department Monday and in connec-
ton with the announcement Secretary
Taft gave out for publication state
ment showing the allotments of salaries
to the new commissioners and his own
letter to the President and one from
the latter explaining the plan of reorgan-
ization of the commission, the reasons
therefor and the particular duties to be
assigned to each commissioner. The first
reads as follows:
''The President has made an order al
lowing a salary of $500, with travelling
expenses, to each member of the COM
mission and to the chairman of the COM
mission the additional compensation of
S22.5o9, to the chief engineer the addi-
tional compensation of 1900 and to the
governor of the zone the additional com
pensation of $4,000"
THE head of each department is al
lowed the use of furnished house upon
the isthmus and his travelling expenses
when travelling on the business of the
commission.
THE total is $102,50O The salaries
and allowances under the former COM
mission amounted to $4,000. The total
compensation of the governor of the zone
and the chief engineer are in effect un-
changed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
Big Potato Results.

The tremendous booming which
some of the Few potato varieties have
been receiving of late years In Eng
land seems to have produced solid re
suits If the stories of last years big
yields are to be considered. The high
price Of seed induced planters of the
slew kinds to subdivide tubers to the
greatest possible extent and give them
every care. One farmer of Lincoln
shire says he raised, without the aid
of fertilizer, from one very small
Grange Defiance potato weighing a
quarter Of an ounce, thirty-six pounds.
Another claims 20 have realized 361
pounds from a half-ouDce Edorado.
In another case seven pounds of FL
dorados are alleged to have produced
3.019 pounds. According to still an
other farmer, ton TO each pound
of seed was the rate of yield of q
crop of EIdorados. The same farmer
says that 100 plants of Duchess of
Cornwall potatoes produced $40
pounds. From two pounds OF Eldora-
dos. In another instance, were real
lied 2.491 pounds. after a struggle
against caterpnlars and aphids. The
yield per root averaged about eight
pounds.-American CultiYatOr
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
Conquest Of .a. Great
American Desert
.N~N%~N~N~~@


Irrigation implies a certain amount
Of labor and expense. The main irri-
eating canal must be built with its
dams, headgates fumes, bridges,
rights of way, etc. The individual
consumer must prepare for receiving
his share during the irrigating season.
He must dig lateral bitches, construct
headgates, and sometimes dixie up or
flume over a low place In his land.
When it comes irrigating time he must
hire extra help, unless he is wise
enough to keep his irrigated acres
within the limits Of his own capacity
for labor. But so far as that goes,
farmer In almost say section of the
country finds himself obliged on GER
tain occasions to employ an extra hand
or two. However, he is not always re-
quired to put up cash either for the
original purchase OF his water right,
or In the payment of annual assess
ments. Original owners in irrlgating
bitches frequently pay for water rights
entirely In labor or material. besides
the excavation OF the bitches, lumber
must be provided for headgates and
fumes and stones for dams and bulk
heads.
Then be is frequently permitted to
work out his annual assessments with
his teams, or by putting on hired
hand or two, for all OF the big bitches
need attention each succeeding year
Large quantities of sand wash In from
the river, and this has TO be cleaned
out. Banks must be strengthened and
repairs and improvements made gen.
orally. So between construction and
maintenance the average farmer is not
required to dig up much cash TO meet
the expenses Of securing and keeping
up water rights. or course a farmer
buying q piece of irrigated land has
the water rights included IN the pur-
chase price of ne land. and is re-
quired only to pay h's assessment from
year to year. A single water right usu-
ally carries with It sufficient water to
trrisate 100 acres OF land. More land
must have added shares, or fractions
of shares. while smaller tracts call
tor fractions in proportion to their
area OF 16o acres, The value of a
water right depends on the reliability
OF its source of supply and upon its
seniority.
The first ditch TO be built on any
given stream and to have established
that fact in court naturally has prior
right TO water from that stream up
to the amount of its legal appropria-
ton over all other bitches taken from
the stream at subsequent dates. Its
legal appropriation is not whas it may
claim but the amount OF water shat IL
can use beneficially from season TO
season. All Irrigation water Is meas
ured by the cubic feet passing given
point in a second of time. During the
winter and early spring irrigation
farmers turn anxious eyes to the
higher attitudes and great timber belts
up In the mountains. Reports OF the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11

wall paper is shown here, the inven-
ton of an Iowa man. This apparatus
Is a receptacle having an open face,
with fiange or rim surrounding the
outer edge, scraperblade being at
tached to the front edge Of the rim.
A handle is attached to each side of
the apparatus for holding it over a
covered surface An inlet IS provided
IN one end OF the receptacle through
which hot water or steam Is injected,
with an outlet below for removing the
water when cold. BY applying the ap-
paratus to the wall the paper is loos-
ened by the heat of the hot water or
steam, there being no chance of any
water being splashed around in this
way. The scraper blade does the rest.
The patentee Is Paul Wayts, of OF
tumwa, Iowa,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
PRESIDENT OFF ON A TRIP.
Leaves Washington for Hunting Tour
in South and West.

With cheers and good wishes re-
sounding at the station, President
Roosevelt Monday morning started on
his trip through the Southwest. Among
those at the station were MANY friends
of Mr.. Roosevelt, including Postmaster
General Cortelyou and Secretary Met
calf of the Department of Commerce
and Labor. The special train. which
is one of the finest ever sent out OF
Washington, consists of three cars
the Presidents private car Rocket, the
Pullman sleeper Forest and the com
bination baggage and buffet car Vice
roy.
In the party. besides the President
were Secretary William Loeb. Jr.,
General S. B. NJ. Young, DR.. Alexander
Lambert, Lieutenant g. Il. Fortesque,
one of the Presidents aids; NJ. C.
Latta, and j. l.. McGrew. stenograph-
ers to the President; III. A. Stroh-
meyer photographer. aud representa-
tives of the press associations.
The trip was made primarily to en-
able the President to attend the re-
union of his old regiment the Rough
Riders, held at San Antonio, Texas,
and to hunt big game in oklahoma
and Colorado. Incidentally the Presi-
dent has delivered addresses at several
places en- route His first important
stop was at Louisville. There he was
the guest of the city for three hours.
He went from Louisville directly To
ST. Louis and thence via the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad to San
Antonio, stopping at several places,
among them Sherman and Dallas.
Texas, on the way.
After leaving San Antonio the Pres
ident went to Oklahoma for a wolf
hunt and proceeded thence to Colorado
to hunt big game in the mountains.
Unless il should be necessary be-
cause of unforeseen circumstances to
eurtail the trip, the President will be
absent from Washington about two
months. He expects 10 be in the wilds
of Colorado for a considerable time,
but will keep in constant touch with
Washington by means of couriers to
the nearest telegraph station, and thus
will be enabled to attend to such i'm
portant business as may demand his
personal attention. DIR. Lambert, who
accompanies the President, was his
physician in New York and has hunt
ed throughout the country which The
President will visit