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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
IN THE FIFTH AVENUE PARADE.

Respectable Deacon -"I wish that
young Canon Mayberry weren't obliged
TO preach to such small congrega-
ton"
Frivolous Widow-"So do 1. Every
time he said dearly beloved this morn
ing I felt as if 1 had received a prOpo-
sal."-Smart Set
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
AN IMPOSSIRILITY-

Blggs-"Why do you think it impos-
sible to obtain light without HEATH"
Digs Because it's impossible for
man to pay his light bills without get
ting hot. That's the nswer."-Chicago
News,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
APPEARANCEs DECEPTIVE.

Mr.. Headstall ''That horse you
bought yesterday is vicious looking
animal. Is he kind?'
Mr.. Cropper-"Kind? should think
so. Why when he came out of the
stable he stood up on his hind legs and
tried to embrace me."-Life.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
SORT o, PIE CRuSTY.

First Actress-"What makes the
comedian so crusty this morningY"
Second Actess-"Oh. l suppose it's
that dinner business in last nights
performance. You know he has to en
a whole ple."-Judge.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
ENOUGH SAID.

Katie-"Tell me, Edith, what did you
say when Charley proposedW
Edith-"Me? Oh, there was no occa-
sion for me to say anything. Charley
had said all that was necessary. "-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
HAPPY THOUGHT.

Mrs. Bacon 81 see the walls of
many of the houses in Mexico are from
three to six feet thick"
Mr.. Bacon-'T wish you'd run down
there and see if you can find a fiat to
suit us. "-YOnkers Statesman.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
ANVIL DUET.

Gladys-"If she thinks her young
man is such paragon of perfection,
why does she watch him so closely"
Esmeralda-"She is afraid he is too
good to be true. Chicago Tribune.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
SAGACIOUS.

Miss Bly-"A man with a past is al
ways the most interesting kind. don't
you think 500"
Miss Sly -" We'll, no. To tell the
truth, am looking for one with a fu-
ture." --Detroit Free Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
IN THE MARKET.

Eva Richly-"Oh, really don't think
the count is marrying me for my
money. There seems to be a bond of
sympathy between u.s."
Edna Sinick - Then it must be a
gold Dond.'-Cnicugo News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

The net profit Of the Japanese gov
eminent on the tobacco monopoly for
the business year 19O405 was more
than $13,5OO,0OO, being $S,676,00O over
the budget estimate.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

A Carlsruhe engineer is said to have
invented a contriyance by means of
which, in the event of fire, the audi
forum of theatre can be detached by
hydraulic power from the stage and
pushed, audience and all, into the
street.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
WOULD DROP DEAD.

Suppose a millionaire was to give
you a hundred thousand dollarsT"
"Well?"
"What use would it be put to-?
you will have to ask my heirs
Houston Post.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
LIVING.

Book Agent-"Is Billings still selling
that book, How to Live on Forty Gents
a DnyY"
Standard Work Peddler "No; he
didn't make over ST. a day selling it,
and he couldn't live on that, you
know. Puck.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

One size smaller after using Aliens Foo!-
Ease, powder. It makes tight or new shoe,
easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching
feet, ingrowlng nails, corns and bunions. AZ
all druggists AID shoe stores, Csc. Don't ac-
cept any substitute. Trial package FREE by
mail. Address, Allen 8, Olm5ted. LEROY. NY.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
SCIEN(E1AEDlaAvcS
~. 30

Recent travellers in Tibet have no
ticed that while effects of the rarec,c15
air are severely felt at attitudes of be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 feet on going
yet higher all disagreeable sensations
pHss off.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

In recent number of the Bulletin
Of the italian AerOnautical Society DR..
G. Palazzo, director Of the italian Me-
neurological Service, gives very in
teresting account of the scientific eX-
periments being conducted in italy
with unnamed balloons. The place
chosen for the aeronautlcal station is
Paira, principally owing to its geogra-
phical suitability and it's distance from
mountains and sea. The balloons used
are made Of preparation of India
rubber. They are sent up in tandem
fashion, and are spherical and closed,
and have the faculty of expanding to
about seventy times their original vol
ume, rising rapidly to an altitude Of
10000 metres and upward, where a
temperature of sixty degrees G. below
zero may be recorded.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
POPULAR.

Mildred-"She's a great lover of flow
ers."
Clara-"And now all the boys are
talking of becoming botanists." Yon.
kers Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

lido not believe Plso's Cure for Consume
uonhas unequal for coughs and colds.--JoHN
I. BoYER, TrinitY Springs, Ind. Feb Is. 1900.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

The bayonet's Importance is recognized
all over the world to-day.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teSthing, soften the gums, reduces infiamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie, 25c. abottle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

Ocean trips to Nova Scotia, Cape
Breton, Prince Edward Island or New
foundland. Six days cruise 400 miles
for $1s. From Boston, every Tuesday
scenery. This don't half tell it. Send
stamp for booklet, maps, etc. A. w.
Perry, Gen. Mgr, Union Wharf, Boston.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
LONG AGO.

o. OF visions
When love 8 hunihd Of other
And hope is fled by DEGREES the Real broken,
tuTn aw rom bleak
O
loe 10 lint
Within the gadness OF long
When love false and for
ays
Our hearts re Our spirits shaken
/
ne ashe ngersb y
left We
o
b amidh -
And recolecons And cherished
OF long Of long
j A. Edgeton, New York mes
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
TWO OPEN LETTERS
IMPORTANT TO MARRIED WOMEN
Mrs. Mary Dimnick of Washington tells
How Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Mado Her Well.

It is with great pleasure we publish
the following letters, as they convinc-
ingly prove the claim we have so many
times made in our columns that Mrs.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

three by four inches, braid the edges
with strong braid and make lattice
work over the opening by weaving
knotted hard Irvine through it.
Bind the top, add strings at the side,
hem the bottom edges and it is COM
plete. News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
THREE YEARS AFTER.

Eugene p. Lario, of 751 Twentieth
avenue, ticket seller in the Union sat
ton, Denver, Col, says: you are at
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
Honor In Store For Him.

The microbe now hourishes nightly in
the attention of the world.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

The great field of crystallized salt
at Salton, Cal, is 264 feet below the
level of the sea.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

- TOXIC is about fourteen hours ahead of
New York
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

A gigantic lily, the phormium tenax,
is valuable plant peculiar to New
Zealand Its leaves are nine or ten
feet long, and are so tough that, by
splitting one into narrow ribbons and
joining the ends, the New Zealander
has a tirst-class rope ready to hand.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

1t is a curious fact that a boys
hair grows one half slower than a
girls. NE24
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17
Lailaa Can HVnnr shnnn

The. latest Paris edict is that women
must be thin.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

Japanese legations abroad now look
after all the international business of
COrea
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

liberty to repeat what l
first stated through our
Denver papers about
Doan's Kidney Pills in the
summer of 1890, for l have
had no reason in the in
term to change my opln-
ion Of the remedy. l was
subject to severe attacks
of backache, always az
gravated If | sat long at
a desk. Doan's Kidney
Pills absolutely stopped
my backache. l have
never had a pain or a
twinge since"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

For the purpose Of glass melting and
glass blowing, water is used to great
advantage in Bohemia and Stockholm,
resulting in a considerable reduction in
the cost of fuel. At an incandescent
lamp factory making from 5000 to 1000
lamps a day, where coal gas was pre-
viously used, the introduction of the
Dellwik gas reduced the cost of fuel
about eighty per cent. in soldering the
glass bulbs and in heating the lamp
during the vacuum pumping.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

A great improvement is said to have
been recently made in Woodworking
machinery by a resident of Marlnette,
Mich, who by simple attachment to
the existing machinery makes it posi-
bic to manufacture square spindles for
stair balustrades and store shelving as
rapidly if not faster than the round
ones can be made on wood-turning ma
chinery. The Improvement is also APP
plicable to other kinds of woodwork.
The knives made by Mr.. Jewett are
capable Of cutting across the grain of
the wood without tearing and splitting,
an achievement which has been aimed
at for some time.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-17

Foster-MIllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
For sale by all druggists. Price 90
cents per box.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30

There is very little more to be said about election, in fact, there seems to be no need of any further words from any standpoint. The various candi- dates are so we'll known and their past acts in municipal matters are so fresh in our minds that it seems waste of time and energy to attempt to tell peo- pie how to vote. The question in a nutshell is, do the voters of this city want a republican administration con- tinued, or do they want change, and democrats placed at the helm2 If they desire a change now is the time to make it, as there will be no other chance for at least two years. The democratic candidates are men who have been tried and found competent and efficient in every particular, and the people will be serving their own interests by electing them. Come out and vote, early in the day, too. Don't be a stay at home, neither be one of those who must be dragged to the polls. Vote early and once only and let that once be for good government and the democratic candidates.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30
HEARD IN PASSING

If the head of life insurance com pany may contribute the company's funds to political party, why should not he give part of them to his favor ite church? The Lord loveth a cheer ful giver, and it's easy to be cheerful when one is giving other peoples money.-New York American.
 From information secured with the purpose of showing the growing popu- !arity of then, it is learned that the use of voting machines has been legal tzed in fifteen states of the Union; con gress has made their use legal in all elections for representative in con- gress; the results of the last presiden- ttal election were known before 70 o'clock p. m., because of the prompt and accurate work of these machines
 New London Day.
 President Robbins of the Pittsburg Coal Go is evidently envious of the fame which President Baer once won by single phrase, and, as evidently, he has determined to focus the pubic eye upon himself in the same way. Whats more, he has found the phrase. 'The consumer has been getting his coal too cheap" is his achievement, and we need not claim for it as much of prompt and warm recognition as a verbal masterpiece as was so gener- ously accorded to President Baer's grand revelation of the !diSine purpose in regard to the coal fields. The con- sumers think that he has gone Mir Baer one better.-New Britain Herald.
 Nick Brown of Waterville, Wash, had an experience which he does not care to have repeated, says the Spu- kane Sportman-Review. Nick uses an alarm clock to wake himself mornings, and about daylight he heard what he thought was the clock Jumping out of bed, he heard the sasaa sound com ing apparently from the bed, and, turning around, he noticed the bed quilts moving. He put on a pair of leather gloves and made a grab for the moving, quilts. To his horror he found that he had grabbed large rat tlesnake by the neck. Brown held on while the rattle coiled around his arm. Brown finally secured a butcher knife and had to cut the snake from his arm and smash its head before it would give up. The snake had fourteen rat ties and button. Under the quilts where the rattler lay was found a number of rattlesnakes.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30

At Hyde Park on the Hudson, some eighty miles north of New York city, two gentlemen have called in the aid of forestry in the management of their large private estates. Foresters are engaged in making working plan for the guidance of the owners, and this will soon be completed and put in op- eration, and will later be printed. The estates belong to A. Rogers and J. S. Huyler, and consist of about 1000 acres each, of which from $50 to 800 acres are under forest. The owners were desirous of managing their wood- lands on right principles, both for their own satisfaction and to help along the cause of forestry by good example. They agreed to defray the expenses of making the working plan if the forest service would furnish the expert knowl- edge, and the forest service, which has long successfully co-operated in this way, agreed, after an agent had made a report, to contribute the services of a number of foresters.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30
DESERTED BY HUSBAND
Six Year Old Daughter Committed te
 County Home at Bridgeport.

Bridgeport, Sept 30.--There was a pathetic scene In the probate court yesterday morning when Judge Nobps committed Florence Eppler to the county home as neglected child. Her mother tried to clasp the child in her arms and cover her with caresses, while the girl was struggling hard to get away and go to her aunt, who has been giving her a home for the past months
 It seems that the mother was de- serted by the child's father almost as soon as the marriage ceremony be- tween the two was completed. The mother struggled on, and by living in one room and doing such work as she could get has been able to get along. About month ago her sister, Mrs Macklin of Pembroke street, not liking the locality where Mrs Eppler was liv- ing, as she did not think 1t suitable for bringing up a small girl only six years old, obtained possession of the child and has since been caring for 1t. She and her husband have become greatly attached to the child, and fearing that her mother might obtain possession of her again, an application was made to have the child committed to the county home through the Con- necticut Humane society.
 The court was obliged to commit her according to the showing made in the case, and it is now up to- the county commissioners to look after her. It is understood that her aunt and uncle may be allowed to bring her up, as they stand ready to do it, and can give her a good home. The child is very attached to them and cares very little for its mother.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30

lican national committee, but suppos- ed that it had been made by James Hagen Hyde personally and repudiat- ed all knowledge of the yellow dog" fund.
 Mir. Schiff said:
 "The Equitable was at the mercy of onetman-either Alexander or Hyde. It seems to me it was all Hyde. Ev- erything was Hyde.
 "The vice of the entire insurance situation has been irresponsible power.
 After the last election Cornelius N. Bliss told me that Mir. Hyde had con tributed to the Republican campaign fund.
 q presumed that the Equitable's money had not been spent.
 Responsibility for he. scanda lous conditions in the Equitable. lies. with the state insurance department. Do you suppose the directors of corpora tions can go after the superintendent of insurance and be his bookkeepers?
 T want to say here" continued the banker, that under the prevailing sys- tenn of directorships in New York a di- rector is at the mercy of his executive officers. They ask for advice and then do as they please.
 "In the Equitable the control of the society was exclusively held by the ex- ecutive officers.
 Tt has been my practice to believe that every man in this world Is honest until I find out that he has been dis honest, and in going through this world do not suppose that any man is dishonest until l find out that he is not honest. That has been my practice in- dividually and has been my practice as director of the Equitable.
 "No law which you may frame and which the legislature of this or any other state may enact-no law, how ever close it may be-will protect you against dishonest actions or dishonest measures"
 Alfred W. Mayne, associate auditor of the Equitable Life Assurance so- clety testified that Judge" Andrew Hamilton, legislative representative and handler of the New York Life In surance eompany's yellow dog fund" acted in the same capacity for the Equitable Life Assurance society.
 Mayne said President Alexander of the Equitable had introduced Hamilton to him and said they were to work in conjunction as far as possible,
 All told. in 1897, Hamilton received upward of s15.OO0 from the Equitable
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30

The western demand for crop mon ey in which there was lull last week
 has been renewed on a large scale this week, says Banker Clews. Still
 another money influence that is be- coming more and more apparent is the drain resulting by the covering of GUS toms duties into the treasury conse- quent upon the large importations of luxuries and other classes of merchan- disc so natural In times of general prosperity such as now exists through out the country. During the month of August, for instance, the customs du- ties covered into the treasury at New York alone amounted 10 above s17.- JOO.OOO, and the present indications are that September figures will show a material increase. Imports of mer- chandIse for the first eight months of the current calendar year amounted in value to s7TOOOO.OOO. an increase Of s1OS.OOO.OOO over the imports for the corresponding months last year. The larger imports necessarily mean in- creased revenue for the government.
 which in turn removes the most pvient influence for tarif legislation-at any rate. removes the prime necessity for a widespread reconstruction of tariff schedules. On the other hand. the convictions in the case of Chicago packers for cOnspiring to receive re- bates in connection with the transpOr- tatIon of their products contain much 10 support the arguments of those op- posing government rate control in that they show that legal remedies already exist for the relate evil if properly applied. Therefore the incentive for anything like hys1erical legislation both in connection with the tarfd and raiIrosd rates seems to be gradually diminishing This does not mean that both subjects will not become the source of much agitation and thus un-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30
New YorI. Banker shot Hlm.elf,

NEW YORK, Sept. 30-william R. Travers, a relative of District Attor- ney Jerome and half brother of Lady Randolph Churchill, who was related to many of New York's foremost fam flies, committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a small re- volver in his room on the second floor of the boarding house at 156 Madison avenue, this city. Mir. Travers, who was a banker and broker, with offices at 37 Wall street, and who owned a cottage at Newport and had a villa at Aiken, s. C., was but recently d. vorced from his wife. who was Mss Lily Hartman, daughter of the late oliver Hartman and a sister of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, ST. She had been separated from him for more than two years.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30

questionably exert some influence in stock exchange circles; but the pros poets are favorable to the belief that the ultimate result of such legislation will not be confiscatory in the case of the railroads nor interfere with indus trial prosperity in the instance of the tariff. Nevertheless, the mere fact that there will be widespread discus sion on both subjects in the compara- lively near future is an influence that may well ibe kept in mind in consider ing future market conditions.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30
HYDE WAS DICTATOR
Former Director Schiff's Star
 tling Testimony.
DIRECTORS WERE ONLY DUMMIES.
Head of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Said Ass surance Society Was at Mercy of One Man--Gave Advice Which
 Was Not Taken.

NEW YORK, Sept. 30. = Declaring that in these times the directors of great corporations and institutions are to all intents. and purposes no more than dummies, Jacob H. Schiff, senior member of the International banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co and for merly member of the finance com mittee and director of the Equitable Life Assurance society, to which his firm has sold millions of dollars in se- curities, was on the stand some hours before the legislative insurance com mittee.
 He repudiated the system under which modern life insurance societies are controlled, said he had learned by experience not to figure as dummy again, acknowledged that although a member of the Equitable finance com mittee he did not know of the so- ciety's contribution to the last Repub-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30
Wanted to Die Together.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. 30.-"we are tired of life and want to die to- gcther." was all that a physician could draw from Rose and Agnes Hamilton. young women and sisters. who were fast becoming unconscious when he answered a hurry call at 2S Lyon street They were hurried to Grace hospital. where. it is said. they have a chance to recover. Choral poisoning was the diagnosis there.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30
SATURDAY, SEPT 30, 1905.

Nowhere are the developments in the life insurance investigation now in progress in New York followed more closely than in Washington, says our correspondent. The natural interest felt by policy holders, business men or politicians in the details of the lnti- mate relationship between life insur- anee companies and high finance. is heightened in our case by the general feeling that sooner or later the drama will be transferred to this stage and ultimately the matter, as the case of the regulation of railroads, will be fought to a conclusion in congress. Many feel it a great pity that the Armstrong committee is not congress sional body and that the testimony was not taken in Washington instead of in New York. It would have so enlivened the deadly dull summer solstice which paralyzes the City Beautiful.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-30
xiIon Lime nrtfer.

wESTFIELD. \. Y., Sept 30.- Speaker S. Fred Nixon is little bet ter. While the danger line has not been passed, every one feels encour- aged by the good progress made. No operation will be necessary to remove the serum from the lung cavity if he gets no worse Dr. Willis Mcdonald of Albany, the speakers physician at the capital. joined Dr. Rood. the fam fly physician. and Drs. Eugene Smith and Nelson c. Russell of Buffalo in consultation Mir Nixon had q good night and told the doctors that he felt better.