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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
MONDAY,



Sixty passengers and crew rescued
from the steamer Cherokee, near At
lantic City, N. j.; thrilling scenes at
tending the work
Blizzard in Boston harbor; five
due to the storm.
Marshall Field, the great Chicago
merchant, dying of pneumonia in a
New York hotel.
Sleeve found by Yale sophomore in
iller homestead at New Haven no clew
to Edwards mystery, according to Cor
oner Mix.
Peter Beauprie, watchman at Spring
field, murdered and robbed.
Sweeping victory from free trade is
predicted in England.
Collision between battleships Ala
bama and Kentucky likely to be as
cribed to lack of New York. pilot;
fleet is ready to leave Hampton roads
Throngs at the two great automobile
shows in New York.
General stan declares army trans
port should be provided for in shipping
bill.
Troops OF Cgceres defeat insurgents
in Santo Domingo; Morales says sal
vation of country depends upon ratiti-
cation of convention.
Long projected Cape Cod canal to be
built soon by new concern, according
to its counsel in New York city.
Moroccan conference, British cleo
tions and the selection of president
of France leading events of this week.
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Thirty Dollars a Mlord.

A poet and literary man of some
celebrity was visited in his study one
morning by manager of a lecture
bureau, who said that he had called
to ask the writer to take part in an
entertainment.
I'VE want you to read selections
from your own works, Mr.. Gillespie,
together with an original poem COM
posed expressly for the occasion.
Name your own price. Well announce
in the progr'm-"
my price," interrupted Mr.. Giles
pie, will be 500"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
THURSDAY,
Jan. 1s, 1906

THURSDAY, Jan. 49, 1906
Charles Aver of Pembroke, N. H.,
shoots himself after having, it is be-
lieved, murdered seven members OF his
family and fired his house over their
bodies.
Celebration of 2OOth anniversary OF
Benjamin Franklin's birth, held in
many cities of the United States.
Senator Tillman makes savage at
tack upon President Roosevelt in the
senate.
Martha Barnett, an 18-year-old mu-
latto, shot and killed in her home In
Boston by Harry Middleton, a guest at
her ante-nuptial reception.
New England delegation in congress
swings national board of trade into
line for dual tariff, safe and sound"
railroad rate legislation and ship sub
sidy bill.
Annual meeting Boston Merchants
Association President Lawrence re.
elected.
C. w. Thompson of Boston buys Sells
& Downs circus.
Coroner Mix of New Haven dismisses
the Edwards tragedy with a full re-
port reiterating the theory of suicide.
David B. Hill asks New York bar
association to investigate his connec-
ton with Equitable life assurance So
Ciety.
Hints of patent trouble cause quite
stir among automobile manufactur.
ers.
Massachusetts joint Legislative COM
mittee visits Charlestown state prison.
Joseph Chamberlain and all union.
list candidates elected in Birmingham
England.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20

The railroads of the United States
are very particular as to what they
will accept for transportation as
baggage, but down in Guatemala the
railroads are not so particular. While
| was down there some time ago l
made a list of the different articles of
merchandise that | saw checked as
baggage on the Western Guatemala
at the town of Retalbuleu. Here it is:
One cage of chickens, a basket of
ducks, bundle of dried fish, crate of
live iguanas, various empty baskets,
crate of fighting cocks, baskets of eggs,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
9 CONDENSED NEWS
z OF THE ENTIRE WEEK
FRIDAY

FRIDAY, Jan. 12, 1905.
District Attorney Moran of Boston
asks the governor to remove the saw
lngs bank commissioners; outcome OF
Provident banking company aftair.
A banker OF the North End, Boston,
missing with money belonging to poor
italians.
Russian budget shows it necessary
TO raise S24O, 100000 by credit opera
tions; cost of war 81, ,O50, 100000,
No. 2 Tamarack, at Calumet, Mich,
ablaze, and three miners missingi
heavy damage done in best producing
shaft OF the mine.
Bankers committee on the Denison,
Prior & Co, failure report that the firm
is insolvent and that there is evidence
Of forgery of municipal bonds.
Barkentine Altona bumps on Shovel
tul shoals, gets off and signals for
help late at night.
New Bedford, Mass, finds it has
wrongfully used $4,000 intended for a
bridge payment.
Boston bark Shetland lost on the
south side OF Cuba, and captains wife
proved a heroine.
Gov. Guild OF Massachusetts in
vited to attend hearing in Washing
ton on proposal for investigation OF
child labor conditions throughout Unit
ed States.
Report on Edwards autopsy made to
Coroner Mix at New Haven, and an
other statement on the tragedy is ex-
pected from him.
Ex-President Mccall said to have
given trust deed Of his Long Branch
estate to secure New York Life in the
Hamilton claim.
President Faunce of Brown men
toned as possible successor 10 Harper
Of university of Chicago.
In spite Of opposition OF governor OF
Jamaica 400 men left for canal zone
yesterday; 1900 have left for zone
since Jan. l; Poulrncy Bigelow sum.
lee.
Fishermen report tempestuous weath.
er on the banks.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20

baskets of fruit, silver in sacks, bun
die of soled clothes, that some woman
was taking down to the river to wash,
furniture, hides in packages, smoked
crabs that smelled to the next station,
baskets of bread, a small alligator and
two live pigs. All OF that miscellan-
eous merchandise and farm product
was handled in one car along with the
personal baggage of passengers, as
result of which custom a traveller soon
finds himself saturated with the COM
plex odors Of the country. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
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Where II BELONGED.

An amateur authoress who had sub
mitted a story to a magazine waited
for several weeks without hearing
from the editor concerning it. Final.
ly she sent him a note requesting an
early decision, because as she said,
she had other irons in the fire"
shortly after came the editors re.
ply:
Dear Madam,-T have read your
story, and should advise you to put
IL with the other irons. s."-Harper'
Weekly.
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TUESDAY.
Jan. 1s, 1906,

TUESDAY, Jan. 49, 1906
Liberal landslide in Great Britain
continues; with the laborites they won
GO out OF 76 seats ballotted for yes
terday; Gerald Balfour, Walter Hume
Long and Lord Hugh Cecil beaten; re-
suit SO far liberals 95, unionists 81,
laborites II. nationalists IS, socialist l.
Boston boaSd of aldermen took five
ballots for chairman and adjourned
without an election; democratic COM
bination of Ave formed.
Steamer Cherokee will probably be
a total loss; is valued at 100000
Marshall Field rallies strongly and
friends and physicians hope for his
recovery.
Prof. Willard C. Fisher of Wesleyan
elected mayor OF Middletown, Conn, in
a hot contest.
Misplaced switch causes Montreal
express to run off track near st. Johns,
Quebec; switchman dead.
Servants leave and the Hitler trag-
edy house at New Haven may be
closed
William II. Moore, noted inventor,
OF Salem, Mass, dead.
Congressman Keliher argues for
tariff revision in the Philippines bill
talk; general debate closes.
Brief and fruitless conference be-
tween committees Of the Boston typo
thetae and typographical union l3.
President preparing to send to con-
gress message favorlng lock canal;
Taft and Stevens charge Southern Pa
cific with responsibility for freight
congestion on isthmus, seriously hind
ering canal construction!
Children of late town treasurer Of
Needham, Mass, made good deficiency
to town.
Commodore William P. Mccain,
father of the white squadron" dead.
Lawyer Albert r. Patrick, sentenced
to die next week, reprieved until
March 10 by Gov. Higgins of New
York.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
SATURDAY.,
JAN. 13, 1906.

On OnONNI JAW To- ISOO'
Albert w. Dears, the boy hero"
confesses to having set the big fire
In Boston, in which one life was lost.
Windsor hotel at Montreal partly
burned; guesrs-all-
THOMAS w. Lawson OF Boston de.
clines In forclble language to address
Peoria, ILL.,, club. am.
ference with Boston men on the Irish
situation.
Steamship Canopic leaves Boston
with many prominent persons in her
cabins.
Henry H. Rogers gives four reasons
why he should not answer Atty. Gen.
Hadley's questions, of which an-
cuses that official Of seeking notoriety.
Miss Roosevelts fiance makes an
address in the national house on the
characteristics of the Filipino.
FTanco-Vene2uelan relations broken
off; in Washington the situation is re-
garded as very unpleasant with posi-
bilities of serious consequences.
Southern cotton association practi-
cally committed to Is cents for crop
and less acreage.
Denlson, Prior & Co investigating
committee finds forgeries confined to
three issues and that they are prob
ably several hundred thousand dol.
lars in extent.
Samuel Samuelson held for grand
jury on charge of murder Of j. d.
Favorettl at Quincy, Mass.
Lewis Hecht, Sr., famous Jewish
banker and philanthropist of Boston
dead.
Crew of schooner Samuel l.. Russell
capsized in Chesapeake Bay, probably
drowned.
Fire in Panama city burns two
blocks in poor peoples quarter, which
includes two public schools and an
orphan asylum.
No will found in old safe In the Hill
Ter homestead at New Haven; Mrs
Edwards and Charles A. Hitler apply
for appointment Of an administrator.
Liberals make gain Of one seat
in the first contested elections at
Ipswich, the borough unseating Sir
Charles Dalrymple.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20

You are an angel" he said, ard.
emily.
No, no; you are wrong" said the
young girl. 81 am vain, idle, silly, ut.
terly unfit to be your helpmate
through life"
He laughed lightly. He said in a
soothing voice:
why, this Is sheer madness What
sort of a wife do you think ought
to have?"
"A very wise, deliberate, practical
woman" she replied; "one able to live
on your small salary"-New York
Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
she KNEW Her Weakness.

1t was the sweet scent of the lilies
in the conservatory, the beauty of
the young girls gilt hair or the ex.
cellent cigar he had smoked with his
supper-at any rate. after the two.
step. as they rested in the shadow be
meath. he proposed to the debutante
in white.
1T cannot be-" she said, 81 am un.
worthy OF you."
"Oh, rubbish" said he.
1T is true; 1t is too true" And she
sighed.
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oIsn,t that a little steep?"

mot at all, everything considered"
The manager tried to beat him down
to so, but he was immovable, and the
bargain was finally closed at the first.
named hgure.
.npheus," said Mrs. Gillespie, after
the caller had gone, wasn't that more
than you intended to charge him when
he first spoken
"Yes," he said, at s just twice as
much; but he irrltated me $50 worth
by calling it 'progr'm. Youths
Companion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
Princess Ens EIiuible.

Madrid, Spain.-A dispatch eemanat-
Ing from Rome is to the effect that
Princess Ena OF Battenburg, the fin
ancee of King Alfonso. has written to
Pope Plus announcing her conversion
to Catholicism.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
Cleveland stays at HONG.

Columbus, O.-Rev. William N.
Cleveland, brother of Ex-President
Grover Cleveland, died Monday night
from paralysis. He was 73 years old
and died at the home of his son, w.
n. Cleveland, in this city.
Mr.. Cleveland was a retired Presby-
terian minister. Ex-President Cleve-
land has been notified of the death.
The body will be taken to Cleveland
for interment. Relatives here say that
EX-President Grover Cleveland can
not attend the funeral, as he is not
able to make the journey.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
Berth for Cant. cowies.

Washington, d. C.-Rear Admiral II.
N. Manney will retire from active SER
vice next Monday. He will be sue
ceeded as chief OF the bureau of equip
ment by Capt. w. s. Cowles, a broth
er-in-law of President Roosevelt.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
EIGHT VICTIMS,
Charles Aver Thought 10 Have
Murdered Family.

Hs Later Shoots Himself at His Sis
tsr's Home.-House is Burned and
Two Bodies are Recovered From the
Ruins.-Authorities Consider It the
Most Appalling Tragedy Ever En-
acted in New Hampshire.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20

Shanghai, II is estimated, will in ten
years have a population of 1900. 900.
public heating plant.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
Woodstock Business cardo.
BOSTON WHOLESALE MARKETS.

To make the appended quotations Of value
alike to buyer and seller, the resume OF the
market, prefacing the quotations; should De
carefully read. In market OF thls charae,
ter IL Is impossible to give prices for every
day OF the week. Noting, however. the
general tendency of trade, sufficiently &C.
curate quotations win be given ON whlch
aealers can safely base their TRANSACTIONS
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
in Politics
~ Thomas U'entUOrth Higginson.

all the scholars education republic
ibe advantage the who 0
the scholar the manlness
II his ineficiency. be
gravely
*E+*%|+f school
the
Natural laws provide much better the
to
evil
the and he his the work i'll
fighting OF
the political
only a
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20

problem AS Pascal The immortality the soul is
all feeling
despair of arriving the knowledge of the
destruction not?
consider a
the
other This
22
annually 1OOO the chance multiplied by the 5 days in the
amount O 10000
simultaneous death Of the
efec?-apers Weekly
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20

ther by the enby but reality to ruin ms
career forever Wte fulfilled his mission at the moment wh u
his cabed home Inc
believing sohcious only
the distributing blame among e
Then and say;
wanted the determined humble our nation we
Sacrifices dshonor The apostle OF peace
has tried settlement with them but he has aea u
Now strike
The Wtte feel that they were going
nothing nasnuch as te
lie
she would give wa" '
suddenly pull
civilized
collect disputed japan
htated the pressure eXer W ~
welt, yelded-IIarpeTs Weekly
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
By M. Camille FIammarion.

HE question of telepathc communication from the dying
deep interest for the theory ones SELF ones ma
ture existence, ones nOneny. OF course many
will say that death is the end of But such statements
merely empty wOrds-a the aspirations Of humanity
protest against of annhilatiOn. Ideals dreams,
hopes justice, cannot logically be considered mere Illusion
any body which is the subject of them Does
not feeling rank reason? Anyhow il is a
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
e""'"">~"'"~o The G~'~'-'"'"''
) Inside Story of the Peace
) =. Conference -.
BY E. j. Dillon.


RIEFY put neither the Russians the Japanese govern
wanted to end the war; because each one hopeu 'h"'
few months fighting would establish claim or mVu
peace terms and neither was minded to lorelt
chance which might offered again From the very
outset therefore tie peace prospects almost hopeesS
But Sergus Wtte completed good work begun by The
Roosevelt the first STEP which cost great deal being
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-20
pdSF~a-~'1NS n "SV"@SS'"'
Paradox of History
By Thomas Dixon.

Se~~AppNRNo-psNNno BY Thomas Dixon. ~Jt~sNFN~|~"O
that the law often owes
haved appointed guar
q
is he a
is of larger affirmation, ana 'he
of tomorrow"
Nealya of o the progress Oh
$AMAAMMAA$ Official guar
of society.
Il a
the organized OF the pe
the total
the
the
tendency masculine principle
progress.
the
expression of the organized virtue people becomes necessary break
n o il.
a maecor.
philosopher world
to
and
Washington
is often those to whom and order dearest to join
hyeCof
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-29
How DOInhins PInN.

The waters Of the gulf of California
TEEN with other wealth than pearls.
Iiere are fish Of every description The
tCna is abundant. and the gamy Span
ish mackerel is everywhere. The dol
phin seems monarch of all the gulf
In the vicinity of the great island of
Carmen they are encountered by the
thousand. One school. comprising
many hundreds. were encountered by
the steamer OH which the writer was a
passenger a short distance from the
beautiful bay of Escondido. They were
a Ealf mile distant when they observed
us going IN the opposite direction. Sud
denly the leaders, in clearly evincel
spirit of rollicking sea dog fun. turned
every one of them and gave chase to
the steamer. 1t was perfectly evident
they enjoyed the performance as much
as the spectators. For little while
the noise was deafening, as if thou
sand gamins of the streets had been
turned loose in a go-as-you-please bath
house. Then, having proved their abil.
ity to catch up with the steamer, they
as suddenly veered and sped south
ward.-Sunset Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-29

During the earlier days of the war it
seems to have been the desire of all
prominent men in Washington to have
a representative in the ranks, and Lin
coin was no exception to the rule. At
that time there was a minister named
Staples in Washington, one of whose
sons, then aged nineteen, had a desire
to go to the front. Lincoln heard of
him and, after conference, selected
him as his representative, and he prov
ed worthy, for he won honor on the
field. He survived the war and finally
died in Stroudsburg, Pa. The inscrip-
ton on the stone over his grave reads
as follows: ~ Summerfield Staples,
a private of Company C, One Hundred
and Seventy-sixth regiment, P "; also
a member of the Second regiment, d.
c. volunteers, as substitute of Abra-
ham Lincoln"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-29
An Elder Brother.

In case in the orphans court of an
eastern city one of the principal wit
nesses was asked if he had any broth
ers or sisters.
II had brother" he replied, but he
died $50 years ago"
What? A hundred and fifty years
ago." echoed the judge, with an i'm
piled rebuke for a possible jest.
Yes. am telling you the truth. My
father was married at nineteen years
of age. Within the year a son was
born to him, who shortly afterward
died. Becoming a widower before he
was thirty, my father married again at
the age Of seventyfive. l was born
next year. l am at present ninety -four
years old. If you will make the neces-
sary calculation by adding my age
ninety-four, to the number fifty-six
which is the difference between seven
ty-five and nineteen, the ages of my
father at the time of his respective
marriages, the result will be exactly
$50. So it is just century and a half
since my brother died"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-29
Let the Children PLAY.

1t is too often true of the unhappy
children who are forced to rise too ear
ly in their classes that they are con-
ceited all the forenoon of life and stu
pid all its afternoon. The vigor and
freshness which should have been stor-
ed up for the purposes of the hard
struggle for existence in practical life
have been washed out of them by pre-
cocious mental debauchery-by glut-
tony and lesson bibbing. Their facul-
ties are worn out by the strain put
upon their callow brains, and they are
demoralized by worthless childish tri-
umphs before the real work of life be-
gins. l have no compassion for sloth,
but youth has more need for intellectu-
al rest than age, and the cheerfulness,
the tenacity of purpose, the power of
work, which make many a successful
man what he is. must often be placed
to the credit not of his hours of indus
try, but to that of his hours of idleness
in boyhood.-HuXley.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-29
Two Ways of Putting II.

Two groups of persons were seated
In railway station, according to Lip
pincott's Magazine. One consisted of a
fashionably attired pair, the other of a
pair who looked as if they were from
the country They had been there only
a few minutes when a girl came in
whose complexion was as nearly per-
feet as anything in this world ever is.
While she was buying her ticket the
young man remarked to the ladies with
him:
Isn't Miss Cransford beauty? Her
complexion is as perfect as a rose"
AT the same time the other man
clutched his wife's arm and whispered:
Lord, Nan, hasn't that gal got a
purity hide?"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-29

The wailing infant had upset the
photographers chair, kicked a hole in
the paper rocks and made faces at the
little bird which is supposed to bring
smile to all youngsters when they are
having their pictures taken.
Isn't he too cute for anything?"
chirped the proud mother. And just
to think | call him Tootsie.'
"Tootsie." grunted the impatient pho
tographer. "H'ml I'd call him Cod
liver Oil"
"Why so, sir?"
Because he is so hard to take."-
Chicago News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-29

Charles Dickens used to describe the
way in which Samuel Rogers, the poet,
told dinner table stories when grown
old and feeble. A manservant stood
behind Rogers chair and at appropri-
ate intervals would thus admonish his
master: Tell Mr. Dickens. sir, the sto-
ry of the Hon. Charles Townshend and
the beautiful Miss Curzon." The old
poet would start in slow chant: The
Hon. Charles Townshend became enam-
ored of Miss Curzon. She was bee
yewtiful. He be-ribed her maid to con-
ceal him in her chee-amber and when
she arrived to dress for ball emerged
from his hiding place. She looked at
him fixedly, then said. why don't you
beginT She took him for the air
dresser"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-29
Agents Wa n ted.

We want the Calfskins. Hides, Sheep
Pelts, Tallow, Bones, etc. collected in
your vicinity
Can't you arrange to purchase these
goods for us this spring? We viii furnish
the cash with which to buy we will also
furnish tags, advice sheets, taking off
directions, cloth posters to enable you to
advertise the business, ETC., etc.
We pay highest cash prices and keep
condition of the market and paw the
freight.
To anyone writing us and mentioning
this paper, we will mail full particulars.
Address.
CARROLL s. PAGE, Hyde Park, Vt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-29
THE SEISMOGRAPH.
How the Earthquake Indicator Re-
cords the Shocks.

How the Earthquake Indicator Re-
cords the Shocks.
In its simplest form an earthquake
Indicator might be a tray with notched
edges so filed with mercury that a
shaking Of the earth would cause an
overflow in the direction of the move
ment In the instrument used by sci
ence the pendulum Is employed, verti-
cal by some Italians, horizontal by the
Japanese, English, most European and
American observers. A movement of
the earth affects everything but the
pendulum, which Is so freely hung as
to remain stationary, and recording
device makes the result visible OF old
with the vertical pendulum q sharp
point drew the profile of the move
ments on q blackened surface. Photo
graphic paper in moving strips serves
the modern instruments.
The horizontal pendulum turns on a
vertical axis and carries at its extrem-
ity heavy weight which earth shock
does not reach In the Milne seismo-
graph platinum sheet attached to this
weight has a slit intersecting at right
angles a slit in a second sheet under
meath. In times of quiet reflected light
passing through both Sits makes one
point and prints straight line on the
moving bromide paper. When the
earth shakes the lower slit moves and
the line becomes crooked, according to
the strength of the shock A clock work
arrangement with shutters and a light
times the disturbance.
The instruments are so delicate as
sometimes to indicate shocks which no
men have felt.-New York World.