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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
Insurance to be Paid Immediately.

San Francisco, Cal.-Financial In
terests on Wednesday centered In the
announcement made by the Insurance
companies that in the immediate nut
ure they will pay the losses OF the
Are sufferers,
It Is believed that most OF the
money will be put into general oir'
culation and thus relieve the people
of San Francisco as no other means
could.
The news was welcomed, not only
by the policyholders, but also by the
banks which have been doing their
best for the public with the resources
at their immediate command neces'
sarily limited.
what will be the effect Of the pay
ment of this insurance money!" was
asked of James D. Phelan, chairman
of the finance committee.
Nothing could do more good" he
replied. when the money is paid
out to the people it will put them on
their feet. 1t will bring about an
early resumption of normal conda-
tons"
With the announcement that losses
will soon be paid the insurance in
terests have made the concession that
salvage operations on property swept
by the flames may be proceeded with.
Policyholders may save anything they
can find without fear of risking the
loss of their claims for insurance.
To a great extent the work of de-
molishing walls and clearing away
the debris had been postponed be-
cause of the doubt regarding the at
titude the insurance companies would
take.
At the meeting of the reconstruc.
tion committee a resolution was adop-
ted declaring that the wages for pub
lie and private employment at ordi-
nary and unskilled labor should be
$3.50 for nine hours. This rate has
been fixed by the building trades
council.
Gen. Greedy has asked employers to
pay their men something, at least
daily, so that they may be able to
pay for their meals. g
1--WE are establishing 15-cent kitch-
ems all over the CITY," said Gen. Gree
ly, land If the men employed could
have their wages promptly paid 1t
will greatly assist the work of re-
lief"
Wednesdays applications for relief
show a decrease of 10000.
In communications to Mayor
Schmitz, e. H. Hartman says he is
so greatly interested In the work of
rebuilding San Francisco that he will
soon return from the east
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
MONDAY,
May 7, 1906.

"SNOHII "oy - lSSS'
Leland w. Folsom of Roxbury, Mass.
well known in stock-brokerage circles,
kills himself.
Battleship Rhode Island pulled off
York spit bar in Chesapeake bay by
four tugs.
Death of John F. Morrow, former
well known hotel man in Boston.
Wall falls upon soldiers dynamitlng
San Francisco ruins. injuring one;
slghtseers throng city and fakirs reap
a harvest; revised death list totals 319.
Governor general Of Moscow wound
ed by bomb thrower reported killed.
Few changes in the French chamber
of deputies as result of election, and
no disorders.
Mrs. Henry II. Honore, mother Of
Mrs. Potter Palmer, died in Chicago
Crippled Fall River liner Priscilla
towed to that city after accident.
Car to open Russian parliament on
Thursday.
Rev. c. C. Stuart Balm of Waterloo,
N. Y, jailed on charge of setting fire
to his church.
New York saloon-keeper nearly
lynched after shooting man in his
place.
John Holland, guard at the house
of correction in Rutland, VT, kills
himself.
DR. Lawson A, Long, who discovered
plot to kill Lincoln, dead at Holyoke,
Mass.
Another shakeup in Panama canal
commission expected soon.
President again declares himself on
railroad rate legislation; Hepburn
bill and amendments exactly meet his
views.
Postmaster General Cortelyou rec
ommends a special commission to con-
slider the second class mail issue.
Miners expected to be ordered to
return to work within week.
Railroad to be built at once in
Klondlke region.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
A sultan's Big War Drum.

An interesting and unique war curio
recently arrived at Khartum in the
shape of the late Sultan Iambo's great
war drum.
1t is cut from a solid block Of wood,
and is intended to represent buffalo,
though, perhaps, the execution leaves
something to the imagination. The
whole thing is over 10 feet long, 4 IL
feet high and feet wide, and re-
quires eight or ten men to carry it.
Wide World Magazine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
Eorestrv Chair al Yale.

st. Louis, Mo.-iThe National lum-
Der manufacturers association has
Just adopted resolution appropriating
$150,000 for the establishment of q
chair Of forestry at Yale university.
The chair has been under consid-
Grafton for some time and $55, 900 has
already been subscribed Pledges were
received from members making up the
remainder, 200, and the chair will
be established as soon as possible.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
The LATEST Man

THE LATEST man ever saw" said
travelling man to a group of fell
low-drummers at a Chestnut street
cafe yesterday, was not a tramp nor
a cop, but station agent in a little
one-horse village in Idaho.
After had finished what little
business / could do in the town, I
went down to the roalroad station to
buy ticket for my next stop. The
lazy station master sat on a broken
down office chair, his feet on the desk
and pipe In his mouth, unlit When
| asked for the ticket he slowly reach
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
Heaviest Man Dead.

Willimantic. Conn.-The body OF
Amos Chaffee, the heaviest man in
eastern Connecticut, will be buried
Thursday, being removed from here to
Union, Conn.
He weighed more than 400 pounds
when taken i'll and grew heavier each
day until his death, when he weighed
AL pounds. The casket is 80 inches
wide, six feet nine inches long and
"a inches deep. His wife weighs
about so pounds Ten bearers will
be required to handle the casket.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
Indemnity for Lienehow.

Hongkong.-The viceroy of Canton
has paid to the American consul at
Canton, julius G. Lay, the sum Of $780,.
900 as indemnity for the mission build.
ings, the personal property of the mis-
sionaries and the claims OF converts.
as result Of the destruction of prop.
perty during the rioting at Lienchow
in October last
The money will be transferred to
the Presbyterian mission settlement at
Lienchew.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12

the friend pointed out. ooh, very
WELL" said Fontenelle, with very bad
grace, and he went to give the order.
On his return he found his guest in
an apoplectic fit. Back went Fonten.
ellie to the top of the kitchen stairs.
Cook" he roared, you can dress the
asparagus with sauce" - London
Chronicle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
A Lucky Fit.

The arrival Of precocious asparagus
from those magic gardens, where
nothing is in fashion unless it is out
of season, reminds us of the sense Of
humor and lack of sensibility of the
famous French wit, Fontenelle. A
friend who called upon him was
pressed to stay to dinner. 1--WE will
have asparagus" said Fontenelle, who
was an eplcure in food as in words.
with OIL" amended his guest. "But
l prefer 1t with sauce" objected Fon-
tenelle. Sauce disagrees with me-"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
Pious Kansas Town.

'he town of Willis has 1873 inhabI.
50, and 176 of them belong to the
Fch. Four Of the seven who do
peiong are town loafers, and the
u three are infants, who will be
fn in as soon as the weather warns
hnd they can be baptlzed.-Kan.
City Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12

ed up to the rack, drew it out, handed
1t to me and took my money without
bestowing, glance upon me or NOV.
ing from his chair.
That's the LATEST thing ever
saw" said to him. IF you can do
anything lazier than that, I'll give
yo uthis dollar" Without the slightest
curiosity or even interest the loafer
drawled, Put it in my pocket, and
did. d."-Philadelphia Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
A Wonderl

"He is the most polite man ever
knew"
"What gives you that impression?"
"Why, he even is polite in his home"
San Francisco Call.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
Recent.

Mr.. Wade Parker-My dear, this
silver looks as if it hadn't been clean
ed recently.
Mrs. Wade Parker-But it has been
only two girls ago-Cleveland
Leader.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
TUESDAY,,
May 8, 1906.

Anthracite operators and miners
sign a thrse-year agreement continu.
ing the strike commission award for
another three years, and miners will
return to work at once; Boston prices
drop.
Gov. Gen. Smith says there Is .
permanent peace in Philippines
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12

The king of Italy, short and squat,
hardly comes up to the shoulders of
the tall, athletic Queen Helena. The
king of Portugal, though fattsP, il
shorter than his queen.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12

The authorities Of Nordhausen, Sax
ony, have forbidden the use of the
streets to any person using an article
of dress that sweeps the pavement.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
BRIBERY PROBE
Legislature Must
Face Grand Jury,

District Attorney Moran OF Suffolk
County Makes His Most Sensational
Move-All the Members Of the Sen
ate and House Included In the Et'
fort to Have Matter Of the Anti
Bucket.shop Bill Defeat sifted to
the Bottom.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12

troll, is What the beadroh?
the FOREMOST man
his later years ana may
that the him declining into madness
married whose only son u @ 49, @
hood life the
daring clvo India forty was
neurCah Give morbid gou and an
committed sucue
Waterloo were
of The Romahohs ~
centuries and OF the ep
fits his gou bald and scowo
o
Macauay aed perfect inferno OF
which mercy was
of overheathy ana
himself there Is sufficient
the divine grFwonau' sec
sheepolds make | %
visions, ana was N9N'
I,oi
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
BY Samuel McChord Crothers.
BY 4gneS C. Laut.


$~~%~%~~%$
daredevil reckessness would
prehistoric adventures is
( Their
called kotches They
$$~~~~%$~S~
help of God and little powder the Russian hosed
Arctic
all that the
to
a to TT
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12

a smoking car for women has been
ICED ON an English railway train.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12

Many paupers have lived to be one
hundred years old; but no millionaire
has attained that age.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12

ne Chicago Board of Education has
pared In favor Of movable schools
follow population.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12

ke the amended quotations OF value
e,it. id buyer and seller. the resume OF the
prGTncing the quotations, should Dc
ea aally read. In market Of TINS sc ehSrSc, dI.rv
4tl tIH Impossible TO give prices lut e'thtS az
aE fendency Of trade, sufficiently ac &C.
Et.4fa mutations will be given on when
aS4l6ts ean safely base their transactlonA
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
rOy""~~>""' """'UT
. Great VeurOpdthS
The SuNeringS of Captains of the LOoTtd
BY 7ighe Hopkins.

supreme captains of the world there are but SIX OF seven
and scarce among them exhibits genius IN Vs s s
coors In ombnsb for nearly all of them form OF
nerve disorder turks Grotesque as the statement 9 $50
epilepsy manifest greater in less degree reVoes w
on their desnies Charemagne the great and wise cap
tain of the Franks who stands for feudal civilization VINO
"snached darkness all the lands he conquered, %
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12
..--~N"~. United States ~NG~-'
Army is Too Small
BY f. L. Huidekoper.

nation in the entire history of the world has yet neglected
military strength without ultimately paying the penalty
the foremost military from 1900 to 1872
and again 1860 and Russia presumed to be invlnci
BILE than three Yet all know what ter
rible humiliation France underwent 1S701S71
has just suffered Do fondly imagine that
going to the consequences when in actual
fact whit better prepared than
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-12

delusion
which
to ocome- American Review
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-01-10

tiOns. appeals, writs of various
kinds and other legal obstacles
that are employed by the cor
pOratiOn lawyer to block the
path of justice so completely
that even prosecuting officers of
the ability of Folk and jerome
find it difficult indeed to convict
a rich aw-breaker and actually
get him into Jail. But after all
the people themselves are to
blame for choosing as their
agents to make and administer
the laws men who do not serve
them honestly.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-01-10

by messenger, who will wait for
an answer. Believe me, my
dearest uncle. your most Obedient
and affectiOnate nephew.
"P. S.-OvercOme with shame
for what l have written, | have
been running after the mes
senger in order to take the letter
from him, but | cannot catch
him. Heaven grant that some
thing may happen to stop him,
or that this letter may get lost"
The uncle was naturally touch
ed, but was equal to the emer-
gency. He replied as follows:
MY Dear Jack:--COnsole
Yourself and blush no more.
Providence has heard your pray
ers. The messenger lost the
letter. Your affectiOnate uncle.
Chicago Tribune.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-01-10
His PRAYER Answered.

A young Irishman in want of
S25 wrote to his uncle as follows:
Dear Uncle:-If you could see
how | blush for shame while |
am writing, you would pity me.
Because | have to ask you for a
few dollars, and do not know how
to express myself. 1t is i'm
possible for me to tell you. l
prefer to die. | send you this
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-01-10
Notice,

All parties who have made applica-
ton for telephones and have not been
able to get them within a reasonable
time, or not at all, will please leave
their names at once with either of the
undersigned. as we desire to apply to
the Railroad Commission for relief.
JEROME MOUTON,
d. SCHWARTZ.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-01-10
Rescues Him.

Rescues Him.
This article says that a person rel.
cued from drowning should be turned
face downward and vigorously treat
ed with hot applications"
That's just the way Johnny's motA.
er treats him when he has been swim.
ming."-Houston Post.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-01-10
NOTICE.

lafayette, La, Jan. 4, 1905.
Notice is hereby given that we have
this day dissolved by mutual consent
the commercial partnership existing
between US under the firm name of
Levy & Son; that Lazarus Levy has
transferred all his interest in said
firm to Moses Levy, and the latter
has assumed the payment of all the
debts and liabilities of said firm.
Respectfully,
L. LEVY,
NOSE LEVY
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-01-10
Wealth and the Law
New Orleans States.

in the popular mind that the
meshes of the law are so woven
or the net so handled that only
the little fish are caught while
the big fish are allowed to go. A
few days before Congress adj
journed for the holidays Con-
gresham Bourke Cochran de-
liyered a speech in the House in
which he expressed his belief
that there are at this moment
no resources at the disposal of
society sufficient to put any man
possessed of $1,000, 900 or &c.
OOo,O 900 in jail" He declared
that this was a humiliating con-
fession, but it may as we'll be
made. I'VE all deplore it," he
added, "but no man has yet
raised his hand to strike when
the perpetratOr of crime com
mands Millions" and he went on
to say that this is the most
sinister, the most OminOus
spectacle ever presented in the
history of this country.
While there is much truth in
what Mr.. Cochran says his state
mentS are rot so accurate as
they would have been had they
been made only a few years
back. Evidence is not wanting
that great wealth is ceasing to
inspire the public mind with awe
and the courts with reverence,
for at the present time the out
ragged law is hot on the trial of
quite a large number of men
who are possessed of millions Of
dollars, while public cOndemna-
ton has fallen with crushing
force on many others who as yet
have not been criminally indicted.
1t is we'll to bear in mind that
two United States Senators
recently been convicted of crime
in spite of all the money and
influence at Their command, and
there are other cases hardly less
striking.
But, as we have said. there is
much truth in Mr.. Cochran's
claim. There are some eminent
men of millions in New York
who have committed perjury in
addition to violating the criminal
code as it relates to the officers
of trust companies and other
financial corporations. But there
are not many persons who ex-
pect that these men will be sent
to jail-thOugh District Attor-
ney Jerome or the Attorney
General of the Seate may yet
disappoint expectations in this
particular. But if these rich
criminals are not punished Mr..
Cochran holds that their immun-
ity must be charged to the fact
hiatt 1.-THE whole tone, the whole
trend of public opinion is to sit
down helpless before vice when
it is colossal" In commenting
on this pessimistic view the
Springfield, Mass, Republican
makes the pertinent suggestion
that Mr.. Cochran pursue the
subject into the region of in
dividual responsibility, and de-
termine how far the varying
and twisting and final destruc-
ton of the processes of justice
against great wealth is due to
it's ability to employ able lawyers
like Mr.. Cochran, and divest
them of all scruples of conscience
or good citizenship for the time
being"
There is a great deal of truth
= x lho .A,n:-o~ Ill:
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-01-10
GORDON
BATHS

NOTICE.
Inc regular annual meeting of the
Lalayette Building Association. to
elect a Board of Directors for the
ensuing year, will be held At tho of,oo
OF the association Tuesday, January
TO- 1870 between the hours of s and !
p. M.
b. J. PELLER1N, Secretary.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-09-07
m. pl,eey.ry Of Pike's Peak.

BY boat Pike pushed up the Mis-
souri, to the mouth of the Usage, as
cended that ahluent to the Usage VII
lagos. in western Missouri, and restor-
ed the Indians TO their tribe. Getting
horses, he rode into Kansas, delivered
the Pawnees at their home on the
Republican river, near the Nebraska
line. and then swung southwark to the
Arkansas, which was reached at the
present Great Bend, close to the center
of Kansas. From that point Lieuten-
ant Wilkinson and few, prIyates
went down the Arkansas to the Mis-
sissippf and returned home. while
Pike and the rest of his men followed
the Arkansas into Colorado, wander
de through 1t in a zfgzag course, and
discovered the mountain with which
his name is connected. He first
thought II was small blue cloud"
but when his party got a little nearer
to it they "gare three cheers to the
Mexican Mountains" Pike was in his
grave many years before the peak got
his name. Searching for the Red riy-
err. which was the boundary between
the United States and New Spain in
that vicinity. Pike crossed the line,
struck the Rio Grande instead, was
captured by the spanfards on Febr'1-
airy &c, 1907, for invading their terri
tory. taken to Santa Fe, and from
there the governor OF New Mexico
sent him to Chihuahua. From that
point, escorted by the spaniards, he
made a detour through Texas. and on
July reached the United States post
at Natchitoches, on the Red River. Six
years later. in the war against Eng
land, Pike. as brigadier-general and
at the capture Of York
(now Torontol, was killed at the mo-
ment of victory. and has gained i'm
mortality by giving his name not only
to a mountain summit, but to many
towns, and streams through
out the United States.-From THE
Pike Exploration Centennial" by
Charles NJ. Harvey. in the American
Monthly Review of Reviews for Sep
TENDER.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-09-07
TALK OF FIVE REVOLUTIONS.
General Uprising IN Central America
said to be Planned.

General Uprising In Central America
said to be Planned.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. THE ex-
istence of an alleged 1unta. which is
said to be collecting funds and sup
plies for revolution to be started
simultaneously about November / in
the five Central American republics,
Costa RIGA, Honduras, Salvador, Mic
aragua and Guatemala, was announc-
ed here. Don Angel Urgatel, who says
he is cousin of. .Policarpo Bonilla,
brother of the President of Honduras,
said in an interview:
al am informed that there is to be
a general uprising in the five repub-
lies. My mission is to collect funds
for revolution in Honduras, where
Polfcarpo Bonilla, my cousin, will lead
the insurgent forces. The people of
the five republics in Central Ameri-
ca are all dissatisfied with their rtll-
ers.''
ursatel added that he believed an
attempt at revolution in Salvador will
be a failure, but that he hopes for
success in the other republics
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-09-07
The sweethearts Of a Boy.

Love and the mating instinct come
early to the boy. was scarcely six
and just beginning school when l
formed an attachment for Nellie
Grant which wasn't her name at al,
but one i supply for personal rea.
sons) and longed for the time when
would be- a. man and could carry her
home 10 mother. didn't think, in
those days, of having an independent
establishment of my own. The love
for my mother was too great to permit
any generalization of nest without
her.
Nellie was a blue-eyed sweetheart,
of happy face, red lips and ltght-oroWn
curls. She said Good morning., shy.
~ at the schoolhouse gate and shrank
from my boyIsh rodghness, which Ia
always the mask OF boy love. I wor-
shipped her so truly that I stoutly
maintained her as my preference
when my aunt joked me about her
and the boys twitted me Of Having a
girl" As time passed, | grew holder.
but Nellie seemed always afraid OF
me and when, one day In an outburBt
of affection, I pulled her pig-tatl.
yelled eli" and ran away to hide
my embarrassment, and she cried. |
was besIegcd by grief and banned by
Cupid.
This was the extent of our love.
making. Nellie soon grew away from
me, and while 1 was still adoring her,
acquired a real beau who walked
homo with her one night from the
schoolhoise Awful season OF unre-
Quilted love, l feel thy blasting infiu-
ence still!
And then, 1t seems but yesterday.
Nellie ran away with ne'er-do-well
and married him. She came back
alone in year or two. when was
in mytbaseball epoch, and took In
plain sewing to support herself and
child. He had deserted her.
Back yonder in beautiful Riverside
a grassy mound marks where she
sleeps and covers all but memory Of
that first sweetheart OF mine. Over
the grave birds carol and the elm
trees throw their silhouetted shade.
A stones throw away the Cedar laps
upon the shore and sings a grooming
lullaby to those who slumber in the
city Of the Dead. God rest her. She
was a pure dewdrop In Lies ocean
of brine, spring anemone in the
heart.garden of love.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-09-07
STABBED TO DEATH.

Alteration over Crap Game Near Hin
ton Results in Brutal Murder.
HINTON, W. Va, Sept Gin an
old shack near KImball, Preston Will
liam was stabbed to death by Jim
Wilkinson, who is hiding somewhere
in the forest nearby. The men were
shooting crap with a crowd of ne.
groes, when they became engaged in
an alteration over forty cents. VIII
kinson drew dirk knife and stabbed
williams in the iugular vein. Death
ensued in a few minutes.
The murderer is charged with the
killing of man named Coleman at
Vivian few years ago John Turner
is in Jail charged with being an accom-
plfce of Williams.