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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
COULDN'T KEEP 1T
Kept Il Hid From the Children.

I'VE cannot keep Grape-Nuts food
in the house. 1t goes 80 fast have
to hide 1t, because the children love
It so. 1t is just the food have been
looking for ever 80 long; something
that do not have to stop to prepare
and still is nourishing."
Grape-Nuts is the most scientific
ally made food on the market. It is
perfectly and completely cooked at
the factory and can be served at an
instant's notice, either with rich cold
cream, or with hot milk II a hot dish
Is desired. When milk or water IL
used, a little sugar should be added,
but when cold cream is used alone
the natural grape-sugar, which can
be seen gllstening on the granules,
Is sufficiently sweet to satisfy the pal
ate. This grape-sugar Is not poured
over the granules, as some people
think. but exudes from the granules
in the process of manufacture, when
the starch Of the grains Is changed
from starch to grhpe-sugar by the
process of manufacture. This, in eff
feet. is the first act Of digestion;
therefore, Grape-Nuts food is pre-
digested and is most perfectly as
Simulated by the very weakest stom-
ach. There's a Reason"
Made at the pure food factories Of
the Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little health classic. The
Road to MELVILLE" In pkEs.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Genealogical Wit and Wisdom.

Whoever serves his country well
has no need Of MISUNDERSTANDING.
He who boasts of his descent
praises the deeds of another
Seneca.
The pride of ancestry is a super
structure of the most imposing
height, but resting on the most
flimsy foundation.-Colton.
l am no herald to inquire of men 8
pedigrees; it sufficeth me If l know
their virtues.-Sir F. Sidney.
Birth and ancestry and that which
we have not ourselves achieved, we
can scarcely call our own.-Ovid.
Philosophy does not regard pedi-
gree; she did not receive Plato as a
noble, but she made him so.-Seneca.
He that boasts of his ancestors,
the founders and raisers of a family,
doth confess that he hath less vir-
tue.-Jeremy Taylor.
Verify, l swear it is better to be
lowly born, and range with humble
liVers In content, than to be parked
up in glistening grief and wear q
golden sorrow.-Shakespeare.
1t is with antiquity as with ances-
tors, nations are proud of the one,
and individuals of the other; but If
they are nothing in themselves that
which is their pride ought to be their
humiliation
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
ColOred Wit.

Minerva had been in the family
number of years, and she thinks that
her long term of service entities her
to a certain amount of authority, es-
pecially around the kitchen. Not
long ago a negro servant girl, who
worked in a neighboring home, came
to the back door and knocked. Min
erva opened the door.
"Mornin', Minerva" said the girl
from the neighbours house. "Ah
wants to do a little borerin' this
mohnin'."
what yo' want?" asked Minerva.
"Ah wants to borrer two hens
aigs, a cup O. sugar, some lemons en-
pie pan. All wants to make a
lemon pie"
Minerva saw Immediately that she
must exercise her authority. She
stepped outside and looked over the
door. Then she said, half to herself
"No, they amt none theh."
mo what?" asked the other girl.
"Sign readin' 'Groce'y Stoah, "
said Minerva. "Ah didn't know but
what yo' seen one on this house.
They's a grocy on the next cohnah,"
and Minerva went inside and shut
the door.-Baptist Commonwealth.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
When the Jam Coca Out.

Log jams are not an abnormal part
of the riverman's work, as most peo-
pie suppose, but a regular incident of
the days business. In the breaking
of them the jam crew must be quick
and sure. l know Of no finer sight
than the going out of q tall jam.
The men pry, heave and tug some
times for hours. Then oil at once
the apparently solid surface begins
to creak and settle. The men zig
gag rapidly to shore. A crash and
spout of waters marks where the first
tier is already topping into the cur
rent. The front melts like sugar.
A vast, formidable movement agi-
tates the brown tangle as far as you
can see. And then with another
sudden and mighty crash the whole
river bursts into a torrent of motion.
If everything has gone well the
men are all safe ashore, leaning on
their peavies, but ready at any in
slant to hasten out for the purpose
of discouraging by quick, hard work
any tendency to plug on the part Of
the moving timbers. have seen
men out of brava6o jump from the
breast of jam, just as 1t was break
ing down to a floating log ahead,
thus to be carried in the sweep and
rush far down the river. A single
slip meant death.-From Jack Boyd:
Master Riverman," by Stewart Ed
ward White, in The Outing Magazine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
How the Village Progressed.

"Well, WE'LL" exclaimed the man
who had wandered back to the viii
lage. 80 the Eagle House is still
the Eagle House? No change after
twenty years"
"There hev been few changes"
asserted the oldest inhabitant with
some acerbity. "Since you've been
gone the hotel hez been respectively
the Grand Union, the Grand Central,
the Grand Junction, the Great North
ern, the Great Southern, the Imperial,
the Regal, the Empire, the Monarch,
the Prince o. Wales, the Regent, an
few other royalties which l disrec-
ollect, the Mansion House six times
an the Eagle House seven, the latter
happenin to be its proud patronymic
at present writin' Plunkyille, my
travelled friend, hain't so ALFRED be-
hind the times ez you seem to mag
inc. Washington Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
KANSAS TURKEYS.
They Are the Best Grasshopper Gath
erers Ever Invented.


Machines for gathering grasshop-
pers have been invented and tried,
but the most successful grasshopper
gatherer is the turkey. 1t has the
advantage of being a very profitable
one, too.
A ranchman in Western Kansas
raised turkeys enough last year to
keep eighty acres free from damage
by this insect pest. Next year this
ranchman intends raising turkeys
extensively for this purpose, and
nearly all of his neighbors are plan
ming to do the same.
If there were 100 turkeys in each
quarter section in this alfalfa belt
there would not be enough grasshop-
pers left to damage any crops. And
without considering the good that
turkeys do, turkey raising is a profit
able industry where insects are so
plentiful. After they attain the age
of three or four weeks, says Country
Life in America, they can obtain their
whole living in the fields and cost
the farmers nothing until late fall.
Turkey raising promises to become
a permanent Kansas industry. The
grasshoppers with which they have to
contend trere is not migrating one,
but is native, increasing from year to
year. The turkeys, however, range
over large fields and thrive on the
hoppers.-New York Sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
srnAMsHIP YALE is FAST.
New Turbine in summer Service
Meets Expectations.

"CcOb hNpoCbaGAOhb'
Eighteen hours from Boston to St.
John, N. b., was the record scored
by the new turbine Yale, which ar
rived at st. John at Z a. m. on Tues
day last on her maiden trip. She
was greeted on her arrival by well
coming blasts from the whistles OF all
the craft in the harbor.
In arrangement and equipment the
Yale is most luxurious. The quarter
deck or social hall which passengers
enter upon boarding the steamer Is
most comfortable and rich in furnish
ings. Upon this deck Is located the
Purser's office, package rooms, news
stand, barber shop, etc, while from
this deck also the dining hall Is en-
tered From the quarter deck an ar
tlstic staircase reaches to the grand
saloon deck above, and another from
that to the gallery saloon. On these
two decks are located the staterooms,
upwards of 300 in number, several OF
these being en- suite with bath. 1t is
said the cost of the vessel equipped
and ready for service was 81 900 900.
The steamship Yale In express SER
vice leaves Union wharf, Boston, Mon
day and Thursday at twelve noon,
connecting at st, John for all mari
time province points.
The steamships Calvin Austin and
Bay State in coastwise service be.
tween Boston and St J9Sn, leave I'm
ion wharf. Boston, Monday, Wednes.
day ana riday at nine a. m. Leave
Portland same evening at tive-thirty
p. m. for PASSPORT, Lubec and St.
John, connecting at PASSPORT for St
Andrew and Calais, Maine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Colonial Architecture.

A widely known architect, who re-
sides on Wayne avenue, Germantown,
and who frequently delivers lectures
on the art OF building, few evenings
ago had just illustrated to an audience
the beauties Of the Cologne Cathedral,
when he thought Of an experience he
had on a similar occasion. 1T was at
the conclusion Of one Of my lectures, "
he told his hearers, that an apparent
ly refined and cultured woman came to
me, explaining that she. too, was a
student Of architecture. She was pro-
fuse in her thanks to me for enlighten-
ing her on one point that she had nev-
err been able to understand before. 1
have always wondered, she said to me,
where the colonial style of architect
ure came from. Now, Of course. l see
that 1t came from Cologne "-Phila-
delphia Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Great Britain is WeII Served.

Britain has been generous In re-
warding her soldiers. Perhaps the
Duke of Wellington came off best in
this respect. In his earlier peninsula
campaign he was granted pension Of
$1,000 a year for two generations, ana
on the conclusion of the pennsuar
war in 1912 he was voted 100000
for the purchase of an estate. After
Waterloo the government bought FOR
him the estate of Strathtieldsaye at
a cost of $1,315,000. Lord Wolseley
received a grant of S125,OOO on COM
pleting his Ashanti campaign; Sir
Hugh Cough for the Sikh war an an
nuity Of $4,000; Sir Colin Campbell
$4,000 for wiping out the Indian
mutiny, and Sir Henry Havelock for
the relief of Lucknow $4,000 a year,
Coming to more than recent times,
Lord Roberts received 100000 for his
services in the South African cam
paign and Lord Kitchener received
$15O,0O0 after Omdurman.-Ohio State
Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Social Changes in London.


Mrs. George CORVALLIS West, for
merly better known as Lady Ran
1olph Churchill, has an interesting
article in Harper's Bazaar in which
she tells about London society as it
was and Is. Certainly no one should
understand the subject better than
she, and she says some very interest
ing things-this, for example:
IF material London has changed,
so have the habits and tastes of the
social world. The season proper, as
formerly understood, began on the
list of May and ended on the last day
Of July. The winter session, which
usually assemblies in February and
sits for six weeks, brought to London
the legislators and their families, but
from October to February the town
was a desert with the exception of a
few people hurrying through or do
ing some Christmas shopping. AS a
winter resort London Is becoming
most popular, not to say fashionable.
Amusements of all kinds are provid-
certs, skating Kinks and exhibitions
bring people up from the country.
Tho restaurants are crowded, and
when an autumn session is provided
by a Government and party greedy
for work, 1t is not to be wondered at
that many prefer the winter in Lon
don to the bleakness of the country
at that time of year. Reversing the
old order of things, people are begin
ming to let their town houses for the
summer, that they may enjoy the nat
ural beauty of the country in prefer
ence to the heat, dusty and noisy
pleasures Of the town. Two principal
reasons can easily account for this;
one is the material discomfort OF Lon
don with it's increasing traffic and
noise, and the second is the growing
love for open-air life and pastimes.
Motors have made the country so ac-
cessible that 1t has opened the eyes
of all sensible people to the folly Of
wasting weeks, If not obliged to, in
hot, evil-smelling and noisy metrop-
oils. Even during the few weeks
when the Season with big IS is at
its height, the fashionable world flies
from it every Saturday to Monday.
Innumerable are the weekend coun-
try house parties, with golf, lawn ten
mis- or the river to amuse and keep
one out of doors. Mothers with
broods of unmarried daughters, find
this kind of entertainment a better
market to take them to than the
heated atmosphere of the ballroom,
which the desirable parts shun for
the greater attractions of fresh air
and exercise.
1.-The lovely gardens which former
ly were left by their owners to bloom
unseen are now eagerly sought and
revealed in. Consequently, the craze
for gardening is much on the in
crease. Every one aspires to be a
Miss Jekyll or a Mrs. Boyd, and the
merits of rival Japanese, rose, and
friendship gardens form a favorite
subject of discussion.
"There is no doubt that luxury is
greatly on the increase, although 1t
may take other forms; the mode of
living is becoming more extravagant
every day. The young people who
were thought to be we'll provided
for with $4,000 year barely subsist
now on $4,000 or $4,000. Every one
lives we'll, bad dinner is a surprise.
Houses are better and more artisti-
cally furnished, and every one enter
tains more or less"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
LADIES COLUMN.
The Manners of American Women.

Inc "oilhCEs VI n ih'iiN"" "N"'
In Harper's Bazaar, Mr., Henry
James continues his candid criti-
cisms OF the manners of American
women. He says, among other
things:
at has never been without profit
TO the individual American, think,
to have taken in the truth, as socie-
ties other than his own put IL before
him, that in a difficult and compli-
Gated world 1t is well to have had
as many things as possible discrim-
mated and thought out and tried and
tested for us, well to remember that
the art of meeting life finely is, what
the art of the dramatist has been
described as being, the art of prep
arations, There is always a thrill
for us at home in the observed opera
ton Of our law that any one may be-
come among us, at two minutes no.
tice, anything possible or impossible,
even a gentleman, even lady; but
the deeper impression attaches, none
the less, to the exhibited effects of
bplhB buNOlSut NhlNu NOlltCI ubtlully
our too habltual, too national belief
in the sweet sanctity of free impulse.
BY which l am far from limiting that
every adventurous compatriot either
comes back from the more lessoned
and disciplined world charged with
it's richer spoil or stays on it for pure
love of the same; that parsonage be-
Ing often unsurpassed, fear, in the
knack of faring far to gather little
when not in that Of extracting from
alien sources, : - strange and per-
verse chemistry, elements of which he
is apt to have already enough and to
spare.
"The unmistakable thing is, at any
rate. that the, conception of manners
is at the very best, among us, a strug-
gle more or less fierce"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Riley'S Inference.

Those who are familiar with
"dadburnit" as mild crossword will
best appreciate this little story Of
James Whitcomb Riley.
The Indiana poet was visiting Mad
ison Cawein, the Kentucky poet, in
Louisville. Cawein resides on Bur-
nett avenue, which, in Louisville, is
pronounced with the accent on the
first syllable. AS they alighted from
the street car Riley saw, on blue
enameled sign on the Burnett
Avenue"
Madison" said Riley in his slow
way, (which member of the Burnett
family was this street named after
old Dad Burnett? Judge.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
onions as Germ Killers.

Not long ago a Scotch teacher gave
this advice to her pupils: "If you have
cholera or scarlet fever in the house
put some onions under the bed and
they will sweep away all disease" The
onion proved its virtue in a remark
able way 40 years ago, when cholera
ragged throughout London. 1t was no.
ticed with surprise that Que OF the
most unsanitary districts was almost
exempt from the visitation. The ma
jority Of the inhabitants, being Ital.
ians, were great onion eaters, and
strings of this vegetable were found
suspended from the ceiling Of nearly
every room. The medical officer OF
health concluded that the onion,
among its many virtues, contains a
powerful antldote against cholera NOR
bus and possibly other diseases.-Chi-
cago News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Giants and DWarfs.

In life giants are usually weak
minded, as we'll as frail of body, and
as a rule they do not live long.
Dwarfs, on the other hand, are often
nimble witted and stand a good
chance of longevity. An Austrian
empress in the seventeenth century
took the within to round up all the
giants and dwarfs in her empire and
turn them in together. Apprehension
was felt that the big ones would ter
rify the small ones, but it was the
other way. The giants were COM
PEELED to ask for protection from the
impish tricks of the dwarfs, and they
had to be separated before peace
reigned among them.
Telegraph.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
AS Others See Us.

A day or two ago it fell out that an
actor with a purpose was ciremato-
graphed on the stage, and was vastly
pleased with the result.
Said he gleefully to prominent dra-
matte critic:
at was the most extraordinary ex-
perience | ever went through-actll-
ally to see myself acting"
Now" replied the prominent dra-
matte critic, you understand what we
have to put up with. Mall Ga
zette.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
The Wise Lawyer.

How do some lawyers practice
law? One of a class is now doing
time on Blackwell's Island, and with
out him especially in mind, but deal
ing with his kind, a little tale that
was told on the day of his troubled
journey to prison will throw some
light on some lawyers whom the
courts permit to practice. A distin-
guished member of the profession
of the right kind was journeying
from New York to Albany to argue
a case before the Court of Appeals.
According to the fashion of his an
tique day, he wore on his bosom a
diamond OF the kind known to the
world as a headlight" AS he slept
peacefully In his chair in the car,
a man stumbled upon him. When
he reached Albany his pin was gone.
He was an eloquent advocate, and
had been retained by the lawyers of
the slums to defend high-paying
criminals, and he had become wise.
He wrote to his son, afterwards a
Judge, but who was then being made
wise, the circumstances of the case,
adding: "If you consult our friends
- and -, perhaps they may
throw light on the matter" In
few days after rounding up their
clients, -- and - returned the
headlight. Harper Weekly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
How Chicago is Solving Municipal Ownership
of Transportation Facilities.
BY A. FREDERICK COLLINS.

recently passed in Chicago. The
principles above laid down were rati-
fed by $4,000 majority of the citi-
zens Of Chicago on referendum vote
OF the entire city.
The financial provisions of these
ordinances are precisely the same as
they would be II the city Of Chicago
should purchase the entire property
OF the companies, undertake its re-
construction and rehabilitation, and
then lease the lines for private oper.
alton, upon division of the net re.
ceipts with the lessee company.
These ordinances, in fact, give the
people of Chicago to-day, in all the
essential principles, municipal own,
ership of the city's street railways,
and their operation by a lessee com.
pany, without saddling the burden
upon the city or raising the money
necessary for the purchase, and with.
out the possibility of any effect upon
the financial credit of the city.
To protect the city's share of the
net receipts under its agreements
with the companies, and to absolute.
ly assure the maintenance of the
properties at the highest point Of eff.
ticiency, the ordinances contain Ger.
tain provisions never before included
In any public utility grant, which are
amply sufficient toprotect to the full.
est extent the city's interest
For instance, a commission has
been appointed in which three engl.
neers are appointed, one by % it'ltv
80 ..4.4~ Oolns MI. Arnold, -, h.
the chairman, and represents the city
and the companies jointly. This
commission has general supervision
OF all the principal street railway
lines in the city Of Chicago.
Other provisions of the ordinances
are, that the city should have fifty.
five per cent. Of the net profits of the
companies; that there must be daily
deposits Of the gross receipts to be
used for the payment of mainten.
ance and repairs, and a separate spe.
cial fund Of eight per cent. of the
gross receipts for renewals and de.
probation, and that the companies
must supply whatever additional
money may be required for these
purposes. Any surplus remaining in
either of these funds can, under no
circumstances, revert to the compa.
MES, but becomes instead the prop
erty of the city should it eventually
purchase the lines.
In turn the companies .Pet,'fortv.
five per cent. of the EGt profits. five
per cent. for brokerage and ten per
cent as construction profit upon
.ne :psw money actually advanced by
LIEN under the provisions Of the or.
dinances. The city is given the right
upon six months previous notice to
the company to take over the entire
properties upon payment of the
agreed value of the present property
and the additional capital invested.
BY this ingenious plan the resi-
dents of Chicago will have all the
advantages of municipal ownership,
secure tifty-fVe per cent, of the net
profits of the companies, and, at the
same time, the operation of the lines
will be under the management of
practical street railway men.-Scien.
titic American.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
COTTON Dress Of 15o Years Aao.

Miss Susie Watson of Bunker Hill
has cotton dress which is $50
years old and in a clean and neat
oOnditin,,
The cloth was spun by hand by
Miss Margaret Wilson, who married
Ben Benson, father of Early Benson,
deceased. The cotton was hand
picked. The dress was used by Miss
Wilson as a wedding dress.-Giles
County Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
The Minister'S Retort.

A famous retort is the answer OF
John Wesley to the clustering swag
gerer who pushed against him on
the path with the insulting remark
81 never make way for a fool" Il
always do" said Wesley, quietly,
stepping aside, and then placidly pur-
suing his way-London Globe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Hybrid Golf and Fish Story.

Some. time ago a northern golfer
drove a ball fine, low, Swimming
shot across river. Just as the ball
was nearly over a salmon leaped at
the ball and caught 1t in its mouth.
Such was the pace of the ball that it
carried the salmon on to the rivers
bank, where it was Immediately Sc
cured with the ball tightly wedged
in its teeth.-Golf Illustrated.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Sensitive Subject.

"Spacer out of a job? Why, /
thought he was running a fashion de-
partment in a womans magazine"
Yes, but he caused the magazine to
lose so many subscribers they fired
him"
How in the world did that hap
penn"
"Why, the lobster headed his col
umn, New Wrinkles for Women
Chicago News.