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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
ON A CURVE
Trains Meet and Thlrty-FiVe Men Are
Killed in Wreck.

rams meet ana OiIIy-FlNe wen are
Killed in Wreck.
Topega-Thirty-fiv men, all Mexi.
cans except three, were killed, 65
persons we're injured and the bodies
OF 80 Mexicans were moderated re-
Gently as the result Of a head-on col
lision OF two passenger trains on the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific at
volland The wreck occurred while
both trains were running slowly on
curve in a cut where the grade is
steep.
All the killed were on the south
bound train except tramp, who was
on the baggage car Of the northbound
train, This tramp, negro porter and
workman accompanying a gang OF
32 MeXicans we're the only Amer.
cans killed so far as known, although
a passenger says a woiilan and a child
were burned in tourist car.
The 80 MexicaEs and Ave Americans
composed a gang of railroad workers.
They were in the smoking car of the
southbound train.
Nearly every passenger in the
southbound train was thrown to the
car floor by the quick setting of the
brakes in an endeavor to prevent the
crash. The Mexicans were pinioned
under the seats and the doors were
jammed SO they could not get out. In
the chair car also many passengers
were held down by the seats.
The wreckage caught fire from the
gas tanks, which were broken. The
passengers in the rear cars escaped
in their night clothes, dressed in the
mud beside the tracks and then hast.
ened to the rescue Of the unfortunate,
but the flames soon became too hot
to permit Of approaching the smoking
car.
The injured were removed from the
chair cars with less difficulty and all
we're rescued alive from these cars,
unless II is true that a woman and a
little girl were burned to death
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05

Chicago, Ill.-Four men, said to be
members of the bakers union, have
been arrested on the charge of putting
acid on hundreds of loaves of bread
distributed among the Jewish residents
on the West Side.
A strike is in progress at a Chicago
bakery, and it is claimed that strike
sympathizers threw the acid and also
iodoform on wagon loads of bread and
rolls after they had left the bakery.
The police have confiscated many
baskets of poisoned bread and are
holding them for evidence. In the
pockets OF the four men arrested were
found bottles of carbolic acid and pack
ages Of powdered iodoform.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
In Port Wlth CARGO AIM.

Halifax, N. S.-With her cargo on
fire the British steamer Cairntorr,
bound from Galveston for Liverpool
with cotton, put into this port Wednes-
day. The fire was discovered Satur-
day last, and it was decided to run
Tor Halifax. The holds were kept
closed tight, and when the vessel ar
rived here the decks and sides were
warm, but the flames had not burst
through.
The matches will be kept battened
down and steam will be injected for
lo days into the hold. It is thought
that by that time the fire will be got
under control.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
Double EstipaE.

st. Louis, Mo.-After the speech Of
Congressman Richard Bartholdt at a
dinner given to him by number Of
business men in this city in which
Mr.. Bartholdt advocated an issue Of
government bonds to the amount of
$5OO,OOOO00 for river improvements in
the interior, a resolution was adopted
indorsing the plan with the exception
that the amount of the proposed issue
was increased to $1,000, 900, 600.
English; those who can speak English
cannot read Erse. And the county
council peers around the corner, high
ly enjoy the Saxon's dllemma.-Satur.
day Review
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
No DANCER Of Runture

Paris-Dr Motono, Japanese minis
ter to Russia, who is now here, in an
interview just published, predicts a
successful conclusion of the CONNER.
clal treaty between Russia and Japan
and denied that Japan had made ex-
cesslve demands. Japan, however, the
minister pointed out, did insist on the
opening Of the Sungari river, which
drains Manchuria, as a natural corol-
larry Of the treaty of Portsmouth and
as establishing the principle of the
open door.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
The Gaelic Revival.

dublin corporation now insists on
az 'ts official letters being addressed in
-,se' which neither clerks nor post
"n can read. Connemara county
suuoll' not to be outdone, requires
= .ne names of all places to written ex.
oluS,uely olaoa In Erse on the signposts at
-iSs' e'oSS' aus aus The unhappy tourist,
''.I'ol., " noiu - lSn enterprise has made many
~ nv H,oh''ous ~ 10 lure across, finds him
sell IN hopeless impasse. He cannot
. reAu 'ue names himself; those natives
VINO eau read Erse cannot speak
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
stilt.Marks on Old China.

Hunting for stilt-marks on old China
is often good fun in itself. Almost
every old piece of flatware-i. e.,
plates, platters, saucers, etc.-shows
three little rough spots, more or less
clearly marked on both sides, usually
In the margin. These spots were made
in the firing, by the cockspur or stills
little tripods used between the plates
In piiing them up in the kiln. The
three points where the cockspur touch
ed the plate caused a defect in the
glaze. Unfortunately, stilt-marks are
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05

1t is most gratifying to find that
some, at least, of Glasgow's CONNER
cial artistocracy preserve the simple
tastes. Whilst passing not long ago
through one of the most exclusive
patches Of Kelvlnslde, I suddenly be-
came aware that all the air seemed
to be filled with the fragrance Of fried
fresh herring. That penetrating odor
clearly proved that we are not dietetl-
cally going to the dogs so fast as some
people would make out.-Glasgow
News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
Sad Result,

Mrs. Highmus-"Your automobile
ran over a baby wagon? Horrors!
What happened?"
Mrs. Showfer-"Just what always
happens whenever do that Broke the
bottle and cut the tire."-Chicago Trl-
bune.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05

not as sure guarantee of authenticity
as some collectors have supposed, for
they are not only easy to initiate, but
they are sometimes imperceptible on
the old Staffordshire. Furthermore,
they appear very frequently on modern
tableware of the cheaper sort, and SO
are no sign of antiquity.-Country Life
in America.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05

SrUA~~N~"AuR~S-aNNN~S "VO"~~~rN1~ !
.. Happy UedlOck.
Sympathy in TaSteS,-
-H0rmOny in Temperament
BY Thomas WentwOrth Hixsins0n.

o accepting the theory that marriage is justly to
transaction should claim 1t TO
securing happiness in married
~ H young each other
I warmly, possible thus have
pleasure
~ making their upward prosperity by gradual
lG&lI of the merits Of human at least OF
girl be brought
the log cabin ancestral hall
wealth. but bad thing
better of without It,
life their
Of small
cultivate
congenal occupations
youth pursuits in
the study His special department the
s onhoogy
which
haTmonzing while
subject humblest
aid the harmonzng study mutually what
wife differ about which
prolonged persistence
described
Cambridge that
the
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
FRIDAY

FRIDAY, Dec. %, 1906.
Trouble over site for Boston ap-
praisers' stores settled by conditional
release of gas company from con-
tract by Sec. Shaw.
Fred L. Clark seriously wounds his
wife Bertha in RoXbury, Mass, and
kills himself.
Two girls in New York candy fac
tory save companions from hames.
Fisherman saved from drowning by
Fourth cliff life savers of Scituate.
Mass.
Japanese liner driven on rocks near
Holyhead Bnsr by gale; life savers
rescued crew and passengers
William j. Bryan at Topeka, Kan,
verbally admits he will be a candidate
for president
Mrs. William p. Ogden OF Brockton
Mass, forclbly recovers child at Au-
burn, Me.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
Wrong House.
.@~.W~

II have called, ma'am," said the
man at the front door, Ito ask If you
can't contribute something to the In
fants' home -"
81 am already contributing nineteen
hours day to an infants home Of my
own, sir" she interrupted, closing the
door.-Chicago Tribune.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
TUESDAY.
January I, 1907

january u l9OI.
Police Commissioner OMeara of Bos-
ton in summing up the results of the
Sunday law enforcement thinks pro-
gress has been made toward clearing
the situation; police present 97S names
to municipal court judges and secure
1873 summonses for Sunday law viola
tors.
John d. Rockefeller makes new gifts
to the university of Chicago aggregat-
ing nearly $3,OOO,0O0.
Delaware assembly Unexpectedly
deadlocked over organization.
Memorial to late Gov. Wolcott and
Spanish war soldiers and sailors un-
yelled at the Massachusetts, state
house.
Pope hopes new year will bring COM
pensatlon for tribulations of 1906
Man who was missing from Hudson,
N. H., found to have been robbed in
Boston
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
OFFICERS CHOSEN
ORGANIZATION Of Massachusetts
LEGISLATURE Effected.

Machinery Of Government 10 Set In
Motion at the state House--The Pro-
gram Which Had Been Agreed Upon
For Weeks lS Carried Out In Elect
Ing the Presiding officers Of Both
BraneheS-AIl the Members are
Sworn In, No Atfirmatlons Being
Made.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
MONDAY,

MONDAY, December 81, 1906.
Thirty-eight people killed and 6S
hurt in wreck on Baltimore & Ohio
railroad near Washington.
Addresses made in Boston by Arch
bishop O'Connell and Prof. Thomas
Dwight at Faneuil hall meeting of
protest against French separation law.
Gen. Marcus P. Miller, U. S. A., re-
tired, a Stockbridge, Mass, man, and
hero of two wars. dies in Florida.
Baroness BuTdett-Coutts, England's
most philanthrOpic woman, dead.
John G. Price cOnfesses to Philadel-
phia police that he murdered Mrs.
Lewis with a surgeons lance while
robbing her house Sept. 10.
James B. Connolly, the author, en-
lists as yeoman, to write up the
American navy, at the request of
President Roosevelt.
Capt. Smith, NJ. p, says King Ed
ward plans to visit Canada and might
come to the United States.
General alarm fire in East Cam
bridge, Mass, causes $4,000 damage
University City laundry destroyed.
Luigi Gallioni, alleged Paterson, N.
j. anarchist, arrested at Barre, vt.
Ex-senator Donelson Caffrey Of
Louisiana, gold Democratic standard
bearer in 1900, dead.
Mrs. Totten, %, wife of an S8-year-
old Staten Island man, killed by Sid
ney Kaufman, her young admlrer. in
New York hotel, who suicides.
Two people injured when electric
car jumped track in Wellesley, Mass.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock urges that postal employees
be better paid and otherwise benefited
to prevent wholesale designations.
DR.. Aked, famous Liverpool preacher
and social reformer, accepts call to
pastorate of Rocke feller's New York
church.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
BY HaUelOck ElIfs.

"Pop!"
Yes, my SON."
What kind Of wood do they use
most In tanning?"
well, when / went to school.
my boy, they used birch. h."--Yonkers
Statesman.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05

While invoking his deity to send
rain, a Pondoland witch doctor was
struck dead by lightning. and bis fate
profoundly impressed the supsrGtitloua
natives
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
Woodstock Business Cards
BOSTON WHOLESALE MARKETS,

To make the amended quotations Of value
alike 10 buyer and seller, the resume OF the
market, prefacing the quotations, should be
carefully read In a market OF this charac.
day OF the week Noting, however, the
general tendency Of trade, sufficiently ac-
curate quotations will be given on which
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05

At recent church fair In England
one of the means used for increasing
the receipts was a guessing contest as
to the weight Of the pastor.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05

A large cocoanut tree yields as many
as a hundred nuts year. Natives
use the nuts for dishes as well as
Tor food.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
THURSDAY,
January 3, 1907.

Police Commissioner O'Meara, In an
nual report to Gov. Guild of Massachu-
setts asks for more light on Sunday
laws, praises morale of police, and
makes various recommendations
Schooner Ventueer caught at Port.
land, Me, and served with libels, af-
ter pursuit of three months up and
down the coast
Head of Massachusetts state cattle
bureau given authority to order re.
straint or muzzling of dogs anywhere
in state.
Francesca Di Milo writes to the
queen of Italy asking pardon; he was
convicted of larceny and fed to Bos-
ton.
Roosevelt boys return to Massachu-
sets and the White House holiday
party of young people breaks up.
Thirty-flve men, 80 of them Mexi-
cans and 3 Americans, killed In
train collision at Volland, Kan.
Horace e. Hunter, colored, dies
while his home in Jamaica Plain,
Mass, is burning; his sick wife res
cues her three children.
Massachusetts State Legislature
elects officers; Senator Vahey intro
dues bills on Boston & Albany lease
ard capital punishment
Floyd elected governor of New
Hampshire by legislature.
Permanent headquarters of Harvard
alumni will be established in Boston.
Postoffice department asked to Is.
sue a fraud order against the New
York cotton exchange.
Report on the car shortage In North
Dakota made to President Roosevelt.
Branch of the Canadian Pacific
found to have been ballasted by ac-
cident with silver ore containing
values as high as $500 a ton
James McCrea of Pittsburg elected
president of the Pennsylvania rail
road company, to succeed A. ]. Cas-.
satt.
Thomas F. Temple, for 35 years
register of deeds for Suffolk county,
Mass, takes his life.
Woman injured by a jostling crowd
in Boston subway station RECEIVERS
$4,000 and the full bench sustalns the
verdict.
Engineers on roads west of Chicago,
$1,000 in number, demand more pay
and shorter day.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
SATURDAY..
December 29, 1906.


DIR. Oran G. Cilley, OF Boston, arrest
ed and held in $4,000. charged with
criminal operation on Salem, Mass,
woman.
Yeggmen at Dover, N. H., leave
senseless cashier to burn in plant they
have looted.
Laconia, N. H., child gets candy"
pills and dies soon after.
Judge James W. Remick, Of Con-
cord, N. H., tenders resignation as
president of Lincoln club.
Il. o. Woodbury., who set the spring
gun which killed Charles o. Proctor at
South Bellingham, N. H.. to be tried
for manslaughter.
Appalachian club makes journey to
shrine of st. Anne de Beaupre.
Boston coai dealers put up prices 25
cents ton.
output of shoes in Brockton, Mass,
for 1906 far ahead of recoru. R--
Great Britain and United States at
cross purpose over appointment ana
acceptance of Mr.. Bryce as ambassa-
dor.
Judge Dunno of San Francisco re-
Dukes Judge Graham.
President Roosevelt's first turkey
hunt unproductive of game.
Modern language association Of Am
erica adopts simplitied spelling.
Ohio friends of Secretary Taft NOV
Ing in his interest as a candidate for
presidential nomination.
Sixteen killed and 80 injured in col
lision on Scotch railroad
French senate practically passes new
church separation bill
George w. Perkins and Charles S.
Fairchild indicted on charges of for
gerry in the third degree in connec-
ton with the New York Life investi-
cation.
Meeting of Massachusetts consistory,
A. A. S. r.
Col. w. D. Mann acquitted of perjury
by New York jury.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
WEDNE sDAY,
Jan. 2, 1907.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. z, 1907.
President Roosevelt shakes hands
with $500 in line at brilliant New
Years reception at White House.
Gov. Hughes inaugurated at Albany
N. Y, and in address promises an i'm
partial administration; Gov. Penny
packer of Pennsylvania in farewell
message courts a graft inquiry.
Carrie Nation says Washington has
become immoral through too much
hugging, which it calls waltzing.
Tewksbury, Mass, state hospital has
18 patients taking Pasteur treatment
for dog bites; all doing we'll.
Patrolman MaUUnews Ur No~, York
heroically rescues deaf and dumb wo-
man at tenement house fire.
Jewish colony in which the rabbi
will act as judge, juror and lawyer,
dedicated in Brooklyn suburb.
Methodist church authorities decide
to separate home missionary work from
present society and Great Independent
| body.
Postmaster Of Long Island City bru-
tally assaulted by thugs to satisfy a
personal grudge.
Eleven buildings, including eight
tenements, in New York, burned this
morning.
Consolidated steamship lines COM
pany, with capital of 100000, 900, Or
ganized at Portland, Me.
Electric railway connection between
Boston and Concord, N. H., completed
by line opened yesterday.
Annual report of the Philippine COM
mission tells of much prosperity in the
islands.
Armstrong insurance reform laws go
into effect in New York.
Mr.. Carnegie's gifts for 1906 reach
S11,094,0 900, and that of Mr.. Rockefeller
$7,13OOOO
Frederick McGann fatally shot by
negro in New Haven.
New attorney general of New York
upon taking office is asked to favor
recount Of Hearst's vote for mayor in
1905.
Dominion of Canada takes over con-
troll of the dockyard at Halifax, N. s.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05

formed at Mr. the winter Of 169l92
The children before they
talk gibbeTish all Of the ouanda u
Of their would all ur crawl uue
chairs tables all Of seness lMgO
the Salem Of sad crcumspect
full of the fear of the Lord and of deesaon Of all tvoS ana
the children upbaidd their elders for their silly anu
seeing themselves In
getting whipped matters
natural for them OF by declaring
they bewiched, help doing they dd?'
Little did the silly realize enomity OF their
They 'bewched!" bewtched
OF the blacke page
hif which 10 innocent
non
the victims Rebecca Nurse the
venerable family the Rev George
Burroughs Harvard former Salem pastor whose ha
Proctor whose
manly action him have been of the SAT-
When the girls began to the witches and wizards the nun
listers them hearty The devil they claimed having done
about all the harm could the Old World getting ready to enap
the the mouse
of the Rev. IL The field.
The NPhpp ap
pointed the before
adudged guilty
and thick and
Finally the girls growing struck high and the Of
the au
16sS when they discontinued executed and when
the abolished so lying the jas waiting to be tesw
York American
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05

The man who lacks moral muscle
always thinks he is meek.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-01-05
SSN&Ts'W".
7 he
BY Req Thomas 3. Gregory

FTER having had world OF trouble with their ministers
people of Salem finally ordained their hrst se'ueu pas
the 18th of November 1859.
This pastor, the Rev. Samuel Paris, had TWO heSlo
slaves that had brought with him from the West aae
or grade intelligence, these negroes had orOush
with them the charms COMPUTATIONS" that were com
mon among the blacks in Barbados and Africa ana |"
Antn irnlnn ElrlA MAa
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-28

he justly thought would be worth a
million dollars after said railroad
was extended, and he undertook to
build and did build said road with
borrowed capital, and secured the
grant of one hundred and forty thous-
and acres of the best timber lands
of South Alabama He had issued
bonds, and arranged for their sale
when the panic of 1893 came on, and
necessitated the involving of his
private estate to secure his credi-
tors. The long continued depression
made it impossible to capitalize his
timber interests. or sell bonds and
most of his large holdings were lost
to him for less than one-fourth of
their value at that time They are
now worth ten times his Indebtedness
and by these unfortunate conditions
which impoverished so many other
good men, and could not have been
foreseen by the wisest men-the
building and endowing of a great col
lege or university in West Florida
the darling object for which Major
VanKirk lived and labored for years
was lost. The loss of this great
property was a trifie to Major Van
Kirk personally, but the ina bility to
do great things for God and humanity
was sad and crushing disappoint-
ment but which he bore with true
christian fortttTfSie and resignation.
Major Y2nEzirk was a consistent
cheerful christian, a model man in
all the ~elstionz of life, a true friend
end had few enemies. He was very
careful ara Saving, but generous to
q feult. There were few of the early
churches OF West Florida or South
Alabama tsIat were not built in leber-
al part with his money. He was the
protector &C the Florida Chautauqua
ct Del 'unIak Springs. Fla, and was
its active agent and most earnest
supporter for many years. He always
regretted the Civil war and seldom
spoke OF It. but did a noble part to
help the scars.
Major VsnE1irk was never married,
although he was mGBt gallant
and great lover of children, and
rarely seen without some gift for any
child he met at any time. He had
none O. the pleasures of home after
his fourteenth year. bat had many
friends N his prosperity, and was not
forsasen in his adversely, and in his
last Illness which was short. was ten
derby cared for and his remains were
followed by a large concourse of new
friends to his last resting place.
We who survive and are citizens
Of the section of the southland which
Major VanKirk loved so well, and
labored so patiently to upbuild. re-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-28

MIR John Thomas Porter, lifelong
friend of the late Major William
johnson VanKirk, who died at Sam
son. Alabama, on June %, contributes
the following interesting sketch OF
of Allentown, Pa, near which place
Major Van Kirk was born:
| Major VanKirk was born near I'm
ientown, Fayette county, Pa, in 1896,
the only son of Josiah and Matilda
EanEirk, and until the death of his
father. which occurred when he was
fourteen years of age, he enjoyed the
BLESSINGS of a happy christian home.
Soon after this he made his home with
sghis grandfather, Johnson VanK1rk
4 near New Salem. Pa, and from there
4.Academy,. from which he graduated in
s5856, andSthen went to st. Louis, Mo-,
where he took business course, and
tentered upon a clerkShip On arriving
at his ana jOrity he came in possession
of his portion of his fathers estate,
(which he invested in lands in Polk
county, Mo-, where-he then settled and
twas elected county surveyor, and hav-
ling thus become a citizen of Missouri
when the Civil war begun he enlisted
4in the Confederate army and went
Z Through the four years of war, and
was a true man and brave soldier
. and received the title which he carried
through life.
At the close of the war, he like
<1nost tother southern soldiers, was al