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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Selling Fertility.

Every time a farmer sells a ton
OF wheat he sells $11.62 in fertility;
In ton of clover hay he sells $50
in fertility; in a ton of alfalfa hay
he sells $500 in fertility; in a ton
of oats he sells 1881 in fertility,
and in ton OF corn he sells $6.47
in fertility. If these products be fed
on the farm under proper conditions,
and the resulting manure be returned
to the soil, there is a very slight loss
of fertility, for the following pro-
ducts may be sold instead:
In selling a ton of finished beef
on the hoof the farmer sells but
$5.37 in fertility; In a ton of live
hogs he sells but 1910 in fertility;
in a ton of milk he sells but $1.48
In fertility I'm "a ton of choose he
sells but siXty-nine cents in fertility,
and in a ton of butter he sells TWEEN
ty-seVen cents III TeruliJy. rne pest
policy for the farmer to adopt Is that
system of corn and crop rotation
which will embrace not only the
growing of grain, but the breeding
and feeding of stock, either for sale
in the form of beef or pork, or for
the production, whether for milk,
cheese and butter.-Professor Hol-
den.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Fisherman's Luck.

perhaps my most amusing fishing
experience in italy was during week
in Naples" says the author of 1.-THE
Salt of My Life" and gives the story
in these words:
Toward sunset one afternoon
was strolling toward my hotel along
the parade, when l came across a
ragged sportsman angling with very
long bamboo from the pavement. He
looked a merry sight, and l seated
myself on the parapet beside him.
We were soon deep in as comfortable
a conversation as Is attainable be-
tween broken Tuscan and pure Nea-
politan. We discussed rods, and l
asked him to let me feel the weight
of his, which must have been thirty
feet long. With native courtesy he
handed it to me as If 1t were mine,
and no sooner was 1t in my hands
than down went the top, and was in
good fish. which circled in vain on
the unyielding line, and l soon raised
a black sea-bream of probably three
pounds.
"Of a certainty none of his other
fish weighed more than as many
ounces. He was too amazed to do
more than stammer his thanks, and
as 1 turned away fancy that he
crossed himself, regarding the black
Dream as the fruit of black magic"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
The Now Style.

In order tsat the young man may
know what is coming to him when
he asks girl TO marry him, we
quote the following acceptance from
a popular novel:
"She put her iiower-like face to
mine.
My first thought of you and my
last are the same, beloved she an
swered, and the thought is this
that you have heart for whose
belated waking queens might keep
vigil
Does a man, in addition to the
contract to buy woman's clothes
and groceries for the rest of her
life, have to stand for something like
this?-Atchison Globe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
An Underground City.

In Galicia, in Austrian Poland,
there is a remarkable underground
city, which has a population of over
1000 men, women and children,
scores of whom have never seen the
light of day. It is known as the "City
of Salt Mines" and is situated sew
eral hundred feet below the earth's
surface. 1t has its town hall, theatre
and assembly room, as well as beau
tiful church, decorated with statues,
all being fashioned from the pure
crystallized rock salt. 1t has well
graded streets and spacious squares,
lighted with electricity. There are
numerous instances in this under
ground city where not a single indi-
vldual in three or four successive gen.
eratiOns has ever seen the sun, or has
any idea of how people live in the
light of day.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07

Rhubarb Pudding-Two eggs,
small cup of sugar, two tablespoon
fuls of butter, half cup of milk, a
little grated nutmeg, two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder. Sufficient
-four to make a stiff batter. Pour
over the prepared rhubarb and sugar
and steam or bake half an hour.
Serve with cream.
Orange SaIad-Cut five very thin
skinned sour oranges in very thin
slices, and slices in quarters. Mari
nate with dressing made by mixing
one-third cup olive oil, one and one
half tablespoonfuls each lemon juice
and vinegar, one-third teaspoonful of
salt, one-fourth teaspoonful paprika
and few grains mustard. Serve on
bed of watercress.
Salmon LOaf-One can Of salmon,
two eggs, one cup Of bread crumbs
and one-half cup of milk. Season
with salt, parprika, chopped parsley
and little lemon juice. Scald the
milk, add salmon and the yolks Of
three eggs, then the crumbs and
beaten whites of the eggs; mould
into cubes, and fry in deep fat.
Caramel Filling-Carmel filling is
made by the same process used in
making fudge; that is, by boiling the
ingredients, which are three cupfuls
of dark brown sugar, one cupful of
milk, and one large tablespoonful of
butter together until little of the
mixture dropped into cold water will
form soft ball, then beat until thick
and creamy, and spread on cake.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
The Handy Valet.

"a good valet must understand
massage, haircutting and shaving,
mending, darning, plain cooking,
plain washing and ironing"
The speaker, a young millionaire,
smiled thoughtfully.
at is not extravagant," he said,
"for a bachelor to employ valet.
The valet takes so many places, the
shoeblacl,'s place, the cooks place,
the masseur's place. the tailor's place.
my valet darns my socks well.
Every morning he gives me velvet
shave and once a week he cuts my
hair trinity. You should taste his
soufles and his salads.
when / am travelling and there
is no time to send my linen to a laun-
dry, he will do up a shirt and half a
dozen collars--we always carry an
iron with us--in an exquisite way.
Furthermore, he is ambitious, and is
learning stenography in order that
he may typewrlte from my dictation
all my correspondence.
Cooking, mending, ironing, hair
cutting and massaging, the modern
valet earns his pay. 1t is impossible
without him to dress exQuisitely. -
Providence Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
cat Yearly Adopts chick.

Following its usual spring custom,
cat owned by George Smith, Of
Watching avenue, West Orange, N, j.,
is foster mother of several chicks
which she abducted from a setting hen.
The cat lost three kittens three years
ago, and three chicks unwillingly took
their places in her heart. Since then
the cat has cared for three chicks
every spring.
At first the mother hen objected to
the abduction Of the chicks, but the cat
walked away with the trio and placed
them in box by the kitchen range,
where she constantly looks after them.
New York Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07

II always hate to tell story" said
well known actor at a banquet, be
cause my listeners may have heard 1t
before. What boredom that is for
them, what agony for me! 1t is like
the case of friend of mine. He is
deaf, but tries to conceal his deafness.
One night at dinner the host told a
story which everybody roared, and my
deaf friend joined in and outroared
the whole table, though in truth he
hadn't heard a word.
"At the end of the laughter he held
up his hand as sign that he wanted
to speak.
That story he began, reminds me
of another
"And then the poor fellow went on
and told the very same yarn the host
had repeated only a minute before. =
Tit-Bits.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Our National Apple

Emerson calls the apple our ina
tional fruit" and it has good title to
the name both as a wilding and as a
tanned and chosen companion Of man.
From north to south and from east to
west it spreads its roots and rears its
trunk. The pioneer when he selects
his newly chosen home plants seeds
from the old home orchard around
the newly reared walls of his cabin;
the great land owner beauties his
acres and enhances their value with
rare and choice selections of trees,
and each tree has family receipt for
flavor which itimplicltly follows, each
species keeping inviolate the virtue
of mixture. We can imagine a gos-
sipy Seek-no-further trying to extract
from a youthful Spitzenberg the Sc
cret Of its spicy acid, but it would re-
main forever untold. Each one gath
ers its own store of flavors and mixes
them with unvarying skill and al
ways with the same result.-Candace
Wheeler, in the Atlantic.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
MARKETING WESTERN FRUIT,
Shipments Directed by Wire TO POin'
Of Greatest Demand.

Until 1898 California fruits were
sold through commission merchants,
to whom the individual growers con-
signed their entire crop. The ex-
pense for transportation and the keen
competition, as well as the immense
outlay for commissions, resulted in a
number of the large growers OF Cali
fornia organizing the Southern Cali
fornia Fruit Growers Exchange.
Since 1893 this has been Teorgan-
ICED several times, but 1t is still In
existence under the title OF the Cali
fornia Fruit Exchange. 1t is cooper
alive and has only a nominal capital
stock. According to Moody's Maya
zine, 1t performs every duty for the
growers belonging to 1t from the
time they bring their harvest to the
packing house until they get their
crop money.
1t takes complete control, grading,
packing, stripping, finding buyers
and selling, so that its members do
nothing but the agricultural part. Its
representatives throughout the dis
tricts receive and recaipt for the
wagon loads, and the horticulturist
goes home to attend to his orchards
and wait for his check. The chief
competitor OF the California Exchange
is California Citrus Union.
BY the present method of market
ing fruit daily wire reports on the
condition and whereabouts Of every
shipment are sent to Los Angeles
Like a train dispatcher the manager
at headquarters guides every car
from the side tracks in the orchards
over the branch lines and the trunk
lines. He has the power to divert
shipments into the most available
markets.
Hundreds of cars leave California
daily with only general destination,
and these cars must be sent to the
point OF greatest demand. If through
his wire reports the manager finds
that New York is receiving too much
fruit, that there is danger of break
in the price, he diverts a part of the
New York shipment to Philadelphia
or Baltimore or Pittsburg.
He must see to it that every dis
trict has enough fruit, but not too
much. He must keep the market
even. He must get the top prices
and yeS sell all his fruit. He must
figure against changes in the wealth
er in each district and against compe-
tition from Florida, Europe and other
California shippers,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Substitutes Wanted.

We have been country editor but
eight months, but we are up against
it already. 1t seems to us that in writ
ing up weddings, social gatherings and
functions we have worn out certain
phrases and we are in need Of new
supply. Who will come to our rescue
We want substitutes for the following:
Dainty luncheon" royal entertain,
err" enjoyable time" "masterful ad
dress" Charming hostess" "conven
tional black" "a young lady of many
accomplishments" "a few appropriate
and well-chosen remarks" ito mourn
his untimely departure" preside with
dignity and grace" covers are laid.
There are others probably that we
cannot recall just now.--Pender (Neb.
Republic.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Curious Fact About Platinum.

A singular property Of platinum
amalgam was discovered by Pro-
lessor Moissan just before his death.
After mercury and water are shaken
together they speedily separate into
distinct layers, but If the mercury
contains platinum in solution the
mass swells to about five times Its
original volume, forming an emulsion
that gives no sign Of change after
twelve months. The microscope
shows 1t to consist of minute glob-
ules of metal and water. Even when
boiled in water or cooled to eighty
degrees below zero there is no sep
Rration.
The effect is the same with alco-
hol, ether, ammonia solution, turpen-
tine oil or chloroform instead of wa
ter, but not with benzene. Anal
gains of silver, gold and copper sep
arate from water as readily as pure
mercury.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Souvenir Rake.oh at the Post.

When a girl visits AN army post her
one clearly developed idea seems to
be that our splendid lighting organiza-
ton is maintained chiefly for the pur-
pose of handing out souvenirs to fair
visitors. And so persistently does she
dwell on this notion that she usually
leaves with a variety of decorations
large enough to shame grand duke
on parade Here is what one Kansas
City girl bit above the average in
looks and nerve acquired between noon
and o'clock: A bronze insignia from
every arm of the service-the crossed
sabres of the cavalry, crossed cannon
of the artillery, flags and torch Of the
signal corps, etc, one of each variety
of hat cord used in the army, hand
full of brass buttons. If she failed to
land the eagles of colonel or the
cross insignia of a chaplain's rank
before night she must have finished in
poor form.-Atchinson (Kan) Globe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Bitter Thought of Spelling Reformer.

AS we get along in life most OF us
lose the inclination CONSTANTLY
engaged in fighting strenuously for
the progress of even the most praise
worthy causes. The desire wHues of
benefitting your fellow man while en-
countering in so doing not merely his
indifference, but his active hostility;
of urging him to show himself rational
while his proclivities are violently
asinine. Even the far keener enjoy
ment of rendering him miserable by
making evident to his reluctant but
slowly dawning intelligence how much
of an ignoramus, not to say idiot, he
has shown himself in his acts and ut
terances even this most poignant OF
pleasures loses it's relish If indulgence
in it can be secured only at the cost
of much personal trouble.-Professor
Lounsbury in the Atlantic Monthly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
HOW LONG THE ROAD.

The womanneed is gone that made thy
kiss
My mamma, and a heaven of thine eyes;
The patience.pTeaching years have made
me wise,
Till, in the woods and fields, the sturdy
bliss
OF fellowship and work, cease to miss
The throbbing ache of those old ecstasies
Save 10 remember with a wan surprise
Sometimes, how long the road that led to
this.
But to be sure that somewhere, strong and
whole,
Thou Invest, striving, noble though beset,
Master again of the essential soul,
| doubted when my cruel wounds were
wet
This long my deepest, drest need of thee,
o, once beloved IL is granted me.
Charlotte Wilson, in Metropolitan Mag
azine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Polon that looks EatabIe.

'In our laboratories" said a chem
fist I'VE make n good deal of cyanide
OF potassium. Men who handle this
poison are too often seized with an
Insane desire to eat 1t,
1.-THE white and beautiful crystals
exercise on the mind strange fas-
cinatlon, such as snakes are said to
exercise upon small birds. Though
you know that the stuff is deadly, you
feel horrible longing to crush a
handful of it into your mouth.
"And many cases are recorded OF
men who were unable to resist this
awful longing-happy, prosperous, and
young men found dead in the labor
atory beside a glittering white heap of
cyanide Of potassium crystals.
Hence in many chemical works the
men are strictly forbidden to enter
the cyanide house alone"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07

'It's awfully dangerous" said he,
"hiding your money away in book,
but if you must, hide it in a Bible.
Nobody ever looks in a Bible, you
know. Once was visiting at house
and happened to pick up an old Bible
lying on the table and turned the
leaves over carelaSsly What was nv
amazement to see drop out from be-
tween two pages 500 bill. My hos
tess was not less amazed. She couldn't
remember putting it there. She
thought it had perhaps been put there
by her grandmother, who had long
since died. New York Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
The Tramp,s one REQUEST.

The irate housewife found the tramp
stretched out in her new hammock
You miserable hobo" she snapped,
reaching for the sprinkling can, you
just wait until my husband comes
home. He will bring you to your SEN
ses."
The tramp blew a puff of smoke at
a butterfly.
Madam" he yawned, will you do
me one favor?"
"What?"
Eyes, favor. Instead of bringing me
to my senses, tell him to bring my SEN
SEES to me. | feel so tired."-Chicago
Daily News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
FEET OUT.
She Had Curious Habits.

When a person has to keep the feet
out from under cover during the cold
est nights in winter because of the
heat and prickly sensation, it is time
that coffee, which causes the trouble,
be left off.
There is no end to the nervous con-
ditions that coffee will produce. 1t
shows in one way in one person and
in another way in another. In this
case the lady lived In 5. OAK. she
says:
II have had to lie awake half the
night with my feet and limbs out of
the bed on the coolest nights, and felt
afraid to sleep for fear of catching
cold. had been troubled for years
with twitching and jerking of the
lower limbs, and for most of the time
l have been unable to go to church
or to lectures because of that awful
feeling that / must keep on the move.
When 1t was brought to my atten-
ton that coffee caused so many nerv-
Dus diseases, concluded to drop cof-
fee and take Postum Food Coffee to
see II my trouble was caused by cof-
fee drinking.
Il only drank one cup Of coffee for
breakfast, but that was enough to do
the business for me. When | quit 1t
my troubles disappeared in an almost
miraculous way. Now have no
more of the jerking and twitching
and can sleep with any amount OF
bedding over me and sleep all night
In sound, peaceful rest.
Postum Food Coffee is absolutely
worth Its weight in gold to me-"
There's Reason" Read the little
health classic, THE Road to Well
yille." in pkgs.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Uniuue Festival.

An odd festival is held annually in
Brussels. Every wife undresses her
husband and puts him to bed. And
the next day the husbands invite their
wives relations and entertain them
with the utmost generosity. This cere.
mony was instituted in commemora,
tion of siege at which the women
stipulated before capitulation that they
should be allowed to carry with them
their children and whatever other
burden they were able to bear. This
being granted by the enemy, each wife
carried her husband off ON her should
er.-New York Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
FARM AND HOME.
EARLY Cutting of Alfalfa.

Many start out with the erroneous
Impressions about cutting alfalfa.
They have been induced to put In the
crop because of its great feeding val
ne and that some three or four
cuttings may be taken from the field
during one season. If you want a
strong, vigorous stand OF alfalfa,
don't be in too big a hurry to clip
It to get rid OF weeds, or don't cut the
crop from newly seeded field too
soon. The crop should be pretty well
matured before 1t is cut. II is i'm
portant that the plant be we'll estab-
lished and the crown buds set for
subsequent crops. before the first
crop is taken off. After the first
year three or four cuttings may be
made, providing each one is done at
the right time.-Indiana Farmer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07

A traveller in the dining car of a
Georgia railroad had ordered fried
eggs for breakfast.
Cant give yo' fried aigs, boss" the
negro waiter informed him, lesson 20
want to wait till we stops"
why, how is that?"
well, de cook he says de roads SC
rough dat cherry time he tries to fry
aigs dey scrambles. Life.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
CHILDREN TORTURED.
Girl Had Running Sores From Ecze-
ma-BOy Tortured by Poison Oak
Roth Cured bY CutiCura

SuANN W
'Last year, after having my little girl
treated by very prominent physician for
an obstinate case of eczema, resorted to
the Cuticura Remedies and was so we'll
pleased with the almost instantaneous re-
lief afforded that we discarded the physi-
clans prescription and relied entirely on
the Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and
Cuticura Pills. When we commenced with
the Cuticura Remedies her feet and limbs
were covered with running sores. In about
six weeks we had her completely well, and
there has been no recurrence of tho
trouble
"ln July of this year little boy in our
family poisoned his hands and arms with
poison oak, and in twenty-four hours his
hands and arms were a mass of torturing
sores. We used only the Cuticura Rene.
dies, and IN about three weeks his hands
and arms healed up Mrs Lizzie Vincent
Tho-As, Paramount, Walden's Ridge,
Tenn, Oct. 10, 1906"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
They Had Lost Track of Him,

In a town of few thousand in
habitants in the interior of Pennsyl-
vania there resided an ambitious
young man, David Simpson, who, as
soon as he was we'll out of his teens,
removed to New York City and went
into business. He was successful,
and when he became a middle-aged
man, went into politics. In this also
he succeeded, and at last rose to dis
tinguished Official position in the city.
Then a longing to revisit the old
home of his boyhood, which he had
not seen for a quarter of century
or more, came over him.
1t would be pleasant, he thought,
to witness the look of surprise and
qualification on the faces of his for
mer townsmen when he made his APP
pearance among them again, un-
spoiled by fame and prosperity. With
out communicating his intentions to
any one, he went aboard a west
bound train one night and arrived at
his destination the next morning.
The first man he saw as he stepped
out on the platform OF the railway
station was one of his old playmates,
with whom he had grown up. He
walked up to him and grasped him
by the hand.
Charley Bennett, how are your"
he said.
''I'm pretty well, thank YOU" an
swered the other, but you've got a
little the advantage of me-"
"I'm Dave Simpson"
why, hello, Dave! Where have
you been all this time?"
''In New York, of course"
We'll, I'm mighty glad to see you,
Dave. What are you doing for a
living now? Clerking in drugstore,
as you used TOT"
Mr.. Simpson spent several days in
his old home town, and enjoyed his
visit, but he did not do any more
posing. Companion.
One ton of banana flour q week
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him into the road. TIL fool" he
added, as the agent drove of. Fan
cy sich as e earnin' a good Twin!
Lord" he concluded, turning to me,
seems now I'm in me nineties there
amt nothin' but fools in tn parish.
Cept rogues," he added, as an after
thought, glanclng to whore my hedge
screened the garden.-London
Sketch.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Chanre I'M I'm of Fare.

"The bill of fare for Sunday dinner
will be shredded chicken, instead Of
baked chicken" announced the old
farmer to the group of city boarders.
"H'm!" grunted one pessimist,
Swhat caused the changer"
what caused the change? Why,
by heck, one of them thar racing au-
tomobiles just ran through my whole
flock of poultry" - Chicago Daily
News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
Appropriate.

Il want to get ribbon for my type
writing machine" said the author.
Gan right, sir" replied the polite
clerk. what color-blue, purple or
black record?"
"Well, er-I guess you better give
me black record. am going to write
up the past of Plttsburg million.
aire. Chicago News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-09-07
EMIL Of pnins and Aches

Are countless thousands who will find in
Sanford's Ginger an unfailing panacea.
Besides it's always healthful Forty years
the standard of purity, flavor, and strength.
Avoid worthless substitutes.