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regard q moral isaus a. just a degree more
important than any question OF party
p~oiltos. As to the reality OF this church
sentiment, az to its intensity there can DO
no doubt. II lies open to any one who
cares TO teet It. It Ia a part Of the rural
strength Of the Governor. Nor Ia there
any gainsaying this rural strength. Even
the politicians admit this. shake their
heads and talk m%ournfully about .relig-
ious fanaticism.' This may explain. but
It does not diesipate.
Since the Hughes matter halted, since
the little bosses made their combination
to defeat the Governor last. week, there
has been a noticeable increase In the public
dissatisfaction and g%rurnbfing. The D
hritt Of President Roosevelt In rural dis
triots Ii still . live factor. Here Il 10 now
clearly accepted that the President has
advised and urged the denomination Of
Hughes. The refusal Of the bosses 10
heed this advice adds oil to the FIRE, adds
to the resentment, Roosevelt Ia being
turned down ~ we'll "a Hughes. This 10 the
idea that II beginning to circulate, and Il
does not mako for immediate peace.
Go where one may throughout the
State, and your correspondent has been In
every direction, and the same issue stands
out above everything else. II dwarfs the
national campaign. II ~obliterates Taft. Il
pushes the Presidential affair OF the slate.
Nor is IL Q quiet tea party sort Of thing,
this sentiment that has sprung up and Ia
spreading 20 rapidly. Msn are angry,
genuinely angry. see or Affect 10 see-and
there d no real differences question Of
political Freedom at stake. . moral issue.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
Journallstlc oualIflcations

Qualifications for successful jour.
nalism are acknowledged to be many
and varied, but new one Is rather
amusingly emphasized in q Balti,
more editors free and cas-, reply to
North Carolina aspIrant to jour.
nalistic honors. "a good literary
STYLE" writes the experienced news.
paper man, sis less essential than a
good digestion. The Journalist must
be able to digest anything and moth.
ing. He must be able to go three
days without food. The acct
dents and catastrophes which make
up the news of the world have no
regular ofice-hours. They happen
at any old time, day or night. When
they break loose the Journalist must
proceed to record them, and he must
stick to the task until they are re-
corded. AS a result, he must learn
to stretch the hiatus between lunch
and dinner until it attains the dignity
of geological epoch" AS to rapid
ity of promotion and the time re,
quired for reaching the top of the
ladder, this painfully conscientious
editor says: "The question has inter-
ested us very much. and we have lain
awake several nights figuring upon
an answer. Working 1t out carefully
after consulting more than 1000 jour.
nalists and with the aid of the table
of logarithms, the United States cen.
sus reports for the neriod 1Q00.1Qno
and all available dream-books, we
have settled upon 265.7645364827
years. We may be wrong about the
decimals, but the 265. we are sure, ia
reasonable correct" The higher po-
sitions in journalism are well known
to be filled by men unreasonably
averse to dying or resigning, but
their tenacity OF Office and of life has
never been so startingly revealed as
it is by an intelligent study of the
foregoing fgures.-The Dial.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
Brother Of Bride Angry.

Chicopee, Mass.-Miss Martha Fl
en- Andrews of 81 Pleasant street a.
Patrick ]. McGrath of As Marble street
were married, recently, under trying
circumstances.
William Andrews, the brides broth
er, opposed the marriage, because his
sister is Protestant and Mr.. McGrath
o Catholic. He procured revolver
and, going to the brides home, threat
ened to shoot anyone who came out.
AS the bridal party was then about
to proceed to the church, considerable
delay was caused, as no one dared to
leave the house.
Andrews then threatened to go In
side himself and shoot everybody in
the house. A patrolman was called
and took him to the lookup. There he
declared that as soon as he was re-
leased he would take legal steps to
have the marriage annulled.
The marriage took place in the rec
tory Of the church of the Holy Name
Rev. John F. Conlin officiated.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
Revolt In Haiti.


Port Au Prince, Halti.-The revolu-
tionary movement against President
Nord Alexis is spreading. The towns
of Aquin and Jeremie have both de-
clared against the government. The
gunboat Croyant which has fallen into
the hands of the reebls, encountered
! the gunboat Contenaire off Jeremie,
and number of shots were exchang-
ed.
Gen. Leconte, minister of the inter-
ior, who went out at the head OF gov
ernment force against the rebels, has
been taken prisoner.
Late adVices received here seem to
confirm the execution of Gen. Leconte,
He was captured near Jeremie, to-
gether with his escort, after short
struggle.
The town of Aquin, it is reported,
has been pillaged by the revolutionary
troops.
No news of the movements Of Gen.
Celestin Cyriaque, the minister OF
war, who was sent out in addition to
Gen. Leconte by President Nord Alexis
to put down the uprising at Aux Cages
headed by Gen. Antoine Simon, has
been received.
The Croyant was laid up on account
of an accident to her machinery, and
the fevolutionists took possession OF
her without any trouble.
The government is recruiting men
here and elsewhere for its campaign
against the rebels, and large quanti-
ties of ammunition are being shipped
out of Port-au- Prince.
Up to the present time there has
been no trouble here, but If the reVo.
luton triumphs serious situation
may arise at any moment.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
SooOOOSOOOSSSO OOOO OOOOSOOs
! THE CAUSE AND CURE OF
3 NERVOUSNESS.

DR.. Samuel McCOmb, the assistant
OF the Rev. DR.. Worcester, of EN-.
manuel Episcopal Church in Boston,
who last winter conducted "Class
for the Moral Treatment of Nervous
Disorders" writes In Harper's Bazaar
as follows:
Valuable as is suggestion, It is
second in Importance to moral re-
education. After all, one of the
main roots of neurasthe enIc misery is
moral One--egotism. The sufferer
thinks too much about herself. She
interprets the universe In terms of
frlendliness or hostility to her own
petty interests. She broods over real
OF fancied ills; she becomes morbid
or melancholy; or she is the play
thing of a hypersensitive conscience,
magnifying varied offences, the mere
crudities, II may be, of an unripened
experience, into fragrant crimes
against God and man. She passes her
time in dark and sombre reveries,
unable to do anything, burden to
herself and her friends. Well Is 1t
for such a sufferer If she fall into
the hands of physician who is also
a moralist and psychologist. He
will, by persuasion and sound In
struction, seek to change the centre
Of gravity in her inner life; he will
warn her against the power OF atten-
tion and introspectlon to originate
and to develop states; he will stir her
latent interest and rouse her dormant
energies and capacities, in order to
make an end of frultless inactivity,
and fill her days with peace and con-
tentment. The nervous" woman
needs. above all things, a mental and
moral re-education. She needs to
be taught how to keep healthy idea
in the focus of consciousness, and
how to keep unhealthy and morbid
ideas on the outskirts of her mind.
Her emotional nature requires dis.
cipIlne."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28

Ogdensburg, N Y.-The establish
mont Of an animal quarantine by Pres
colt, Ont, has placed Edward Hammell
Of Morrisburg, Ont, in peculiar po-
Bition. Hammell recently rented a
farm near here and arrived with his
son and five horses to work it.
He claimed free entry to the United
States on the ground that he was an
emigTant, but the United States GUS
toms authorities held that he was not
an immigrant and could enter the
country only on the payment Of the
head tax and duty on his horses.
This Hammell refused to do. and
started to return to Canada. At the
frontier, however, he was stopped by
the Canadian authorities, who, al
though Hammell had been out of Can
ada less than an hour, demanded that
his animals be subjected to a 30-day
quarantine. The case has been re-
ferred to the government officials at
Ottawa.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
FIve paya In Small sOat.

New York.--Captain John A. Stev-
ems OF the American schooner John M.
Brown, which was lost at sea on Oct.
80, while on her way from Brunswick,
Ca, to st. John, N. b., has just ar
rived from Porto Rico ON the steamer
Carolina with the six members of his
crew. He said he and his men had
been five days in the open sea in S
small boat when they we're rescued by
the schooner Brookline, Capt. Sears,
from Philadelphia for Arroyo to which
port they were taken. They were
nearly exhausted from their constant
labors to keep their little craft free
OF water, from loss of sleep and from
hunger and thirst. They ascribed their
rescue by the Brookline to the speed
of their gasoline launch, saying that
when they sighted the Brookline she
undoubtedly would have slipped away
without seeing them If they had not
been able to drive their 22-foot boat
rapidly enough to overtake her.
The John NJ Browns troubles be
gan on Oct 10, when she ran into
stormy weather -of cape Hatteras
Capt. Stevens believes she struck
some floating or submerged wreck OF
wreckage, for she sprang aleak that
let in the water so rapidly that all
the pumps could make no headway
against it. In IL hours the hold was
filled completely. That the vessels
loss was inevitable had long before
been apparent, but while the gasoline
launch had been made ready with
canned provisions and water, yet Capt
Stevens decided to stay on his vessel
as long as possible on account of the
gale that was blowing. The departure
was delayed so long that within 10
minutes after the schooner had been
abandoned she rolled over on heI
side and settled down.
The Brown was built at New Hoven.
Conn, in 1883, and was owned there.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
WISE WORDS.

Worry is half Of WEAKNESS.
Paradise is not found by fleeing
from pain.
Revenge never is so sweet as when
forsgone.
The critical eye remains longest in
ignorance.
No man is undone as long as he has
work to do.
You cannot bless men until you be-
lieve in them.
He is lost already to whom sacri-
flee appears as folly.
The saddest slavery is that of being
ruled by our pleasures.
The sins we wink at to-day are the
ones we wed tomorrow.
Spiritually the most helpless are
those who refuse to help.
Life barriers that resist all force
crumble before friendship.
The fool is known by offering his
forethought after the event.
tomorrow 8 burdens always prove
no much for to-day's back.
You have no right to set up your
fad as another mans faith.
Keep the heart healthy and happi-
ness will take care of itself.
Nothing heals our own wounds
quicker than helping others.
Men are to be known by their aims
rather than by their origins.
If you would be far-sighted you
must learn to live on the heights.
It's a sad day when a man let's his
interests determine his principles.
The secret of success lies some-
where between wishing and willing.
The weariest man in this world is
the one who is running from work.
Sometimes fleeing from the devil
is only pretext for fleeing from
duty.
Religion has no home in the man
who does not show his religion at
home.
The man who can make his chill.
dren smile does not need to worry
over his inability to preach sermons.
From Sentence Sermons" in tho
Chicago Tribune.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28

Union City, Tenn -Tiptonville, bor-
aering on Redfoot lake, which recently
nas been the scene of many stirring
incidents, on Tuesday witnessed the
legali2ed" lynching of three negroes
who had been arrested for
numbering Special Deputy Sheriff
Richard Burrus, and wounding John
Hall, a deputy sheriff, on Saturday.
To give execution of the negroes a
iemblance of legality, a trial was
Surriedly arranged, with the under
tanding that the men would be con-
iemned to death as soon as the trial
was over.
The negroes lynched were Marshall,
Edward and James Stineback. These
Irothers created a disturbance at a
eligious meeting near Tiptonville Sat-
Irday night and when Burrus and Hall
attempted to arrest them the negroes
hot the officers and escaped.
1t was barely daylight Sunday morn
ng before a party of citizens from
lfptonyille and surrounding towns
we're in pursuit Of the negroes, but
hey eluded the pursuers until Tuesday
morning, when they were surrounded
ind captured in a camp near Ridge
y, The negroes, covered by hum
lred guns, were easily captured. They
had two guns but were out of am
nunition.
The news of the capture spread rap
dly and soon the jail was surrounded
~ mob which had no hesitancy In
threatening lynching at once, in
Iroad daylight
One of the few citizens to mount the
Iteps of the Jail and to appeal to the
mob to desist was ]. l.. Burnette,
awyer, who recalled the recent night
1der outrages which disgraced the re-
zion. He begged his hearers to let the
aw take its course, promising that
ull justice would be done the three
black men. This met with a long
Erowl of disapproval and Mr. Burnette,
evidently seeing that his efforts were
If no avail, pleaded that the men, il
hey were determined to lynch the ne
Eroes, to walt till nightfall.
Taylor Hall, brother of the wound
ID deputy sheriff, agreed that post
ponement Of the lynching until night
Rould be satisfactory to him. The
mob, however, was restless and 1t was
apparent that delay would not be
crooked. AS a last resort Justice Da-
Vis agreed to open court at o'clock
summon jury and allow the negroes
after "all available evidence" was
heard, to be duly sentenced to death"
Meantime Gov. Patterson was ad-
Fised by telephone of the situation,
and he ordered a company of militia to
proceed from Union City with all haste
10 TiptonVille, seize the three negroes
and conduct them to a place of safe
~.
The troops started at once, but failed
10 arrive in time to prevent the lynch
Ing. At the trial" all of the evidence
Of those who had seen the killing was
heard, and In an incredibly short time
the case was given to the jury which
In few minutes returned a verdict OF
guilty, and fixed the penalty at death.
The sentence had barely been passed
on the three negroes when the mob,
with whoop and a yell swarmed into
the court room, seized the prisoners,
rushed them to large tree, near
the edge of the town, and duly exc
cuted the sentence Of deatn' by hang
ing them, firing volley after volley
into the air as the bodies were drawn
from the earth.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
Courts Behind in Work.

New York. Testimony as to the
laws delays" in the court Of inferior
criminal Jurisdiction of this city has
been presented before the special com
mission appointed by Governor Hughes
and the two houses of the legislature
to investigate those courts.
Justice willard H. Olmsted of the
court of special sessions testified that
his court is between 5000 and 5000 bail
cases behind in its work, one case dat
ing back to 1906, but most Of them be-
ing less than year old. There are
now pending 1417 cases against auto
mobile speeders. Some of them are
out on bail for third offences before
they are tried on the first charge.
There are 1872 excise violation cases
pending.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
No Help Needed at White House.

Washington.-Bole Bonkovski.
claiming to live at Adelaide street,
Detroit, was taken into custody at
the White House the other day be-
cause he insisted upon seeing Presi-
dent Roosevelt. He was possessed
of the hallucination that he had been
in communication with the President
by long distance telephone from Phil
adelphia and had received hurry up
call to come here and help him in
affairs Of the government. To be full
ly equipped for doing that, Bonkovsh
had had aot of cards engraved
"Acting President Roosevelt" AS an
afterthought he had had another line
printed, "of the United States" He
thought the policemen who took him
in charge were preparing him for a
call on the President.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
OK. VT. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 28 1903.
CASTRO SAILS.
President Of Venezuela Goes to Ger
many for Surgical Operation.


many for Surgical Operation.
Caracas, Venezuela, via Willemstad.
President Castro will sail immediate.
ly from La Guaira on the steamer Qua
deloupe for Bordeaux to undergo an
operation by skilled specialist OF
Berlin. Efforts which were made re-
Gently to have DR.. Israeli of Berlin
come to Caracas failed. AS an oper-
alton was imperative and President
Castros attending physicians were
unwilling to take the responsibility,
the president decided to go abroad.
The operation will be performed
Immediately on President Castro's ad-
rival at Bordeaux, where DR. Israeli
will be in waiting. Should the opera
ton be successful the president Will
visit Paris, where he will rest for q
Few days only, as he wishes to return
to Caracas at as early date as pos
sible. Three of the leading Venezue.
Ian physicians will accompany the
president and several members Of his
Immediate family. The physicians are
Dr. Pablo Acosta Ortiz, DR.. Fonseca
and DR.. Jose Baldo. DR.. Baldo has
been the presidents chief physician for
two years and is now minister Of edu-
cation. DR.. Ortiz is one OF the noted
surgeons of South America and has
already operated on President Castro
several times.
The greatest excitement prevails in
Caracas and political intriguing already
uas commenced. It is thought that the
presidents departure may open the
'oad for the settlement Of the Hol.
and, American and French disputes.
Vincente Gomez the vice president,
will assume the presidency. President
Castro issued the following proclama-
lion:
Special circumstances compel me
The Venezuelan nation already is on
he road to true prosperity and great
ness, because Of the strict fulhllment
Of obligations and the sound condition
0f the revenues, and because Of the
stable peace which we enjoy and which
t is your duty to maintain, that my
work may endure.
"First Vice. President Gomez is here
oy constitutionally charged with the
presidency Surround him and lend
your cooperation In the fulhllment of
ais high mission, as If 1t were l, my
self, and you will have done your
duty"
The president of Venezuela Is suffer
ing from an internal abscess In the
region of the kidneys and his attend
Ing physicians long ago advised him
that the only possible relief was in
an operation by German specialist
At that time there did not appear to
be any imminent danger and President
Castro decided to postpone the trip
to Europe as long as possible. He
on the contrary, for many weeks was
able to make his regular early morning
visit to his Office in the Yellow House. :.
During that period every effort was
made to bring the specialist to Caracas,
but recently cablegTam was received,
announcing that the specialist selected,
DIR. Israeli, would be unable to make
the trip.
When it was announced few days
ago that the president had finally de-
termined upon proceeding to Europe,
Caracas was all excitement, and the
probabilities of his carrying out this
program were the subject of discussion
throughout the city, wherever one
turned.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
Pouren Denies Murders.

New York.-How he hid In the
woods in Russia for months, momen.
tarily expecting to be captured by the
emperor's troops and saw two COM
panions shot to death by the soldiers
and then escaped himself. was testi.
tied to by Jan Janoff Pouren the no.
litical refugee whom the Russian gov.
ernment is seeking to extradite. on
various charges, at continuation of
the hearing In his case.
Pouren described the workings Of
two organizations to which he be.
nnged, the social democrats and the
Brothers Of the Woods
The Brothers of the Woods, accord
ing to Pouren, had a plank in their
platform against the sale of liquor and
they burned vodka shops.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
Arrested On charoe Of Anarchy

Fall River, Mass.--Raphael Monto-
no, 20 years old, of this city, was ar
rested, recently, on charge Of anar-
ehy Inspector Angelo 0nesimmo. at
tached to the Immigration bureau at
Boston, made the arrest, and took the
prisoner to Boston. where he will be
arraigned before commission, 1t is
understood that Montono first came
under observation as an alleged anar-
chist when he made a speech before
a gathering in the Ligue des Patriots
hall year ago. Rumor has it that
q clash between factions in the Ital-
ian colony is the cause of this com
plant.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
Church, a Spree, or Both.

The chief recreation Of the woods
men of the Puget Sound country is to
go to town on Saturday nights. AS a
valley dweller explained:
They've got money and they just
blow 1t in. That there Is the ogger
style Of 1t. There's no places OF
amusement In the town. They can go
to the library and sit down or go to
a hotel and sit down, but that don't
suit 'em. No they either get drunk
or go to church. Some take in both T"
Outing.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
H4 kept Al 4.

II am introducing" the pastor be-
gan, "a patent electric hair brush"
What do / want with hair
brush?" growled the business man.
Cant you see Pm bald7"
"Your lady, perhaps"
Bald, too. except when she's
dressed up"
Yes, sir But you may have at
home a little child"
I'VE have. It's just one month old
and quite bald"
"of course, at thai age" said the
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
nl.anrsa mlth the PresIdent.

New York.--In a resolution adopted
at its latest meeting, the Presbyterian
minister's association of this city ex-
pressed disagreement with President
Roosevelt's statement in recent let
ter that refusal to vote for a candidate
for high office because he is Roman
Catholic is marrow, unwarranted big.
otry." The ministers indorsed the
letter sent recently by the New York
Lutheran ministers to the president
dissenting from his view OF the mat
ter.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
HOMEMADE JEWELRY.

IL wonder whar that gal is? ]
hain't seen her this hour an half.
"She amt fur" replied the old
man. LAST time l seen her she wus
KILN couple of rattlesnakes to
git rattles enough to make necklacs
to wear to the party! Atlanta Con.
stitution.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
predlots ununuaIIx cold Season

Newport, R. THE most severe
winter in New England for years." is
the way Miss Ida Lewis, keeper of the
LIMERICK lighthouse, expressed her
self, recently, when asked to try her
hand as weather forecaster.
Miss Lewis rowed over from the
light to lay in her weekly supplies
from the store.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-28
Amazon and ATIsslssinnl.

The length of the Mississippi and
Missouri is 400 miles, that of the
Amazon 3400. The area of the Mis-
sissippi Basin includes 1890, 900
square miles, that of the Amazon
2,230.00O square miles. 1t is perfect
ly safe to say that, as single river,
the Amazon is by all odds the great
est in the world,