davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
Memory of Bees.

Sir John Lubbock in his remarkable
book on bees proves that the bone!
makers have plenty of memory. He
has shown that the bees of colony
recognized each other after separa.
ton of fifteen months. The members
Of the same colony always recognize
each other after a prolonged absence.
and, although It has not yet been es-
tablished. there seems to be good rea-
son to believe that they do so princi-
pally by the sense of smell and not by
some signal or password, as has been
supposed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
Death of ex-GOv. G. ]. Bell.

Ex-Governor Charles j. Bell OF
Walden died suddenly in New York
city Saturday, Sept. 25. lie went to
that city Friday for few days stay,
but not feeling well Saturday decided
to return home
He accordingly boarded the through
train at Il e New York Central depot
for Burlington, unac"ompamied Be-
fore the train started his fellow pas
sengers noticed that he had SLIPPED
from his seat and physician vas
hastily summoned. Before the doe
tor had arrived he was dead, heart
failure being assigned as ;he cause.
He was identified by papers in his
pockets. The remains reached Bur-
lington early Monday morning and
were Immediately taken to his home
in Wallen.
Gov. Bell was educated in the
common schools of Walden and at
Peaclam academy. Although mere
youth he served in the Civil War,
being a member of Co. b, 18th Regi-
ment, and was als) recruit of G.
G, lst VI. Cavalry.
Gov. Bell early identified himself
with the Grange and was useful
and distinguished member of the
order up to the time of his death. lie
was treasurer of the Vermont State
Grange from 1872 to 1894. The
latter year he was chosen master,
serving in that position for 10 years
Since that time he has held RESPONSE
BILE positions in the National Grange
Gov. Bell served in the house of
representatives in 1852 aud in the
senate in 1894. lie was member
Of the railroau commission in 1896
96; member of the board Of agri
culture in lS97-9S and secretary IF
the board from 1899 to 10 4 and
secretary of The board nf cattle COM
missionels from 1899 to 1902
The funeral Of ex-Gov. Bell was
held Wednesday at his home in Wal
den.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
THE END OF THE WORLD.
Ono Theory as to How the Fearful
Climax May Come.

Ono Theory as to How tho Fearful
Climax May Como.
What will be the end of the
world? This is u question which
was formerly asked of soothsayers
and prophets and often answered by
them with definite statements and
dates which were, to those who be-
lieved them, to the last degree dis
quieting. Such prophets and proph-
ecies have all been proved err
roneous, and the Millerites and their
kin have all been laughed out of
serious consideration. Science has
taught us better, and yet science,
which seeks always new facts and
revised reasoning, is now teaching
us that our faith in the safety of
the solar system is misplaced.
Instead of the eternally change
less procession of the planets about
the sun and of our solar system
about some other greater sun, as
tronomers find grave evidence of
what seems disorder in what we
thought was perpetual perfection,
disorder which may-indeed, prob
ably will--some time wreck our own
planet. 1t is possible-astronom-
ically considered, it is probable
that unseen within the remote con-
fines of space the vast mass of
dead world is hurtling toward our
sun with inconceivable velocity. In
time the two will come together
and the immeasurable heat pro-
duced will make gas of granite and
floating clouds of nebulae of us all,
for thus worlds die and thus they
are Immediately in process of being
born again, for out of the condensa-
ton of this nebula will come the
beginnings of a new solar system
which will in the countless cons of
astronomical time go through the
same process of evolution and de-
cay.-Technical World Magazine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
WOODSTOCK NEWS.
Woodstock's Militia 100 Years
Ago.

The Age last week printed several
extracts from the original record
book of Captain Ephraim Aliens
"Conpany of Horse" Woodstock s
militia of 100 years ago, Considera-
BILE interest has been shown in this
early history and The Age has been
asked to print another insialment
The record continues
Woodstock, June lst, 1908.
Captin Ephm Allin warned his
company to meet the first Tuesday in
June on purpose to Inspect there
equipments and APPOINT a Serjeant
and Corporal and Smith, Saddler
and Fayer and 'rrumpeters And
they met according to appointment
and the company was Called to a
Chois for Ser rJeamt and CorpraI
Barney Richmond was appointed as
Serjeant by large merjdrity and ex-
cepted, and Jonathan Wood was
appointed Corpral by large merjor-
ity and excepted and Lewis Pratt
was appointed to serve as Smith and
excepted and Zebady French was
appointed to serve as Saddler and
he excepted and VIM Hutchinson was
appointed to serve as Fayer and he
excepted and Lyman Go"ld and
Elisha Sabin to serve n, trnnpoters
and they excepted.
Then proseied to inapect there
equipments and found al! equipt ex-
cept five which names | shall men
tion and what was king. Corpral
Robin Bergbee lacked pistol and paid
his Fine to Serjeant Jonathan Wal
dron ordly which was l2 cent, Seth
Brewster lacked cartrig box he paid
his fine 6 cents VIM. lIutchison
lacked the same and he paid 6 cents
Gason Mash lacked pistols and he
paid IL cents.
Captin Allen called for the fine
money and it was paid to him by
Jonathan Waldron ordly.
Woodstock, October 4th, 1903.
Captin Allin company met Accord
ing to appointment and Corpral Davis
petitioned to the company to release
him from his Office for some res, MS
and to stand as privet, and the
Captain called the minds Of The com
pany and they considered him and
he returned into the ranks.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
Princess NiIa's Fan.

NJ. Jules Claretie tells a pretty
story about the first use of the fan
in France as an implement of CO.
quetry. In prehistoric days, he says,
when France was peopled by fire
worshipers, the king of what is now
Paris was the father of princess of
great beauty, Princess Mia. 1t was
her duty to watch over the sacred
fire and coax it into fame with her
fan when it was dying down. One
day she had forgotten her fan and
blew upon the cinders of the fire.
1t leaped up toward her and ever
afterward refused to brighten ex-
oept when the princess blew upon
it. On the day when she discovered
this the princess used her fan to
hide her bushes, for she understood
the secret of the holy fire, which
had become enamored of her
charms.-London Express.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02

When the famous John Radcliffe,
whose library is so well known an
institution at Oxford, lived in Bow
street his garden adjoined that of
Sir Godfrey Kneller. "Being init
mate friends" as Jesse tells us,
"they agreed that doorway should
be broken through the wall to ad-
nit of their enjoying IA free inter
course with each other. Some mis-
understanding, however, having
arisen between them. Knellcr sent
message to Radcliffe that he in
tended to close up the door. Rad
cliffe, it is said, asked the messen-
ger to tell Kneller that he might do
anything with the door except paint
it, while the painter returned the
obvious message, Tell DR.. Radcliffe.
with my compliments, that 1 will
take anything from him but his
physic.' '"-London Post.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
SHERBURNE.

Mrs. Alton Tupper entertained
relatives from cut of town part of
last week.
The Misses Grace and Ruth Cur
rier were at home over Sunday.
Mrs. Sophia Johnson of West
Rutland called ON friends here the
latter part of last week.
Mrs. j. S. Warner and Mrs +. G..
Spaulding visited ut Allen Lewis in
North Bridgewater Saturday, return
ing home Sunday.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
10000 Hunters Licenses.

OF the supply of 10000 hunters
licenses ordered at the beginning OF
the open season for game, State Con =
missioner II. G.. Thomas has already
issued 10000 and has ordered 5000
more.
1t is estimated that three per cent.
of the population is sufficient SUI =
ply, hut this number has already
been doubled in this state.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02

An old laundress took great
deal of pride in all her work, but
especially in the fact that she kept
the color in the clothes. She used
to say, "When a man buys a blue
shirt think he wants to wear n
blue shirt, so never fade it," This
was her little scheme for keeping
pink in garments that were of that
extremely perishable color: She
poured boiling water over IL piece
of red chcesecloth, let it stand for
a few minutes till the color was all
out of the cheesccloth, then poured
the dye into a bucket Of cold water
and after washing and thoroughly
rinsing the garment put it into the
dye water and allowed it to remain
for perhaps an hour. Then she
wrung it out and hung it to dry.
No matter how old and faded the
material, this method gives it
perfectly even coloring. - House
keeper.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02

and flues are of special patented con,
struction.
They give you quicker heat, more
heat, and perfectly distributed heat
That's why with the STERLING
you can begin baking any time, and
get perfect results.
It's worth while to know exactly
why you can get such splendid bak
ing with the STERLING.
! And the whole story is contained
in Booklet that the manufacturers
have issued Send for it. It's free.
Address the Sill Stove Works,
Rochester, n. Y. And then come
in. Wen gladly explain the S'rER-
LING to you.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
Asbestus.

The mystery of the mineral king
dom is asbestus. 1t is, in fact, so
much of puzzle that many scien-
fists look upon it as sort of link
between the mineral and the vege-
table world. 1t might be said to
resemble mineralogical vegetable,
possessing the curious properties
found in both, for it is at once
iibrous and crystalline, elastic and
brittle. heavy as rock when taken
from the mines, but light as spun
silk when treated mechanically.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
Murder and Suicide.

In n jealous rage Abel lIartshorn,
about 60 years old, of DanvilIe, shot
and killed Mrs. Fred j. Frye, Satui-
day, and after escaping he shot and
killed himself. He had been atten-
tive to the woman, who refused to
run away from her home with him.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
The Vermont Journal Sold.

The Vermont journal, of Wind
sor, has been sold to the w. G. Bel,
KNAPP Company of Bellows Falls,
possession being given October /.
Mr. Belknap has edited the Bellows
Falls Times for many years, and
will give his personal attenti'n n ia
the editing of the journal, together
with his prese mt work.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
A NOBLE REVENGE.
Tho Boy Who Was Cuffed and tho
Man Who Struck Him.

The coffin was plain one-a
poor, miserable pine coffin. No
flowers on the top; no lining of
white satin for the pale brow; no
smooth ribbons about the coarse
shroud. The brown hair was laid
decently back, but there was no
erimpcd cap, with neat tie beneath
the chin. The sufferer from cruel
poverty smiled in her sleep; she had
found bread, rest and health.
81 want to see my mother" sob
bed poor little child as the un-
dertaker screwed down the top.
"You cannot; get out of my way,
boy. Why doesn't somebody take
care of the brat?"
"Only let me see her one min
utew cried the hapless orphan,
clutching the side of the charity
box, and as he gazed upon the
rough box agonized tears streamed
down the cheeks on which no child
ish bloom ever fingered. "Only once;
let me see my mother only once"
Quickly and brutaIly the heart
less monster struck the boy away,
so that he rceled with the blow.
For a moment the boy stood pant
ing with grief and rage-his blue
eyes distended, his lips sprang
apart, fire glittering through his
eyes as he raised his little arm with
most unchildish laugh and scream
ed, "When | am IA man I'll be re-
venged for that!"
There were coffin and heap of
earth between the mother and the
poor forsaken child. A monument
much stronger than granite built in
the boys heart was the memory of
the heartless deed.
The courthouse was crowded to
suffocation.
"Does any one appear as this
mans counsel ?" asked the Judge.
There was a silence when he had
finished until. with lips tightly
pressed together, look of strange
intelligence blended with naughty
reserve upon the handsome fea-
lures, young man stepped forward
with firm tread and kindly eye to
plead for the erring friendless.
He was stranger, but at the
first sentence there was silence.
The splendor of his genius en-
tranced, convinced.
The man who could find friend
was acquitted.
"May God bless you, sir; l can
not" he said.
81 want no thanks" replied the
stranger.
T-I--I believe you are un-
known to me-"
"Man, I will refresh your mem
ory. Twenty years ago this day
you struck a broken hearted little
boy away from his dear mothers
coffin. was that boy"
The man turned livid.
"Have YOU rescued me then to
take my life:"
"No; have sweeter revenge. l
have saved the life of man whose
brutality has ranked in my breast
for the last twenty years. Go,
then, and remember the tears of a
friendless child.
The man bowed his head in
shame and went from the presence
of magnanimity as grand to him as
it was incomprehensible.
nous.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02

A carrier pigeon with band n
its right leg marked p B % 9O9i.
stopped in bennington the other
day 1t was all tired out when il
came, probably from long fight,
but " hen rested seemed to lie all
right but refused To 60 on its jonr-
ney.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
Postmaster at Barnard.

The post Office department an
nounces that Jennie l.. lhayer has
been c mmissioneI presidential post
master at Barnard
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02

Joel II. Gates, who died rcc,ntly
in Burlington, b, qneathed $lC0,-
900 to the home for aged women in
that CITY.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02

Bellows Falls Lodge of Odd Fel-
lows has 259 members and $3400
in the treasury.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
u. 3. PINNEY
THE ELM TREE PRESS
WOODSTOCK VERMONT

This press does work of
the highest grade. 1t tries
always to treat Printing,
not only as if it were a
worthy Trade, but also as
If it were a Fine Art
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-10-02
The Tribune Farmer

Is the best Agricultural paper II comes
every week For $3.50 we send THE AGE
and Tribune Farmer iOr one year To new
subscribers. both papers for $1.25 tor one
year.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-22

chat with him, and more rational
man I've never come into contact
with"
"Ah!" said the other thoughtfully.
Did you happen to speak to him about
ehameleons?"
NO." the visitor admitted reluct-
antly. That's subject we didn't
happen to touch upon. Why?"
20, no special reason" returned the
other, except that he wears white
coat because he thinks he has been
bitten by a chameleon and will turn
he color of whatever he's standing by
Unless he wears white, which, as you
know, is a combination of the three
prircary colors and consequently con-
.ains them ALL"
And that's his weak spot?' the
visitor inquired.
Yes, and it's rather a sad case. If
we could convince him that he wasn't
liable to change color we could let
aim go free. But it's useless. That's
his delusion. He was college pro-
lessor, and was becoming quite an au-
thority upon the marks of the spec
trum. He made his speciality the
changes of coloring occurring in the
chameleon and certain other lizards,
and was the author of pamphlet in
which he ascribed these to certain re-
fractions occurring in the pigmcntary
deposits beneath the epidermical layer
To cut the story short, he overworked
himself and, hiving received an in
significant bite from a chameleon
which he was handling, acquired the
delusion that the popularity of the
chameleon had in some manner be-
come transferred to himself"
The visitor. greatly interested in this
unfortunate case. fingered in the VI
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-22
Parental Precepts
BY Roy L. MccardelI.

Dearly Beloved, the cloak of con
tentment has a lining of worry. The
| luxury of children is the costliest OF
all indulgences. 1t is a luxury the
poor indulge in the most.
They are small favors not always
thankfully received, and yet, as we
tritely say, we wouldn't part with
one for million dollars or have an
other for the same price-but we often
have many more and without cash
bonuses, alas!
When they are babies we say, 10,
when they are able to take care of
themselves what comfort they'll be!''
of themselves until we, their parents,
are so old and feeble we need them
to take care of us, and generally they
don't
When they are in their teens we
haven't time to congratulate ourselves
over the fact that we have no dread
of their falling in front of trolleys
and automobiles or catching the
measles or scarlet fever, because we
are too busy advising the girls against
their beaux and the boys against Gig
arettes.
The time has passed when they
cried for candy. They now want
pocket money and new clothes. We
do without new clothes for ourselves
and have no spending money of our
own that we may satisfy these de-
sires.
At about this time we say, Behold,
when they are married, then will our
troubles be as smokel"
They do marry and our troubles
are as smoke, smoke that is back
draught pestiferous, a nuisance that
will not be abated
Our daughters marry just the sort
of a son-in-law we don't want, and
our sons brides are the sort of girls
that particularly exasperate us.
We are connected with families by
these marriages that we do not like,
and the said families we are newly
connected with do not seem to appre-
ciate us. either.
What worry and trouble children
are! How many things we could have
IL we didn't have children-but we
have the children.
And yet we do not want the things
we might have had as badly as the
childless yearn for offspring child
less marriage is a ship without ballast,
a flower garden without blossoms.
Children are the little troubles that
keep away the big ones.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-22
Feeding the Children.

81 don't see why mothers will bring
their children to visit at my house,
and the president of the sewing so
ciety rocked violently back and forth.
II hate to have child at my table.
They always eat too much!"
Then, as there followed a murmur
of surprise and disapproval, she
looked around. There! / knew it!
Every blessed one of you saying to
yourselves that you had no idea Me-
Indy was so close; denying children
enough to eat; dear mel oh, yes, you
needn't deny it. But you are all idiots;
the children are idiots; their mothers
are idiots!"
Then, after a wondering pause, the
president felt called upon to explain
this statement. 81 have a visitor now
a relation with her little girl, and !
suffer tortures every meal. The child
eats two or three bananas at once, and
when | mildly object it looks as
though l had an eye to the grocery
bill. When, on top of the bananas
she demands two eggs, and l show
a natural horror, it is set down to
the fact that eggs are high.
That baby suffers from wind collie;
she had a chlorotic skin, and when
mildly suggest rice instead of pork,
l am made to feel that my purse
strings are tight, and my fondness for
cereals a result of the rise in meat"
Everybody laughed. you needn't
laugh; it is no fun to be considered
stingy old thing, when you are do
ing the best you can to help that
poor child from the effects of its moth
er's indulgence. l VOW every time
that l shall not say another word i;
and l won't ever again, if they give
her strychnine"
In a moment or two, she started up,
exclaiming Mercy! Look at the
time! I must hurry home or they will
be feeding that child on mince pie and
pickles. Good-by."
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-22
Curious Spoons.

In the England of the last century
mulberries were much more popular
for food than now. So popular that
an especial spoon was made for con
venience in eating them. 1t had a
perforated bowl and spiked and
pointed handle. Sugar was sprinkled
on the berry with the bowl, and the
berry conveyed to the mouth by
means of the spiked handle.
There was, too, a queer marrow
spoon Ca proof of the English fond
ness for beef. 1t was made double,
one end being used for boring the mar
row from small bones and the other
for larger ones.
Tea used to be kept in caddies, two
lidded, metal-lined, with a sugar bowl
in the middle With this was the cad
dy spoon, now seen only in museums,
or curio collections. The caddy spoon
was sort of scoop, not unlike our
berry spoon, but smaller.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-22
The Chan1eLeon's Bite
BY II. M. Egbert.

81 always thought the inmates of an
Asylum were raving lunatics, in gen.
sral,' said the visitor at the institution
.ea-party; land yet a pleasanter and
more rational set of people than are
here I've never encountered. Surely if
YOU were to let your patients go out
into the world again they would be ca
pable of taking care of themselves?
Eyes, if they knew that they had a
weak spot in their mental makeup.
But they don't know it and won't be-
ieve it. And when you touch them on
The sore place they go off at a tangent.
Were you thinking of anybody in par
icular?"
yes" said the visitor THAT gen.
tleman in the duck suit, for example
I've been watching him move about
among the other patients and had quite
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-22
POTATO MAKES PROUD BOAST.
Humble Vegetable Used orMany 9th.
err Purposes Than Recog-
nized Dinner Essential.

Whenever you lick a postage STAMP
You partake of me, since all lickable
gums are made from dextrine, one
OF my products.
Your neck caresses me all day-for
the starch that stiffens your collar is
made from the potato.
The bone buttons on your under
wear are probably vegetable ivory
compressed potato pulp.
My leaves, dried, make a good
smoke. You have often smoked them
"unbeknownst," mixed with your IA
vorite brand.
Potato spirit is very pure alcohol
1t is used to fortify white wines. Many
a headache is not so much due to
the grape as the potato.
yield sweet syrup. In this form
l am often present in cheap cocoa,
honey, butter and lard.
Let the corpulent try as they will,
they cannot escape yours truly,
THE POTATO.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-04-22
A PhiLanthropic Soul
BY Thomas L. Mason

Caleb Pumpson, millionaire, had
made a little gift of ten thousand dol
lars to the Sunnyside hospital. While,
OF course. he shrank from any mani
festation of gratitude, he learned that
the trustees insisted upon having a
semi-formal ceremony, and he had
been requested to honor the hospital
with his presence on this particular
afternoon, in order that the thanks of
the community at large, through the
trustees themselves, might be con-
veyed to him properly. His automo-
bile was waiting outside to convey him
to the place, and just before leaving
he stepped to the telephone and called
up his newsdealer. Please have all
the evening papers delivered to my
house at five-thirty.
Very well, sir"
Mr.. Pumpson then proceeded on his
way. Mrs. Pumpson, who knew him
better even than the trustees of the
community at large, smiled as she saw
the car disappear around the first cor.
ner.
The ceremonies were simple, but
effective.
The voice of the president trembled
as he thanked Mr.. Pumpson.
This gift" he said, prompted by
that large-hearted generosity of which
the people of this country have had so
many examples, comes at just the
right moment. 1t enables us to add
another ward to our over-crowded hos.
pital. 1t is also a manifestation of
confidence in our institution, which
will doubtless lead to other gifts. How
can we adequately express our appre-
citation of the public which has
ETC., ETC."