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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
Catching Wild Fowl by peeoys.

The fens are today, as centuries ago
one of the most sparsely populated
districts in England. In its wide ex-
panses of marshland wild fowl make
their home. and there are many suit.
able spots for establishing decoys
One Is now In course of formation in
an isolated spot in the Cambridge
shire fens. A tract of land dozen
acres In extent has been planted with
osiers and willows. inclosing a large
pool Of water. Surrounding the pool
are the pipes into which the wild
ducks are decoyed by tame birds.
This revival of method of capturing
wild fowl is attracting much interest
In the Standardization Times.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
WONDERFUL FURNACES.
Those Located at Niagara Are tho Hot
test In the World.

Those Located at Niagara Are tho Hot.
test In the World.
"At Niagara are the hottest furnaces
In the world" says writer. Here
clay is melted I'm vast quantities to
form aluminium, a metal as precious a
few years ago as gold. Here lime and
carbon. the most infusible Of all the
elements, are joined by intense heat in
the curious new and useful compound,
calcium carbide. Here graphite, the
cousin of the diamond, is made. Phos-
phorus is made in large quantities, and
carborundum is manufactured. II has
been prophesied that 1t is merely a
matter of time before diamonds will
be made at Niagara.
These marvellous new things in
science and invention have been made
possible by the claiming Of Niagara
to the wheels of industry. The power
of falling water is transformed into
electricity. Science has found that the
form of energy known as electricity
can be changed into the vibration
known as heat. Accordingly thou
sands Of horse power are, conveyed as
electricity over copper wire, changed
into heat and light between the tips of
carbon electrodes and there work won
ders.
1T is scarcely twenty years since the
first electrical furnaces Of practical
utility We're constructed, but If the fur
naces today in operation at Niagara
Falls alone were combined into one
they would, one scientist speculates,
make a glow SO bright that 1t could be
seen from the moon. One furnace has
been built in which an amount Of heat
energy equivalent to 700 horse power
is produced in an arc cavity not larger
than an ordinary water lumber"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
A PoIxaIot Prs.s.

In New York city twenty-eight pros.
porous newspapers are published In
foreign languages-G German. French
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese. Russian,
Finnish. Hungarian, Croatian, Iithu.
anian, Ruthenian, Slovenic. Slovak,
Polish, Bohemian, Norwegian, Swed-
tsh. Danish, Hollandish. Roumanian,
Bulgarian. Servian, Greek, Arabic.
Syrian. Armenian. Chinese and Yid-
dish. besides an Austrian and Swiss
newspaper published in German. In
the United States there are 465 period
icals printed in foreign languages. OF
these SO are dailies, triweeklies. "a
semiweexlies, 824 weeklies, 10 semi
monthlies and % monthlies. Harpers
Weekly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
oppc,,sites Meet.

'''Mr. Hurry, want to present Miss
Delay" said a clerk in the postoffice
department the other day to the re-
Gently appointed chief clerk to the
third assistant postmaster general.
Mr.. Hurry had just started work and
was introduced to all the clerks in his
division. Miss Delay has been employ
ed at the department for about ten
years. New. York World.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
THE STATE FAIR.
A Satisfying Show on the w. R.
Junction Grounds - Fine Ex-
hibit of Morgan Horses. Cattle
and Sheep.

The State fair at White River
Junction scored another success this
year with the aid of the well-dis-
posed weather people and the CO
operation. of many alert exhibitors
from Vermont, New England and
the whole Union.
Wednesday was one of the big
days and there we're 10000 or more
PEG pie at the fair, Woodstock send
ing seven loaded coaches on the first
train in the morning - TO say moth
ing of automobiles that later added
to the crowds on the ample grounds,
The cattle department had many
more head than has before been
shown, and the horses, sheep and
swine we're strong in numbers and
quality.
The free-for-all race Friday for a
purse of $1,000 ended three days OF
good track events. many we'll known
New England horses competing.
The vaudeville stage offered an en-
pertaining program, the parade OF
premium horses and cattle, sheep
driving contests and other features
making dazzling bill of attrac-
tons
The flying machine did not fly
Wednesday until very late hour.
Though conditions seemed right to
the disappointed thousands, Aviator
Hamilton rested on his job Of con-
quering the air, but shortly before
6 o'clock he rose in the air for short
fight, this being the only one Of his
three advertised ascensions.
Uhlan, 1883. king of trotters.
driven by his owner. @. X. Billings,
trotted an exhibition mile the first
day, smashing the track record His
time was 2.0444. and the event was
one of the big features of a great
show.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
Canada Rejects Reel
procity.

The Laurier government and reci-
procity with the United States suf-
fered an overwhelming defeat in the
Canadian elections held Thursday.
BY veritable landslide the Lib
eral majority of 43 was swept away,
and the Conservative party secured
one of the heaviest majorities, up
wards of fifty, that any Canadian
party has ever had. Seven cabinet
ministers who served with Premier
Laurier were among the defeated
candidates.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
Round Soak RoIIs.

Get round steak not over one-half
inch thick and cut it into portions
about the size OF ones hand. Sprinkle
each piece on one side with salt and
pepper. fold into 1t a small piece OF
suet, skewering 1t into a roll with
toothpicks. Roll in -four. brown on
both sides in hot fat in the frying
pan, then add "A sliced onion and
enough water to cover. Simmer gen
tiy for an hour. transfer to hot dish.
add Drowned -four TO the liquor in the
pan and make brown gravy of it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
GRAINED Spinach.

Wash half peck of nice spinach
picking out any damaged leaves and
the roots. and lift 1t from the wash
water. putting 1t into double boiler
Add to the spinach a pinch of salt. but
no water. except such as clings to the
leaves Cover closely cook until soft
enough to rub through colander
Scald quart of milk, thicken with n
tablespoonful each of butter and -four
rubbed together and add this to the
spinach as soon as 1t thickens Season
and serve.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
The OttaHquGclGG Savings Bank
Woodstock, Vermont
INCORPORATED 1877.

DEPOSITS JULY l, 1911 81, 695, 7O9. 10
SURPLUS 160.6lO,l
TOTAL ASSETS 81, 1856, Sl9. 20
TRUSTEES
F. S. Mackenzie Charles H. Markham
Henry w. Walker William S. Hewitt
William S. Dewey Fred'k C. Southgate
Charles F. Chapman
From July l, 1911, this bank proposes
to pay per cent. interest on deposits
Deposits made during the first five
days of any month draw interest from
the first of the month. Those made
after the fifth day of any month draw
interest from the first day of the follow,
ing month.
Interest will be credited to deposition
January i and July l, compoundinS
twice year.
The Vermont Legislature has repealed
the law restricting deposits in any one
savings bank to 100000. This bank
can now pay interest on individual de,
posits of any amount and all taxes will
be paid by the bank. Nothing will be
reported to the listers for taxation.
Safe Deposit Boxes to Rent
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23

mined. but the business would I'M
doubtedly have become very profitable
If the government had not put a
speedy stop to it.
One may sympathize to a limited ex-
tent with the victim of the smooth
and convincing confidence man. But
the man or woman who can be gulled
by any such absurd get-rich-quick
scheme as this latest device is beyond
the limit Of credulity. = Cincinnati
Times-Star
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
Two Flowers,

The dahlia was named after
drew Dahl. a Danish botanist, "
was pupil Of Linnaeus. The flov
Is a native of Mexico. but was O
cultivated In Europe by Dahl. 1t v
taken to England about 1904. I
word daisys.s corruption of "da
eye," as the pretty flower used to
called. The old English form v
"daye-sye."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
rho CLOCK.

When II is almost time for tea
And you're as hungry as can be
Aunt Josie's clock Just seems to crawl
The hands don't seem to move at al
But when it's almost time for bed
And you and Isabel and Fred
would like to have little fun.
MY. how that clock does leap and RI
When Fred grows up to be- man
And vents things. like our Uncle d
Hes going to make a clock that goes
Just opposite to Auntie Joe's.
SUNBEAM
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
Citron Preserve.

Pare and cut citron in small pieces.
To one pound OF fruit allow one pound
of sugar. Put the fruit in kettle with
just water enough to cover and boil
till tender. Take out fruit and add
sugar and muslin bag containing one
teaspoonful Of ground cloves and one
teaspoonful Of cinnamon. Let 1t boil a
few minutes, then put back fruit ana
two lemons sliced very thin and can
hot
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
A New Animal.

A. gigantic carnivorous mammal,
hitherto. unknown. was discovered re
Gently in Dutch New Guinea. This an
imal. found and named by English
nhturalists I'm the course OF coast ex-
'plorations, lives at an altitude Of $50
yards In place Inhabited by tribe
OF black dwarfs. The gazelta. as this
beast is known, is striped like zebra,
hut its aspect is ferocious. The ami
mol Is Ike tapIE and IL Of species
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
Goldfish Bale.

Make a pint bowl of Goldfish picked
into flakes and not freshened and put
two pints of small peeled potatoes into
"A saucepan. Add fish and turn boiling
water over 1t. Let boil until pota
toes are well done, turn off all the wa
ter. then mash potatoes and fish until
they are smooth and fine. Add piece
of butter size of egg, little cayenne
pepper and two well beaten eggs. Beat
the mixture vigorously until very light
and drop 1t by spoonfuls into boiling
fat and fry to rich golden brown.
Drain on brown paper In oven where
they will remain hot till time to serve.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
History o. Polo.

Polo is the most ancient of all games
with stick and ball, and probably
hockey. golf and cricket are but modi-
fications of 1t. The earliest records OF
the game are Persian and date back
to 600 b. @. In India 1t seems to have
been known for centuries before the
British occupation, but 1t rose into ia
vor only some half century ago when
the English residents began to practice
1t. The game was introduced into
England by the officers OF the Tenth
hussars about 1868. but at that time
the players used hockey sticks and
billiard balls. 1t was John Watson Of
the Thirteenth hussars who drew up
the rules and regulations which chang
ed polo from wild. skilI-less game
into scientific sport.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
Adams Luok

Adam had one thing to be thankt
Tor. He never had to weed his fathef
onion bed when all the other boys ha
gone down to the river swimming.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-23
Mock Crsrry Pie.

Wash and pick over your cranber
ries To one cupful of crnnberries
chopped fine add one cupful of chop
pea rnisins and one cppful Of sugar
mixed with one teaspoonful Of -four.
Mix all together and pour on scant
half cupful of boiling water and one
teaspoonful of vanilla. Be sure to use
vanilla Bake with two crusts.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-11
Do You IteIu cthers7

It has been trftelv said that for ev. cry one who stands alone there are twelve to lean against him. How is II with you? Are you sne of those against whom others lean for help and encouragement, or are you leaning against some one and drawing your inspiration and courage from him? It depends entirely on yourself whethef you take positive attitude in your work or whether your negative char acteristic shall dominate. It is much easier to go through life making as little effort as possible, but it is q poor way if we are going to make fife yield even q small modicum ef what it holds for us. If you are work. ing earnestly and hoping for success there is only one way to attain it, and that is through your positive charan teristics.-PhiladeIphia Ledger.
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Fate of portuaai,s t4oms-.

The Lusiad" IS one of the uoblesf records ever written of national glory and success. Camoens, it's gifted au. thor, determined to do for Portugal what Homer had done for Greece The great poem was written in the six teenth century, which has been called the heroic age of Portugal and it's main feature Is the rounding of the Cape of Good Hape by vasco da Cana, while most interesting episode is the crowning after death of IneZ de Castro as queen of Portugal. The Lusiad" took it's name from Lusius. who was said to have founded Lisbon It's author was born about 1520, and his career, which began brilliantly. was blighted by ths death of broken heart of the lady of his love, for whose sake he was banisbed from the land He wrote "The Luslad' in his banish- ment and was recalled in 15T1, losing OF the way all his property except his poem. Pensioned at first by the king. this great epic poet of Portugal died in great poverty in i57o when his rRtAon was also dead.
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The Maqple ceiilna.

One of the apartments in Che an
 ssent royal palace at Cintra, Portugal. as known IS the Hall of Magpies
 Painted in the arabesque ceiling is to bs found swarm of magpies. Each Aas 1n the mouth a scroll, on which. painted in red on a white ground, are ths words, 'Por ben. The story runs that King John of Portugal was making love to one of the maids Of honor in this chamber and was sur. prised by the queen. His natesty made the best of the circumstances and ex- slained to the queen. "E DOT Dern minka secre" F'0h. It is nothing at all It is quite right There Is no harm in it''). As to whether the queen was satisfied the legend is silent, but the ladies of the ecurt were deeply interested and were constantly saying to one another with smile, .Por bemi Por bemp' The king thought it time to act. SO he com,
 missioned an artist to 1aint on the ceiling as many magpies as there were talkative ladies about the court. each holding in the beak the ribbon with she words, "por hem. London Globe.
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Portuguese and Goldfish.

It is an interesting fact that the Ash. erinen of northern Portugal started and developed the fishing industry on the banks off the northern coast of America, and, though they now send fewer ships. their taste for salt cod from Newfoundland is unabated in fact 1t is a national Portuguese dain. v. It Is found in every little grocery shop, hard and brown as board. 4 uumber of Portuguese have made their home on the islands to the south Of lie mainland of Massachusetts. and there the dark eyes of the Iberian maiden, raven locks md certain pic. 1lresdue element in drass are not in. frequent. This connection with Por tugal dates back many years. the ships of Marthas Vineyard bridging the distance over sea and returning
 vith Portuguese erews.--Exehange
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Down In a Coal Mine.

To the ear acctSton,eA to the con. .tant sound Of q living world the still 1ess Of q coal mine, where the miles # crosseuts and entries and the un fielding walls swallow up all sounds md ec:lo is a silence tlat is eomplete nut as che beccsnes accustomed to ths silence through .ong hours of solitary work sounds become audible tfla, would escape an ear less trained. The =Ickiing mur1nUr of the gas, the spat- .ering fail of lump of coal loosened oy some mysterious force from granny in tue wall the sudden knock ing and breaking of q stratum far up ir1 the rock above or tAe scurry of a rat off somewhere in the darkness strike on the ear loud and startling. The eye. too, becomes trained to pene. trate the darkness, but the darkness is so complete that there is limit--the limit of the rays cast by the pit lamp Joseph Husband j Atlantic
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HUMAN DISSECTION.
Surgery and the Anatorists is the
 Oiden Days

For long time Alexandria was the only medical center of the world, and the physician Galen, born about 130 A. D., had. to journey from Rome to the African city even to see q skele- ton He sent his students to the Ger man battiefeids to dissect the bodies of the national enemies, while he him. self used apes as most resembling hu- man beings Human dissection was revived in Bologna in the fourteenth century, where Madonna ManZolina later was professor of anatomy, un= doubtedly one of the first women doc tors, if not the very first. Leonardo da Einci, painter of The Last Sup per- was q great anatomst, but dis section had fallen into disuse when Vesalius finally revived it about the middle of the sixteenth century
 Even in comparatively modern times anatomists have been the object of at tacks by the populace. In 1T65 Dr. John Shippen os Philadelphia was nobbed as grave robber Doctors riots in New York occurred twenty three years later and were due to the belief that the medical students rob bed graves continually 1t was the lack of opportunity to obtain subjects regularly that led 10 the practice of grave robbing and originated what Dr. Keene calls "a set of the lowest possible villains-the resurreetionists.' New York World.
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DlsL!KEs INNOVATIONS
Asuos ths Rhno Biindiy Attacks Any-
 thing New to Him.

Asuos ths Rhino Biiudiy Attacks Any.
 thing New to Him.
 Sir Frederick Treves, the distinguish. sd British surgeon, in his book 'eUgan- a For Holiday has word or two b say about the rhinoceros.
 "The rtinoceros Is the embodiment of blind conservatism" he writes 'Its hide Is impenetrable, its vision is weak, while It's intellect is weaker. It has, however, two marked gualitieLcom- hatsveness and sense of smell It is aroused to it's maximum energy 5y the presence of anything that ia new This object need not be a thing that Is az. eressive or inconvenient. It's offensive. ness depends upon the fact that 1t ss unfamiliar, and the more unfamiliar the object is the worse the rhinoceros ectG
 When riinoceroe smells a man be win charge him with naniacal vto- ience, although the mn may be mere ly sitting on a stool reading Milton The massive baast will dash at him nke torpedo or runaway locomo- t1vo simply because the smell of him Hncvei. Actumted by this insane hate of whatever savers of an innovation, t1ke rhinoceros has charged an iron wa tsr tank on the outskirts of camp md hao crumpled it ID as blacksmith would an empty meat tin.
 { "A conservative rhinoceros with a Ggnile dislike of anything new once charged train on the Uganda railway, but with no moro serious results than tlne tearing away of the footboard of 8 carriage. As regards the rhinoce-os in t2zls case. 1t appeared surprised that 8 thing composed, as it had imagined, of nesh and blood could be so hard. It went off with an additional grievance and an incraa1ed swelling of the head
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A Kinq's Hobby.

The late king of Siam had aA extraor- dinary hobby-that of collecting empty matchboxes of all nations. In this connection an interesting story Is re lated. During one of his visits to Eng land the king while passing down Bond street one afternoon, accompanied by two members of hts suit, espied an empty matchbox which had been dis carded by it's owner and thrown away into the middle of the thoroughfare. Without moments thought the mon
 arch dashed into the middle of the crowded traffic. grasped the much GOV eted treasure and was nearly run over by passing cab The fact, however, that he was able to add new speci- men to his collection gathered under such circumstances more than com- pensated him for the risk which he had rIn.--London News. .S~r~-'sg '-1ie.-e'a'-s--
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MOSCOW CATHEDRAL.
pnnsnaDp Looking Edifice Erected by
 Ivan the Terrible.

One = the most extraordinary Nnd fsntastte Chrissian places of worship in the world Is the Cathedral of Mos COW, known as vasii Blajenni, strange not only In outline and conception, but even stpanger in It's history. No one knows the architects name but the story goes that the czar ordered hfs eyes to be put out directly the church was completed, so that he should nNv- CT be able to zurpass his work. The idea of the building was inspired by the wickedest and naddest monarch who ever sat on throne-fyan the Terrfh1e, ear of Muaevy.
 The architecture is in every respect extravagant and barbaric. and the col offng is garfsh In the extreme. It has nine chapels, roofed by nine cupolas, each different and each stranger than the other. One resembles pineapple, another a melon, a third is sad to ape . hedgehog in it's appearance, and the rest are more or less grotesque- Some areSg1lf; others are painted in brilliant rues. Indeed. the only description is that 1t is nightmare of church, the dttfng legacy of ruler who grilled his counselors in frying pans and clothed his subjee6 in bearskins in order that trained dogs might worr5 and tear them to pieces.-Strand Maga- nne.
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Laid ln a Stock.

When ttle late Pierre LoriIlard wsn T ooy. hlS mother being annoyed b, moghs that destroyed The vooien cloth Ing md other material of The house bold. agreed to pay Hm q reni apiece for every moth hf. would sill in an- house and 5ring fo her The ,auIs bargain WAS madc with his brothers Jake. George and L9Hjs- lii course U time 3Irs. ..4riiiJrd noticed that. wh.,- he other children collected from he, at intervals from 1t to = cents. .elr- drew on her frequently for a $f at @ time indorsiug his drafts with E. aend moths. Investigation rcEeaIe- the bent of tbe future liaancicr q well as his eart1 atIaltabiIity to meth 3ds governing the requirement. c. wealth. Havinc procured from fur Tier some pieces of fur thrown away because they were infested with moths. Pierre secreted them in an ole chest in an unused closet There the quickly accommodating moths wers banked. to be drawn upon whenever the inventor and perfecter Of the en terprtse required pocket money.
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4anoy With an AK.

One important feature in connecfA with the conducting of mining opera. Hons in Siberia is the aptitude Of tb Russian workman for the ax Wood is Bo plentiful in the country that min Ing ttmbers may be figured on at A low rate. The current anecdote that 3 Russian workman will for a twent kopeck piece lay his left hand, w4ka fingers spread, on board and with full strength make an a1 cuf ,tweer each finger cannot be vouched for, e,ss it Is certainly true that in pick timber ing fn bad ground, in erecting build ings, log cabins and ail manner o, woba joking the equai Of tho Russia pea zsant cannot be foEnd- - T.ondoe Ns5e
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Mixiru His Dates,

There Is q stora of man who was so transported with joy as he stood. 1p at the altar rail to be married that his thoughts reverted to day when be stood up at the prisoners bar in court of justice to plead guilty or mot guilty" 10 criminal charge. Sc powerfully did that the most painful event of his life, obtsude itself upor his mind that when the clerr-- the question. "Wi'-