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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
New State Fair Building.

Secretary Davis of the Vermont
State fair says the exhibits in all de-
partments this year will be much in
excess of former years and he does
not hesitate to add that visitors to the
fair. September l9. 20. 81 and %,
will see tho greatest agricultural ex-
hibition ever given in New England.
A contract has just been let by
Secretary Davis for the construction
Of a building 40 K 80 feet This
building is planned for the showing
of butter. cheese. maple sugar, honey
and the exhibition of separator
machinery.
The center of the building will be
occupied by the exhibit of the ex-
pertinent station farm and by the
forestry department, under the
supervision of State Forest Commits
sioner Hawes.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19

the Baldwin machine he drove.
Centrifugal force broke the propeller,
upset the delicate equilibrium and
Badger dashed 100 feet to the bot
tom of the pit. his neck being broken
Badgers death was the first seri-
GUS accident of the meet. 1t was
followed shortly by second and
still more spectacular tragedy when
Johnstone fell from height of 500
feet while three miles off the shore
of Lake Michigan and was drowned.
Caught under the heavy engine OF
his Moisant monoplane, he was car
ried deep into the water and it was
not until an honr later that his body
was recovered.
Johnstone's accident was due, ac-
cording to expert aviators, to some
unsuspected flaw in the mechanism
of his monoplane.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19

E. N. Holt of Marshailtown,
Iowa, is with relatives in this place.
George Hubbard of Tennessee is
visiting at obed Whipple's.
The Norma Quintette of Burling-
ton gave most delightful musical
entertainment, assisted by a reader,
at the church on Friday evening,
July %. The church was crowded
with an apprecistive audience. The
music was such as is seldom heard
here and the reader, teacher of
elocution in Burlington. gave some
very pleasing selections. Pomfret
could not have hoped to get this
quintette here. excepting for the fact
that Mrs. Jordan, the accom- panist,
and mother OF three of the musicians,
spent many happy weeks of her girl
hood with relatives in this part of
tho town.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Four thousand Visitors in
Rochester.

Rochester had the biggest day in
its history Thursday, August 10,
when crowd of between 5000 and
1000 people gathered TO attend the
reunion of the Windsor and Orange
County Veterans. The fine weather,
the Tenth Cavalry Band from Fort
Ethan Allen, the we'll known speak
ers and the better service on the
railroad contributed each its share
toward the size of the crowd.
Wallace Batclielder of Bethel pre-
sided in the afternoon. Lieut.. Gov.
L P, Slack of St. Johnsbury, Hugh
Henry of Chester. Rev. Fraser Metz
ger of Randolph and others spoke.
In the evening the proposed speak
ing was abandoned and a band con-
cert of nearly two hours was greatly
enjoyed instead.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Picking Out the Improbable
Cows.

One of the moat unnleaaant tasks
of the stock breeder ia picking ont
the unavoidable cows and disnos;no o
of them The scales and the Bah
cock test are an upfa;l;no neaa,,re
of merit and should be r;o;dlv an
nl;ed Great ex,ectat;ons as To
some ,sell.bred he;fer are often d;a-
anno;nted according 70 w r all.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Tn. namsI.s. Girl. Of korea.

Girls in Korea have no names or
what would be considered names in
the western world. The little ones
are given a pet name at their birth,
and this they bear until they are
ten years old, after which time it
is no longer used. After her tenth
birthday the young woman is
known as 'eMr. Kim's daughter" or
'tMr. Kim's girl baby" The latter
title is considered the more hon
orable. If there are several daugh-
ters in the family they are distin-
guished by such words as 'ebig" for
the eldest), Second" "third," :"
fourth" etc. After marriage they
are known by the husbands name
and title, with the word "house"
affixed. They may also be distin-
guished by the name of the place
from which they came when marry
ing, as seMrs. of the house of Kim,
the young lady who came from
Kongio."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
COURT THE SUNSHINE.
There Are Life and Health and Happl-
ness In lts Rays.

There Are Life and Health and Happl.
moss In its Rays.
The value of sunshine as a health
giving agent cannot be overrated.
1t is worth more by way of medi-
cine than all the nostrums that
ever were made, and if there could
be copyright put on it so that ev-
cry one who wanted to use it would
have to pay a royalty on it all crea-
ton would want it and be eager to
pay for it.
But now that sunshine is abso-
lutely free we do not think much of
it. We speak only of its disadvan-
tages. 1t freckles our noses and
burns our necks and makes the
backs of our hands yellow, and it
fades the carpets and encourages
flies, and it looks $50 hot and vul-
gar" to see house with the win
dows all open to the sun.
So people surround their dwell
ings with trees and vines and hang
blinds and shutters and drapery be-
fore their windows till their parlors
are darker than their cellars and
smell quite as moldy and moths and
spiders hold high carnival there.
You go to make call and you
are shown into hall to which the
darkness that fell upon Egypt in an
cient times was brilliant, and you
creep along cautiously, feeling your
way, and find the parlor door
through the sound of the voice of
your attendant, and you stumble
into the room and bow in the direc-
tion where you hear something rus
tie, and by and by, after your eyes
have grown accustomed to the
gloom, you see something that looks
like chair, and you sit down on it
and thank your stars that you man
aged to find it without tripping
over a hassock or upsetting any
bric-a-brac or sitting down in any
body's lap, and you feel that it is
wonder you did-and SO it is.
And your hostess will open just
one rim of Stats in blind, and the
light will come in through lace and
damask in sickly sort of way, and
when you are going through the
hall on your way out you will hear
that blind shut close again, and you
know that the parlor is once more
in statu quo.
There are life and health and
happiness in the sunshine. Outside
of it is death. Why people want to
90 into their graves before they are
dead we cannot understand. Every
plant seeks the sun, and in this re-
spect the plants are wiser than we
are.
I, Did you ever think that in GER
tain sense we are all geraniums and
begonias2 We need the light and
the sun just as much as they do.
Let us have it'll It is of vastly
more consequence that there should
be the flush of health on our cheeks,
the sparkle of life in our eyes, the
magnetic feeling of strength and
power in our muscles, than it is that
there should be fresh looking car
pets and curtains in our parlors and
furniture that has never been faded
by the sunhght.-Philadelphia In
n1lirer
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Saved bv ,ts Tick.

The last thing the woman did
was to put four rings in the clock
on the manteI.
$50 thieves won't get them," she
said. 'I should think that would
be simply inviting thieves to run
away with them," said her friend.
sThat is handsome clock, and
thieves like clocks"
"They do" said the woman, 'ebut
they will never steal this clock. 1t
ticks too loud. No wise thief will
run away with a clock that goes
like a thrashing machine. 1t isn't
the alarm about his person that he
is afraid of, for he can stop the
clock, but the occupants of the fiat
are likely to return before he gets
safely away, and if loud ticking
clock is gone they will miss it the
minute they step inside the door
and maybe give him a hot chase for
his plunder."-New York Times.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
NORTH PoMFRET

Clyde Stinehour OF Underhill is
visiting his aunt, Mrs. A. N. Jen-
nings.
Cyrenus Dana of Claremont is
calling on relatives and old friends
here this week.
Stephen Hewitt attended the.
|. Selaiers ReHuian at Rochester last
week.
Mrs. Fapeuf is visiting friends in
Lebanon.
George Baker and wife spent the
week end with her people in South
Royaltou.
Miss Jennie Allen OF Boston is
enjoying her vacation with her
brothers.
Helen Ingalls, Is spending this
week with his sister.
Several from this place attended
the Old Folks picnic in Sharon
Wednesday, and others the one al
the Downer farm Thursdsy. >4
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
FIRST BALLOON FLIGHT.
What Would Carlyle Say II He Wsrs
Alive These Days7


Alive These Days7
What will not mortals attempt ?
From remote Annonay, in the Viva
rails, the brothers Montgolfier send
up their paper dome, filed with tie
smoke of burnt wool. The Vivarais
provincial assembly is to be pro-
rogued this same day; Vivarais as
sembly members applaud and the
shouts of congregated men. Will
victorious analysis scale the very
heavens, then?
Paris hears with eager wonder.
Paris shall ere long see. From Re-
veillon's paper warehouse there, in
the Rue st. Antoine Ia noted ware
house), the new Montgolfier afrship
launches itself. Ducks and poultry
have been borne skyward, but now
shall men be borne. Nay, Chemist
Charles thinks of hydrogen and
glazed silk. Chemist Charles will
himself ascend from the Tuileries
garden, Montgolfier solemnly cut
ting the cord. BY heaven, this
Charles does also mount, he and
anotherl
Ten times ten thousand hearts go
palpitating-all tongues are mute
with wonder and fear-till shout,
like the voice of seas, rolls after
him on his wild way. He scars, he
dwindles upward, has become a
mere cleaning circlet, like some
Turgotine snuffbox, what we call
'0Turgotine-platitude," like some
new daylight moon!
Finally he descends, welcomed by
the universe. Duchess Polignac,
with party, is in the Bois de Bou-
logne, waiting, though it is drizzly
winter, the first of December, 1888.
The whole chivalry of France, Duke
de Chartres foremost, gallops to re-
ceive him. r
Beautiful invention, mounting
heavenward, 80 beautiful, so un-
guidably-emblem of much and Of
our age of hope itself, which shall
mount, specifically light, majestic
ally in this same manner, and hover,
tumbling whittier fate will. Well,
if it do not, Pilatre-like, explode
and demount all the more tragi-
callyl So, riding on wind bags, will
men scale the empyrean?-Carlyle,
"The French Revolution"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Airman Atwood Makes a
Record.

BY flying the 286 miles between
St. Louis and Chicago with two in
termediate stops in 5 hours 43 min
utes actual flying time Monday,
Harry N. Atwood of Boston believes
he has set pace which will result in
establishing a new record on his
fight by aeroplane from st. Louis to
New York and Boston.
As it is Atwood appears to have
broken the American record for a
single day fight. The best previous
American record was made by At
wood himself when he flew 14s
miles from Atlantic City to Baltimore
ON July 10, 1911. ma
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
WOODSTOCK NOTES

Mrs, Wyman, Mrs. John Foster
and Miss Beatrice Foster of Lynn.
Mass. arrived at Hillside Farm
Wednesday,.
The ladies' of St. James church
will hold sale Mt the town hall on
Wednesday evening, August 30.
Further particulars will he given
later.
The Boston Herald of Monday has
the following item of local interest /:
THE engagement has been an
nounced of Miss Gertrude L. Oxley
Of Reading. Boston University '08
to Elba A. Buckman of Woodstock,
VT"
Mrs. II. G. Rowland is visiting her
son, F. B: Rowland, in Claremont,
| N. II.
Ernest Maxham is in Holyoke,
Mass, having employment In the
Dean steam pump works.
DR.. and Mrs, R, M. Tcwksbury Of
Attleboro Mass. are visiting Mrs.
E P.Tewksbury.
Charles Switzer of Newton. Mass,
is visiting relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren French, Jr..
and daughter arrived from New
York Monday night. coming by way
the Hudson, Lake George and Lake
Champlain to Burlington.
Miss Florence M. Grow of Somer-
vile, Mass, has been visiting her
mother at Mrs. e. P. Ashley's, and
Morrill, Jordan of Newton. Mass.
was recent guest of MIR. and Mrs.
Ashley.
Rev, Mr.. Carter of Hartford, Conn,
will preach at the Congregational
church tomorrow. and Rev. j. 81,
Hilburn of Maiden, Macs, will
occupy the pulpit the two following
Sundays.
Simeon Fisher and two daughters
Of Claremont. N. H., are visitinp
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Clark.
The village and town schools will
open the fall term Tuesday, Sept s.
The Y. p. SC, E. of the Christian
church will hold hilltop meeting
on Mt. Peg tomorrow evening. be
ginning at 6 o'clock. and all Endeav'
orers and their friends are asked Is
attend. If the weather is nnfavora;
bio the meeting win be held in the
chapel as usual.
Mrs Annie Hamilton Merrill ant
con Hamilton OF Richford are visit
Ing Mrs. F. b. Merrill few weeks.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Canadian Farmers Faver Reel
procity.


The Vermonters who are touring
the Canadian northwest with the
Ohio Press association are James H..
Healey OF the Montpelier Argus. O.
r. Aennet of the Manchester Journal
and Col. Harry Parker of the Brad
ford Opinion and family. Mr. Healey
states In q letter that 80 per cent of
the provinces OF Alberta and Sas-
katchewan are claimed by the liberals
TO favor reciprocity. The country
districts favor the agreement and the
cities and manufacturing centers are,
as rule, opposed. Up to last Thurs
day the newspaper men had covered
3700 miles.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Meat Going Up.

That Chicago and the country at
large are already beginning to feel
the effects of the drought lin the
cattle raising country and that'a big
advance in the prices of meats is
under way is admitted by leading
Chicago wholesalers. Not only
will last years high prices in
meat products be equalled, but it is
predicted that new records will be
made.
Already pork loins are selling
wholesale at the highest price for
the year. around 10 centa.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Crops Not a Total Failure.

A dispatch from Chicago to the
New York Journal Of Commerce
says - While government crop es-
Inmates we're exceedingly disappoint-
ing to bankers and commission men,
bankers aa a rule do not accept them
as indicative of the actual presnt
conditions in the agriculture dis
tricts In other words advices from
bankers at the interior failed to show
crop conditions as bad as the agri-
cultural department figures them.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
TWO s4AvIAToRs KILLED.
Johnstone browns and Badgers
Neck IA Broken at Chicago.

Neck Is Broken at Chicago.
The .aviators. William r. Badger,
of Pittsburg. and st. Croix John
stone, Of Chicago, both young men.
lost their lives at the international
aviation meet at Chicago Tuesday
while two score aviators were curv-
ing and gliding about in the air,
with scarcely pause for the death
OF their contemporaries.
Death in both cases was due to un-
explained accidents, probably the re-
suits of unsuspected defects in the
mechanism of the machines, and
was in no way caused by the care
lessness nor lack Of responsibility of
the drivers.
Badger. who was an amateur avia-
tor and wealthy youth. careened to
his death in pit in the aviation
field. There had been flaw in one
of the wings of the propeller of
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Buckingham Palace a Bargain.

Buckingham palace was a bargain
when it passed into the hands of the
English royal family. Its erection
cost the Duke of Buckingham enor-
nous sums, and after his death his
widow offered it for sale at $780,
900. This sum was considered well
below its value, but no purchaser
was Forthcoming. When George III.
wished to acquire residence for his
consort he managed after pro-
longed negotiations. to secure it for
100000. The building was then
known as Buckingham house, and
it did not receive the designation OF
palace until fifty years later, when
it passed into the possession OF
George IV.---Westminster Gazette.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
a citx Of Man Only.

According to a very reliable au-
thority there is in Mongolia, close
to the borders of Russian Siberia, a
city which is peopled by men only.
The Chinese women are not only
forbidden to live in this city, but
even to pass the Great wall and en-
ter into Mongolia. All the Chinese
of this border city are exclusively
traders, and when they accumulate
sufficient fortune by trading with
Europe through Siberia they return
to their native cities and live there
at ease with their families.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19

Time is relative quantity. Some
minutes seem like hours, and some
hours seem like minutes. How to
control this fight is beyond most
persons, but the little boy mem
toned below seems to have pro-
gressed pretty well for youngster.
The teacher was surprised to see
that he remained perfectly idle all
through recess and accordingly
asked him why he did not play.
"'Cause," he said slowly, sit
makes recess too quick if / play,
and / want it to la-a-stp-Cleve-
land Leader.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Bee Sting Fatal.

The sting of a bee proved fatal to
George F. Putney, aged "a, of Unity.
N. FL. lie was stung while gather
ing blueberries and told his compan-
ions that the sting had made him
sick and that they had better take
him home. Putney was placed in a
buggy and died before the party
reached home.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Tn. Inuuisitive Hostess.

Small Girl entertaining her
mothers caller)-How is your lit
tie girl?
Caller-I am sorry to say, my
dear, that / haven't any little girl.
Small Girl (after painful pause
in the conversation How is your
little boy?
Caller-My dear, 1 haven't any
little boy, either.
Small Girl-What are yours p
.Woman's Home Companion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Not For Him TO Tell.

Doctor-The increasing deaf
ness of your wife is merely an
Indication of advancing years, and
you can tell her that.
Husband - Hum! Would you
mind telling her that yourself, doc
tor ?-Christian Intelligencer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Sam Jonss on Profanity.

The late Sam Jones said: "I can
see some reason for the fellow that
steals a side of bacon when he's
hungry, for he wants to eat, and l
can see some reason for drunkard
getting drunk, for he thinks he
feels good then. but the fellow that
cusses hasn't got any reason for
what he does. Henot only goes to
hell, but he deadheads his way"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
nj. Mod.r.t. Ambition.

Knicker-w Wouldn't you like. to walk
where foot never trod before?
Bocker-T'd be happy enough IL my
wife let me track mud in the kitchen
New York Sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Cause For Wonder.

Mrs. Wabash see by the papers
that last year 1880 dogs were put to
death by the Chicago poundmaster.
Mr.. Wabash Why. then. should
sausage be so igh?-Yonkers States
man.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
rho Prof.s.ionaI viswpoint.

$50 you don't approve of the old
mastersv' exclaimed the artist.
"Not much" replied the aviator.
t'They made a general custom Of de-
picting angels with wings that would
not be OF the slightest service in prac-
teal Washington Star
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19

Boy-Pop. what's an X7
Man--It's an unknown quantity, son.
woman-Tt is In, this house. -Balti-
more American.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19

was.
s S Ss SS 81 sss; @ s.
] s Ass h s s sisa ' @ ySs $ J Eset fs HsRtsf s i 4
He who has still left of his two hands but
With that let him grapple sword
And he who has two let him handle gun n
And forward, boys forward the word.
The murmuring sound of the fierce battle-tide
Already resounds from afar;
Forward, boys forward, every side,
For Vermont and her glittering star
Who fingers behind when the word has passed
down
That the enemy swarm Ger the line n
When he knows in the heart of North border
town
Their gittering bayonets shine
Push on to the North the fierce battle-tide
Already resounds from afar
Push to the North from every SIDE
For Vermont and her glttering star
Forward the State that was first in the fight
When Allen and Warner here,
Should not be the last to strike for the right
Should never be found in the rear
Then, to the North the fierce battle-tide
Already resounds from afar;
Push to the North, from every side,
For Vermont and her glittering star
Hark booms from the lake, and resounds from
the land
The roar of the conflict. Push on
Push to the North on every hand
Our boys to the rescue have gone
Forward the State that first in the fight
When Allen and Warner here,
Should not be the last to strike for the right,
Should be found in the
vemon Reprint No Published dbythe Spirit Age.
For sale by the Elm Tree Press Woodstock, VT
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-19
Song of the Vermonters Before the
Battle of Plattsburgh

Charles G. Eastman Fryeburg Maine 1916 died
Montpelier in 1860 He moved with his early
Barnard educated at Royalton Academy Windsor
Academy. Kimba Union Academy Meriden, N H and the
University of 1888 established the Lamoe Express
at Johnson 80 Woodstock and founded the Spirit of
the Age in 186 bought the Vermont Patriot at Montpelier and
continued it's edtorshp until his DEATH Published the first
edition of his poems in 1848.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-06-30

nearly every city. The churches have
multiplied, their field of usefulness
has extended, and there is a more toll
Grant feeling existing between them.
Sobriety has obtained, and the world
has never witnessed nor the most
sanguine and optimistic mind has
never contemplated such wonderful
and lavish benevoelnce. And the conl-
mission established by Mr.. Carnegie
and the medals given out by it estab-
fishes the fact beyond peradventuge
that peace hath ner heroes no less
pronounced than war.
Where courage and heroism are dis
playing themselves all around rs.
where an overwhelming benevolence
is stretching forth her arms in all di-
rections; where sobriety, unknown to
the world before obtains: where the
home life is as pure and innocent as
at any age; where the implements
and instrumentalities of torture have
gone into inocuous desuetude, it
seems to us that it is cruel to say
that bountiful peace only nourishes
the things which are vicious in our
natures and strangles the virtues
which are so ennobling to manhood
and womanhood.
The statement is a bare and bald
faced travesty upon truth, and for it's
utter humiliation one has but to open
his eyes and behold the wonderful in
strumentalities all about him that are
converting the world along the right
paths of living, and turning the peo-
pies faces upwards towards the high
er attitudes of attainment.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-06-30

come to Eustis, 4 Suburb OF Jackson
Vile"
If he said, Eustis was suburb of
Jacksonville, Ocala was the center,
and as the meat OF sandwich is the
center. he felt that Ocala was fortu-
natelv located. and whatever route
was selected Ocala would be an at
tractive part Of it.
Sandwiched between the speaking
were musical numbers, and the band
was the recipient of many encomiums
for the part it rendered in making the
evening as enjoyable as it was.
While the band was playing the chill
dren romped, skipped and danced upon
the lawn and altogether it was a red
letter occasion in the annals of our
city.