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Newark post., 1912-02-07

@. if the deeds of human creatures
could be traced to their source, how
beautiful would even death appear
for how much charity, mercy ana
purifed affection would be seen to
have their growth in dusty graves.
Newark post., 1912-02-07

A loving heart is the truest
wisdom. -
Newark post., 1912-02-07

But for some trouble and sorrow we
should never know halt the good thele
is about us.
Newark post., 1912-02-07

Cheerful i'll spirit and guiltless OF aifec
tation true practical christianity ever IS
Newark post., 1912-02-07

No one is useless in the world VINO
liqlteus the burden of it for anyone else.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
MILLION PIECES IN TABLE

A table made up of 100000 pieces
of wood, inlaid on foundation of
white pine, required one year for s.
P. Wood, of Joplin, Mo-, to construct,
and won blue ribbon at the Inter
state exposition. More than score
of native and foreign woods went into
it's makeup, the outside surface being
a design colored by bits of varicolored
woods, some of which were not more
than a sixteenth of an inch long. 1t
has been estimated that at least
100000 pieces we're required for the
table. Several blocks IN the top which
caused speculation as to the kind Of
wood used were made Of shavings of
many blocks Wood never took a les.
son in inlaid work. He has been a
carpenter all his life. Another small
table containing, a specimen box for
ores of the district. Is also an inter.
esting curiosity. On the front Is a
picture of canoe being propelled by
a man. All colors are natural woods.
the mans fingers being each a sep
arate piece
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
opens Gates with His Nose.

norse learns to unlock and open
gates with his nose. and the accom-
plishment Ia great convenience to
his driver and helps the horse to hold
his job against other equine competi-
tion-for draft horses at the stock
yards are extremely well treated.
The idea is this. That section Of
the yards where the most hauling is
done is network of pens and alleys.
The alleys must be equipped with fire.
quent gates, swinging either way, to
make 1t possible to handle stock in
and out of the pens. A hay wagon in
the average days run must pass
through about $50 gates, not counting
the ones found open. You may Judge
for yourself II the process OF the driv-
or dismounting. opening the gate, re-
mounting and driving on, repeated
that many times, would not consume
a large slice of the working day.
Hence the educated horses.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
Unforqeable sanknotes.

Paris.-It Is remarkable tribute to
the 100-franc ($20) banknote issued in
1910 by the Bank of France that the
first attempt to forge one of them has
only just been reported.
The notes are printed on back and
front, are complicated and artistic in
design, and in four colors-blue. pink
black and yellow. The paper is pre-
pared with the greatest care, and
every time chemical discovery is
made likely to hinder the work of o
forger 1t is Incorporated in the print
ing of the banknotes.
Since 1889 there have been only SIX
attempts to forge the $40 note, three
attempts to forge the 50-franc ($10)
note. and one attempt to forge the
1.00o-franc ($200) note. The Bank Of
France, unlike the Bank of England
does not destroy all banknotes. when
returned, but puts them into circula
ton several times. It is only after
about three years use that. tattered
and torn. they are burned.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
A Siberian Tiger.

Is the finest wild beast alive. The
further north one goes the better spe
cimen of tiger one meets, till one
comes eventually to the pink of per
lection, the super-tiger, on the hinter
land Of Vladivostock. He is as phys
ically superior to the Bengal tiger as
the wildcat is to the domestic pussy
cat.
A Bengal tiger-in fact, any sort OF
tiger in a mild climate--has a thin
pelt; it is sufficiently warm for him
But In the cold climate, where there
is constant exposure, as in the Oosoo
RE. to a winter temperature of &c
degrees below zero, the fur becomes
so luxuriant that you may plunge
both hands out of sight in 1t. The
Siberian tigers pelt is worth nearly
twice as much, commercially, as thai
of the Malay branch Of the family.
A Siberian tigress runs to only
about $50 pounds. The biggest Ben
gal tiger encountered rarely will ex.
coed 400 pounds. The Siberian tiger.
however. often runs to $50 pounds and
even 900 pounds.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

yond the satisfaction which comes
from work we'll done. His judg-
ments are based on what he believes
to be right, and only that. He is such
an unusual mayor that New Workers
didn't quite know what to think of him
at first, but since they have had an
opportunity to watch and study him
they have come to love him, in much
the same way that Lincoln was loved.
He is often spoken of, in fact, as a Sec
ond emancipation, and not without rea-
son, for, to much greater extent than
even the most optimistic citizen dared
hope for up to a year or two ago, he
has freed New York from the letters
Of 1.-THE System"
He doesn't look a great deal like Lin
coln-this spare, quiet, gray man Of
medium height-but he's of Lincolnian
stature In other ways. He makes the
same appeal to the popular magma
ton, and he stands for the same thing
that Lincoln typifed-trust In the AL
mighty and in the Almighty's people.
And he has whole lot of old fashion
I'd notions. of the kind that go with
rag carpets and husking bees and har-
vest home festivals.
In the two years that he has occu-
pied the city hall he has done so many
things which New Workers had come
to regard as impossible that the tell
Ing of them would make story as
long as the moral law, which COM
parison, 1t may be said, Is no mere fig-
ure Of speech. For one thing, and per-
haps it is really the biggest thing he
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
WINE FOR FOWLS

M. Joubert, professor at the agricui
tural college at Fountainebleau,
claims that he has discovered new
and simple method of making hens
lay. He feeds them with wine in ad.
dition to their ordinary food. The
professor has not allowed his discov'
cry to be made known lightly. He
has been experimenting with fowls OF
all kinds for several years and finds
the same result in every case. In
each case he experimental for the
four winter months with two sets OF
~ fowls of the same breed, adding
bread soaked In wine to the food OF
one of the two sets of IL. In every
case after six separate trials the wine
fed hens laid more eggs IN the pro
portion of 20 eggs month or there
about.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
NAVIGATING TIGERS.
inhabitants Of corean-Manchu
Border In Constant Terror.
Villages Visited Almost Daily by the
Beasts and Absolutely Disregard
the Efforts Of the Poorly Armed
Natives to XIII Them.

Observation-Disclosures from the
Corean-Manchu border bring startling
tales OF the activities of the Siberian
tigers in that locality. According to
an English writer, who Just has re-
turned from an extensive trip in that
region, the natives live In a constant
state of abject fear for their lives.
Some of the villages are visited al
most daily by tigers, who, with an alb
solute disregard of the efforts of the
mildly combative natives and the
dozen or two small spears and arrows
that eventually, porcupine quill fash
lon, decorate their rough hides, smash
In hut doors and proceed to devour
everybody in sight Unable to get
within striking distance of live prey
these tigers will visit the graveyards.
The natives of the smaller villages,
with their primitive arms, being pow
erfess against these man-eating
beasts, big battues are organizing in
Seoul and are sallying forth in an ef
fort to rid the country of the 'noxious
verniin."
Hunting tigers along the Corean.
Manchu border is not the child's play
that trailing similar beasts in India
has become. There is none of the
difficulty and evaporation of having
to deal with small army Of native
beaters; for. unlike the jungle tiger OF
Bengal, who sleeps away the day and
pounces by night on his prey at drink
ing places, the northern beast is at
his fullest activity by day. Instead OF
having to steal, from the security OF
an elephant howdah. with a sleepy
surprised creature that covers, alarm
ed by the heaters, from the path OF
your ponderous mount, one is out tc
encounter thoroughly well-awake
brute. ravaging the open countryside;
and you are, If you follow the Russian
custom. afoot One may rely on the
element of sport beng well to the
fore. a
Well, fed. well exercised, long, 1.-THE,
tawny and glossy, the Siberian tiger
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

has done, he has brought the city's
government back to Jeffersonian sim
plicity.
III former days the door to the may
or's office was a portal through which
only the mighty might pass. Now 1t is
open to every citizen. The weak and
the poor and the oppressed are as well
come as the rich. Mr.. Gaynor sees
three or four times as many people mt
his office every day as We're received
by his predecessor. No one who has
a reasonable excuse, for seeing him Is
denied admittance, and no one goes
away unsatisfied. To those with com
plants of injustice-and there were
many of them at first, but their num-
Der is constantly decreasing under the
or inclines sympathetic ear, and such
action as is needed is taken in the Wig
orous Gaynor fashion.
The complaint of two peaceable citi-
zens who had been roughly handled by
special officers without any reason led
to an investigation which developed
the fact that there were 1000 special
policemen in New York who, though
armed with full police powers, were
employed by firms and corporations.
They naturally took orders from those
who paid them their wages without re-
gard to the rights of the people with
whom they lnterfered. Frequently
they went beyond the law. The result
of this discovery was that by the may
ors order all of these special officers
were Immediately stripped of their au-
thority.
Early one morning as a merchant
was walking downtown to open his
store he said something that annoyed
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
Type of Mother instructed by Nurses

boarding mistresses who were really
criminally negligent in the prepare
ton of the bottled food given their
charges; many children, struggling In
fants of but a few months of age,
were left to the care of grandmothers
who had had no experience with bot
tie babies and, who did through ignor
ance everything the wrong way, and
some of the infants were found to be
starving,
The nurses, therefore, quickly elias
sified the hundreds of babies they
saw, planning to see some of the
healthy, well-cared for babies once a
month and the sickly ones once OF
even twice a day. By concentrating
their attention on the care of the ba'
bies who were really in desperate
need of assistance, DIR. 'Levy's little
Observation-Disclosures corps was able to
obtain remarkable results in keeping
alive and well children who, had they
been left to the sole care of their
mothers, would have died within
few months of starvation or disease.
In regard to the care of children,
the work of the Richmond department
of health is simply one for the con.
servation Of the human race. Miss
Detwiler, whose expert advice is at
the disposal of the mothers of Rich.
mond day and night, says, in regard to
her work among the mothers in the
districts visited by the city nurses:
'In our work here we started with
four definite objects, viz, to give
babes chance to be born without SO
rious prenatal handioaps; to make
mothers understand how to feed their
infants properly; to give mothers a
chance to carry out the instructions
given them, and to provide well for
infants who have lost their mothers,
either by death or desertion.
wherever it was possible, we In
sisted on mothers giving their babes
food supplied by nature. When this
was not possible, especially women
who had to work in factories. we In
SISTED as far as possible on half breast
and half bottle feelings.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
~
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q policeman and was arrested on q
charge of splitting on the sidewalk and
dragged Off to court Not only was be
denied bail, but the police refused to-
allow him to communicate with his
clerks or send them the keys to the
store. When his case finally was reach
ed he was dismissed in short order
but 1t was nearly noon before he got
to his store, where sixteen clerks wers|
waiting around outside of the locked
doors, not knowing what had happerI
ed. AS consequence of this and 9th Il
er similar injustices. which wereI
brought to the mayors attention, theI
police were instructed that instead OIL
making arrests for minor offenses, lnh
rases where the defendant could es B
tablish his identity and residence they
must merely serve him with sum
mons, directing him to appear in jcouH
at a reasonable hour the next day
The working out of this system show
less arrests for trivial causes.
These are merely illustrations of tn
simple, but effective, methods through
which Mayor Gaynor is re-sstablish
ing the rights of the citizen, which by
holds to be paramount and sacred, y
long as he keeps within the law, ant
even when he goes beyond the law b
has certain rights which must be re
spected. The. people have Harmed thai
under his administration etery citizet
will get a. square deal-nfthing NOR
and nothing less, no matter what biz
station.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
SAVING THE BABIES
How One City Is Conserving
Lives of Infants.
Expert Finds Examples Of Gross Care
iessness and Ignorance In the
w Care Of Youngsters Among
Both Whites and Blacks,

Richmond, Va.-That there are hun
dreds of thousands of American ba-
bies sacrificed yearly on the altar of
incompetent motherhood has been
proven conclusively by the officers of
the department of health of this city.
That tens of thousands of these in
fants may be saved, may be raised
into strong men and women, has also
been conclusively proven by Or. Or
nest G. Levy, chief health officer OF
Richmond, and his able assistants.
For the sake of tho nation, for the
sake of humanity, and for the sake
of the happiness of mothers and faith
ers. DR.. Levy has proven that munich
pally supervised babies stand a bet.
ter, far better, chance of living than
do unsupervised babies be they even
of the families of the very well to do
citizens.
Retaining the expert services of
Miss Elizabeth Detwiler, a trained
nurse specialized in the care OF babies,
DIR. Levy planned the active campaign
for the saving of infant life in Rich
mond. Two great sections OF the city
were chosen for the initial campaign,
one section in which whites of the Ia.
boring classes lived, the other tenanted
by blacks. In these sections of the
city the infant mortality for years
had been exceedingly high. Securing
two more trained nurses. house-to.
house canvass for babies was made in
these two sections. 1t took but a few
weeks for the nurses to recognize the
great need for the supervision of the
care of babies in these sections of the
city.
Examples of gross carelessness and
ignorance in the care of youngsters
were found among both the whites
and the blacks. Scores of young moth.
ers were found who had to leave their
children many hours day to careless
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
Husband, Aged s5; Wife II.

about the decadence of 80 many mil
lions of Hindus,
About three years ago a California
girl, Miss Carrie A. Tenant, went to
India with the purpose of trying to
ameliorate the benighted condition OF
her sex in the Far East and of point
ing the way to more sane and happy
life for them. She did not have any
very definite notions as to how she
could uplift the native women of India,
but she wisely concluded that she
must first study the actual social con-
ditions and enlist men OF light and
leading in her cause before organizing
for practical crusade.
Miss Tenant proceeded to Calcut.
ia, there to take up her work. Quite
hopeless seemed her efforts in the ear.
lier stages of her sojourn to gain a
hearing from the influential men and
women to whom she appealed for sup
port. The natives of India are suspi.
cious of foreigners, and they were in.
clined to look askance at pretty Miss
Tenant when she talked about want.
ing to help the native women free
themselves from the thraldom of their
unholy traditions. Meanwhile she was
busy with her eyes and her camera,
and picture taken by her is here re.
produced.
From a superfici-i glimpse 1t would
seem that the true regeneration of In
dia lies with her daughters. Certainly,
in the scale of nations India cannot
rise unless and until her women rise.
The stamina of men depends on
healthy and intelligent mothers; hence
the real foundation of the state is
motherhood.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

not doing nearly so much OF IL
now since they have become well ne-
quainted with Mayor William j. Gay
nor He Is the first farmer cliief eX-
ecutive the city has ever had, or at
least the only one it has had for Il
hundred years or more, and he has
given the people a new view of the
possibilities OF city life and of the capa-
bilities of the man from the country.
Before him the city hall was occu-
pied in turn by merchants, lawyers and
politicians, who differed from each 9th
er only in name. They were either
born in the city or had lived there so
long that they had lost all of their in
dividuality and become typical moo
Yawkers." They talked in the same
way, wore the same fashionable
clothes and could be counted ON to say
the right thing on all occasions. And
that was all.
Mr. Gaynor, on the other hand, is the
most unconventional man with whom
New York has been intimately asso-
ciated for generations. He brought
with him the fresh air of the wide out
of doors, along with distinctive and
decided personality. He was born and
brought up on farm, has always Nv
ed on u farm, for most of the year at
least, and is proud of the fact that he
is good farmer. He believes that Il
spade is spade and thief thief,
no matter what his name or position.
He does big things in quiet way
without fuss or foolishness, and, what
is even more novel, he does them with
out any thought of future reward be
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
BEES MAKE GREEN HONEY

Bees that make honey as green as
pistachio ice cream have been discov-
cred operating from the biological
laboratory OF the College Of the City
of New York. Amateur sluething has
failed to track the bees to the source
of their green coloring matter. The
bees are branded with red spot upon
their backs and another red spot
upon their breasts, and all students
who see any of these red spotted bees
are to rush to the biology department
with the news, giving the exact spot
at which the bee was discovered.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
CHILD MARRIAGE IN INDIA
An American Girl, Miss Tennat, Has
Spent Three Years Among Hindus
Fighting the EVIL.

New York.-sNo better news has
come from India In many long day
than the report that an organized
movement in the interests of marriage
reform is now being pushed forward
there with every promise of final sue
cess. BY final success is meant the
abolition of that horrible practice OF
child marriages, which has brought
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

The RI. Rev. E. M. Parker, d. D.. /,
bishop coadjutor OF New Hamp-
shire, is making many Episcopal
visitations in Vermont during the
absence Of Bishop Hall, who went
to North Carolina in search of
health.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

While fishing through the ice in
West river at Brattleboro short
time ago, DR.. r. 8 Elmer caught a
pike measuring 35 inches in LEM 9Th.
16 inches in girth, and weighing 81
pounds,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

Henry t. Brown, prominent
Ludlow business man and at one
time member of the state legislature
from that town, has announced his
candidacy for one of the Windsor
county senatorships.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

According tie reports sent to the
state library commission, the library
at Dandy has the largest circulation
proportionately in the state. Ac-
cording to the population each per
son takes out IL books yearly, and
according to the patrons of the
library, each takes out "a books.
There are l0l people in the town
and 1859 books in the library.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

Assistant Judges G. H. Markham
and Milo S. Buck have appointed
A. L. Cady, ]. S. Kimball and
Robert Noble, the incumbents, as
liquor license commissioners for
Bethel.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
CAMERA PROTECTS VAULT

Besides the usual burglar alarms
that protect bank vaults snapshot
camera has been introduced. Auto
matically 1t will take the burglars
picture as he looked while In the act
The fi@.hlight photograph will both
serve to identify the man and furnish
evidence of his guilt.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

d. Fl. Wheeler, of Putney, who ex-
hibited excellent strings of seed corn
in Windsor last fall, has been filling
distant orders for the seed all winter
Recently he sent consignment of
the seed TO North Dakota farmer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
Taft In Honored.

Savannah. Ga.--The Irish leaders OF
Savannah have solemnly notified
President Taft that II he will WISH
their city, they will change st. Pat
rick's day from March II to any date
that will suit his convenience.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

Col. Charles Fl. Joyce, of the
second Vermont regiment in the
Civil war, has been engaged to
delivsr. the Memorial day address
at South Royalton.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
HORSES THAT OPEN GATES
Kansas City Stock Yards Animals
Learn the Trick and the Accom-
pllshment Proves a Great
Convenience.

Kansas City.-Usually the horse
that learns the trick Of unlatching a
gate uses his knowledge to gain free
dom for himself and cause dismay to
his owner. At the Kansas City stock
yards 1t Is the other way around. A
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

A committee from Middle Brand
grange in Bethel is sficiting fund
for a new grange hall to be erected
at East Bethel, and $bo has alread1
peen subscribed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
Women Youno nj Forty

New York.-"At 40, women are
young. If they'll go to ball games and
forget their voorhees," declared Mist
Villa Faulkner Page to the member,
Of the women's professional league.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
Good News for Eat Men,

Berlin.-In a pamphlet Good new
to the fat man." Doctor kaleidoscope
scientist. says there are more germ
on thin mans skin than on the cpl
dermis Of the fat man.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

Congressman FrInk PlumIey hr
recently established a new prize
Norwich university tor the bes
essay on United States government
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

First Constable r. E. Wilson of
Gaysville has been elected to the
office for 80 consecutive years and
in each case by acclamation.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30
Breaks His Mack.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Schultz fell
out Of bed at the county hospital and
broke his neck He died shortly aft
er the accident.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

EW WORKERS used 10 slni;e ~
farmers with an air OF indui-
gent superiority, but they are
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-03-30

Elm Tree Presl