The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-02-16
PRIZE BUTTER

paints.
PRIZE BUTTER
We venture the opinion that four
fifths of all the butter which has taken
prizes at the fairs and daily shows in
the last five years has been colored with
Wells, Richardson's & Co.'S Improved
Butter color. The best makers all use
it.
Half mans wisdom goes with his
courage. A boy who knows that bully
lives around the corner, on his daily
way to school, is apt to take sinister
views of streets and school education. -
Emerson,
The worst feature about catarrh ia its
dangerous tendency to consumption.
purifying the blood.
There are few moro disagreeable peo-
pie in this world than the people who
are alwaya doing wrong and then telling
you how bad they feel about it. They
ought either to do right or else get a
tougher conscience Il Somerville Jour
nal,
The great Theodore Parker when ut
tering the Lords prayer, used to say:
forgive us our trespasses as we should
forgive those who trespass against us.
He also prayed; lead us from temptation
instead of Lead us not into temptation.
-[Gazette
Dean Gray ,Jr., of Westfield Mass. had
3 severe and distressing cough, followed
by emaciation and night sweats, Many
remedies were tried without avail and
his friends seriously doubted his recov
cry. He was completely cured by the
use of two bottles of Wistar's Bilsam of
Wild Cherries.
We are to know that we are never
without pilot. When we know not
how to steer and dare not hoist a sail,
we can drift. The current knows the
way though we do not. The ship OF
heaven guides itself and will not accept
wooden rudder.- Emerson.
As toilet article, Ayers Hair vigor stands nm,
livaled 1t cleanses the scalp and removes dand.
ruff, cures itching humors, restores the origna
color to faded and gray hair, and promotes its
growth.
What soothes suffering, what sancli-
fies labor. what makes a man good strong
wise, patient, benevolent, just and al
the same time humble and great, worthy
OF liberty. is to have before him the per
petual vision OF better world casting
its rays through the darkness of this
life.
No other spring medicine has won for itsel
such universal confidence as Ayers Sarsaparilla
1t is the most powerful combination of vegetable
alternatives ever offered to the public, and is &C
knowledged by the medicinal profession to be tn,
best bloop purifier.
We have given us as guide not only
the Bible text but the spirit of the scrip,
lures. When these two go hand in hanC
the weight of their testimony is irresist
ible, but where proof text is an iso-
lated passage, not confirmed by Other
teachings or examples. we may well hes
tate. The so called Sabbatarians. who
observe Saturday in place of Sunday
and the feet washers can cite pro
texts. But 1t does not follow that they
are right and all others wrong. Proof
texts are good things in their way, but
all propositions do not depend on proof
texts.
Two students ring hated professor
bell at midnight. He puts his head Out
Of the window and wants to know whats
up.
One of your windows is wide open.
Where? exclaimed the startled profes-
sor.
The one you are looking out of.
What was Mrs. Modus dressed in
George?
Oh, she had on a kind of mauve blue
arrangement ouer portiere of plush
covered thingumbob.
All indeed New York Journal,
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint.
Is it not worth the small price of rs
cents to free yourself of every symptom
of these distressing complaints. if you
think so call at our store and get bot
tie of Shi'oh's Vitalizer. Every bottle
has a printed guarantee on it, use &C
cordingly, and if it does you no good il
will cost you nothing Sold by John T
Shurtleff, Bennington, Vt,
Anybody loose a dollar? he called At
the rear door OF the street car. as he
held up new bill. Yes, sir. l did, re-
piled three diff, rent men n chorus Oh
you did. Sorry for you, but this is a
two dollar bill and I've had 1t for a
week. Beats all how careless some folks
are of their dollars.
Aw, say, CIawence, you know how
fwisky bee-ah makes some iellahs.
Yes, weccolect drinking hawf a
CLAWS myself once.
Do you know why it is that 1t makes a
fellah so lively?
No, Clawence,
Well-ha, a-its-ah-its because OF
the hops that's IN it.-[Washington
Critic.
Bobby, said his mother, as she emp!Ied
one of his pockets, how can you carry
such stuff around. Marbles, string. a
broken key. an empty pill box, a slate
pencil Let me see what you've got
in your pocket. ma. interrupted Bobby.
and he took therefrom two samples OF
dress goods, a lhimble, poem entitled
Sleep, Baby sleep recipe for picking
onions, half paper of small safety pins
pins and three blind buttons.
Why do you publish so many records
of crime2 asked gentleman Of the late
Horace Greedy.
Because they are the sin news of the
paper, was the reply.
Minister dining with the family
You never go fishing on Sundays do you
Bobby
Bobby-Oh, no, sir.
Minister-That's right, Bobby. Now.
can you tell me why you don't go fish
ing ON Sunday?