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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17

Bennington has many natural advan-
tages in scenic way that are as abiding
as time, but just now she has additional
ones that would be hard to surpass on
this continent or in the world. The au-
tumn foliage is now in its greatest
beauty and it changes with glory that
is new every morning and fresh every
evening, and as each day closes the most
careless observer must note the change
as
"Where the naples leaf is brown
With soft and silent lapse comes down
The glory that the wood receives
At sunset, in its golden leaves "
Were landscape painter to transfer the
scene to canvass as it appears spread out
around us, his work would be called an
exaggeration. Neither a Titan nor
Wet would have the courage to paint
the scene as it IS.
The town and the surrounding view
may, perhaps, be best seen from the
fields on the heights above and south OF
Union street. From that point, the en-
tire village lies before the observer
wrapped in one continuous aureola of
gold and crimson and green.
Beyond the town, the trees on the
park-like expanse that stretches out to
the mountain sides, are dwarfed by dis.
lance, but tine colors, oh the colors !
Nothing can describe them.
| On the left as you look westward is
old Mount Anthony. At his foot on the
smooth pasture lands stand grand
old trees OF a primeval race. Their pre-
vaiJing color is now a rich olive green,
splashed here and there with crimson.
Farther up the mountain side the trees
look smaller but the coloring is incon-
ceivably rich. Golden olive with orange
and brightest green and clearest yellow,
are 80 intermingled as to produce effects
that astonish the beholder. As the eye
stretches away to the distant crest the
old monarch's robe changes to a rich
brown that betimes 10 lightened up with
fieecy clouds that seem to be tangled in
the trees,
On the right, Bald Mountain presents
if anything q grander and a more varied
scene. The trees at the base are richer
and more pronounced in their autumnal
dyeSI While farther up, the crimson and
the gbld Are fnsensibly lost In the SOM
bre green Of the majestic pines which
adorn the crest.
In front, directly beyond. the village
in the direction OF North Bennington,
the beauty battles description. Every
thing, even the mountains, appear mo-
saiced. The forests so far away look
like a many colored robe richer than a
painters fancy, piled IN the valleys and
folded over the hills with simplicity
that is grandeur itself. Painters and
poets have many time united to inn
mortalize landscapes that compared with
this were tame, and travellers have
many time made long pilgrimsges in
distant lands to see forest beauty and
mountain grandeur that for richness and
variety in all that delights an artists eye
bear no comparison to this.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17

1.-THE Legislature elected this fall will
determine whether a prohibition consti-
tutional amendment shall or shall not
be submitted to vote of the people next
year. The Legislature of 1883 has APP
proved of the amendment and made the
first order for its submission to the peoo'
ple." The above from the Sunday Bud
get expresses an excellent reason why
temperance people in the State of New
York should vote the Republican ticket
next month. But the prohibitionistt
will probably divide the vote in close
districts giving, as far as they can, these
sssemblymen to the Democrats and thus
defeat the cause they are so professedlJ
sollcitous about"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17
DunPIingS
with
Royal Baking
Powder

No dessert is more delicious, wholesome
and appetizing than well-made dumping,
filed with the fruit Of the season. By the
use of the Royal Baking Powder the crust is
always rendered light, faky, tender and di-
gestible. Dumplings made with it, baked or
boiled, will be dainty and wholesome, and may
be eaten steaming hot with perfect IMMUNITY.
REcEiPT.-One quart Of -four; thoroughly mix with
three teaspoons Of Royal Baking Powder and small
teaspoon Of SALT rub in piece Of butter or lard the
sire Of egg, and then add one large potato grated in
the -four after the butter is well mixed stir in milk and
knead to the consistency Of soft biscuit dough break
of pieces Of dough large enough to close over four
quarters Of apple Tor other fruit desired without
rolling, and lay in an earthen dish Tor steamer and
steam until the fruit IS tender. Bake II preferred.
In all receipts calling for cream Of tartar
and soda, substitute Royal Baking Powder.
Less trouble, never fails, makes more appe-
tizing and wholesome food and is more eco
nomical. Royal Baking Powder is specially
made for use in the preparation Of the finest
and most delicate cookery.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17

More than $4,000 public schools of the
United States have each been supplied
with a copy of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary. Think what that means.
If there is an average of so scholars to
each school, it means that constantly a
million and half of American youth
have the privilege of consulting and
studying this great work in the course
of their education. Who can estimate
the power for intellectual stimulation
and development which is thus actively
at work all the time The pre-eminence
of the American people for general &C
curacy and facility in the use of the
English language is not likely TO be lost.
Well and truly has Noah Webster been
called "The Schoolmaster of the Repub-
lie"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17

Mrs. d. j, PRATT is making arrange
ments to move from The Stark House to
Massachusetts where her husband has
established himself in business, the
prosecutions here under the prohibitory
law having compelled him to go else
where. Mr. Pratt has lease of the
Stark House, however, until spring, but
he does not make public as yet the dis.
position he intends TO make of this hos
telrie. The Stark House has been well
kept during Mr.. Pratts encumbency and
many regret his going away.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17
AN EMP Hattie WARNING TO INVEST
ORS

We have never advocated the invest
ment of the hard. earned savings of East
ern workingmen and women in Western
farm mortgages. On the contrary we
have discountenanced such uncertain in
Yestments and recent events prove be-
yond shadow of a doubt that much
safer loans could be made nearer home.
The Kansas Farmers Loan and Trust
Company which was organized some
years since with an alleged capital of
half a million dollars, and which now
has oyer So, 900, 900 out in mortgages on
farms in Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and
Colorado has collapsed, and with it the
means OF living of several hundred in
vestors scattered throughout New Eng
land, Who by advice of savings banks
officials, who were considered shrewd
business men, had invested their money
in these mortgages. This collapse will
drag other companies of like nature
with it, and the savings banks of Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont have star
ing them in the face the problem of how
to weather the threatening Cyclone.
This company which has gone up owes
$500, 900 in debts demanding immediate
settlement, and lacked $299, 900 cash to
settle. The chief Inspector reports that
most of the mortgaged farm property is
worthless. that many boomers had de-
serted their farms and the buildings were
vacant or in ruins. The Western agents
had accepted everything from which
they could rake in their two per cent.
commission and had made every posi-
BILE effort to gather cash enough to meet
Interest on bonds due this week, but
failed. The stock holders in this com.
pany are liable under State laws for 100
per cent assessments, which can be col
lected by levy on property. The message
sent TO the Boston Office by an official in
Kansas reveals the disgraceful state OF
affairs existing in this crack investment
company. "For Gods sake husband
every resource and secure all the money
possible from the sale of debentures tC
meet the October coupons" We hopt
it will serve as a salutary lesson TO the
thousands of small investors in the Eas
who are 80 eager TO secure large Interest
on fictitious values. - Neto England
Farmer.
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Winter Clothing at Frear's Popular Prl-

You are all looking about carefully for
your Winter Clothing how. You all
want good qualities, strong material, etc.
about them. The best goods at lowest
prices always catch your money. Read
what VIM. ii. Frear offers you.
BOYS School Suits, in sizes from four
to IA years, handsome plaids, only 80 90.
Boys School Suits, four to IA years
sizes, in stripes and dark mixtures, at
81. so.
Boys School Suits, four to IA years
sizes, for S2.75 I; worth "a 90.
Frear's KNOCK About" Suits for Boys
are warranted not to rip nor tear. Pri-
ces, $500, $3.50 and $500.
Boys Knee Pants, sizes four to IA
years, at 50 cents pair.
Boys Knee Pants in stripes and fancy
checks, rs cents pair.
Two hundred pairs of Boys Knee
Pants, in all-wool Victory and Sawyer
Cassimeres, only S1.00 pair.
The best Flannel Shirt Waist in the
market for rs cents. Has five pleats and
comes in five colors.
Boys Overcoats, four to l4years' sizes,
at 1915 and $500 each.
Boys Overcoats, good quality, sizes Ia
to IS years, 81 90 each.
MEMS Blue Chinchilla Overcoats only
$3.50
Mems Plain listers, two shades Of
gray, all sizes, $1,000.
Mems Cape listers, best imported
Shetlands, $1,000 and up.
A prize ! Mems twilled Melton Over
coats at $3.50.
Mems Working Pants, of double and
twist Cotton Tweed, 70 cents pair.
Mems Working Pants, of Cotton Warp
and Wool Filling, Sl.00.
Mems Berkshire Cashmere working
pants, Sl.75.
You can order any of these by mail
with the assurance of finding them ex-
actly as represented.
FREAR's TROY BAZAAR,
Troy, N. Y.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17

The next report OF Postmaster General
Wanamaker is likely to contain recom-
mendation that Congress will exten tn e
free delivery system 80 as to embrace
larger number of towns than now. As
at present established, the Postmaster
General is authorized to confer free de-
livery upon any town having a popula-
tion-ascertained by a regular census,
and not merely estimated-of not less
than 10000, or where the local postage
amounts to $4,000 year. Mr.. Wanna
maker is considering the feasibility Of
reducing this minimum to 5000 popula-
ton and $4,000 local postage. This would
let in good many Offices, especially
after the census of 1890 Is taken. The
uperintendent, Col. j. F. Bates, is an
energetic business man. In three years
the 1871 free delivery offices have swellGd
to 433; the 4S41 carriers have become
1886; the aggregate of local postage has
advanced from So 639, 242 to 80, 535, 921 /;
while the appropriation, which was 81
3l2,3O6 three years ago, is now So, 000,.
900.
The startling information is published
that catastrophe during the national
encampment at Milwaukee was averted
by the merest chance. The statement lie
made that the sloping hillside at Juneau
Park, where one hundred thousand peo-
pie were seated on the evening OF the
sham naval battle, was moved six inches
and had it not been for the stone road
bed of the railway at the foot of the hill
the whole slope would have Slid into
Lake Michigan, carrying the people with
it. The ground at the foot OF the de-
cleviIy is bulged and at the top there is
deep fissure whese the sod and earth
have been torn apart, The escape from
disaster was a narrow one. Again the
mind is turned toward Vermont for Sc
curity, whose hillsides don't act in that
way Vermont Journal.
Bishop Talbot of the missionary district
OF Wyoming and Idaho amused as well
as edited bis hearers at the Episcopal
convention in New York with his ex-
periences in the wild West. When about
to leave Wallace to come 10 the conven
ton, he said, the boys determined to
give him what they called good send
off, so they billed the town with flaming
announcements of his farewell services.
From a green handful which he had
with him the bishop read as follows;
A GREAT DAY III
15-sUNDAY-ls,
DIVINE SERVICE IN GEORGE HUToHNss HALL.
baptism AND COMMUNION
CONE oEE-CoME ALL.
Please iedUe your guns toith the usher.
Charles King, aged 80 farmer OF
North Milford, Mass, was trampled upon
last Friday evening by vicious horse,
and received possibly fatal injuries. He
was taken to the Massachusetts General
Hospital.
Rev. DR.. Talmages Tabernacle in
Brooklyn was burned Sunday morning
for the second time in its history. lose
about $3.50, 900. 1t is believed that the
fire was set by electric light wires.
Yes, Julius, the health lift is a good
thing, but don't look for it in the vicin-
] ity Of mules heels.
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The Central Vermont Road to Use
Wagner Cars.

A dispatch to the Journal from st.
Adams says the Central Vermont Rail
road system will this week be equipped
with elegant new buffet parlor and YES
thule sleeping cars by the Wagner Pal
ace Car Company. The Pullman con-
tract lapsed several months ago and will
not be renewed, the Wagner Company
having contracted with the Central Yer
mont to run their cars for term of years
over the Central Vermont line. The new
parlor cars will run on the through day
express trains between Boston and Mon
treal, and also on the mail trains be-
tween those places via White River
Junction and Concord. The new vesti-
bule seepers will run on the night ex-
press trains over the same route. The
day and night express trains between
Montreal and Boston and Ottawa and
Boston via Rutland and Fitchburg, and
the day and night express trains be-
tween Montreal and New York will also
be equipped with new parlor and sleep
ing cars of the latest style, supplanting
those already in service. Fine Wagner
sleepers will also be run between Mon
treal and Springfield via Windsor. A
through Pullman sleeper will be run be-
tween Chicago and Boston via Montreal
to accommodate east and west bound
passengers over the Genital Vermont
The new Wagner cars will begin running
Oct. 10. The cars which have been built
for this service are the most elegant
ever constructed by the Wagner Com
pany. The President of the Wagner
Palace Car Company, Col. w. S, Webb
OF Shelburn, has spared no pains or ex-
pense to make the new cars veritable pal
aces on wheels, and the Wagner parlor
and sleeping car service on the Central
Vermont line will be equal to that pos
possessed by any other road it the coun-
try
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Maine Heard From.

81 think Anti-Apoplectine benefited
me much" JEFFERSON CHASE.
ABBOTT VILLAGE, Me.
"Anti-Apoplectine is helping me of
Liver Troubles and Constipation"
J. S. WORKS.
SULLIVAN, Me.
81 have taken one bottle of Anti-Apo-
plectine for Dizziness and Heart Troub-
les with beneficial results"
NJ. NJ. URANN.
Sold by your druggist.
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Ladies. Make the Experiment.

Men and women who refuse to try
new ideas or new articles, virtually COM
bine to make the world stand still, and
check the advancement of those things
which conduce to happiness, comfort,
and the getting of more into an ordinary
life. Sweeping improvements-such as
the telegraph, steam, electricity push
themselves in at all odds and, although
it may not be suspected, household ar
ticle is doing the very same, by its judic-
ious, convincing, argumentative adver-
Using. We refer to Pearline-the very
name is becoming a household word,
which means cleanliness with ease and
comfort. We would suggest to those Of
our readers who do not use Pearline to
make an experiment with it. Surely
such rapid growth as it is enjoying must
be due to merit, and yet it is old enough
to have been buried out of sight long
since did it not continue to please and
satisfy those who use. it. 1t claims
much by way of reducing drudgery and
saving of wear and tear, and if it fulfills
its promises, the more it claims the bet
ter ; and the sooner you know all about
it, the sooner you will share in the ben
efits afforded by purely scientific house,
hold article.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17

A recent traveller on the Northern
Pacific railroad through North Dakota
and Montana, found the towns very gen.
orally along the route decreasing in pop
ulation. He says : Several places l
YVES in, that three and four years before
had from 1000 to 5000 people, only
claimed from 800 to 1900, and in 1000
miles travel, after leaving Fargo, Dako-
Ia, did not see one new building going
up of any size." The larger places in
Washington were increasing.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17

The Rutland Board of Trade, as If it
has little else to do than to induce all
the manufacturing concerns in that
county to pull up stakes" and move to
the Marble City, have lately tried their
persuasion on the Ripley Bros, of Poult-
ney, nearly the only large concern left
in that town. They took away from
Poultney the Stoddard Manufacturing
Company, and from MechanIcsvllle the
Chase Toy Works. The latter action
eventually converts that thriving suburb
into deserted village. We give the ar
gument of the Journal, first saying that
the Grays of Middletown have refused
to accede to the centrallzing scheme OF
the ambitious Vermont metropolis. II
says "But our Rutland friends would
do well to understand a doctrine OF
political economy that the growth OF a
town cannot be enforced. Suppose all
of the people of this county, attracted
by the splendors of big town, should
pull up stakes and move to Rutland
The result would be to ruin the whole.
Rutland as it now is draws much of its
sustenance from towns outside in the
county, naturally, legitimately and prop
erly; and the more prosperous they all
are in their agriculture, and in all their
industries, the more the outside towns
will benefit Rutland in business point
OF view. There is no doubt of the solid
ity of this proposition. If those back
towns which have the deserted farms
could resuscitate those farms, and create
mechanical and manufacturing business
therein, which has become necessity
for prosperity in these modern times in
any town. Rutland would get the bene-
fit of it, and the natural impulse would
promote the growth of Rutland and
every town in Rutland county. The
theory is all wrong as applied to pur-
pesos of growth, that if spark of enter
prise is discovered in Mt. Holly, Shrews-
bury or Wells, it must be ignited at Rut-
land or nothing will come of it. The true
theory for the prosperity of the whole is,
for active industry in each town in the
county, or State, if you please, having
the varied industries prosecuted as much
as possible in each town. And we be-
lieve the people in the use of good sense,
il left to themselves, would settle down
into such condition of things"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17
RIFLE PRACTICE.

A party of the Bennington Rifles went
to the range on Saturday in charge of
Lieut.. Weld. An excellent range has
been secured just above the Hathaway
bridge. As stated in the BANNER last
August, Col. Bennett of the Governors
S5ah purchased an elegant rife and
offered it as prize for the best score at
200 yards. The firing on Saturday was
the first done in the competition for this
prize. The day was fine, but by the
time suitable place had been arranged
the time for making good scores had
passed and the scores gradually lowered.
The following is the score with total
possibility OF % points, according to the
Rutland Herald. The BANNER will
print the full score when completed /:
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17

The assortment of Boys Clothing and
Overcoats at Quackenbush's is double
the amount formerly shown. Boys
Long Pants Suits, Suits for Stout Boys,
Extra Pants to Match Suits, Overcoats
for Fat Boys, Kilt Suits, etc. Parents
will do we'll to select from the Reliable
Boys Department of G. V, S. Quacken-
bush & Co., Troy, N. Y.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-17
Organ for Sale.

A church organ, made by Mason &
Hamlin. two banks Of keys. eight stops,
tremolo attachment, automatic and ped
al swells, handsome case, in thorough
good order. Suitable for church, lodge
room, etc. Cost $500, will sell for $3.50
Inquire of Olin Scott or Prof. r. o.
Goldsmith. Bennington, Vi. 39If
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BORN.

BULKLEY.-In New York City, Sept. 18th, 10
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin A. Buckley, daughter.
JENNEY.-In Benn ington, October 18th. to DR..
and Mrs. B. c. Jenney, a daughter.
GODFREY. In Bennington, October 18th, to
Mr.. and Mrs. II, C, Godfrey, son.
EDGERTON.-In Dorset Oct 4th, to Mr.. and
Mrs. George Edgerton, o son.
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Patroniue Home Indnstriss.

1 have lot of Grave Markers, Head
Stone Monuments, ETC., which l have
concluded to sell at reduced prices. They
are all first-class stock and design, and
will be sold at prices to suit purchasers.
Come in and satisfy yourselves,
3ltf q, NJ. LAMBERT,
No, 10 North St., Bennington, Vt.
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New York Excursion, via Peoples Line
Steamers.

The annual excursion to New York
by the Peoples Line Steamers (Albany
to New York; will occur Tuesday, Oct.
22d. Excursion rate from North Hoo
sick $500, and tickets good going only
on train No. SO, leaving North Hoosick
at IA p. m, and returning to and in
Guiding Oct. Goth, 1889.
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DIED.

TATER0.-In North Petersburgh, N. Y, Oct,
l4th, Napoleon Tatero, aged Il years. lntermsnt
to-day in Bennington.
DANFoRTH.-In East Rupert, Oct. 18th, Cliff
ford, youngest son OF Oliver D1nforth. in his sth
year.
BOURN.-In East Manchester, Oct 9Th, Reu-
ben T. Bourn, in the 4ist year Of his age.
VAN BUSKIRK. SALISBURY, Oct. 10th,
Mrs Eliza Van Buskirk, aged Ts years.
VANDERBURG.-In Bennington, Oct. 10th,
Daniel Vanderburgh, aged6J years.
McDERMoTT.-In Bennington, Oct. l5th.JOh
j. McDermott, aged "A years, 49,,
sHELDON.-In Dorset, Oct. 11tR, an Infant son
Of Merritt Sheldon. 49,.
HoGAN.-In Bennington. Oct. 9Th, Psttick HO.
gan. aged 30 years.
BALL;-In Bennington, Oct, It'll. inhAni son of
j. S. Ball -.
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Vermont Teachers.

The doth annual meeting of the Yer
mont State Teachers Association will
be held at st. Adams on the Oath, 25th
and Goth days of this month. The pres
ident of this association is W. II. San
derson, superintendent of schools, North
Attleboro, Mass, recently principal of
the high school in st. Adams. The eX-
ercises, will begin Thursday evening
with an informal reception by the pres
ident at the high school room.
Friday forenoon President Sanderson
will deliver the annual address to be
followed by discussion of the various
methods of pronouncing Latin, conduct
ed by Principal Dcwart and others /:
methods in algebra, and other topics.
Superintendent w. II. Sanderson will
preside over the discussion in the gram
mar section embracing methods in geog
raphy, hygiene for teachers, etc.
The afternoon will be occupied In con-
sideration of various subjects of interest
to the educational world, including
among other topics, State uniformity of
text books. The granting of teachers
certificates will be taken up by Supervis-
or j. H. Dunbar. In the evening comes
lecture on the "Relation of the Teach
er to the Public" by Rev. j. A. MacCall
of st. Adams.
The business meeting comes Saturday
with essays upon some attractive topics.
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The Banner.
BENNINGTON, VERMONT
Thursday Afternoon, Oct II, 1883.

Being a free trader the head of Har
ward College comes out for the demo-
cracy. President Eliot has the courage
OF his bad politics. He has got where
he belongs. But what fall for Presi-
dent of old Harvard Ill