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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22
AooEprED THE SUGGESTION.

A big manufacturing concern on the
West Side for several months past has
missed postage stamps from the money
dra Ter in the Office. Every effort was
made by the manager to detect the thief,
but of no avail. The night watchman-
one of the professional uniformed sort
was made acquainted with the condition
of things and was requested to keep an
unusually sharp lookout for the guilty
party or parties. He advised that de-
tective be employed on the case, but the
manager demurred. mo" he said, "the
loss is so small that it really amounts to
very little-say dollar or two at time.
1t wouldn't pay to hire detective; but
I would like to know whether / have
thief among my employees or not"
"Then the best way to find out is to
put the whole matter into the hands Of
an expert"
"No; it isn't worth the trouble"
you're very foolish" insisted the
Waterman, 'to let this matter go on so.
Better let me telephone for a detectiveP'
mo, SIR"
own business best,h growled the watch
man. 'I'll do the best can to catch
the fellow, but haven't much faith in
my ability to do 1t. He's probably well
acquainted with me and knows my hab-
its and the location of everything about
the place."
The next day, however, the manager,
after thinking the whole matter over
very carefully, decided to call detec-
tive. The situation was explained; the
detective was concealed in position
where he could command view of the
money till, and was locked inside the
store after all the clerks had left for the
night. He received instructions to tele-
phone if anything unusual occurred.
About 8 o'clock in the evening the
managers telephone bell rang, and
when he answered it he was asked by
the detective to ''come down to the Of
fee right away."
Jumping into a cab he was soon there.
Entering the Office he was surprised to
see the detective sitting in one easy
chair and the night Waterman in full
uniform and carrying mace and dark
lantern, sitting in another.
"Well, boys, what's upp" he inquired
breathlessly. Did he get away after all?''
mo; don't think he did," answered
the detective. "If you'll kindly search
in the blouse pocket of your Waterman
there think you will find handful of
stamps which he had just stored away
when l asked him to throw up his hands,
few minutes ago."
"You?" cried the manager in aston
ishment, addressing the Waterman.
"Well, yes, l." coolly returned the
dishonest employee. 81 trust you will at
least give me the credit of suggesting
the plan by which the guilty man was
discovered. "-ChicdgO Mail.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22
MACHINES AND MEN.

A writer in one of our exchanges, says
the Manufacturers Gazette bewails the
decay of mechagical skill in the follow
ing words:
1.-THE decrease of manual skill and of
artistic sense among mecanioal work
man results not merely from want of such
all-round practice as they got half CEN
tury ago, but from want of that soft of
loving interest in their work the old
timers used to feel, when they could put
something of their individuality into
everything that they made. Nowadays
the workman has simply to work out a
design or rather to run machine to
work out part of design-prepared by
some artist whom he does not know and
never has seen. The general result may
be beautiful when the different parts are
assembled, but the workman feels that
he has no personal share in the produc-
ton of its beauty. He has become a
reg Ilator of machine; he simply sharp
ems tools, adjusts them, keeps his ma
chine oiled, and puts into it the material
to be worked upon. All the precision,
the nicely of operation are due to the in
animate rather than the living tool.
What interest can such work beget?
What lofty ambition can it stimulate!
What workman when the bell rings the
time to quit work feels reluctant to leave
his task, or fingers over it to bring out
some beautiful effect or interesting COM
bination that he feels he must before he
can depart contentedly? If machines
were invented to play billiards, and only
by their use could this king of games be
played, how long would the game be a
favoriteP If violins could be performed
upon only by automatic mechanism, or
pictures painted only by machine actual
ed self-charging brushes, who would be
charmed any longer by art? Neither the
artist nor the dilettdnte; the artist and
the dilettdnte would cease to exist. So,
while we have gained much from the
enormous increase in labor-saving ma,
chinery that has characterized TIC latter
half of of the present century, we have
lost what probably will not soon be re-
stored, the love of work and pride in
work for its own sake, the love and pride
that were parents of mechanical skill,
skill which, now they are dead, is itself
deeaying. The loss appears inevitable to
those who scan the social horizon phil
osophically; it is, however, no less to be
regretted because unavoidable.
This tendency of labor saving machines
was many years ago pointed out by Rus
kin, who, in the light of the fulfillment
of his prediction, proved only TOO true a
prophet. 1t is this effect upon the mas
ses, more than unequal distribution of
wealth, that is separating society in
America into distinct classes"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22
Castoria.

The Centaur Company, Murray Street, New York City
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HE EATS NOTHING COOKED.

A few days ago, a tall clerical looking
man, who gave the name of j. B. Rum
ford of Los Gatos, Cal, appeared at
Parkersburg, Va, as an expounder of a
new school of health, which he calls the
Edenic school. BE lives on cereals in a
raw or natural state. When asked If it
was true that his diet consisted of raw
wheat, he said: ''Well, yes; live largely
upon wheat, although occasionally eat
other things, but never anything that has
been cooked"
He has not tasted piece of beefsteak
for ten years, and he has not eaten eggs,
pudding, pie, cake, tea or coffee.
Everything cooked" he said, sis a
perverted nature product, and it should
never go into the system. When food is
cooked it is devitalized-dead, and ply
sicians will tell you that dead matter is
poison"
"How much raw wheat is necessary
daily, to keep the system in good work
ing orderpn
with from half to three-quarters of
a pound of raw wheat per day a man can
do good days work. There is great
amount of nutriment stored up in raw
wheat. While at my home in California
l ate but one meal per day, but since /
have been travelling 1 have eaten two
meals day most of the time, and then
only when hungry. 1 never eat at regu-
lar intervals"
GLOW much does it cost day to live
on that sort of foOd?"
81 get alorg on ten cents a day, but
that is rather high. have eaten some
days only one or two cents worth of raw
wheat, and five cents worth of roll oats
will last me twenty-four hours while
travelling"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22

Mr.. Rumford believes that horses and
other work animals should be fed only
once a day, and at night, on the theory
that if horse is fed at bedtime the food
is converted into muscles by morning,
whereas if fed in the daytime the forces
necessary to digestion are divided to
sustain the muscles, and that the food
given on that day could not be available
until the next day. He did not object to
vegetables and fruit in natural state,
but would eat nothing that had been
cooked. He said that he had practiced
his theory for ten years, and that now at
the age of 60 years he felt young and
vigorous, whereas at the age of 40, after
living as mortals usually do, he felt old.
N Y Sim
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22
EFT RNAI VIGILANCE

Is the price of health. But with all ouI
precaution there are enemies always
lurking about our systems, only waiting
a favorable opportunity to assert them
selves. Impurities in the blood may be
hidden for years or even for generations
and suddenly break forth, undermining
health and fastening death. For all
diseases arising from impure blood
Hoods Salsaparilla is the unequalled
and unapprcached remedy. 1t is King
of them all, for it conquers disease.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22

Stamped OUW
-blood-poisons of every name and
nature, by DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery.
It's a medicine that starts from
the beginning. 1t rouses every or
gan into healthy action, purifes and
enriches the blood, and through it
cleanses and renews the whole sys-
TEN. All Blood, Skin, and Scalp
Diseases, from a common blotch
or eruption to the worst Scrofula,
are cured by it. For letter, Salt
rheum, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils,
Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Goitre or
Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands,
Tumors, and Swellings, it's an une-
qualed remedy.
Don't think it's like the sarsapa-
rillas. They claim to be good for
the blood in March, April, and May.
"Golden Medical Discovery" works
equally well at all seasons. And it
not only claims to do good-it
guarantees it. If it doesn't benefit
or cure, in every case, you have
your money back.
You pay only for the good you
get. E.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22

Il suffered from severe cold in my
head for months and could get no relief.
Was advised to use Ely's Cream Belm.
1t has worked like magic in its cure. l
am free from my cold after using the
Balm one week, and believe 1t is the
best remedy known.-Samuel ]. Harris,
Wholesale Grocer, 119 Front Street, New
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22

Coughing Leads TO Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
onca 44y1
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Castoria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me OF Its
good effect upon their children"
Dr. @. O. OsGooD,
Lowell, Mass.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22

"Castoria Is the best remedy for children OF
which am acquainted 1 hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest Of their children, and use Castoria in
stead Of the variousq uack nostrSrns which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtfu
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DR. J. Il. KNcHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-21

what has been already decided,
though it appears to me that day is
a day, whether at least be added or
left out
''Patteson, J.-Iu matter wholly
indifferent, it Is best to abide by for
mer decisions; that Is the ground of
my Judgment.
"Coleridge, j think, for the
same reason, that the rule must be
discharged; but, on principle, l
should be of different opinion"
The current of decisions not being
uniform and consistent, we prefer to
advise that in this case the rule be
adopted to count the day upon which
the request was filed as the first of
the fourteen required days. We
think, therefore, that the request
was filed in time and that the statute
is complied with.
As regards the holding by the can
didate In question of the offices OF q
member Of the Road Board and of
/ Fence Commissioner. These are posi-
tons Of trust, if not Of profit, under
/ the Government. Section % Of the
Election Law prescribes that no such
person shall be eligible for election
either as Noble or Representative,
and it will be sufficient if he resigns
| the Offices before the election. There
is no provision of the statute forbid
ding him from standing as candl
date while under disqualification. If
the disqualification should be re-
moved at any time before the election
it would be sufficient. 1t is not
essential that it should be removed
at the time of the filing of the re-
quest.
Respectfully submitted,
A. f. JUDD,
Signed, r. T. BICKERToN.
S. B. DOLE.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-21
Hama Snap Shots.

Judge Kepoikai arrived on the
steamer yesterday, and at present
writing is busily engaged holding a
short session of the Circuit Court.
Hon. Jno. Richardson is in Hama,
,rumor says, he is looking after Hon.
w. ii. Cornwell's interest IN the
coming election.
Mr.. SEVERN, the photographer, Is
making a flying visit here. He
leaves on the steamer this evening,
but will return shortly and will
spend some weeks In the district TAX
ing views.
A large party visited "Wainspa-
napa" cave this morning. Bathing
and diving in the clear, crystal water
was INDUCED in, and apleasant time
is the general verdict.
Everything is turned ''topsy
turvy'' in consequence of the steamer
leaving here a day earlier than
usual, and many are the ''growls and
kicks" muttered at Capt. Davies
head.
Sheriff Reuter- is entertaining
Judge Kepoikai and Hon. Jno. Rich
ardson during their stay in Hama.
Everyone is feeling trifing out
of "sorts." and many blame the
southerly dry wind now prevailing
for the malarial affections now goine
the rounds.
Weather has been warm and dry
KODAK.
Nov. II, 1892.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-21
THE CUSTOM

OF placing val
tables under lock and key, dates back
to the time when the human race first
gathered together in towns and cities.
The strong box then, was made Of wood,
thought to be the acme OF security for the
age.
In 1907 such a chest kept the crown
jewels OF Scotland, No attempt seems to
have been made to construct ire-proof
Safe until about 1925. Then a Yankee
produced an oaken chest of solid planks,
saturated with brine, and covered with
iron sheets. The key weighed a pound
About 1850 the filling between the outer
and inner lining with fire-proof compost
tons was adopted. Constant progress
has been made until to-day, the Halls
Safe stands the unconquered champion
OF the age. Ii in doubt which is the best
Safe, ask some business man. But there
is no doubt about q Halls for they have
always stood the test. This is 10 idle
boast, but an undisputed fact
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-21
Nov. II, 1892.

Girls from the Dressmaking De-
partment of Kawaiahao Seminary
may be employed to go out sewing
by the day or week to do plain
dressmaking or sewing.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-05-13

tribute something toward the distressed
heather, but she did not respond. The
boys across the aisle snickered at what
they thought was an attempt TO avoid
paying rent.
The congregation then arose and sang
a hymn to the effect that they were stand
ing on a narrow neck of land 'twixt two
seas. with no conception of the meaning
of the words. The doxologY and the
benediction followed, during which the
banker put on his overcoat. As the con-
gregation filed slowly out there were
solicitous Inquiries as to Martha Jones's
rheumatism and Uncle Johns lame
shoulder. The concensus OF OPT lion on
the late Sunday-school concert was heard,
and the possibility of giving the pastor a
donation was discussed. And when the
last lingerer had gone, Josh went around
the church turning out the lights. He
was tired and he waited to get home.
As he came down the middle aisle he
noticed that the woman in the sealskin
cloak was still sitting in the back seat.
Putting his great black hand tenderly on
her shoulder he said:
"'Scuse me, missus, amt it time fol
you to go home2 Youse de only one
lef'."
There was no response. He shook her
gently. A small vial fell from her lap,
and breaking on the floor, scattered a
thousand pellets on the carpet. He
touched her hand. 1t was as cold as the
icicle that hung from the corner of the
church. AS he stood beside the bowed
figure in the darkened church, Josh
realized that there would be mourning
on the morrow for the Dove that had
flown.
X
The tenor was going home with the So
prano. The snow cracked under their
feet and the stars twinkled knowingly
overhead. AS they loitered along the
way they softly sang together.
Where it never more shall weary,
Home flies the dove;
Where the day is never dreary,
Home flies the dove;
To the rest that is forever,
To the love that changes never,
From its own no more to sever,
Home flies the dove.
The congregation fingered on thei
doorsteps and listened with pleased
looks; but no one realized that the swee
melody was requiem.-New York Press
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-05-13
South and West.

.'GoT" SPENCER and Jack Burnett, horse
thieves, were killed in fight with five dep
uty sheriffs in Northwestern Wyoming, and
fifty horses stolen from the Big Horn
country in Wyoming and Montana were
found at their rendezvous.
FooD and relief supplies from the North
for the starving Mexicans at Rio Grande
City have been received at Corpus Christi,
Texas. Over 500 families were fed.
JACKSON, Sewer and Knox Counties in
Tennessee are in a palic'over the operations
of the White Caps About fifty persons have
ter, the Rev. Mr.. jenkins.
A FARMER named Wetherton and his
wife were foully murdered in their bed while
on visit to the house of some relatives near
Amity, Ark.
SEVEN frame houses were destroyed by a
cyclone at Burns, Kan.
A CONSTABLE attempted to arrest two col
ored men at Bayou Sara, La. They resisted,
drew revolvers and began firing. Several
white men went to the constable's assist
ance Edgar Hamilton (whiUel and two col
ored men were instantly killed. Two other
white men were wounded.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the Great
Northern was ditched near Bonner Ferry,
Montana. Attached to the train were large
boarding cars containing railroad laborers,
four of whom were instantly killed.
WHILE picknicking on Chickamauga
Creek three members Of the middle class of
the Chattanooga (Tenn.) High School were
drowned.
A HIGHWAYNAN near the mining camp at
San Andreas, Cal, attempted to get hold OF
the money on board the stage. He used
shotgun, and his attempt resulted in killing
q young woman, wound1ng the driver, ana
dangerously injuring the express messenger.
The highwayman escaped.
A cULvERT near Lincoln, Neb., was
washed out by thu heavy rain, wreck1ng the
eastbound passenger train The engine and
mail and express cars were thrown into the
ditch. Fireman Fl. P. Shring and two
tramps who were stealing a ride were in
stantly killed.
LOUIS SCHMELz, Sheriff of Brown County,
Mimi, was found dead in the Minnesota
River. He had been respondent and had
threatened to commit suicide.
SHERIFF LUNA, of Searey County, Ark,
went on spree a few days ago and spent
$4,000 of the county's money. His bondsmen
had him arrested.
BY the capsizing Of a boat on Leighton
Lake, near Grand Rapids, Mimi, fourteen
of Backus's driving crew were upset and
Sandy Mcleod, John Murray and an Indian
were drowned.
STORMS, with Joss of life and property.
ragged In the West, especially in Kansas OK
Iahoma, Illinois au- Michigan
The Presidents and Executive Boards of
Southern Farmers Alliances met at Birm-
ingham. Ala, and it was understood that
the sentiment was in favor Of supporting
the third party.
ONE HUNDRED ironworkers on Worlds
Fair buildings in Chicago ILL.,, struck for
thirty-five instead Of thirty cents an hour.
THE heavy rain in Iowa caused a loss of
500, 600 to crops and bridges: many Of the
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-05-13
The Heart is a Pump.

When pumps were first provided with
valves to direct the current of water
hither or thither, the inventor was nc
doubt very proud of his achievement.
In the heart within his breast, in his own
veins and arteries, we're valves engaged
in the same task of rightly directing the
flow of blood. In the simpler kinds OF
pumps, which Iinger here and there in
our farmyards, the action is jerky, the
stream flowing and ebbing from moment
to moment as the arm OF the pump risei
and falls. Quite as jerky would be The
tide of the blood were not the walls OF
the arteries highly elastic. Their elias
ITCHY serves the same purpose as that Of
the air in the chamber attached to large
pumps to equalize and steady their flow.
Examination of the heart brings out a
principle of it's structure, curiouly par
alleled in modern invention. So power
full are the explosive charges used in the
great guns of modern warfare that no
mere increase of thickness in the metal
would prevent their bursting. To avoid
this peril was the object of the ingenious
method of manufacture introduced by
rent of water passes through the core OF
the gun as it lies in the mold, and the
gun barrel is permitted to cool from its
outer surface with extreme slowness. A
gun cast in this way may be regarded as
series of cylinders, the outer ones OF
which are successfully shrunk on the in
ner; as these inner ones are thus strongly
compressed the force of compression is
added to that of the metals powerful
cohesion, and so tremendous explosives
are safely resisted. At the same time
the outer cylinders of the gun are in
state of tension-that is, they would fly
apart were they of less tenacious metal.
At distance as they are from the dis
charging powder, they are still strong
enough to withstand as much of tbs
strain of firing as comes upon them. In
this ingenious manner the founder dis.
tributes throughout the whole mass OF
his metal the prodigious rupturing forces
of modern explosives, explosives which
would rend as paper the cannon used by
our grandfathers. The structure he
builds up closely resemble that of the
heart. In its two inner parts the nbres
of that organ are wound somewhat like
two balls of Irvine, and these in turn are
tightly compressed by a covering of
other similar fbres. The heart has to
resist no such explosive force as that
which comes upon gun, but in propell-
Ing the blood throughout the system it
has to exert great pressure. This pres
sure by the organs peculiar structure is
uniformly distributed throughout every
part. In the frame of an ordinary man
the labor Of the heart in twenty-four
hours is equal to lifting 124 tons one foot
from the ground.-Courier-Journ
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-05-13
DROP YOUR BUCKET WHERE you'll
ARE. /

'Oh, ship ahoyr' rang out the cry,
''Ob, give us water or we der
a voice came DER the waters far.
-'Just drop your bucket where you are"
And then they dipped and drank their fill
OF water fresh from mead and hill:
And then they knew they sailed upon
The broad mouth Of the Amazon.
Ger tossing wastes we sail and cry
''Oh, give US water or we die"
On high, relentless waves we roll
Through arid climates for the soul:
Meath pitiless skies we pant for breath
Smit with the thirst that drags to death
And fail, while faint for fountains far.
To drop our buckets we're we are.
Oh, ship ahoy you're sailing on
The broad mouth of the Amazon,
Whose mighty current flows and sings
OF mountain streams and inland springs,
OF night-kissed mornings dewy balm,
OF heaven -dropt evenings twilight calm,
OF natures peace in earth or star
Just drop your bucket where you are.
Seek net for fresher founts afar,
just drop your bucket where you are;
And while the ship right onward leaps
Uplift it from exhaustless deeps;
Parch not your life with dry despair,
The stream of hope flows everywhere
So, under every sky and star,
Just drop your bucket where you are.
s.. w. Foss, in Yankee Blade.