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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-07-07

State affords"
THE Vermont Building at the World
Fair is, perhaps, all that could have been
expected, considering the Legislature
that appropriated at first the pittance
towards its erection. Had it not been
for the $4,000 additional, pledged by
one hundred public-spirited citizens, our
poor building comparatively would
have been much less satisfactory. While
we are not disposed to carp at the build
ing or belittle our state, yet to show how
the other side regard it, we print an ex-
tract from Editor Harris's Innocent
abroad" The Hardwick Gazette was
represented at the press excursion of the
second week in May, it will be recalled.
Brer. Harris closes as follows: 1--WE un-
derstand that Supt. Drew has introduced
some improvements in the Vermont
Building since our adventures among it,
Most of the sheathing paper,
shavings and other bTic-a-brac is re-
moved from the floor, and two or three
screw hooks have been introduced into
the woodwork at convenient points. on
which can be suspended temporarily I'M
necessary articles of apparel. A grip
NAV also be set down in a corner with
some hope of finding it there when
wanted. All this is calculated to in
crease a Vermonter's respect for the
premises. We would say here and now
to any intending visitor that if they want
to size up the whole business at their
leisure and compare Vermont with the
other state buildings along in that row
they should 90 right across the street,
sit down on the Art-annex steps and ru.
inmate. 1t is an excellent point of OBJ
servatiOn and rumination.
Well, we won't discuss the Vermont
building any more. We will call it a
matter Of taste and leave it to the visitor
! to say what kind of TASTE"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23
HIS FAME WENT BEFORE HIM.

An entertaining story of Sir Arthur
Sullivan is related in Charles Willeby' s
new masters of English Music" When
the composer was travelling by stage in a
rather wild part of California and was
about to stop in mining camp for lunch
he was gratified to hear the driver say,
"They expect you here, Mr.. Sullivan"
The announcement was confirmed when,
coming across knot of prominent citi-
zens at the whisky shop, the foremost OF
the group came up to a burly bystander
and inquired
"Are you Mr.. Sullivan"
"No," replied the burly man, while he
pointed to the English traveller.
The citizen looked at the stranger
rather CONTEMPORARY and said:
'Why, how much do you weight"
This seemed curious method OF
gauging the powers of composer, but
he received the prompt answer:
about 1852 pounds"
"Well," returned the man, "that's odd
to me, anyhow. Do you mean to say
that you gave fits to John S. Blackman
in Kansas City?"
mo, did not give him fits"
Comforting further, it proved that the
person expected was Sullivan the prize
fighter. 1t appeared, however, that the
musicians fame had nevertheless, in q
dim sort of way, reached that remote
settlement, for this prominent citizen
in an outburst of cordial hospitality
finally exclaimed:
"Oh, Arthur Sullivanl What, are you
the man that put 'Pinafore' together?"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23
WISE AND OTHERWI Sc.

A fruit farm of thirty-one acres, three
miles from Pomona, California, was re-
Gently purchased by two Iowans-the
price S11 800.
Seven hundred tons of butter recently
arrived in London in one shipment from
Australia. Its total value was about
$340, 900.
No class of people in America deserves
as good living as the farmer, says a
writer in the Toledo Chronicle. The
producer of food for mankind should
not stint his. own family.
Warm, sloppy food, left on the ground
to sour is one of the chief causes of
gapes, as it is of so-called chicken chol-
era. Neglect always invites her twin
sister disease to keep her company.
Our pasture grasses furnish perfect
grazing conditions in their flushed and
luxuriant growth of June. but we have
no grass able to furnish anything like
equal grazing conditions in the heated
period OF summer.
1t is fact that the manufacture of
oleo and its sale as butter is one of the
greatest evils dairymen have to contend
against SO long as cleo is sold fraudu-
lently, so long will the dairymen of this
country be cheated out of part of their
rightful profits.
Hay is now retailing in Bangor, Me-,
at the highest price it has reached for a
very long time, as high as S21 ton be-
ing paid for it. There was very good
crop last year, but about all of it has
been sold, and scarcity causes the price
to reach to an advanced figure.
A New York professor has made the
calculation that, if men were really as
big as they sometimes feel, there would
be room on that island for only two pro-
fessors, three lawyers, two doctors and
reporter on paper. The rest would
be crowded into the sea and have to
swim for it.
Strawberries should always be washed
before they are used, but it should be
done quickly and in very cold water, or
their delicate flavor will be injured.
Either hold few in the hand and dip
quickly in water, or place few at a
time in colander and pour the water
over them.
The man who throws dough, or any
moist food, for his chickens or hens out
on the ground, adds fully one hundred
per cent to the cost of keeping. as one
half of such food will be trodden under
foot, soiled and wasted. There is no
place where such extravaganza is so
manifest as in the feeding of the hens.
In deciding that the Worlds fair must
be closed on Sundays the Court of APP
peaIs considered only the contract made
by the directors in return for the 81, 500,
600 granted by Congress. They left no
room for doubt whether the fair would
be closed or not for the directors signed
away their option, in effect sold the peo-
pies birthright for mess of pottage.
But Congress had no right to stipulate
that the gates should be closed Sundays,
for the government cannot assume the
right to make distinction between that
day and other days. 1t has nothing to
do with religion. The matter should be
taken to the Supreme Court and settled
once for all. Later-Since the above
was in type, the circuit court decides
the local management is fully empower.
ed to act The fair will, therefore, be
opened Sundays.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23
NO BLANKS IN THIS Co%PET1oN.

NO BLANKS IN THIS COS.PETIoN.
This is a competition of rather an I'M
usual nature. 1t is common to offer
prizes for the best story, or picture, or
architectural plan, all the competitors
risl1ing the loss of their labor and the
successful one merely selling his for the
amount of the prize. But the Press
Claims COmpany's offer is something en-
tirely different. Each person is asked
merely to help himself, and the one who
helps himself to the best advantage is re-
warded for doing it. The prize is only
stimulus to do something that would
be well worth doing without it. The
architect whose competitive plan for a
club house on certain corner is not &C
cepted has spent his labor on something
OF very little use to him. But the person
who patented a simple and useful device
in the Press Claims Company's competi-
ton, need not worry if he fail to secure
the prize. He has substantial result to
show for his work-one that will COM
mand its value in the market at any
time.
The plain man who uses any article in
his daily work ought to know better how
to improve it than the mechanical ex-
pert who studies it only from the theo-
retical point of view. Get rid of the
idea that an improvement can be too SIM
pie to be worth patenting. The simpler
the better. The person who best sue
ceeds in combining simplicity and pop
ularity, will get the Press Claims Com
pany's twenty-five hundred dollars.
The responsibility of this company
may be judged from the fact that its
stock is held by about three hundred OF
the leading newspapers of the United
States.
Address, the Press Claims Company
John Wedderburn, managing attorney,
61S street, N. W., Washington, d. @.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23
GOOD LOOKS.

Good looks are more than skin deep,
depending upon healthy condition OF
the vital organs. If the liver be mac
tive, you have bilious look and if your
kidneys be affected you have a pinched
look, if your stomach be disordered you
have dyspeptic look. Electric Bitters
is the great Alternative and tonic, acts di.
rectly on these vital organs. Cures PIN.
Piles, blotches, boils, and gives a good
complexion. Sold at G. D. Gibson's
drug store, SOC a bottle.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23
OVERLOADED.
You've eaten too mach turkey,
And so you cannot work, chi
Your head feels uery murky-

There! don't believe 1 could add an.
other line and make it rhyme if had a
dollar for doing it. A few cents, how
ever, will cure me. To relieve stomach
and bowels from the effects of overload.
ing, full dose of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Purgative Pellets is the best remedy.
They operate gently, yet thoroughly, and
without gripping, nausea, or other un-
pleasant effects. In walls, convenient to
carry.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23
DON'T MONKEY WITH THE SNAKE!

DON'T MONKEY WITH THE SNAKE!
1t is stated that rattlesnake cannot
bite if held up by the tail. Would you
like to put the statement to a practical
test? Probably not; but how often do
you take far greater risks? A snake
bite is not the only means of introducing
poison into the system. If your liver is
sluggish, it fails to remove the impuri-
ties of the blood which passes through
it, and deadly poisons are thus thrown
into the circulation, all the more danger
Gus because they are insidious. If your
blood is impure, if your liver is out of
order, or if you have blotches, pimples,
boils or eruptious, don't monkey with
the snake" Take DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, the only specific
against all blood-poisons, no matter of
what name or nature. 1t is sold under a
positive guar ,ntee that it will benefit or
your money refunded.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

I have had catarrh for twenty years,
and used all kinds of remedies without
relief. Mr.. Smith, druggist, of Little
Falls, recommended Ely's Cream Balm.
The effect of the first application was
magical, it allayed the inflammation, and
the next morning my head was clear as
bell. l am convinced its use will effect
permanent cure. 1t is soothing and
pleasant, add strongly urge its use by
all sufferers.-Geo. Terry, Little Falls,
n. Y.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

As blood purifier, the most eminent
physicians prescribe Ayers Sarsaparilla.
1t is the most powerful combination of
vegetable alternatives ever offered to the
public. AS a spring and family medi-
cine, it may be used by old and young.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

How careless Biblical and other trans.
lators are. Whenever question of Sc
rious import comes up for consideration
and reference is made to the original
writings, it will often be found that
words and sententes have been carelessly
translated. Now in trying to make it
appear that the new railway from Jaffa
to Jerusalem is fulfillmento of scriptural
prophecy, it has been discovered that
where the Bible states the children of
Israel shall return upon horses and
in chariots and upon swift beasts" the
sentence should read "swaying furnaces
instead of 'swift beasts" This reading
makes the Hebrew statement literally
met and makes it appear that the day is
at hand when the Jews shall return to
Jerusalem to await the coming of the
Messiah.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

The best Salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains.
corns and all eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25c per box,
For sale by G. d. Gibson.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

The day is at hand when pedigree, I'M
less accompanied by individual merit,
will count but for little. The lesson
which young breeders should learn is to
breed for quality and individual merit
as we'll as pedigree.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

inexperienced breeders in most in
stances do not grasp the fact that there
is vast difference in the breeding of
roadsters and trotters, and consequently
it becomes stumbling block over which
they fall.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

A gardener paints all his hoes, rakes,
and other small garden tools a bright
red, for the reason that if lost or left ly-
ing on the ground they are mole easily
seen. A good plan for farmer, too.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

Il have used DIR. Deane's Dyspepsia
Pills for dyspepsia and indigestion, and
urge all who are so afflicted to give them
a trial, as know they will be benefited
as was. G. S. WILKINSON,
Postal clerk, Philadelphia and Atlantic
City.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

Over 50OOO,OO eggs are consumed dali
ly in this country, New York alone call
ing for about 100000 yearly. What a
bonanza the man would have who could
get corner on the egg market!
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

In view of what Hoods Sarsaparilla
has done for others, is it not reasonable
to believe that it will also be of benefit to
to Won?
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

Buckingham Dye for the whiskers is
the best, handiest, safest, surest, clean
est, most economical and satisfactory
dye ever invented. 1t is the gentleman S
favorite.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

Bill Nye resignedly writes: 81 have
long since ceased to reproach the wealth.
er. The weather is what it was made to
be. 1t means well, but very little relig-
ious advancement has been made by it
this spring"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. 47y1
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

81 submit the within described inven.
ton in competition for the Twenty-Five
Hundred Dollar Prize offered by the
Press Claims Company.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

1t is feared that the grasshoppers will
ruin the crops in parts of Texas this
season.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23

Is National family paper. and gives all the gen
gives the events of foreign lands in nutshell. 1t
Gle" and Our Young Folks" Its Home and
wives and daughters Its general political news,
brilliant and exhaustive. Its Agricultural" dep
market Reports" arerecognized authority in all
enables us to offer this splendid journal and the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-08
A GRNAT rRORLENI.

The Railway Gazette in speaking Of
one Of the great railroad problems says:
The great problem, however, of the
future, and one that is pressing now
upon railroad managers, Is how to deal
with their employees. Here are nearly
million Of men, who are aggressive. well
organized, who constantly want more,
while the railroad officials are worried
to death on the other side with the pub
JIG and legislators who want TO reduce
their rates, aud in this manner the earn
ugs Of the railroads are whitfield at
both ends, aud in many cases there is
little left, II has seemed 20 me that
the solution of this question IL by max
ing the employees partners, or MS II is
more popular termed ''proit-sharers
For instance, suppose that a railroad
earned SlOOOO,OOO gros, and S3,OOO,OOO
year net, that Its fixed charges the
S2,VOOOOO a year and It's capital stock
S2O,OWUOOi that It's pay roll amounts
20 Si0OOOOO year; agree then that
the expenses should be first deducted.
then the fixed charges. aud that the
balance should be divided between the
S2O,OOO,O0O Of capital stock aud the 3d.
100000 Of capital which the emplnyes
have furnished in the shape of wages.
Each would receive four por cent upou
the investment. In the ease Of the or
binary section lab1rer, this would give
him at the end OF the year about SI5:
quite little sum to look forward to,
An engineer making ordinary wages
would receive $50; clerks In the office
would average So. ID this dividend
could be made regularly. employees would
IN time, look forward 10 1t nnd take an
interest In the management of the affairs
OF the company and work harder for
rs interest. 1t should also be provided
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-08
oAR IIGnrING N lNn1A

An Indian magazine, devoted to the
interest of railroads, says;
The superiority of gas lighting ovcr
the ordinary oil lamps In general.u.c uron
Indian railways was strlkingly illustrated
recently, when a special train startsJ
from Howrah and ran to seorphuli ana
back IN order to give the agent and Soma
OF the officials of the East Indian ran.
way an opportunity Of contrastinr no
Two meihods. The experimental traIn
consisted OF a trst.rass carriage and !,
guards van, lighted with OH lamps. ma a
hfstclass carriage, thirl-class nnJ -
quarts van lighted with Pntsch's con,'
pressed oil gas. The Illuminating no,yir
Of me gas was, ~ rough guess Ton.
iold that OK the oil lamps, and the il6fcys
ence has only to be seen 10 be- nppreristei
Ia order 70 test the steadiness az M
xas name the fastest possible speed wns
ordered, and, despite the oscillation AZ tb,
carriages, the gas lamps never ,ibNt.raJ
Or wayered IN the slightest degree, M,
pressure In the gas reservoirs which ~
starting stands at six atmosphereg was
hardly affected in this short rim. the ~
ducton not exceeding three nonnds "a
The square inch. The smallest new snaner
type could be read with ease In ihe "a.
iglted carriages In every respect tbe
trip was highly successful
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-08
RAILROAD LAW.

In Tennessee in an action by brake
man against railroad company 10 re-
cover damages for personal injuries
caused by defective hand hold or
'foot.rest." there was evidence that at
the moment plaintiff put his foot on the
foot rest, to ascend to the top Of the
ear there was u sudden jamniing Of the
cars together, and that the Injury was
caused by the concurrent negligence of
the engineer and of the company, through
the defective foot rest. The supreme
court rules that defendant was not alb
solved from liability because the engineer
and plaintiff were fellow servants. and
defendant was not liable to plaintiff
for the formers negligence.
In Massachusetts while 4 section hand
was turning the crank used TO propel Il
hand car his clothing WAS caught by
the end Of the crank and he was thrown
on The crank that caused the injury
had threaded screw bolt, which passed
through a wooden handle and projected
an inch beyond Il nut at the end of the
handle. The supreme court decides whore
there was no evidence that the crank
complained of was not a well-known
device, that the fact it was more DANCE
rous than other crauks in use. which had
the end of the bolt welded, did not rem
der the employer liable
Whether traveller who stops and looks
across before attempting to cross does
so at place where he can best see an
approaching train is for the jury, says
the supreme court Of Pennsylvania.
In Texas, just as a wagon got over
a railroad track at crossing, Il horse,
which deceased was leading from the
rear end Of the wagon, became frighten-
ed at the approach Of hand car and
pulled back, throwing deceased ON the
track IN front OF the car, which struck
him. The supreme court hold, that. if
there was reasonable time, under Ordin-
airy circumstances, to cross the track IN
safety ahead Of the hand car, the driver
was not chargcable with negligence for
falling 10 anticipate an unusual occur
renee, such as the horses pulling deceas-
ed out of the wagon, unless there was
reason 10 anticipate such occurrence
from the surrounding circumstances.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-08


The end Of the Ohio River Traffic os.
soci@ion is near For some time n dis.
solution has been expected, and h has
been hastcncd by the notice of Win.
drawai of the Big -Four from the nsso.
citation. in response to an iuopi,.y Iro-
EaFdlng It's Intentions the Bip F,ur las,
week sent out due notification INN w w
NSShner ! would witness lis seyerine Of
~ association ties in the Chicago and
oAlo. river combine Thursday t6c ' IN
terested roads mct In Chicago 10 ~,
hetlon ON the Big Four's retirement NM
~ was voted, with almost general NM
nHlnlty,, 10 discontinue the organizntion
NOVemper i, MS they deemed Il itnnr'n'
uennle TO continue the lssciation with
sVrh a system as the Big -Four ONT of
the agreement. The roads rn,rnrit,, w.
me combine arc IA follows. Chica,,, XVI
unu Eastern Illinois; Chicago and I,rin.
SlhSlhlnti, Hamilton aud Ulvton. Cinro
ilhl, CINCINNATI, Chicago ana III. .o,,is.
evansville aud 1Grrn Inute. iIiininGG
Gentral; Louisville. Evansyllle ,nj y.
LOUIS; Monon; PeOria. Dec,tmr ~
Evansville; pittsburg. ClnrinnaW' NY
1ag9 and ~ Louis; Vundalm and The
wabash, Al traffic, both freight nn1
passenger Of the above named reaGs W. W.
heretofore been regulated hy Tia n t ~
Grafton and has been the means nf n,"in-
t!inlng rates between Chicago and MI VII
Nile over tho Pennsylvania. Mnnn,, a,,'i
Zig -Four Some lively rate cnftjn,. ".,u
now be looked for. NA"!
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-08
THE RAILROADS..
PREPARING TO EXTEND THE
MIDLAND, NORTH AND SOUTH.
What Fort Worth Railroad Men Arc
Doing---Brakes and Couplings.
General and Personal.

All the roads out of this city have
had good business to Chicago In the
last few days, on the cheap rates.
The washows on the Santa Fc, and
Rock Island have interfered TO some
extent with the business Of these two
roads, but every thing consideted, they
have no reason 10 complain Of their
business. The number OF people who,
within the last few days, have taken
advantage Of the late reduction in rates
Is evidence Of the fact that cheap, or
excursion rates will catch the people
IL is not reasonable 10 suppose that
those going to Chicago al this late
day are one bit more anxious to see
the exposition than they were three
months ago. and this, IN connection with
the fact that the financial condition OF
the country. has not improved TO such
an extent as TO account for the Increased
travel to Chicago. goes TO prove that
cheap rites viii pull the business.
II would be an interesting experiment
II some Southwestern road would make
another reduction, and make the rate to
Chicago at ten dollars for the round
trip, and the experiment might hc
profitable one from present and future
point Of view, both to the railroads and
dhc public at large